It was already late at night, and although many streets in Guangling City were still brightly lit, due to the Xuanyuan Army patrolling the entire city, the streets were no longer as lively as before.
But this does not mean that the entire Guangling City is peaceful.
In fact, Guangling City was in turmoil at this time. In a tea house in the west of the city, monks from dozens of chambers of commerce, large and small, gathered here. They seemed to be in conflict with the monks of the Xuanyuan Army, and the atmosphere was tense.
In addition to here, there are also disciples from the seven northwest sects who are causing trouble in the areas under the jurisdiction of Xuanyuan Army, and some have even taken action in the city.
The world is treacherous, and the superficial turmoil may just be to cover up the undercurrent beneath the water.
At this moment, in the center of Guangling City, in a remote alley, several figures were walking quietly.
"Is this right here?"
The person walking at the front lowered his voice and asked.
"right here!"
A crisp female voice answered him, her tone was very firm.
In front of everyone, there was an abandoned restaurant. There was a plaque hanging on the top of the restaurant, which read: "Qingfeng Tower"!
"I clearly remember that this place has been abandoned for many years. Is there any mystery inside?" The man walking in the front pondered for a moment, then said decisively: "Go in and take a look!"
He made a magic spell to protect himself, strode like lightning, and was the first to enter the restaurant. Seeing this, everyone else followed him in one after another.
Walking at the back was a man in gray clothes, with dark skin, tall and thin.
After everyone went in, he stayed there and observed vigilantly for a moment. After confirming that there was nothing suspicious, he left a few simple forbidden signs at the entrance, and then followed everyone into the restaurant.
middle.
The restaurant has been abandoned for a long time, it is full of dust and looks very dark.
Everyone searched for a while and found nothing special, so they couldn't help but frown.
"Your Highness, could it be that there is a mistake? The interior of this restaurant is clearly visible, and there is not even a trace of aura. Are you sure that the Second Prince and the others are here?"
"It can't be wrong."
In the darkness, Xuanyuan Lingwei shook her head and pointed to the spirit beast bag on her waist.
"The Rakshasa Demonic Cow is born with a keen sense of smell for spiritual roots. Since it has found this place, it proves that the monk who captured the purple bamboo spiritual roots is in this restaurant."
"In this case, the little girl has a magic weapon that can verify whether there is any mystery here!"
The speaker was a beautiful female cultivator under Zhu Youqing, the second elder of Baiwu Zhai, Lin Shishi.
"Oh? If Sister Lin has any means, just use it, we don't have much time." Xuanyuan Lingwei urged.
Lin Shishi nodded, took out a small bottle from his sleeve, and uncorked the bottle. A stream of white mist immediately flew out of the bottle and spread throughout the restaurant in an instant.
In the white mist, there are countless fireflies flickering, as if eyes are carefully searching every corner.
Suddenly, a group of fireflies on the south side of the restaurant flickered, and then all the fireflies became restless, gathering crazily in that corner, and finally all attached to a wall.
"found it!"
Lin Shishi's face showed a trace of excitement, and he pointed to the place where the fireflies gathered. Everyone looked at it intently, and saw that the fireflies actually outlined the pattern of an iron door on the wall, flickering in the dark night.
Destroyed, it feels quite eerie and eerie.
"There is a secret door there, why didn't we find it just now?" Ouyang Zhenru frowned, obviously a little surprised.
"No, there's something weird on the door!"
Duan Tianxing shouted low and raised his hand to cast a spell. A black light flashed above the iron door, and a tightly closed eye was revealed in front of everyone.
"This thing hides the secret door, but our spiritual consciousness can't even detect it!" Xuanyuan Lingwei's face changed slightly.
Just as they were talking, the tightly closed eye above the iron gate suddenly raised its eyelids, as if it was about to open.
"No, this is a forbidden detection method. We can't be seen by it, otherwise we will all be exposed!" Liang Yan reacted first, raised his hand and pinched it, and used the sword energy to stab the strange eye.
"Brother Lu, wait a minute!"
Duan Tianxing pulled Liang Yan and said in a deep voice: "This strange eye is different from ordinary ones. The person who performed the surgery seems to have some backup plans. If the eye is destroyed by force, our position will be exposed."
"Then what should we do?" After hearing this, everyone else frowned slightly.
"Our Jade Cauldron Mansion has a secret technique, let Duan give it a try!"
Duan Tianxing walked forward, took out a green talisman from his sleeve, slapped it on the iron door, then made a seal with his hands and began to mutter something.
