Zhang Jiang looked at the scene in shock.

It's not that he had never seen cultivators before. The person who arranged for them to enter that haunted place was a cultivator from the imperial capital.

But even those practitioners in the imperial capital were easily swallowed up by the vast amount of ghost fog and evil spirits when facing the ghost den.

But the sword that just appeared in front of them not only killed the evil ghost, but the powerful sword force directly tore the entire ghost den apart, leaving a wound of hundreds of meters.

The ghost fog around them was completely dispelled, and the feeling of having their vitality drained away. At this moment, the two could finally feel their bodies recovering vitality, and a hint of color finally appeared on their pale faces.

At this moment, a young man in white robes with a noble temperament floated down from the sky, followed by a beautiful silver-haired woman and a noble young man.

The visitors were naturally Shen Yuan and his group.

Just now, he casually slashed with his sword and saved Zhang Jiang and Cheng Hu.

Shen Yuan naturally didn't take the evil ghost in the Qi Transformation Realm seriously, but what made him curious was that the evil ghost seemed to have just transformed from a human into a ghost not long ago, and mentioned the method of corpse transformation in its words.

Before Shen Yuan could speak, Xue Mingzhi, who was standing beside him, took the initiative to step forward and asked the two of them:

"Who are you? Why are you here?"

Zhang Jiang and Cheng Hu looked at each other, and finally Zhang Jiang took the initiative to stand up and said:

"Your Excellency the Cultivator, we are members of the Red Ox Mountaineering Team."

As he spoke, Zhang Jiang also showed the logo on his mountaineering clothes to identify himself.

Hearing this reply, Xue Mingzhi was a little surprised and immediately turned to explain to Shen Yuan:

"The Chiniu Mountaineering Team is a team formed by a group of mountaineering experts from the public. It has recruited the most outstanding climbers in Daxia and often conducts extreme sports to climb some dangerous mountains and rivers.

On Daxia’s network, the Chiniu Mountaineering Team is extremely popular.”

After explaining, Xue Mingzhi continued to ask: "Chi Niu Mountaineering Team? Why are you here?"

Zhang Jiang showed a bitter smile:

“Three days ago, we received an invitation from several powerful families in the imperial capital to explore the core valley of Beimang Mountain.

The Beimang Mountain Valley has left many legends in history. Our Chiniu Mountaineering Team also went to the valley a few years ago. Apart from finding some corpses, there was no danger.

Faced with the invitation from the powerful families, many people in the mountaineering team wanted to establish connections with these families, so they took on this mission, and all 23 members of the mountaineering team participated. "

“Normally we need to make various preparations before climbing a mountain, and sometimes it even takes several months.

However, the powerful and aristocratic families forced us to complete the preparations within one day. To this end, they provided us with a lot of equipment and material conveniences, some of which were high-tech things we had never even seen or heard of.

Under these circumstances, we arrived at the top of Beimang Mountain yesterday, ready to enter the valley through the only entrance.”

Having said that, Zhang Jiang subconsciously looked towards the direction of the top of the mountain, and suddenly deep regret and fear rose in his eyes.

“But after arriving at the scene, many members of the mountaineering team have begun to regret their decision.

Because on the top of Beimang Mountain, we saw many practitioners who we had only seen on the Internet. They were able to fly in the air and use all kinds of wonderful magic weapons. They could easily split mountains and rocks with a wave of their hands.

These practitioners erected many stone pillars with patterns painted on them on the outskirts of the valley. They looked like the formations mentioned on the Internet. After seeing this scene, we realized that this was definitely not a simple climb.

But now that we are here, it is too late to withdraw. We are not qualified to refuse those dignitaries and practitioners."

Hearing the regretful story, Shen Yuan couldn't help but look at Xue Mingzhi and said:

"Could he be talking about the several noble families in the imperial capital who explored the ancient forbidden land some time ago?"

Xue Mingzhi also reacted at this moment and asked Zhang Jiang:

"The powerful people in the imperial capital you are talking about, are they the Liu family and the Cao family?"

Zhang Jiang shook his head blankly: "I only know that they are big shots in the imperial capital, but I don't know which family they are from."

At this time, Cheng Hu on the side spoke:

"When we were at the camp on the top of the mountain, we heard someone calling a cultivator Liu Yang."

As soon as these words came out, Xue Mingzhi's eyes fixed and he nodded towards Shen Yuan and said, "Liu Yang is a Qi Transformation Realm cultivator from Tangshanbo Liu's family. He should be them without a doubt."

After confirming the other party's identity, Shen Yuan became even more curious.

The imperial capital family had already suffered a loss in the ancient forbidden land and lost a lot of young monks. Now they sent these ordinary people from the Red Ox Mountaineering Team into the ancient forbidden land. Perhaps it was related to the several ordinary tour guides who escaped the first time.

