The moment Chen Ping landed, he took advantage of the situation and activated the Golden Turtle Armor Technique for himself again, holding a sword in one hand to keep alert.
It was pitch black all around and I couldn't see my fingers.
The monsters and human monks that were fighting just now were completely missing.
The whole world was eerily quiet.
This is where?
Chen Ping quickly released his consciousness and scanned the current environment.
This is a dark tunnel.
There are both smooth walls and some ruins of ancient buildings around. The air exudes a disgusting stench and a rotten smell accumulated from years of stagnant air circulation.
Looking up, I can only see the top of the stone wall, not the sky.
'Is this the inside of a mysterious ruins? '
'Underground palace? '
'Tomb? '
Chen Ping once again let his consciousness go out, trying to see what was going on outside through the wall. But he found that there was actually a formation protecting this place. His consciousness could not penetrate the sky to see the situation outside, nor could it penetrate deep enough into the ground. He could not even penetrate the wall to peek beyond the wall. place.
What he was currently in was an underground tunnel with twists and turns, with forks on both sides.
It's like a maze.
"Chen Wa?" Chen Ping whispered.
All that was waiting for him was the empty echo of 'Chen Ao, Chen Ao, Chen Ao'.
…
"Chen...tu."
On the other side, facing the dark underground palace, Xiyue shouted, but she also received only an echo.
…
Such shouting scenes were happening simultaneously in many places in the underground palace.
…
Chen Ping quickly analyzed the current situation based on the current environment and the battle scene before falling here.
It is speculated that this is probably the palace directly below the mysterious ruins. In this case, it just confirms Jiang Youwei's statement that "the passage has been opened."
I fell here during the battle.
But the formation here still exists, the entrance and exit are missing, and I can't even tell how I fell here.
Of course, this is just his guess.
The real situation is not yet known.
Chen Ping sensed that there was no spiritual power fluctuation within the limited range of his spiritual consciousness, so he used 'Fingertip White Flame' to make the dark environment a little brighter.
At the same time, he released the long-lost Jiuyou colorful cicada and let it fly ahead to explore the way.
Proceed cautiously along the wall.
The walls are mostly made of bluestone and are dripping with moisture. Moss even grows in some places. Occasionally, water droplets drip down from the cave wall, making a soft "ding-dong" sound.
The ground is also wet, and there is even water in some low-lying places. When the shoes are stepped on, they will make a sound of treading water.
There are obvious sword marks on some walls, indicating that someone has fought here before.
Chen Ping walked forward for a while, and couldn't help but frowning slightly.
'No clue. '
'It's too complicated here. '
'I haven't seen anyone after walking for a long time. Am I the only one who fell in? '
He looked around, thought for a moment and then walked back.
Returning to a stone room in a secluded palace that he passed just now, he took out the Nine Palaces Psychedelic Array and the Six Suns and Six Yao defensive arrays and arranged them in the stone room.
He removed the defensive layer on his body, took a Qi Gathering Pill, and added a layer of raw spiritual ore.
Then start meditating inside to restore your spiritual power.
During the battle just now, he was in a continuous process of killing enemies, and he used the full-level green light sword again, which consumed a lot of spiritual power.
Let his spiritual power be consumed too much.
What's more important is that he opened multiple layers of defense throughout the process. Whether these defense layers are magical weapons or spells, they require spiritual power to maintain. This process consumes extremely spiritual power.
It is only because his current spiritual power is more than four times that of other monks of the same realm that he can use multiple defense layers so luxuriously and unscrupulously.
If it were other monks, their spiritual power would have been exhausted long ago.
Since we don't know what's going on in the underground palace now, for the sake of caution, we should replenish all our spiritual power first.
Half an hour later, he pressed his hands down and exhaled.
The spiritual power reserve has been restored to almost eight levels.
Instead of rushing out, he took out the half body of the honest monk from the storage bag.
"How can the wandering souls survive? The three souls have already arrived, and the seven souls are coming. Now I invite the five souls to collect the souls and leave the body."
"rise!"
With Chen Ping's low roar, a faint soul floated out of the body, and the soul's body kept flickering.
