Where exactly is this sect conducting evil research? In fact, it is not difficult to find, it is nothing more than the so-called "restricted area of the sect". There are so many sects in this world, and many things are similar, such as the approximate location of this "sect's forbidden area". After all, for a sect, there are often only a few options for safe, reliable and private places.
Just as Ye Zan guessed, the forbidden area of the sect was also placed in the "back mountain", which was relatively far away from the main building complex. There are mainly the residences of the high-level members of the sect, as well as the ancestral halls of the ancestors of the sect, as well as some quiet rooms and other buildings for retreats. In short, all the buildings in this area are of a type that cannot be intruded upon and require a quiet environment.
Any sect is indispensable for this kind of place, and it will be arranged in a similar area, and then it becomes a forbidden place in the sect. As for the Yuqing Sect, whether it was in Wufeng before or later moved back to Tongtian Peak, there are areas similar to this. The so-called "back mountain" does not mean the back side of the mountain. It is often said that there is a front mountain and a back mountain relative to the dojo in front.
"Senior, I dug almost three feet into the ground and didn't find any secrets. It seems that I will still be here." Standing on the edge of the sect's restricted area, Ye Zan said to the Supreme Daoyuan next to him.
"Well, this place is often an important place. I think there should be some special discoveries." Supreme Dao Yuan nodded in agreement. While saying this, he also became more vigilant. There was no danger ahead, but that didn't mean it was safe here.
Not talking about fog or anything like that, just speaking from a sect's layout perspective, since this is a sect's forbidden area, there must be some means of protection.
Moreover, since the existence of the forbidden area has been clarified, some of the traps and other things used there will definitely not be as gentle as before. After all, you can be forgiven for wandering around in front of you. This forbidden area is forbidden to trespass. If you insist on breaking in, then you are seeking death and no one else can blame you.
"Stay down and see what means they have left." Ye Zan said this, transferred the spider robots and insect soldiers over, and then ordered them to start exploring.
The spider robot is okay, probably because it has no life and can't really set off some powerful traps. But this may not be a good thing. After all, Ye Zan wanted them to explore, and at the same time, he also had the intention of letting them go to the mine to trigger the trap. If the spider robot doesn't trigger anything, Ye Zan will have to trigger it himself in the end.
However, fortunately, in addition to the spider robot, Ye Zan also has a group of insect soldiers participating in the exploration.
Relatively speaking, those insect soldiers were a bit miserable. As the light of the formation traps lit up, some insect soldiers were directly turned into fly ash, and some were instantly chopped into pieces. However, for Ye Zan, the loss of the insect soldiers was nothing. In the battle in the underworld, he had lost tens of thousands and hundreds of thousands, and now he has made up for it.
To say that this Zerg race is really terrifying. Not only can it continuously evolve, but it also has super reproductive capabilities. The insect mother queen lays an egg once, which is hundreds or thousands of insect eggs. This is under Ye Zan's deliberate control. If Ye Zan did not control it and allowed the Zerg Mother Queen to reproduce as much as she wanted, the space of the jade ball would no longer be able to accommodate them.
"It is indeed an ancient sect. Even if it is not the top sect of that era, this method has opened the eyes of future generations like me." Daoyuan Supreme did not relax his vigilance, but looked at the scene in the restricted gate of the sect. , and couldn’t help but sigh with emotion.
Of course, since Daoyuan Supreme's emotion is for the ancient sect, it is also for Ye Zan's methods. If it were someone else who came here, they would have to explore carefully and risk their lives to disarm those traps. But here in Ye Zan, no matter what trap you set, I will just take the "human life" and go all the way. There is no reason to explain it.
In just a moment, all the insect soldiers sent in by Ye Zan were buried in the gated area of the sect. In fact, those spider robots were not intact, and more than a dozen of them were destroyed inside. After all, not all of those traps are aimed at living beings, there are also some that will be triggered by any abnormal movement.
"The trap here does have some tricks!" Ye Zan nodded and took out the jade ball again, and a new batch of insect soldiers poured out again.
"..." Daoyuan Supreme has nothing to say. Originally, he felt sorry for Ye Zan's batch of insect soldiers. After all, they were all at the Golden Core level. Moreover, after all the insect soldiers were buried in the forbidden area, he wanted to ask Ye Zan what other plans he had. But now, looking at it, Ye Zan released another group of insect soldiers in the blink of an eye, how could he ask anything else.
After the new insect soldiers appeared, they flooded into the sect's forbidden area again just like their predecessors. But this time, Ye Zan didn't just let them go through the thunder, but followed behind and used magic techniques to remove the traps that had been activated.
Daoyuan Supreme naturally did not dare to neglect, and immediately followed Ye Zan, carefully guarding against possible accidents around him. Although, with Ye Zan's methods, it seems unlikely that there will be any more traps that can threaten them, but there are no absolutes in this world.
In this way, Ye Zan and Daoyuan Supreme, followed by the live-streaming reconnaissance robot, walked step by step into the forbidden area of the sect. There were no surprises or thrilling critical moments. No matter what was in front of us, we just pushed forward smoothly.
The residences of the sect's top leaders, such as the headmaster and elders, were left behind by Ye Zan and his party in the blink of an eye. The ancestral hall that enshrined the ancestors of the sect was also quickly included in the explored area, and there were no more secrets. The doors of the quiet rooms used for retreat were opened one by one, revealing everything inside.
Finally, just when Ye Zan was about to walk through the sect's restricted area, the real secret place had not yet been discovered, but the surrounding fog suddenly changed again.
Different from the violent rolling caused by the spirit stone before, the fog that originally filled this forbidden area became thinner under the gaze of Ye Zan and Daoyuan Supreme. The change in the fog does not come from any natural dissipation, but it is clearly visible that a large amount of fog is flowing in one direction. It was as if there was something there that was sucking the mist back, and even a faint vortex of mist was formed.
