Chapter 187 Something fishy happened and the ghost lingers
Ding Ning shook the body with half of its head in his hand and said:
"Okay, the irrelevant people are gone, let's deal with business now."
Meng Zhou also withdrew his attention from Xuanyuanzi who was leaving. He looked at Ding Ning and then at the long-dead corpse in her hand.
"Everyone is dead, how to deal with it?" Meng Zhou asked.
Ding Ning said: "Don't you think this is a bit strange?"
"Uh..." From beginning to end, Meng Zhou just acted as a "bait".
As for the process, what kind of entanglement Ding Ning and the other party went through, Meng Zhou had no idea at all. How could he know if there was something fishy in it?
"Why do you think so?" Meng Zhou asked.
Ding Ning said with a look of wise thinking in his eyes: "Because the whole process is too simple!"
"..." Meng Zhou.
"Didn't you say that if that Xuan Yuanzi hadn't taken action secretly, the other party would have successfully escaped? How can this be said to be simple?"
Ding Ning shook his head and said: "But in my fight with him, he didn't even last two rounds.
I originally planned to subdue him with one blow, but ended up slapping half of his head flat and killing him!
Don’t you think this is unreasonable?”
Meng Zhou wondered: "What's so unreasonable about this?"
"His performance was too weak. A senior Dan-Jie dies after only two moves in the hands of a new Dan-Jie like me. Is this reasonable?"
Meng Zhou stared at Ding Ning as if he were looking at a god, "You can judge based on this, there is something fishy about this matter?"
Ding Ning nodded solemnly.
Is it possible that the truly unreasonable factor is not the dead pill formation, but your "new pill formation"?
Meng Zhou thought so in his heart, but said: "So you suspect that he is using his life to fake a fight with you?"
Ding Ning felt strange after hearing this, but she still insisted: "Anyway, there must be something wrong here."
Meng Zhou felt a little confused and thought about checking this person's belongings first, maybe he could find some evidence to convince Ding Ning.
But his consciousness scanned around this person, but found nothing.
Meng Zhou didn't take it seriously, thinking that Ding Ning had already taken it away in advance, so he asked, "Can I see his storage equipment?"
Hearing this, Ding Ning was stunned for a moment, then clapped his hands and said suddenly: "That's right, this person doesn't even have a piece of storage equipment!"
Meng Zhou was also stunned.
"After killing this person, I felt that something was fishy.
In addition, there was that old guy Xuanyuanzi peeping nearby, so I didn’t dare to stay longer, nor did I check carefully, so I just brought him to your place."
As he said that, Ding Ning looked at Meng Zhou and said, "Now I want to understand that this person didn't use a single talisman or magical weapon throughout the whole journey, and he didn't even have any storage equipment. Don't you think this is strange?
"
Meng Zhou stared at the body that had been thrown on the ground by Ding Ning and couldn't help but frown.
Ding Ning continued:
"Look, this man's whole body is worth something, but this robe is of some value, but it's just an ordinary second-level high-quality item, not even the second-level top quality.
Not to mention the alchemy monk, he is just a fake alchemy monk. Have you ever seen anyone so shabby?"
Meng Zhou was already using his spiritual consciousness to examine the deceased more carefully at this moment, and as he inspected more deeply, his brows became more and more frowned.
Finally, he squatted down and directly stretched out his hands to press everywhere on the deceased's body for a final inspection and confirmation.
After a long time, Meng Zhou stopped the inspection and slowly stood up with a solemn expression.
Ding Ning hurriedly asked: "How's it going? Did you find anything?"
Meng Zhou looked at Ding Ning and said slowly: "This person is not an alchemist, he is just a fake alchemy monk."
Ding Ning was shocked when he heard this and said:
"Isn't it possible? I can still distinguish fake elixirs from real elixirs!
Although his performance was indeed a bit weak, it would be outrageous to say that it was just a fake elixir. He almost completely threw me away with his speed!"
Meng Zhou paused and then said:
"Believe me, I am professional in this area. This is indeed the body of a fake alchemy monk.
However, your feeling that he is an alchemy monk is not wrong."
"Can you be more clear?"
Meng Zhou said: "Although this person is dead, I discovered that he had used secret techniques such as burning blood and burning life for a long time before his death."
Ding Ning was stunned and murmured: "You mean, even after he burned himself to that extent, he only managed to burn out so much strength?"
Looking at Ding Ning who suddenly realized something, Meng Zhou was speechless.
