The team of twenty-one people, facing the faint morning light, slowly went deeper into the mountains.
At this time, the sky has begun to turn fish-belly white, and the ridges on both sides have gradually become clearer. They are dominated by Scotch pine and larch trees, accompanied by patches of birch forests, oaks and oaks, mixed together in a chaotic manner. The forest land is covered with bushes as tall as one person, and they make a swishing sound as the footsteps of the people marching.
At the beginning, everyone walked relatively fast, and there was almost no time to talk. Yu Peng and the others walked in the middle area of the team, with Li Jianfei in front, Yu Peng behind, Yang Yanbin behind Yu Peng, and Yang Ruxin following closely behind. In front of Li Jianfei was a tall and sturdy man, weighing two hundred kilograms. Although he was tall, his speed was not affected by his size at all. His steps were very fast and silent.
I don’t know what kind of exercises this person practices.
Behind Yang Ruxin is a gloomy young girl with short curly hair. Her eyes are buried under the curtain of her head. Her specific expression cannot be seen. She is wearing a fashionable outdoor overalls with various pockets from top to bottom. Look. It looks like it's bulging, and it's also full of things.
Daochang Chen walked quickly at the front, holding a small incense burner in his hand, and a thin smoke rose up. Many snakes and insects on the road faced him, after smelling the smell, they quickly moved to both sides and fled.
Everyone walked quickly, and after walking for about ten minutes, they arrived at the first cave. At this time, there was no road ahead, and the team's speed slowed down.
Daochang Chen led the crowd and jumped through the grotto. When they encountered several flat boulders, he motioned for everyone to stop and rest.
This was the first time for these twenty-one people to sit together at such a close distance. After these people stopped, they sat down sporadically and remained silent. A few people even lowered their heads to rest. Don’t want to communicate
At this time, we can also roughly see the relationship between everyone
The largest group of people were Li Jianfei, Yu Peng, Yang Yanbin and Yang Ruxin. About one meter away from Yang Ruxin was the girl with short curly hair who was following Yang Ruxin during the procession. She was not far away from them. Together
Most of the other people were sitting alone, except for Daochang Chen, who had three people sitting next to him. One was a man with his back to everyone, whose appearance could not be seen clearly, and a tall girl with an extremely good-looking appearance and special hair. Liangyan, the other one is a male, but this male...
What was revealed was a feminine aura, either effeminate or a cold feeling, which made Yu Peng very uncomfortable.
If it weren't for the incense burner owned by Mr. Chen to smoke away the snakes and insects around him, I'm afraid everyone would have dispersed long ago.
These people are not the ones who are engaged in real business in the family, or who need to be exposed publicly. As inner-city characters, what they usually do are black deeds that cannot be exposed openly and cannot be talked about. Of course, they try their best to do so. Avoid contact with other people, or even have any contact with them
But these people are professional enough. Just because they don't speak doesn't mean they won't cooperate. In fact, once a fight breaks out, these people will cooperate perfectly with each other.
These are all fighting habits honed in various battles. None of us are weak, and none of us are here to play. Although we don’t know each other or have never interacted with each other, it does not affect our ability during combat. Cooperation, these are small things
After resting for about five minutes, Daochang Chen looked around and saw that they had taken out their weapons. He nodded to everyone, got up and continued walking inside.
The sturdy man in front of Li Jianfei wore a pair of thick gloves on his hands, which looked a bit heavy. The girl behind Yang Ruxin held a short blade in her right hand. She took it out and held it upside down in her hand, hiding it in her sleeve. , Daochang Chen held the incense burner in his left hand and held it empty in his right hand. Occasionally, small electric lights would burst out. The feminine-looking man following him took out a fan, but did not open it, and held it in his hand.
The beautiful woman in third place did not hold a weapon, but Yu Peng saw her hand floating in the air through the dim light, and there was a spiritual talisman flying around her hand.
This woman is also quite powerful
Most of the remaining people also took out their own weapons and entered the fighting state. Most of them were short blades or swords. Yu Peng only saw one man carrying a long spear, which was considered the most conspicuous one. Got it
Of course, the most conspicuous thing is not the spear. The most conspicuous ones are Li Jianfei and Yang Yanbin.
