Chapter 216 The Coffin Stone

As soon as the old woman spoke, Zhao Zhuang couldn't hold back any longer. He grabbed her by the neck and threw her to the ground. "Chop her up!"

The two brothers each pulled out a pair of axes from behind and hacked at the old woman with all their might.

Although the four axes were also magical instruments, they couldn't make the old woman's soul dissipate on the spot. Crying, she crawled towards my feet, "Mr. Li, please spare Zhu Zi, spare Zhu Zi! You promised me... you promised me..."

The two brothers rushed up and hacked several more times before they chopped the old woman into a phosphorescent fire. The dark green flames still jumped back and forth on the surface of my feet.

That was the last plea of the Wang family's old woman.

But I wasn't looking at the phosphorescent fire, but at the stone coffin.

When I later told people about my experience in Fish Basket Village, someone asked me: Why didn't you just stay in Fish Basket Village and wait for the water ghost to return? Wasn't it Li Yulan's Earth Soul that you wanted?

I could indeed wait for the rabbit in Fish Basket Village, but passive waiting would definitely lead to unpredictable variables. If I didn't have time to react, all my efforts would be in vain. Only by finding the Dragon Fish could I take the initiative.

I had to enter Yuanshan Village.

However, Yuanshan Village was not so easy to enter!

The coffin stone at the entrance of the village represented the true level of the Shuiying (Water Guard) clan. From the perspective of the formation, this was called "One Stone Guards the Pass, One Step Yin and Yang." The coffin stone was the heart of the formation. Only by walking up to the stone could you have a chance to break the formation and escape.

However, in these two hundred or so steps from the entrance to the stone, if I took even one wrong step, the killing intent of the village entrance formation would appear immediately. It was questionable whether any of us could walk out alive.

While I was still calculating the formation step by step, Zhao Zhuang whispered, "Mr. Li, the people of our village are counting on you. You absolutely can't have an accident. I'll pave the way for you."

Without waiting for me to speak, Zhao Zhuang turned his head and said, "Ding Zhong, Ding Yi, after I die, the two of you continue to scout the road, and you must protect Mr. Li into the village. Otherwise, we three will have no face to see the elders and children of the village."

As Zhao Zhuang spoke, he threw off his coat, bared his chest, raised his knife, and strode forward.

Before Zhao Zhuang reached the entrance of the village, he heard Old Liu reprimand, "What are you doing? Showing off? It's not your turn to pave the road, you bunch of brats, get out of the way."

Old Liu took a few puffs of his dry tobacco pipe, knocked the ashes off on the sole of his shoe, tucked the pipe behind his waist, and threw a bottle of medicine to Zhao Zhuang, "Take it and drink it! When you guys were running around naked, I took you to hunt birds and catch fish. Now that you've put on your pants, I'll teach you how to break the formation."

"Uncle Liu!" Zhao Zhuang cried, and the Ding brothers also cried!

The night before last, they had just carried Old Liu to block the water, and tonight, Old Liu was going to break the formation and sacrifice his life for them!

Back and forth, retreating and advancing, no one could hold back this heartbreaking scene.

Zhao Zhuang knelt on the ground and slapped himself several times, "Uncle Liu, I'm not human, I'm not human! I'm sorry to you!"

"Hold it back!" Old Liu walked step by step towards the entrance of the road, "I bombed the village with cannons, but I regret it. I'm already this old, and I don't have any children. What's the point of not letting go of so many things?"

"Live well! There's nothing wrong with you wanting to go out! I wanted to go out when I was young too!"

"If you really feel sorry for me, burn a piece of paper and pour a glass of wine on my grave during the holidays in the future, so I won't run out of money when I get there."

"Uncle Liu!" Zhao Zhuang crawled a few steps on his knees and kowtowed on the ground, "Dad!"

"Dad!" The Ding brothers also knelt on the ground.

"You little bastards! I really fall for this!" Old Liu didn't turn his head, but his shoulders were trembling.

When Old Liu straightened his back again, he was already at the edge of the road.

Just as Old Liu raised his toes to land, I suddenly shouted, "What are you doing? Looking for death! Don't step there!"

Old Liu stopped abruptly, and I walked over in a few steps, "I was calculating the formation, what kind of trouble are you causing?"

"Mr. Li, you just now..." Old Liu wanted to say: Didn't you see anything just now?

I said in a deep voice, "I was calculating the formation just now. When calculating the formation, people will enter a state of emptiness, and they can't see or hear things around them."

"You follow me, and if I stop to calculate the formation again, you must protect me at all costs and not let anything touch me. Otherwise, none of us will be able to get out."

As I spoke, I took a step forward. Old Liu was so frightened that he exclaimed, "Mr. Li, you stepped in the wrong place."

Old Liu had been to Yuanshan Village before. Although he couldn't remember all the steps to enter the village, he would definitely have an impression of the first few steps. The step I took deviated from the place he was about to step by about two feet to the left.

Although this size was not large, for the formation, it was equivalent to completely deviating from a direction. How could Old Liu not be surprised?

Amidst Old Liu's exclamations, I stepped into the dirt road near the coffin stone.

As the loess on the road flew up around my feet, my figure also stiffened.