"Yan Jun, the square pavilion has been completed, have the children here started training? On the tower of the northwest wall, a man in black was beside a man in black robe, respectfully reporting.

The black-robed man was very tall, his whole body was covered by a black robe, and he had a strange bronze ghost mask on his face.

"Since the fall of the Evil Emperor in the Vast Mountain, the whereabouts of the Dancing Lady are unknown, my Underworld Sect members have to hide everywhere, and are exterminated everywhere by those so-called cultivation sects in the Righteous Path Alliance, and now the Young Emperor is young, his cultivation is slow, and the day of achievement still needs to wait, and I don't know when my Underworld Sect can return to its former strength. The black-robed masked man sighed a little.

"Yan Jun has tried his best for the Evil Sect, and we are naturally all liver and brains, and when the Young Emperor is completed, it will be the time when my Evil Sect will rise again. "Humanity in black.

"How is it going in a few other places. The masked man known as Yan Jun asked.

"There are two places where we have started training according to the plan, but no innate bodies have been found. The man in black lamented.

Yan Jun said lightly: "The innate body is only one or two out of tens of millions of ordinary people, and Confucianism, Buddhism and Taoism are all secretly screening and searching, once they are found, they will be brought back to the master to guide their cultivation, how can they be left behind for me and others." ”

The man in black nodded and said: "What Yan Jun said is very true, after the screening begins here, those who pass will put down the basic cultivation method, and they will be able to choose useful talents from time to time. ”

"Hmm", Yan Jun bowed slightly, and a pair of cold eyes flashed a few hints of essence.

The hundreds of children in all the cells were now gathered under the square platform, neatly arranged, like the opening ceremony of elementary school students. The order is orderly, but it is not the principal on stage. Rather, it was a black-robed man with a ghostly mask. I could only see a pair of eyes in the hollow of the mask, this mask looked very fierce and terrifying, and the black-robed man was a little tall and burly. As if an evil ghost had come to the world, he stood on the stage and glanced at the children in the audience.

"Children, thank you very much for building this high platform with your own strength, I am your master, my surname is Yan, but only some of you can become my good disciples. The masked man made an eerie sound.

What kind of high platform built by your own strength is obviously forced by you. Li Tassel secretly scolded in his heart. This seems to be some kind of cult organization. It's so strange to take children as apprentices, and to wear masks.

"From this day forward, you need to take care of yourselves, and remember that you are lucky to have no friends here, and you have opportunities that many people will never have in their lifetime. The masked man laughed a little ghostly, and his voice seemed to sound like some kind of metal rubbing, which sounded very harsh.

Waving to the crowd and signaling them to disperse, the stewards took the children back to their cells.

Today's meal was extraordinarily rich, with four buckets of rice, half as much as usual, and a full bucket of vegetables and pork, which made the children, who had been hungry for almost a month, gobble up their mouths and fill their mouths. It was probably the happiest day I've had in my long time in captivity.

Li Tassel was different from these children, after all, his mind was nearly thirty years old. Today's anomalies seem a little strange. It really seems to be a cult, what do they want these children to do. A bad feeling emerged.

After a hearty lunch, everyone sat down and began to rest, and no one had let them go out to work all day.

But Li Tassel always has a bad premonition in his heart, and there must be a demon when things happen.

The children waited until sunset, but did not respond, could it be that the task of building the high platform was completed? The children began to secretly rejoice. Because I'm so tired these days.

Strangely enough, no one called them to work, and when the sun set they didn't give them food. But naturally, no one dared to raise objections, and no one dared to shout that they wanted to eat. The children, of course, were afraid of the whips of the stewards, so they endured it in silence.

On the second day, when the rooster crowed, there was still no one to let them go out to work. The children were already hungry by this time. Thinking of yesterday's sumptuous lunch, saliva unconsciously flowed to my mouth.

At last ten noon, there was still no one to call them to work, and no one to feed them, and some of the children could not help but start screaming. Gradually, children screamed in every room, and the voices grew louder and louder. But it seems that people outside can't hear it. There was no one to stop the children from making noise. At first, some people hit the wooden fence, but after a few attempts, it didn't work at all, and the impact couldn't open.

After an hour or two of noisy noise, the children were tired and the sound gradually subsided. Only to find out that things were a little strange. Ever since the man in the ghost mask had finished speaking, it was as if all the guards had vanished.

"You say what's going on. Xiao Shi was also a little hungry and panicked, and I am afraid that everyone will not have the strength to dig tunnels again at night. He began to feel a little worried, scared. So I came to ask Li Tassel. Do you want them to starve to death here?

Li Tassel naturally couldn't guess what they were going to do: "Let's save our strength first, things are very strange." After listening to Li Liusu's words, the children had to tighten their belts and rest against the corner to conserve their strength.

