Chapter 872

After infusing it with Qi, the fragment of the Book of the Earth shone with a murky light. The light flowed like water, igniting one incantation after another.

Xu Qi 'an and Luo Yuheng jumped onto the stone platform in unison. The next moment, the murky light expanded soundlessly, swallowed the two of them, and took them away from the stone room.

Once again in the dark environment, Xu Qi 'an's body tensed up, as if he was facing a great enemy. He couldn't help but recall the last time he' died 'without a sound.

He thought of that terrifying, unstoppable pressure.

At this moment, he felt a light tap on his arm with a horsetail whisk. Luo Yuheng's voice resounded in his ears, "Follow behind me!"

The horsetail whisk tapped him again, as if telling him to follow.

It's too dark, I can't see clearly at all. If I reach forward, will I be able to touch aunty's butt? I'll probably be killed on the spot … he thought as he slowly walked forward.

The tunnel was silent and long. After walking for a quarter of an hour, Xu Qi 'an's heart tightened. He braced himself for the terrifying sound of breathing and the pressure as heavy as Mount Tai.

However, there was nothing in front of him. It was calm.

Hmm?

Without batting an eyelid, he followed Luo Yuheng and continued walking. A few minutes later, a faint but pure golden light appeared in front of them.

This is where I 'died' the last time, Xu Qi 'an muttered in his heart. He stopped in place and didn't move.

He believed that with Luo Yuheng's methods and cultivation, she wouldn't need him to remind her. If there was any danger, she would be able to deal with it.

Moreover, this is only a clone of her … Eh, if her clone can't deal with it, won't my real body be doomed? As he thought about it, Xu Qi 'an suddenly froze.

As his imagination ran wild, he suddenly saw Luo Yuheng's body emit a golden light. It was bright but not dazzling, illuminating the surrounding darkness.

Aunty turned her head. Her exquisite facial features were like a golden statue. She said lightly, "There's nothing strange here. There's only a monk."

Nothing strange?! Xu Qi 'an was stunned again.

Where's the terrifying pressure and the terrifying sound of breathing?

With doubts in his mind, he and Luo Yuheng approached the golden light that exuded a Buddhist aura.

As they got closer, they saw that there was a spacious chamber in front of them. In the center of the chamber was a stone bed and a bronze pill furnace. Beside the stone bed was a chasm.

A tall and sturdy monk sat cross-legged on the stone bed. A golden, fist-sized bead floated above his head.

His eyes were closed, and there were no signs of life.

Master Hengyuan … Xu Qi 'an felt a sharp pain in his chest, as if his heart was being torn apart.

In an instant, various scenes of Heng Yuan's past flashed in his mind. He remembered how embarrassed he was when he asked for money, and how serious he was when he took care of the widows in the Shenyang Hall …

Luo Yuheng stared at the fist-sized bead for a while and said, "Sarira, a Dao Seat condensed by a Stage 2 Arhat."

"Realm, he's just faking his death." She paused and looked at Xu Qi 'an.

"It's just a fake death …" Xu Qi 'an's surging sorrow suddenly stopped. He heaved a sigh of relief and turned to ask,

"Sarira is an Arhat Fruit, but Hengyuan can't be a Grade 2 master."

Unless Hengy Yuan was a hidden second-grade master of Buddhism, but that was obviously impossible.

Luo Yuheng said,

"Five hundred years ago, Buddhism flourished in the Central Plains. It must have been left by an eminent monk of that time. As for why he has Realm, it's either he's the reincarnation of an Arhat, or he got a Realm by chance. "

Xu Qi 'an frowned. "I heard that Arhats are immortal."

After saying that, he cursed inwardly, "The cultivation system of Buddhism is much more stable than that of Daoism. You three sects of Daoism are completely unorthodox."

Luo Yuheng glanced at him and said lightly,

"In the Zen Master system of Buddhism, a fourth-grade ascetic monk is the foundation. An ascetic monk has to make a great wish. The greater the wish, the higher the Realm.

"According to the different Realm, there's the difference between Arhat and Bodhisattva. Once the Realm is formed, it can't be changed. In other words, an Arhat will always be an Arhat, not a first-grade Bodhisattva.

"So, there's the method of reincarnation. If an Arhat wants to become a first-grade Bodhisattva, he must be reincarnated and give up everything in this life. Every reincarnation of an Arhat, Buddhism will try its best to find him and implant the Realm's Realm Relic into his body to protect him.

"Five hundred years ago, the Confucian school pushed for the destruction of Buddhism and forced Buddhism to return to the Western Regions. This Realm's Realm Relic is likely to be left behind. Therefore, this monk might have obtained the Realm Relic by chance. He might not necessarily be the reincarnation of an Arhat. "

This was Hengy Yuan's secret. This was the reason why the Jinlian Taoist priest had given him the Nether Tome fragment … Regardless of whether Hengy Yuan was the reincarnation of an Arhat or had obtained the Realm Relic by chance, his future achievements would definitely not be low … The Realm Relic had a spirit and protected Master Hengy Yuan from danger? Xu Qi'an suddenly understood.

At the same time, he remembered that Dhu Lohan had called him an Arhat.

