Chapter 172: The Key

Could it be that the number of these keys is odd and large?

Chen Xingwan and Yan Xiu had obviously thought about this question a long time ago, and the two of them were also very puzzled by this, and after shaking their heads, they took the lead and walked forward, coming to the place where they had observed the key before.

It is still an old locust tree embraced by several people, and its dense branches and leaves shade the sky and the sun, so that the sunlight cannot penetrate at all.

Being under the old locust tree makes people feel very cold.

Chen Xingwan took the initiative to step forward, came to the side of the old locust tree, and gently patted on a certain raised bark of the old locust tree.

Originally, it was just a tentative move, but I didn't expect that the original protruding part of the old locust tree would crack open and spit out a bronze key.

Seeing this, Chen Xingwan took out an extra piece of demon animal skin in his hand, and took out the key through this animal skin.

Subsequently, the raised part of the old locust tree was restored to its original state.

Liu Xiuqi was a little curious, and also walked to Chen Xingwan's side, and slapped another chapter on the raised bark where the key appeared before.

Unexpectedly, nothing happened this time.

After thinking about it, Liu Xiuqi slapped all the bulges on the old locust tree.

As a result, no key ever appeared.

At this time, Chen Xingwan had already finished observing, and then handed the key to Liu Xiuqi.

Liu Xiuqi looked at it for a while and then handed it to Fang Yan.

After a while, the key had already been passed in the hands of Fang Yan and the others in turn. But no one can see anything out of it.

It seems that this key is really just an ordinary key.

After putting away the key, Fang Yan and the others left the old locust tree and walked down the next one.

After exploring the nine locust trees, Fang Yan and the others really got nine keys.

To Fang Yan and Liu Xiuqi's surprise, the nine keys they got this time were not from the batch of locust trees they followed Senior Brother Wu to get the keys.

After telling this situation, Chen Xingwan and the others were also a little puzzled.

After Fang Yan and Liu Xiuqi glanced at each other, the two decided to search the locust tree where Senior Brother Wu had found the key again.

Not long after, Fang Yan and the others had three more keys in their hands again.

Looking at the twelve identical keys, Fang Yan and the six of them were dumbfounded.

However, Fang Yan and the others still placed them separately.

Only a key was needed to open the red door, and Fang Yan and the others now had six people, which meant that only four people could enter it at most.

Of course, all this was based on speculation after combining Senior Brother Wu and the other three Red Lian Sect ghost cultivators who entered the Red Gate.

Perhaps these keys are not as rare and precious as they might be.

At this time, the six people did not immediately go to the place where the Red Gate was.

Liu Xiuqi had been studying the red booklet, and he hadn't figured out the strangeness of the keys.

The red booklet said that if you collect three keys, you can open the red door. But the number of these keys and others are not mentioned.

The six of them were not in a hurry to enter the red door, after all, the red door must be very lively at the moment. First Senior Brother Wu, and later several ghost cultivators from the Red Lian Sect entered it.

And these two waves of people used at least twelve keys. plus the twelve in Fang Yan's hands, that is, twenty-four keys.

Fang Yan frowned when he thought of this.

What's going on with these keys?

Fang Yan and the others couldn't understand it at all.

At this time, Liu Xiuqi suddenly spoke: "Fellow Daoists, since we know that these keys exist on the locust tree, we might as well go to the rest of the locust trees that grow here to find one or two." ”

For Liu Xiuqi's proposal, everyone agreed.

Although it is not known why the key appeared on the locust tree, it is clear that the locust tree has been equated with the key.

Fang Yan and the others acted separately, and soon found a key on a locust tree that neither Senior Brother Wu nor those Red Lian Sect ghost cultivators had ever touched.

However, there are also locust trees that do not have keys on them.

This time it was Liu Xiuqi who acted with Fang Yan.

Liu Xiuqi also quietly told Fang Yan some of the information that Lin Lin told him.

However, considering Lin Lin's speciality, Fang Yan and Liu Xiuqi didn't dare to fully believe her, and just used it as a reference, and some situations were not mentioned to others for the time being.

After that, the two continued to search for the key.

After two hours passed, Fang Yan had thirteen more keys in their hands.

In general, locust trees with keys are still in the minority. And the number of keys on each locust tree is not the same, some only have one, and some even have three keys.

Coupled with the previous ones, now Fang Yan and the others already have twenty-five identical keys in their hands.

This time, the situation is getting even weirder.

Everyone realized that the situation inside the red door was probably even more strange than expected.

The decision to enter the Red Gate immediately was put on hold.

After discussing it, Fang Yan and the six of them decided to see what it would be like for Senior Brother Wu and those ghost cultivators to walk out of the red gate later.

After all, they entered it in two groups.

As for the red door, although Fang Yan was curious, Liu Xiuqi seemed to have a reason to enter. However, since the number of keys is too strange to see, it is safe to observe more.

After deciding, the six of them came to the slightly empty undulating hill and hibernated quietly.

According to Fang Yan and Liu Xiuqi's previous experience in tracking Senior Brother Wu, the red gate will reappear around the unitary time. At that time, it will also be the time for the people inside the Red Gate to appear.

It had already taken an hour or two to find the key, and it was not far from Youshi, and Fang Yan and the six of them had no opinion on it.

Coming to this place up close again, the chill still makes people shiver.

Fang Yan and the others waited cautiously.

After a few moments, the red door, which had not existed in sight, appeared.

In the dark red door, three ghost cultivators suddenly appeared.

The cultivation of these three ghost cultivators was all in the late stage of the Jindan period, and the expressions on their faces looked very happy, just like the previous Senior Brother Wu.

The moment these three ghost cultivators came out, they used the three keys in their hands to insert them into the keyhole and lock the red door again.

At the same time, the Red Gate disappeared from view.

Then, the three of them quietly left the dense forest.

And Fang Yan and the others didn't move, just looked at the disappeared figures of the three ghost cultivators thoughtfully.

The three ghost cultivators locked the door, how did Senior Brother Wu come out?

Also, looking at the appearance of those three ghost cultivators, didn't they meet Senior Brother Wu in the same red gate?

Or, in fact, Senior Brother Wu was in a bad mood today and didn't come to the Red Gate?

Just as Fang Yan was thinking wildly, the red door that had disappeared appeared in sight again.

Senior Brother Wu's figure appeared in front of Fang Yan.

To Fang Yan's surprise, Senior Brother Wu who appeared in front of him this time was even more different from before.