The five of them cautiously walked down the passage, this passage is going to the third layer of the cold water pool, where is the scattered cultivation mixed in from outside the sect, as well as the rest of the sect and some bad disciples are entrenched, there are still many people who are often entrenched here, according to Chu Yuan, the number of people is at most more than 200 people here, although this place was occupied by Wen Liang with Yan Ding, and most of the people who were entrenched here also fled to death, but who knows if there are any people below who have escaped the gentle means and hidden, What's more, Qian Chao and the others confirmed that Wen Liang had been in the cold water pool all along, so the closer they got to the end of this passage, the more cautious the five of them became.

Walking in the front was Li Jian, who was close to the exit of the passage where he carefully sensed for a while, then turned back to the four companions and nodded to indicate that there was nothing suspicious ahead, and after getting the confirmation of several companions, Li Jian turned around and stepped out of the passage.

Compared to the emptiness of the first layer and the complexity of the second layer, this third layer seems a little weird in the eyes of the five people.

What you see in front of you seems to be an ordinary cave, not open, the cave has been extending towards them, there is also light in the cave, similar to the second layer of the cold pool, the kind of luminous minerals similar to the second layer of the cold pool, can be seen on the cave wall and the top of the cave, but not much, at least in the mouth of the passage here the light seems very dim, only with the naked eye, can barely see the general situation in the cave.

The cave stretched almost straight inward, and after about thirty or forty feet, there was a bend, from which a brighter light could be seen.

I think that the back of that corner is brightly lit, after all, this is the place where the loose cultivators are entrenched, and I don't know what the situation is there.

The five of them didn't speak, they looked at each other, and then Li Jian led the way towards the corner in front of the cave.

It must be said that the feeling of the five of them in this third layer is much easier than that of the first and second layers, and the heaviness on their bodies has been greatly reduced, as if the influence of this chaotic spiritual vein in this third layer is much weaker.

They walked forward slowly, and when they approached the corner of the cave, suddenly Li Jian waved his hand and stopped several people.

"Brother Li, what's wrong?" Yan Xuan asked a little nervously.

"Is there anyone there?" Tang Ping was also a little nervous.

"No," Li Jian shook his head and looked back at a few of his companions, "After turning around...... There should be quite a few corpses. ”

"Corpses?"

Li Jian's sense was already very familiar to them, and what he could perceive was sudden danger and things that could emit aura fluctuations, including monks and demon birds and beasts.

But...... The corpse, even if it is the body of a monk, can no longer emit aura fluctuations, so how did Li Jian sense it?

Tang Ping thought of this and was just about to ask again, but immediately closed her mouth, they were now close to the corner, and she inadvertently smelled a smell of decaying corpses between her noses, she immediately understood how Li Jian knew that there was a corpse there, and couldn't help but cover her nose with her hand, frowned and said:

"Well, there are corpses."

Yan Xuan also suddenly came to his senses, and couldn't help but cover his nose as well.

"I smell it too, it stinks." Lu Pingchuan also said.

Money tide says:

"That's right, don't forget that Senior Brother Chu Yuan fled back to the sect with a serious injury to report to us, at that time, Wen Liang brought a guy named Yan Ding to capture the cold pool, thinking that they killed a lot of people who dared to resist here. Well, according to this smell, there should be a lot of those corpses, and they haven't been cleaned up, which means that Wen Liang is probably not in this layer. ”

"Why?" Tang Ping covered her nose and asked.

"Would you like to smell it all the time?" Qian Chao asked rhetorically.

Tang Ping nodded.

"Let's go, we'll be able to see it clearly when we get to the front." After Li Jian finished speaking, he turned around and continued to walk forward.

The corner was just around the corner, and the unpleasant smell was getting stronger.

At that corner, although Li Jian said that there was no danger after turning around, the five of them still hid behind a few stones and peeped in the direction where the light came out, and finally Lu Pingchuan walked out directly in one step because of impatience, and then heard him say in surprise:

"Oh my goodness, hey, there's a village down here!"

……

All five of them appeared around the corner, and the first thing that came into their eyes was a brightly lit and spacious street, which was long and stretched into the depths, and seemed to have a corner ahead. The light here comes from the dense luminescent minerals on the top, which illuminate the place brightly.

The ground of the street was much smoother than the cave floor they had just walked on before they turned around, and it seemed that it had been carefully manipulated, and on both sides of the street were neat rows of houses, which were not made of ordinary bricks, but of stone, and even some of the houses looked as if they had been hewn out of a single boulder, and their shape was like that of ordinary towns, with doors and windows, and in the open space in front of some houses there were small stone tables, and chairs or stone benches were placed around the small tables. There are even tea sets on some stone tables, and when you look through the open doors and windows of some houses, you can see that there is a set of furniture inside.

No wonder Lu Pingchuan would say that there is a village here.

Different from ordinary villages and towns, the back of the houses on both sides of this road is not an open space, nor is it another row of streets or houses, but almost straight up and down the stone wall, along the stone wall on both sides upward, about a dozen zhang high is the top of the cave, most of the luminous minerals that bring light here are on the top of the cave, and some are on the cave wall, and a steady stream of white light will shine here like day.

Of course, there was a strong smell of corruption here, so in addition to the above, they also saw a lot of corpses on the streets and in those houses.

