Chapter 269: Poison Sacrifice: The Longtan Keeper and the Snake
"Okay." Leader Baihua glanced at Tang Yejue, and then he shut up angrily and took two steps back.
She then said to Lu Zhanfeng: "Seventeen years ago, your father came here. Then he disappeared. People in the Central Plains are saying that he was investigating the disappearance of 'Longtan', right?"
"Missing?" Lu Zhanfeng had a sense of power unique to a young leader. Even when facing the leader of the largest sect in the southwest, he was not afraid at all. "It sounds like he is missing, but in fact he died in your place. Even if he is not dead,
He was also imprisoned by you."
Leader Baihua lowered his eyes, seeming to be lost in some memories. Priest Changkong next to him took a step forward and whispered something to her. Then, Leader Baihua shook his head, as if he had made some determination, and suddenly said
: "Tang Yejue, please take Lu Zhanfeng to Longtan to have a look."
"What?" Tang Yejue on the side seemed to be shocked by this order, "But he is an outsider, how can he enter..."
"What is in Longtan, and whether his father is there, will only be known if he goes in." The leader of Baihua said, "Since you are ordered to guard Longtan, you have the responsibility to bring him in and bring him out intact."
"..." Tang Yejue has always been calm and sharp, but at this moment, he didn't understand the leader's thoughts. Longtan is a forbidden area of the Five Saints Sect. Since he was ordered to guard Longtan three years ago, there has not been a day when he has not fulfilled his duties, not to mention Lu Zhanfeng.
This outsider has never let even a mosquito in.
Obviously, the Great Elder Loulan had the same idea as Tang Yejue. She said: "Longtan is extremely dangerous. It is not possible for an outsider to enter and come out alive. Moreover, there are regulations in the religion that except for the guards, even the followers are not allowed to enter.
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"That's why no one dared to go in to save Lu Guanming!" Bai Hua suddenly raised his voice with a complicated expression, "Because of the cult's regulations, even if someone knew that he had gone in, they would not dare to violate the regulations and go in to save him!
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Elder Loulan tapped his cane: "The original watcher went in alone to save Lawrence Lu, so did you see the consequences? In the end, neither of them came out!"
The leader of Baihua took a deep breath, and Tang Yejue suddenly knelt down and said, "I am willing to go in and have a look. I am the guardian, and Longtan is not a fear to me. The combined martial arts of Lu Zhanfeng and I should not be afraid of him."
As for whether you can get out."
Lu Zhanfeng glanced at Tang Yejue with gratitude.
Tang Yejue never knew the story about Longtan before.
It wasn't until the first night when he was assigned to be a guard that the leader of the White Flowers told him a story.
It’s about this vast pool of water.
Longtan grows at the bottom of Hetuo Mountain and is an underground spring. In the past, volcanic rocks erupted around Hetuo Mountain, which buried the underground spring and volcanic ash in the ground. Legend has it that the spring of Longtan was dug by Shennong and is the southernmost spring.
It is the most important source of life in the Zhao Kingdom. At this point, the former King of Nanzhao kept many ferocious beasts and poisonous insects underground to guard the spring. Except for the marked guardian, anyone who goes in will die.
As for the watcher, he needs to soak in the water soaked with five poisons for seven days and seven nights. If he survives without death or injury, a mark will be left. If the ferocious beasts and poisonous insects smell the smell of this mark, they will not dare to approach.
Tang Yejue is a person who has been soaked in poisonous water.
Not only was he not afraid of miasma, he was not afraid of poison either. He came out intact after seven days and became the caretaker of Longtan.
The reason Tang Yejue didn't want Lu Zhanfeng to go in was because he thought he wouldn't be able to get out if he went in. But just now he heard that he was eager to find his father, but he couldn't bear it. He had never had a father or mother since he was a child, so he knew what it was like.
As a result, everyone began to deal with the aftermath of Taoxian Village, and Tang Yejue took Lu Zhanfeng to the entrance of Longtan again.
"First of all, let me say that there is volcanic ash underneath, it is very choking, you'd better put on a mask." Tang Yejue said, took off his mask and threw it to Lu Zhanfeng.
Lu Zhanfeng took the mask and wanted to refuse, but after thinking about it he asked, "What about you?"
Tang Yejue chuckled: "I am a caretaker, I don't need such a thing. And..." As he said this, he suddenly stretched out his hand towards Lu Zhanfeng. Lu Zhanfeng was just wondering when he saw something suddenly in Tang Yejue's sleeves.
Something was moving. When he looked closely, he saw a small blue-white snake coming out of his sleeve. "Stretch out your hand," he said.
Lu Zhanfeng stretched out his hand, and the small green-white snake crawled along Tang Yejue's arm, onto Lu Zhanfeng's arm, and then climbed onto his shoulder.
Tang Yejue said: "It's called Piaomiao, and it will help you when you are in danger."
Lu Zhanfeng was confused: "I don't need a snake to protect me."
Pian Miao seemed a little unhappy after hearing this, and bumped Lu Zhanfeng's neck with the cold snake head. Tang Yejue said, "Piao Miao can make some snakes avoid you. There are a lot of venomous snakes down here."
Lu Zhanfeng frowned and said nothing more, letting the snake named Piaomiao stay on his shoulder.
"Okay, turn around, I'm going to open the well stone." Tang Yejue waved his hand, "Don't peek. Otherwise the mist will bite you. If you get bitten by it, you will die suddenly."
Lu Zhanfeng didn't bother to argue with him: "I don't bother to know your password to open the door." After saying that, he turned around.
From a distance, it can be seen that the fire in Taoxian Village has been extinguished. The village is silent. The corpses must have been burned clean. I hope that no more innocent villagers will be bitten into corpses.
Just as he was thinking about it, Tang Yejue behind him said in a dissatisfied tone: "Okay, come down."
When Lu Zhanfeng turned around, Tang Yejue had already jumped into the well without knowing it. So he walked to the edge of the well and looked down. It turned out to be bottomless, and he couldn't even see the man named Tang Yejue. He was too lazy to look closely.
I thought, reached out and grabbed the innocent little snake, and then jumped into the well.
Unexpectedly, the well was actually bottomless. He fell on a vine like a slide and kept falling downward. The further down he went, the clearer the air became, and there was no Tang Ye Jue at all.
What volcanic ash are you talking about? If there really is volcanic ash, it should be so choking that people can't breathe.
He didn't know how long he had been sliding, but the vines suddenly broke off. What came next was a huge underground cave, and all the volcanic ash was accumulated on the ground. Only when he jumped up with Qinggong and landed on the ground, the ash was lifted up by him.
Some.
Tang Yejue stood aside with his arms folded. Seeing that this man was still protecting Miao Miao when he fell down, his disgust towards him was reduced a bit.