I don't know if they did it intentionally or if they failed to control the escape of spiritual energy. After being taken out, the swords in their hands began to emit light involuntarily, as bright as turning on a light. Although Yang Ruxin's short blade also shines with light, it is still normal and not as conspicuous as theirs.
The light that kept flashing out from the middle of the group made this group of people look extremely dazzling in the somewhat dim mountain forest.
It also immediately aroused dissatisfaction from everyone else
Yang Yanbin and Li Jianfei could only lower their heads back and forth to apologize. In the end, they had no choice but to throw the long swords back into their respective storage equipment.
It was also at this time that Yu Peng noticed that each of these people basically had a magical storage device in their hands. Things that Yu Peng originally thought were rare were now being proliferated on the streets.
It's not those Qiankun bags or ordinary storage equipment, it's a storage spiritual device similar to the one worn by Yu Peng. Although the material is different, the feeling of using it is very similar.
Of course, Yu Peng couldn't guess whether they had one piece per person or several pieces per person. Anyway, he had several pieces.
After walking into the forest for about half an hour, Daochang Chen suddenly waved his hand and stopped everyone's movements.
The people who were still jumping and walking among the many stone piles immediately stopped with a tacit understanding, and each of them spread out to stand on guard. The sound of footsteps that were originally walking completely disappeared at this moment.
Although it is already 5 o'clock, the sky outside is already very bright, but in the deep forest here, the sunlight is blocked by the huge shrubs, and it still looks dim.
Director Chen motioned for everyone to gather together. No one expressed confusion or rejection. They immediately gathered around him and formed a circle.
Yu Peng also came over and saw what happened.
Under the stone where Daochang Chen is standing, there is a hole about half a meter long. It is a naturally formed gap between boulders. The hole is about two meters deep and pitch black, but Yu Peng relied on his own Even with his good eyesight, he still found the remains of a human body.
Come to think of it, Daochang Chen also found this wreckage and stopped.
Being able to see such corpses among the many stone gaps while walking fast, I have to admire Daochang Chen's eyesight.
Seeing everyone gathered around, Daochang Chen handed the incense burner to the girl who had been following him. He clasped his hands and chanted a mantra. The corpse buried in the cave moved upward little by little. After a while, it was Daozhang Chen used his mind power to control the object, rose into the air, and laid it flat on a huge stone.
This corpse was wearing a Taoist robe of unknown quality. The Taoist robe was not damaged, and it was unknown how long it had been buried in this place. The body seemed to be a mummy, with skin and bones wrapped around it, lying flat and dry.
Everyone frowned
Judging from the style of this Taoist robe, it is at least the style before the Qing Dynasty, and the style of this Taoist robe should also be that of a person with superb Taoism and noble status. The mummy looks like this, at least it has experienced many years of wind and rain. What has this person experienced? What? What is going on here?
As everyone was meditating, Daochang Chen didn't know what he thought of. He waved his hand to everyone to make a space and said
"I'll try to use the method of summoning his soul to find out more about the situation."
The voice was clean and had an inexplicable magnetic field. It was very nice. Not only did the woman who had been following him perk up, but even Yang Ruxin and the girl next to Yang Ruxin instantly turned their heads and looked at Daochang Chen, with a ripple in their hearts.
Oh, it turns out that not only ordinary people are like this, even those in the monastic world look at their faces and listen to their voices.
Daochang Chen obviously noticed other people's reactions and frowned.
But it didn't seem to work. When these girls saw Daochang Chen frowning, not only did they not dodge, but they felt that Daochang Chen looked better this way, especially the woman who had been following him, her eyes were even more intense.
Finally, Daochang Chen sighed silently, closed his eyes, performed another hand gesture with both hands, and began to recite the mantra.
As Daochang Chen recited the mantra, the surrounding air magnetic field also began to change. As the speed of reciting the mantra became faster and faster, several small cyclones blew up on the corpse, and the speed became faster and faster.
"Urgent as a rule! Gather together!"
As Daochang Chen finally burst out with a spell, several whirlwinds merged into one large whirlwind, and an illusory shadow gradually appeared in the air.
It was a Taoist priest in his forties, wearing a Taoist robe. The Taoist robe worn in the shadow was exactly the one worn by the corpse.
