Outside the poplar forest, the night sky that was originally full of stars drifted in heavy clouds at some point, obscuring those bright stars at all.

The sky was dark and gloomy, and it was breathless.

In that small lake, the boiling water had calmed down.

One by one, the phantoms who escaped from the poplar forest returned to their unconscious state, wandering aimlessly in the clearing between the small lake and the poplar forest.

It wasn't long before the water in that lake boiled again as the ground shook beneath his feet. Immediately after, a faint golden light began to light up faintly at the bottom of the lake.

Those phantoms that had already settled down, at the moment when the golden light appeared, seemed to be suddenly stimulated, and fled frantically again.

It just so happened that not far from here, the unlucky little caravan had once again returned to square one. Looking at the dense rut marks on the ground, the faces of the men were full of despair.

As the old saying goes, once a person is unlucky, he will stuff his teeth when he drinks cold water.

A group of people stopped there physically and mentally exhausted, and just when they didn't know what to do, they suddenly felt a tremor under their feet, and the beasts in the team instantly panicked, and they all struggled and screamed.

Everyone turned pale in an instant, and when they looked back, they saw that not far away, a black shadow was surging towards them.

The phantoms were so fast that they didn't have time to escape.

Many people only feel a gust of wind rushing by, and then their eyes go dark, and they lose consciousness. There were only a few martial artists left, the yang energy on their bodies was vigorous, and there was evil energy on the knife in their hands, and those phantoms did not dare to approach for a while, so they escaped for the time being, and several people gathered together and fled desperately.

It's just that if you can escape from the monk, you can't escape from the temple after all. 、

They can't get out of here, and they still have to meet these phantoms after all.

A moment later, the wind had already stopped.

Many phantoms slowed down again, wandering the land. And the members of those caravans, one by one, with empty eyes, wandered expressionlessly along with those phantoms.

Those few martial artists hid behind a big rock not far away, watching this scene, holding their breath and silencing, their backs were full of cold sweat.

At this time, the golden light that had been lit up in the lake outside the poplar forest had dimmed again for some reason, and soon disappeared.

Under the gloomy night sky, it seemed that everything had returned to calm.

However, in the poplar forest, it was already stormy at this time.

The sword qi is vertical and horizontal, and the sword light is shining. The jingle is deafening. Countless poplar trees were easily shattered in the red and green light scattered everywhere,

The two figures intertwined in this light and shadow, and the speed was dazzling.

This battle lasted for a long time, and finally ended with Shen Mu's sword stabbing the ghost fire in one of the eyes of the Yin Spirit.

But it doesn't end there.

After the Yin Spirit dispersed a cloud of ghostly fire, it quickly fled.

But then, the ground trembled again. Then, Shen Muzhi saw that the surrounding environment changed suddenly, and the poplar trees that were originally broken disappeared one by one, and the intact poplar trees reappeared, as if the previous battle between him and the yin spirit was just a dream.

Immediately afterwards, on those poplar trees, the bark fell off, and then countless golden light lines gradually lit up. Suddenly, in the entire poplar forest, a golden light winged brightly, shining dazzling.

However, this golden light has no holy meaning, but is very evil.

In fact, if you look closely, you can see that there is a faint trace of blood in the golden lines on those poplar trees.

Before Shen Muzhi could find out about this, suddenly, there was a buzzing sound around, and then a huge pressure fell from the sky, and it reached Shen Muzhi's body at once, like a mountain pressing on the top, which suddenly made Shen Muzhi's face pale.

The qi, blood, and aura in the body instantly seemed to stagnate, and it was difficult to operate anymore. The whole body also seemed to be stuck in a quagmire, and it was difficult to move.

Shen Muzhi bowed his body slightly, gritted his teeth and did not kneel, but the corners of his mouth were already oozing blood.

At this moment, on the surrounding poplar trees, a golden light suddenly swept out, converging into a golden light long knife above his head, mercilessly slashing down with all his might.

With a bang, the white light on Shen Muzhi's body trembled, almost shattering.

The light on the golden light long knife dimmed, and at this time, several golden lights swept around it, and it was submerged in this long knife, and suddenly the light was even stronger.

Bang!

Another knife.

The white light on Shen Muzhi's body trembled again, and the strong anti-shock force pressed his legs into the dirt under his feet, and there was more blood at the corners of his mouth.

This poplar forest doesn't seem to give up until he is completely knocked down.

Several more golden rays of light converged, and the light of the long knife above his head was as blazing as the most dazzling sun in summer, with an unrivaled momentum, booming down.

There was a loud bang, and there was a slight click on Shen Muzhi's body, and the white light that had never been broken suddenly shattered.

