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Chapter 759 Deep Underground
In the waters south of Mozhou Road, there are many small islands and reefs in the endless sea. These densely packed islands and reefs were arranged by earth vein cultivators hundreds of years ago when Linshui Prefecture and the southern cultivation world of Zhongzhou were fighting, in order to defend against sneak attacks by the navy of Linshui Prefecture.

As no one has taken care of them, after hundreds of years of wind and rain, as well as some human destruction, there are not many islands and reefs left, and they are all relatively remote and far away from shipping routes and towns and land.

The meeting address that Zhi Gong sent to Wang Ping was on these islands and reefs. When Wang Ping approached these islands and reefs in a 'nothing' state, he did not immediately look for Zhi Gong. Instead, he first used the 'Golden Ball' to read the transfer network in this area and search for Zhi Gong's location in the transfer network.

Afterwards, he used the Qiyun magic circle to deduce and confirmed that there was no problem before going forward to meet Zhigong.

The area within hundreds of kilometers around the island reef where the bow is located is deep sea, and there are almost no ships coming here. Maybe some practitioners who catch sea monsters will come here to rest occasionally.

An isolated illusion had been set up by Zhigong around the island, but Yu Lian saw through it at a glance. There was another ground vein array set up by Zhigong inside the illusion array.

When Wang Ping released a little bit of his breath, Zhi Gong immediately noticed Wang Ping coming. She looked at Wang Ping and flew out of the illusion to greet him, with Hong Ze following behind her.

Yu Lian had grown to a size of ten feet at this time, staring at Zhi Gong and Hong Ze who were coming towards them.

"Fellow Taoist Changqing, fellow Taoist Yulian."

Zhigong bowed his hands, and Hongze clasped his fists and bowed.

Wang Ping returned the greeting, and then they entered the illusion magic circle together.

"Fellow Daoist Ao Hong, is it down there?" Wang Ping looked at Hong Ze and asked, then used his Yuanshen to probe into the ground, but found nothing, because the mantle layer had a strong repulsive force, which was the magic circle set up by the True Lords.

"It's most likely!" It was the bow that answered.

Yu Lian rose into the air, hovering above the earth vein formation in the center of the island, and asked curiously, "How did you confirm Ao Hong's location?"

Zhi Gong remained silent upon hearing this, as if this method was not easy to say out loud.

After two breaths of silence, Hongze whispered, "A rather stupid method. To put it simply, I will use the strength of my master's perception of me when I offer sacrifices to him to determine the approximate range, and then slowly narrow this range."

This method surprised both Wang Ping and Yu Lian.

Theoretically, it is feasible. The connection between divine arts and believers relies on the great web of rules interwoven in the universe. Even if a divine arts practitioner has not cultivated a divine kingdom, he can roughly sense the believer's location, and the closer the believer is to the divine arts practitioner, the stronger the sense will be.

After Hongze explained, Zhigong said, "I can sense strong ground wave fluctuations deep under the sea. Only people who have cultivated the power of ground waves can sense this kind of fluctuation. In addition to the range that has been circled, I think it is most likely here."

Wang Ping nodded. At this moment, he already understood the magic circle that Zhi Gong had set up in the center of the island. This was an earth escape magic circle, which allowed cultivators to combine with the earth spirit and dive deep into the ground.

Zhi Gong saw Wang Ping observing the magic array she had set up, and explained, "Daoyou has already cultivated into a wood spirit body. With my cultivation level, even with this magic array, I cannot take you underground. I can only go down by myself. Daoyou can let one of your puppets follow me. I will find a suitable place and let your puppet set up a transfer array. How about you use the transfer array to enter the underground?"

A demon clan ruins that could be combined with the earth vein formation arranged by Zhenjun was the main reason why Zhigong agreed to let Hongze save his master. She naturally saw Wang Ping's interest in the demon clan ruins, so she made such a suggestion.

"Row!"

Wang Ping nodded in agreement, then casually took out a puppet from his storage bag, gave it basic consciousness on the spot, and used the "Golden Ball" to record the puppet's breath.

Seeing this, Zhi Gong clasped his fists and said, "Then let's not waste any more time. I will try to find it now?"

"it is good!"

Wang Ping did not object.

When Zhi Gong heard Wang Ping's agreement, she stretched out her left hand and made a fixed spell. When the spell was formed, the magic circle in the center of the island emitted an earth-colored halo that enveloped her, and then it was like a big hand stretched out from the ground to pull her and the puppet into the earth.

In the blink of an eye, Wang Ping sensed that they were tens of kilometers deep underground, and then he sensed the breath of his puppet moving at high speed underground. The "Golden Ball" in his hand followed the breath of the puppet and penetrated the earth's veins, recording everything underground on the transfer network.

