Located in the city that is the stronghold of the demonic forces.
"Our next move will no longer be to capture the demonic forces, but to find a treasure trove within the demonic forces..."
Xiang Zizhen looked around at everyone and spoke.
Except for Xiao Shi and the three jailers who had acted together before.
Five more jailers joined in.
If Xiang Zizheng is included, there will be ten of them acting together.
What Xiao Shi didn’t expect was that
This operation turned out not to be an arrest, but a treasure hunt.
"Everyone who participates in this operation will receive twenty points of credit, regardless of the outcome."
Xiang Zizheng’s words moved Xiao Shi’s heart.
Twenty points of merit.
It is equivalent to exchanging two prisoners in prison.
From this perspective, it’s not bad.
"At the same time, all the gains you make during the operation will belong to you and you don't have to hand it in."
"certainly."
"I have to remind you..."
"This operation will involve certain risks, so you must be mentally prepared."
Xiang Zizheng said solemnly.
The danger of treasure hunting is often greater than the danger of capturing.
Just like before they carried out the arrest, they had already found out the details of the Blood Valley.
I know how many martial soul realms and martial demon realms there are.
But treasure hunting cannot provide such clear information.
I only know a general situation.
The rest is up to them to explore on their own.
Xiang Zizheng did not reveal much information at the moment.
Just tell them that the place they are going to this time is an underground palace.
Early the next morning.
They began to act.
In addition to these ten people, there was another person traveling with them this time.
When Xiao Shi saw the person who was traveling with him.
His brows wrinkled slightly.
This person is none other than this.
It was the old man who was imprisoned in his cell!
At this time, the opponent's hands and feet were handcuffed and shackled.
These handcuffs and shackles are not only made of extremely strong materials, but also have powerful seals, which have sealed the old man's cultivation and made him no different from an ordinary person.
Xiao Shi didn't expect that the other party would actually travel with them.
And judging from this situation...
The underground palace they are about to visit on this trip is most likely based on the information provided by this old man!
This is also the greatest value of these prisoners.
However, ordinary information would not be passed on to the warden.
Only some particularly important intelligence will be handled by the warden personally.
Xiao Shi looked at the old man deeply.
I was secretly alert.
As we move forward.
Xiao Shi was surprised to find...
They actually came to the valley where the Blood Valley was located!
"Could it be that..."
Xiao Shi just had a guess in his mind.
Xiang Zizheng in front spoke up.
"The underground palace we are going to explore this time is hidden in the Blood Valley!"
Xiao Shi and the three jailers who had acted with him before all had flashes of surprise in their eyes.
He instantly realized that the reason Xiang Zizhen chose to capture here was to prepare for the subsequent exploration of the underground palace.
The reason why Xiang Zizheng did not take them directly to explore the underground palace last time was mainly due to two reasons.
One is that they didn’t have enough manpower at the time.
Last time there were only five of them.
The second is that Xiang Zizheng came here last time.
It is just to investigate the situation.
There was no way he could completely believe what the prisoners said.
Only after personally investigating it could he confirm whether this underground palace was worth exploring.
Even Xiao Shi felt that during the days when he returned to prison.
Xiang Zizheng came here alone to investigate the situation.
The other party's style of doing things is still very stable.
Follow the instructions of the prisoner elder.
They soon arrived at a house in the city where the Blood Valley was located.
This house is very ordinary.
I can't see anything special about it.
However, when the old man took out a polygonal compass and pressed it into the ground.
Card!
The ground of the house suddenly sank downward, forming a hole.
The entrance of the cave was covered with a layer of gray light curtain, making it impossible to see the environment inside.
"After I go down, you follow..."
Xiang Zizhen began to arrange the order of entering the underground palace.
He was the first to go down.
Then came the old man.
Then came the others.
According to Xiang Zizhen's arrangement, everyone entered the underground palace below one by one.
The entire underground palace is very narrow at the entrance, but it is passable. After walking a few meters, it suddenly becomes open.
Get out of the hole.
There is a wide space in front of me.
There are countless walls in the underground palace, and they are all connected to the ceiling. Even if you fly, you can't fly too high, so it is naturally difficult to get a glimpse of the whole picture.