Chen Ping had called countless souls, and he was very aware of this situation. He knew that such souls would not survive for long, so he immediately started asking for souls.
"Why do you want to kill me?"
"."
"What is hidden in the mysterious ruins?"
"."
After more than ten questions, the soul dissipated.
Chen Ping also understood the doubts in his heart.
It turns out that this person is the secret saboteur that the golden monk said, that is, the follower of the withered old man on the back of the beast.
As for the words used by the withered old man to bewitch these saboteurs, they are consistent with what the withered old man said in public, only more detailed.
That is: the mysterious ruins are the key to blocking the passage from the demon world to the human world.
As long as this place is destroyed, it means that the passage from the demon world to the human world is opened, which will bring endless disasters to the entire human world.
This group of secret saboteurs were originally people of justice, the kind of people who were willing to sacrifice themselves for the greater good.
There are few such people, but they exist.
During Chen Ping's questioning, this honest monk claimed that he volunteered and did it for the sake of righteousness.
As for whether they were controlled by drugs, poisonous insects or other unknown means, lost their minds, and were willing to sacrifice themselves to serve the haggard old man?
This is unknown.
After all, if they are really controlled by these means, they themselves cannot know it.
Chen Ping also asked him who his companions were.
Yes, although rarely.
Unfortunately, they fight alone, and when they occasionally cooperate, they cooperate in a temporary capacity, and each of them has no idea who they are.
Among the few monks in the village who never came back after going out, they were the ones who killed them.
Of course, they are very few in number and cannot massacre their companions, nor will they do so. Especially for those monks who aim to find the ancient teleportation array, they will even be eager to help. They will only focus on assassinating those who are interested in attacking the mysterious ruins. A monk with a particularly strong will.
Today's secret attack on Chen Ping was because of this.
The honest monk had seen Chen Ping use the Heavenly Punishment Thunder and knew the power of the Heavenly Punishment Thunder. Although the bat monster's attack power is not very strong, it is extremely flexible and can even use some magic spells, which is difficult to kill. For this reason, the bat monster often makes human monks of the same realm miserable.
But Chen Ping's Heavenly Punishment Thunder is suspected of cheating and is designed to defeat bat monsters.
Once you cooperate with the mid-to-late Jindan monks, one main control and one main attack may change the battle situation.
It was precisely Chen Ping who showed in the battle that he was only a monk at the first level of the Golden Core.
Therefore, Chen Ping became the target of the honest monk.
As for who is the haggard old man in this ruins?
The honest monk doesn't know.
Besides the withered old man, is there anyone else? And what is the situation inside this ruins? Is the underground palace where Chen Ping is currently located an ancient tomb or some kind of cultivation site?
The honest monk didn't know any of this information.
The honest monk had only heard that there was an underground palace in the ruins.
In the stone house.
Chen Ping took out the soul-sucking whip and whipped it down. A skull suddenly appeared on the soul-sucking whip. Then he used the Dragon Fire Technique to burn the honest monk to ashes and at the same time disperse the almost non-existent remnant soul.
He remembered what Xiyue once said to him - when she first entered Canglan Grassland, she felt that it might be related to the demon clan.
This is her intuition as a provider of channel confinement, and there is no evidence.
But now based on the words of the honest monk, this should be a key place for the passage confinement.
The withered old man probably wasn't lying about this.
only.
'Why is the Western Wasteland the location of the passage confinement point, and so is this place? How many confinement points are there? Or are there many passages from the demon world to the human world? '
'According to what the haggard old man said, there is no passage out of Canglan Grassland here, but why is Jiang Youwei still working tirelessly on it? '
'What did Jiang Youwei spy on during the war a hundred years ago? '
'Who is hiding important information? '
'In any case, these two people cannot be trusted. It doesn't matter what the real situation behind it is. There are only two things I have to do: first, survive this war. Second, go out from Canglan Grassland. '
Survive!
go out!
After Chen Ping cleaned up the remains of the honest monk, he reached into the spirit beast bag with his spiritual consciousness and looked at the snow falcon.
Still dying.
He took out the Snow Falcon, gave it a rejuvenation spell, fed it a Rejuvenation Pill, and then put it back into the spirit beast bag.