Sister, is this the key to the information I mentioned?
However, Meng Zhou also really felt it was very magical.
After his inspection, he also felt that there was a big problem with the deceased.
However, this conclusion was reached based on his profound knowledge as a pharmacist and in the vital changes of the human body, as well as after conducting a sufficiently careful "autopsy" on this person.
As for not carrying any storage equipment, it is even worse than fake elixirs. These are just supporting evidence and cannot be regarded as real evidence.
But Ding Ning's judgment was completely unreasonable and relied purely on intuition.
"I just think it's unreasonable and fishy!"
If I really asked her to give a reason, it would sound very unreliable.
But if the middle process is covered up, the two people reach exactly the same conclusion.
Moreover, the process of others coming to conclusions is much faster than myself.
This is really amazing.
Ding Ning said: "What should we do now?"
Meng Zhou asked: "What do you think? What do you think?"
Ding Ning shook his head and said: "I don't have any ideas... I just think this person has a big problem, and I don't have any ideas myself.
I just wanted to come back and discuss it with you to see if you have any ideas."
Meng Zhou, who was pondering this matter in his mind, suddenly thought of another thing.
He looked at Ding Ning and asked, "You pushed Xuanyuanzi so hard just now, did you just want him to leave as soon as possible?"
Ding Ning nodded and said: "I have this idea, but what I said is true."
At this point, she saw the admiration on Meng Zhou's face and smiled: "My strategy is also very effective, right?"
Meng Zhou nodded, but thought in his heart, you should try to use this kind of strategy as little as possible in the future.
He even thought for no reason, if this is my apprentice...
Hey, it seems pretty good.
…
"How is it? What can you do?"
Ding Ning asked again.
"Yeah." Meng Zhou responded, but said to Ding Ning, "But please wait first."
He went straight to the quiet room where Bai Zhi was placed and said to her:
"I'm going out for a trip, please stay in this quiet room and don't run around.
If you disobey and die in a daze, don't blame me."
After a brief explanation, he walked out of the quiet room, and Yaya was naturally absorbed into the sea of consciousness by him.
When he came to Ding Ning again, Meng Zhou said to her: "Let's go."
Ding Ning looked at the deceased on the ground and saw that Meng Zhou had no intention of taking the deceased with him, so he asked, "How should he deal with it?"
Meng Zhou said: "I don't need this thing, it is useless."
"...You take me directly to the place where you first sensed him. In order to hide, let's all use Earth Escape."
Soon, the two of them escaped and disappeared into the cave.
And not long after Meng Zhou left, dots of gold emerged from the grove, and then turned into a golden cloud.
When the golden cloud flowed through the corpse area, except for the clothes and robes, everything belonging to the deceased disappeared completely.
Not even a bit of bone residue or blood foam remains.
…
"right here?"
At this moment, Meng Zhou had been led by Ding Ning to leave the Sanchuan City area and stayed in an open space outside Sanchuan City, nearly ten miles away from his retreat cave.
Ding Ning nodded and said:
"When I followed the traces and found this place, this man was holding a black flag.
Holding the flag and waving it, it seems to be pulling something.
However, he was also very alert. Almost as soon as I saw him, he decisively destroyed the black flag in his hand and ran away immediately.
...Now, do you want to go to the place where I fight with him?"
"No, just follow me."
At this moment, the two of them did not fully reveal their figures. They were all in the state of earth escape, "floating" on the shallow surface of the earth.
Soon, Meng Zhou said to Ding Ning: "Follow me."
Then, he chose a direction and chased it.
Ding Ning Tu Dun followed him and asked curiously: "This is not the direction I am chasing him. Where are we going?"
Meng Zhou said: "This is the direction he came from."
"Can this still happen?!"
Ding Ning exclaimed, stopped talking, and just followed Meng Zhou quietly.
Meng Zhou escaped while using the moon mirror to retrace the man's path.
During Yue Jing's retrieval, this person walked around Sanchuan City several times and lingered for several days before choosing a location.
Maybe he was familiar with the situation and looking for a suitable place to start.
Considering that the situation in the city was complicated and that there were people like Xuanyuanzi sitting in charge, Meng Zhou only observed through the moon mirror and did not follow his trajectory and walked around the city a few times.
Time in the moon mirror went back all the way, and Meng Zhou chased the person's past image all the way back to December 25 last year, which was the fourth day after he entered the third-level cave and began to retreat. This person entered Sanchuan for the first time.
city.
"The information is quite good!"
