Looking at the empty Ziyang Sword Sect in front of him, Zhong Wen couldn't help but sigh in disappointment, even though he had expected it.
Ye Mingxing's Ziyang Sword Sect is located in Zhejiang Province, China, far away from Baixian Village.
By the time Zhong Wen and Hu Huan came here after searching Baixian Village, half a day had passed.
Before Su Menglong died, he had apparently passed on the news of the attack on Baixian Village to Ye Mingxing through some unknown method.
Therefore, when Zhong Wen arrived, the entire Ziyang Sword Sect was already empty, with only a dozen simple buildings with gray-white exterior walls standing in front of them. The empty doors and windows were like the eyes and mouths of monsters, wide open.
, as if they were constantly ridiculing and ridiculing him.
"Do you want to search carefully?"
Coral beside her asked softly, "Maybe we can find some clues."
"Yes." Zhong Wen nodded helplessly and uttered the four-character mantra, "It's here."
Even so, neither of them had high hopes.
Ye Mingxing was obviously well prepared. The entire sect was completely evacuated. Not to mention a single person, not even a single book or a single spiritual crystal was left. It could be said that the sect was plucking its feathers and not giving any advantage to the enemy.
The two of them searched the huge Ziyang Sword Sect inside and out, but still found nothing. They could not find any clues about Li Yiru.
"Huh?"
After searching the deepest building, Zhong Wen was about to leave with Coral when his eyes accidentally fell on a pattern in the corner. He couldn't help but froze, unwilling to move even half a step.
This is a strange figure made up of arcs and triangles. The brushstrokes are rough, as if someone had drawn it with charcoal.
Several of the lines seem to have been damaged by external forces and have become blurred, making the figure that was supposed to be symmetrical become extremely irregular.
"What's wrong?"
Seeing him suddenly in a daze, Coral couldn't help but wonder.
Zhong Wen pondered for a moment, but did not answer. He suddenly stepped forward quickly, took out a spirit pattern pen from his ring, and began to tinker with the pattern on the corner of the wall.
His hand speed was extremely fast, and he didn't look like a man with many wives at all. In just a dozen breaths, he completely repaired the original incomplete pattern.
Coral stared at the symmetrical figure in front of her, feeling a little hopeful in her heart.
However, as Zhong Wen finished his last stroke, the room was still the same room, the walls were still the same, the surroundings were still quiet, and nothing happened.
That's it?
Coral curled her lips in disappointment and was about to turn around and leave when she saw Zhong Wen suddenly lift up the spirit pattern pen and quickly draw a circle in the blank space in the center of the graphic.
A perfect circle, neither big nor small, but very uniform.
It is actually a legendary secret technique that only exists among mathematics teachers. It is a secret technique of drawing a circle with bare hands!
"Yes, Not Bad!"
After staring at the circle he drew and admiring it for a moment, Zhong Wen nodded with satisfaction, took out a spiritual crystal from the ring, and slowly stretched it towards the location of the circle.
However, before the spiritual crystal came into contact with the circle, the lines on the wall suddenly lit up, releasing a dazzling white light.
"Huh?"
Zhong Wen was taken aback, took two steps back decisively, and stared at the wall warily.
He had already seen that what was painted on the corner of the wall was a formation that had been passed down from ancient times. It was often used in hidden places such as secret rooms and secret doors in houses. Once such a formation was drawn outside, it could be easily avoided.
Spiritual detection is actually an excellent way to store treasures or stolen goods.
All formations require spiritual power, so in order to open the secret room hidden behind it, Zhong Wen not only completed it, but also took out a spiritual crystal and planned to embed it in the wall as the spiritual power to drive the formation.
source.
Unexpectedly, before the spiritual crystal touched the wall, the concealment formation started to operate on its own.
"Rumble!"
Just as he was looking around, trying to find the source of his spiritual power, the wall suddenly sank, revealing an empty space behind it.
As expected, behind the wall is a secret room.
But the scene inside was completely different from Zhong Wen's imagination.
What was protected by the ancient formation was neither gold, silver, jewelry, nor spiritual crystals. It was actually a person.
a man.
Judging from his appearance and skin color, the man seemed to be in his forties or fifties, but the dense wrinkles and markings on his face made him look like an octogenarian.
The man's face was extremely pale, as if he had never been exposed to sunlight since he was born.
He sat quietly on a strange-shaped armchair, with his skeletal arms leaning on both sides, like two dead vines, tightly wrapped around the armrests of the chair.
Hearing the sound of the wall sinking, the man slowly raised his head and looked in the direction of the two of them.
When her eyes met his, Zhong Wen's heart trembled, and his spine felt inexplicably chilly.
What kind of eyes are these?
Sluggish, empty, pitch black, with no trace of energy in sight.
