Chapter 347 Entering the Shadow
The little doll's sudden words "murderous" scared everyone instantly, especially Yu Sheng, whose recent lives were relatively short. He suddenly tensed up all over and even thought about where he would die in the next second.
Then, a large amount of fox fire floated around Hu Li, and Luna equipped the fingertip blade from the secret compartment on her thigh with a click (I've never seen her react so quickly before), while Xuan Che sank his energy into his dantian, bowed his waist, took out a medicine gourd from his arms with one hand, and made the opening move of the medical blasting fist with the other hand...
Then, several people set up a battle formation at the busy entrance of Lingxi Mine Park. After half a minute of confrontation with the air, more and more people gathered around...
Yu Sheng raised his hand and poked the little doll on his shoulder: "Where is the murderous aura you are talking about?"
Irene said confidently: "It's gone!"
Veins popped up on Yu Sheng's forehead: "You..."
"But it really happened just now!" Irene was still confident, "I felt it just now, something glanced at me, and then when I wanted to glance back, I felt something malicious was nearby, although it was only for that moment."
Yu Sheng was planning to pick this guy up and throw him around, but when he heard this, he noticed that the little doll didn't have a mischievous expression on its face, and he frowned slightly: "Really?"
"Why would I lie to you!"
"I didn't sense any malicious spying," Xuan Che shook his head, "but Irene's perception in this regard is stronger than mine. It's possible that she can detect evil thoughts that others can't."
Luna put away her finger blade and said slowly: "No, I scanned it."
"...Anyway, be alert," Yu Sheng frowned, exhaled softly, and whispered, "Go to the foreign entrance first, and don't attract attention here."
Xuan Che nodded, and noticed the crowd around him, so he cast a spell to disperse the idlers. Then he led the way, leading Yu Sheng and his group through the mine gate quickly, and then walked all the way into the depths of this "mining scenic area".
Yu Sheng didn't know the way either, so he followed Xuan Che, turning left and right, passing through the woods and paths. They passed a large geological landscape area that had been specially developed in the later stage, and passed through many exhibition halls and courtyards that displayed old mechanical equipment. Then the surroundings became more and more desolate and deserted.
Going further, Yu Sheng clearly felt as if he had crossed a certain "border". There were no more outsiders around him, and only a vague sense of oppression lingered around him.
"We have entered the blockade area," Xuan Che whispered, "There is a seal left by my master to prevent anyone from approaching the dangerous entrance to the foreign land - the entrance is just below the inclined shaft ahead."
Yu Sheng nodded slightly while observing the surrounding environment.
This so-called "mine ruins" is much larger than he had imagined. The immortals who came to this colonial satellite to mine spiritual minerals in the past may have built a large-scale subsequent processing and refining facilities and residential areas around a giant mining belt. What he had passed through before seemed to be the former residential area, processing area, and machinery display area, and what was in front of him now was where the old mining belt was.
What comes into view is a large and rather desolate hill. Although thousands of years of development of colonial satellites have given this planet a thick artificial atmosphere and a complete ecological cycle, this hill still maintains an almost primitive desolate alien landscape. The surrounding area is full of strange boulders and cracked ground that are pale and dotted with blue. There are also tracks that were once used to transport ore and large equipment of unknown purpose distributed among the boulders. Several inclined shaft entrances leading to the underground can be seen in the distance, with ferocious and majestic statues of alien beasts standing on both sides of the entrance, which may be related to the local traditional culture of Taixu Lingshu.
Yu Sheng and his group approached the entrance of one of the inclined shafts. After taking two steps, they saw several rays of light passing through the sky, and then several young men and women in blue Taoist robes appeared in front of them.
The leader was a beautiful woman holding a cold sword. She had a cool and calm temperament. After landing, she bowed deeply to Xuan Che and said, "Big Brother."
Xuan Che responded politely: "Well, Suyun, thank you for your hard work."
Other young monks also saluted, and some of them looked up stealthily, observing Yu Sheng and others curiously and carefully - especially a "Silver Fox Immortal" with nine tails.
Hu Li bared her teeth at one of them (she just thought it was funny), and instantly everyone was startled and looked away.
Seeing this, the beautiful woman called "Suyun" by Xuan Che hurriedly lowered her head and said, "Please don't blame me, Immortal!"
Yu Sheng quickly waved his hands: "Don't be nervous, don't be nervous, she is just joking with you... she won't bite anyone."
"They are the guests that Master invited from the border area," Xuan Che introduced. "This is Mr. Yu, and the ones next to him are Hu Li, Luna, and Irene."
Then he raised his hand and pointed at the woman leading the team opposite him: "This is my junior sister, Suyun. She has been in charge of looking after this foreign land before I came back."
