Li Fan followed the mouse and entered the deep tunnel. He found that a nest had been built under Beimang Mountain.

Although there are tens of thousands of Northern Army guards stationed in the mountains outside Beimang, and there are also many hidden mausoleum guardians, beware of small sneakers. Those underground palace traps are more difficult to overcome, but obviously the traps and traps are the main purpose.

On the other side, it is aimed at those who try to sneak into the mountains from the outside to rob the tombs. But for the mouse tribe who came out from behind the sarcophagus at the bottom of the tomb behind them, or maybe even a step earlier, and lived in the mountains, there is no such thing.

How effective is the prevention?

According to Li Fan's calculations, there were naturally no spirits in this place when the royal tomb was built, but it could not stand up to such a world of immortality. How many years have passed, and the weather is changing, and it is inevitable for rats to become spirits.

What's more, no matter how many guards there are outside, what's the use? You are guarding the mausoleum and not looking after the warehouse. How can you regularly lift up the tomb and open the coffin to see if the owner of the tomb is comfortable? That is disrespectful!

In fact, Li Fan is still a little strange. The specifications of the emperor's mausoleum are not only made of stone that can withstand the weather, but also have earthquake-resistant design. They are also protected by talisman formations to avoid water and moisture. Logically speaking, it is impossible for these mice to be killed.

The essence can be easily dug through.

But after Li Fan studied carefully, he still saw the methods of these rats.

There is nothing new, just evil spirits. These rats have all cultivated evil spirits. They used vomit and excrement to pollute and corrode the cornerstone of the royal tomb, and then used their alienated claws to hollow out the tombstones.

The rat holes built in this way form winding tunnels like ant nests, connecting the entire bottom of Beimang Mountain. The height of these rat holes is only as high as a normal man's chest, and they are also very narrow on the left and right. They can just eat through the foundation stone and pass through the cracks in the wall.

, come and go as you please.

And separated by a wall are the nine-dragon-drawn treasure coffins and jade seats of the immortal emperors and princes. Every day they crawl behind their pillows, wondering whether the immortal emperors live comfortably or not.

However, these mice are also powerful. After digging around in the tomb for so many years, they did not alert the tomb robbery alarm. There is obviously someone with expert guidance behind them.

So Li Fan followed these rats and hid underground for several miles, leaving the Immortal Tomb, but he probably still did not leave the Beimang Mountains. The size of the rat nest became even larger, almost the size of an underground city!

In fact, Xuanmen does not have the method of searching underground. If it is in other places, it is inevitable that the passing experts will see the hidden monsters underground and eradicate them for you.

But in a place like Beimang Mountain, it is probably taboo to look underground. The Suwei army patrols day and night to catch you disrespectful people who think about robbing tombs day and night, and the powerful gods focus on guarding the immortals.

Tomb, on the contrary, let these rats take advantage of the darkness under the lamp to build a main city!

Rat nests for raising children, arsenals for storing weapons, mine tunnels for quarrying, ground veins for gas extraction, and various large and small rat shacks. Although they are messy, rancid, dirty, and overcrowded, there is no doubt that they are already part of civilization.

Only an intelligent population of this level can plan an expanded society.

The lowest level of this civilization is naturally the newborn rats. These rats are completely different from those outside. One by one, they are thrown into a swamp-like rat nest and piled together. There is a statue of an evil god at the bottom of the rat nest, which is submerged.

Their faces cannot be seen in the excrement of the rats. While receiving the evil radiation emitted by the evil statues, the young rats eat garbage, carrion, ores and similar species to grow barbarically.

In the end, two kinds of monsters will grow under the influence of evil spirits, one is a smaller rat spirit, which is what Li Fan saw drilling into tunnels to temper crossbows. These rat spirits have evolved their brains under the influence of evil spirits, and have opened up their spiritual consciousness.

A certain amount of intelligence.

