No wonder he always felt that something was wrong. It turned out that it was here.
How could such a long sect only have so few people? Even if many of the disciples had left the mountain, where were the people of the Great Snow Mountain? Furthermore, it was impossible for there to be no new Celestial Immortal disciples of the Great Snow Mountain.
Gu Zheng did not believe it. He guessed that the outside was just a simple scene. It was a place specially prepared for the new disciples, or for those with low cultivation.
If there was a hidden place, it was very likely that it was the hall at the top.
Among all the buildings, it was the only one that leaned against the mountain peak. Moreover, the width of the hall was several times larger than normal. Gu Zheng had thought that it was for the convenience of teaching, but now that he thought about it, there was no need to expand it for so many people. It could easily accommodate a few hundred people.
Thinking of this, Gu Zheng waited quietly, waiting for the elder to leave. Only then would he have a chance to sneak in.
He did not want to be the enemy of that mysterious organization, so it was better to keep a low profile.
However, for half a month, the elder seemed to live there and never came out. Only when he taught once every three days would the disciples gather and go in.
At other times, it was as if they were free to move around.
Just when Gu Zheng could not help but want to go in and check, a disciple of the Great Snow Mountain hurried up. Looking at his tired face, it seemed that he had something important to do.
Gu Zheng watched as he walked in. He waited for a moment, and then suddenly, in his perception, the auras of the elder who was stationed there and himself disappeared from that place.
Good chance!
Gu Zheng had been waiting patiently for a few days. Seeing this, he quickly flew in from the outside.
The whole hall was not as empty as Gu Zheng had imagined. On the two sides of the hall, there were nine human stone statues. Their heads were close to the roof, and in the middle, there was an even larger golden statue. It was in a dignified state of meditation. It seemed that he was the founder of the Great Snow Mountain.
There was a brown wooden table at the bottom, and some things were placed on it. Three faint incense candles were burning, and wisps of smoke exuded from them. Dozens of praying mats were placed at the bottom in a very orderly manner.
Everything inside could be seen at a glance, but Gu Zheng didn't find any hidden doors. It was well hidden.
However, not long after the other party left, Gu Zheng followed the other party's aura to the back of the huge statue. Looking at the flawless edges, Gu Zheng sneered.
Although he didn't know the exact method to enter, as long as he was sure that there was a mystery behind it, finding it wasn't a matter of time.
Furthermore, he didn't hear any unnecessary movements outside, so it was very likely that the switch was nearby.
Sure enough, after some careful searching, he finally found the switch under the wooden table.
As the switch was activated, a hole quietly opened from the edge. Gu Zheng walked in without hesitation.
As soon as he entered, a heavy pressure pressed down on his body from all directions. Gu Zheng's body gently flashed with a layer of light, and that layer of pressure disappeared.
However, if one did not have the strength of a Heavenly Immortal or above, an ordinary Fifth Stage would not be able to move at all. They could only be pressed to the ground, unable to move. If it was an ordinary person without any cultivation base, they would be crushed into meat paste by this pressure.
Inside, there was a fist-sized luminous pearl embedded at every set distance, illuminating this small passageway.
Following the crooked passageway, Gu Zheng walked up continuously. After an hour of dilly-dallying, he couldn't collide with the two people in front of him. Finally, he walked out of this passageway.
He appeared in a new place. Gu Zheng quickly glanced around, then dodged to the side of the hole and came to the back of a larger stone wall.
This place should be the edge of this mountain peak. It was a relatively large open space that had been opened up. The entire semicircle was a vast expanse of whiteness. Howling cold winds blew wildly outside, and snowflakes the size of raindrops were constantly falling from the sky.
Not far ahead was a cluster of buildings that were arranged in picturesque disorder. They were all white, and far behind them, there was a lake that glowed with a blue light. The auras of over twenty Heaven Immortals and several hundred ordinary people were mixed together in it.
However, Gu Zheng frowned. He did not sense Xue 'er's aura among the hundreds of people.
