Infernal Artist

He stepped forward and ran towards the entrance of the underground cave according to the direction in his memory.

It won't last more than a moment.

Liu Ping re-entered the underground cave and walked deeper into the cave according to the path Hong Tao and Zhao Chanyi had taken him.

I don't know how long it took, but he finally came to a cool and empty cave.

This place is quite large. It was the place where the monks took refuge before. It was here that Liu Ping struck up a conversation with Hong Tao and Zhao Chanyi.

Liu Ping took a quick look and quickly found several broken magic circles on the ground.

He squatted down at the edge of the magic circle and murmured: "When designing this kind of underground shelter, the old man likes to use the twelve-fold overlapping method to lay out the large formation. It should be three concealment magic circles, three isolation formations, and three defense formations." Arrays, an attack array, a teleportation array and a photo-taking array..."

He squatted on the ground and counted, but there were only eleven magic circles.

Missing the photo array.

Liu Ping pondered for a few breaths, stood up, walked around the cave, and suddenly stopped in front of a rock wall.

"Why are you hiding the photo array so far away?"

He muttered to himself, stretched out his hand and dug hard on the rock wall.

Crash--

A large piece of soil fell from the rock wall, rolling up layers of ash in the cave.

There was indeed a photo array behind the dirt, but it was somewhat dilapidated.

Liu Ping thought for a while, took out a few pieces of spiritual stone, crushed it into powder, and applied it carefully to the damaged areas of the magic circle.

When all this was done, Liu Ping pressed his hand on the edge of the magic circle and shouted softly: "Qiu!"

——This method can temporarily activate the incomplete imaging array, but then the entire imaging array will be completely destroyed and cannot be used again.

This secret method is specially used to detect those damaged photo arrays and find out the last scene they saw before they were destroyed.

Following Liu Ping's voice, the entire array emitted a flash of spiritual light.

The aura rose into the sky and condensed into a picture of light and shadow.

The picture still shows the monks hiding here, watching the monster on the ground.

The difference is that there was no Liu Ping in that moment in the past.

Immediately afterwards, seven or eight people helped a practitioner who was covered in blood enter the cave to take refuge.

The sacred beast appears.

It attracts the practitioner and his companions.

The scene changes.

The holy beast turned into a door, joined the Holy Cult with two practitioners, and left the underground cave.

The rest of the people were still discussing what had just happened in the cave.

Only two practitioners with low strength were no longer among them.

Hong Tao.

Zhao Chanyi.

The two of them sat still.

After a pause, Hong Tao stood up, cupped his fists towards Zhao Chanyi and said, "Fairy Zhao, I know a place where the sky has fallen. Are you willing to go with me to earn some spiritual stones?"

"It's what you wish for." Zhao Chanyi said.

With an inexplicable expression, she glanced at the rock on the wall, then stretched out her hand and pressed lightly on the rock under her feet before standing up.

The two got up and walked outside.

The monk in charge of guarding the door stood up and said: "The situation on the earth is uncertain, and your strength is low. It may be dangerous to go out at this time."

Zhao Chanyi smiled and said: "It doesn't matter, we are going to the Land of Skyfall to pick up things and earn some spiritual stones to support our lives."

The guard said no more.

Hong Tao and Zhao Chanyi left the cave one after the other.

Not long after they left, the spiritual light in the cave surged, then suddenly disappeared completely.

The twelve-layered magic circle was like paper, and was instantly annihilated by flying ashes.

A giant black hand stretched out from outside the cave, grabbed everyone in the cave, then retracted at an extremely fast speed and disappeared.

Snapped!

The imaging array made a soft sound and completely shattered.

All light and shadow disappear.

The scene ends.

Liu Ping stood there stunned for a while.

Unexpectedly, this was the last scene for everyone taking refuge in the cave.

He walked to the entrance of the cave and took a closer look.

The rock walls around the entrance of the cave are densely covered with fine cracks. I didn't know what happened before, but now it seems that these cracks were clearly caused by the giant black hand reaching in.

Liu Ping stretched out his hand and gently broke open a piece of broken rock.

I saw that the rock was filled with a smell similar to sulfur, but when I smelled it carefully, it wasn't quite the same.

Liu Ping walked out of the cave and looked around.

The underground passage is intact and the rock walls are not damaged anywhere.

Now Liu Ping knew what was going on.

In such a narrow underground passage, it is absolutely impossible to accommodate a body that can match the giant black hand.

In addition, there are obvious traces of magic on the rock wall.

Someone must have been hiding outside the cave and attacked everyone inside in one fell swoop.

But why?

Why did Hong Tao and Zhao Chanyi escape this ambush?

These two people are just in the Qi Refining realm and cannot threaten anyone at all——

Liu Ping was puzzled and walked into the cave again.

Zhao Chanyi glanced at the rock wall just now, and happened to be looking at the place where the photo array was hidden.

So Zhao Chanyi's actions must have some intention.

etc.

She reached out and pressed on the rock on the ground!

"Zhao Chanyi, what exactly do you want to tell me..."

Liu Ping muttered softly, walked step by step to the rock, squatted down, and took a closer look.

There were only a few extremely scrawled carvings on the rock. Liu Ping struggled to identify them and saw that they were two words:

"Jiuyou."

Liu Ping's expression was stern, and he gently stretched out his hand to smooth out the marks on the ground.

In doing so, one is to erase the traces; the other is to inform Zhao Chanyi that if she comes back here again, she will know that someone has obtained her information.

The so-called "Nine Nethers" is actually a set of words corresponding to "Tai Shang", which represent two different paths of cultivation and two forces:

Evil heretics and noble sects.

What message did Zhao Chanyi want to convey when she left the words "Jiuyou"?

