Even though Jin Abacus usually looks a bit cynical, his vigilance that he fought out of the quagmire has never been vague.

In one sentence, people become more mature with age.

It has to be said that Ye Bai did learn a lot of "dealing with things" from his cheap master.

After communicating with Jin Abacus, Ye Bai planned to go to the altar where the bronze branches were dug out to take a look.

The camp where the White Tiger Team is stationed is at the top of the mountain. A pair of binoculars can be used to see the situation in Qijia Village. The two teams stayed behind. Ye Bai and Qi Xiaohei jumped down and shuttled through the forest with the golden abacus.

Half an hour later, the three of them arrived at the altar.

Unfortunately, when standing here, the system does not respond, which means that this place is still some distance away from the Bronze Sacred Tree.

Ye Bai frowned slightly and uttered a low hissing snake language at the top of his voice, trying to communicate with the candle dragon underground.

But after talking in snake language for a long time, there was no movement under my feet. Instead, I summoned the venomous snakes in the surrounding woods.

"Hiss!"

More than a dozen green whistle snakes surrounded the three of them, daring not to get close.

Ye Bai took out the dried meat and fed it, communicating with it in snake language.

These green whistles had average IQs and basically answered whatever they asked. From their mouths, Ye Bai learned that there would be cries underground every once in a while, and no matter how many things happened, he would not be able to find out.

"How? Apprentice."

Ye Bai shook his head, indicating that the harvest was not big.

Jin Abacus said: "Do you still remember what I discovered last night?"

"The dragon's veins are not gathering energy?"

"Yes, do you see that a piece of the surrounding mountains has been chopped off out of thin air?"

Ye Bai looked around and saw that there were many hills nearby. Indeed, as Jin Abacus said, there were no peaks.

"There are many dragon veins in the Qinling Mountains. I have walked all the way and the dragon veins here are the most numerous, but the dragon veins have disappeared. Do you think it's strange?"

"Master did it?"

Jin Abacus shook his head: "He doesn't know how to do it, and even if he comes in person, he may not be able to do it. Back then, Liu Bowen spent half his life trying to kill the dragon vein..."

The golden abacus fiddled with the abacus beads, paused and then said: "I guess my master also stopped here when he discovered that the dragon vein was abnormal. Let's go southeast."

Jin Abacus led the way, followed by Ye Bai and Qi Xiaohei.

After passing through a dense jungle, the path ahead was blocked by rocks.

"Apprentice, find a way to take me there. There is something fishy about this place."

The mountain wall is steep at 90 degrees and about fifty meters high.

Ye Bai jumped up with the golden abacus on his back, and Qi Xiaohei took out his non-attack and followed closely behind.

Behind the rocks is a low-lying stone forest valley with sparse bushes and few big trees.

Surrounded by high mountains, the only way into the valley is the fifty-meter-high mountain wall they climbed just now.

It seems that this place was deliberately hidden so that outsiders could not enter.

I don’t know if it was the work of people from Qijia Village.

The three of them entered the valley and found that it was very humid and filled with a swamp smell.

There were not many living creatures. Ye Bai only found a few frogs and lizards, not even a snake that could ask for directions.

While moving the abacus beads, Jin Abacus raised his head to observe the surrounding mountains and led the way for the two of them.

The space of this stone forest valley is very large. Even if the three of them were at a high place just now, they could not see the end. If ordinary people came down, they would probably plunge into the maze and lose their direction.

After walking for a long time, a stone path appeared ahead again, with scattered one-meter-high carved stone statues on both sides of the stone path.

Some fell on the stone path, and some were buried in the soil, with only their heads exposed.

"Sure enough!" Jin Abacus's eyes lit up and his pace quickened.

At the end of the stone path, a huge downward-dented pyramid-shaped stone pit appeared in the three people's field of vision. It was shaped like a huge bucket and was buckled deep in the stone forest.

The slopes on the four sides of the pit were built into steps, with more than a hundred steps leading to the bottom of the pit.

This kind of ancient architecture is not like the characteristics of the Central Plains Dynasty, but like the style of some ethnic minority.

Ye Bai and the other three have also seen the world. Although they were slightly surprised, they didn't think it was too strange.

They went all the way down to the deepest part of the steps, where sparse withered grass grew. Because the terrain was extremely low, there was a pool of sewage sludge at the bottom.

At this time, Ye Bai's system finally popped up a prompt.

"The Ancient She Kingdom Sacrificial Tomb: Located deep in the Qinling Mountains, there is a bronze sacred tree buried. The sacred tree has spirits and is used for blood sacrifices."

"Danger level: Unknown!"

"Contains a treasure chest: a crystal treasure chest!"

Crystal treasure chest?

Ye Bai was shocked. He didn't expect that there was a crystal treasure box in the ground.

The last time he opened a crystal treasure chest was in the realm transformation space of Kunlun Mountain, and the dangerous situations encountered there were still vivid in Ye Bai's mind.

Today, the sacrificial tomb of the ancient She Kingdom is probably in the same danger.

However, the system prompts that the Bronze Sacred Tree comes from the ancient She Kingdom, an ancient country that Ye Bai has heard about for a long time.

Probably between the Xia Dynasty and the Western Zhou Dynasty, there lived an ancient country called "She State" from Shaanxi to Hubei. This country used snakes as its totem. Legend has it that the ancient She State was a descendant of the "Huaxu Ancient State".

The history of this country is intermittent and appears sporadically in many ancient slips. It was most prosperous during the Western Zhou Dynasty, but soon disappeared in the long river of history.

There is also a long record in "The Classic of Mountains and Seas", in which the "Snake Country" outside Sichuan refers to the ancient She Country.

At this time, Jin Abacus chose a location in the waterlogged area and asked Qi Xiaohei to dig.

Qi Xiaohei first dug with a shovel and dug out a large pit of one or two meters, but nothing was found.

Jin Abacus frowned and said: "Did you bring the Luoyang shovel? Use the Luoyang shovel. I want to see the color of the earth below."

Qi Xiaohei sighed, took out the Luoyang shovel from the ring space, and assembled it section by section.

The Luoyang shovel dug deep into the ground and brought out the soil more than ten meters deep.

The soil is dark brown and smells pungent.

Jin Abacus pinched a piece and smelled it, frowning deeply: "It's broken, I guessed it right, this is dead man mud."

Dead man mud?

Ye Bai and Qi Xiaohei were naturally familiar with this kind of soil. Human corpses were burned to ashes and buried deep underground, forming dead human mud over a long period of time.

Qi Xiaohei asked in confusion: "For such a big altar, isn't it normal to dig out some dead people's mud?"

"You blind man, I told you to learn more, but you didn't listen. The dead man's mud is not scary. The dragon veins near the key are missing. I suspect that the dead man's mud is used to seal the dragon."

Human beings are the spirit of all things, and the mud of dead people is buried deep in the ground, where bad luck condenses. It is a substance that conflicts with the dragon's veins.

Generally, places where dead people's mud is dug up are places of great danger, and dragon veins will not be derived.

There is a lot of dead mud here, and the sacrificial place we just passed may also be filled with dead mud.

It can be seen that the dragon veins in this area have been sealed.

Dragon veins are invisible, and the sealed dragon veins will not disappear, but will only flow to other places.
Chapter completed!