The fog was thick, and after returning to the Xia family's manor, Xia Ren directly handed over the seven people to Yiye Lian and no longer cared about it.

For the first time, the Black and White Courtyard welcomed seven "apprentices".

Yi Yelian had reported to Xia Ren about the plan of the "Faceless One", so he was also generally clear.

It is nothing more than a plan for Yiye Lian to cultivate assassins, who need to forget themselves, forget all their earthly identities, and then through high-intensity training and actual combat with a high mortality rate, to become a work of art that can match the needs of this colorless woman.

As for loyalty, the master of the House of Black and White has his own way of controlling it.

As for the residence permit in Red Leaf City, it was also a decision made by Xia Ren after negotiating with several people.

They divided the entire Red Leaf City into three areas with Baihong Lake as the boundary.

East and West, as well as the Lake District.

The previous restaurant that has been reduced to ruins is No. 11 West Leaf Road.

Those who have practiced the Gathering Stars Gong in the Xia Family Manor can go to it at any time to absorb the internal strength of the remnants, and if they need manpower, they can also go to it to get it.

As for the "nails" with higher strength, they were directly solved by the head of the Xia family, and of course, the blood mist was not wasted, and all of them were sucked into the sleeping energy point converter.

This kind of policy can be described as "shepherding in circles", which is really evil.

Xia Ren also seemed to be aware of it, and he seemed to have become a real demon at some point.

The shadow of the catastrophe of life and death once in forty years on the rivers and lakes gradually dissipated from people's heads.

In its place is the mysterious ghost city that lies across the West.

No one in the Xia family has mentioned it anymore, and if it is mentioned, it is just a background for the red leaves that have turned into a ghost town.

Many more days passed, during which many heroes and people with different intentions visited this ghost city.

The house numbers of the east and west lanes were issued to 19 and 13 respectively.

In other words, there are already twelve remnant gathering points in the city.

There are more and more white shadows and strange events in the city, and the abyss outside the West City that was blasted out by Xia Ren when he tried to recruit has also begun to crawl out of various mutant monsters.

The miserable white mist was heavy, and it was not easy to disappear, and it had long spread along this deep hole to the bottom, and one of the underground rivers was also attacked by the white mist, and there were some inexplicable things mixed in the clear and cold water.

In the dead of night, bat-like fanged monsters with fluttering wings, or mutated creatures such as multi-legged insects poke their heads out of the cave and then leap out into the distant woods.

The entrance to the abyss has also slowly expanded, from the size of a water tank at the beginning, to a twisted tunnel that can now be directly entered by adults.

One day, Xia Ren also carefully climbed down from the tunnel with the idea of exploring.

The entrance to the cave was foggy and dark.

The handsome young man wrapped the golden beads with the texture of the water waves in the mouth of the animal skin bag, which was left behind by the previous dead Great Grandmaster "Eight-Armed Wild Dragon" beast.

He ordered the little crow to inject some internal force into it, and the golden beads shot out light, allowing the boy to see better in the dark.

Step by step, I walked deeper into the tunnel, and at first it was fine, and there was no movement.

After walking slowly for more than ten minutes, the tunnel began to become narrow, and the young man had to bend down to continue walking.

At the same time, he could see many holes of various sizes in the walls around him, the smallest ones were only the thickness of a hair, like hundreds of thousands of pinholes.

And there are many holes that are the thickness of fingers and the size of fists.

The largest is the size of a human head!

The soil is hard, as if it is held in place by some slime, so the holes are distinctly sized and unusually clear.

He tried to illuminate the golden beads inside, but he couldn't see the end, the structure inside was extremely complex, like a labyrinth.

When the light shone into it, two red pupils suddenly opened, and the unknown creature seemed to feel the breath of a visitor, and quickly turned around and crawled into the depths.

Xia Ren didn't dare to show it, if he dared to do it here, he was afraid that it would really cause an earthquake.

Along the way, it was very quiet, and the underground creatures seemed to be afraid of themselves, and they hid one after another, so as not to let themselves see the truth.

The entrance to the cave suddenly widened, Xia Ren's eyes narrowed slightly, and he fell into the damp ground.

In front of him is a murmuring underground river, the water flows gently, leading to the darkness of nowhere.

Xia Ren shone around, and wherever the light swept, creatures of the same color as the wall crawled on the wall, and near them were colorful and extremely magnificent stalactites.

At first, it was still a little amazing, but the beautiful boy felt bored after watching it for a while.

"Hmm... Since this river is also within the range of the fog shrouded in Red Leaf City, I don't know if it is connected to Baihong Lake..."Xia Ren pondered.

Each ghost array can only be used as a medium for sustenance, and it can be cast once.

Unless this underground dark river is really connected to the White Rainbow Lake in Red Leaf City, he will not be able to cross into it.

As an attempt, he crouched down and began to sink into it.

Wisps of miserable white breath flowed into the river.

Suddenly, a hint of a crimson assist flashed in front of the delicate young man's pupils.

"Do you want to change the formation source?"

Xia Ren was stunned for a moment, shook his head with a wry smile: "It's really not connected!"

So, he decisively chose "no", after all, Red Leaf City is where his foundation is, and if the fog on it is removed, it will expose everything to the world. No more cover-ups!

The exploration of the deep cave came to an end, and Xia Ren lost interest in it.

During this period, while consolidating his comprehension of the Iron Gate Mental Method, he urged himself to only use the forty-five years of skill that he continued on the other side of the door, while flipping through the skill-type exercises.

However... Perhaps there are too many martial arts masters who have died in the Ghost Mist Array, and the effect of gathering yin in the Curse True Scripture has begun to work.

It didn't take long for Xia Ren's internal strength to improve again, counting the fetters "the weak and the strong" contributed by his disciple Void Cicada Sect Yue, his internal strength had increased sharply to 37,497 units, deducting the 15,000 units of internal force temporarily used to operate the Great Fog Array, he still had nearly 2,200 years in his body.

And the value of this internal force is constantly improving, which means that more and more people are entering the rivers and lakes that are dying in the fog.

Xia Ren sat alone on the edge of the icy Baihong Lake, empty around him, without anyone to accompany him.

Cups-of-the-same sake are placed casually at your side.

There is absolutely no one more relaxed than him in this Jianghu, as long as the ghost array is running, he can continuously harvest internal strength.

Of course, there will be more and more dead people and mutated creatures.

Living here for a long time is still quite depressing.

The handsome young man came up with an idea: That is, can a certain fog in the Xia family's manor disperse?

Originally, he was just making an attempt, after all, he had some deeper understanding of the operation principle of the Great Fog Array in the Ghost Array these days.

In addition, he was the one who set up the formation, so after more than ten failures for three or four consecutive days, he finally succeeded in mastering a little trick.

The key to dissipating part of the fog is the control of the internal force, and the person who sets up the formation needs to be extremely careful to extract a certain part of the internal force in the medium, and then this area will be restored to communicate with the outside weather.

Internal force control, this is really the life of the head of the Xia family.

But he sat quietly by Baihong Lake day and night for five whole days, regulating it from time to time, which brought a ray of sunshine to a small corner in the depths of the Xia family's manor.

It's not a courtyard, it's not a spectacular place, it's just an ordinary weedy lawn.

But because of the only sunlight in the ghost town, this place has become unique.