Another kind of larger rat monster has mutated other parts of its body, making it stronger and more ferocious than ordinary creatures. Some rat babies even grow to the size of wild boars. They have rough skin and thick flesh, and are full of brute force. They are relatively basic monsters with evil spirits.

, used as livestock and coolies.

According to Li Fan's observation, most of them are rat monsters. These rats, distorted and mutated by the evil spirit, are like monsters, crawling along the mine veins in the tunnels like a surging tide. They go in and out of the underground tunnels crazily, collecting various spiritual stone deposits.

, of course the most is garbage, human garbage.

Yes, if Li Fan's calculation is correct, he should have been able to raise such a large rat nest under Beimang Mountain by transporting Sanyuan's domestic garbage. Although these rat monsters grow larger, the rats in the fairy world grow bigger.

It doesn't matter if it's bigger. The gods in the sky don't even care about the mortals under their feet, so how can they care about these pests and ants?

In this way, at the foot of Sanyuan Immortal Palace, a sub-species secondary civilization is gradually developing and growing in the corner. This is not alarmist. Those rat spirits with certain intelligence are not simply puppets manipulated by others, but spontaneously gather in the rat nest.

In the dungeon, he has obviously become the backbone of this rat civilization. He is led by old rats like elders. He is inherited like a Taoist master and apprentice, and he actually develops his own writing.

It seems that it is because there is evil spirit in the body, or it may be because there is no inheritance. Although these rat spirits have certain intelligence, they do not refine their energy like other spirits and monsters. But the strange thing is that they seem to have some inheritance such as Yuanshen Law. Not only

They communicate with each other through indistinct soul fluctuations, and can even use some magic weapons made from broken bones and spiritual stones to emit spiritual fluctuations similar to the soul method, and control and direct their brainless rat brothers to do hard work.

But what's interesting is that Li Fan discovered that the ruler and original creator of this unique rat civilization was not actually a rat or a demon, but a human being.

There is a monk who is in the state of becoming a god. His body is in seclusion in a hole in the center of the underground city. It is not known whether he was seriously injured while exploring, or he is hiding in Beimang Mountain to avoid revenge and catastrophe. The entire rat's nest is surrounded by this god.

The cave where the old ghost retreats is the center, and it is spread out in all directions.

The elders of the rat spirits seemed to be the spiritual pets of the monk, or were controlled by magic weapons. They had been sitting around for a long time outside the deep pit where the rat god was kept in retreat, crawling and listening to the orders of the creator. The other rats seemed to be doing the same.

It was created for ease of use, but as the brains gradually developed under the influence of evil spirits, the new generation of rat wise men no longer simply kneeled down to worship the monks, but ruled and expanded the rat empire like human society.

However, according to Li Fan's calculations, the monks in this cave may have used some secret method to enter samadhi, or they may have been sealed. In short, the fluctuations of their spiritual consciousness are too low, and it does not seem like they are still in a state of conscious command of rats.

Although out of primitive instinct, there are still a large number of descendants of rats, collecting all kinds of geniuses and treasures for cultivation, and throwing them into deep pits for the monks in retreat. But in fact, no one is controlling them anymore, but they evolve on their own.

Consciousness is active.

So in addition to collecting genius treasures, expanding dungeons, and carefully avoiding fairy tombs, most of the rats are obviously building an army of mouse civilization. They are not only studying and learning the garbage of fairy palaces, imitating human technology, but also using the collected garbage. Sort out metals to rearm and equip those mutated giant rat monsters.

Now Li Fan has made a rough count and found that there are hundreds of mutant giant rat monsters similar to the Yuanying Great Monster in the underground city, and there are countless other rat monsters and rat spirits. If such a power suddenly breaks out , probably the Su Wei army in Bei Mang Mountain will also suffer a heavy blow, but it is too exaggerated to say that the rats can pose any real threat. Even Li Fan, it is just a matter of twirling his fingers to wipe them out now. .

However, the key to the problem is not how the rat civilization was born, but who taught these rats to use and create Yuanfeng Iron Style.