Did Du 'e suspect that he was the reincarnation of an Arhat?

As his thoughts flew, Luo Yuheng stretched out her finger and gently touched the Realm Relic.

She was using a Daoist secret technique to awaken the Primordial Spirit. It was not offensive.

The Realm Relic gently rippled with a soft halo.

A few seconds later, Xu Qi'an heard the dead heart in Hengy Yuan's chest beating again and began to pump blood. After another ten seconds, the big monk's eyelids trembled as he opened them.

"Prince Xu? State Preceptor? "

After looking around blankly, Hengy Yuan saw Xu Qi'an and Luo Yuheng, who was emitting a bright golden light.

"Master, you're really lucky!" Xu Qi'an laughed.

Hengy Yuan was just about to speak when he was suddenly shocked. He gave off the feeling that he was a cat with hair standing on end. He quickly looked in the direction of the bronze alchemy furnace, but there was no one there.

The erect "cat hair" slowly retracted. Hengy Yuan gently exhaled, and his brows relaxed a lot.

Hengy Yuan's reaction made Xu Qi'an feel a little frightened. He thought about it for a moment and briefly explained how he discovered the secret passage and how he sought help from the State Preceptor.

Then he asked, "What happened to you here?"

Only now, after listening to Xu Qi'an's description and verifying the details, did Hengy Yuan believe that the two people in front of him were real.

He immediately swallowed the Realm Relic, put his palms together, and said, "After I was taken away by Duke Huai's secret agents, they sent me here through the teleportation formation of Count Pingyuan's Mansion. Here, here … "

At this point, he revealed an extremely frightened expression, "There's an evil being living here."

Evil being?!

Xu Qi'an's expression changed slightly. The muscles on his back tensed up, and his hair stood on end.

"He wanted to eat me, but because of the Realm Relic, he didn't succeed. But the Realm Relic couldn't do anything to him either. In fact, sooner or later, he would refine it. In order to fight against him, I fell into a deathly stillness and used all my strength to activate the Realm Relic. "Hengy Yuan's face was full of bitterness and hatred.

"What does he look like?" Xu Qi'an hurriedly asked.

"The feeling he gave me was very similar to that of the Earth Sect's Demon Dao. His eyes were filled with malice, as if one look at him would make me fall with him. Cruelty, greed, lust … all sorts of evil thoughts grew in me. This was also the reason why I chose to enter the 'Nirvana' state. If I didn't do this, I wouldn't have been able to maintain my true nature while fighting against him, "Hengy Yuan said with lingering fear.

As expected, it was another clone of the Earth Sect's Dao Head! Xu Qi'an subconsciously looked at Luo Yuheng and saw that she was also looking at him. Realization dawned on both of them.

"Then where is he?"

Xu Qi'an's gaze swept across the stone room and found something unusual. The secret room was sealed, and there was no path to the surface.

He immediately looked at the abyss to the right of the stone bed, suspecting that the guy was at the bottom of the abyss.

Hengy Yuan frowned, "Not long ago, I felt the pressure outside suddenly disappear …"

He also looked at the abyss.

Luo Yuheng flew up lightly and dove into the abyss.

After about five minutes, Luo Yuheng came up on a golden light. For the first time, Xu Qi'an saw extreme anger in her eyes and expression.

"State Preceptor?" He called out tentatively.

"It's safe down there," Luo Yuheng said expressionlessly.

What was at the bottom of the abyss that made her look so pale? Xu Qi'an was puzzled and asked for her opinion, "I want to go down and take a look."

Luo Yuheng's exquisite lips curled up into a cold smile. "Up to you."

Xu Qi'an jumped into the abyss and did a free landing exercise. Ten seconds later, he smashed himself into the bottom of the abyss with a loud bang.

'This Warrior is really vulgar. He's not cool at all …' Xu Qi'an thought to himself. Then, he heard a loud bang behind him. Hengy Yuan had also smashed himself into the abyss.

'Martial monks are also vulgar!' Xu Qi'an added in his mind.

Hengy Yuan had no idea that he was being mocked by your excellency Xu. He opened his mouth and spat out a Sarira. A soft yet solemn golden light broke through the darkness, allowing the two to see the scene below.

Xu Qi'an's face froze.

As far as the eye could see, the ground was littered with corpses. Skulls, ribs, leg bones, hand bones … They were all piled up into a mountain of corpses.

It was hard to estimate how many people had died here. Over the years, there were piles of bones.

These were the people that Count Pingyuan had abducted from Jing City and its surrounding areas in the last forty years.

There were men, women, and even children.

They were sent to the underground of the Imperial Palace, above the Dragon Vein, where they were killed for some unknown reason.

"How many people have died here in the last forty years …" Xu Qi'an's face twitched as he gritted his teeth and said, "Bastard!"

He felt as if he had returned to Chu Zhou City, back to Zheng Xinghuai's memory of the people who had fallen like weeds.

"Amitabha …"

Hengy Yuan put his palms together and chanted the name of Buddha. His burly body was trembling uncontrollably.

He had always been compassionate, but his heart was surging with monstrous anger, the anger of a Vajra subduing a demon.

