The first idea of exploring the passage is very simple, the key is the last two. The extreme teleportation array is currently the longest teleportation in the world of cultivation. You can imagine how precious the materials required are.
In doing so, compared with achieving control of Hezhou through war, which investment is smaller, is it worth it, and can it bring corresponding returns?
After careful calculation, the Guangming Holy Dynasty felt that it was more cost-effective to use the teleportation array, because if a large-scale attack was launched, the number of casualties would be astronomical.
The life of a cultivator is precious and disposable.
Take the early Tianyuan cultivators as an example. On average, it takes more than ten years of hard training to achieve it. However, the time required for cultivators in the middle, late stage and even peak stages of Tianyuan is still long, let alone masters of Jindan or above.
Even if the Hezhou continent is invaded, if the cultivators lose too much, the result will be more losses than gains.
The secret passage strategy was implemented, but the first five batches of formation masters all failed. They never came back. It is unknown whether they deviated from the direction, were transported to an unknown dangerous place, or were taken away by unknown things in the forbidden land of death.
The high-level leaders of the Guangming Holy Dynasty wavered on this strategy for a while, but after the final decision, they still persisted.
After losing a lot of manpower, the twelfth expedition team led by the formation master finally succeeded. They finally stood in the desert in the far west of the Hezhou continent!
The number of extreme teleportation arrays has reached a terrifying two hundred and seventy-one.
The secret passage strategy was finally successful, but due to the huge consumption, Guangming Continent had to rest for fifty years!
Fifty years later, they began to send cultivators to the Hezhou continent one after another, and opened up strongholds in the far western desert. They gradually spread outwards and dispersed a large number of people to various areas of Hezhou.
These black-clothed cultivators infiltrated and pretended to be Hezhou people. They raided the city, seized treasures, controlled traitors, cooperated inside and outside, and waited for opportunities to capture the entire Hezhou continent.
In order to ensure that the plan is not leaked, all cultivators who sneak in have their memories sealed below the fake elixir. The fake elixir cultivators will not know much, especially the secret passages in no-man's land.
Just as the man in black finished speaking, Zhou Yang felt a sudden thought in his heart and hurriedly pulled away.
"Bang!"
The green light exploded without warning, and the blurry figure also instantly dissipated into nothingness.
A strong force pushed Zhou Yang hundreds of feet away, and he fell heavily to the ground.
"Damn, I still have so many questions I haven't asked yet!" Zhou Yang cursed angrily with his face covered in blood.
He indeed still had many questions that he had not asked, such as the traces of the Ninth Prince, the lair of Guangming Continent in the desert, etc.
At the same time, he was very puzzled by the sudden self-destruction. Could it be that the man in black had unlocked the forbidden magic by himself?
Little did Zhou Yang know that he was lucky this time.
For the purpose of commanding troops and fighting, the golden elixir masters who sneaked into the Hezhou continent did not have their memories sealed, but they used another method to control them.
Before setting off, the high-level officials of Guangming Continent also took precautions against those who were cultivating the Golden Core or above to avoid leaking secrets after being captured. They used secret methods to implant the power of curse in their souls.
If these people were imprisoned by the Hezhou Continent and said a few words related to the secret passage or the mainland's high-level officials, their souls would self-destruct to avoid future troubles.
However, this kind of curse control is based on the strength of the golden elixir, and is ineffective for practitioners below the golden elixir.
However, the sad thing is that at this time, the prototype of the man in black has lost his soul power after being tortured by Zhou Yang, and can only barely maintain his life. How can he still have the strength of the golden elixir, so he can tell so many secrets? , without self-destruction occurring in the short term.
But he is a master of the golden elixir after all, and his prototype soul still has golden elixir level soul power. And the more content that mentions secret passages, the stronger the curse becomes, which finally resulted in this result.
Even the man in black himself didn't know this. If he knew that he would die if he said the four words "secret passage", he wouldn't be tortured like this.
Zhou Yang dusted off the sand on his body and prepared to open the three storage bags he had just obtained to check what kind of treasures there would be. However, he found that his consciousness could not be mobilized!
In shock, he hurriedly activated his magic power, but the result was even more shocking to him: he could not mobilize his magic power!
"What's going on? What's going on?" Zhou Yang's face was pale and he was at a loss. He couldn't even use the magical power of inner vision, and couldn't check his physical condition at all.
Sitting down on the sand, Zhou Yang was completely confused.
"Did the toxicity in the body take effect? No, I obviously took the antidote! Could it be that this so-called antidote is fake and only has the effect of simply improving the instant strength?" After a long time, Zhou Yang calmed down and began to reflect.
"But do they need to lie to me? Not at all. What could be the reason? Could it be..." Thinking of this, Zhou Yang was shocked again.
He has also been immersed in the alchemy path for several years, and knows that certain elixirs that instantly increase one's power have sequelae. They are very powerful when they are first taken, but after the effects of the drug wear off, they become weak for a long time.
The sequelae of some elixirs are very serious, such as severe damage to the meridians, loss of cultivation, or even death.
In normal times, this situation would be tolerated, but in this crisis-ridden desert, one can imagine what it means if there is no magic power.
At this time, he had no consciousness and no magic power. He was just like a mortal. He couldn't even open the storage bag and couldn't take out a single pill. He could only sit on the sand dune and think about good solutions.
The heavy snow gradually stopped, and the scene of the previous battle still existed, but a cold wind blew by, and those traces were gradually covered by layers of sand and snow.
Zhou Yang sat cross-legged on the ground and tried to open his meridians, but failed several times.
"Damn, it takes such a long time!" After three hours, his consciousness was the first to recover, from a few miles to tens of miles, and finally to more than two thousand miles, but his magic power still could not be moved.
But with his consciousness, he was able to open the storage bag.
After swallowing a handful of Brown Youdan, the effect of restoring mana is very slow. After a moment's hesitation, he took out a Xuanchen Pill that glowed with white light and swallowed it.
A soft warm current flowed through his limbs and major meridians, making him very comfortable, without any obstruction or any discomfort. Moreover, he also felt that the spiritual sea seemed to be affected by this heat flow, the sea surface rippled, and the mana slowly flowed to the major meridians.
After a while, the fire metal elixir and gold seeds also began to rotate slowly, echoing with the spiritual sea, and the mana in the body gradually became unimpeded!
Feeling that the heat was slowly fading, Zhou Yang took another Xuanchen Pill.