It's a pity that Li Fan didn't find any equipment or workshops for producing Yuanfeng Iron Flow in the underground city. He only found a tunnel in which there were some spent clay pots sent by rat monsters from other places, just like the rats. Like the jars on Jing's back, they were obviously produced elsewhere, and were specially transported to Mouzi Cave at the bottom of Beimang Mountain to arm these beasts.

Although I don’t understand why the weapons are not transported directly and have to be transported thousands of miles to the bottom of Beimang Mountain, the organizational model of the rats and the characteristics of their Yuan Shen Law are very similar to those mummies produced by the divine sect in the Western Regions. I can’t help but wonder. This made Li Fan suspect that the Mouse Cave was also a black hand deployed by the divine sect in the Central Plains. Maybe the god-transforming monks in retreat in the bottomless cave were also some retired Dharma King Altar Master or something.

But it is also possible that this rat force is an arrangement created by Nangong Qiyou, especially the demon statue in the rat nest that stimulates the rats to mutate. In all likelihood, it is the Taisu method that Nangong Qiyou passed down from the Thousand-faced Immortal. It's just that it's really hard to figure out whether it's a demon from the Black Lotus Sect or some other extraterrestrial evil.

But one thing Li Fan can be sure of is that the rat branch line should have nothing to do with Qin Jiu. The deeper he follows these rat spirits underground, the weaker Qin Jiu's induction will be. And now that he has figured it out, his hexagram It has actually changed from 'serious' to 'very powerful'.

Hmm... Although the fate is still uncertain and the risks still exist, at least he has already overcome the most dangerous stage. Does this mean that this kid has a tough life...

Li Fan thought about it and gave up the opportunity to confront Zhi Jingzi. Anyway, he already knew that Zhi Jingzi had appeared in Beimang Mountain, which was an improvement. It would not be too late to take action after rescuing Qin Jiu later.

So he turned his head and fled along the delivery channel of Yuanfeng Tieliu's clay pots, giving priority to checking the mouse's heels.

At the same time, in the imperial mausoleum of Beimang Mountain, Qin Jiu opened his eyes.

For a moment, he seemed to hear the Monkey King calling his name, but when he opened his eyes, he found himself lying in a stone coffin.

The sarcophagus was filled with pus, blood and amber-colored tissue fluid, which had a horrible stench like dissolved corpse water.

No, it doesn’t seem like it! It’s him who is a corpse that has festered into pus and blood! Except for the upper jaw, which barely maintains a humanoid shape, all the flesh, flesh and bones all over his body are festered and broken into pieces!

For a moment, Qin Jiu couldn't suppress the fear in his heart, and wanted to scream loudly, but his tongue and throat were already rotten, so he could only twist his forehead in vain in the flesh and blood corpse coffin.

Why, why is he still alive...

"Hey, you're awake. Wow, it's not broken. The soul is very strong."

Suddenly, a pretty girl showed her head. She looked to be just seventeen or eighteen years old. She had two shallow dimples on her face when she smiled. She was lying on the edge of the sarcophagus and looking at Qin Jiu, not caring about him at all.

the tragic situation,

"Do you recognize me?"

Qin Jiu looked at her blankly. He didn't know what to say and couldn't make any expression. Then he heard another woman's voice coming from outside the coffin.

"Jade Chan, this was sent by the Sword Immortal to rescue you. You can't eat it."

"I know, I know," the girl stretched out her index finger to pick up a piece of rotten meat, "Hey, it's contaminated with so much Blood-Breaking Divine Sand, and it's all integrated into one, right? If you eat it, I think your intestines will be pierced and your belly will be rotten!"

How else are you going to save it? I think it’s still burned, right?”

Then another woman's voice said,

"You won't die even after being slapped by Cao Yuyang. You are destined to do great things. Go and give him the set of things you gave to the God Lord back then."