At this time, it seems that it is useless to dig the tunnel again, and if the tunnel is not dug well, everyone will starve to death. Last night shouldn't have expended so much energy digging tunnels. Li Tassel regretted it a little. But he couldn't guess what the masked man was trying to do, he would starve everyone to death after all the effort to capture so many children.

And yet another day passed, and yet there was no one to call them to work, nor to give them bread. Most of the children began to howl and cry with hunger. But it doesn't help at all, the more you howl and make noise, the more your energy is wasted.

"They didn't mean to starve us to death." Zhou Manyu has a weak voice.

"I don't know, I'm hungry too. Li Tassel said weakly.

"Let's save some effort. Zhou Manyu weakly leaned his head on Li Tassel's shoulder.

"I miss my daddy so much. Zhou Manyu's father suddenly appeared in his mind.

"When you fall asleep, you don't get hungry. Li Liusu was also hungry and his eyes were dizzy. I felt like I was going to fall asleep, and my parents and girlfriend from that world appeared in my mind. I feel like I'm going to starve to death here, but I can't even meet the people I miss the most, why would God play such a joke on myself.

On the dark and narrow corridor, there was a slight sound of footsteps, and several black-clothed stewards with leather whips respectfully followed behind Yan Jun, slowly walking towards the depths of the corridor, Yan Jun was still wearing a bronze ghost mask, and there was a little weirdness in the darkness. The corridor that had not been ventilated and cleaned for many years wafted a foul smell mixed with a dampness.

The six cells were filled with more than 300 children who had been captured by them from all over Dahua, and at this time, when they heard the sound of footsteps, the children who still had some strength crawled to the gap between the bars of the cells, trying to stick out their heads to see if it was the steward who delivered the food. His mouth kept coming out of a voice that had already been shriveled and hoarse, crying and begging for mercy. The weaker children are already dying of hunger.

"Almost, let's get started. Yan Jun nodded at the black-clothed stewards. The black-clad stewards immediately opened all the cell doors and threw several packages into them with a crackle. There was a crisp thrashing sound from the package, and the cell door was locked again.

"There are some weapons in hand, take up arms, children, only the best ten children can be left in each room, can become my disciples, qualified to become the most glorious ghost warriors of the Underworld, of course, can survive, I have prepared a sumptuous celebration banquet, I hope to see you soon." Yan Jun's words reached the ears of every child. It's like a mysterious note.

A brutal battle is about to begin. Yan Jun was a little excited, every time he saw these children fighting each other, he felt an inexplicable pleasure in his heart, and he wondered if this pleasure could help him get closer to his cultivation. The higher you go in your practice, the less things that fluctuate in your heart, and whatever you can do that touches your heart's fluctuations will always bring opportunities.

In the end, there were only ten children left in each cell, no matter what means were used, this was Yan Jun's selection criteria.

Yan Jun stood quietly on the corridor, without a trace of mercy, looking forward to the beginning of this cruel fight, Yan Jun is one of the four heavenly kings of the underworld, when the underworld sect was under the leadership of the Heavenly Evil Emperor, it robbed a lot of spiritual veins for cultivation, because of the cruel means, and angered the interests of Confucianism, Buddhism and other major cultivation sects, afraid that the underworld would be difficult to restrain after the development and growth of the underworld, so he invited the major cultivation sects to discuss the elimination of the underworld in the Tongwen Palace in the imperial capital Luoyang. The Tongwen Palace of Confucianism, the Wuliang Temple of Buddhism, the Qingyun Temple of Taoism, and the three major cultivation sects have launched a call. The major cultivation sects responded one after another, and even the Mengyin Pavilion, which had never been born, also participated.

In the end, in the battle with the Underworld Sect in the Vast Mountain, although the Righteous Path Alliance won, it was also a tragic victory, and it lost a lot of sect power.

The Sect of the Underworld is indispensable, the cultivation has reached the peak of the gods, the invincible Sect Leader of the Cult at that time, the Heavenly Evil Emperor, also fell into this battle, the whereabouts of the Sect Master's wife Wu Ji Niangniang are unknown, the four heavenly kings are two of them, and countless elites have died in battle, so far the strength of the Cult has been greatly damaged, and they began to scatter and hide everywhere waiting for the opportunity.

The past came to mind, Yan Jun was a little distracted, he had been brewing a big plan over the years, and he had selected dozens of secret realms to capture these Dahua children. After a rigorous selection of layers of final dozens of children, if they find children who are qualified to have the path of cultivation, they will be released back to the world, waiting to be discovered by the great sects of Confucianism or Taoism, and then use these children to lurk in those big sects, if they can't practice, they will be trained to become killers and dead soldiers, and carry out the task, he wants to stir up the situation in this world into turmoil, waiting for the day when the realm of the young emperor is completed, and he will wait for the opportunity to move.