It was the fourth day after Shen Hao arrived at Wusi City. When he woke up early in the morning, Shen Hao could clearly feel that the inexplicable miasma around him had suddenly diminished a lot compared to yesterday.
I secretly thought that the day for the opening of the underground palace was finally approaching?
In the past few days, Shen Hao had experienced the uncertainty of the underground palace in Wushou City. Even on the ground, the poisonous miasma can feel its ups and downs and is extremely unstable, but fortunately the fluctuations are not large. According to Yang Ming, we have to wait until one day when the poisonous miasma drops significantly, it will be turned on. .
There is no way to be precise, it has always been like this, just like the mysterious sight of the underground palace of the City of Death, no one can predict it accurately.
However, before Shen Hao went to Yang Ming to ask if the date was approaching, he met the fourth elder Cheng Canghai on the way and learned that it was not yet time. Generally, it would take two to three days for the poisonous miasma to drop sharply before stabilizing to the lowest level. point, then is the best window period to enter the underground palace.
Being wasted time, Shen Hao seemed inexplicably a little anxious. He rarely had such idle time as now. In the past, even Xiu Mu would find something to do, but now he is really free.
In this way, Shen Hao also deeply understood the difference between himself and other latent monks. For ordinary monks, or monks in the camp, it is normal to meditate or meditate for ten and a half days. They will not feel bored or wasted at all. They even feel that doing so is worthy of the passage of time. I wish it could be like this every day. Spend time practicing quietly.
On the other hand, Shen Hao has long been accustomed to having "homework" at a fixed time every night. This is the best practice rhythm he arranges according to his own situation. Anything less will slow down his practice, and too much will make his practice difficult. Practicing too fast may lead to suspicion or affect daily business hours.
So after Shen Hao finished his homework every day, he saw that there was still a lot of free time. He could only dance with the sword over and over again in the tent, and at the same time, he remembered the insights about time in his mind, and the sword intentions after Sword Three. I took out the moves to ponder, but it was difficult to calm down. After all, the environment here was not peaceful and there were many worries.
After a brief chat with Cheng Canghai, Shen Hao returned to his tent. He had just sat down cross-legged and was about to meditate when he suddenly felt a thousand-mile note vibrating slightly in his chest.
This is a new Thousand Mile Note, which Shen Hao exchanged with Tan Bin, the secret agent here, after arriving at the City of Fusi.
Refreshed, a smile appeared on Shen Hao's face, secretly thinking that he had something to do.
"Huh? There is indeed a problem!"
Shen Hao felt excited after seeing the message on Qianli Note. His previous guess was correct. After letting Tan Bin go down, he carefully investigated all aspects of Zhengyang Sect, and he really got something.
Thousand Miles of Musical Notes cannot be conveyed in a lengthy manner. The information that this thing can convey is limited in length, so the information Tan Bin conveyed was actually the result of his own analysis and selection after investigation.
According to Qianli Yin's statement, Tan Bin asked his spies to check out all the information about Zhengyang Sect that could be found through external channels in the past few months. Everything was down to the smallest detail, even the amount of feces and water every day. After summarizing the results and combing through them, I really found something strange.
It stands to reason that the Zhengyang Sect has had hundreds of people returning from outside Wusi City recently and entering the sect, and there should be obvious changes in their eating, drinking, and diarrhea. Not everyone likes "dan food". It is a habit of almost everyone to eat regularly unless necessary.
But in fact, the food purchased by Zhengyang Sect during this period and the amount of excrement every day have almost remained unchanged.
Those hundred or so people didn't eat, drink or even take a pee after entering? is it possible? Normally this is not possible. Unless...these people are in a situation where they don't need to eat, drink or poop. It could be falling into some kind of retreat-like state, or it could be death.
Shen Hao can be regarded as a monk with a high level of cultivation. His longest selfless cultivation state lasted less than ten days. If he wanted to stay like this for a month or two, he couldn't imagine what kind of cultivation state it would be.
Combined with the current difficulties faced by the Zhengyang Sect, Shen Hao is more inclined to the latter possibility: those hundreds of people who entered the Zhengyang Sect have all died.
Death also explains why there are hundreds of people in Zhengyang Sect but nothing has changed.
As for why these people died, Shen Hao couldn't be sure for the time being, but he had a guess in his mind, and he was very confident in this guess.
In the past, they relied on kidnapping boys and girls from the old Jing Dynasty. Later, after the way of kidnapping people from the old Jing Dynasty was blocked by Shen Hao, they turned their attention to the barbarian territory. Unfortunately, the barbarian territories were all beaten to pieces in the last war. Let alone boys and girls, it is not easy to see live barbarians. You have to go deep into the hinterland and find them in the area where the barbarians actually occupy. This is undoubtedly several times more difficult.
According to the information previously provided by Tan Bin, the Zhengyang Sect was so anxious that it was unable to satisfy the demand even after the price soared several times. This means that "the blood and souls of boys and girls" are urgently needed and necessary for Zhengyang Sect, so they are anxious. But now that they see that they cannot solve the shortage of boys and girls in a short time, what should they do?
If Shen Hao thought differently, he would look for a replacement as soon as possible.
In Shen Hao's opinion, the hundred or so people who hurried back to Zhengyang Sect were the substitutes that Zhengyang Sect found when they had no other choice, to die in place of those boys and girls.
However, speculation is just speculation after all, and there is no way to draw a conclusion yet. Further verification is needed. This requires Tan Bin to put in a little more effort.
He sent Tan Bin a Qianli Note, which asked Tan Bin to focus on investigating the pseudo-evil monks who subsequently entered the City of Fusui, and to think of more ways to determine the life and death of those people in a roundabout way, or if it was possible. It would be best to have the kind of in-depth probing before re-enactment.
After Shen Hao sent the reply to Tan Bin, his brows still did not relax. Because once his guess is true, then a very strange question will arise that is worth pondering: first, why the Zhengyang Sect would use "fellow monks" as substitutes to obtain blood and souls when they are both evil monks; secondly, , why can pseudo-evil monks replace boys and girls for the Zhengyang Sect, but other monks cannot?
These two points made Shen Hao feel inexplicably uneasy.
Because there is no need to do more deductions, what is the difference between pseudo-evil monks and ordinary monks? How did they become pseudo-evil monks? With such a simple stroke, it seems that you can see the answer.
Barrier breaking pill!
Most monks have never taken barrier-breaking pills. Almost all the pseudo-evil monks embarked on this path after relying on the barrier-breaking pill to activate their talents.
So the price of the barrier-breaking pill's heaven-defying effect that Shen Hao has been struggling with...could it be this?
