It can be seen that Tao Xiang'er really cares about his people, so much so that when he mentions history, his expression is solemn and his tone is very heavy.

"The first person to have an accident was a general of my Tao family. This man was not a Xi person, but one of the northern Han people who crossed south after the Yongjia Rebellion. He was also a refugee commander. At that time, he led four of his fellow countrymen.

More than a hundred survivors went all the way south and fought with the Hu people. There were no less than a hundred battles, large and small, and they cut off more than 300 Hu heads with their own hands. They were later taken in by my ancestor Tao Jingzhou, and they followed Tao Jingzhou's nephew Tao Yu and Wuwei.

After General Tao Yu died in the battle, he followed Tao Dan and took Xi Ren into hiding in Jingshan Mountain. He was Tao Dan's most trusted person.

Not long after Tao Dan had that nightmare, one day, the man woke up from his sleep and said to his old wife - I dreamed that the Hu people were moving south, and the south had become like the north.

We are not immune here either. I was found and I was shot to the ground by random arrows. When I was barely alive, a barbarian came over and grabbed my hair and chopped off my head. I died just like that.

After saying this, blood suddenly flowed out from his mouth and nose. He yelled that he still couldn't escape the barbarian's butcher's knife. After saying this, he died."

"After this incident came to my ancestor Tao Dan's ears, he still did not associate it with the strange dream before. He only thought that this family general was frightened to death by the nightmare. The Yongjia Rebellion turned the north into a hell on earth. This family general

From being killed to the south, the ordeal Jiang went through can only be described as inhuman. He has already exceeded the limit of his will. In the years since he entered the Tao family, he has never had a day of peace. He always has nightmares and is surrounded by nightmares.

It's scary, but that's not to say it's completely unreasonable.

However, two or three days after the general's death, someone else died, this time many people died.

There are several mountains where we live in seclusion, and there is a river on one of them. At that time, there were more than a dozen families living under the mountain.

In the middle of the night, these dozen or so families were like crazy people. They suddenly rushed out of the house in their sleep, shouting - the mountain has collapsed, the mountain has collapsed!!

All the tribesmen were attracted, but... the mountain was still the same mountain, it was right there, and it didn't collapse at all!

These ridiculed people didn't care, everyone was running for their lives, running like wolves. From time to time, someone would fall, and then they couldn't get up again, and they died. Some people died in a very strange posture, with their bodies twisted, and they looked really similar.

It's like being crushed to death when a mountain collapsed."

"At this point, my ancestor Tao Dan finally realized that something was wrong. After hesitating for a moment, he took some natural materials and treasures and left. After all, our Tao family is also a famous family in Jingxiang. After the whole family moved, we still have some valuable things.

Tao Dan walked along in the direction prompted by the dream, and finally arrived at Nightmare Valley, which was the place prompted by the dream.

Tao Dan didn't dare to go in, so he put the offerings down at the mouth of the valley, and they rested on the spot. But as soon as they closed their eyes, they fell asleep inexplicably.

In the dream, the voice appeared again and scolded him, saying that the gods enjoyed the offerings, how could mortals peep into them?

So Tao Dan left quickly. After a few days, he went back to see that the offerings placed at the entrance of the valley had long since disappeared.

Since the enshrinement, our tribe has indeed never been born again. Even if we encounter danger, most of the time we can turn it into good luck.

And this kind of offering must be made once a year. If it is not made, something will happen to our clan."

After Tao Xiang'er finished speaking, Lao Bai and Brother Yaozi all turned their eyes to me.

I had a dream in which I was either killed by someone or died in a landslide, and then I would die soon after I woke up from the dream?!

This is so similar to what I experienced before!!

However, I had received a severe beating in my dream, and when I woke up, I found that my nose was bruised and my face was swollen.

"So, whether it's the Dragon Blood Sacred Tree or the Fruit of the Ash Tree, they were actually enshrined by you to that or something... Oh, yes, Nightmare Valley?!"

I hesitated and asked.

"Yes."

Tao Xiang'er nodded: "Although our Tao family in Jingxiang has a profound background, we did bring many treasures with us when we chose to live in seclusion, but they have to be enshrined every year. Over time, no matter how rich the family wealth is, it will be emptied.

Of course we are no exception, and by the time we reach the end, we are already stretched thin.”

I thought for a while and asked: "So, as the leaders of the Xi people, your Tao clan will have people walking around every generation. On the one hand, they buy some daily necessities for the clan, and on the other hand, they also want to find treasures from heaven and earth."

?”

"Yes, that's it."

Tao Xiang'er sighed: "Now that we have reached this point, I won't hide it from you. This year's offering season is coming soon, but this year's offering has not yet been received. I do know that there are a few things that are worthy, but the price

Very high. Although I have a small amount of savings, it is not enough at all, so I have no choice but to accumulate more money recently."

"I see!"

Lao Bai nodded: "But, since there is no way to stay in that place, why don't you move out?"

Tao Xiang'er said: "It's not easy for us to find a place to settle down. Where will we go after leaving Jingshan? It has become our hometown. If we are not forced to do so, who would be willing to leave their hometown?"

"its not right!"

I frowned and interrupted him: "According to what you said, these offerings have actually become a burden for you. After all, real treasures from heaven and earth are rare, so in order to remove this thing from your heads,

Dashan, you have also tried to explore the Nightmare Valley, hoping to completely solve this problem, but all ended in failure. You have not even walked into it. You can't even cross that canyon. You can't go very far without problems.

, people will die.

In other words, you know nothing about the situation in the canyon and have never actually entered it. In that case, why are you so sure that what we want is in Nightmare Valley? Since it has been sacrificed, it should be consumed by others.

yes!"

"Yeah, I almost let you fool me again!!"

Lao Bai looked at Tao Xiang'er sideways and said through gritted teeth: "Are you trying to trick us again? You can't say whether there is anything we want in Nightmare Valley, but you swore that it was because you wanted to deceive us.

Are you going to trick us? Or is this all a story you made up again?"

"I can swear to God that everything I say is true. If you want to go look for it, I can go with you!!"

Tao Xiang'er said with great certainty: "We have indeed never stopped exploring Nightmare Valley, but unlike what Wei Jingzhe said, we have never really gone in. At least... once, one person actually went in!!!

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Chapter completed!