Zhong Wen has never seen such inhuman eyes on anyone.
"I never thought anyone could actually find this place."
Just when he was in shock and doubt, the skinny man actually spoke, "I thought I would wait forever until I die of old age."
"Your Excellency, who is...?" Zhong Wen hesitated for a moment and finally couldn't help but ask.
"He's just a poor man."
The skinny man grinned, "My name is not worth mentioning."
Most of his two rows of front teeth had actually fallen off, leaving only three solitary ones still holding their ground.
"Are you a disciple of the Ziyang Sword Sect?" Coral couldn't help but interrupt.
"My body is inherently defective and I cannot cultivate spiritual power." The skinny man shook his head and said, "How can I be qualified to join the Ziyang Sword Sect?"
"Then why are you here?" Coral asked more and more puzzled.
"Of course, Sect Leader Ye asked me to stay and guard this place." The skinny man said with a wry smile.
"Why would he choose a man with no spiritual power to guard the secret room?" Zhong Wen stared at the secret room in front of him and looked around, but it was empty. Apart from the man, there was nothing worth noting.
"Because my physique is somewhat special." The skinny man pondered for a moment, and then slowly replied, "Even if I don't eat, drink, or poop, I can still survive."
What the hell kind of physique is this?
Bigu master?
Zhong Wen was dumbfounded and couldn't help but secretly complain in his heart.
"You've just been staying here without food or water?" Coral asked a little unbearably, "How long have you been?"
"There is no day and night here, and life is a blur." There was no emotion in the voice of the skinny man, "Maybe it's one year, maybe it's ten years, maybe it's thirty years, I don't know."
"They all ran away."
Coral couldn't help but sympathize with the skinny man's plight, "You don't have to take orders from him anymore. If you want to leave, you can leave at any time."
"I dare not leave."
The skinny man's answer once again exceeded their expectations, "My family is all in the hands of Sect Leader Ye."
"I didn't expect that the head of a dignified sect could be such a despicable villain!" Coral couldn't help but feel angry when he heard this, "Besides, there is obviously nothing here, so what's the point of letting you stay here?"
"Girl, you are wrong."
Zhong Wen suddenly sighed, stretched out his hand and touched the wall around the secret room and said, "This secret room itself is made of spiritual crystals, but it is coated with a layer of special material on the surface, so we can't feel it.
The aura.”
"What!" Coral couldn't help being surprised.
"Just now I was still wondering why the spiritual pattern array on the wall was able to operate on its own without being driven by spiritual crystals." Zhong Wen explained patiently, "It wasn't until I saw this dear friend that I figured out the reason."
Coral's big and delicate eyes blinked, staring at Zhong Wen quietly without saying a word.
"Don't you think the spiritual energy in this secret room is particularly full?" Zhong Wen continued, "This man has a special constitution. He should be able to live a normal life without eating or drinking, but his body is extremely weak precisely because
It’s caused by not being able to cultivate spiritual power, but being exposed to spiritual energy for many years.”
"Isn't it a good thing to have abundant spiritual energy?" Coral said, tilting her head and biting her fingers.
"Someone once said that spiritual energy is a kind of chronic poison." Zhong Wen smiled and shook his head. "If ordinary people bathe in spiritual energy regularly, they can indeed strengthen their bodies and prolong their lives. However, it is not suitable for people whose bodies cannot contain spiritual energy.
I mean, this kind of poison is enough to kill you."
Coral eyes were full of surprise, and she was very curious about the theory that "spiritual power is poison".
While they were talking, the two of them had already arrived beside the skinny man. Zhong Wen stretched out his right hand and placed his index finger on his pulse point, carefully feeling the condition inside his body.
"Fortunately, it can still be cured."
After a while, his frown slightly relaxed, and he said softly to the man, "You will take my elixir later and recuperate for a few months. Although I cannot say that I have fully recovered, I think I will be able to move around without any problems."
"Is it?"
Seeing that he was saved, the skinny man was not very excited. Instead, he turned his head and looked at him with empty eyes and said, "By the way, are you from Piaohua Palace?"
"That's right." Before Zhong Wen could speak, Hualu had already answered first, "You have been locked up here for so long, and you actually know about Piaohua Palace?"
"Before Sect Leader Ye left, he once mentioned." The skinny man slowly lowered his right hand and grasped the armrest of the chair again, "There may be masters from Piaohua Palace entering the secret room."
"Oh?" Zhong Wen's expression changed slightly, and a strong sense of uneasiness suddenly surged into his heart, "What else did he say?"
"He also said..." A strange light suddenly shot out from the skinny man's dull eyes, and the smile on his face became extremely ferocious, "The Lord wishes you well."
Before he finished speaking, an extremely dazzling light surged from the ground and instantly enveloped the entire secret room.
Please remember the first domain name of this book: ._