After recovering from his injuries, Ye Xiaocheng went out to check the surrounding situation.
When he arrived, he was led by the deacon and walked through a maze in the city without observing the city at all.
He first walked around his house and found that it was indeed a slum area and was messy.
The houses here are also dilapidated and in disrepair. The deacon said that he wanted to renovate the shanty town, but he didn't know how long ago it was.
There is also a free trade zone in this area. The stalls selling goods are all local poor people. There is nothing good in the stalls. They are just some low-level elixirs, incomplete magic weapons, incomplete exercises, and some fake ones. Antiques and more.
Walking out of this area, there are more high-end shops. The goods in these shops are also varied. In addition to the most common magic weapons, talismans, low-level elixirs, low-level elixirs, there are also more mid-level goods, but they are still the same. Mainly low-level items.
Walking further into the central area, there is a prosperous scene.
There are several gold-lettered signs in front of you, the most dazzling one is "Lingxiao Hall", which is the entrance of Lingxiao Sword Sect. It has a unique architectural style and is extremely gorgeous. It has an aloof look on its face, like a big brother in the market.
Several other sects and cultivating families, large and small, also have their own shops. These shops are not only for selling cultivation resources, but also for purchasing various resources for their own sects or families, such as century-old elixirs, high-end refining equipment, etc.
It is said that although the Lingxiao Sword Sect is trapped inside the sect's mountain gate, their various halls outside are not affected. This is an unwritten agreement among the major sects and they are not allowed to attack each other's commercial institutions.
Ye Xiaocheng deliberately frequented teahouses and restaurants, mainly to inquire about outside news.
Over the course of a month, he collected a lot of news, and the most exciting news was the various rumors about his disappearance.
Not long after he entered the secret realm that day, the entrance to the secret realm was closed, and then the secret realm disappeared into the void.
The underworld demon sect was unwilling to lose the secret realm it had obtained. It sent out almost half of its troops and spent a huge amount of money to pull the secret realm out of the void again.
Unfortunately, all this was in vain, and the secret realm disappeared together with Ye Xiaocheng.
A few days later, the Blood Demon Sect and the Heavenly Corpse Sect also heard about this incident, and they all came to ask for a share of the benefits of the secret realm.
Although the visitor missed, no one believed that the secret realm disappeared on its own. They all thought that the Underworld Demon Sect had hidden the secret realm.
A fire almost broke out between the three factions.
Fortunately, the leaders of the three religions had a good relationship with each other, and there was no major conflict in the end.
The three leaders reached an agreement to jointly search for the lost secret realm. If the secret realm can be found, the benefits will be shared equally among the three families.
As a result, the three major sects tried their best but failed to find the shadow of the secret realm in the void, and finally returned without success.
Another piece of news that is most beneficial to him is that people from the Underworld Demon Sect have confirmed that Ye Xiaocheng was taken into the disappeared secret realm by a stone tablet, and he will definitely be trapped and die in it.
Since Ye Xiaocheng has no hope of survival, continuing to pursue him becomes meaningless.
As the order was passed on, the road blockades and various stuck points arranged in a radius of thousands of miles were all lifted.
When Ye Xiaocheng heard the news, a stone finally fell from his heart.
However, he didn't dare to be careless. There were many things that he was afraid of just in case. If he was recognized again, just like that Ancestor Lei, he might not be so lucky.
So you still need to be careful at all times.
He plans to hide in Jianyun City for a year or two, and then go to live somewhere else until the news is completely over.
Ye Xiaocheng had just returned home that night when his arm was suddenly pinched by a hand.
"Who are you! What do you want to do!" Ye Xiaocheng shouted in pain. He felt that the bones in his left arm were broken.
"Boy, don't you recognize me?" came an eerie voice.
"Ah, isn't this...Senior Brother Wang?"
When that person came close to him, he saw clearly that this person turned out to be his father's disciple Wang Chuanjun, who was in the Dzogchen realm of the Foundation Establishment Stage.
"It's me, little junior brother." The man's hand increased strength again.
"Ah, senior brother, please be gentle, junior brother's small arms and legs can't hold your hands strong." Ye Xiaocheng said in a hissing voice.
