Xia Xiaotian covered his face with one hand and said, "Don't look at me. I'm not familiar with Xiang Kai at all."

Old Liu shook his fan and said, "It seems that Mr. Xiang is also a wonderful person!"

Over there, Xiang Kai's voice grew louder, "Your ancestral grave has already been dug up once, so what's one more time? Don't you think?"

"Maybe your ancestors are suffocating down there and want to come out for some fresh air?"

"Damn you!" Bu Youming couldn't help but curse.

I thought the two of them would fight, but I didn't expect Bu Youming to be persuaded by Xiang Kai in the end.

Bu Youming walked to the grave with a reluctant look on his face, offered a few prayers, and then moved the stones in front of the grave.

At first, I didn't really pay attention to the appearance of the stones, but when Bu Youming went to move them, I realized that there was a hidden mystery among the stones.

After Bu Youming gently removed a few stones, a black shadow resembling a snake's head emerged from the ground.

Bu Youming became even more careful. Sometimes, before moving a stone, he would gesture a few times, as if calculating which stone would be more suitable to remove.

In the end, only three stones remained in front of the grave, forming a "品" (pǐn - goods, product) shape, but he didn't know where to start.

Bu Youming squatted in front of the grave and thought for a long time before saying, "You all retreat, three hundred meters away."

Xiang Kai walked over and asked, "What's wrong?"

"Just leave when I tell you to, why so much nonsense?" Bu Youming said irritably, "This is the Bu family's guardian snake spirit. Only when the spirit snake opens its eyes can I open the tomb."

"If I take the wrong stone, there won't be a living thing within two hundred meters."

"Hurry up and leave!"

I roughly understood what Bu Youming meant: the last three stones represent the eyes of the spirit snake. Removing one of them will allow the spirit snake to open its eyes.

However, if the wrong stone is taken, the snake spirit may go crazy, and the consequences are unpredictable.

One out of three. Not too difficult, not too easy.

It's just that we are standing here, and Bu Youming doesn't dare to gamble.

Just as Xiang Kai was about to speak, I suddenly felt the ground trembling beneath my feet. When I looked down, several earthen mounds had risen around the grave.

At first glance, it looked like several giant pythons as thick as bowls were lurking underneath, rapidly circling around us. In a short while, the earthen mounds on the ground crisscrossed, surrounding us in the middle.

The earthen mounds on the ground seemed messy and disorganized, but there was actually a pattern to them.

If you look closely, you will feel that nine snakes are preying on their prey from different angles. No matter how we move, we will be facing one or more venomous snakes.

Ye Yang said, "What a master of geomancy. He actually mobilized the earth's energy within a hundred li to guard his tomb."

I looked at Ye Yang and said, "What do you mean?"

Ye Yang explained, "Bu Ting didn't bury himself in an ominous place, but rather extracted the earth's energy from the surrounding ominous places and arranged the Nine Snakes Entwining Formation (Jiu She Chan Shen Ju) around himself."

Old Liu also explained, "If we compare the earthen mounds on the ground to pythons, it is exactly the Nine Snakes Entwining Body (Jiu She Chan Shen) mentioned in feng shui."

"Nine Dragons Pulling the Coffin, domineering and unparalleled, a place of great fortune."

"Nine Snakes Entwining the Body is a place of great misfortune, with endless troubles."

"The real Nine Snakes Entwining Body should actually be a landform composed of nine mountain ranges."

"Once a person falls in the middle, it is equivalent to being surrounded by a group of snakes. From head to toe, all the vital points will be exposed under the fangs of venomous snakes. Even if you have the skill to slay a dragon, it is difficult to escape the encirclement of venomous snakes."

Old Liu pressed his fan and said, "My lord, look at the nine snakes. They seem to be surrounding the grave, but in fact they are surrounding us, waiting for the snake king's command."

"The snake king is hidden in Bu Ting's tomb."

"If Bu Youming takes the right stone and allows the spirit snake to open its eyes, the venomous snakes that are trapping us will naturally retreat."

"If he takes the wrong one, we will be attacked by the earth's veins."

"No matter how strong our cultivation is, we can't compete with the feng shui and earth's energy within a few hundred li. Moreover, this kind of baleful aura can cling to the body. Even if we can escape from the crushing of the feng shui and earth's energy, we will be entangled by misfortune and die an unnatural death."

While Old Liu was explaining to me, Bu Youming said angrily, "Have you said enough? If you want to talk, go somewhere else and stop bothering me here!"

Nie Xiaochun was the first to get angry, "Bu Youming, are you being reasonable? Right now, it's because you can't solve the problem left by your ancestors that you've trapped us here. We haven't said anything yet, what are you angry about?"

Qin Xin also said coldly, "Not much ability, but a big temper!"

"Say that again?" When Bu Youming suddenly turned his head to look at Qin Xin, the pupils in his eyes suddenly narrowed into a straight line. At first glance, he looked like an angered venomous snake, ready to hurt someone at any time.

I immediately drew out my twin blades, blocking Nie Xiaochun and Qin Xin.

Drawing my blades was a completely instinctive reaction. Jianghu people can keenly sense whether the other party has murderous intent towards them.

The moment Bu Youming raised his head, I was sure that he was going to kill someone!

Xia Xiaotian also raised his scythe and looked over at me, "What are you going to do?"