"That foreign land is really strange. Now the master no longer allows ordinary disciples to go in for 'testing'. He only asked us to guard the entrance and wait for you, the eldest brother, to come and deal with it." Su Yun nodded, not hiding her relief. "We have also set up restrictions around the old mining area and arranged four teams of people to patrol and guard."
Xuan Che nodded, and then he seemed to suddenly remember what Irene had said just now, "There is murderous intent", frowned and asked: "Did anything unusual happen today?"
"No," Su Yun immediately shook her head, "I have been staring at the entrance. Apart from the black shadow expanding and shrinking from time to time, there is no change."
Xuan Che nodded slightly, and asked Su Yun to lead the way. He and Yu Sheng and others came to the entrance of the inclined well where the strange thing happened.
This is an extremely wide entrance, with ferocious and majestic stone statues of guarding beasts standing on both sides. Inside the entrance is a gentle ramp that stretches as far as the eye can see, and on both sides of the ramp there are abandoned devices such as tracks and hanging rails. Although the entire wellhead has been abandoned, lighting can still be seen near the entrance - "pearls" of unknown material are inlaid on the base of the beast's mouth on the wall, emitting a cold glow.
Yu Sheng stood at the entrance of the ramp and looked down, all he saw was chaos. Although the lights on the walls on both sides extended all the way downward, the further down he went, the more the light seemed to be suppressed by something, becoming dimmer and darker, and filled with shadows.
"This is a strange secret place, but the entrance is very obvious, that place with shadows," Su Yun said. "As you go down the slope, the lights on both sides will become dimmer, and the shadows under your feet will become more and more obvious and heavy, until all around you are shadows, and the lights on the walls on both sides can't illuminate the road ahead at all, then you have entered a foreign land. But if you look back at that time, you can still see the way you came, and you can go back the same way and walk out. If you continue forward, you will directly step into the depths of the foreign land...
"When you get to the depths, you'll see all kinds of weird scenes. It doesn't feel like you're in a mine at all. The way you came out will disappear, and you won't be able to go back the same way. If you want to get out, you can only follow the direction of the light or the sound of wind until you see a way 'up' - it could be stairs, or a dirt slope, a mountain road, or something like that. If you come across such a road, just keep going. If nothing unexpected happens, you'll gradually return to the darkness. When the road under your feet becomes a ramp in the mine, you can walk back the same way.
"According to the brothers who went there before, there are no physical ghosts or monsters in that foreign land. It's just that the environment is gloomy, and there is always a chilling aura floating around, which has a great impact on one's character. If you stay there for a long time, even if you don't encounter an enemy, you will feel your mind floating and your Tao heart unstable. You may even feel a surge of violent aura, and always feel that everyone around you wants to harm you. Although you can overcome it with willpower, if you are really trapped in there and can't get out, I'm afraid something bad will happen if you stay there for a long time."
Yu Sheng and Xuan Che looked at each other.
"Let's go down and take a look together?" Yu Sheng said casually.
Xuan Che smiled slightly: "Of course I am happy to do so."
"Okay," Yu Sheng nodded, then turned his head to look at Irene on his shoulder, "Help me take a look by the way."
Irene didn't react for a moment: "Ah? What are you looking at?"
Yu Sheng said seriously: "See if I will have any bloody disaster today."
"Oh, ok," Irene responded blankly, and then she stretched out her two little hands to hold Yu Sheng's face and looked at it carefully. She was very serious and solemn. After a while, she nodded solemnly, "Yes, but the amount of bleeding is not large."
Yu Sheng's mouth twitched: "Then I really thank you for your accurate judgment."
Xuan Che was stunned watching from the side, he had no idea what the two were doing, he just thought it was some mysterious ritual before the hotel took action...
Then he ordered Su Yun and the guard disciples to continue to guard around the entrance to prevent outsiders from approaching the mine. He and Yu Sheng walked towards the deep and endless ramp.
The light around them gradually dimmed as they moved forward.
The atmosphere began to change.
Yu Sheng couldn't tell what kind of change it was, but he did feel that a certain "boundary" was gradually approaching. He looked at the deep slope in front of him that was gradually no longer illuminated by the lights on both sides. He felt that there seemed to be a bottomless abyss below, and some extremely huge "existence" was looking up at the bottom of the abyss, staring at him calmly and indifferently.
But this feeling was fleeting, he shook his head, and felt that there was only an ordinary dark shadow below.
The foreign land has no sense of good or evil, it just calmly waits for the uninvited guests to approach.
Hu Li was walking beside her, Luna was already equipped with fingertip blades, Xuan Che was holding a paper talisman in his hand, and there was a faint electric light jumping on Irene's fingertips.
Then darkness came from all directions.
In this moment of trance, he seemed to hear countless distant and majestic shouts, the sound was like thunder, rolling in, but it was difficult to distinguish, and he could only vaguely hear a few words -
"... start... the formation!"
(End of this chapter)
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