40. Gray and White Underground Palace
A strong feeling of dizziness made Ye Kong almost feel like he wanted to vomit.
Even if his soul strength was far beyond that of a normal monk, he felt a wave of discomfort at the moment, which was not from a soul or spiritual problem, but a physical reaction problem. If the body is strong enough, then this overreaction can naturally be avoided, but unfortunately, the physical strength of Ye Kong's physical body is still lacking.
This is the Gray and White Underground Palace, as he said to Xu Cheng and the others before, this is a secret passage, a safe passage to the secret realm of the Gray and White Death Realm.
It's just that this secret passage is not a straight line, but a labyrinthine underground palace.
The Gray Death Realm is a secret realm occupied by the Gray and White Dao people who were active in the Second Age, and it is also the location of his Mountain Gate Gray and White Sect. And this underground palace was originally a huge city located on the surface of the land, and it was also a settlement under the rule of the Gray and White Sect, and every ten years when the mountain gate of the Gray and White Sect was opened, disciples would be selected here to be used as fresh blood to maintain the prosperity of the sect.
It was only later that as the Second Age entered the Great Tribulation of the End of the Law, the Gray and White Sect was not spared in the end, coupled with the changes in the earth's crust in the Third Age, so the city completely sank into the ground and became an underground palace. The nearby mountain ranges, including the Tianfeng Mountain Range, were also formed in this crustal change, but it was precisely because of this change that the entire land of Shenzhou was reborn and ushered in the Third Age.
And those who were lucky enough to survive to the third era also learned the lessons of their predecessors, and laid down the Nine Heavens and Nine Directions Nine Extremes and Nine Elements Great Array in Shenzhou, and locked the heaven and earth aura of the land of Shenzhou with this forty-nine great array, so that the heaven and earth aura of the entire Shenzhou Continent could start again and again in a circular way, so that it would be endless and endless, and would not go to the era of destruction of the end of the law again like the first and second eras.
However, there must be advantages and disadvantages in everything, although this move did prevent Shenzhou from falling into the era of the end of the law again, but it also caused the chaos of the aura of heaven and earth, and it could no longer be controlled and used at will as before. In this way, only the secret realm and the illusion realm can lock the aura flowing between heaven and earth, so whenever a new secret realm is discovered, it will always attract the attention and snatching of all forces.
Even, because the aura is extremely abundant now, the birth of monsters, and even monsters, ghost cultivators and other alien monks also have a good soil for survival, so today's era is no longer a world dominated by human monks like the second era.
In today's era of the era, it is not an exaggeration to say that a hundred schools of thought are contending.
The people of the Xu family may not know what the golden compass represents, but with the sensitivity of the monks, they know that it definitely contains a huge treasure. And they think that as long as they get this treasure, they will inevitably be able to make the entire Xu family stand out in Jiao'an, and even become a wealthy family in Shangcheng, or even a wealthy family in Shangcheng, which is not impossible, so they will be so desperate.
Although this is indeed the case, the premise is that the Xu family can keep this secret realm.
You must know that the appearance of any undiscovered secret realm will cause those giant-level giant crocodiles in this world to intervene, after all, this is related to the heritage and future achievements of a sect and family. The reason why Ye Kong didn't tell the truth to the Xu family was because he knew that once the Xu family knew that what they had in their hands was a secret realm opening prop, they were afraid that they would not let go, but would destroy the mouths of everyone in the Zhao family.
If there was no Qingyi, Ye Kong naturally didn't care, but because Qingyi was also in the Zhao family, it was impossible for Ye Kong to take this risk.
Solving all of Xu Cheng and the others in this underground palace is undoubtedly the best solution.
Ye Kong did not doubt the safety of Xu Cheng and the others, he knew that Xu Cheng, Tian Qiang, and Xu Pocheng would definitely be able to enter this underground palace, of course, if they couldn't get in, it would be even better, and they could save Ye Kong a lot of trouble. It's just that Ye Kong can't gamble on this, once one person escapes and doesn't die, then it will definitely cause endless troubles, so Ye Kong must make sure that the three main goals of this trip die here.
Holding on to the feeling of nausea and nausea, Ye Kong struggled to get up and look at the surrounding environment.
It was a stone room with a wooden square table, several benches, and a curtain covering a doorway next to it, which was supposed to lead to the back room.
Ye Kong got up from the ground, and then carefully did not touch these things.
After thousands or even tens of thousands of years of time, it is impossible for these wooden things to remain the same, and the reason why they have not turned into a pile of wind and sand now is simply because this space is a special barrier nourished by the aura, so it can still remain the same. But if someone touches it, then it will be interfered with by external forces, and all these things will decay in an instant.
This secret passage to the secret realm of the gray and white death realm is said to be a safe passage and a shortcut, but it is actually relative.
The Gray Death Realm, from the name, you can basically tell what kind of place this is.
Back then, the Gray and White Daoist was a genius disciple of a major sect in the Second Era, and it was only for some reason that he betrayed the sect and fell into the Demon Dao. Later, with his natural talent, he created a practice between life and death, "Gray and White Immortal Gong", which can make the cultivator in a half-life and half-dead situation, and its exercise is characterized by the fact that as long as a touch of spiritual wisdom is preserved, even if the body is destroyed, it can survive in the world as a ghost cultivator.