Perhaps the people here were already used to no one invading them. Thus, the defences here were not as good as the ones below. Thus, Gu Zheng grew bolder. Just as he was about to move forward, he noticed that the Heavenly Immortal from before was rushing back. It would appear that he had finished escorting the Heavenly Immortal back to the cave.
Looking at the white token on the Heavenly Immortal's waist, Gu Zheng gently reached out with his hand. The instant the Heavenly Immortal entered the cave and activated the defences, he unknowingly grabbed the token. He even created a very lifelike illusion that looked no different from this one. Even the weight of the token was taken into consideration. Unless the Heavenly Immortal tried to grab it, he would not be able to tell the difference.
Next, Gu Zheng changed into the same clothes as the Heavenly Immortal. However, there were several golden threads on the white clothes. He also made his face look slightly older, giving him the appearance of a middle-aged man in his forties. Just like that, he swaggered his way in.
Even this place needed some people to take care of it. Thus, he saw many servants along the way. Even the weakest of the servants was at least Tier 2. They were currently clearing away some snow.
Everyone who saw Gu Zheng would lower their heads slightly and stop what they were doing. They would only resume their work when Gu Zheng was far away.
Gu Zheng followed the aura to a relatively remote house. The Heavenly Immortal disciple from before was reporting something inside.
Unfortunately, there was a barrier blocking the outside, so Gu Zheng had no idea what he was talking about.
However, Gu Zheng had a plan. When the other party finished his report and was about to come out, Gu Zheng went to a nearby place to hide.
The disciple pushed open the door first and walked towards the residence of the nearby disciples. He also had a room here. After reporting his mission, he could go and rest for a while.
However, just as he turned the corner, an Elder appeared in front of him. Caught off guard, he bumped into Gu Zheng.
"I'm sorry, Elder. I'm sorry." The disciple hurriedly lowered his head and apologized.
"It's okay. I just happened to be walking here. You can get up and go back quickly." When the disciple heard this kind Elder say this, he felt the other party's hands lift his shoulders. The disciple was in a daze for a moment. Then, he woke up with a start.
"Thank you for your forgiveness, Elder." The Heavenly Immortal disciple said gratefully. He hurriedly bowed again and hurriedly walked around from the side to return to his room.
When he returned to his room, he suddenly remembered that he seemed to have bumped into someone on the road. However, he couldn't remember who he had bumped into. Or was it just his imagination?
Forget it. The Heavenly Immortal disciple decided to rest first. After all, he had been on the road for more than ten days. It was very tiring for him.
On the other side, Gu Zheng watched him leave. However, he had already obtained the information he wanted. Gu Zheng had used a secret technique that could forcibly read the memories of people with lower cultivation and make a backup copy.
However, it was too harmful, and it could only be used on very weak people. If he hadn't been sure that he was on the same side as the Goblin, Gu Zheng would definitely not have used such an evil thing.
In order to deal with such a weak person, Gu Zheng had quickly browsed through everything in his heart in the moment of contact. He knew his memories from when he was young.
The other party turned out to be an undercover Goblin. He had been successfully brainwashed by the people here since he was young. The matter that had just been reported was the matter of Zhao Man some time ago. It seemed that after Zhao Man defeated the other party, he had been invited to Feng City's Xu family.
The Elder himself was a Goblin. The original person had died long ago, and the Elder had replaced him. In his memory, he only knew this one Elder. However, Gu Zheng was sure that with so many people, there must have been other Goblin lurking among them. Moreover, there were many people who had been brainwashed by them.
The founder had left tens of thousands of years ago and had not returned until now. However, judging from the spiritual imprint left behind, at least he was still alive.
Otherwise, no matter how bold the Goblin was, he would not have dared to lurk in so brazenly.
However, Gu Zheng was not interested in this at the moment. Although he wanted to catch all these monsters in one fell swoop, he did not remember the group of old monsters that Bei Chen had mentioned. Moreover, the most important thing now was to rescue Xiang Xiang.
