This is a huge lake located in the second-level evil place.

Under the lake, there is a natural cave space.

Because the evil spirit has a blocking effect on the spiritual consciousness, if you use your spiritual consciousness to explore, you will not be able to find this underwater space.

Except for slight mana fluctuations coming from a few places in the deepest part of the cave, there are no traces of man-made artifacts.

Even this slight fluctuation in mana was obscured by the thick evil aura surrounding him.

The spiritual veins are filled with spiritual energy, and the evil veins are filled with evil spirits, which can also be said to be "evil spiritual energy" - that is, spiritual energy with evil aura.

What these two have in common is that after breathing and refining, it will bring stronger power and even the sublimation of life level.

The biggest difference is that Reiki is naturally compatible with spiritual wisdom. Life is nourished and nourished by Reiki for a long time, which has a positive bonus to spiritual wisdom.

On the contrary, evil spirits and spiritual wisdom naturally conflict with each other. If a human monk practices in the place of evil veins for a long time, he can also gain strength in a short period of time.

But at the same time, its human spiritual wisdom will be continuously impacted and gradually shaken, and eventually, bit by bit, it will transform from "human" to "humanoid beast".

Similarly, spirit beasts that have been domesticated and controlled by humans and have lived in their spiritual veins for a long time, even if they originated from the same bloodline two or three generations ago, are gentler, easier to communicate with, and have better possession of than evil spirit beasts of the same level.

The same is true for much spiritual wisdom.

Although the monks of the Lihen Sect cannot avoid the direct impact of evil spirits on their own spiritual wisdom, the Lihen Statue can.

The special thing about Lihen Cult monks is that they can breathe in and refine spiritual energy just like normal monks, and at the same time, they can also practice with the Lihen Statue as the core.

Humans with spiritual wisdom cannot resist the impact of evil spirits on their spiritual wisdom, but the ignorant statue of Lihen can.

At this time, the Lihen Statue becomes a special filtering device that can filter out the harmful parts of the evil spirit.

However, this also comes at a price, that is, they have worked hard and used various methods to collect it, and the "essence of hate" condensed around the statue of Lihen will continue to be consumed.

——The Essence of Hatred, the core resource of every Lihen Sect monk, is actually Yaya’s consumption of the Wushu Divine Will used by Meng Zhou.

Therefore, although the Statue of Lihen can be used as a "sewage filter", no one dares to use it for practice. It is only used once as a last resort to ensure that the cultivation level does not fall.

These Lihen Sect monks hiding here are like rats hiding in the gutter, they dare not come out even if they are extremely "hungry".

Because there are too many companions who do not believe in evil and have proven it with their lives. With the entire Qingxuan Territory being strictly guarded, anyone who dares to show up will definitely die.

It's not that no one has thought about escaping from the Qingxuan Territory, but they are just like the rats that hurriedly hid in some hidden corners after a major earthquake and were lucky enough to survive, hiding to this day.

They know nothing about the current situation in the Qingxuan Territory. All the strongholds that they could rely on for support have either been wiped out, or they are "mousetraps" set out to lure them into taking the bait.

Without the support of the organization, it is equivalent to having them fight against an organization like Qingxuan Sect on their own.

Thinking about it this way, it's better not to risk your life and continue to hide.

Qingxuan Sect can't keep working with such high intensity. Waiting for the limelight to really pass, or waiting for the higher-ups to find a way to get back on line with them, then it won't be too late to think about other things.

Three Cunning Rabbit Cave.

The Lihen Cult has rich experience in failure and survival. Even in the most prosperous times, the Lihen Cult will not get carried away, but will make adequate preparations for failure.

This is one of the many "caves" operated by the Lihen Sect.

As an organization that takes soul searching to an "artistic" level, the Lihen Cult certainly knows that no matter how well-arranged the backhand is, it is possible for someone to follow the clues, pull out the carrots and bring out the mud, and eventually be thrown away in a pot.

The Lihen Sect also has methods to deal with this.

On the one hand, Lihen Sect has a strict internal organization and strict information control. No one who is involved in the situation knows the entire organization of Lihen Sect in Qingxuan Domain, as well as all the back-up plans.

They only know the part they should know, and they know nothing about the other parts.

On the other hand, all believers who have mastered certain core secrets are bound by strict oaths.

Not only can they not take the initiative to disclose any relevant information to the outside world, but if they are completely controlled by others and someone tries to search their souls, their souls will self-destruct immediately and no one will know anything.

Moreover, as someone who has struggled with the Constellation Palace, he also has a systematic way to deal with the time-traveling ability of looking back at Yuan Guang.

If everything is like this, then it is really difficult to pry it open from the outside and clean out the "meat" inside.

Unfortunately, this defense system is not truly flawless.

Among them, the biggest flaw lies in the soul search.

Although the Lihen Sect has carefully designed this, its defense objectives have always been external and not internal.

