The dimly lit passage was silent, flanked by thick stone walls, and nothing unusual could be seen for the time being.

After walking for a while, the sky outside could not shine in, and the inside of the passage became completely black, like a dark night without moon and starlight.

"Smack!"

Yae Miko, who walked back and forth on snow-white legs, snapped her fingers, and several fox-shaped thunder elemental light clusters appeared in front of her, illuminating the surrounding space.

"Haven't you been here before?"

Li Qiuzhi naturally took Yae Miko's hand and asked lightly.

"Of course not, when Lord Kitsunai Palace was the palace director of the Narukami Taisha Shrine, I was just a little girl, how dare I come to such a terrifying place."

Yae Miko's lips rose to outline a smile, and then continued:

"So, you have to protect me later~"

After speaking, she hugged Li Qiuzhi's arm, and the snow-white skin exposed on her chest gently pressed against his arm, like a weak woman.

"Of course."

Li Qiuzhi patted his chest, looked relieved to hand it over to me, and replied very cooperatively.

While the two were chatting, this passage without a trace of light at all was finally completed.

The little fox condensed by the thunder element continued to fly in the air, and so did the golden "Glowing Sword God".

With the illumination of light, Li Qiuzhi and the two of them don't need to use spiritual power, and they can see this relatively large image in front of them with the naked eye!

Walking out of the stone passage, the two came to a cylinder-like building, with a hollow middle, divided into many levels in the walls of the cylinder.

There are more than ten prison cells on each floor, and in the cylinder where Li Qiuzhi and Shenzi are located at this time, in addition to more than ten prisons on each floor, it has at least seven or eight layers.

Roughly calculated, this Demon Suppression Secret Realm can probably hold about a hundred monsters.

It feels like it's basically enough, after all, there aren't so many youkai, let alone youkai who have committed crimes but don't die are eligible to be imprisoned here.

"Kazari said that the spiritual consciousness of the Fox Palace is in the core of the formation of the Demon Suppression Secret Realm, do you think this is it?"

Li Qiuzhi pointed to something like a bell floating in the air.

The fact that it can still float shows that for hundreds of years, this formation center is still maintaining its operation, which shows the superb skills of the people who arranged the formation.

He opened the golden sin judgment eye and looked at it slightly, and found that there was a faint demonic power floating out of some cells and being absorbed by the formation center.

"Well, using the power of the imprisoned monsters to maintain the operation of the formation has to be said to be a very good idea."

Li Qiuzhi sighed with emotion, no wonder this formation could be maintained for so long, and there was no accident that was escaped by the monsters, which is also very powerful.

"Well, that's it." Yae Miko also tilted his head slightly, and then continued, "But if you move it casually, it may make the formation invalid, in case those youkai are ineffective."

After being locked up for such a long time, she didn't eat or drink and was still absorbing demon power, and she wasn't sure if there were still monsters alive.

If anything, if they were locked up for so long, they might have a very big grudge against the Lord of Kitsune-nomiya, and if they accidentally escaped, the people of Narujin Taisha and Inazuma could face retribution.

Li Qiuzhi also understood what Yae Miko meant, and for the sake of safety, he had to investigate what the current situation of those monsters was.

So he nodded and said:

"Just now I saw a faint demonic power in some cells being absorbed by the formation core, and I think those monsters are not dead, let's go and see them layer by layer."

Yae Miko naturally had no opinion on Li Qiuzhi's proposal.

Next, the two of them investigated the situation inside the cell from the first floor, which was the first floor they were on, from the right.

The first is the first cell.

They walked here to find that the iron bars of the cell were inscribed with many runes, apparently this was part of the formation to prevent the monsters inside from escaping.

It's just that when the two of them looked inside the cell from the outside, they found that there were no monsters inside, and they didn't detect any traces of energy with their golden guilty eyes, and they didn't find the breath of life with their spiritual power.

There was no doubt that it was an empty cell.

Then Li Qiuzhi and Yae Miko walked to the second cell, and at first glance, they found an inhuman white bone on the wooden bed on the ground!

It seems that this monster did not survive hundreds of years without eating or drinking, and its body has slowly turned into dry bones in the erosion of time.

Soon the two walked around and returned to their original position, and they found that the cells on the first floor were either empty or the imprisoned youkai had died out over the long years.