There were many corpses lying on their backs or lying on their backs in different postures, or several corpses gathered together and lying on the ground, or a lone corpse lying on the side of the road, and there were also dead bodies lying on the corners of the houses, presumably seriously injured and then dying, and there were still dead bodies lying on the doorways or windows of several houses, apparently mortally wounded in a desperate attempt to flee in terror.

If you look closely, you can see that some of these people resisted before they died, and there were still some spiritual weapons and other items scattered on the ground, some of them had no intention of resisting and only wanted to escape, and some of them died without reacting at all, and the murderers didn't pay attention to these people at all, and the corpses were left here.

Walking on such a street, the smell is a little smoky, although it is deep underground and does not see the light of day, but it has been a long time since Wen Liang took Yan Ding to occupy this place, naturally the bodies of these people have begun to decay, Tang Ping and Yan Xuan both covered their faces with their sleeves, frowning and looking at these, Yan Xuan didn't even want to look at it, only stared at the open space, and Qian Chao tried to hold his breath when he walked here.

Of course, Li Jian didn't care about this, he came from the battlefield where there were mountains of corpses and rivers of blood, he had seen even worse scenes than this, and he didn't care about what was in front of him.

Lu Pingchuan didn't care, although he didn't have Li Jian's experience, but Lu Pingchuan was pure and big-hearted, and he just didn't care.

Those who died were dressed in a variety of clothes, some of them could be recognized at a glance as the clothes of the disciples of the Five Spirits, and some were loose cultivators who had mixed in from outside, and in general, as far as they could see, they were still mostly loose cultivators.

Qian Chao, Li Jian and Lu Pingchuan began to inspect this place, while Tang Ping and Yan Xuan did not participate because the smell here was really unbearable.

There must be nothing particularly worth seeing in the house, Lu Pingchuan entered a house and came out quickly, it was just some ordinary furnishings, monks, even casual cultivators would put the things they valued most or the most valuable things in the storage bag for personal storage, so Lu Pingchuan's eyes looked at those corpses.

In the place where several corpses were piled up, Lu Pingchuan walked over with a grin, raised his foot and turned over a corpse with his boots, and suddenly a strong smell rushed straight to people's heads, those corpses were originally lodging, and he turned over as soon as he got it, face up, those people must not have a good appearance before they died, they were all hideous and terrifying plus corruption and swelling, Tang Ping suddenly felt disgusted when he saw it, and couldn't help but say:

"Brother Lu, what are you doing here?"

"Hehe, I'll see what they did." In fact, Lu Pingchuan wanted to find the storage bags on these guys.

Li Jian was squatting down between a house to check the wound on the chest of a dead corpse, the wound was like using a slender awl to directly pierce the person, after hearing Lu Pingchuan's words, Li Jian came over and looked at the corpses that had been turned over, and the fatal wounds on their bodies were also like an awl piercing.

Qian Chao also came over to take a look, and after seeing it, he suddenly thought of something, and then rummaged through the storage bag for a while, and finally took out a long bone-white needle, and said:

"They're supposed to die on this thing."

"What is this?" Tang Ping forgot the origin of this long needle a little, and reached out to take it from Qian Chao's hand to check it.

Several people's eyes looked at the long needle in Tang Ping's hand, and Qian Chao continued:

"Do you remember the second time Zuo You was injured? The first time was to send us a letter, saying that Wen Liang was going to deal with us, and he also helped us clean up a powerful loose cultivation; The second time, after we defeated Wen Liang, it was also after Wen Liang and Yan Ding seized the cold pool, the one named Yan Ding came out of the cold pool to escape from the Five Spirits Sect, but he was discovered by Zuo You from Ruixuan Town and followed all the way, and then the two fought outside, that time Zuo You didn't take any advantage, and fled back with an injury to find Liu Feng to save his life, and he was not completely ungained from that injury, he took a spiritual weapon from the guy named Yan Ding, which was this bone needle, and we went to see him at that time, So I asked for the needle. According to Zuo You, Yan Ding used six such bone needles at the same time, and this one was one of them. Looking at the wounds of these people, looking at this bone needle, I think that these people have died in Yan Ding's hands. ”

Li Jian listened and took the bone needle from Tang Ping's hand, compared the wounds of those corpses back and forth, nodded, and then handed it back to Qian Chao, but Qian Chao handed it back to Tang Ping's hand and said:

"You take it first, that guy named Yan Ding must be very important to Wen Liang, well, in case Wen Liang is still alive, I don't know which layer below, if we see him, you take out this thing at a critical moment to disturb his mind, maybe you can have a chance to use illusion to restrain him."

Yan Xuan asked puzzledly:

"Why is this Yan Ding so important to Wen Liang?"

"Sister Yan, the last time we were gentle and good, we found a lot of powerful people from the outside, according to me, Yao ......"

Qian Chao said and pointed to the corpses on the ground, and continued:

"This Yan Ding should be the most powerful, so many people here almost died in his hands, although he also followed Wen Liang's side to chase us that time, but after the Shattered Star Lake before the fierce fight in Dacangze, Yan Ding was sent away by Wen Liang, it is likely that Wen Liang did not intend for him to deal with us in the first place, but to use it to deal with the torture, this is a more confidential matter than dealing with us, it can be seen that this Yan Ding must be an important person to Wen Liang."

Tang Ping also understood, and carefully put away the bone needle.