Destroyed outside, gold and jade inside

Chapter 165 Not qualified to question
The traces of the fire in the mountain forest can be seen vaguely, some trees have been burned to death, the trunks are bare, and the color is gray and black.Some of them are tenacious, and half of them are burned, leaving only half of the bark, but they are also vigorously stretching their branches and leaves.

The closer she got to the mountain that Shen Xinniang was pointing at, the more her footsteps slowed down.Every step seems to carry some heavy meaning.

Naturally, no one urged her, and everyone carefully walked through the bushes with mixed branches and leaves, half or one person tall.

Jin Xiang slipped on her feet and suddenly let out a cry.

Shen Xinniang immediately turned back and quickly covered her mouth.

In the deep mountain forest, there was a moment of silence and eerieness.

"Don't bark, you will attract the beasts in the mountains." Shen Xiniang whispered in her ear.

Jin Xiang nodded quickly.Only then did Shen Xinniang let go of her hand covering her mouth.

Jin Xiang was panting nervously, pointing to the bamboo-green snake that was swimming fast not far from her feet. Lift the snake's head and look back.He hissed at Jin Xiang and spat out the core.

Jin Xiang was startled, and quickly raised her hand to cover her mouth tightly, for fear that she would scream again.

The snake stopped for a moment and then swam away. After a while, the soft and cool snake body disappeared.

"This snake is poisonous, don't provoke it." Shen Xinniang said.

Everyone nodded, Jin Xiang held her thumping heart, she had been scared by snakes before, and she was most afraid of snakes, now it seems that it is nothing more than that.

Yes, I remember who said before that what you are most afraid of, you force yourself to touch it, so that you will not be afraid in the future.She looked sideways at the still calm face of the lady, and she seemed to have courage in her heart.

Shen Xinniang walked in front, and Jin Xiang followed closely behind her.Qin Ran and the Qin family followed quickly, not daring to fall far.

I don't know who stepped on the gravel or slipped with dead leaves. The soles of the feet became unstable, and the whole person slid to the side.

Just about to exclaim, remembering Mrs. Shen's explanation just now, he swallowed the exclamation back into his stomach, and after only a short ah, the person has already rolled into a pit full of dead branches and rotten leaves.

Shen Xinniang stopped and turned around when she heard the movement.Standing by the pit, he lowered his eyes and asked, "Are you injured?"

The man moved his hands and feet, shook his head, "It's okay."

"Come up if you have nothing to do!" Qin Ran said with a frown.

The man hurriedly climbed up from the pit, holding a protruding, stone-like thing in his hand, but it loosened and fell into his arms. He picked it up and was about to throw it out, but suddenly he was startled. Where is the stone!It was clearly a burnt black human skull!

Breaking out in cold sweat, he threw the human skull aside, his legs softened, and he fell into the deep pit again.

The people standing on the top had a clear look at the things he threw aside, and they couldn't help showing a little horrified expression on their faces.This, what is this place?
"Don't be afraid." Shen Xinniang said suddenly, "There are many here."

a lot of? !
When everyone heard this, their legs became weaker and their backs felt cold.

"The fire destroyed a lot, but there are also many that haven't been burned. What's so scary about the dead? The people who didn't die are the ones we should be most wary of." Shen Xinniang said slowly.

Qin Ran's face was as black as ink, and he turned to look at her, frowning, "This is... from the Lingshan sect?"

"Some are, some are not." Shen Xinniang said, "Yu Tai brought a crowd of [-] people, half of them should be here."

Qin Ran frowned, Lingshan is only a place of cultivation, hundreds of thousands of people is too much to say, half of Yu Tai's one hundred thousand people died?Is she bragging?If not, how tragic was the fierce battle back then?

She said that grandpa died, is that true?Did she really come back for revenge?Qin Ran shook his head, he didn't believe it, he couldn't believe it.

The people who fell at the bottom of the pit heard that there were many skeletons here, and immediately climbed up from the bottom of the pit at an alarming speed. Who knows if there are more skeletons at the bottom of the pit?This lady is extraordinary, she is not afraid of death, but he has a very cold back.

Shen Xinniang walked forward, Jin Xiang followed her even tighter, afraid that if she made a wrong step, something would happen to her again.

"I remember that the soil here was not black and red before." Shen Xinniang said, "Tell me, could it be the reason for the blood stain?"

Qin Ran was taken aback when he heard the words, pursed his lips and shook his head, "How do I know?"

"Probably so," Shen Xinniang said, "In retrospect, there is blood mist everywhere in my memory, the sound of fighting and shouting is everywhere, and the blood is bleeding, it is not an exaggeration at all."

Qin Ran frowned tightly, Jin Xiang shuddered, almost walking against Shen Xiniang's back.

"Tonight, rest in the cave." Shen Xinniang said calmly as she led them outside a cave.

The inside of the cave is very flat, and there are some broken pots and utensils, but they are all dusty and dirty.Now it has become a home for all kinds of bugs.

People lit a fire in the cave to disperse the moisture, and sprinkled insect repellent powder everywhere to drive away the insects.After cleaning the cave, it looks much better here than it did when I stayed in the wilderness a few days ago, listening to the roar of insects and tigers.