On the other side, Xue Mingzhi casually cast a meditation spell to calm Zhang Jiang's emotions, and then signaled Zhang Jiang to continue speaking.

Zhang Jiang swallowed his saliva and continued:

“According to the request of those practitioners, we have to observe whether there is anything abnormal in the valley, and by the way, find a few corpses and bring them out of the valley.

We entered the valley at noon, when the sun was still in the sky. We searched the valley for most of the day but did not find the so-called corpse or abnormalities.

We set up camp at night and lit a bonfire, preparing to stay there overnight and leave the valley the next day.

Who would have thought that after we all fell asleep at night, something strange happened."

When he said this, Zhang Jiang's body trembled, and the blood color that had originally recovered disappeared immediately, and his eyes were filled with fear.

“First, one of our teammates who was on night watch disappeared, and then some people began to hear strange noises in their ears.

That voice told us to kill other teammates as sacrifices, so that we could retain our spiritual intelligence and become ghost cultivators. As that voice sounded, a large amount of fog began to appear around the camp. "

“Everyone was frightened by the sound, and they all said that the monster behind was just playing tricks to scare people. If it really could kill us, it would have done it long ago.

Everyone was ready to gather together to guard against monsters, and as soon as daybreak came they would leave the valley and tell the practitioners.

However, this night was unusually long, and all of our timekeeping tools were broken. The valley was shrouded in a thick fog, and it was impossible to tell whether it was day or night.

In addition, the strange sound only appeared once. Some people couldn't hold on any longer and chose to go back to the tent to sleep. I also fell asleep beside the campfire in a daze.

When I woke up, Jiang Cheng was killing other people with a knife in the camp. At this time, he was extremely strong and was not afraid of swords. Eighteen people died under his knife.

We fought desperately, and finally Cheng Hu killed him by cutting off half of his head with a spare tool, an engineer shovel.

Coincidentally, after Jiang Cheng was killed, the ghost fog dissipated, and the five of us who were left quickly escaped from the valley and found those cultivators to tell them the truth. "

Zhang Jiang's words revealed a lot of useful information. Xue Zhiming, who was a little excited, asked quickly:

"What happened next? What happened next?"

The fear on Zhang Jiang's face became more and more intense:

“It was already afternoon when we escaped from the valley, where we had been for more than 20 hours.

The cultivators outside were relieved after hearing our story, and said they would solve the problem inside. But at this moment, a large fog suddenly spread out from the valley and quickly engulfed the camp where the cultivators lived.

Several vicious ghosts rushed out of the valley through the fog. The practitioners relied on the camp formation for support. However, as the fog spread, the practitioners were quickly defeated and killed by the ghosts.

Cheng Hu and I fled in panic, but we were chased by Jiang Cheng, who had transformed into a fierce ghost. We fled all the way here and were rescued by adults."

At this point, the fear in Zhang Jiang's eyes finally dissipated, and he hurriedly said to Shen Yuan:

"Sir, let's go! Besides the evil spirits, there must be other more terrifying things in that valley.

As long as we leave Beimang Mountain before this ghost fog completely covers it, we will be able to escape."

Shen Yuan did not respond to Zhang Jiang's words immediately. The ghost fog that was originally spread out by Shen Yuan's sword was now gathering again. The thick ghost fog was approaching everyone, which further accelerated the fear in Zhang Jiang's eyes.

The forest was completely silent. After a long while, Shen Yuan slowly spoke:

"Leaving Beimang Mountain? This is certainly the right choice."

Zhang Jiang's face lit up with joy, but the next moment Shen Yuan's words made his expression change suddenly.

"But before you leave, please ask the person next to you to reveal his true form."

Zhang Jiang's body trembled violently, and he immediately turned to look at Cheng Hu beside him, his eyes full of disbelief.

Cheng Hu was also full of doubts at this moment, and asked hurriedly:

"Master cultivator, what are you saying? Why don't I understand?"

Cheng Hu's reaction was like a shot of adrenaline, and Zhang Jiang immediately pleaded with Shen Yuan:

"My Lord, you must be mistaken. Cheng Hu escaped with me all the way from the valley. How could there be anything wrong with him?"

Shen Yuan ignored Zhang Jiang's plea, and instead looked at Cheng Hu with interest and said:

"Even though I have confirmed your identity, it is difficult to find any flaws in you. The Lord of Beimang Mountain is indeed extraordinary."

Cheng Hu was still confused: "What is the Lord of Beimang Mountain? What do you mean, sir?"

Shen Yuan smiled faintly and walked slowly towards Cheng Hu and said:

“When those tour guides escaped from the Ancient Forbidden Land, the noble families in the imperial capital had already discovered some of the rules of the Ancient Forbidden Land.

As a forbidden land that suppressed countless dead souls and the resentment of the Human Emperor in the last era, the ancient forbidden land was blocked by the Great Zhou Dynasty with the Ten Courts of Hell Formation. The Ten Courts of Hell Formation uses the power of the underworld to ban any ghosts and gods.