"Hey, what does this mean? Are you planning some terrifying killing move, or are you showing us the way?" Ye Zan said to Daoyuan Supreme in surprise when he saw this situation.
"In short, it's better for us to be more careful, lest something happens and we are caught off guard." Daoyuan Supreme reminded Ye Zan.
Daoyuan Supreme has always been very careful and vigilant to protect Ye Zan, but he is very worried that Ye Zan will be careless in the future because it goes too smoothly. After all, in his opinion, Ye Zan was too young and would inevitably have some common problems among young people, such as being arrogant and complacent. This is not something that looks down on people, but some common problems that are inevitable for everyone. Who hasn’t been young before
Ye Zan didn't mind at all about Daoyuan Supreme's reminder, but nodded and said: "Thank you, senior, for reminding me. I will be vigilant, but I want to see what other methods it has."
In just a few words, the fog in the entire forbidden area had disappeared. There was only a whirlpool formed by the fog in a flat and unremarkable place in the sect's forbidden area. This whirlpool of mist has been rotating at that position. Since it has neither decreased nor increased at all, it seems to be pointing out the position to Ye Zan and the others.
"It seems that the source of the fog should be down here." Ye Zan said, pointing his hand there, and a group of spider robots immediately pounced on it. Although spider robots are mainly used for reconnaissance and combat, they are also capable of digging and digging.
In the blink of an eye, when he looked where the mist was pointing, he saw a hole dug out by the spider robot. It was pitch black inside and seemed to be bottomless. After the hole was dug, the vortex of mist that was above it suddenly slipped in, or seemed to be leaked down.
Facing the cave, Ye Zan didn't even take two steps forward. He only used the spider robot's detection to carefully look around the cave. In fact, there is a door there, embedded in the ground like a cellar, hidden in the bluestone paved on the ground. However, Ye Zan's way of opening the door was a bit arrogant. He didn't look for any mechanism at all, but just dug it open.
Looking inside the cave, it was probably dozens of meters deep, and there were no stairs at all. After all, this is a place for ascetics. For ascetics, a height of tens of meters is just a leap.
In addition, judging from the traces around the cave, it seems that this cave was not carefully built, but rather a temporary dig. Although, with the methods of ascetics, even a temporary dug hole will not be so rough, but it is definitely different from a carefully constructed one.
Through Ye Zan's sharing, Dao Yuan Supreme also saw the exploration image of the spider robot, so he speculated: "Could it be that the people of this sect are doing something taboo in this cave, so that the whole sect is exposed?" The door brought disaster."
"It's very possible. After all, judging from the situation in this cave, it doesn't seem like this sect existed here earlier." Ye Zan made his own judgment based on the results obtained.
Then, several spider robots, driven by Ye Zan's instructions, quickly entered the cave along the cave wall. At the bottom of the cave, a horizontal passage appeared. The entrance of the passage was also blocked by two metal doors, but the doors were open at this time.
If you are not a careful observer, when you see this scene, combined with the abandoned scene outside, you may think that the door has been open for a long time. However, based on the feedback from the spider robot, Ye Zan could tell from the traces of activity on the two doors that the door was actually more likely to have been opened just now.
"This gate?" Supreme Dao Yuan asked.
"... Come to think of it, when something happened to this sect, these two doors were already open. Maybe, the reason why this sect was in trouble was because these doors were opened." What Ye Zan said was completely contrary to his judgment. However, in his hand, he passed a message of true judgment to Daoyuan Supreme through a thousand-mile teleportation.
Since the door was opened just now, someone or some other existence must have quietly opened the door. The other party opens the door, either to create suspicion or to lure the enemy deeper. In short, it is not to open the door to welcome guests. Therefore, Ye Zan tried his best to see what tricks the other party wanted to play.
To be honest, the other party's approach, or this trick, really doesn't have much technical content. Even if you don't open the door, won't people outside who want to explore force the door open and go in? If you open the door so early, no matter how discreet you think you are, you still increase the possibility of exposing your existence.
Based on this, Ye Zan had a guess that at least the opponent was most likely not a scheming old monster. Or, even if the other party is really an ancient power, I am afraid that his brain is not very clear, so he would do such a smart thing.
Several spider robots entered through the open door, and the image that came out was of a huge hall. In this hall, the most conspicuous thing is an altar. On the altar, a mass of mist is constantly rolling and surging. Around the altar, unlike the outside, there were several corpses wearing Taoist robes, but they had all decayed to the point where only the bones were left.
Judging from some traces on the remaining bones, it can be seen that the cultivation level of the corpses was not low during their lifetime, and they were all in the Heaven-reaching Realm and the Dharma-Phase Realm. It's a pity that it has been so long ago that even the corpse of Supreme Tongtian has no value now.
"Fellow Taoists outside, I wonder if you can move here to meet with me."
Just as the spider robot was exploring the underground hall, a voice suddenly came from the mist on the altar. The voice sounded very old, with a feeling of being in his twilight years, but it reached Ye Zan's ears clearly from the ground.
When Ye Zan heard this, he turned his head and glanced at Daoyuan Supreme beside him, but saw that the other party was still looking around vigilantly, as if he had not heard the voice at all.
"Fellow Taoist, don't wait and see. I have a great opportunity here. If the people around you know about it, I'm afraid they will miss you."
Just as Ye Zan turned his head, another voice came from the mist.
What a great opportunity, it would be better to just say "I am XXX, make money"! Hearing these next words, Ye Zan couldn't help but sneer in his heart, not being tempted by the big opportunity mentioned by the other party. In his opinion, this kind of deception is at the level of a kindergarten. Compared with those deceptive tricks in the technological world, it is simply inferior to heaven and earth.