Hearing Ye Wujiu's words, Cao Tianxuan said: "I thought so before. If the other party is coming for our spirit stones, then the most suspicious person is definitely the Meng brothers.
I just don’t know where the Meng brothers come from. They have huge financial resources and can buy our Glazed Flame Crystal Iron at a price far higher than the market price. They are obviously not ordinary people.”
Ye Wujiu said: "You must also inform Master Ou and the two chambers of commerce about these things. This kind of clue must not be let go."
Upon hearing this, Cao Tianxuan nodded, and then left Ye Wujiu's house, preparing to write a letter to Ou Qianxie first, and then go to find the two people from the Chamber of Commerce in person.
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Ye Li stayed in the restricted area of the sea of flowers for a whole month, during which time he had not found a way to escape.
But after a month of observation and exploration, Ye Li has completely understood the situation in the entire forbidden area.
In the entire forbidden area, there are about eighty-seven young and middle-aged men, all of whom are in a wooden puppet state.
There are also 35 Huahaimen disciples in the same state. They are all responsible for casting rune bricks.
Originally, the platform had been completed on the tenth day after Ye Li arrived, and the formation on it had also been integrated into a whole.
At this time, two masters of the Void God Stage, brought with them several talisman masters of the Yuan Tai Stage and the Yu Tai Stage, came into the forbidden area.
Among the talisman masters in the gestational stage, the three people who had attacked Ye Li before were also there. Although Ye Li did not know them, Tunri had seen them after Ye Li was captured, so he could recognize them.
In addition to these masters, there are about forty ordinary disciples of the Huahai Sect, including the thirty people who came to capture Ye Li before, and those who supervised everyone's work in the forbidden area.
These people are what Tunri said, people who are controlled by more advanced secret techniques. They retain their own sanity but are completely loyal to the organization.
All these people together, about sixty in number, gathered at the edge of the stone platform, ready to work together to activate the secret method on the stone platform.
They combined their spiritual energy to inject into the stone platform, and a grey light shone on the platform, and a grey rune formation appeared.
However, just after the rune formation appeared for a few breaths, cracks suddenly appeared on it, and the flow of spiritual energy in the entire rune formation became disordered.
The combined spiritual energy of dozens of people collided wildly on the stone platform, and after just a few breaths, it exploded.
The enormous force shattered the entire stone platform, and the rune formation that emerged also collapsed directly, turning into spiritual energy and dissipating into nothingness.
This sudden change stunned the masters of Huahaimen. They had no idea what had gone wrong.
After some inspection, they came to the conclusion that there was a deviation in the rune bricks on the stone platform when the formation was constructed, which caused the formation to malfunction and prevented the spiritual energy from passing through smoothly.
Just like a blocked river, spiritual energy accumulated at the sluice gate like river water, and finally destroyed the entire riverbank.
Because of this incident, the masters of Huahaimen scolded several disciples who were responsible for commanding the puppets.
They believed that the problems with the formation were entirely caused by several disciples' mistakes in command and the failure to conduct a final check.
Now that the formation has been blown to pieces, all their previous hard work and the large amount of materials they purchased have been wasted.
This kind of loss is one aspect in terms of materials, but the key is that it has to be done all over again in terms of time.
Moreover, because the previous materials have been almost used up, we have to purchase them again now, and the time and effort will take more than a day or two.
However, what they didn't know was that the formation collapsed not because of the other party's disciples' mistake in command, but because Ye Li had secretly made some moves.
The construction of the platform becomes very high in the later stages. It is usually very inconvenient for a group of people to carry a rune brick together and climb up the platform to build it, which is very easy to make mistakes.
Because Ye Li's strength was so amazing, the disciples of Huahaimen simply let him stay on the stone platform, and they were responsible for receiving the rune bricks and placing them in the appropriate places.
Although Ye Li did not know how the formation in front of him was set up, and did not dare to use his spiritual power and spiritual energy to test the formation, but as a weapon caster, his understanding of rune formations far surpassed those Huahaimen disciples who could only follow the steps and place rune bricks according to the regulations.
Ye Li relied on his feeling to secretly move a brick and stone, and concealed it very well, so the Huahaimen disciples didn't notice it at all, which eventually led to the collapse of the platform.
The purpose of doing this was to buy himself more time. After all, if the platform was built and the Huahai Gate was completely controlled, he would be taken to the top level of the mysterious organization.
Ye Li was not sure that he would not be controlled after being brought to the upper level. From the information currently available, the strength of this mysterious organization was extremely strong. Ye Li was somewhat afraid to face a group of spirit masters at the Divine Spirit Stage, Divine Appearance Stage or even stronger.
His little move completely delayed Huahaimen's plan, and the delay was even longer than he had imagined.
After all, the other party had never expected that there would be any problems before, and many special materials were only prepared in one copy, not more. Now they have to collect them again, which is extremely difficult.
Under this situation, the project was delayed for a month and could not be resumed.
Ye Li and others were controlled like puppets by secret techniques. Although this method of control could make people absolutely obedient and completely accept control, it was not stable. They needed to be sent to several caves across the mountains to receive the baptism of some kind of rune formation.
This rune formation can completely suppress everyone's consciousness and turn them into completely obedient puppets.
About 120 puppets were divided into three groups and received formation baptism in three caves respectively.
Every time Ye Li received baptism, the natal talisman in his dantian would move, completely absorbing the soul power released from the formation.
Without the attack of the soul power, his consciousness would naturally not be suppressed, nor would he become a puppet anymore.
After a month of observation, Ye Li discovered that there was a cave in the forbidden area that was guarded at all times, and it seemed that someone was imprisoned there.
There seemed to be quite a few people imprisoned there, because he could see Huahaimen disciples delivering food there every day, and the amounts they delivered were obviously not enough for one person.
However, just by eavesdropping, Ye Li could not be sure who was imprisoned in the cave, because those Huahaimen disciples who were still conscious and had not been controlled had never talked about this matter in detail.