After a while, thousands of green lights emerged from the talisman, slowly condensing in mid-air, forming a small green cauldron.
The lid of the small cauldron was opened, and curls of green smoke floated out. The eyelids of the strange eyes, which were about to open, were smoked by the green smoke and closed tightly again.
At the same time, the small green cauldron shook slightly, and the lid of the cauldron fell, sealing the entire strange eye inside the cauldron.
boom!
As the lid of the cauldron fell and the seal was completed, hundreds of blood streaks appeared on the iron gate, densely packed like a huge blood net.
"Cut the blood web!"
Duan Tianxing shouted low, Zhu Youqing and Liang Yan took action at the same time, hitting the iron gate with the power of pure Yang and sword energy, instantly cutting the blood web to pieces!
Rumble!
As all the blood threads broke, the iron door began to slowly open inward. Everyone looked at it carefully and saw a deep tunnel, all the way down to the ground.
Seeing this secret passage, everyone looked at each other, and most of them had mixed expressions, ranging from excitement to worry.
"Now that we are here, there is no room for retreat." Liang Yan said calmly at this time: "Everyone, success or failure depends on this battle tonight!"
"Don't worry, Fellow Daoist Lu! Our seven northwest sects will never back down. After tonight, the sixth princess will be in charge of Xuanyuan City!" Ouyang Zhenru assured, patting his chest.
"Thank you! If things come true today, Ling Wei will never treat you badly!" Xuanyuan Lingwei said, cupping her hands.
"Just be careful."
Zhu Youqing didn't say anything else. He raised his hand and made a spell. A blue flag flew out of the storage ring and flew above everyone's heads. A ray of rays of light fell from the sky.
The rays of light fell on everyone, and everyone's aura became vague. What was even more strange was that even if several people were close at hand, they could not see each other's existence.
Think that your allies around you have disappeared.
"The 'Tianzang Flag' can hide everyone's aura. Don't go out of the coverage area of Xiaguang!" Zhu Youqing said in a deep voice while casting a spell to maintain the blue flag.
"Senior, don't worry, we will never go outside the scope of Xiaguang!"
Xuanyuan Lingwei nodded in response, used her spiritual consciousness to communicate with the Rakshasa Demonic Ox in the spirit beast bag, and began to guide everyone.
Everyone walked all the way down the secret passage. In order to hide their traces, they did not dare to use the escape light. After walking for a full hour, they saw a small hole at the end of the secret passage.
Zhu Youqing and Liang Yan looked at each other, and at the same time unfolded their protective auras, walking on both sides of the team, leading Xuanyuan Lingwei and others towards the entrance of the cave.
As soon as the cave entrance came out, the original dark environment was immediately replaced by lights.
Everyone looked around and saw a huge underground palace with a magnificent interior and all kinds of rare materials.
"Heavenly Star Stone! Blood Cloud Bamboo! Hundred Demon Spirit Crystal."
Ouyang Zhenru looked at the scene in front of him and couldn't help but exclaimed: "What a luxurious palace! These treasures are all top-quality materials to assist in cultivation or refining weapons. Which one is worth a fortune if left outside? It's actually here.
Just for decoration?"
Xuanyuan Lingwei shook her head and said: "This is just a temporary palace built by the second brother. You have never seen his palace in Xuanyuan City. That is the real luxury!"
"Bah!" Duan Tianxing scolded angrily: "No wonder he wanted to suppress the sect family. It turned out that he wanted to take all these cultivation resources for himself. He was so squandering that he cut off the path of cultivation for countless people."
"alright."
Zhu Youqing interrupted the conversation between several people and said in a deep voice: "We are not here to evaluate him. Finding Xuanyuan Haoyu as soon as possible is the most important thing!"
After hearing this, the other people all looked forward and saw that the palace was divided by high light blue walls. The high walls were made of sky star stone, which could isolate people's consciousness and they could not see the inside of the palace at all.
In front of them, there were several winding corridors. From a distance, they looked like a huge underground maze.
"Which way should we take?" Duan Tianxing frowned.
"Don't worry. Although the Sky Star Stone can isolate spiritual consciousness, I have the Rakshasa Demonic Cow. I can find him no matter where he is hiding!"
Xuanyuan Lingwei raised her hand and cast a magic spell as she spoke, and the Rakshasa Demonic Bull flew out of her storage ring, but its figure shrunk countless times, almost the same size as an ordinary green bull.
"Go ahead."
Xuanyuan Lingwei touched its forehead, and the demonic bull roared and began to fly forward.
