The five people carefully walked down the passage. This passage was going to the third floor of Hanchi Pond, where the casual cultivators from outside the sect, the Yunianhui and some unscrupulous disciples from within the sect were entrenched. There are quite a few people who often stay here. According to Chu Yuan, the maximum number of people here is more than 200 people. Although this place was taken over by Wen Liang and Yan Ding, most of those people who stayed here fled to death. But who knows if there are still people below who have escaped Wen Liang's methods and are hiding. What's more, Qian Chao and others confirmed that Wen Liang has been in the cold pool all the time. Therefore, the closer they get to the end of this passage, the more cautious the five people become. stand up.
Li Jian was walking at the front. He sensed carefully for a while near the exit of the passage, then turned back to his four companions and nodded to indicate that there was nothing suspicious ahead. After receiving confirmation from several companions, Li Jian turned back. He took one step out of the passage.
Compared to the openness of the first floor and the complexity of the second floor, this third floor seemed a little strange in the eyes of the five people.
What they saw in front of them seemed to be just an ordinary cave. It was not wide. The cave stretched out towards the opposite side of them. There was also light inside the cave. There were also luminous minerals similar to those on the second layer of the cold pool here, on the walls and roof of the cave. It can be seen from above, but not much. At least the light here just after exiting the entrance is very dim. If you only see things with the naked eye, you can barely see the general situation in the cave.
The cave extends almost straight inwards for about thirty or forty feet, and then there is a corner. From that corner, you can see brighter light shining through.
I thought there was a bright light behind that corner. After all, this was where the casual cultivators were, and I didn't know what was going on there.
None of the five people spoke. They signaled to each other with their eyes, and then Li Jian took the lead and walked towards the corner in front of the cave.
It must be said that the five of them felt much more relaxed on the third floor than on the first and second floors. The heaviness on their bodies was greatly reduced. It seemed that the influence of the chaotic spiritual veins on the third floor was just that. Much weaker.
They walked forward slowly, and when they approached the corner of the cave, Li Jian suddenly waved his hand and made everyone stop.
"Brother Li, what's wrong?" Yanxuan asked nervously.
"Is there anyone there?" Tang Ping also became a little nervous.
"No," Li Jian shook his head and looked back at his companions. "After turning around, there should be a lot of corpses."
"Corpse?"
They were already very familiar with Li Jian's senses. What he could sense were sudden dangers and things that could emit spiritual energy fluctuations, including monks and monsters.
But... corpses, even those of monks, can no longer emit spiritual energy fluctuations. So how did Li Jian sense it?
Tang Ping thought about this and was about to ask again, but immediately shut her mouth. They were now approaching the corner. She inadvertently smelled the smell of a decaying corpse between her nose. She immediately understood how Li Jian knew where it was. There was a corpse, so he couldn't help but cover his nose with his hand, frowned and said:
"Well, there are indeed corpses."
Yanxuan also suddenly woke up and couldn't help but cover his nose.
"I smelled it too, it stank." Lu Pingchuan also said.
Qian Chao said:
"That's right. Don't forget that Senior Brother Chu Yuan escaped back to the sect with a serious injury to report to us. At that time, Wen Liang brought a guy named Yan Ding to capture the cold pool. They wanted to kill him here. There were a lot of people who dared to resist. Well, judging by the smell, there should be a lot of corpses, and they were not cleaned up, which means Wen Liang is probably not on this level."
"Why?" Tang Ping asked, covering her nose.
"Are you willing to smell this smell all the time?" Qian Chao asked.
Tang Ping nodded.
"Let's go, we can see clearly when we get to the front." After Li Jian said that, he turned around and continued walking forward.
The corner was approaching, and the unpleasant smell was getting stronger.
At that corner, although Li Jian said that there was no danger after turning around, the five of them hid behind a few rocks and peeked in the direction of the light. In the end, Lu Pingchuan was impatient and walked out in one step. , and then heard him say in surprise:
"My dear, hey, why is there a village under the ground!"
…
All five people appeared at the corner. The first thing that entered their eyes was a brightly lit and spacious street. The street was very long and extended deep into the street. It seemed that there was a corner in front. The light here comes from the dense luminous minerals on the top, which illuminate the place brightly.
The ground of this street is much smoother than the ground of the cave they just walked through before turning around. It seems to have been carefully renovated. On both sides of the street are rows of neat houses. Those houses are not ordinary bricks and tiles. Instead, they are built with stones. Some houses even look like they were carved out of a single boulder. Their shapes are like ordinary houses in towns, with doors and windows. There are empty spaces in front of some houses. There are also small stone tables on the ground. There are chairs or stone benches placed around the small table. Some stone tables even have tea sets placed on them. Looking through the open doors and windows of some houses, you can still see inside. There are corresponding furniture and furnishings, etc.
No wonder Lu Pingchuan said there is a village here.
What is different from ordinary villages and towns is that behind the houses on both sides of the road is not an open space, nor another row of streets or houses, but an almost straight up and down stone wall, going up along the stone walls on both sides, about ten feet. The highest point is the top of the cave. Most of the luminescent minerals that bring light here are on the top of the cave, and some are on the cave walls. The continuous white light shines here like daylight.
Of course, there was a strong smell of corruption here, so in addition to the above, they also saw a lot of corpses on the streets or in the houses.