Even if the rules of heaven and earth were partially restored and the ancient forbidden land was revived along with it, it was still unable to bypass the restrictions of the Ten Courts of Hell formation.

In the ancient forbidden land, those ghosts that linger on can kill practitioners, because practitioners are forbidden to enter the forbidden land, but ghosts cannot attack ordinary people under the protection of the Ten Courts of Hell formation. "

“Later, the Imperial Capital family invited ordinary people from the Red Bull Mountaineering Team to enter the forbidden area in order to test this rule.

Ghosts cannot attack, but they can incite people's hearts and incite killing. The guy named Jiang Cheng is what you tried.

This aroused Jiang Cheng's suspicion and evil thoughts towards his teammates, causing him to kill everyone in the mountaineering team.

As one of the ghosts in the ancient forbidden land, you, with the help of the Lord of Beimang Mountain and the cover of people's fear, secretly replaced Cheng Hu.

Jiang Cheng killed his teammates to complete the sacrifice, and you killed Jiang Cheng, so you were naturally tainted with the aura of a ghost. You used this to confuse the already incomplete Ten Courts of Hell formation, and followed a few people to escape from the ancient forbidden land."

"Just after leaving the forbidden area, the rules of heaven and earth were further restored. You led the ghosts to descend outside the Ten Courts of Hell formation and let the evil spirits kill the practitioners of the imperial capital family.

If I'm not mistaken, those so-called evil spirits are the transformed forms of the practitioners who died some time ago.

You pretended to escape with Zhang Jiang, but in fact you maintained your identity as a survivor and secretly waited for the opportunity to confirm whether the imperial capital family had other reinforcements.

If I hadn't suddenly stepped into the ghost den and attracted your attention, you would have escaped with Zhang Jiang long ago."

As Shen Yuan finished speaking, a large amount of black ghost energy rose up into the sky around Cheng Hu, and the confusion in his eyes was replaced by gloom.

"How did you find out?"

Cheng Hu asked hoarsely.

Shen Yuan smiled calmly:

"After I set foot in the haunted den, they deliberately staged a life-and-death crisis in which an ordinary survivor encountered a fierce ghost chasing him, in order to create a coincidence to get close to me.

This method is too crude and too deliberate. "

Of course, the reason Shen Yuan gave was just one of them.

The real reason was that the moment he saw Zhang Jiang and Cheng Hu, he used his star-number magic to deduce their origins. However, the second-level star-number magic was unable to reveal Cheng Hu's background, which made him determine at the first moment that there was definitely something wrong with the other party.

The result is already known, and it is not surprising that the truth of the matter can be deduced with the help of Zhang Jiang's narration and the power of star numbers.

At this moment, Zhang Jiang had already been shocked by the truth. Looking at Cheng Hu in front of him, he couldn't believe that his friend who had been through life and death with him was actually a ghost in disguise.

Cheng Hu ignored Zhang Jiang. In his eyes, this ordinary person was just an ant that could be killed at any time.

He looked at Shen Yuan who was slowly approaching, and his tone was extremely cold:

"You are indeed very good for being able to see through Lord Beimang's plan, but this is where everything ends."

“The current Xuanhuang Realm can only support the existence of the God Transformation Realm in the world, and this Beimang Mountain Ghost Cave has the effect of isolating the world.

In this den of evil, I can exert all my strength without reservation.

Even if you have great wisdom, strength is the only thing that matters!"

Taking a step forward, Cheng Hu's body suddenly transformed into a huge evil ghost with a green face and red hair. The aura around him had already exceeded the limit of the Spirit Transformation Realm and entered the level of the Spirit Refining Ghost King.

All the ghosts within a radius of dozens of miles followed the flow of the Ghost King's Qi. His right hand with twisted blue veins condensed a huge amount of ghost energy and transformed into a huge ghost claw that fell heavily towards Shen Yuan.

The dry trees in the ghost den shook their twisted bodies and emitted bursts of sneering laughter. In the shadows, a large number of evil spirits kept whispering to bewitch people. With one palm, boundless ghost energy suppressed the four directions, and there were also ghosts and monsters that disturbed people's minds.

As the ghostly aura howled, Shen Yuan's long hair fluttered in the wind, and the next moment a ray of sword light enveloped the ghost den.

In this gloomy ghost cave, it seemed as if a big sun broke through the darkness and descended into the ghost cave, and the ghosts and monsters melted like ice and snow under the big sun.

Zhu Ming Chengye's sword slashed down, and the ghost king's arm was separated from his body. The huge ghost claw that fell turned into countless ghost auras under the power of the sun and then dissipated.

Then, Shen Yuan's indifferent voice sounded among the ghosts.

"Strength? It just so happens that I have it too."