Inside the Lingshi Mine.
Chen Lin stood deep in the mine, looking at the huge collapsed area in front of him with a serious expression.
Four huge stone pillars stood in four directions, and a huge chain extended from the top of each pillar, hanging a sarcophagus in the middle!
Whether it is the stone pillars or the sarcophagus, there are strange patterns engraved on them, and it is unknown what they mean.
"Are there any other anomalies?"
Hearing Chen Lin's question, Feng Kuocheng immediately replied: "Not yet. After the miners dug here, the ground suddenly collapsed, revealing this underground space. Several miners in the early stages of Qi training fell down, but it was nothing. They all climbed up along the pillars."
Chen Lin nodded and said, "That's good. Let's organize people to seal off this place right away. I'll send a message to Master He to come over and handle it."
He didn't want to deal with such a strange situation himself. No matter whether there were treasures or evil things in the sarcophagus, he didn't want to be involved.
"Elder Chen, do you want to open the sarcophagus and take a look?"
Feng Kuocheng had some ideas, but they were immediately rejected by Chen Lin: "Don't let your imagination run wild. This coffin is obviously sealed here. The chances of treasures inside are extremely small. Moreover, with such a big scene, the things sealed inside must be extraordinary. If they are still alive, you and I may not be able to handle it with our strength."
"Well, I will immediately organize people to seal off this place and wait for Master He to come."
Feng Kuocheng felt that what Chen Lin said made sense. He had been stuck in the late stage of foundation building for too long and was becoming a little anxious.
After leaving the mine, Chen Lin immediately took out the communication talisman, explained the situation here, and then activated it.
What he didn't expect was that the other party replied immediately, but said that he was busy recently and asked him to handle it himself, and didn't even say to send someone to help.
"Elder Chen, what should we do?"
Feng Kuocheng next to him showed a strange look on his face and asked.
Chen Lin did not hide the sound of the communication talisman just now. He also heard it, and he felt that there seemed to be some impatience in Master He's tone.
Chen Lin smiled and said, "Master He is in charge of the overall situation, so he doesn't have so much time. In this case, let's seal the mine first! I will go back tomorrow and ask a formation master to come to the formation hall to seal the mine. Since the sarcophagus has been here for so many years, it is impossible for it to have problems in the next few days. We will slowly study how to deal with it."
"That's the only way." Feng Kuocheng nodded.
He heard that Elder Chen seemed to be not very well-liked by Master He, and even lost his position as the deacon elder of the Pill Hall and was exiled here. He estimated that it would be impossible to invite Master Jindan to come over.
However, Feng Kuocheng would not look down on Chen Lin because of this. After all, Chen Lin was the registered disciple of the Silver Fairy, and was proficient in alchemy, especially the Seven Star Pill. He might need Chen Lin's help in the future.
Being Yuanying Zhenjun's registered disciple had nothing to do with him, but there was no need to offend a master alchemist in any case.
Thinking of this, he said again: "If Elder Chen wants to deal with it, I can also invite some foundation-building cultivators to come over. If I leave it alone, if something goes wrong, it might affect Elder Chen."
Chen Lin glanced at the other party. This was just a show of strength. It seemed that he was not yet at the point where everyone would beat him.
After thinking about it, he nodded and said, "Okay, if I deal with it, I will discuss it with you in advance."
The other party was right. He really couldn't just ignore this thing. He was responsible for supervising the construction of this city. If there really was some demonic thing in the coffin, it would be a hidden danger. Once something went wrong, Master He would definitely take advantage of it, and even the Silver Fairy would probably be unhappy.
Other things are fine, but if I lose my status as a registered disciple, I will not be able to stay in the Silver Immortal City anymore and will have to continue wandering.
It's not that he is obsessed with power, but there are too few places in this world where he can practice peacefully, and he is reluctant to give up this hard-earned life.
Chen Lin spent the whole night thinking about how to handle the situation perfectly, but he couldn't come up with any good solution.
If it really didn't work, he would mobilize people to dig out the stone pillar, and then send the stone pillar and the sarcophagus far away so that they would not have to be seen.
In any case, he would not be curious enough to open the sarcophagus and take a look.
He had just made the decision, but he didn't expect to receive a surprising piece of news the next day.
"What did you say!"
Chen Lin looked at the Qi-cultivating cultivator who came to report, his face full of astonishment, and he felt like he was hallucinating.
"Reporting to Elder Chen, the several cultivators in the early stage of Qi training who fell into the mine yesterday have all turned into scarecrows!"
The Qigong practitioner had a look of fear on his face, and his voice was trembling.
"Scarecrow?" Chen Lin looked at the other person steadily, "Are you seeing things?"
Even if those people went crazy or turned into monsters, Chen Lin would not find it strange. After all, this world was already full of monsters and demons. But turning them into scarecrows was really beyond his imagination.
The Qigong cultivator said anxiously, "You are right. Senior Feng and the others are over there checking the situation. They asked me to come over and inform you."