Taoist priest Chen made a hand gesture with his hands and performed a Taoist ritual in front of the phantom. However, when he saw that the other party did not respond, he frowned again and asked casually.
"Heavenly Lord of Infinite Blessings"
The shadow Taoist priest didn't respond
"The God Who Saves Infinite People"
The shadow Taoist priest still didn’t respond.
"May I ask your name?"
The shadow Taoist priest still didn’t respond.
This time it was Taoist Master Chen's turn and he didn't know how to react. He had already asked three times in different ways. Even the third time, while asking the question, he sent a consciousness message to the phantom Taoist Priest, but he didn't get any response.
Seeing the puzzled looks in other people's eyes, Daochang Chen explained.
"I summoned the Taoist priest's soul here, but for some reason, I couldn't get a response when I asked him."
a man asked
"Could it be that the Taoist priest's soul was damaged?"
"It doesn't look like it. Judging from the state of Taoist Priest's soul, it's very stable. It doesn't look like it's damaged."
The woman who had been following Daochang Chen asked
"Then how about directly absorbing the Taoist Priest's memory?"
Daochang Chen did not respond directly, but pondered for a while before responding.
"Such behavior is inconsistent with etiquette."
Everyone is speechless
Li Jianfei also spoke
"How about trying other methods? According to the distance, there is still some distance before we get to the entrance to the secret space. We can't stay here forever."
Daochang Chen glanced at Li Jianfei and expressed his understanding and agreement with his words. After thinking for a moment, he responded.
"I'm giving it a try, please wait a moment."
Afterwards, Taoist Master Chen took out three incense sticks from his sleeves, pinched his hands to create a flame and ignited it. He stood at the feet of the Taoist Master's corpse, then sat cross-legged on the stone, clasped his hands and recited the spell.
I don't know what he is going to do.
But just when he was halfway through reciting the spell, the shadow of the Taoist priest floating in the air glanced at Daozhang Chen coldly, with a look of disgust on his face, and a ray of light floated from his head and shot at Daozhang Chen, Then he turned around and disappeared
Daozhang Chen, who was originally reciting the spell, stopped after being hit by this ray of light. He frowned, as if he was absorbing something. He tried to suppress it for a while before returning to normal.
"Jing'an, what's wrong with you?"
The woman who had been following Daochang Chen saw that his expression finally relaxed, and hurriedly stepped forward to help Daochang Chen, and asked with concern.
At this time, everyone knew that Daochang Chen’s name was Chen Jing’an
This information was indeed not available before, and neither was Li Jianfei. As Li Jianfei said before, most of these people are members of various families, or people who rarely appear in the sect. Their names are unknown to the outside world. It’s not public. Even if everyone goes on a mission together, their names will not be told.
If it weren't for this woman, everyone would have only known him as the Taoist Priest of the Quanzhen Sect. No one knew his specific name.
But obviously, Daochang Chen didn't seem to have deliberately concealed his name. He just didn't express it publicly. When the woman called out his name, he didn't have any dissatisfaction. Instead, he explained to everyone immediately.
"The qualifications of this Taoist priest are higher than I thought. I was careless and abrupt. Although I successfully recruited his soul, the Taoist priest was not willing to communicate too much. He just conveyed some information to me. Just left”
After Taoist Master Chen Jing'an said this, he did not pause or show his fatigue to everyone, and started to talk.
"This place, more than a hundred years ago, was an ordinary stone mountain. Although there were some snakes and insects, there were not many. The Taoist priest chased a black snake that had turned into a spirit, and he chased it here, but in the During the fight, he was bitten by a black snake and was poisoned by the snake's venom, and eventually died of the poison."
"This black snake has transformed into a spirit more than a hundred years ago. I think this is also the source of the gathering of snakes and insects in this place. Although there were some speculations before that there are snakes here that have transformed into spirits or pythons, but now, At least I deliberately made it clear the general information about the black snake."
The black snake that transformed into a spirit has been hiding here for cultivation for more than a hundred years. So now, if you are lucky, it will be enough to turn into a python or anaconda, right?
This news is not good news, but it is definitely not bad news either.
snake python anaconda dragon
The bigger the storm, the more expensive the fish. Risks and benefits coexist.
