Chapter 796 Discovered
When I returned to Chiang Rai, I didn't see Li Xuan and Dugu Chong coming back. I guess they are still at the Ice Silkworm Gu King's place and haven't come back yet.
Gu Shanshui wanted to find a way to make a container to keep the corpse worms in captivity, so he returned to Mengsa overnight.
Zhou Wen did not go to Mengsa with Gu Shanshui, and decided to go to Mengsa to get the gourd after a few days.
The reason why he chose to stay was because he wanted to go to the Xiao family and find out what was going on between Xiao Si and Wang Chan.
Li Mobai also planned to stay in Chiang Rai for a few more days before going to Mengsa with Zhou Wen.
At night, Zhou Wen used an invisibility cloak and headed towards the Xiao family, intending to sneak into the Xiao family to see if he could find out anything.
The Xiao family lived in a manor full of exotic atmosphere. Before arriving at the manor, Zhou Wen discovered the problem. There were many poisonous insects lurking in the grass on both sides of the road. If it were not for Zhou Wen's Prison King Soul and the ability of listening, which allowed Zhou Wen's eight senses to reach an extremely high level, it would be difficult for ordinary people to find those poisonous insects.
"The people of the Xiao family are really careful. They even placed poisonous insects outside the manor." Zhou Wen didn't know much about poisonous insects. He didn't know which poisonous insects identified the enemy by smell and which poisonous insects identified the enemy by sound, so he simply flew into the manor from the air to avoid alarming the poisonous insects.
However, after entering the manor, Zhou Wen discovered that although the manor was carefully decorated, it was only the outskirts of the Xiao family. Behind the manor, there was a valley, which was a dimensional realm. The real core part of the Xiao family was actually built in the dimensional realm.
Using the ability of listening, he scanned continuously and found all the hidden mechanisms and arrangements of the Xiao family.
At the entrance to the dimensional realm, there are guards from the Xiao family, but that is secondary. Four legendary humans cannot possibly see through Zhou Wen's invisibility.
What concerned Zhou Wen was that at the entrance to that dimensional realm, there was a statue. The statue looked very strange. It was a Buddha statue, but it was different from the Buddha statues Zhou Wen had seen in the Longmen Grottoes. Not only did it look ferocious and terrifying, it also had a vertical eye between its eyebrows and held a strange fork in its hand.
Anyway, Zhou Wen had never seen such a Buddha statue, but his sculpting technique was in the Buddhist style, with Buddha's light carved out from the back.
Zhou Wen faintly felt a breath similar to that of Kumantong on the Buddha statue.
"The visual system of spirits is somewhat different from that of humans. It not only sees the shape, but also cannot fool the Buddha statue with ordinary invisibility." Zhou Wen simply activated the Wheel of Destiny of the invisibility cloak, completely concealing his body and entering the dimensional realm.
As expected, the guards and Buddha statues did not notice him, and Zhou Wen successfully entered the valley. As soon as he entered the valley, he felt it difficult to breathe, as if there was no oxygen in the valley.
Zhou Wen did not find any poisonous insects, and immediately knew that this should be the forbidden power of this dimension. He had no choice but to switch to the Tai Shang Kai Tian Jing, and sure enough, he no longer felt suffocated.
Although he no longer had the sharp eight senses of the Prison King, it was still the same with Di Ting. Zhou Wen used Di Ting to scan the entire valley and then moved in quickly.
Because the invisibility cloak's wheel of fortune has a time limit of only three minutes, he must find out the situation in the dimensional field within these three minutes.
Zhou Wen originally thought that there should be all kinds of poisonous insects in such a valley, but in fact there were none. There was only one temple in the valley, but its style was very different from the temples in Luoyang. It was obviously the local style of Chiang Rai.
There was no one to be seen outside the temple, but inside the temple, there were quite a few people, probably all disciples of the Xiao family. Some were practicing techniques, and some were directing poisonous insects. It was quite lively.
When Zhou Wen entered the temple courtyard, he felt that the Tai Shang Kai Tian Jing had no effect, and knew that there was no forbidden power here.
Because he had great faith in the guards of the garden outside and the forbidden power in the valley, the protection inside the temple was not that strict. Zhou Wen looked inside the temple and found that the gods enshrined in the Buddhist temple were not the Buddhist gods that Zhou Wen was familiar with, but some dolls that looked like different shapes.
"Are the ones worshipped here Kumantong and Kumanli?" Zhou Wen took a quick look and saw many dolls in the shape of men and women. He probably knew what they were.
Zhou Wen was not interested in these things and rushed directly to the backyard. There was not much time left in three minutes. Although he was not afraid of being exposed, it would be impossible for him to eavesdrop on the news if he was exposed.
The temple is quite large, with many courtyards inside. Different Kumantongs are enshrined in each courtyard, making it look eerie and scary.
Zhou Wen has always felt that these religious buildings are very unaesthetic. No matter what kind of religious building it is, it will give people a feeling of unease.
Although he met many people from the Xiao family along the way, none of them said anything that interested Zhou Wen. Seeing that the three-minute limit was about to expire, Zhou Wen found that there were not many people in a nearby yard, so he simply went into that yard first.
After entering the yard, the three-minute invisibility time was over. Zhou Wen was wearing an invisibility cloak, which could only achieve the effect of invisibility, but his body did not disappear.
Fortunately, there were not many people here. The yard was not big, and there was only a Buddhist temple inside. The gate was open. What was strange was that there was a piece of black cloth hanging in front of the gate.
Zhou Wen used Di Ting to scan the inside and found that the small Buddhist temple was very dark and scary. The furnishings inside were also very simple. There was a Kumantong on a wooden table.
The Kumantong's body was as white as jade, curled up into a ball, with a crystal-carved container outside. The Kumantong was wrapped in yellow liquid inside the container. Zhou Wen now roughly knew that it should be corpse oil.
Seeing that there was nothing inside, Zhou Wen did not go in. He turned around and was about to continue searching the temple, but suddenly he saw a young girl standing in front of him.
The girl didn't look very old, maybe eighteen or nineteen at most. She was wearing strange clothes and looked pretty, but for some reason, she had a creepy feeling about her. She was staring at Zhou Wen coldly.
Being stared at by the girl like this, Zhou Wen actually felt a little creepy.
"She saw me?" Zhou Wen was thinking about how to deal with this situation.
The other party was just a girl with no grudges or hatred against her. If Zhou Wen were asked to draw his sword and kill her directly, he would find it difficult to do so.
But the girl was also very strange. She just stared at Zhou Wen coldly without shouting or yelling.
"Didn't she see me?" Zhou Wen doubted himself and tried to move two steps to the left.
The girl's pupils shifted to the left as he moved. Zhou Wen took a few steps to the right, and the girl's pupils shifted to the right again. She kept staring at him, and it was obvious that she could really see the invisible Zhou Wen.
(End of this chapter)
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