He stood up, retrieved the formation equipment, and walked out of the stone house.
"Boom, boom!"
As Chen Ping went deeper into the dark and damp tunnel, he could hear knocking sounds from the front from time to time, but when he carefully touched it, he found that there was nothing there.
'This underground palace is full of weirdness. '
Chen Ping maintained a high degree of concentration, with evil-killing charms all over his body and a soul-extracting whip wrapped around his waist.
The evil-killing talisman has been slightly hot since entering this underground palace. This is normal. As long as there is filth, even goblin ghosts, the evil-killing talisman will heat up slightly, but these ghosts will not attack humans.
In other words, it does not have the ability to attack humans.
Um?
Stone house?
Chen Ping was slightly startled. He went into the house and took a look. Judging from various details, this was the stone house where he had just meditated and rested.
what's the situation?
After spending a long time, he came back.
Was it the intricacies of the tunnel that made me come back? Or is there something wrong with the tunnel itself?
Am I lost in my mind?
Sudden.
"Boom, boom."
Just when Chen Ping frowned and thought about breaking the situation, another knocking sound came from the tunnel ahead, but there was nothing under his consciousness.
Chen Ping dodged, got close to the wall, completely restrained his breath, and remained vigilant.
The knocking sound seemed to pause for a while, and then sounded again after a while, slowly getting closer and closer.
One hundred feet, eighty feet, sixty feet...
Thirty feet...
Chen Ping waited no longer. The Seven-Star Longyuan Sword struck down with one strike, and a sharp sword light instantly illuminated the entire tunnel.
The sword light reached the wall, and the stone wall was blown into pieces, and the knocking sound disappeared without a trace. At the same time, a dark shadow moved quickly on the stone wall.
Come in the direction of Chen Ping.
The evil-killing talisman in Chen Ping's arms suddenly emitted scorching heat, and its lines brightened.
Evil?
Chen Ping was shocked.
"break."
Several evil-killing talismans were photographed by him on the stone wall in an instant. Driven by spiritual power, the evil-killing talismans flew quickly along the wall, and the shining spiritual power caused sparks to fly against the wall.
At the same time, a dense halo of thunder and lightning filled the entire tunnel.
The originally dark tunnel suddenly became as bright as day.
Immediately afterwards, a sharp scream accompanied the emission of the halo, and a figure sprang out from the wall and fled into the darkness.
Want to escape?
Go to hell!
Chen Ping kept moving his palms, and countless thunder and lightning halos filled the entire tunnel again.
"Bang, bang, bang~"
That mysterious shadow was difficult to move forward.
It vanished into nothing in an instant. Only the sharp and piercing screams echoed in the underground palace for a long time.
Chen Ping relaxed when he felt that the evil-killing talisman in his arms was no longer intensely hot.
'Huh, this evil spirit should be even more powerful than the red-clothed evil spirit that I encountered at the foot of the Lingxiao Sect ruins. '
This was the first time that Chen Ping used the full-level Heavenly Punishment Thunder to fight evil spirits.
The effect is not bad.
When we repelled the red-clothed evil spirit at the foot of Lingxiao Zong Mountain, we used a lot of evil-killing talismans and spells to only defeat the evil spirit. Now this one was much more powerful judging from its evil aura, but it was completely wiped out in a few blows.
Chen Ping felt more secure after understanding the power of the Heavenly Punishment Thunder.
He took out a few evil-killing talismans again, replaced the talismans that had just been consumed with spiritual power, and stuck them in his arms.
After waiting for a while, he continued to move forward.
This time, I never returned to the stone house just now.
'It seems that evil spirits are at work that cause me to lose myself. And because the underground palace itself is full of filth, the evil-killing talisman has always been faintly hot, which made me ignore this. '
…
An underground palace.
A young foundation-building monk sneaked vigilantly into the dark tunnel, and his desire to survive made him extremely cautious.
He had just experienced a human-monster war in the valley and knew how dangerous this place was. Without Senior Jin Dan by his side, he would die if he was not careful.
But at this moment, he saw that the wall of a tunnel was covered with dense words, and he could not figure out the meaning of those words. As he walked along the stone wall, he saw a square stone painting carved on the wall.