Generally speaking, even ordinary monsters that are not very strong will have a lifespan of several hundred years, and the reason why they will die out is mainly because they starve to death without food or drink.

Of course, this is not worthy of sympathy, after all, the only people who can be imprisoned here are youkai who have committed crimes.

Although the crime does not lead to death, if you starve to death in captivity, you can only consider yourself unlucky, who would have thought that such a serious disaster would suddenly occur.

The former palace secretary of the Narukami Taisha Shrine, the common people who guarded Inazuma were too late, how could they have time to take care of these bad monsters who had committed crimes.

No monsters were found in the cell on the first floor, so Li Qiuzhi and Yae Miko walked down the second floor, and it didn't take long for the second floor to be investigated by them, and it was similar to the first layer.

Either the house is empty, or it has been reduced to a pile of dry bones.

But on the third floor, they finally found the youkai alive, a canine demon lying on a wooden bed that seemed to be in a coma.

It seems to be weakened to the extreme.

Li Qiuzhi saw that its level was very high, with eighty-three levels, but even with such a high level, there was no way to starve for five hundred years without dying, let alone still being absorbed by the formation of demonic power.

After careful observation for a while, he found that the current state of this dog demon was not a simple coma, but should have used some secret method to enter a state similar to "hibernation".

In this state, the demon power of the dog demon seems to be perfectly locked in the body, and it has not been absorbed by the formation, and the consumption of maintaining the body has also been greatly reduced, and it is estimated that it will not be a problem to continue to "hibernate" for decades.

"These old monsters have a lot of means to survive, but unfortunately, it still has to die here today."

Yae Miko's purple eyes revealed a hint of a smile.

Even if these criminals from hundreds of years ago are not dead, it is impossible to release them, which is irresponsible to the people of Inazuma, and it is foreseeable that if they are released, there is a high possibility that they will cause big trouble.

It was impossible for her to bet that the old monsters who had been imprisoned for five hundred years had repented and rehabilitated, and had a good moral bottom line or something.

"Don't alarm them yet, wait until the investigation is over."

Li Qiuzhi shook his head and said.

He was worried that the movement of killing this dog demon would be noticed by the youkai in the other cells and then fight back desperately, or it would be better to wait until the investigation was completed and then deal with all the youkai at the same time.

"That's right." Yae Miko thought about it for a while, and felt that there was no problem with what Li Qiuzhi said.

"Let's go to the front and have a look."

Li Qiuzhi and Yae Miko continued to investigate on the third layer, and the investigation was quickly completed, in addition to a dog demon still alive in the entire third layer, there was also a black snake demon and a toad demon.

The level of the black snake demon is eighty-five, and it also uses a method similar to "hibernation" to infinitely reduce the energy required to maintain its body, so it is alive.

The toad demon was even more outrageous, it had mastered the ice element, and directly used the ice element to freeze itself while using it with a method similar to "hibernation".

Li Qiuzhi observed through the judgment eye and found that this toad demon still retained most of its demonic power, and he had no doubt that if it woke up and exerted fifty or sixty percent of its heyday strength, there should be no problem.

Sure enough, no matter what kind of creature it is, it is in a desperate situation, and the potential to burst out is endless, Li Qiuzhi is a little skeptical, so many monsters have mastered a spell similar to "hibernation", maybe it is what agreement they have reached and the result of research together!

Otherwise, the snake demon has mastered abilities such as "hibernation", and it is easy to say, if the dog demon has mastered it. Isn't it too much?

If that's the case, then what kind of agreement these reaches, the danger of the youkai who are on the same side will be even higher!

Yae Miko thought of a similar answer, but she didn't have anything to worry about, no matter what happened to the youkai, there was no chance of leaving their cells.

Soon, the two of them reached the fourth layer, and Li Qiuzhi found that there were more monsters still alive in this layer, and their strength was even stronger, with an average of around level eighty-six.

And it will be similar to the ability of "hibernation" to put yourself into a deep sleep, reduce your own demonic power absorbed by the formation, and reduce the need to maintain your own energy.

This also confirms Li Qiuzhi's conjecture, these monsters must be united, otherwise there is no reason why all monsters will have the same ability!

On the fifth, sixth, seventh, and eighth floors, Li Qiuzhi and Yae Miko spent some time investigating.