Meng Zhou sighed in his heart, but temporarily suppressed these thoughts and led Ding Ning to chase this person's traces all the way out of Sanchuan Plain.
This pursuit lasted a whole day and night.
With Meng Zhou's speed, if he used all his strength, this time would be enough for him to walk back and forth to Qinglinfang.
But most of his efforts were focused on tracing the traces of this person's past, just like arranging a very messy and very thin thread. If he was a little anxious, the thread would break, and he would have to give up all his efforts and start all over again.
Because of this relationship, the speed was much slower, but after tracking along the way, Ding Ning told Meng Zhou that the two of them were getting closer and closer to Cuiyu Lake.
"This place is about eight thousand miles away from Cuiyu Lake."
Ding Ning reminded Meng Zhou.
At this moment, the two of them were in a second-level evil vein.
Meng Zhouzheng took Ding Ning and fled for more than a hundred miles into the depths of this evil vein. When they came to a mountain surrounded by evil spirits, he finally stopped.
He said to Ding Ning: "I think we should have arrived."
"Are we here?" Ding Ning was a little confused, but also stopped.
In the flashback image, the monk who lost most of his head with one blow from Ding Ning was flying out of a hidden cave on the mountain in front.
"Is this here?" Ding Ning looked around carefully, but found nothing unusual.
Meng Zhou then directly transmitted the image he saw in retrospect to Ding Ning with his mind, allowing her to see the monk flying out of the hidden cave.
She couldn't help but glanced at the ordinary-looking cave entrance, and then said to Meng Zhou, "Shall we go in and take a look?"
"Just go in like this?" Meng Zhou asked.
When things came to a close, Meng Zhou suddenly felt that this action was a bit reckless, and he wanted to be on the safe side out of habit.
He looked at Ding Ning who was already eager to try, and couldn't help but reflect in his heart.
"I am such a stable person, am I infected by this guy?"
With this thought in his mind, he sent a message to Ding Ning and said: "Fellow Daoist Ding, it's enough for us to investigate to this point... How about we go back and call Xuanyuanzi together?"
By doing this, not only can the danger be diverted, but also a good relationship can be established with Xuanyuanzi.
Since Xuanyuanzi had been arranged by the sect to go to the Sanchuan Plain to guard the people who were secretly causing trouble, Xuanyuanzi himself would definitely be happy to do more. For him, this was a real contribution.
If they can share this matter with Xuanyuanzi, can he refuse to accept this favor?
In this regard, President Pan is an expert.
Every time, not only can he achieve his goal, but he can also earn enough impression points and favorability from Qingxuan Sect.
But after hearing this, Ding Ning was surprised and asked: "What did you ask him to do?"
After saying that, she suddenly realized and said: "Oh, I was negligent, you have just made a breakthrough, Brother Daoist Zhuang.
I’m really ashamed. I’ve been tracking you all the way here and I haven’t even done anything... Just wait here for a moment.”
"wait……"
Just as Meng Zhou was about to say something back, he saw Ding Ning making a move as if a diver was about to dive deep into the sea. She poked her head out of the ground, and then, she plunged deeply into the ground and soon disappeared from his perception.
Meng Zhou waited for a while, and then, as if he were hallucinating, he seemed to shiver when he saw the mountain peak in front of him.
The next moment, a violent earthquake wave occurred.
Meng Zhou, who was immersed deep in the soil in his Earth Escape form, could clearly feel the shock of the earth's waves surging into the sky.
Meng Zhou was like a butterfly walking through flowers, dodging and neutralizing the violent earth forces that surged around him.
Although he was safe and sound, he couldn't help but feel a little worried.
If you are still at the foundation-building level, even if you master the Earth Escape Technique to a perfect level, it will be difficult to withstand this level of changes in the earth's power.
And just after the terrifying ground wave, a catastrophic scene appeared on the ground "in hindsight".
Trees were broken and fell in pieces, the soil was churning, and rocks rolled down.
The cave he pointed out to Ding Ning has mostly collapsed.
"..."
The stunned Meng Zhou immediately escaped from the ground.
But when he escaped from the underground, his figure was not revealed.
He is still in a state of "escape". Although this is not stealth stealth, the effect is still above stealth stealth, and the speed is very fast. In the blink of an eye, he ducks into the cave that has mostly collapsed.
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Not long after entering the cave, Meng Zhou saw a passage leading straight to the mountain.
In this passage, Meng Zhou saw many very sinister arrangements.