As the second era of the emergence of monks who did not have the concept of ghost cultivation at that time, I have to say that the gray and white people did create a school. In fact, in the general perception of some ghost cultivators, they all regard the gray and white Taoist people as the ancestors, although their exercises "Gray and White Immortal Gong" may not be as good as the three holy canon exercises that the ghost cultivators are pursuing today, but in this part of the ghost cultivators who regard the gray and white Taoist people as the ancestral masters, they still occupy a very important position and influence.
And the Gray and White Death Realm, which was pioneered and occupied by the Gray and White Daoists, was naturally not a good place - at least, by the standards of today's cultivation world, it was a typical demon cave.
Ye Kong cautiously left this stone room, as much as possible without touching anything, he didn't want to wake up those guys who had been sleeping in this underground palace for countless years. Although those guys are not as terrifying as the black giant bear, these guys are better than enough of them, and once they are entangled, it will be more troublesome than facing the black giant bear.
Out of the stone room, there was a small courtyard fenced off, and the land in the courtyard had also been reclaimed with a small vegetable garden, on which some fruits and vegetables were planted, which seemed to have not rotted due to the nourishment of the aura. Next to the vegetable garden, there was a dried corpse with a hoe lying next to it, the moisture in the dried corpse had completely evaporated, and the skin was tightly attached to the skeleton, looking extremely terrifying and hideous.
Because the earth's crust changes caused by the Great Tribulation at the end of the year were too sudden, these unlucky ghosts in this dungeon didn't have time to escape at all, so they were all buried underground together. But the saddest thing is not that these people died in vain, but that even when they died, their souls could not be freed, but they continued to be affected by the gray death realm and became the guards in this underground palace.
These yin corpses belong to ghosts, that is, ghosts among demons and monsters.
The general strength of these Yin Corpses is not strong, which is probably equivalent to the level of about the sixth layer of the Xuan Xuan, and with Ye Kong's current strength, he can barely deal with it. However, some of the more powerful Yin corpses have the strength equivalent to the seventh layer or more, and even the second and third layers of the Xuan. Among them, the twelve strongest Yin Corpses in the underground palace have the strength of the sixth layer of Tongxuan, except for Tian Qiang and Xu Cheng, they can't deal with it at all.
And the last guard boss in the dungeon is not another monster, it is the black bear guardian spirit, whose strength is roughly equivalent to the level of the ninth layer of Tongxuan. However, once you enter the berserk state, you can play to the level of the first level or so of the circle realm.
Ye Kong moved his steps carefully, trying not to wake up this yin corpse, even if he knew that those fruits and vegetables had turned into something like a spirit fruit under the nourishment of the aura, he didn't dare to pick them rashly.
When the entire city was sunk into the ground, it still maintained a great deal of integrity except for a few areas that were damaged and destroyed.
After leaving this small courtyard, there is a cobblestone road. However, due to the changes in the earth's crust, this cobblestone path also has a lot of fractures, and the topography of individual places has also changed differently: like the right side of this path, there is a huge deep pit, about 100 meters in diameter, and more than 100 meters deep, and there are three and a half yards in the pit, the reason why it is said is three and a half, that is because half of the fourth yard is still outside the pit; On the left side of the trail, a large area of terrain has been raised by about ten meters, and the ground is full of rocks and various dried corpses left over from the earth's crust.
The dried corpses that broke into two are better said, and they will not be resurrected in the canon. But those dry corpses that still keep their intact bodies are more dangerous existences, and no one can be sure whether they will suddenly become yin corpses and wake up, at least according to the original game setting, there is a more than ninety percent chance of waking up.
Along the way, Ye Kong was avoiding these intact corpses, and the direction he chose to move was to climb as high as possible.
Once the Yin Corps is awakened, although the scale is huge, in fact, except for a very few individuals and the strongest twelve Yin Corpses, they are actually slow-moving, and unclimbable dead objects, and the threat is not high - of course, the premise is not to be surrounded. So the higher you go, the better it will be, at least you can avoid getting into some unnecessary predicament.
In addition, another advantage is that Ye Kong can discover the other party faster than Xu Cheng and the others.
Because the door to this dungeon is not opened in the normal way, the teleportation node is in a state of chaos, and everyone who enters will be randomly thrown to a different location. If it is a normal expedition team, the first thing at this time is naturally to find a way to converge first. It's just that in the Xu family's team, only Xu Cheng has adventure experience, but it's a pity that they don't have enough understanding of this underground palace, so even if Xu Cheng has enough adventure experience, I'm afraid it will be difficult to use it.
What's more, because the way the teleportation node is opened is wrong, resulting in spatial disorder, everyone who enters here will be affected to a certain extent. People with souls as strong as Ye Kong all felt a strong sense of dizziness and vomiting, not to mention Xu Cheng, Tian Qiang, Xu Pocheng and others, I am afraid that their cultivation strength will only be able to exert five or six percent at most.
Ye Kong may not be able to defeat Xu Cheng in such a situation, but with Tian Qiang's situation, if he can only exert half of his strength, Ye Kong still has a chance to succeed in a sneak attack. As for Xu Pocheng, from the moment he entered this underground palace, he was no different from a dead man.