Chapter Twenty-Three: Beaten by a Little Beauty
He took a step and ran towards the entrance of the underground cavern in the direction he remembered.
It doesn't take more than a moment.
Liu Ping re-entered the underground cave, and walked towards the depths of the cave according to the path that Hong Tao and Zhao Chanyi had taken themselves.
I don't know how long it took for him to finally come to a cool, empty cave.
This place is quite large, and it is where the monks took refuge before, and it was here that Liu Ping talked to Hong Tao and Zhao Chanyi.
Liu Ping took a look at it and soon found several broken magic circles on the ground.
He squatted down at the edge of the circle and muttered, "To design this kind of underground shelter, the old man likes to use the twelve-fold overlapping method to lay out a large array, which should be three concealment arrays, three isolation arrays, three defensive arrays, one attack array, one teleportation array and one photographic array......"
He crouched on the ground and counted, but there were only eleven circles.
There is no photo array.
Liu Ping sighed for a few breaths, stood up, walked around the cave, and suddenly stood still in front of a rock wall.
"Why are you hiding the photo array so far?"
He muttered to himself, reaching out and slashing hard at the rock wall.
Whoaβ
Large expanses of dirt fell from the rock walls, rolling up layers of ash in the cavern.
Behind the dirt was indeed a photo array, but it was a little dilapidated.
Liu Ping thought about it, took out a few spirit stones, crushed them into powder, and carefully smeared them on the broken parts of the magic circle.
When all this was done, Liu Ping pressed his hand on the edge of the circle and shouted softly, "Qi!"
- This method can temporarily activate the broken Shadow Circle, but then the entire Shadow Circle will be completely destroyed and can no longer be used.
This secret method is used to probe the damaged Shadow Arrays and find out the last scene they saw before they were destroyed.
With Liu Ping's voice, the entire magic circle emitted a touch of aura.
The aura rises into the air and condenses into a picture of light and shadow.
I saw that the picture was still full of monks hiding here, watching the monster on the earth together.
The difference is that there was no Yanagi in that moment in the past.
Immediately afterwards, seven or eight people supported a cultivator covered in blood into the cave for refuge.
The Holy Beast appears.
It leads to the practitioner and the practitioner's companions.
The screen turns.
The Holy Beast turned into a door, joined the Holy Sect with two cultivators, and left the underground cave.
The rest of the people were still in the cave talking about what had just happened.
Only two cultivators with low strength were no longer among them.
Hong Tao.
Zhao Chanyi.
The two sat still.
After a pause, Hong Tao stood up, hugged his fists at Zhao Chanyi and said, "Fairy Zhao, I know a place where the sky falls, are you willing to go with me to earn some spirit stones?"
"It's what I want. Zhao Chanyi said.
She looked at the rock wall with an inexplicable expression, then reached out and pressed it lightly on the rock at her feet before standing up.
The two got up and walked outside.
The monk in charge of guarding the gate stood up and said, "The situation on the earth is undecided, your strength is low, and it may be dangerous to go out at this time. β
Zhao Chanyi said with a smile: "It's okay, we have to go to the land of the sky to pick up things and earn some spirit stones to maintain our lives." β
The guard said no more.
Hong Tao and Zhao Chanyi left the cave one after the other.
Not long after they left, the spiritual light in the cave swelled up, and suddenly it completely shattered.
The twelve-fold magic circle was like paper paste, and it was wiped out in an instant.
A huge black hand reached in from outside the cave, grabbed the people in the cave at once, and then retracted with great speed and disappeared.
Syllable!
The Lingering Array made a soft sound and shattered completely.
All light and shadow disappear.
The picture ends.
Liu Ping stood in place and was stunned for a moment.
Unexpectedly, this was the last scene of the people who had taken refuge in the cave.
He walked to the mouth of the cave and took a closer look.
The rock walls around the entrance of the cave were densely covered with thin cracks, and I didn't know what was going on before, but now it seemed that these cracks were clearly cracked by the giant black hand when it reached in.
Liu Ping stretched out his hand and gently broke open a piece of broken rock.
I saw that the inside of the rock was filled with a smell similar to sulfur, but when I smelled it closely, it was not exactly.
Liu Ping walked out of the cave and looked around.
The underground passage is intact and the rock walls are undamaged.
Now Liu Ping knew it.
In such a narrow underground passage, it was impossible to accommodate a body that could match the giant black hand.
Plus there are obvious signs of surgery on this rock wall.
Someone should have been hiding outside the cave and attacked everyone inside in one fell swoop.
But why?
Why did Hong Tao and Zhao Chanyi just escape this ambush?
These two people are just Qi Refining Realm, and they can't threaten anyone at all-
Liu Ping wondered in his heart and re-entered the cave.
Just now, Zhao Chanyi glanced at the rock wall, and happened to see the place where the photo array was hiding.
So Zhao Chanyi's actions must have some intentions.
Wait a minute.
She reached out and pressed it on the rock on the ground!
"Zhao Chanyi, what do you want to tell me......"
Liu Ping muttered softly, walked to the rock step by step, squatted down, and took a closer look.
I saw that there were several extremely scribbled marks on the rock, and Liu Ping struggled to identify them before he could see that they were two words:
"Nine Shades. β
The willow plane turned pale, and gently reached out to smooth out the marks on the ground.
In doing so, one is to erase the traces, and the other is to inform Zhao Chanyi that if she returns here again, she will know that someone has obtained her information.
The so-called "Nine Shades" is actually a set of corresponding words to "Taishang", which represent two different paths of cultivation and also represent two forces:
Demons and decent.
Zhao Chanyi left the words "Nine Shadows", what message did she want to convey?
Liu Ping sighed for a few breaths and began to recall the previous picture of walking with Hong Tao and Zhao Chanyi.
