Mysterious Underground Chamber

  He went down the stairs, spread his wings and searched around the yard again. He didn't stop until he found some footprints in a corner of the wall. This place looked like it was often visited by people, and the footprints disappeared here, but why couldn't he see anything special around?

  Zhan Yi didn't give up and turned around the corner of that wall for a long time, and also tapped on the wall in several places. Finally, when he tapped on a brick on the wall, he discovered a secret, because this brick clearly had a hollow sound coming from inside. Upon closer inspection, there were fine cracks around this brick, which would be hard to notice if you didn't look closely.

  Zhan Yi's eyes lit up in front of him, and he found a small thing to pry open with a "click" sound. The wall brick actually opened like a small door, and inside, there was a protruding button that made Zhan Yi laugh out loud: "Hehe, no matter how hidden you hide, you can't escape my eyes."

  After finishing, lightly pressed the button, and then heard a creaking sound... A movement, the wall surrounding the corner of the wall actually shrunk inward at the bend, until a passage of about two meters appeared underground, and energy-saving lamps were also shining on the inner walls.

  Looking at the passage, Zhan Yi was slightly stunned, thinking to himself in his heart, could this be the legendary mechanism? Would there be any hidden weapons flying out from inside?

  To be on the safe side, he searched around for half a day and finally found several logs as tall as a person, which seemed to be prepared by Dao Xuanming for setting up plum blossom stakes. Zhang Wuji picked up one of the logs and threw it into the dark passage. Suddenly, countless sharp arrows shot out from the passage, and many flying daggers flew out from the walls on both sides of the passage. Some of the hidden weapons had yellow paper charms attached to them.

  Watching this scene, Zhan Yi couldn't help but take a cold breath, fortunately he had an extra thought and didn't rush in directly, otherwise he would have become a hedgehog. However, this made him even more cautious, and he threw another log down, this time with sparse dark projectiles shooting out from the walls of the tunnel.

  This is getting troublesome, if it goes on like this, I don't know when the hidden weapons will be used up. After sitting on the ground thinking for a while, he suddenly saw the rope on the wall that he used to climb in with, and his eyes lit up with an idea.

  Ran to the wall and pulled down the rope, then tied one end of the log with it. Pushed the log along the passage, and several hidden weapons shot out again. Pulled the log back up with the rope, and let go, repeatedly letting the hidden weapons inside shoot out. After more than ten minutes of this, there were finally no more hidden weapons. Looking at the calm passage, Zhan Yi was still uneasy and used the log to make a few more trips back and forth. When he felt that there would definitely be no more hidden weapons flying out, he followed the rolling marks of the log down the passage, sprinkling his own urine along the way.

  All the way down to the bottom of the passageway, nothing else happened, but when he turned a corner, an underground room appeared. He spread his wings and turned his head towards the underground room, and what he saw inside left him stunned.

  All that can be seen is a basement of about twenty square meters, with walls full of strong lights, including golden yellow, pale blue, tender green, fiery red, and light brown. Dozens of lamps form a circle, and another row of gray lights are connected in a snake-like shape through the roof. In the center of the roof, there are two particularly large lamps, one on either side of the row of gray lights, one emitting strong white light, and the other shining out a hazy black light.

  Additionally, on the wall were stuck various yellow paper talismans. As the light shone, the red characters on the talismans emitted a faint glow. All the lights had been adjusted to shine directly onto the center of the underground chamber, forming a strange misty glow. Within this misty glow was an object resembling a large incense burner, with sealed talismans stuck to it.

  Zhan Yi looked at the large incense burner and faintly heard a strange noise coming from inside, like an animal's death struggle, or a ghost wailing. Although the sound was extremely weak, it made one's hair stand on end.

  Observing the scene indoors, even if he was usually bold and fearless, he couldn't help but feel a bit uncomfortable at this time. He took two deep breaths and began to study the light carefully. This study led him to discover some strange things.

  It turned out that the lights were actually a huge yin-yang fish shape, and the five-colored lights seemed to represent some meaning. However, he didn't understand what kind of monster was inside the large censer in the middle, why it was screaming so miserably, as if being roasted by fire. He could only silently curse Xuan Ming for being perverted.

  Although he saw some clues, Zhan Yi did not make any rash moves because he knew that anything set up by a cultivator must have a special reason behind it. If he didn't understand and acted impulsively, he would easily put his own life in danger.

  He looked around the basement again and found a shelf and a table, which seemed to be used for experiments. On it were placed some glass bottles and jars with labels on them, but he couldn't see what was inside because they were too far away.

  Zhan Yi took out a plastic bucket containing children's urine, poured some on the ground, and then used the long stick with a hook on it to probe ahead before taking steps forward. He walked all the way to the side of the stage without anything happening, which finally put his mind at ease.

  Upon reconsideration, I think I'm being too timid. This should be the place where Xuan Ming hid his treasures and practiced his skills. If it's rigged with traps everywhere, then even if he doesn't get hurt, he'll still end up destroying everything inside.

