Ren Gengxin did not speak at this time, and seemed to still be stubbornly refusing to agree. Lu Peng was tired of speaking, and finally said with a huff: "I'm warning you for the last time, Master Dao will return tomorrow morning, if you still refuse to agree by then, I'll have no choice but to send you to those monsters to devour! At that time, don't blame me for not considering our past friendship. Think carefully about it!" After finishing speaking, a series of footsteps were heard, and then there was complete silence.

  Mo Zi Chen felt a sense of urgency in her heart, she had only met Lu Peng once, but Ren Geng Xin was one of the few friends she had in Taoyuan Village. Seeing him trapped now made her anxious, so she knocked hard on the stone wall, producing a dull "thud" sound like hitting an earthenware pot, and wondered what kind of material these rocks were made of.

  She asked: "Tou Tou, can you find a way to get through?"

  Tiao Tiao wrinkled up her nose, just like a little dog, sniffing the air around her nonstop. She suddenly jumped up a few steps and landed on a small protruding stone. Mo Zi Chen saw that this was the ghost face's nose.

  Tiao Tiao used her small paws to nudge it a few times, and Mo Zi Chen felt the stone under his feet start to move.

  Then she found that under the stone where she was standing, a horizontal crack appeared, as if the ghost face opened its mouth.

  Such a big movement, yet it didn't make a single sound.

  When the crack opened to about one person wide, it suddenly stopped moving. With a "whoosh" sound, it jumped onto Mo Zi Chen's shoulder again. Mo Zi Chen's movements were extremely agile, and in an instant, she flipped over from the crack. When she landed on the other side of the stone wall, the crack slowly began to close again.

  At the other end of the stone wall, there was a stone room with a rounded top and a square bottom, about ten or more zhang in circumference. In the center, there was a stone pillar carved with patterns. The carvings were all of strange beasts whose names were unknown. A young man was tightly bound to the stone pillar, it was Ren Gengxin.

  He saw the stone wall suddenly crack open, and someone jumped in from the other side, he was so frightened that his mouth opened wide, just about to shout out loud, Mo Zi Chen had already pounced over, covering his mouth with force, saying: "Don't shout, it's me!"

  Ren Geng was panting heavily, his face beet red, his eyes wide with incredulity as he stared at Mo Zi Chen. Mo Zi Chen leaned in close to his ear and whispered urgently, "It's a long story! I also escaped that day and evaded those people's pursuit, how did you end up here?"

  Ren Gengxin only reacted now, knowing that what he saw was not a ghost. He had not eaten for several days, only drinking clear water, and his body was already very weak. In a low voice, he said: "I was knocked down by those cavalrymen on the side of the road, someone cut me with a knife, but didn't notice if I really died. I crawled into the temple, hid under the cellar, and escaped their pursuit. Then I walked out of the mountains again. So you're also alive, did those people not find you?"

  His voice was bleak, with a hint of desolation after the catastrophe, but there was no joy in reuniting with old friends. Apparently, he had already guessed that those imperial guards were coming for Mo Zi Chen.

  Mo Zi Chen's heart felt inexplicably uncomfortable, and she said in a hoarse voice: "I was hiding in the valley and was rescued by someone. Now that I've found the immortal gate, I'm going to set out to find my master. How did you end up trapped here? What happened with Lu Peng? Let me untie you first?"

  When he heard the two words "Xian Men", Ren Geng Xin's eyes lit up and he said, "Absolutely not!" He quickly and urgently continued, "This is no ordinary rope, it's made from the tendons of a certain poisonous insect, and on top of that, a demonic spell has been cast upon it. If an ordinary person comes into contact with the rope, they will instantly die from severe poisoning!"

  Mo Zi Chen had already reached out her hand, but when she heard him say that, she was startled and withdrew her hand. She looked closely and found that the rope was thin and tough, about the same thickness as a little finger, with a faint green mist on its surface. As soon as Mo Zi Chen approached it, she felt dizzy. Fortunately, she had practiced the Taicheng Heart Method of the Xuanmen Orthodox School, so after calming down and adjusting her breath for three cycles, she recovered her clarity.

  Ren Geng let out a sigh: "You'd better leave, this is also my fate. I originally thought that there would be an opportunity to avenge the whole village, but it turns out that I still can't escape this calamity. Lu Peng has gone out to welcome that demon, and he will probably return by dawn. Follow the front path all the way out, there is a fork in the road, take the middle exit, three times in a row, you can find the exit behind the mountain."

  Mo Zi Chen said with some embarrassment: "Ren Si Ge, my skills are limited, I'm afraid it will take some time to untie this rope. Is there no other way?"

  Ren Geng's eyes lit up, "You're saying that you've already joined a immortal sect and are practicing the Taoist arts?"

  Mo Zi Chen nodded: "I was rescued by a mysterious person in the mountains and joined the Jiuhua Xianmen sect, but for now I'm just a registered disciple. To find the mountain gate and formally become an apprentice is still to come."

  Ren Gengxin said: "I unintentionally heard Lu Peng say that this rope is called Yuntai Bind Dragon Rope, which is made from the poisonous insects that absorb the thousand-year-old peach blossom miasma from the ground. It's said to be able to trap even cultivators. To break it, one needs to use a mid-grade spirit stone to absorb the miasma poison on it. I didn't hear him explain in detail, do you have a solution?"

  Mo Zi Chen bit her lip, if she had a spirit stone on her, she would have long since sat in the transmission array and left this place, why would she still accept this summons. Moreover, a medium-grade spirit stone, even for an average disciple, it's not necessarily that they would have one on them, you know that the spiritual energy contained in a single medium-grade spirit stone is equivalent to a hundred ordinary spirit stones, and in reality, the conversion is far from being so simple, usually medium-grade spirit stones are the most suitable items for Golden Dan cultivators and above, and are not easily given to others.

  If it were Ji Gege who was here, there might be a way, but relying on myself alone...

  Mo Zi Chen suddenly had an epiphany, took out the jade pendant. The mysterious thing about this jade pendant is that he still hasn't figured it out until now, maybe it will have some kind of magical effect.

  She carefully stuck the jade pendant onto the rope, and indeed, the jade pendant emitted a soft white glow that protected her hand. The green poisonous mist floated towards Mo Zi Chen's hand, as if it was separated by a thin layer, and couldn't harm her meridians at all.

  But the effect of the jade pendant was limited to this, and Mo Zi Chen tried to untie the rope under the protection of the jade pendant, but he couldn't untie it no matter what.

  Ren Geng Xin shook his head: "It's useless, I heard the Taoist say that this is a knot condensed from spiritual energy. If the miasma doesn't disperse, no matter how skilled one's hands are, it can't be untied."

  He gazed at Mo Zi Chen with a pair of dark eyes: "You'd better leave quickly, you've finally escaped from the mountains and have a bright future ahead of you, how can you die here?"