Everyone was a little relieved, but Qin Ran's brows were furrowed tightly, showing no sign of slowing down.

At night, Shen Xinniang asked everyone to rest in the cave, but she still went outside the cave, flew up the tree, leaned on the tree trunk, leaned against the tree trunk, squinted her eyes slightly, and was alert to the movement around her.

Jin Xiang originally wanted to accompany his wife and go outside, but was blocked by Qin Ran, "If you fall from the tree again, your wife will lose face. Rest well in the cave, I told them to avoid it."

Jin Xiang opened her mouth to argue, but Qin Ran was one step ahead of her, walked out of the cave, and walked towards the huge old mulberry tree where Shen Xiniang was.

"Miss Shen," Qin Ran called her while standing under the tree, "Tell me, my great-grandfather...he..."

Shen Xinniang sat on the tree, looking down at him.

Qin Ran took a deep breath, some words, some facts, before his eyes, he couldn't help but not believe it, no matter how unwilling he was, no matter how much he wanted to deny it, he would have to face it, he gritted his teeth and said: "Those bones Is there him too?"

Shen Xinniang was slightly taken aback when she heard the words.

"Say it!" Qin Ran frowned and raised his voice.

Hearing that the surrounding forest seemed to be suddenly quiet, he held back his breath again, pursed his lips and raised his head to look at Shen Xinniang.

"It should, no." Shen Xinniang said slowly.

Qin Ran's eyes widened, and a faint look of hope was about to appear on his face.

She said again, "In the last moment of my previous memory, Yu Tai seemed to be crazy, using his knife to slash at the master's body one by one. Under his crazy butcher knife, the master was almost turned into a pulp. How could Yu Tai's madness allow Master's bones to remain?"

Hearing this, Qin Ran took a step back, his face turned pale, and he shook his head repeatedly, "You're talking nonsense..."

Shen Xinniang looked down at him and nodded, "Yes, I hope too, I'm talking nonsense, I hope all this is not true, when I open my eyes, Master is still in front of me, even if he scolds me and punishes me , hang me from a tree and beat me, I am willing.”

There were bloodshot eyes in Qin Ran's eyes, "He can predict what happened before and after, how could he not know that Yu Tai is coming?"

"He knew it, he knew it early in the morning." Shen Xinniang said, "Maybe that's why he didn't go back to Qin's house back then, but brought you here. Come, it's just a death."

Qin Ran shook his head, "Since we knew early on, why didn't we take everyone away? Why didn't we take precautions as soon as possible, why did we use our arms as a chariot? Why did we stay here to die?"

Shen Xinniang looked up at the starlight leaking through the branches and leaves, "I can't leave, because keeping the secret of Lingshan is the mission of all disciples of Lingshan, and no one can be alone."

Qin Ran moved his mouth, stared at her on the tree, endured it for a while, and then asked: "People are dead, what secrets do you keep, what else can you keep?!"

Shen Xinniang slowly stroked the palm of her left hand, and now the secret of Lingshan is on her body, in her hand.Even though the people in Lingshan are dead and the master is no longer there, the master still keeps the secret of Lingshan and does not let the yin and yang spring fall into Yu Tai's hands.

The master took life as the knot and all Taoism as the boundary, and tied her to Yinyang Spring Eye.One step earlier is too early, one step later is too late, Master must have calculated it.

"What about you? Aren't you from Lingshan? Aren't you his apprentice? Why didn't you die?" Qin Ran finally asked a slightly condemning sentence.

"How do you know I'm not dead?" Shen Xinniang asked slowly.

The once talkative and laughing Mu Ling, who was full of vigor and vitality, is dead.Her bones may be buried under the pile of dead branches and leaves, under the soft soil.

Qin Ran was startled when he heard the words, and squinted at Shen Xinniang on the tree.She is indeed different now, her eyes are black and white now, but it is even more incomprehensible than when they were dark in the past.

"Everyone has something to insist on," Shen Xinniang said quietly while sitting on the tree, "You don't have to understand Master, you don't have to agree with him. But you are not qualified, and no one has the right to question him."

Her voice was calm, and there didn't seem to be much emotion in her tone.But her eyes looking at Dian Xinghui were deep and dignified.

Qin Ran frowned and didn't speak, his face was very ashamed.Although she had heard about it early in the morning, she said that his waiters were no longer there.But at that time, he could still lie to himself, telling himself that he could not believe it.Now, walking to Lingshan step by step, watching the facts unfold in front of him step by step.The bloody cruelty made him no longer able to lie to himself.

He turned to leave, but there was a sound from the cave.

"Who?" Qin Ran asked.

"Uh...me! Jin Xiang!" Jin Xiang's voice came.

"You don't sleep most of the night, what are you doing?" Qin Ran said in a bad tone.

Jin Xiang was embarrassed and said nothing.

"Didn't I ask you something? Why don't you sleep in the middle of the night?" Qin Ran took two steps closer.

"I, I, I... get up at night, can't you?" Jin Xiang's face was hot, and she ran away with a snort.

"Don't go too far." Shen Xinniang urged from the tree.

"En." Jin Xiang muffled a reply, but tried to stay away from the cave as much as possible.

(End of this chapter)