"What does the mountain god have to do with the high temperature I just mentioned?" Gu Xiangqin asked.
"The mountain god's residence is a hot and warm place." The woodcutter laughed.
"Alright!" The three of them were overjoyed, and so Wang Jin took out a piece of elemental stone from his storage ring and gave it to the axman, "This is a heavy thanks, but you are not allowed to tell anyone else where the three of us are."
"Thank you, masters!" The axman was so happy that he almost kowtowed to Wang Jin. To ordinary people like him, elemental stone s could only be found and not sought.
Wang Jin and the other two immediately bade farewell to the axman, and followed Shi Shan Road down.
Along the way, Gu Xiangqin suddenly said with a heavy heart, "Five Ghosts is chasing after us. We shouldn't have let the axman go just now."
"What do you think we should do?" Wang Jin asked.
"Naturally …" Gu Xiangqin was just about to say that they would kill him to keep his mouth shut, but when she thought about this, she felt uncomfortable in her heart, so she sighed, "Forget it, the heavens are kind. If Five Ghosts were to find out our whereabouts from the axman, it would be like the heavens wanting us to die too."
Zheng Xuezhao then continued: "Killing an evil person is still fine, but in order to protect a secret and to kill someone who is related to us and even helped us, I can't do anything either."
"Even if my Five Ghosts is chasing them, I still have to fear them. If I don't have this much courage, how can I pursue the supreme martial arts?" Wang Jin laughed, and the laughter resonated in the forest.
Not long after, the group descended the mountain along a narrow mountain path. From afar, they saw a scene of blue fields with warm sun and fresh smoke. It was a mountain village situated at the foot of the mountain.
When they asked, they found out that they were preparing to worship the mountain god tomorrow. They planned to gather the people from the other villages to worship the mountain god together when the sun rose tomorrow.
However, Wang Jin and the two girls both had an extraordinary bearing and dressed up. Just one glance was enough to tell that they had an extraordinary background, so they still entertained Wang Jin and the others.
Gu Xiangqin brought some money from the commoners and paid a certain household. He then stayed in the household for the time being.
During the night, Wang Jin stood in the side room and looked at the people coming and going. Suddenly, he saw the large palanquin in front of him carrying a large red flower bridge, which was covered extremely well, and he could not see the bride's appearance inside.
The villager told Wang Jin that the bride was going to be "married" to the mountain god tomorrow. It was not from my village, but from an even more backward village.
When night fell, Wang Jin slept soundly.
In the middle of the night, he was once again aroused by the sexy female voice he heard last night. Wang Jin walked out of the bedroom in a daze and discovered that everyone else in the room was asleep.
Walking out of his room, he found that the village was deathly still. There was not a single sound, not even the sound of the wind blowing.
Wang Jin followed the direction the voice came from, walked in a daze, and climbed up Daman once again. He walked along the mountain path that resembled a goat's intestines that was dug out artificially, and not long later, he once again arrived in front of the fiery red hole that he had seen in his dream last night.
"Come in, quick, come in …" The sexy voice kept pressing on in beside Wang Jin's ears.
Wang Jin walked to the cave entrance, subconsciously stopped his steps, and started pacing back and forth around the cave entrance.
The voice urged again, "Come on in, save me, please!"
"Save you? "Are you inside?" Wang Jin asked the cave entrance.
"Yes, save me! I'm right inside! Come in and save me!" The voice was anxious.
"What kind of trouble are you in?" Wang Jin asked again.
"I beg of you, please save me. If you save me, you will pay me back for it!" These words continuously lingered in Wang Jin's ears.
Wang Jin, on the other hand, continued to wander around the entrance of the cave in a daze.
Bang!
A loud and clear gong sound rang out, waking Wang Jin up from his sleep.
Wang Jin realized that it was still the same dream after he woke up. He was astonished, if it was just a dream, then he would definitely not think so, but if it was two days in a row, and it was a very logical dream, then he felt that something was wrong.
"Could this dream be true? Did someone really ask me to save her before she asked me to? And why did you choose me? " Wang Jin said to himself.
"Senior Brother, quickly come out!" Zheng Xuezhao urged from outside.
As a result, Wang Jin put on his clothes and leisurely walked out. He realized that the sky was already starting to brighten as people from the other three villages started to arrive in Tiantian Village.
At this time, the villagers of the four villages were gathered together, killing cows and dogs, preparing to eat breakfast before heading up the mountain to pay their respects to the mountain god.
Wang Jin realized that it was extremely cruel for them to pull the dogs onto the trees and hang the oxen there, even using a hammer to smash the oxen to death. Listening to their conversation, Wang Jin realized that these cows and dogs were all stolen from other places. The villagers ate happily as well. The villagers who were stealing dogs and cows continued to show off and show off to the other villagers.
Wang Jin and the two girls did not join the bloodthirsty party.
"Senior Brother, the people in these villages are so barbaric." Zheng Xuezhao quietly said.
"Yeah." Gu Xiangqin also angrily said, "The Daman is very rich, the four villages around the Daman support the mountains, their lives are much better than other villages, every family can live in tile-roofed houses, and every day they can eat meat, it can be said that they did not encounter natural disasters, their lives are very comfortable.