At the same time, after entering the underground palace, many jailers in the team discovered that their soul consciousness was suppressed to a great extent here.
It can only diffuse in a very small area.
Some people even tried to bombard the wall, but found that the wall was so solid that even with their strength and cultivation, it was difficult to shake it.
At the same time, the soul consciousness was unable to penetrate these walls.
This made many people frown.
I feel like the environment here is not very favorable for them...
Xiang Zizheng also realized this.
He stared at the old prisoner with a warning look in his eyes.
"Lead the way in front, don't play any tricks. If I sense that there is anything wrong with you, I will attack you directly and kill you!"
The old man said nothing and walked in front with an expressionless face.
The entire underground palace was pitch black.
It was pitch dark.
In the past, when there was soul consciousness, this visual darkness would not have any impact on people.
But now that their soul consciousness has been suppressed, the range within which their soul consciousness can spread is very small, and their visibility has also become lower.
Relative to other people.
Xiao Shi, however, was not affected at all.
When he was in the Qiwu realm, he was cultivating Taiyin. This dark environment was like a fish returning to water to him.
He walked behind.
Pay close attention to the old man's every move in front.
The entire underground palace was very quiet.
There was only the sound of their footsteps.
After everyone walked forward for a distance.
They entered a stone chamber in the underground palace.
Inside the spacious stone chamber, there is a huge stone box over two meters high.
The stone box was tightly closed.
Since the soul consciousness cannot penetrate, no one knows what is inside the stone box.
When the old man walked to the stone box.
He paused.
Turning around, he looked at Xiang Zizheng.
Use your eyes to ask him if he wants to open the box
Xiang Zizhen frowned slightly.
Usually in this situation, the chest contains either a treasure or some kind of crisis.
He thought for a while.
Open your mouth and speak.
"Everyone stand back."
When everyone retreated outside the stone chamber.
Xiang Zizheng snapped his fingers and a beam of white light shot towards the stone box, directly pushing open the lid of the stone box.
A long-hidden smell suddenly diffused.
Everyone was on high alert to prevent any danger from appearing in the stone box.
Fortunately, after the stone box was opened.
There was nothing unusual.
Xiang Zizhen walked to the stone box, examined the inside of it, and found that it was full of various treasures.
But with his caution and prudence.
Didn't reach out for it directly.
Instead, he used his own strength to make all the treasures in the stone box float up from the stone box.
After confirming that there is no problem.
Xiang Zizheng then turned around and looked at everyone.
"You can divide it among yourselves."
He had no interest in the treasures in the stone box.
The jailers were overjoyed.
They came forward one after another to divide up these treasures.
Xiao Shi also successfully got a treasure.
This is a pendant.
It is also a treasure of the Wuhun Realm.
It has the ability to resist and weaken soul attacks.
It is a protective treasure.
It was obviously incomparable to the treasures that Xiao Shi had obtained by killing people before.
It can only be regarded as the most common type of martial soul realm treasure.
The treasures that other people got were basically at this level.
No wonder Xiang Zi really looks down on it.
After dividing the treasures in the box.
They searched the stone chamber for a while and confirmed that there was nothing else to find before leaving and moving deeper into the underground palace.
When they walked forward for a while.
A corpse suddenly appeared in front of us!
It was actually a headless corpse with only a torso left.
Although the degree of decay of the corpse indicated that the person had been dead for a long time, everyone felt extremely alert the moment they saw the body.
Xiang Zizheng approached the corpse with a serious expression.
Check carefully.
There were no signs of a struggle around the place where the body was found.
However, the neck of the corpse looked like it had been cut by a sharp knife, and the cut was smooth.
Xiang Zizhen looked up at the old prisoner.
There was a questioning look in his eyes.
The old man shook his head.
It means he knows nothing.
Xiang Zizhen's eyes suddenly became as sharp as a knife.
An extremely powerful aura burst out from his body, sweeping towards the old prisoner.
He was very dissatisfied with the old prisoner's attitude.
The old prisoner just looked at Xiang Zizheng calmly.
Even though his body was already under the pressure of Xiang Zizheng's aura, there were sharp sounds of broken bones and blood was flowing from the corners of his mouth.
But his eyes remained calm without any ripples.