The girl shrugged and smiled at Qin Jiu, "Okay~~ By the way, the little girl from the Sword Sect is here to pay homage to you again."

"Don't worry about her. If you can't find me, she will go back."

During the meeting, Qin Jiu seemed to see a golden figure walking to the coffin and looking at him.

Although the man's face could not be seen clearly, the warm light like the sun shone on his face, which reminded Qin Jiu of his time in his hometown.

On the edge of the rolling Li River, amid the golden wheat fields, Qin Jiu and the boys in the village fished for fish in the river and played in the water, watching Dangkang taking a nap among the fields.

Of course, we are not looking at the big pig, but at the braided goddess riding the big pig, Qiao Chunhua, the most beautiful girl from all over the country, the dream lover of the young people in Qinjia Village.

Just look at her, smile, and look at her, and you will be warmed up from head to toe, from the inside to the outside, and you can't help but feel like "ohhh".

That's how Qin Jiu felt now. For a moment, the panic and fear in his heart were all dispersed by the warm light. It was warm, soft and dizzy, as if the whole person was floating on the warm water of the Li River, wrapped and melted.

Shaped, as if reincarnated again.

He didn't know how long he slept like this before Qin Jiu woke up. He found that he was lying on the bed safe and sound, and his hands and feet were as good as before. There was none of the horrifying scene of ghosts in tombs and flesh and blood mingling in the nightmare the night before. It seemed that he had really just done it.

Just a dream.

Qin Jiu rubbed his head, but the more he recalled, the more blurry the scene in his dream became, and it seemed to disperse like dust and smoke. In the end, he could only recall that he was fighting bandits, and then he was knocked away by something. Alas, in the Central Plains

Bandits are really powerful...

Qin Jiu looked around and found a pair of apricot-yellow Taoist clothes beside the bed. He changed his clothes first, opened the door and walked out of the bedroom. A strong wind caressed his face, causing him to squint his eyes.

Looking around, I realized that I was on a flying treasure ship, traveling among the sea of ​​clouds and green mountains. There was a man in apricot-yellow robes with broad shoulders and broad back, standing on the bow of the ship with his back to me.

Qin Jiu vaguely remembered that the person he met before seemed to be a tall Taoist in green robes with a sword on his back. He hesitated for a moment, but the man in yellow robes had already flashed in front of him, touched Qin Jiu's head with a smile, and asked,

"How did the Qin boy sleep?"

Then Qin Jiu suddenly remembered that when he was injured by a bandit, it was this man with a beard and apricot-yellow robe who saved him, and he immediately bowed and thanked him,

"Qin Jiu, a disciple of Mozhushan Tower Temple, thank you for your life-saving grace, senior."

The expert also smiled and said, "No need to be polite, the nine great Xuanmen are in the same spirit, so it is natural to help each other. I am Xiao Qingzhi of Taiyi Zhenri Palace, and I am about to go to the Yuntai Peak meeting. Qin Jiu,

You are not bad in ability, but who was your disciple?"

"Senior, it's an ape," Qin Jiu said quickly, "It's the Lord Qingyue of Mozhu Mountain."

The bearded man smiled and said, "I see, your master will probably go to Yuntai Peak for a while, so you might as well follow me first, and we will naturally meet you when we get to Gyeonggi."

Then he waved his sleeves, and in an instant the clouds cleared and the mist dispersed.

Under the flying boat, among seas of clouds, rock curtains, and green forests, there are dozens of fairy mountains. They are surrounded by walls and towering. The peaks and valleys are blooming, as if the hibiscus flower is in full bloom. The clouds are lingering and the light is blooming.

It is a treasured land of gods and a fairyland on earth.

Qin Jiu, a country bumpkin, had never seen such a market before. He could only use one word, "Wow".

Xiao Qingzhi stroked his beard and said with a smile,

"Thirty-six peaks are like buns, and pedestrians come and go and feel comfortable. The white clouds suddenly close up, and they are all in the ethereal space.
Chapter completed!