Not to mention foundation building, even if a fake alchemy monk breaks into this place, it will be very dangerous.
But at this moment, most of these insidious arrangements have been destroyed by the earthquake wave that was called a "small natural disaster" just now.
The remaining ones, even if they are still intact, are basically exposed.
Moreover, even if this place is intact, it will not be any hindrance to Meng Zhou who is currently on the run.
Soon, Meng Zhou, who was walking through this corridor, encountered several dead ends, some of which were deliberately made by the original owner to deceive people.
Some require some ingenious formation mechanisms to open, but those ingenious intentions were completely destroyed by the violence just now.
There are also some dead ends. The tunnel collapsed due to the earthquake wave just now, which completely blocked the road ahead.
Naturally, these would not be any hindrance to Meng Zhou. A simple Earth Escape would render all these methods useless.
For this kind of hidden lair built in the mountain, it is the most correct and efficient choice to directly use earth escape to sneak in and avoid its "carefully crafted" path, as Ding Ning did.
Get direct access to its core.
The reason why Meng Zhou gave up on the easy task was actually because he wanted to find out and fill in the gaps for Ding Ning.
Since she chose an "odd" one, she naturally had to choose the "right" one. The odd and the right lines match each other, and each has its own division of labor. This is the meaning of forming a dungeon in a group.
Although Meng Zhou had a new understanding of Ding Ning's "recklessness", since she had already taken action, he naturally couldn't really just watch from the sidelines.
As he was walking down a corridor and arriving at a spacious underground hall, Meng Zhou suddenly stopped.
Several black-robed monks were escaping from the deeper part of the mountain towards the hall where he was.
They all turned a blind eye to Meng Zhou who was also in the hall.
They soon arrived at the other end of the hall, where there was originally a corridor that could lead to the outside of the mountain.
But now, this corridor has been blocked by the collapsed mountain.
When this group of people saw these collapsed mountains, they all seemed very angry, but they did not dare to delay and quickly used various means to clean them up.
"Who provoked this crazy woman? Just provoke her. She didn't even take care of her head and tail. She was lured here and almost buried alive!"
A male cultivator with half his body covered in blood was furious and helpless.
Just now, if he hadn't been able to dodge quickly, he would have been smashed into pieces by a huge boulder weighing 10,000 kilograms.
Although he escaped unharmed, half of his body suffered extremely severe scratches.
"I don't know if the two venerables can subdue her," another person said.
"No matter what, it's only right to go out first..." Some people no longer care about the outcome behind them, but instead urge others around them to clean up quickly.
"Hey, what's going on..."
Someone was suddenly startled and suspicious.
"It's so cold——"
And this sentence "It's so cold" became the last sentence here.
Those figures who were cleaning up the collapsed boulders had all turned into solidified ice sculptures without realizing it.
And all this was just a cold wind blown by Meng Zhou on the run.
Along the way, we cleared out two more groups of black-robed monks who were fleeing for their lives, and their conditions became increasingly miserable.
The deeper you go, the greater the damage caused by seismic waves.
Meng Zhou also finally escaped all the way to the deepest part of this mountain lair.
Originally, this place should have been a very huge and empty place.
But now, it has collapsed the most.
Exploring with his spiritual sense, he found that there were bloody "meat cakes" buried under many collapsed boulders.
At this moment, three people are fighting in this space that may collapse further at any time.
Ding Ning stood in the center of the space, her feet seemed to be connected to the earth and rocks beneath her, and the earthy yellow light formed a shadow of a mountain peak around her.
The other two figures were like ghosts, wandering around her.
One of them had green flames lingering in his hands.
This flame has no heat, but gives people a cold feeling that burns the soul.
Balls of sticky green fire rain poured towards Ding Ning, clinging to the shadow of her mountain peak and burning slowly.
The other person controlled a white bone flying sword. The flying sword flew through the air at high speed, making strange whining noises, like a ghost crying.
To people's ears, it's like scratching the soul with nails.
Obviously, these two people have unique skills in dealing with the soul.
Unfortunately, their attacks could not break through the shadow of the mountain peaks around Ding Ning at all, and at most they only caused some ripples.
However, Ding Ning put his feet firmly on the ground and quickly calmed down the shock.
Just as they were a little helpless against Ding Ning, Ding Ning's attack rhythm was much slower than theirs.
There is no way to cause substantial harm to them.
This was supposed to be an evenly matched stalemate, but judging from the changes in the expressions of both sides, it had nothing to do with "evenly matched".