Xiang Zizhen looked at the old prisoner deeply.
Only then did he retract his oppressive breath.
Xiao Shi frowned as he watched this scene.
So far, the old prisoner has not uttered a word!
This made him feel very wrong.
What is even more wrong is Xiang Zizheng.
Given Xiao Shi's knowledge and understanding of Xiang Zizhen, it was impossible for Xiang Zizhen not to see the problem.
But now Xiang Zizhen chose to believe this old prisoner.
"Or..."
"Does Xiang Zizhen have any other plans?"
Xiao Shi knew that Xiang Zizhen was a shrewd and cunning person and he would not be so easily fooled.
He is probably planning something else.
Judging from Xiang Zizheng's current soul fluctuations, his soul is as stable as usual, which is a posture of being sure of victory.
"Or I can observe the soul state of this old man..."
"See if there are any fluctuations in his soul."
As thoughts flash through my mind.
Xiao Shi immediately and silently condensed the soul imprint on the old man's soul.
By observing this state of soul, we can grasp their truest feelings, thereby inferring their thoughts and obtaining important information.
However, this time, Xiao Shi's soul seal condensation failed directly!
"This is… "
Xiao Shi's mind was suddenly shocked.
I couldn’t even find his soul in the old man!
This situation was something he had never encountered before.
"He... he has no soul??"
"No… "
"wrong!"
“It’s not that he has no soul, but his soul is also imprisoned!
”
Xiao Shi discovered a "prison" inside the old man's body.
As a result, his soul imprint could only remain outside the prison.
Unable to penetrate the prison.
This caused a strong shock in his heart.
The history of this old man...
Even more amazing than he had imagined!
The opponent's imprisonment and seal are not just the external handcuffs and shackles, the real imprisonment is inside the body!
Such layers of imprisonment and sealing.
Only those powerful people with great backgrounds can receive such treatment.
No wonder I killed someone in the cell.
The other party didn't even look at it.
Presumably, to the old man, his killing was just like a child playing house.
It's not worth its attention at all.
Xiao Shi originally thought that this old man was just at the relatively powerful Soul Consciousness stage of the Martial Soul Realm, but now he realized the imprisonment and seal within the other party's body.
He then realized that the cultivation level displayed by the other party was not his true cultivation level.
After understanding this.
Xiao Shi also began to feel that this underground palace treasure hunt...
It’s not as simple as you think.
There must be a lot of information here that you don’t know.
"From the beginning to the end, Xiang Zizhen never told us what was inside this underground palace..."
"It just means there is a treasure here."
"But those treasures before were not even in Xiang Zizhen's eyes."
"It is impossible for Xiang Zi to come here in person just for a treasure of this level."
"What exactly is he planning?"
Xiao Shi is now more worried about the situation.
Xiangzi will really use them as cannon fodder.
Based on current inferences.
There is probably a crisis in this underground palace.
Xiao Shi felt that Xiang Zizhen must have brought them here to take the blame more than to make money.
In the eyes of these jailers, Xiang Zizhen has a good reputation and good word of mouth. He is also the warden, so he will definitely not sell them out.
But Xiao Shi knew clearly Xiang Zi's true background.
The other party is a member of the Four Symbols Divine Martial Sect and a priest of the Holy See.
Even if these jailers are used as cannon fodder, there will be no psychological burden.
After all, the two sides are hostile in their positions.
If Qin Mo was killed by Xiang Zizheng in the first place, he would be even more adept at doing this kind of thing.
Until this moment.
Xiao Shicai truly realized that this treasure hunt in the underground palace was far from as simple as it seemed.
He was secretly alert in his heart.
Even though he is just a clone now, his death will not cause any harm to the main body.
But now the clone is holding a lot of items that dropped out before.
If these items don’t create the value they deserve, they will be gone…
That would be a big loss!
The most important thing.
It was a rare opportunity for me to get close to Xiang Zizheng with this identity.
If I die like this.
There may not be another opportunity to get close to Xiang Zizheng like this.
"At this point, we can only take it one step at a time and deal with it as it happens."
Xiao Shi looked normal on the surface.
In fact, he has already maximized his perception and concentrated his mind highly, as if facing a formidable enemy.