The stench at the bottom of the pit became even stronger and could make ordinary people faint, but Bai Ziqi seemed not to notice it and walked forward quickly.
As observed by my subordinates, the tunnel connected to the stone chamber looks very new. There is sand and soil when you touch it, and it looks like it has been expanded recently.
On the day of the Yaoguo Palace incident, did He Xiao and others escape through this tunnel and leave Yongquan Villa under Zhao Song's nose?
Then, he saw a big fish head.
It's so big, its mouth is wide and flat.
Bai Ziqi took out a small bottle from his arms and put two drops of the liquid inside on the fish carcass.
The colorless liquid suddenly turned dark blue.
"There is no doubt that it is a demon puppet." The bottle contains Tiangong's special medicine, which will change color when it touches the divine blood. Using this method to identify the demon puppet is more reliable than eyesight.
There seemed to be a hook stuck in the fish's mouth. He pulled it out and saw that it was half a dagger.
He had previously talked with Qingyang and learned that Qingyang was more inclined to believe that this giant fish was Cao Wendao's demon puppet.
Why did He Xiao bring in the corpse of the enemy's demon puppet?
It is difficult to hide such a big man from others when transporting such a big man in and out of Yongquan Villa, but Zhao Song's men did not know. Either He Xiao used some kind of storage magic weapon to quietly carry the goods, or he took advantage of the lack of people here on the night of the palace event. , transport the fish carcasses in directly.
If it's the latter, things get interesting.
Bai Ziqi inspected the fish carcass and soon found familiar tooth marks:
Wide, flat, straight.
This kind of tooth mark was also found on fish bones by Taoxi River.
Something is feeding on this giant fish.
Bai Ziqi then thought about it and realized that there were countless scratches on the ground near the Xinglin Terrace cellar just now.
It was not made by human hands or weapons.
There is also the missing palace guard, the feeling of being followed...
Bai Ziqi murmured: "Sure enough, the magic array is reserved for that thing!"
With so many doubts strung together, it’s strange that he still can’t figure out the reason!
The illusion array at Xinglin Terrace was not prepared for him or the palace guards, but to mislead the fish-eating monster so that it could only smell the big fish but not find it, so there were scratch marks everywhere on the ground there. The monster was so irritable that he turned pale in face.
Now, the underground secret room of the stable was opened by Bai Ziqi. He knew that the phantom array there must have disappeared without returning to Xinglin Terrace.
Monsters can now be found by following the scent.
His heart moved, and he suddenly felt that someone was missing from the team.
It's only thirty or forty steps from Xinglin Terrace to the stables, but it seems that the Yaoguo palace guard who led them earlier didn't follow them, huh?
When following visitors from the Heavenly Palace, he instinctively followed behind. Bai Ziqi and his entourage would not look at him twice.
While checking for clues in the stable, Bai Ziqi looked around but seemed not to see him.
But he really didn't have any sense of existence, and even Bai Ziqi didn't notice anything strange.
Now when I think about it, well, when did this person disappear?
"Go up first..."
Before he finished speaking, there was a loud bang above the pit, followed by several shouts, a scream, and the clang of a weapon being drawn out.
The waiter shouted angrily: "Enemy attack! That damn thing is out!"
Bai Ziqi returned the same way and rushed to the ground in three steps. He saw a layer of red light shining outside the stable, but it flashed at a high frequency and was very conspicuous in the darkness.
That is a sign that the Red Trap Formation is activated but not fully activated. This defensive formation requires the formation talismans to be embedded in the ground to take effect. Once a strong enemy attacks, in addition to the defense and escape techniques provided by the formation itself,
It can also summon three sturdy earth puppets and three dexterous wooden puppets to resist the enemy, called array spirits, which can give the owner more time to react and defend against the enemy.
However, nothing came out now. Something hit the red light cover with all its strength, one hit hard and the other faster. It didn't hit two or three times before the red formation was broken. The waiter was the first to bear the brunt and confronted it.
A few tricks.
One of the attendants was frightened and backed away, just behind the stable pillar. Bai Shiqi caught a glimpse and said sternly: "Come out, don't stand there..."
That happens to be the blind spot for their formation and rescue!
Before he finished speaking, a shadow appeared from behind the pillar.
It stuck to the attendant's back, making no sound, as natural as if it had been standing there from the beginning.
The attendant just saw something was wrong from the looks cast by others, so he didn't dare to look back and ran forward.
But it was too late.
As soon as he moved, the shadow behind him was faster than him.
When Bai Ziqi jumped up from the tunnel, he happened to see this shadow flashing five feet away, still holding the attendant in his hand. The latter's protective magical weapons exploded, and four bloody holes were poked out of his chest, as if
Pierced by a pitchfork.
The speed of the shadow was too fast for ordinary people to catch with the naked eye, but Bai Ziqi could still see clearly that it was taller than ordinary people, dressed in a gray robe, with its face covered, and its cold gray skin was covered with tiny cracks.
This is not human because it has a tail on its back.
The guards of the Heavenly Palace surrounded the entrance of the tunnel. As if facing a formidable enemy, the waiter reported: "Master, as soon as you go in, it will attack us. For some reason, there is a talisman that is not embedded properly, and the array spirit has not been summoned, so it will hit us."
Break the formation and capture Yuan Dong!"
Bai Ziqi's expression changed.
The talismans are all good and were just checked yesterday.
At this time, a white guard on the side of the stable shouted: "There is one missing talisman! It was taken away!"