There are many corpses lying on their backs or upside down on the spacious street, scattered in various shapes, or several corpses are gathered together on the ground, or a solitary corpse is lying on the roadside. There were also dead bodies sitting with their heads bowed in the corners. They must have died there after being seriously injured. There were also dead bodies lying on the doorways or windows of several houses. It looked like they had been fatally injured while trying to escape in panic. .
If you look closely, you can see that some of these people resisted before they died, and there were some spiritual weapons and other items scattered on the ground. Some had no intention of resisting and just wanted to escape, and some did not react at all. They were killed, and the murderers ignored these people at all, and the bodies were left here.
Walking on such a street, the smell is so strong that it makes your eyes smell. Although this place is deep underground and cannot see the light of day, it has been a long time since Wen Liang and Yan Ding captured it. Naturally, the bodies of these people began to rot. Tang Ping and Yanxuan covered his face with his sleeves and frowned at this. Yanxuan didn't even want to look, just stared at the open space, while Qian Chao tried his best to hold his breath while walking here.
Of course, Li Jian didn't care about this. He had come from a battlefield with mountains of corpses and rivers of blood. He had seen scenes even worse than this, and he didn't care about what he saw in front of him.
Lu Pingchuan didn't care either. Although he didn't have Li Jian's experience, Lu Pingchuan was just too big-hearted to care.
The clothes of the dead people were of various kinds. Some could be recognized at a glance as the clothes of the disciples of the Five Spirits, while others were casual cultivators who had sneaked in from the outside. Generally speaking, as far as they saw, they were still dressed in the same way. Most of them are casual cultivators.
Qian Chao, Li Jian and Lu Pingchuan began to inspect the place, while Tang Ping and Yan Xuan did not participate because the smell here was too unbearable.
There must be nothing special worth seeing in the house. Lu Pingchuan entered a house and came out quickly. There were just some ordinary furnishings inside. As for monks, even casual cultivators will put the things they value most or the most. Valuable things were placed in storage bags for safekeeping, so Lu Pingchuan looked at the corpses.
Where several corpses were gathered together, Lu Pingchuan walked over carelessly, raised his feet and used his boots to turn a corpse over. Suddenly, a strong smell rushed directly to the person's forehead. Those corpses were originally lying down, but he was so As soon as they did it, they turned over and faced up. Those people must not have looked good before they died. They were all hideous and frightening, plus they were rotten and swollen. When Tang Ping saw it, she felt disgusted and couldn't help but said:
"Brother Lu, what are you doing?"
"Hey, let's see how they died." In fact, Lu Pingchuan wanted to find the storage bags on these guys.
Li Jian was squatting down between a house to check the wound on the chest of a dead body. The wound was as if the person had been pierced directly with a slender awl. After hearing Lu Pingchuan's words, Li Jian came over. Looking at the turned over corpses, the fatal wounds on each body were as if they had been stabbed by an awl.
Qian Chao also came over to take a look. After seeing it, he suddenly thought of something. Then he rummaged through his storage bag and finally took out a long bone-white needle and said:
"They should have died on this thing."
"What is this?" Tang Ping somewhat forgot the origin of this long needle, so she reached out and took it from Qian Chao's hand to check.
Several people looked at the long needle in Tang Ping's hand. Qian Chao continued:
"Do you remember Zuo You was injured for the second time? The first time was when he sent us a message saying that Wen Liang was going to deal with us, and he also helped us clean up a powerful rogue cultivator; the second time was after we defeated Wen Liang , it was also after Wen Liang and Yan Ding took over the cold pool, the man named Yan Ding came out of the cold pool to escape from the Wuling Sect. As a result, he was discovered by Zuo You from Ruixuan Town and followed him all the way. There was a fight outside, but Zuo You didn't get any advantage that time. He escaped with injuries all over his body to find Liu Feng for help. He didn't gain anything from that injury. He got it from the guy named Yan Ding. I took away a spiritual weapon, which was this bone needle. When we went to see him, I asked for this bone needle. According to Zuo You, Yan Ding used six such bone needles at the same time, and this one was one of them. One. Look at the wounds of these people and look at this bone needle. I think these people all died in the hands of Yan Ding."
After hearing this, Li Jian took the bone needle from Tang Ping's hand, measured the wounds on the corpses back and forth, nodded, and then handed it back to Qian Chao, but Qian Chao handed it back to Qian Chao. Tang Ping said in his hand:
"Take it first. That guy named Yan Ding must be very important to Wen Liang. Well, if Wen Liang is still alive, I don't know which level is down there. If we see him, you will take this thing at the critical moment. Taking it out to disturb his mind might give you a chance to use illusions to control him."
Yanxuan asked puzzledly:
"Why is this Yan Ding so important to Wen Liang?"
"Sister Yan, for the last time Wenliang dealt with us, we found many powerful people from outside. In my opinion, eh..."
Qian Chao pointed to the corpses on the ground and continued:
"This Yan Ding should be the most powerful. So many people here almost died in his hands. Although he followed Wen Liang and chased us that time, before the fierce battle in Dacanze after passing Broken Star Lake, Yan Ding Ding was sent away by Wen Liang. It is possible that Wen Liang did not intend to use him to deal with us from the beginning, but to use him to deal with Xing Rang. This is a more confidential matter than dealing with us. It can be seen that this Yan Ding He must be an important figure to Wen Liang.”
Tang Ping also understood and carefully put away the bone needle.
