After this tragic accident, the group that originally planned to explore in the forbidden area for several days had to stop the exploration in advance, because it was late, Shi Cheng and his party returned to Xiangyangpo after evacuating the secret passage, preparing to camp on Xiangyangpo for a night, and leave the forbidden area during the day the next day.

When returning to Xiangyangpo, Shi Cheng and his party ran into another group of monks who were exploring the forbidden area.

Due to their previous experience in the secret passage, the Du family and the people of the Fruit Wood Chamber of Commerce were very wary of this group of monks, and the place where they camped kept their distance from them.

Shi Cheng didn't care about this, and even took Wu Neng Tiemian to the other party's bonfire at dinner.

The monks on the opposite side were also quite wary of Shi Cheng and his party, but after discovering that Shi Cheng and Tie Mian were half-step grandmasters, their attitude was still a little more respectful.

After a brief conversation, Shi Cheng learned that these monks on the other side were not from the Wei Kingdom, they were disciples of a sect named Shenghai Pavilion in the Miyun Kingdom of the Northern Cold Moon Continent. The sect of Shenghai Pavilion is not unfamiliar to Shi Cheng, this sect is the first-class sect of Miyun Kingdom, in the era when Miyun Country was still the world hegemon two hundred years ago, Shenghai Pavilion is also the top sect that looks down on the world and accepts talents. But later, as the position of the overlord of the Miyun Kingdom was completely replaced by the Wei State after the Second War of the Kingdoms, after the country's power fell, Shenghai Pavilion no longer had the prestige of the past. Now in the rivers and lakes, although the foundation of Shenghai Pavilion has not been exhausted, among the new generation of people in the rivers and lakes, there are fewer and fewer people who know the name of Shenghai Pavilion.

The cultivation of these Shenghai Pavilion disciples in front of Shi Cheng also proved this, as the first-class sect of the Miyun Kingdom, in this Shenghai Pavilion exploration team, there was actually only one beginner cultivator realm monk who was responsible for leading the team, and the lineup was not even as good as the team led by Du Ke, the local patriarch of the Wei Kingdom.

Although the status of the half-step grandmaster made the people of Shenghai Pavilion not so cold to Shi Cheng and the others, most of the exchanges between the disciples of Shenghai Pavilion and Shi Cheng were still superficial, and only one of the disciples of Shenghai Pavilion who seemed to be of Nanxi Lu descent from the south and west from the perspective of appearance talked a lot, and his personality seemed to be quite talkative.

After a brief greeting for a while, Shi Chengtu was stunned and began to ask these Shenghai Pavilion disciples if they knew that there was an elusive group of thieves operating around in the forbidden area.

The disciples of Shenghai Pavilion looked confused, and all the disciples complained one after another, saying that where could there be no thieves who were traitors in this mixed Kenbin King City? Not to mention the thieves who robbed money and attacked lone women in broad daylight, they abound close to the slums. Since the appearance of the strange treasure in the Kenbin Forbidden Zone, among the foreign monks who rushed to try their luck after hearing about it, there are many demonic monks who practice evil skills. Some of the disciples of Shenghai Pavilion heard that some people had recently searched and sold young children everywhere in the city; Some disciples heard that corpses of dried blood were always found in the suburbs of the city recently; Some disciples heard that some people saw masked people in the middle of the night offering statues of evil gods who had blasphemed the Qingyun Holy Venerable in an abandoned grass hut......

Speaking of this, the talkative Nanxi Lu disciple slapped his thigh in annoyance and scolded, "Niang Laozi, the group of people who came to explore the road before didn't know what they were eating, and when they came back, they said with a smile on their faces that there were a bunch of stinky fish and rotten shrimp here, but the result was good, just a few days after we came here, Senior Sister Yuhua was unknown because of tracking the whereabouts of the evil demons." Alas, I don't know if it's life or death now......"