Zhao Chanyi didn't seem to make much of a move from beginning to end.
There is a saying that as soon as an expert makes a move, he will know if there is one.
As long as she made a move, Liu Ping was confident that she would be able to judge the Dao method she was cultivating.
But Zhao Chanyi didn't make a move at all.
...... That's the trouble.
After thinking for a while, Liu Ping suddenly remembered one more thing.
That's right!
Zhao Chanyi didn't do anything out of the ordinary along the way, but she gave herself a fan.
ββWater Treasure Fan!
Liu Ping patted the storage bag, took out the fan, put it in his hand and looked at it over and over.
After looking at it for a moment, he lightly pinched the trick and said softly: "Refine!"
The fan suddenly floated in the air, emitting a stream of black-red flames.
"It turned out to be this refining technique, but it was too simple and vulgar, and I could dismantle this fan casually - maybe the person refining this fan deliberately refined it so roughly?"
Liu Ping frowned.
His refining ability is the best in the world, and at this moment, he has found the clue.
There are six arts in practice, which are hexagrams, arrays, talismans, instruments, pills, and food.
The Six Arts are the crystallization of skills condensed in the world of cultivation for countless years, representing the height of civilization in the whole world.
Liu Ping studied under the hexagram sage, and all the six arts are refined.
Therefore, before he died, the hexagram saint would tell him: "We will have too many things, not only the demons want to kill us quickly, but even the various sects in the human race are half in awe and half suspicious of us." β
At this time, he became suspicious, and immediately played the trick one after another, took the fan apart, and examined it carefully.
I saw two lines of small characters written in the fan:
"Thirty-nine floors underground, Xun, go. β
"Another: There is something in this cave, you can try to take it. β
Liu Ping looked at this line of words and slowly exhaled a breath.
The thirty-ninth underground floor is a retreat place for senior monks, and at least monks from the Yuanying realm will be allowed to enter, and ordinary cultivators can't enter.
Maybe Zhao Chanyi and Hong Tao's cultivation is not only in the Qi Refining Realm at all.
What the hell are these two trying to do?
Liu Ping became a little more interested.
Then ...... Try to get that thing first.
Liu Ping put down his fan and searched back and forth in the cave.
- Is this a test?
Is it to examine my strength?
Or is it a test of my qualifications to know some secrets?
Liu Ping's gaze suddenly stopped in one place.
Several piles of the ground where the bonfires were originally placed were smoked into black gray, only the bonfire where he was sitting with Hong Tao and Zhao Chanyi at that time was much lighter in black and gray, and even looked like only a light layer of gray.
Someone has touched here.
Liu Ping stepped forward and pressed his hand on the pale gray ground, and his spiritual power gently probed.
Click!
It was as if something had been activated.
The ground cracked.
An upright coffin emerged from the ground, and the lid fell to the ground with a bang.
Liu Ping looked at it fixedly, and couldn't help but lose his voice: "Hong Daoyou-no, this is the corpse refining method!"
I saw a person standing in the coffin, his eyes closed, his expression calm, as if he was still sleeping.
It's Hong Tao!
Liu Ping took a few steps forward, pinched a trick, and pressed his fingers on Hong Tao's eyebrows.
Hong Tao suddenly opened his eyes and looked at Liu Ping.
"Yoo Daoyou, we're meeting again. Hong Tao hugged his fists.
"Hong Daoyou, who used the corpse refining method to imprison your soul here? Do you want me to help you get out of this predicament?" asked Liu Ping with his fists clenched.
Hong Tao smiled and said, "Liu Daoyou, the method you used just now is a first-class method of refining corpses. β
"Yes. Liu Ping admitted.
"The method of refining corpses is an evil method, and you seem to be proficient in this method, so it seems that you are a fellow believer with us. Hong Tao said.
"So you're waiting here, it's actually a test, want to see if I'm an evil demon?" asked Liu Ping.
"That's right, if you are a person in the righteous path, you will only destroy this corpse at the first time, so as not to cause chaos in the world. Hong Tao said.
"Why are you tempting me like this?" asked Liu Ping.
"I can't tell you right now, after all, this matter is too big, I can only tell you that you have passed the test, and the secret is the earthquake position of the thirty-ninth floor underground, not the Xun position. β
"What happens if I go to Xunbi?" asked Ryuhei.
"Die. Hong Tao said.
Liu Ping sighed, shook his head and said, "You guys are too careful. β
"No way, we have to be careful, after all, there are not many monks left who have fallen into the hands of monsters, and we are afraid that you are a monk controlled by monsters. Hong Tao said.
"But I only have Qi refining and cultivation, so you will come to test it, aren't you afraid that I am a newcomer to the Dao?" Liu Ping couldn't help but say.
"When you wake up, there are monsters to track you, and this treatment only appears when those great monks are reincarnated. Hong Tao said.
"I see. Liu Ping said.
Hong Tao continued: "To enter the thirty-ninth floor underground, you need at least Yuanying to cultivate, Liu Daoyou, you have to hurry up and practice." β
"That's right. Liu Ping said.
Hong Tao nodded at Liu Ping and said, "This is over, and we will have a meeting later." β
A flame rose from him and began to burn.
Liu Ping took a few steps back and looked at the corpse in the fire disapprovingly.
As soon as the corpse was destroyed, Hong Tao's soul was gone.
His soul will return to the one who refined it.
That's how the man will know what's going on here.
Less leaning.
Everything burns out.
The fire is extinguished, and the corpse is destroyed.
"Hong Daoyou......"
Liu Ping sighed and said in a low voice: "It is flawed for you to judge that I am a person along the way with you based on magic alone. β
"In fact...... I'm just proficient in all the magic in the world. β