Liu Ping pondered for a few breaths and began to recall the previous scenes of walking with Hong Tao and Zhao Chanyi.

Zhao Chanyi seemed not to take any action from beginning to end.

There is a saying that an expert will know if something is there as soon as he makes a move.

As long as she takes action once, Liu Ping is confident that he can judge the Taoism she practices.

But Zhao Chanyi didn't take any action at all.

...This is troublesome.

After thinking for a while, Liu Ping suddenly remembered something again.

correct!

Zhao Chanyi never did anything out of the ordinary, but she gave herself a fan.

——Shuiyu Lingbao Fan!

Liu Ping patted the storage bag, took out the fan, and turned it over in his hand.

After watching for a moment, he made a gentle kneading gesture and shouted softly: "Practice!"

The fan suddenly floated in the air, emitting a stream of black and red flames.

"It turned out to be this kind of weapon refining technique, but it was too crude and crude. I was able to dismantle the fan easily - maybe the person who refined the fan deliberately made it so rough?"

Liu Ping frowned.

His ability in refining weapons is unparalleled in the world, and now he can see the clues at a glance.

There are six arts in practice, namely hexagram, array, talisman, utensil, elixir, and food.

The Six Arts are the crystallization of skills accumulated over countless years in the world of cultivation, and represent the height of civilization in the entire world.

Liu Ping studied under Gua Sheng, and was master of all six arts.

Therefore, before he died, Gua Sheng warned him: "We know too many things. Not only do the demons want to kill us, but even the various sects in the human race are half in awe and half suspicious of us. "

At this time, he became suspicious, and immediately fired the spells one after another, took apart the fan, and examined it carefully.

I saw two lines of small characters written clearly on the fan:

"Thirty-nine underground floors, Xun position, go."

"Also: There is something in this cave, you can try to get it."

Liu Ping looked at this line of words and slowly exhaled.

The thirty-ninth floor underground is where senior monks retreat. Only monks who are at least in the Nascent Soul realm are allowed to enter, and ordinary practitioners cannot enter.

Maybe Zhao Chanyi and Hong Tao's cultivation levels are beyond the Qi Refining realm.

What do these two people want to do?

Liu Ping became more interested.

Then... try to get that thing first.

Liu Ping put down his fan and searched around the cave.

——Is this a test?

Is it to examine my strength?

Or is it testing whether I am qualified enough to know some secrets?

Liu Ping's gaze suddenly stopped at one place.

Several piles of ground where bonfires were originally placed were smoked black and gray. Only the bonfire where he, Hong Tao, and Zhao Chanyi were sitting around, the black and gray were much lighter, and even looked like only a light layer of ash.

Someone has moved here.

Liu Ping stepped forward, put his hand on the light gray ground, and gently explored it with his spiritual power.

Click!

It seems like something has been activated.

The ground suddenly cracked.

An upright coffin emerged from the ground, and the lid fell to the ground with a crash.

Liu Ping took a closer look and couldn't help but lost his voice: "Fellow Daoist Hong - no, this is the corpse refining method!"

I saw a person standing in the coffin, his eyes closed, his expression peaceful, as if he was still sleeping.

It's Hong Tao!

Liu Ping took a few steps forward, made a gesture, and pressed his fingers harder on Hong Tao's eyebrows.

Hong Tao immediately opened his eyes and looked at Liu Ping.

"Fellow Daoist Liu, we meet again." Hong Tao said, cupping his fists.

"Fellow Daoist Hong, who used the corpse refining method to imprison your soul here? Do you want me to help you get out of this predicament?" Liu Ping asked, holding his fists.

Hong Tao smiled and said, "Fellow Daoist Liu, the method you used just now is a first-class corpse refining method."

"Yes." Liu Ping admitted.

"The corpse refining method is an evil method, and you seem to be proficient in this method. It seems that you and we are of the same path." Hong Tao said.

"So what you are waiting for here is actually a test. You want to see if I am an evil heretic?" Liu Ping asked.

"That's right. If you are a righteous person, you will destroy this corpse as soon as possible to prevent evil methods from causing harm to the world." Hong Tao said.

"Why are you testing me like this?" Liu Ping asked.

"I can't tell you yet. After all, this matter involves too much. I can only tell you that you have passed the test. The secret is at the earthquake level on the 39th floor underground, not the Sunda level."

"What will happen if you go to Xun position?" Liu Ping asked.

"Death." Hong Tao said.

Liu Ping sighed, shook his head and said, "You are too careful."

"There is no other way. We must be careful. After all, too many monks have fallen into the hands of monsters. We are also afraid that you are a monk controlled by monsters." Hong Tao said.

"But I only have Qi refining skills, so you guys come here to test me? Aren't you afraid that I'm a newbie on the road?" Liu Ping couldn't help but ask.

"There will be monsters tracking you when you wake up. This kind of treatment will only appear when the great monks are reincarnated." Hong Tao said.

"That's it." Liu Ping said.

Hong Tao continued: "To enter the thirty-ninth floor underground, you need at least Nascent Soul cultivation. Fellow Daoist Liu, you must seize the time to practice."

"That's right." Liu Ping said.

Hong Tao nodded towards Liu Ping and said, "It's settled for now. We'll meet again later."

A flame rose from his body and began to burn.

Liu Ping took a few steps back and looked at the body in the fire indifferently.

Once the body was destroyed, Hong Tao's soul left.

His soul will return to the person who refined the corpse.

From this, that person will know what is happening here.

Lean less.

Everything burns away.

The fire is extinguished and the body is destroyed.

"Fellow Daoist Hong..."

Liu Ping sighed and said in a low voice: "It is unwise for you to judge that I am the same as you just based on magic skills."

"Actually... I'm just proficient in all the magic in the world."