This thing is a bit creepy.

It looks like a monitor.

She chanted incantations, and the talisman unleashed a tremendous power, shattering the eyeball into powder in an instant.

The eerie feeling of being stared at lessened somewhat.

Nie Yuchen carefully examined the cave and said, "There are some here too."

No wonder they felt like they were being watched as soon as they arrived at this place.

I don't know how they did it.

Mingluo seemed to know what he was thinking and said calmly, "It's a method of soul-capturing, but the person who cast the spell only captured the ability to see within the soul."

Such methods exist in the realm of gods.

Some of these methods involve taking a person's entire soul; generally, one wouldn't do such a thing without deep-seated hatred.

Some evil cultivators use insidious methods, only absorbing a portion of the abilities from the other person's soul.

That's despicable.

If you get caught, you'll be skinned alive and tortured every day.

The methods of the divine realm have fallen into this low-level martial arts world...

Her worries deepened.

Could it really be Yan Zhen...?

Yan Zhen was her first disciple, and also the disciple to whom she devoted the most effort.

She really couldn't imagine what would happen if he went astray.

She suddenly felt melancholy, with an inexplicable emotion she couldn't express.

Raising a child means worrying for ninety-nine years of your life, even if you live to be a hundred.

Raising apprentices is the same; none of them are easy for her to handle.

She's already died once, so why is she still worried about them?

How many lifetimes of debt did she owe them...?

The two entered the cave and destroyed dozens of eyeballs along the way.

If we calculate based on one life per pair of eyeballs, this amounts to more than thirty lives.

Soon, the two arrived at the end of the cave, where there was another door, from which came the sound of chanting.

Push open the door.

It was indeed that group of people.

They also saw Mingluo, and their faces were filled with extreme anger, probably because they knew her eyeballs had been destroyed.

The crowd quickly stopped chanting and looked at Mingluo, their gazes sweeping over her. If looks could kill, Mingluo would probably have been killed a thousand times over.

Minglu glanced over at it.

What came into view was a huge statue, all white except for the lack of eyes, which looked incredibly lifelike.

In addition, the position in which these hundreds of people are kneeling is also very peculiar, subtly corresponding to the forty-seventh hexagram of the Dui Palace in the Eight Trigrams of Qiankun.

The hexagram text for the 47th hexagram is: Lake over Water (困), with Dui (兑) above and Kan

It means being trapped in a marsh.

This has created a trap.

In front of the statue was the coffin that the crowd had just carried. The coffin faintly smelled of blood, and there was also the scent of a living person inside.

Minglu's expression changed slightly. "There's someone inside!"

Human sacrifice is a major taboo in both the divine and mortal realms, and is considered an evil practice.

She never imagined that these reclusive families would resort to such disgusting tactics.

At that moment, the leader of those people took out a whistle, and a rustling sound came from afar in the darkness.

Soon, one by one, round, mouse-like creatures emerged from the cracks in the cave.

Those things had red eyes, and strangely, they had heads that looked like humans, with open mouths revealing gleaming white teeth.

They rushed towards Mingluo at lightning speed.

Mingluo was disgusted.

What is this?

"run!"

Nie Yuchen took Mingluo's hand and began to retreat.

The people inside the cave looked at them with gloating eyes.

Those things bypassed those people as if they didn't see them, and only chased after Mingluo and Nie Yuchen.

Minglu quickly realized what was happening.

"It's related to that white flower; it doesn't attack people who eat it."

"Then what do we do? We can't eat these flowers."

Nie Yuchen's eyes darkened slightly.

There's no way he and Mingluo would eat that white flower; if they did, they'd probably become just as strange as the villagers.

The two of them had been lingering in the dark cave for quite some time.

Nie Yuchen turned on his powerful flashlight to illuminate the way. The creatures, hiding deep in the mountains and having not seen the light for a long time, quickly retreated after being illuminated by the flashlight.

But this is not a long-term solution.

High-powered flashlights consume a lot of electricity and don't last long.

Mingluo lowered her head and sniffed the flower on her chest, smelling a faint, strange scent.

She had an idea and said, "Help me stall for a quarter of an hour. Just a quarter of an hour and I can get us out of here."