It turned out that most of the youkai were alive, and they did use abilities similar to "hibernation", in which their level was basically above level eighty.

There are even a few old monsters above ninety in the seventh and eighth layers, and the strongest one is a Jiao Demon, which looks like an old man, but there are Jiao scales on the face and arms, and a Jiao tail on the back.

The level is as high as ninety-three.

When Li Qiuzhi found it, it suddenly woke up from its "hibernation", sitting cross-legged on the ground and staring at him with blood-colored vertical pupils, even revealing a hint of resentment.

It may be that I haven't spoken for hundreds of years, and when the Jiao Demon wanted to say something, he didn't say it for a while, but the hatred made people feel very real, probably thinking that they were people sent by the Fox Palace.

Seeing this, Li Qiuzhi didn't say much to it, and returned directly to the first layer from the eighth layer and Yae Miko.

Now that the situation in the prison has been ascertained, it's time to defeat the youkai and take away the formation center that hides part of the spiritual consciousness of the Kitsune-palace.

"It's not easy to kill all the monsters at the same time, what do you want to do?" Yae Miko looked at Li Qiuzhi with some curiosity.

"This is not difficult, let's confirm first, whether the spiritual consciousness of the Fox Zhai Palace is really in the formation center."

Li Qiuzhi smiled, and then flew with Yae Miko to the golden bell-like thing in mid-air.

"Baichen Phantom Soul Bell, is a treasure of our clan, I thought it was lost together with Lord Fox Zhai Palace in the disaster, did it turn out that she used it to guard here?"

Yae Miko said with a little surprise.

"Oh? Being able to use it as the core of such a powerful formation seems to be an incredible treasure. ”

Li Qiuzhi was already thinking about how to convince Yae Miko to collect this treasure in his fairyland space.

"Lord Fox Zhai Palace does have a part of his spiritual consciousness in the Baichen Phantom Soul Bell, but it has been weakened to the extreme and fallen into a deep sleep, so he can only instinctively maintain the operation of the formation."

is also a member of the Baichen Immortal Fox family, and Yae Miko is very familiar with the Fox Palace, so he naturally will not perceive her breath wrongly.

"Hmm!"

Li Qiuzhi also felt that there was spiritual consciousness in the bell, and secretly rejoiced that this trip was not in vain.

"It doesn't matter if you're asleep, you can wake up after recuperating in my fairyland space for a while."

While activating the "Flying Cloud Banner Array" to summon a banner phantom to temporarily replace the bell as the core of the formation, he took the bell in his hand and handed it to Yae Miko.

"Oh?" Yae Miko felt the familiar breath coming from the bell, and couldn't help but feel a burst of joy that Lord Kitsune Palace had been successfully rescued by them, "Let's go, go to your fairyland!" ”

While she had a good impression of Li Qiuzhi in her heart, she rarely showed a little impatience.

[Yae Miko has a favorable impression of you, and has gained 420 opinion points, and the current friendship level is Lv.10 (full level)]

Li Qiuzhi was about to say something, but he found that a prompt to gain favor popped up on the character panel, and Yae Miko's favor for him was already at the full level!

He was a little excited, and then he saw another prompt pop up on the character panel:

[With sincere intentions and perseverance, you are deeply connected with your own destiny, and then the girl's destiny will also shine with you, and you will obtain the ability: the prophetic gift of the fox fairy palace division. 】

No accidents is exactly what Li Qiuzhi thinks of as a goodwill skill!

The Fox Immortal Palace Division in the name of the skill naturally refers to the Eightfold Divine Son, but the word prophet makes Li Qiuzhi a little curious, is this a prophecy and revelation ability?

If so, it fits well with the feeling that Yae Miko gives people, after all, she feels like everything is within her own consideration, and she is prepared to deal with it.

It will give a high sense of security.

It's worthy of Yae Miko-sama, who has both wisdom and beauty, and this kind of wisdom feels similar to that of "prophetic foresight".

Li Qiuzhi curiously used his mind to briefly check the details of this favor skill:

[Kitsune Immortal Palace's Prophetic Gift: Using skills on the target can obtain intelligence information on all unknown things, and the completeness of the information obtained is positively correlated with the sum of the levels of the two (Li Qiuzhi and Yae Miko). 】

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