Chapter 795
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After returning to Chiang Rai, he didn't see Li Xuan and Worm Dugu return. It was likely that the two of them had yet to return from the Ice Silkworm Gu King.
Gu Shanshui wanted to think of a way to get a container to rear the Corpse Bug, so he returned to Mong Hsat overnight.
Zhou Wen didn't go to Mong Hsat with Gu Shanshui. He decided to head there in a few days to retrieve the calabash.
The reason he chose to stay was because he wanted to go to the Xiao family to take a look and figure out the matter between Xiao Si and Wang Chan.
Li Mobai planned on staying in Chiang Rai for a few more days before heading to Mong Hsat with Zhou Wen.
At night, Zhou Wen used the Invisibility Cloak and headed for the Xiao family. He planned on infiltrating the Xiao family to see if he could find out anything.
The Xiao family lived in an exotic manor. Before arriving at the manor, Zhou Wen discovered a problem. There were many Gu lurking in the grass on both sides of the road. If it wasn't for Zhou Wen's Supreme Hell King Life Soul and Truth Listener's ability, which allowed his senses to reach an extremely high level, it would have been very difficult for ordinary people to discover the Gu.
"Xiao clan is really careful, they even placed Gu worms outside the manor." Zhou Wen didn't know much about Gu. He didn't know which Gu relied on smell to distinguish enemies and which Gu relied on sound to distinguish enemies. Therefore, he flew into the manor from the sky to avoid alarming the Gu.
However, after entering the manor, Zhou Wen realized that although the manor's layout was very tight, this was only the periphery of the Xiao family. Behind the manor was a valley. It was a dimensional zone. The true core of the Xiao family was built in a dimensional zone.
Using Truth Listener's ability to constantly scan, he found all the hidden mechanisms and arrangements of the Xiao family.
The entrance of the dimensional zone was guarded by the Xiao family's guards, but that was secondary. It was impossible for four Legendary humans to see through Zhou Wen's invisibility.
What caught Zhou Wen's attention was that there was a statue placed at the entrance of the dimensional zone. The statue looked sinister. It was a Buddha statue, but it was different from the Buddha statues he had seen in Dragon Gate Grotto. Not only did it look ferocious and terrifying, but it also had a vertical eye at its glabella. It held a strange fork in its hand.
In any case, Zhou Wen had never seen such a Buddha statue before. However, his sculpting technique was in the style of Buddhism. There was a Buddhistic glow carved on his back.
Zhou Wen could vaguely sense an aura similar to Kuman Thong from the Buddha statue.
"The visual system of a spirit body is somewhat different from that of a human. It's not just based on body shape. I reckon that ordinary invisibility would not be able to fool that Buddha statue." Zhou Wen directly activated the Wheel of Destiny of the Invisibility Cloak and completely concealed his body before entering the dimensional zone.
The guards and Buddha statues didn't discover him as he successfully entered the valley. The moment he entered the valley, he found it difficult to breathe as though there was no oxygen in the valley.
Zhou Wen didn't discover any Gu and immediately knew that it was the taboo power of this dimensional zone. All he could do was switch to the Heaven-Opening Scripture of the Highest Elder. Indeed, he no longer felt suffocated.
Although he didn't have Supreme Hell King's sharp senses, it was the same with Truth Listener. Zhou Wen used Truth Listener to scan the entire valley before quickly moving in.
As the Invisibility Cloak's Wheel of Destiny only had a three-minute time limit, he had to figure out the situation in the dimensional zone in these three minutes.
Zhou Wen originally imagined that there would be all sorts of Gu in such a valley, but there weren't. There was only one temple in the valley, but the style was very different from the temples in Luoyang. It was obvious that it was the local style of Chiang Rai.
He couldn't see a single person outside the temple, but he saw quite a number of people inside. They were likely disciples of the Xiao family. Some were practicing their techniques, while others were commanding Gu. It was rather lively.
When Zhou Wen entered the temple's yard, he felt no reaction from the Heaven-Opening Scripture of the Highest Elder. He knew that there was no taboo power here.
As he trusted the guards of the manor outside and the taboo power in the valley, the defenses inside the temple weren't that tight. Zhou Wen looked around the temple and realized that the deities consecrated in the temple hall weren't the Buddhist mighty figures that Zhou Wen was familiar with. Instead, they were dolls that looked different.
"The ones consecrated here are all Kuman Thong and Kuman Nee?" Zhou Wen scanned the area and saw many dolls in the shape of men and women. He roughly knew what they were.
Zhou Wen wasn't interested in these things as he rushed to the backyard. He didn't have much time left. Although he wasn't afraid of being exposed, it would be impossible for him to eavesdrop on them if he was exposed.
The temple was rather large and there were many courtyards inside. Each courtyard consecrated a different Kuman Thong, making them look eerie and terrifying.
Zhou Wen had always felt that these religious buildings weren't aesthetically pleasing. No matter what kind of religious building it was, it gave him an uneasy feeling.
Along the way, although he encountered quite a number of people from the Xiao family, they didn't say anything that interested Zhou Wen. Seeing that the three-minute time limit was up, Zhou Wen realized that there was no one in a nearby courtyard, so he entered it first.
After entering the yard, the three-minute invisibility ended. Zhou Wen was wearing the Invisibility Cloak, so he could only achieve the effect of invisibility. His body didn't vanish.
Thankfully, there wasn't anyone here. The courtyard wasn't big, and there was only a temple hall inside. The door was open, and strangely, there was a black cloth hanging in front of the door.
Zhou Wen used Truth Listener to scan the interior and realized that the interior of the tiny temple hall was eerie and terrifying. The decorations inside were very simple. There was a wooden table with a Kuman Thong.
The Kuman Thong's body was like jade. It was curled into a ball and there was a crystal container outside. The yellow liquid inside the container enveloped the Kuman Thong. Now, Zhou Wen roughly knew that it was Corpse Oil.
Seeing that there was nothing inside, Zhou Wen didn't enter. He turned around and was about to continue searching the temple when he suddenly saw a girl standing in front of him at some point in time.
The girl didn't look very old, at most eighteen or nineteen years old. She wore strange clothes and looked rather delicate, but for some reason, there was a sinister feeling about her. At that moment, she was staring coldly at Zhou Wen.
Zhou Wen felt his hair stand on end when he was stared at by the girl.
Did she see me? Zhou Wen was thinking about how to deal with such a situation.
The other party was only a girl who had no grudges with him. If Zhou Wen were to draw his saber and kill her, he wouldn't be able to do it.
However, the girl was also very strange. She only stared coldly at Zhou Wen without shouting or screaming.
Could it be that she didn't see me? Zhou Wen suspected as he tried taking two steps to the left.
The girl's pupils shifted to the left with his movements. When Zhou Wen took a few steps to the right, the girl's pupils shifted to the right again. She kept staring at him, clearly able to see the invisible Zhou Wen.
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