A disciple next to him interjected: "It's not just Senior Sister Yuhua, Senior Brother Qi had a fight with the gang of demons from the Blood Ayamen when he went out a few days ago, and now he is still lying on the bed to recuperate." ”

"That's it! Talk about this in front of a few sons! The cultivator realm monk who led the team drank the same door, she glanced at the unabashed Nanxi Lu disciple fiercely, and after glaring at the other party and lowering his head, she smiled reluctantly, and said to Shi Cheng and Tie Mian: "There is no way to teach the juniors below, see you laugh." ”

Shi Cheng and the three of them could see that Shenghai Pavilion seemed to have lost his face after coming to Kenbin King City, so he didn't want to ask any more, so he talked to them about some rumors in Kenbin King City.

Regarding the evil path demons who gathered in the Kenbin King City mentioned by the disciples of Shenghai Pavilion, the news that Shi Cheng could get was very messy, so he couldn't judge which one was more valuable for a while, so he could only keep it all in his heart for the time being. The only thing that can be seen is that at present, the area inside and outside the Kenbin King City can be said to be full of sages and sages, and the degree of mixing of people and horses from all walks of life is far beyond Shi Cheng's imagination before.

After a night, the two teams went their separate ways, and after triumphantly transferring back to the King City of Kenbin from the Kenbin Forbidden Area, Shi Cheng and the others avoided the members of the Fruit Wood Chamber of Commerce and discussed the next step with the Du family. After the negotiation, everyone said goodbye to each other, and Shi Cheng and Xu Fengshi took a car together and returned to the Lin manor.

After returning to the manor, Xu Fengshi hurriedly said goodbye and left, his mental state did not seem to be very good, despite the magic weapon and Ma Guo's protection, this short one-day forbidden area trip was still enough to make him, an ordinary person, feel physically unbearable.

Shi Cheng still didn't know what Xu Fengshi's purpose was for following him into the forbidden area, and he didn't know why the Fruit Wood Chamber of Commerce had to let him, an ordinary person, venture in, but looking at Xu Fengshi's expression, he didn't seem to have a sense of frustration that he couldn't complete the task due to an accidental interruption, which made Shi Cheng's doubts deeper and deeper.

However, Shi Cheng can only put these doubts aside for the time being, and for now, he needs to discuss with his companions to deal with the news and physical evidence he brought out of the forbidden area.

A small glass bottle was placed on a wooden table by Shi Cheng, containing a handful of hair taken from the grass around the small pool. Subsequently, Shi Cheng spread out a large piece of drawing paper, according to his own memory, recorded the area he had walked through these days on the drawing paper, Shi Cheng's painting skills were average, so the whole map was drawn relatively briefly, but the general terrain, rivers, especially the underground secret passage, were drawn on the drawing paper in a roughly accurate way, and Wu Neng, who was standing on the side, couldn't help but give Shi Cheng's memory a thumbs up.

"Alright, let's take a look." After drawing the map, Shi Cheng carefully checked it, and at the same time beckoned Tie Mian and Wu Neng over, "This is a small part of the forbidden area map that I drew from memory, there must be a lot of inaccuracies, but it can be seen from the map that just the section of the secret passage we walked through yesterday is about ten to eleven miles long." However, this should only be the tip of the iceberg we have seen," Shi Cheng said, lightly tapping the ground with his toes, "I've been mentally calculating my steps. ”

"It is impossible to dig such a large underground secret passage in a year's time without the help of the power of mechanical arts." Wu Neng said softly.

Shi Cheng had never seen such a gloomy expression on Wu Neng's face, like a seagull panicked when he learned that the storm was coming.

"We have to admit the reality." Shi Cheng cleared his throat and concluded, "If the huge underground construction here was done by the Yanmen's defected magicians, then combined with our discoveries in the Western Desert Country, the Lu Clan ...... Probably here too. ”

"Let's put the map aside and tell us about the physical evidence we found next to the waterfall." Shi Cheng pulled out a glass bottle containing the hair he found next to the small pool.

"These hairs ...... The hair is thinner and thinner than the average rainforest person, and although I am not 100% sure, it must have fallen from the body of a child. ”