"Let's go and take a look!"
Chen Lin still didn't quite believe it and thought it was some kind of sleight of hand or there was some other hidden story behind it.
There are empty houses in the city now, so even the cultivators in the early stage of Qi training live in one courtyard. At this moment, a group of cultivators gathered in front of the gate of one of the courtyards, and Feng Kuocheng was among them.
"Brother Feng, what's going on?"
Chen Lin walked closer and asked Feng Kuocheng first.
"You are here, Elder Chen. Take a look. I'm afraid we have provoked something we shouldn't have provoked!"
Feng Kuocheng pointed to the room in the yard, his tone filled with shock.
Chen Lin frowned, held a demon-suppressing talisman and the talisman given to him by Master He in his hands, and then walked in.
Sure enough, there was a scarecrow lying on the bed in the room. It was the same size as a normal person, its face was lifelike, just like a real person, and it also exuded a very strange aura.
"Who discovered it first? What about the others? Are they the same?"
Chen Lin did not rush forward to check, but asked in a deep voice.
"Reporting to Elder Chen, I was the first to discover it. This morning, Lu Qiang did not go to work, so the captain asked me to come and take a look, and I saw this scarecrow on the bed. At first I thought it was a prank, so I ignored it, until I found out that several of my companions who fell into the mine yesterday did not go to work, then I realized something was wrong, and reported it to the captain. After checking, I found that several other people's beds also had a scarecrow that looked like them."
The person who spoke was a short young man who was also in the early stage of Qi training. At this moment, his voice was trembling.
"No one else touched him, right?" Chen Lin pointed at the scarecrow on the bed.
"No, no one dared to touch it. Now everyone is in a panic. What do you think should be done, Elder Chen? Otherwise, should we report to Master He again?"
Feng Kuocheng glanced at Chen Lin and made a suggestion.
Chen Lin shook his head. "Don't panic yet. This matter is too bizarre. Let's figure it out first. Let's go check on the others first."
Since Chen Lin said so, Feng Kuocheng no longer objected. After asking someone to watch the yard, he took Chen Lin to see the residences of the other three Qi-cultivating monks. Sure enough, there was a scarecrow on each of their beds.
"Is there anything unusual happening in the mine?"
After reading the last one, Chen Lin was no longer sure whether it was true or not, and asked Feng Kuocheng in a deep voice.
"The entrance to the cave over there has been sealed. There is nothing unusual to be seen from the outside. It is hard to say what is going on inside. Do you want to go take a look?"
Chen Lin shook his head. "No need for now. Let me try to see if there is anything special about this scarecrow. Everyone, leave."
Everyone retreated to the outside of the yard. Chen Lin slapped his storage bag, took out the monkey puppet, and controlled it to walk into the room.
After a while, he frowned and watched the monkey puppet walk out with a handful of straw in one hand.
Feng Kuocheng and other foundation-building cultivators also looked confused. They had just used their spiritual sense to check the entire situation in the room. After the monkey puppet entered, it gradually disassembled the scarecrow, but nothing abnormal occurred throughout the process. The scarecrow was really just a scarecrow.
After considering it for a while, Chen Lin began to give orders.
"Have someone search the area within a hundred miles to see if anyone has a tracking spirit beast. See if we can track them through the auras on these people's belongings. I want to see if there really is a ghost, or if someone is pretending to be one!"
He still didn't believe that a healthy, living person could turn into a scarecrow.
Not to mention the Jindan cultivators, even the Yuanying cultivators probably don't have such ability. In fact, he has never seen such an outrageous ability in any classics, unless it is really a god descending to the world.
He even suspected that these four Qi-cultivating monks had run away for some reason, so he staged this drama to divert their attention elsewhere.
After thinking for a while, he said, "Send someone to the mine to take a look at the sarcophagus. Be careful not to get too close. Just take a look from a distance."
Following Chen Lin's instructions, Feng Kuocheng immediately arranged manpower, while Chen Lin put away the monkey puppet and waited quietly.
The information will be fed back soon. There is nothing unusual in the mine, but the four cultivators in the early stage of Qi training are nowhere to be seen. No one knows whether they ran far away or something else happened.
A female cultivator in the late Qi training stage named Xiao Linghui actually raised a spirit beast with tracking abilities, but she also failed to track it.
After sensing the remaining aura on the personal belongings of the four Qi-cultivating monks, the spirit beast simply wandered around the city, visiting places where people had worked before.
After a lot of trouble, Chen Lin saw that there was no effect, so he asked everyone to disperse first and comforted them not to panic, and he would get to the bottom of the matter immediately.
night.
Chen Lin hadn't rested for several days. Although meditation and cultivation can be considered as rest for monks, he still felt a little sleepy, so he lay on the bed and took a short nap.
After he fell into a deep sleep, an aura exactly the same as that of the scarecrow emanated from his body.