He wasn't pretending, it was indeed so painful that tears flowed out.
Although his physical strength was no less than that of a strong person in the Foundation Establishment stage, he was caught off guard and was restrained first.
If he was prepared, even if he couldn't beat him, he could at least support a few moves, then shout for help and wait for the Fangshi patrol team to come to the rescue.
"Junior brother, you don't have to yell. I've already set up an isolation circle here. No one can hear you even if you yell to Potian." Wang Chuanjun said with a sinister smile.
"Senior Brother Wang, what are you doing? Junior Brother, I have never offended you, have I? My father and mother are very kind to you." Ye Xiaocheng said.
"Hey, little junior brother, what you said is right. My master and my wife treat me like my biological parents, but I want to practice and ascend to heaven. Little junior brother, hurry up and give me the relics of my master and my wife. You can't cultivate without spiritual roots, so what treasure is to you?" It's of no use at all, why not give it to me, and not only will I not hurt you, but I will also take you out, how about it?"
Ye Xiaocheng looked at Wang Chuanjun stupidly, not expecting that his senior brother was such a person, but he had no ability to resist at the moment and could only mutter in his heart.
"Aren't you under house arrest now? Maybe one day the headmaster will become impatient and give an order and you will become a decapitated ghost." Wang Chuanjun threatened.
"Oh, do you just want my mother's relics?" Ye Xiaocheng asked pretending to be scared.
"Well, is that treasure really in your hands?" Wang Chuanjun was so happy that his soul almost floated out of his head.
"Of course it's in my hand. Look what it is." Ye Xiaocheng spread his right hand and said.
"What is this... wrong..."
What did Wang Chuanjun see? Anyway, it was not a treasure, but a talisman with a flowing Taoist charm. Unfortunately, when he first saw it, the talisman had already been activated, and a short spear about a foot long pierced the center of his eyebrows, and his soul instantly fell into boundless darkness.
Ye Xiaocheng sat down on the ground, his heart beating wildly.
The momentary experience was too thrilling. Fortunately, Wang Chuanjun was just greedy and wanted to snatch the treasure. If he wanted his life, he would be dead now.
Ye Xiaocheng's current spiritual consciousness is only in the late stage of foundation building. He can activate the first-level talisman in a single thought. If he activates the second-level talisman, it can also be completed instantly. However, he uses the third-level low-grade golden gun talisman. Then It takes five breaths to complete the activation.
Ye Xiaocheng pretended to be dealing with Wang Chuanjun just to get the five breaths needed to activate the talisman.
Although if the opponent was caught off guard and was so close, Wang Chuanjun could be killed with a second-level top-level talisman, but for the sake of insurance, he decided to activate a third-level low-level talisman.
It is estimated that Wang Chuanjun was confused in the underworld after his death. Didn't the junior brother have no magic power? How could he use the talisman? And it is a third-level low-grade talisman.
In fact, except for the talisman master, most other people don't know that the best way to activate talismans is to use spiritual consciousness instead of mana. Divine consciousness activation is not only fast, but also efficient and energy-saving.
Then why the Talisman Master doesn't tell outsiders about this method? It's not to hide his secrets, but because the spiritual consciousness is too precious. Once the spiritual consciousness is exhausted, there is no medicine to replenish the spiritual consciousness. You can only rely on rest or sleep to recover. Unlike mana, Even if it is exhausted, you can quickly recover with mana-restoring medicine.
Therefore, even a talisman master will first choose to use mana to activate the talisman during combat. When the mana is exhausted, he will have to use divine consciousness to activate it.
It's not that Ye Xiaocheng doesn't understand this principle, but he has no magic power and can only use his spiritual consciousness to stimulate it. This is the only trick.
In a fight, a person's depletion of mana is not the most fatal thing, but the depletion of spiritual consciousness. In that case, one can only fall asleep, have a splitting headache, and then lose fighting power, fall into the hands of the enemy, and be slaughtered.
After activating the talisman with his spiritual consciousness, Ye Xiaocheng felt severe pain in his arm. He quickly took a second-grade high-grade rejuvenation pill. The pain stopped, but it would take several days to heal the broken bones.
"Ungrateful, worse than a pig or a dog."