However, these transfer networks were restricted by an invisible force, preventing Wang Ping from transferring without using a transfer array. This was an isolation barrier formed by the gravitational space of the earth's veins.

It is worth mentioning that Wang Ping also saw a small amount of crude oil, but the depth was simply beyond the reach of human development, and there was almost no crude oil in the shallow layer, because the shallow crust of this world would be lifted up every once in a while due to fights between monks.

For example, in today's Zhongzhou continent, the underground mineral veins are all artificially constructed, and crude oil is not within the consideration of earth vein cultivators and gold cultivators.

Zhigong's exploration range at the moment is limited to the crust. The crust of the ocean of this planet is twenty to thirty kilometers thick, which can be handled in just a few moments for a fourth-level earth vein cultivator.

When Zhi Gong did not find the so-called demon ruins within the pre-determined crustal range, she stayed for a moment and then carefully approached the mantle layer. After Zhi Gong entered the mantle layer, Wang Ping could no longer sense her and could only observe her through the puppet, but all he observed was darkness.

Moreover, after entering the mantle layer, the speed of the bow slowed down significantly. Wang Ping observed for a while before she explored an area of ​​several kilometers.

A quarter of an hour later.

Wang Ping only kept a small part of his consciousness on the puppet, and most of his consciousness returned to his body, and quickly entered the state of "nothingness". He used the golden armored soldiers to build a transfer array in the nearby sea area to prevent any unexpected events from happening.

After finishing this, he looked at Hongze and asked, "What is Ao Bing doing recently? Do you know?"

Upon hearing this, Hong Ze replied respectfully: "According to the secret report from a month ago, the Third Prince has been practicing in his own temple recently and has not appeared in public for several years."

Yu Lian spit out her snake tongue and asked, "Didn't he realize that Ao Hong had escaped?"

When Hong Ze faced this question, he thought for a few breaths before responding, "It should not have been discovered yet, because theoretically, if my master escapes, as long as he appears in this world for a moment, his breath will be captured by the Third Prince."

He paused here and then added: "The Third Prince is very arrogant. He has never suffered any setbacks since he was born, which makes him firmly believe in what he believes."

Yu Lian glanced at Wang Ping and continued, "So, the earth vein formation indirectly helped your master?"

Hongze lowered his head and did not respond to this sentence.

Wang Ping gently patted Yu Lian's tail to stop her from asking any more questions.

Yu Lian shut up obediently, her golden vertical pupils looking towards the sea not far away, as if she wanted to swim in the sea, but then she retracted her gaze and lay on Wang Ping's shoulder.

Wang Ping sensed Yu Lian’s thoughts, reached out and gently stroked Yu Lian’s head, and then he entered into a state of meditation.

Half a month flies by.

One day, when the golden afterglow of the sunset appeared on the sea level, Wang Ping sensed a particularly obvious block in the underground transfer network read by the "Golden Ball". The next moment, this block was connected to Wang Ping's "Transfer Symbol", and he immediately opened his eyes and stood up.

"Did you find it?"

Yu Lian sensed Wang Ping's thoughts and her tone sounded a little impatient.

Hong Ze's eyes lit up as well, and he also wanted to go underground because he was needed to confirm the exact location where Ao Hong was trapped.

Wang Ping smiled and nodded, then summoned two golden-armored soldiers who would erase all traces of the place after Wang Ping left.

Wang Ping glanced at the beautiful sunset in the distance, activated a "transfer talisman", used his own cultivation to drive the transfer space, and disappeared with Yu Lian and Hong Ze.

The feeling of weightlessness brought by the space transfer was fleeting in Wang Ping's soul consciousness, and then a slightly dazzling light of "illumination technique" appeared in his sight. The next moment, he felt that he was in a slightly empty underground cave.

This is a man-made underground cave!
Five feet in front of him, Zhi Gong's figure stood in the air, with an ochre-colored tower suspended beside him. The earth spirit energy emitted by the tower was compressing the surrounding rock walls, making the space of the cave slowly expand.

"Is this here?"

Wang Ping discovered that with his level of cultivation, his spiritual consciousness could not extend outward more than two kilometers here, and there was not a trace of oxygen in the air. There was a strong pressure from all directions on his body. If an ordinary person came here, he would be crushed in a moment.

Under this pressure, Wang Ping sensed the power of the earth vein formation, which prevented Wang Ping from flying freely on the ground because it had a recoil force. The more you use your own power, the stronger the recoil force will be.

"Over there, my soul followed the power of the earth veins and saw a magnificent city. It emitted a slight, low roar in the darkness. It was a very faint consciousness, perhaps life, or perhaps something else."