Shen Muzhi's whole person suddenly dropped by seven or eight inches. Seeing that the long knife, which was only a little dimmed in light, was about to fall on top of his head, Shen Muzhi gritted his teeth and exerted all his strength, carrying the huge pressure, raising his hand and raising his sword to block the long knife.

There was a crisp sound on the ground, and his hands trembled, and he lost consciousness. The long sword fell off his hand in one fell swoop. And the long knife was not finished, and continued to slash at the top of his head.

At this moment of lightning, Shen Muzhi struggled with his last strength, and the whole person rushed forward, barely avoiding being cut open by a long knife.

It's just that, apparently, this poplar forest still doesn't intend to let him go.

As soon as he fell, several black shadows suddenly burst out from the nearby dirt, rolling directly towards his body, which was unable to move under the pressure of the huge force. After being rolled up, he immediately dragged it into the dirt.

Shen Muzhi couldn't move, and there was a long knife hanging high above it, so in desperation, he had to resist the idea of forcibly cutting off these black shadows with the sword, held his breath, pretended to be dead, and let these black shadows drag him to the ground.

Soon, his whole body was swallowed up by the dirt.

A rancid smell with the smell of blood came from all directions, making people sick.

However, it was soon clear to him that the pressure that had kept him unable to move was much less. It seems that his approach of temporarily avoiding the edge just now is still correct.

I just don't know what awaits him next. Where are these things going to take him?

In fact, the few knives just now, even if Shen Muzhi was not pressed by that pressure, he couldn't catch them. Especially the last knife, even breaking the protective jade pendant on his body, its power is probably comparable to that of the camera.

Shen Muzhi's current strength, although it is stronger than the ordinary Pylorus Realm, is at most about the same strength as the ordinary Cloud Sea Realm. But if it was against the upper realm monks, there was still no power to resist.

It's just that what he can't understand is that such a poplar forest, he has never heard of any problems before, why is there such a powerful thing?

Judging from all the things that happened just now, there should have been a lot of people who died in this place before, and since there are so many yin spirits and yin spirits here, there should be a lot of yin qi. But when they arrived here earlier, they didn't feel it in the slightest. It wasn't until Xu Ranran disappeared that he barely felt a trace of yin qi, and there were more and more of them later.

This shows that there must be a master in this place who has laid out a powerful formation to suppress these yin qi, so he and Xuan Cheng were unaware of it at the beginning.

And the speculation of this formation has also been confirmed just now.

It's just that if this formation is to suppress the souls below, then why would it suppress Shen Muzhi in turn?

Just when Shen Muzhi couldn't figure it out, he was also being carried by those black shadows and sank deep underground. The further down I went, the peculiar smell of blood and rancid smell decreased, but the evil smell in the surrounding dirt became stronger and stronger.

It didn't take long for Shen Muzhi to suddenly loosen up, and then the whole person fell from mid-air with a thud and smashed on the hard ground.

Shen Muzhi secretly opened his eyes, and after looking around, he found that there was a lot of space underground. Overhead are intricate tree roots coiled together. Above the roots of those trees, there was a faint glow, illuminating the underground space that could not see the whole picture more and more deeply and strangely.

Shen Muzhi lay on the ground and waited for a while, making sure that there should be no danger around him for the time being, before he got up cautiously. After looking at it again, he found that this underground space was far more vast than what he had just seen. As far as the eye can see, there is no end in sight.

After Shen Muzhi hesitated for a moment, he got up and looked around, except for a few white bones that he didn't know what kind of animal they were turned into, there was nothing abnormal.

After thinking about it for a while, he instinctively chose a direction and walked over.

It didn't take long to walk, and in the darkness ahead, many figures suddenly appeared. In the haze, the figures stood in the darkness, like a military formation, neatly and neatly.

Shen Muzhi didn't dare to approach the past immediately, stood in the distance and observed for a while, and after seeing that there was nothing abnormal about those things, he slowly approached the past.

When I got closer, I found that those figures were all humanoid clay figurines. The armor and saber on his body are lifelike, but his face is very blurry, and he only roughly pinched out his eyebrows, eyes, mouth and nose. Moreover, the rough faces of the sergeants as far as the eye could see were very similar, as if they had carved a mold and printed it on it at random when they were making clay figurines.

This clay figurine, at a glance, is almost endless, and the number of people is enough to make people shocked.

Shen Muzhi took a closer look at a few clay figurines, and didn't find anything at first, but when he checked the seventh, he noticed a faint evil aura on his body.

This discovery of the slightest evil aura suddenly made Shen Muzhi vigilant.

There are so many clay figurines suddenly under the ground, it can't be for no reason. The suppressive array that suddenly appeared in the poplar forest may have something to do with these clay figurines.