Everyone followed it and soon entered a long corridor. After walking for half a cup of tea, they discovered that cells appeared in the corridor.
Among the cells I passed at the beginning, there were mostly white skeletons. They had been dead for who knows how long, and their identities had long been unrecognizable.
But going deeper, the remains of monks appeared in the cells. They were all beautiful female monks. Some had been pierced by iron hooks in the back of the head, and some had been chained to the bones. All kinds of weird and cruel punishments appeared.
Even Liang Yan was well-informed in the cell, and he couldn't help but feel a chill in his heart when he saw the scenes on the road.
"They are all dead and their spiritual roots have been taken away from their bodies. They suffered endless torture before they died!" Xuanyuan Lingwei looked at the scene along the way, anger bursting out of her eyes, and Zishan beside her was even more delicate.
His body trembled, as if he was reminded of the tragic situation of his twin sisters, and the anger in his heart was almost uncontrollable.
"Most of the people here are casual cultivators from around Guangling City, and a small half are monks from the Chamber of Commerce and the sect."
When Zhu Youqing said this, he suddenly stopped and looked at a female cultivator in green clothes in the cell, a trace of fluctuation appeared on her calm face.
"Senior Nephew Shen didn't expect you to be here."
Zhu Youqing looked at the dead female cultivator in green in the cell, his expression extremely cold.
"What a Xuanyuan Haoyu, he won't even let go of our disciples from the seven northwest sects! I, Ouyang Zhenru, must pay with his blood!"
"Quiet! We seem to be arriving soon!"
Xuanyuan Lingwei suddenly issued a warning, and everyone turned to look. Sure enough, they saw the Rakshasa Demonic Bull beginning to stir, staring intently at the corner at the end of the corridor, as if they had discovered their target.
"Walk!"
Zhu Youqing gave a low drink, pinched the magic formula in his hand, and a steady stream of spiritual power surged out of his body, pushing the "Tianzang Flag" above his head to the extreme.
Everyone knew that the goal of their trip was right in front of them, and they did not dare to be careless at all. They each used their magical powers to conceal their aura, and under the cover of the "Tianzang Flag", they walked towards the end of the corridor.
After a few breaths, everyone walked out of the corridor and came to a brightly lit hall.
The entire hall was magnificent, with many banquets placed in the middle. At each table sat a monk from the Tongxuan Realm, surrounded by four or five beautiful female cultivators. They were naked and looked extremely obscene.
Most of these female cultivators are at the Golden Core realm, and their faces are full of flattery. They ask for and give to the cultivators around them without daring to show any disobedience.
Liang Yan had been to the Taotie Chamber of Commerce before, and he had seen this kind of decadent pleasure, but compared with the scene in the main hall in front of him, it was nothing.
It's just that although the female cultivators here took the initiative, there was deep fear hidden in their eyes. Thinking of the female corpses they met in the cell before, you know why they were so scared.
Everyone's eyes swept across the hall and soon fell on a stone pillar at the back of the hall.
The stone pillar was extraordinary. It was red all over. It was unknown what kind of material it was made of. Even if people were far apart, they could feel the hot breath coming towards their faces.
There was a man chained to the stone pillar. He was wearing a yellow straight-breasted robe, and his whole body was pierced by iron chains. The robe was dyed red with blood, and his face was even more bloody.
However, Xuanyuan Lingwei, Liang Yan and others recognized the man on the stone pillar immediately.
"Xuanyuan Qi!"
Liang Yan's face changed slightly. He thought that Xuanyuan Haoyu would only put Xuanyuan Qi under house arrest, but he didn't expect that he would be so ruthless. Looking at Xuanyuan Qi on the stone pillar, he had been tortured to the point where he would be worse than dead. If not for a trace of
If there was still a faint breath left, Liang Yan would have thought he was dead.
"Hahaha!"
Laughter suddenly came from the back of the hall. Everyone looked attentively and saw a tall and handsome young man lying on a golden and jade soft couch.
This man is very heroic, but now he is naked from the waist up, holding a wine glass in his hand, and there is a woman lying in his arms.
The woman was twenty-eight years old and looked youthful, but her charming eyes were so seductive that she was almost dripping with love. Her tight-fitting dress was composed of silver tassels with a hollow center, and her skin like mutton-fat white jade was looming.
The exquisite figure is even more fascinating.
"My dear fourth brother, you said that you usually just travel around and I don't bother to care about you, but you want to get involved in the affairs between me and my sixth sister. Isn't it your own fault that you have ended up like this?