  With this idea, his courage grew and he began to observe those jars. As soon as he took a closer look, his nose almost crooked in shock. It turned out that the larger jars were filled with infant corpses, while the smaller ones contained human organs.

  Counting the ones on the table and shelf, there are at least twenty jars. Even if some people were dismembered, Xuan Ming would still have to kill ten infants and several adults to gather all these things.

  After seeing all this, Xuan Yi's heart was getting more and more angry. If he had previously still had doubts about Xuan Ming's nature, then after seeing all this today, he had completely classified Xuan Ming as a villain who would stop at nothing. Thinking that a Taoist priest could kill innocent babies for the sake of cultivation and then soak their bodies in containers was simply intolerable and a complete loss of humanity.

  However, upon discovering Xuan Ming's evil nature, he became even more uncertain about whether Xiao Jiao was good or bad. After all, in the minds of ordinary people, evil spirits and evil Taoists are usually on the same side and wouldn't normally kill each other.

  After thinking for a while, Zhan Yi finally gritted his teeth and decided to search first. No matter whether Xiao Jiao was good or bad, he would definitely be detected by Xuan Ming this time. It might not be so easy to come in again later. After making up his mind, he started searching the shelves and finally found a bottle in a drawer after half a day. The bottle had four words written on it: "Bai Yao Bao Ping".

  The bottle was not big, about the same size as a water cup. Looking at its shape and Xiaojiao's description, it was almost identical. I couldn't help but feel excited, picked up the bottle and put it in my arms, but suddenly found a piece of jade pendant at the bottom of the bottle. The jade body was transparent, the color was crystal clear, and under the light, it seemed like there was something flowing inside.

  Zhan Yi picked it up and took a look, finding that on the treasure jade were written four small ancient characters 'Ling Xiu Treasure Jade', which felt warm to the touch and was very comfortable. Zhan Yi didn't know what this was used for, but thinking that since it was placed together with the 'Bai Ling Treasure Bottle', maybe it had something to do with the bottle, so he directly put the treasure jade into his pocket as well.

  After that, he rummaged through the shelves and tables for a while, except for finding a bundle of cash in one drawer, nothing particularly valuable was found. He glanced at his phone to find it was already past two o'clock in the afternoon, thinking that there was no need for him to stay here any longer, so he didn't delay and headed towards the outside of the basement.

  But just as he was walking past the large incense burner-like object, he heard a faint cry of despair coming from inside again. Xianyi's brow furrowed slightly and he stopped in his tracks, turning to look at the large incense burner, then at the bottles and jars on the shelves and tables. His heart struggled with itself - could he really just leave like this? But what if the spirits of those infants and innocent dead were trapped inside, being refined into evil objects by Xuanyuan?

  The more I think about it, the more I feel unbearable. Finally, I gritted my teeth and walked lightly towards that large incense burner. Until I got very close to the large incense burner, I found that there were a few small ancient characters engraved on it: 'Yin Yang Five Elements Soul Refining Furnace'.

  "I knew it, I was right! This is indeed a soul-refining furnace. That damned old Daoist, one of these days I'll catch him and refine his soul too!" Zhan Yi didn't understand cultivation, but just by looking at the words, he had already guessed the use of this large incense burner, and couldn't help but curse under his breath.

  In front of the large incense burner, he looked at it for a while, then stretched out his hand to lift the lid on top, but just as his hand touched the lid, the seal talisman above suddenly emitted a strong light, followed by an electric current-like sensation that transmitted into his body, causing him to quickly withdraw his hand.

  Shaking his head and spreading his wings, he found that there was nothing particularly uncomfortable. He couldn't help but curse: "I'm so angry, you old Taoist, I don't believe I can't open your broken thing."

  After scolding, he poured some of the urine he brought with him onto those paper symbols, and with a "ding" sound, flames ignited on the paper symbols, turning them into ashes. A hint of a pleased smile also appeared on Zhan's face.

  But he hadn't finished laughing when there was a loud crash, and the lid of the large incense burner seemed to be blown off by some enormous force, flying violently to one side. A cloud of grayish-black mist burst out from inside, instantly mixing with the misty light produced by the large yin-yang fish to envelop the body of Xian Yue.

  "Ah……." Xianyi hadn't even reacted yet, when he felt a sharp pain, followed by waves of unknown things drilling into his body. The pain in his body grew more and more intense until he could no longer bear it, and with a blackness before his eyes, he fainted onto the large incense burner.

  Just as he fainted, the lights around him suddenly became brighter, and the paper symbols stuck under each light began to emit a strong red glow, which mixed with the light and shot onto Zhan Yi's body. A wave of intense light mist surrounded Zhan Yi's body, and at the same time, the gray gas that kept emerging from the Yin-Yang Five Elements Soul Refining Furnace also drilled into his body.

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