Not only will it not be accessed internally, but it will also leave a special backdoor for internal access.

For example, if a member of the Lihen Cult with a foundation-building cultivation falls into the hands of an outsider, even if that person is a strong pill-forming expert, or even if the other party has mastered the exquisite soul-searching method, the result of the soul-searching will be that the soul will be shattered upon touching it.

Can't get any useful information at all.

But if it falls into the hands of a Lihen cult member with a higher level, then this restriction will not exist at all.

This is not an unintentional flaw, but a deliberate one.

A very simple question, how does the Lihen Cult rely on to manage those Lihen Cult members who are ambitious and inhumane?

Is it about loyalty?

Are you kidding, these are ruthless people who dare to swing a knife at the person next to them and their own blood relatives.

Bewitched by profit?

Human desires are insatiable and can never be satisfied. Don't rely on profit to permanently tie up these "beasts" who have completely released the evil thoughts in their hearts.

The most effective way is to use terror and deterrence, and to impose layers of control.

As long as the difference in strength between a high-level cultivator and a low-level spiritual member is large enough, they can completely control their life or death with just one word.

Moreover, if the soul blocks the ability to search for souls and treats all outsiders equally, doesn't this mean that the lower-level believers can hide many secrets from the upper levels?

That’s okay!

Therefore, this "back door" that is open to higher-level believers in one direction is bound to exist.

If high-level members wanted to search for the souls of members with lower cultivation levels, they would be able to spot them immediately. There would be no secrets at all. They could even find out how many times they peed in bed when they were children.

As a result, more than a dozen members of the Lihen cult who had been living here for several years met with terrible misfortune.

As a figure approached quietly, staying in the rock formations dozens of meters away from the underground cave space, each figure seemed to be hibernating, and the white moonlight suddenly shone into the sea of ​​​​consciousness, illuminating their faces.

The soul is sealed like amber.

Just when they were panicking, Meng Zhouna's Soul Drawing Technique, which he had already mastered to a perfect level, directly scraped towards their souls.

The various methods used to prevent soul searching are like a grandson meeting his grandfather, or like a new soldier standing guard seeing a general swaggering past him, all of them behaved and did not do anything extra.

Let these means pass them by and scrape away at the target soul.

Quietly, these dozen "ground rats" who had been living here for several years all had their consciousnesses collapsed, their souls shattered, and they turned from "ground rats" into "dead rats".

Among them, there is one from the early stage of alchemy formation, three from the false alchemy sect, and the rest are all from the early stage of foundation formation and later cultivation.

Under the special power of the Qi Transformation Black Lotus, these people's corpses quickly "melted", dust returned to dust, dust returned to dust, and the most valuable spiritual essence was all integrated into this evil vein.

Their sinful life came to an end quietly in a way of thanking the world.

The magical weapons, robes, and storage equipment they were wearing were all stored in a small dark green gourd.

After that, the place became completely quiet and there was no trace of human activity.

At this moment, Meng Zhou has personally controlled the lightless spaceship, blending into the void and moving forward at extremely high speeds.

The clone of Transformed Qi Mo Lian sat next to him, carefully counting the gains from the previous operation.

Those filthy materials used in various magic rituals and magic secrets were all destroyed.

Other items, normal spiritual materials, as well as magic weapons, magic weapons, spiritual stones, elixirs and other miscellaneous things were all left behind. However, Meng Zhou did not carefully count them, but just gathered them together and that was it.

Those books, jade slips and other items were stored separately by Meng Zhou.

Finally, his eyes fell on the statues of Lihen.

Among them, there are eleven second-level statues of Lihen and one third-level statue of Lihen.

After looking around for a while, Meng Zhou's eyes were fixed on the third-order Lihen statue.

This is what I harvested from the storage equipment of the monk who was in the early stages of forming a pill.

From this person's memory, we can know that this person was the liaison person for many important strongholds.

Those strongholds that appear to be unrelated to each other rely on his presence, contact, and organization.

If only one or two strongholds are exposed, he doesn't have to worry about his own safety.

Even if multiple strongholds are exposed, as long as they are staggered long enough, there will still not be much hindrance to him.

On the one hand, he can cut off contact with any stronghold at any time without arousing any suspicion.

On the other hand, he can shelter himself in any stronghold and leave no trace in Qingxuan Domain - which is equivalent to having no household registration and no trace of this person.

However, as multiple strongholds were exposed almost at the same time, his traces could no longer be concealed and were clearly revealed in Qingxuanzong's sight.

The masterless divine will on this third-level statue of Lihen is much less than the one Meng Zhou harvested from the nest in the mountain.

If it is used as a raw material to refine a minimum standard soul clone, it will only be equivalent to one and a half portions.

With such a "shabby" harvest, Meng Zhou was not depressed, but instead was full of expectations.

Soon, the lightless spacecraft stopped again.
To be continued...