But they actually stole the loyal dogs of other troubled villages, and the cattle they depend on for a living, and enjoyed the process of killing them. I think they're all sick. "
"Let's put this matter aside first. Our main goal is to find the Searing Soul Crystal." Wang Jin reminded.
"Got it." The two girls looked at each other and felt the anger in each other's eyes.
The villagers of the four villages had surrounded the village and were eating and drinking to their heart's content. After that, they took advantage of the drunkenness to get ready to go up the mountain.
The four villages had such clan rules. People from other places could not follow them up the mountain to worship the Mountain God, so they stopped Wang Jin and the two girls from following them.
After seeing the villagers of the four villages carry the flower bridge up the mountain, Wang Jin and the two women quietly followed behind, following them from afar.
Wang Jin felt that the direction that the villagers were heading in seemed a little familiar.
In the afternoon, the villagers finally arrived at their destination. The forest here was the most lush, with weeds as tall as shrubs. Within the dense forest, there seemed to be a fiery red hole.
"It's this place!" Wang Jin shouted in shock. This place was exactly the same as the place he had dreamt of last night and the night before!
Such a strange thing actually happened? Who was the woman in the dream who had never appeared? Wang Jin inhaled a breath of cold air. Anyone who encountered such a strange thing would feel their pores open in fear.
The villagers seemed to have completely ignored him. They chatted and laughed as they carried the flower bridge into the fiery red cave. Soon, they disappeared without a trace.
Only then did Wang Jin and the two girls come out from the darkness and walked towards the cave.
Phew!
Puff …
All of a sudden, countless of sparks shot out from the fiery red cave, like fireworks, these sparks shot up high into the sky, and then fell at every corner of Daman.
Seeing this, the three of them couldn't help but stop and raise their heads to look. They only saw that the fire only stopped after ten breaths of time. After a while, it returned to normal.
The sparks fell to the ground, quickly cooling down before turning into black ash.
Zheng Xuezhao curiously squatted down while reaching out his hand to touch the black ash. Then, he smiled: "I know why Daman is so abundant now."
"Why?" Gu Xiangqin asked curiously.
"Legend has it that volcanic ash has fertilization effects. These black and gray volcanoes should be of the same principle. It is they who raised the plants of Daman, and the plants of Daman have raised the surrounding villages as well." Zheng Xuezhao explained.
"Let's wait a bit before entering." Wang Jin said with his hands on his shoulders.
In the depths of the Daman, the Luo Family'S Five Devils were like five headless flies that were blindly searching for Wang Jin's whereabouts.
They soon discovered that under a large tree not far away, there was a woodcutter who was desperately cutting firewood. The woodcutter was also singing while cutting firewood. Clearly, he was in a very good mood.
"Who is that?" "Come here!" Cao Shi waved to the axman.
Hearing that, the axman turned his head around, realizing that each of the Luo Family'S Five Devils had a sinister expression, and thus feeling scared to escape, but noticing that they were all wearing extravagant clothes, he quickly put down his work, and eagerly walked over.
"Five sirs, what do you need from me?"
"Have you seen this person before?" Cao Shi extended his hand out and took out a portrait as if he was performing a magic trick.
The woodcutter narrowed his eyes as he looked over. His heart was suddenly startled. Wasn't this the youth who asked him for directions from the two girls yesterday?
"I'm asking you a question!" Zhu Guang ferociously said.
"Hehe, I have." The woodcutter chuckled.
"Oh?" Hearing that, the Five Ghosts looked at each other, their eyes filled with surprise and joy.
Cao Shi said indifferently: "Where did they go?"
"The five sirs have an extraordinary background, my life is poor and pitiful. As long as you give a small piece of elemental stone to me, I will tell you the truth in return." The woodcutter smiled.
"I'll give you ten!" Cao Shi took out ten elemental stone s and threw them to the axman.
The axman was so surprised that he was intoxicated, and quickly told the truth to and the rest.
After a while, a gurgling sound could be heard, and the woodcutter's head, which was filled with regret at his death, tumbled down the ground beside the big tree.
Wang Jin and the other two stood in front of the fiery red hole and waited. After about half an hour, another spark burst out from inside the fiery red cave, and after ten breaths of time, it stopped.
The process repeated itself, and the eruption of sparks was very regular.
All three were curious.
After the spark eruption, Wang Jin said: "Go in, grasp the time and order, and don't worry about getting hurt by the spark eruption."
After that, the three of them entered the cave. This cave was filled with flames, and the ground and rock walls were covered with flowing fiery red magma. It seemed that the environment inside was even worse than Shuangqing Valley.
However, there was a man-made road paved with ice crystals in the cave. These ice crystals were a type of stone that was very resistant to heat, but they were cheap. Using them to pave the way would ensure ordinary people to walk in such a hot environment.
Wang Jin and the other two had to be extra careful with each step. Since the people of the mountain had insisted on worshipping the Mountain God every year, maybe the Mountain God really did have someone, but he was not really a Mountain God.