When the White Guards set up their formation earlier, this weirdo already understood what they were going to do and secretly took away a sign.
Even if it is not human, it is cunning and can think.
One or two of the talisman cards of the trapped red formation are missing, and the defense can be activated, but the formation spirit cannot be summoned.
The defensive capabilities of the trapped red formation are average - temporary formations are usually not as effective as fixed formations, so formation spirits were added as a supplementary method, but the result was ineffective.
On this trip to track down Emperor Jiuyou, he brought out all good experts. Everyone had known that they were being followed and spied on all the way, so they had already heightened their vigilance. In this case, the opponent was still able to successfully attack!
And the shadow captured Yuan Dong.
Yuan Dong did not take the surname Bai. He was not a guard he brought out by himself. He just came from Miaozhantian Temple today and had never gotten along with the white guards. He Xiao had left long ago, and Bai Ziqi didn't think so.
I took him with me because of the dangers involved in traveling to the outskirts of the city.
This chapter is not finished yet, please click on the next page to continue reading the exciting content! This person is a special existence, his cultivation level is not high but his effect is great——
He is the skin of a god and therefore needs to be properly protected.
Bai Ziqi was attacked on his way back to the city from Xiaotaoshan Villa. Although he repelled Lingshan's attack, he paid a considerable price and the team's combat strength was greatly reduced, so he asked Miao Zhantian for reinforcements.
This is one of the aids Miao Zhantian gave to Bai Ziqi, and the others are still being prepared in the temple.
The weirdo in front of him probably sensed that Yuan Dong was the weakest among the crowd, so he chose the weak ones first, but it ruined Bai Ziqi's important matter.
Now Yuan Dong was caught in its hand, its sharp claws pierced through the back of the heart, and then he was lifted up. The blood flowed down the trembling body to the ground, bit by bit.
Even if he was snatched back, it would be difficult to save him alive.
Bai Ziqi looked at the strange man who suddenly appeared and tried to communicate: "Who are you? Can you understand human speech?"
As a result, the feedback he received from the other party was that he lifted Yuan Dong up and sniffed it, as if to determine whether it was edible, and then swallowed it in one gulp!
When others saw this scene, they were all horrified, because this weirdo's appearance was very weird. A vertical slit opened in the middle of his face, and then opened wider and wider until it covered his entire face.
It turned out that it had no eyes or nose, and its whole face was just this big mouth. The sharp and staggered white teeth reminded Bai Ziqi of a piranha.
Now he knew where the strange tooth marks on the bones of the giant fish came from.
Moreover, it only takes two breaths for this thing to open its mouth and eat an adult, without chewing it raw.
No wonder the palace guard from the second class disappeared, and the palace guard who led them just now also disappeared without a trace. This thing eats people without spitting out bones!
Bai Ziqi said to the waiter: "Put your hands down and let me take a look."
The waiter let go and pulled off his clothes. Everyone saw two bloody holes in his forearm, probably from being stabbed by the monster's claws. The skin near the wounds was a strange dead gray color and did not look like flesh and blood.
Bai Ziqi still grasped the half-cut pestle, reached over and tapped it twice.
Clang, Clang, is the sound of metal and stone hitting each other.
Magic! Bai Ziqi's expression suddenly turned solemn, and without saying a word, he raised the pestle and struck the waiter on the shoulder!
Snap, the waiter's left arm was broken at shoulder level!
Blood spurted out, and he screamed in pain and almost fainted.
But when everyone saw the bright red blood on his shoulder, they breathed a sigh of relief.
Fortunately, the toxicity is not over the shoulder.
"Bandage him to stop the bleeding." Bai Ziqi faced the monster and ordered his men, then glanced at the ground. The boy's severed arm that fell to the ground soon turned into ashes.
If he hadn't made a prompt decision, the petrification technique in the waiter would have spread to his body, which would have been difficult to handle.
He also noticed that although the monster opposite had no eyes, when he stretched out his pestle, the monster's face turned.
To verify, Bai Ziqi grabbed the broken pestle and shook it from side to side a few times. Sure enough, the monster's head also shook slightly.
It pays close attention to this broken pestle.
Sure enough, nothing that He Xiao left in the tunnel was useless!
"This is a demon puppet. It's useless to talk to it." Bai Ziqi gave the order, "The demon puppet master who controls it may be nearby. Seventeen, take Ten and Eleven to search, the range is within the Yongquan Villa!
"
The only one who can eat the demon puppet as food is the demon puppet. He Xiao stole its food and hid it in the formation, and used its food-protecting properties to set a trap for Bai Ziqi.
Thinking of this, Bai Ziqi frowned again.
Demon puppets usually obey their master's orders. There is a demon puppet master behind this thing. What's the use of He Xiao stealing its food? Does the demon puppet master need that fish carcass?
Something's not quite right, unless...
Bai Qiqi responded and turned to leave with the other two attendants.
Bai Ziqi suddenly said again: "Come back! Forget it."
He rarely goes back on his word like this, and everyone feels that something is fishy.
Seeing this, the demon puppet was also ready to move, wanting to attack through the gap. Bai Ziqi took out a pale platinum candle, blew a breath, and the lantern fell from the candle tip and turned into a snow leopard.
Judging from the figure of this demon puppet, he should be known for his agility, so Bai Ziqi used the lamp spirit to transform into a leopard to test its background.
At this moment, the waiter who retreated to the back suddenly said: "My lord, on the ground!"