It seemed that he had wronged Lan Xing because what he said was true. Because Xue Er was indeed imprisoned here. Because Xue Er was captured by the people of the Snow Mountain.
The place where she was imprisoned was in the lake behind. Gu Zheng's figure quickly swept towards the back.
Behind this building, at the end of the other direction, there was a huge blue lake. The water in the lake was drawn from the ten-thousand-year-old snow at the top of the mountain by the founder. Drop by drop, it was drawn down from a natural crevice. It took tens of thousands of years for it to reach such a scale.
Moreover, except for certain people, no one was allowed to go near the lake behind. That thing could even freeze a Celestial Immortal into a lump of ice if he accidentally touched it. Those disciples would shatter into pieces if they touched it.
Even during normal times, there would be a few people specially guarding this place. In the past, there would always be arrogant people who were not afraid of death and wanted to try. However, without exception, all of them died as a wisp of vengeful spirit.
In order to prevent such situations, a special magic array was set up later on. Only then did those disciples who sneaked down secretly.
Only the Elder's token could open it. Due to the uniqueness of their cultivation methods, sometimes they would need to be led down to undergo some tempering. This was because there was a small secret realm below.
"Elder!" When Gu Zheng went over, the few disciples guarding the side shouted one after another. They also made way for the only passage. Beside them was a wall that had been built a long time ago. However, it was proven that it was not very useful.
Gu Zheng did not say anything. He took out the token from behind his back and infused it with magic power. A layer of faint white light enveloped him. After passing through that layer of invisible restriction, Gu Zheng arrived at the lakeside.
In fact, Gu Zheng had seen from afar that the entire lake was surrounded by dense Frigid Ice Grass. However, when he arrived here, Gu Zheng discovered that he actually did not know how to enter the secret realm below.
According to the memories of that Snow Mountain disciple, although he had also entered, the Elder who had led them had used magic to open the passage.
If Gu Zheng were to foolishly jump down like this, even if he turned the sky upside down, he would still not be able to find the entrance.
Gu Zheng had also known this before. However, he had held onto a glimmer of hope. His cultivation level was too high. If he could capture the fluctuations of the entrance to the secret realm, wouldn't that save him a lot of trouble?
Unfortunately, Gu Zheng regretfully discovered that he had thought too much. His Divine Sense could not even penetrate ten feet below the surface of the water, let alone find the entrance to the secret realm.
Gu Zheng looked at the bottomless lake. He did not think about going down personally. If he wanted to carefully search here for a day, even if he could resist the cold ice, he would not be able to complete it without a month's time.
Therefore, after Gu Zheng pretended to take the two Frigid Ice Grass, he left this time. The people guarding here did not suspect anything at all.
According to the memories that Gu Zheng obtained from that disciple, in less than a week, another group of elite disciples would go to the bottom of the lake to gain experience. Gu Zheng was ready to hide and wait until that time to blend in.
On the other side, the immortals that Gu Zheng had stolen were meditating in the hall. Suddenly, the two statues suddenly opened their eyes. Their bodies trembled, and their bodies shrunk rapidly, turning into two normal human appearances. After each of them took out a huge statue, they replaced the two immortals.
If one looked carefully, these two statues were slightly different from their human forms. It felt more suitable to be here.
Such a big movement, of course, startled the immortals here.
However, he was not surprised. Instead, he quietly stood aside and watched them complete everything.
"Left Guardian, Right Guardian, what's going on?" The immortal respectfully stood aside and asked.
"The person hiding behind that demon woman came out. Just now, he sneaked in behind you and took away your waist token." The Left Guardian, whose face was completely green, said.
The Right Guardian began to wave his hand continuously. Little stars constantly appeared in the sky, eliminating the traces left by the two immortals.
"What!" The immortal turned pale with fright and touched behind him. Sure enough, what he touched was only an illusion. Although he felt that there was something behind him, it was actually empty.
