On the ruined street, Huang Yuanlong, holding a lamp, took his first step forward.

At first, his gait was extremely stiff; the coordination of his joints and limbs completely defied human physiology and kinematics, making him resemble a humanoid robot. Anyone who saw Huang Yuanlong like this would feel uneasy or even fearful, as if triggering the uncanny valley effect, seeing a soulless corpse moving...

As Huang Yuanlong walked, he became more and more fluent and smooth, more and more like a real person. Apart from occasionally making the wrong turn, he had almost no problems.

But Chen Jing, who was hiding nearby, quickly noticed the problem.

That means Huang Yuanlong has no shadow!

The lantern shining in front of it did not cast a shadow behind Huang Yuanlong, making it look extremely eerie and frightening.

“Besides the shadow, there are many other details. For example, when Huang Yuanlong moves, the relative position of the lantern and his body will change, thus creating different shadow areas... I simply cannot simulate these in real time. Huang Yuanlong is already the limit of my light illusion ability.”

"That's fine, at least it'll serve as bait."

Chen Jing guided Huang Yuanlong into the passage, while he followed behind 10 meters behind.

He was very nervous, planning to run away immediately if Huang Yuanlong in front of him was attacked.

However, that kind of accident did not happen.

Carrying lanterns, Huang Yuanlong and Chen Jing, whose movements were stiff and slow, successfully returned to the maggot-infested hall.

Chen Jing remained cautious and vigilant, carefully observing his surroundings as he made his way forward in secret.

Finally, after passing through the maggot-infested hall, going down the stairs, and returning to the location of the two former Song soldiers' corpses, Chen Jing made his way smoothly to the vicinity of the obelisk without being attacked.

Chen Jing breathed a sigh of relief and dispelled the illusion that was holding Huang Yuanlong.

"My spiritual energy and mental strength have been greatly depleted... I need to rest for a while and recover before continuing." Chen Jing thought wearily as he sat cross-legged near the obelisk, closed his eyes, and entered a meditative state.

Using noise invisibility has become almost instinctive for Chen Jing, as easy as breathing. Even when meditating or resting, Chen Jing can still maintain a noise-invisible state.

After an unknown amount of time, Chen Jing's spiritual power had almost fully recovered.

He opened his eyes and once again began weaving colors into the air not far away.

Having learned from his previous experience, Chen Jing created Huang Yuanlong much faster this time. Huang Yuanlong was sculpted by Chen Jing with a lantern in his left hand, a sword in his right, and a serious expression, trying his best to make anyone overlook many details when they first saw him.

Controlling Huang Yuanlong to move towards the sealed area, Chen Jing followed him while hiding in a noise-invisible state.

Ahead lay a dense, dark expanse.

Back then, when Li Si was divining the direction, he said that going to the sealed land would mean certain death.

However, Chen Jing saw in the source of darkness that many materials needed to perform the divine ritual, such as brushes, talismans, and cinnabar, had to be found in the sealed land.

“There must be some danger in the sealed area… That fake moon that caused the possession shouldn’t be a danger that could kill someone, right…” Chen Jing thought warily.

"Anyway, if anything happens, Huang Yuanlong will be the first to suffer." Chen Jing looked at the illusion he had created: "I'll adapt to the situation based on the crisis when it comes."

The phantom Huang Yuanlong carried a lantern and walked alone in the darkness.

The light pierced through his body, illuminating the rocky walls beside him and the dark abyss.

We returned to the main hall of the sealed site, where traces of the shooting still remained.

According to Chen Jing's previous analysis, there were intruders who entered through the door, which triggered a series of attacks. However, many of the bullets hit other corpses. Therefore, Chen Jing concluded that the people who invaded this place must have had many inside accomplices.

After leaving the hall, Chen Jing went down to the soldiers' dormitory, where he found the calligraphy brush, cinnabar, and other items he needed.

Chen Jing didn't dare go back to the room with the painting of the bright moon, fearing he would be possessed again, and instead went to other rooms.

Huang Yuanlong was just a phantom and could not actually push open the door, so Chen Jing did not dare to go to the rooms with closed doors, fearing that there was terrible danger behind the doors, and only dared to go to the rooms with open doors.

Chen Jing randomly chose a door and went inside.

The broken images he saw in the source of darkness, which contained items like writing brushes, only showed the structure of the soldiers' dormitories. In other words, Chen Jing didn't know which specific dormitories contained what he needed, so he had to search and check them one by one.

Entering a random room, Huang Yuanlong, the illusionist, stood in front of Chen Jing, his lantern illuminating the space.

Chen Jing's pupils suddenly contracted.

Inside the room, a bright white moon hangs prominently on the rock wall.

It was drawn with chalk, crooked and uneven, with the outline of a window drawn around it.

Chen Jing shivered and quickly retreated.

What exactly happened in the sealed land back then?

A bizarre attack in the lobby, a terrifying moon in the soldiers' barracks...

Although Mei Moke, who had already gone mad with demonic possession, provided many details that corresponded to much of the information I already knew, on one hand, he wasn't an insider of the sealed land, but rather the abbot of the Meijing Taoist Temple from outside; on the other hand, his purpose was to lower my guard and attack me, so he might have lied on crucial points that were difficult to verify...

There are thirteen compartments in total, each with four beds, so it can be assumed that there are fifty-two soldiers living here. Four of the compartments have their doors open, but the two compartments with open doors both contain the moon...

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