The scroll shows three lifelike pictures of sisters taking a bath.
So lifelike, the skin seems to be glowing.
Alerted, the young monk took two steps back and subconsciously touched the evil-busting talisman in his arms. He breathed a sigh of relief when he found that the evil-busting talisman did not burn.
I couldn't help but take another look at the bathing picture.
Suddenly, he found that the sisters in the painting actually blinked at him. He was shocked and shook his head quickly. He felt that the evil-breaking talisman in his arms did not light up, and then looked at the stone painting again.
He swallowed, and he, who had always been very vigilant, reached out to touch the stone painting by mistake.
At this moment, the Evil-Breaking Talisman in his arms burned instantly. Before he could exclaim, he saw the beautiful bathing girl in the painting holding his hand.
The next second, he was dragged into the painting.
Not a single sound was made the whole time.
The entire tunnel was eerily quiet, as if the young monk had never appeared again.
…
The other side.
"Bang."
Chen Ping finally killed a third-level snake demon, added a Qi Gathering Pill, dragged the snake demon into the storage bag, and then continued to sneak.
The space in the tunnel is narrow and you have to avoid cave collapse, so it is not a good place for fighting.
Avoid this kind of thing if you can.
After Chen Ping walked out of the barrier created by evil spirits, he gradually began to see traces of some monks walking by, and he could also see some monster slime remaining on the ground or walls.
As I continued walking in, I finally reached the end of this tunnel and entered a cave.
In the cave, a group of monks were resting.
It’s not just about resting either.
Among the six monks in total, two were tapping on the wall, looking for something.
The other two people sat together and discussed something with their heads down. Chen Ping learned from their low-pitched conversation that they seemed to want to explore the treasures here.
Chen Ping thought for a while and decided to enter the cave to see if he could get any valuable information.
When these people saw Chen Ping entering the large and empty cave, they immediately stopped discussing and looking around.
"Nice to meet you. It's great to see my companions here. Are you alone, fellow Taoist?" One of the Jindan monks quickly stood up to say hello, and then looked behind Chen Ping.
Among these monks, two are in the early stage of Golden Core, and the rest are in the foundation building stage.
"Yes, did fellow Taoists find anything?" Chen Ping asked tentatively.
With the experience of being plotted against by honest monks, his already distrustful heart towards these similar monks has become even more distrustful.
Always be vigilant.
"..."
After chatting, I found out that these people didn’t know where this place was and were still in the process of exploring it.
And the cave here is not the end, it seems to be just a resting point in the middle.
When he got up and continued to move forward, the golden elixir monk grinned:
"Fellow Taoist, there are many secret paths to travel this time. In order to find the key to get out of Canglan Grassland as much as possible, how about we split up?"
It can be seen that they are also a little wary of Chen Ping.
As for whether it was really for convenience to find a way out of Canglan Grassland, it's hard to say. Chen Ping saw the greed for the treasures of the underground palace in their eyes.
One more person means one more person who can tell the difference.
Chen Ping could understand that Canglan Grassland was already lacking in material resources, and after being trapped for decades, it was already extremely hungry for various resources. Now we have finally arrived at a ruins that may contain various treasures. If we can get a good resource, it will be extremely worthwhile.
This is obviously much more cost-effective than occasionally venturing out while in the village.
"That's very good. This is indeed more conducive to finding a way." Chen Ping said immediately.
He was eager to separate.
Who knows if there are potential saboteurs among these people, so be careful.
"Fellow Taoist is righteous." The golden elixir grinned.
Chen Ping smiled and didn't expose it, and didn't say much.
In such an underground palace, under the gaunt old man's hundreds of years of garrison, traps might have been laid out long ago, just like the evil spirits and monsters Chen Ping encountered.
Even if there are treasures, there are probably dangers at the same time, which are the dangers that prevent the monks from exploring the underground palace.
If you have a life to find it, you have to have a life to get it.
Chen Ping knows that it is impossible for these two Jindan monks not to know that no monk who can survive here is a fool.
They just don't want to give up this opportunity.
There is no use in talking too much.
(End of chapter)