"Left Guardian, is there really someone?" The immortal said in disbelief. He himself did not realize that the other party wanted to kill him. Thinking of this, his head was covered in cold sweat.
The Green-faced Left Protector quickly took out some things and said, "Of course, but don't make it public. We originally planned to do this here. We have already set up a trap for him and are just waiting for him to come."
Soon, the two guardians took out the clothes they took out and changed into two sets of Snow Mountain's inner sect disciple clothes. However, the pattern on the chest changed into a blue three horizontal bars, indicating that they were disciples with Level Three authority.
The two of them simply decorated their faces and restrained their aura. Then, they became Snow Mountain's disciples. Even the rings on their hands were exactly the same. Not a single detail was missed.
"Okay, you just have to act as if nothing happened. Don't tell anyone about the loss of your token. Wait for us to come back." The Right Guardian instructed.
"Yes, Master." After the immortal helped them open the passage, the two guardians quickly flew inside. When the wall returned to its original state, they continued to guard the place as if nothing had happened.
Very quickly, a few days passed. The snow was still falling from the sky. With the appearance of the elders, more than 20 elite disciples of Snow Mountain came out of their rooms. According to their lessons, this time it was their turn to go under the blue lake to purify their bodies.
However, in one of the rooms, a Snow Mountain disciple was about to go out when a figure suddenly appeared beside him. Before he could make a sound, his vision turned black and he fainted.
Gu Zheng stood behind him and chuckled. The treatment of these Snow Mountain disciples was pretty good. Each of them had a small house. There were only a little over a hundred people in total, but there were actually twice as many people taking care of this place. It seemed that not only were they all talented, but their lives were also very comfortable.
However, this was convenient for Gu Zheng. After locking onto a slower Snow Mountain disciple, he directly knocked him unconscious. After making sure that he would not wake up for seven days, Gu Zheng put him on the bed. Gu Zheng changed his face and hurried out.
When Gu Zheng arrived, almost everyone had gathered and was waiting for him.
Gu Zheng saw that everyone was looking at him strangely, but Gu Zheng did not care. He hurried to the back and waited for his teacher to lead the way.
Snow Mountain was led by an elder. On average, there were about two students a year. If their performance was bad, they might be asked to leave, so everyone worked very hard.
"What's going on? Cheng Yi, although you're usually slow, why are you so slow this time? Even the teacher almost got angry. "A person who seemed to be his friend said.
"Something happened. Otherwise, it wouldn't be like this." Gu Zheng did not know the other person's name, so he vaguely said.
"So it's like this. Try not to be late next time. The teacher doesn't like it." The person advised again and did not say anything else.
A group of people walked towards the blue lake. The whole group, except for some movement at the beginning, did not speak at all. Soon, they arrived beside the blue lake.
It was not the first time that they had gone down there, so they were not curious. Gu Zheng was different. He opened his eyes wide and watched the teacher's movements. He wanted to secretly learn something, just in case it could be useful.
Unfortunately, a special frequency appeared in the air, accompanied by the celestial's dazzling hand gestures, which made Gu Zheng give up.
After the teacher changed a few hand gestures, a dazzling white light was emitted from his hand and entered the blue lake.
The white light's penetrating power was very strong. It clearly left a white mark on the lake's surface and shot to the bottom.
After waiting for a few breaths, ripples suddenly appeared on the calm surface of the lake. Circles of blue ripples continuously appeared, and the ripples were the most obvious at the center, as if spring water was gurgling outwards.
Layers of blue light appeared from the center. Soon, a blue circle of light was formed in midair, constantly spinning above.
"Let's go." The teacher took out a jade ruler and gently placed it on the shore. As the white light on it shone brightly, the jade ruler suddenly elongated, forming a jade bridge that connected to the circle of light. It was just enough for one person to walk through.
Without needing him to say anything, the disciples lined up behind him and jumped into the circle of light.
The center of the circle of light flashed, and one by one, they disappeared from midair and entered the secret territory.
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