Zhigong pointed at the rock wall on her left and said.

Wang Ping looked over and could only see the rock wall that was squeezed neatly by the earth spirit energy. His soul consciousness was also squeezed by the surging power of the earth veins, making it unable to penetrate the rock wall.

Yu Lian's body quickly expanded to 50 to 60 feet. Her huge vertical pupils stared at the neat rock wall and she said, "I can't see anything."

"follow me!"

Zhigong kept a magic gesture with her left hand, and her suspended body flew to her left. When she arrived near the rock wall, the hard rock wall slowly broke apart, forming a passage at a speed visible to the naked eye, and her body quickly sank into the passage.

Wang Ping hurriedly followed, and Yu Lian shrank her body again and landed on Wang Ping's shoulder. Hong Ze followed closely behind Wang Ping, two feet away, with a green halo emanating from his body, and it seemed that he was resisting the invasion of the earth spirit here.

Soon after entering the passage, the view was completely dark. The bow leading the way in front had no intention of casting a lighting spell. Wang Ping's spiritual consciousness could not be expanded too much here, so he could only use the wood spirit energy to light up the road ahead.

Half an hour later.

Guided by Zhi Gong, after walking about ten kilometers, they felt a strong pressure from the earth veins. Then, there seemed to be a powerful squeezing force from all directions, causing the circulation of spiritual energy in Wang Ping's meridians to stagnate.

"Humph!"

Hong Ze behind him groaned, and the defensive barrier built on the surface of his body was about to break. The earth's spiritual energy was originally restrained by water cultivators, not to mention the earth veins here. It was normal that he could not hold on with his cultivation level.

Even Yu Lian slipped into the cuff of Wang Ping's left hand when she sensed the powerful earth vein power.

When Hongze felt unwell, Wang Ping reached out and cast an "armor talisman" into Hongze's body. He then built a simple wood spirit protective shield in front of him.

At this time, Zhi Gong, who was leading the way, said in a slightly excited tone: "It's just ahead!"

As soon as she finished speaking, the passage ahead seemed to become deeper all of a sudden, and even Wang Ping's "illumination technique" could not detect the end. Then Zhi Gong quickened his pace, and Wang Ping lost her trace in an instant.

Wang Ping was not too nervous. He moved forward at his own pace. After a few breaths, the light squeezed by the narrow space in the "Illumination Technique" quickly expanded until it could not drive away the darkness in his sight even to the largest range.

At the same time, circles of water ripples appeared on the surface of the wooden spirit protective shield constructed around Wang Ping's body, and invisible yet visible pressures squeezed in along with the earth spirit energy that could be observed with the naked eye.

Wang Ping immediately used the "clairvoyance technique", which allowed him to see countless energy particles. With his level of cultivation, he couldn't even observe the composition structure of these particles, and the world of inspiration was completely silent, as if the world of inspiration did not exist.

“The purest aura of Xuanmen earth spirit, but I always feel a disturbing evil!”

Yu Lian commented like this in Wang Ping’s spiritual sea.

Hong Ze behind him followed cautiously, not daring to breathe.

Wang Ping turned his head to look to his right side, where a dazzling light rose. The light first illuminated the figure of Zhi Gong, and then the light quickly spread. In the blink of an eye, it was like a bright moon that dispelled all the darkness, revealing a giant underground world with a depth of tens of kilometers.

In the center of this underground world there is a magnificent palace built of huge stones. Most of the buildings around the palace have collapsed, but the core area is still intact.

"Look above your head!"

Yu Lian reminded in the spiritual sea.

Wang Ping subconsciously looked up, and then he saw a complex geomantic formation spreading from the sky to the earth. There was a ball of black light flickering at the core of the formation. Every time it flickered, the entire formation would flicker along with it, but its light was visible and invisible.

When Wang Ping tried to observe the magic circle carefully, he suddenly felt dizzy and had to lower his head.

"Don't look at it, that is the essence of the earth spirit, an existence that you and I cannot understand!"

Zhi Gong reminded Wang Ping that she was also trying her best to suppress her inner desires.

Wang Ping nodded.

The bow pointed to a dark hole in the ground below. The diameter of the hole was five or six feet. Then she said, "The Seventh Prince should have come out from there. This is not an easy task for him."

As she spoke, she looked towards the palace in front of her, and took out a long sword from her storage bag and used the "Sword Control Technique" to swipe it towards the palace.

When the long sword approached the palace, a thick earth-yellow earth vein aura emerged out of nowhere and swept the long sword to the palace below. At the same time, a magic circle appeared in front of the gate of the main building in the center of the palace below. There was a vortex at the core of the magic circle that sucked the long sword in.

She was showing the process of Ao Hong being trapped!

(End of this chapter)