He was not trembling because of fear, but because of anger.

After a long time, Xu Qi'an calmed himself down and looked at a place that was not covered by the bones. It was a giant stone plate with strange runes carved on it.

"Is this teleportation array the only way to the outside world?"

"Did the Dao Master of the Earth Sect leave through it?"

"Why did he leave? Why did he choose to leave at this time? Did I alert him last time?"

"Imperial Advisor!"

He looked up and shouted.

A golden light descended from above. Luo Yuheng floated in the air and looked down at them, the abyss, and the mountains of bones.

Luo Yuheng said lightly, "You might have alerted him last time, so he chose to leave. Throw the Book of the Earth over there. I will teleport to the other side to check out the situation. Go back now and wait for me at Count Pingyuan's mansion. "

The other side of the array might be a trap.

She might as well be a clone. If she was gone, then so be it. She did not mind being used as cannon fodder. As long as she cut off the connection between her main body and her clone in time, she could avoid being contaminated by the Earth Sect's Taoist Chief.

Xu Qi'an took out the Book of the Earth fragment and sent it to the stone plate with his Qi. Then, he infused it with Qi.

A murky light lit up the runes and activated the teleportation array.

Luo Yuheng turned into a golden light and flew towards the teleportation array. When she touched the light, her body suddenly disappeared and was teleported to the other side of the array.

Xu Qi'an recalled the Book of the Earth fragment and quickly left the secret room with Hengy Yuan. They sprinted through the tunnel and teleported back to Count Pingyuan's mansion.

The two left the stone room and walked out of the fake mountain. While there was still time, Xu Qi'an told Hengy Yuan about the "relationship" between the Yuanjing Emperor and the Earth Sect's Taoist Chief, as well as the secret case.

He also told him that the Jinlian Taoist priest was the good will of the Earth Sect's Taoist Chief.

Hengy Yuan was speechless for a long time. He sighed and said, "I see. I always thought it was strange that the Jinlian Taoist priest could entangle the Demonic Thought of a Second Grade Master. Hmm, how did your excellency Xu get the Book of the Earth fragment? "

Xu Qi'an's expression was normal. "Erlang went to the north to fight, so I'll keep the Book of the Earth fragment number three for now."

Master Hengy Yuan, you are my last stubbornness …

Hengy Yuan, who trusted your excellency Xu very much, nodded without the slightest doubt.

They waited in the back garden for a long time until a golden light invisible to ordinary people flew over and landed on the fake mountain.

Luo Yuheng stood on the fake mountain and shook her head gently. "That's an uninhabited house in the inner city."

An uninhabited house? The other side was not the palace, but an uninhabited house?

Xu Qi'an fell silent.

The Earth Sect's Taoist Chief had already left. This … this was too decisive. Where did he go? Just because he was alarmed by me, he fled in fright?

Or did he go to the palace?

What about the Supervisor? Did the Supervisor know that he had left? Would the Supervisor sit back and watch him enter the palace?

Luo Yuheng saw that he was silent for a long time and asked, "Did the trail end again?"

Xu Qi'an shook his head and then nodded. "The Earth Sect's Taoist Chief's doppelganger must have retreated. Maybe I alerted him when I first explored. But I don't understand why he left in such a hurry and didn't take good care of his hiding place. "

Hengy Yuan frowned. "Maybe the Earth Sect's Taoist Chief has achieved his goal and the situation in the capital has nothing to do with him?"

Xu Qi'an looked at him. "How do you know that he has achieved his goal? However, if the Earth Sect's Taoist Chief doesn't care about the Yuanjing Emperor's situation, then he can indeed leave in a carefree manner. "

Xu Qi'an rubbed his face and exhaled. "Forget it, I'll look for the Supervisor."

With the Earth Sect's Taoist Chief's departure, there were no more clues for the case. Although the Earth Sect's Taoist Chief did not personally admit to it, Xu Qi'an's speculations were ultimately just speculations, but that was not important.

The piles of bones in the ground were the most important evidence.

Duke Wei was not around, so he could only look for the Supervisor to handle the matter. He was afraid that the Supervisor would refuse to see him like last time.

"Now that I think about it, the Supervisor knows about this. Otherwise, how could it be so coincidental that he didn't want to see me when I wanted to explore the Dragon Vein. But I don't understand why he just stood by and watched. "He said in a low voice.

Luo Yuheng frowned. "It doesn't make sense."

Xu Qi'an was about to speak when he felt someone slapping the back of his head. He rubbed his head and took out the Earth Book fragment.

Earth Book fragment number one sent a private message to number three.

'I really want to slap the back of the goddess's head …' He thought to himself but chose to accept it.

[One: I'm at the Xu Mansion, come back quickly.]

[Three: What's the matter? Oh right, I've rescued Hengy Yuan.]

Huaiqing did not respond for a long time. After a long time, she replied with a puzzled tone: [Safe and sound?]

Was she referring to the fact that they had safely rescued the man?

[Three: There is indeed no danger. We can discuss the details in person. Oh right, why are you looking for me?]

[One: There's a problem with your case, we'll talk about it when we get back.]