"Were you preaching just now? We were all gathered so neatly and lined up so neatly. I feel bad if I don't let you come for a moment."
"You must have been operating this old nest for many years, right?
Before I came in, I really didn’t expect that there were so many ground rats hiding in here!”
"This lair should be considered completely ruined, right?"
"I'm also very curious about you two. The soul attack is indeed very strong.
But why are you so weak in other aspects, not even at the level of normal pill formation, right?"
"Hey, what's going on with you two? Are you tickling me?"
"..."
"If it doesn't work, how about we just give up?"
Ding Ning muttered non-stop. Anyway, she stood there motionless and was just a living target for anyone to beat her.
In addition to carefully guarding her surroundings, of course she had a lot of free time to chat with the two of them.
But the two people who besieged her were different. They said nothing, their eyes were spitting fire, and they all looked like they wanted to eat Ding Ning alive.
Ding Ning wanted to say something else, but she saw the two men's expressions suddenly changed and they stopped attacking her.
"Be careful, it's poisonous!"
The monk who used the green flames with both hands suddenly shouted loudly, turned his palms inward, slapped one hand on the top of his head, and the other hand on his heart, and absorbed the green flames into his body.
The sizzling sound was accompanied by his low-pitched groan and scream, as well as the unpleasant burning smell.
However, when he roasted himself until he was almost cooked, he finally eliminated the strange poison that was rapidly spreading in his body.
He opened his eyes and looked to the other side, only to see that his companion had stopped breathing at some point, and a white bone flying sword fell at his feet.
He died extremely useless.
He looked at Ding Ning, who was still confused at this moment, but his eyes were full of resentment and fear, "Despicable!"
He thought he had seen through Ding Ning's tricks, and continued to use harmless language to distract their attention, make them agitated, and let them focus all their attention on her alone.
And this vicious woman had quietly placed a terrifying poison around them, so that they were both infected without even realizing it.
At this moment, one of his companions died. He used an almost self-mutilation method to remove the poison from his body, but his 100% ability was only less than 10% or 20%.
He no longer dared to think that he could return for revenge, rolled up his companion's flying bone sword, and flew away towards the corridor that had collapsed in the distance with only a small gap exposed.
Just when he was about to get into the gap in the corridor, he suddenly had the illusion that he had entered a thundercloud area, and thunder and thunder kept exploding in his mind.
When he came to his senses, he found that he had fallen to the ground with only one breath left.
If it weren't for the powerful soul, he would have been killed long ago.
Because he discovered that his seemingly intact body had actually turned into a puddle of mud.
The internal organs, bones, brain, etc. were all shattered into bloody mud.
If it weren't for the support of a relatively intact layer of skin, it would have spread out long ago.
Ding Ning looked at this scene with surprise.
One of the two monks who had been fighting with him a moment ago suddenly sat on the ground silently, as if trying to resolve something, but he soon died.
The other one first burned himself until he was seven or eight years old, then fled to the entrance of the cave, but finally died in front of the entrance of the corridor.
The whole space suddenly became quiet.
Apart from her, there seemed to be no other person.
She looked around cautiously, feeling inexplicably tingling in her heart.
The tension that suddenly arose in my heart was greater than when one person was fighting against two pill-forming people.
She suddenly shouted: "Fellow Daoist Zhuang? Fellow Daoist Zhuang? Is that you? Come out quickly, don't scare me!"
Her voice echoed in the space deep in the mountain, making the space seem more and more quiet.
The tension in Ding Ning's heart also escalated to a higher level.
At this moment, a rather joking voice sounded from the side, "Fellow Daoist Ding, I didn't expect that such a brave person like you would be afraid of this?"
Ding Ning looked at Meng Zhou who appeared and breathed a sigh of relief.
She greeted Meng Zhou, and the two began to divide the work and clean up.
Meng Zhou originally wanted to say a few more words, but seeing her heartless look, he warned himself in his heart that he should act less with her in the future.
As for correcting her behavior and fighting style, that's not something she should worry about.
What's more, people are different, and you shouldn't point fingers at others just because their behavior is different from yours.
"Let's leave it to President Pan to worry about."
In the process of cleaning up this lair, Meng Zhou also learned the true roots of these people.
Because right next to the space where Ding Ning fought fiercely with these two pill formations, there was another smaller, but more solid space.
There is a tall three-headed statue enshrined inside.
"It's the Lihen Cult again! The ghost is really lingering!" Meng Zhou thought to himself.