Martial Arts: Start by Obtaining the Wild World

Chapter 162 0161: Requiem Slope and Lost Soul Pit
When Cheng Zongyang heard the last sentence, he couldn't help but look at Zhang Chuqi again.

He is indeed a careful and smart person. No wonder he can be the steward of a family and manage it for more than ten years without any problems. If it weren't for external forces, it is estimated that this person would still be the steward.

But then Cheng Zongyang asked:
"Since the Lost Soul Pit has never been filled, why didn't the county send the bodies there when it was clearing them out?"

Manager Zhang shook his head slightly:
"I don't understand this very clearly. But I guess it can't fit. No one has thought of sending the body to the Lost Soul Pit.

With so many bodies, no one wanted to go from the west to the south and then walk two miles. Moreover, there were few people, and it would be much easier to burn them directly if they walked four miles back and forth. "

Cheng Zongyang nodded slightly, and thought that was the reason. Under the circumstances at that time, who would be so dedicated and responsible?

After asking for the exact location, Cheng Zongyang also wanted to save trouble and prepared to go to all three places. There was exactly one in each place, and in addition, he needed to try an item that he had never used.

After asking Zhang Chuqi to go and do his work, Cheng Zongyang finished his tea and frowned.

It still doesn’t taste good.

"I have to get some better tea to drink."

Cheng Zongyang murmured something, then left his residence and went to the prison to try first.

Just as Zhang Chuqi said, among places with the most deaths, prisons are the second most numerous, and no other place dares to claim to be the first.

The prison is located in a place between the west and north of the city, close to the city wall, and covers a large area.

When he arrived at the prison gate, he found that there was no one guarding the place or cleaning it. All kinds of indescribable stench filled his nose, forcing Cheng Zongyang to hold his breath.

He took out a soul crystal and walked in, while also paying attention to the changes in progress.

The range covered by the intermediate soul crystal is 200 meters around, and the area with a radius of 100 meters is enough to cover many places. But the prison area in the county town is not small, so you have to walk inside.

There was a chilly feeling in the dim prison, as cold as an early spring night, and the temperature was much lower than outside.

Cheng Zongyang just felt it briefly and ignored it.

Arriving at the area where the jailers used to rest, Cheng Zongyang looked at the soul crystal.

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Intermediate Soul Crystal: 2/2000
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“This progress is good.”

Cheng Zongyang's eyes lit up. It was only about 30 to 40 meters from the time he came in to here. He had already made two progress points, which showed that there were many wandering souls in this prison.

These souls cannot cause any harm to warriors, but ordinary people who stay in this environment for a long time will develop diseases and their lifespan will certainly be shortened.

He stayed for about a cup of tea, and felt relieved when he saw the progress had reached 10 points.

This soul crystal was hidden on a wall and then blocked to prevent it from being seen by anyone who came in unexpectedly.

Seeing that there was nothing unusual, Cheng Zongyang left the prison and headed towards Anhunpo in the north of the city.

About a quarter of an hour later, Cheng Zongyang arrived at the location of the Soul Requiem Hill mentioned by Zhang Chuqi.

This is a small hill, the place is quite large, and the hillside is densely packed with various graves.

There are all kinds of tombstones erected in the tombs. These tombstones are either made of wood or stone, and some even have no tombstones at all, with only a stone on the grave.

In addition, the scales and styles of some cemeteries are also different. Some graves have a wooden sign in front of them, and some are built in special styles.

These can all distinguish the economic conditions and identity of the original family owner.

"It seems that the Feng Shui of this place is good, otherwise so many people wouldn't have their cemeteries here."

But the number of tombs is also astonishing. Cheng Zongyang went all the way up and took out the soul crystal to check the situation.

As a result, as soon as he reached the foot of the mountain and entered the range, the progress of this soul crystal began to jump up.

This made Cheng Zongyang a little stunned.

It was like the first time he placed the soul crystal in a mass grave. When Cheng Zongyang walked all the way from the foot of the mountain to the top of the hillside, he discovered that there were several more hillsides behind the hillside, which were also filled with various densely packed graves.

Cheng Zongyang felt a little creepy.

If we come here at night, the concentration of yin energy here is likely to make some weak people seriously ill.

It's daytime now, so things are a little more normal.

But even so, it seems that most people don't dare to stay here for long.

Coupled with the chaos in the county town, no one has taken care of this place for a long time. It is overgrown with weeds. Some cemeteries are even covered with weeds, and it looks quite dilapidated and desolate.

Many old tombs have been replaced by new ones, and the original bones have disappeared.

Looking up, it seems to stretch on for a long time. It can be said that this is a "hillside cemetery" with a long history and a huge area.

Cheng Zongyang glanced at the soul crystal in his hand again. The progress had jumped to more than fifty, which was an extremely fast speed.

Cheng Zongyang left the soul crystal in his pocket and began to measure the distance.

The scale of Requiem Hill is much larger than that of Mass Grave, and it is also an excellent testing place.

I've kept it in my shed since I bought it, never used it, but now I can give it a try.

If it is feasible, then the source of souls for soul crystals will be perfectly solved in the future.

Within a short time, he used the Wind Step to quickly walk through the entire Anhun Slope area and calculated the location of the center point.

A blank stone tablet nearly as tall as a person was taken out from a hillside.

The moment the stone tablet appeared, a cold and chilly air surged out, and at the same time, a gray mist that only he could see gradually spread over the stone tablet.

Cheng Zongyang shook his head slightly, then suddenly inserted the stone tablet into the pit on the ground and pressed it down so that only two-thirds of its height was exposed.

At the moment the stone tablet touched the ground, the gray mist spread even faster.

Soul gathering monument!
The wordless Yin Monument from the Valley of the Dead in the Wild World will automatically attract and collect the free souls or soul fragments in the world. The Soul-Gathering Monument will affect the environment within a radius of one mile, making it full of Yin energy, and those who enter will easily lose their way and be unable to leave.

During this period of time, he also studied the relationship between the soul crystal and the wordless monument, which led to this attempt today.

If the souls collected by the Soul Collecting Monument can be used by soul crystals, then there will be no need to collect souls or soul fragments bit by bit in the future.

It is entirely possible to place the soul crystal on the stone tablet and let the souls collected by the stone tablet be absorbed by the soul crystal.

At this time, Cheng Zongyang noticed that some written information appeared on the originally blank stone tablet.

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Soul Collection Monument

Grade: First Grade

Yin domain: 500 meters

Quantity: 25/1000
Function: Ghost Wall Lv1
Other: Unlocked
Controller: Cheng Zongyang

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Looking at the information that appeared, Cheng Zongyang was stunned.

I thought it was just something that attracted and collected souls, but I never thought it had such a function!

"Ghost Wall, this is why ordinary people get lost after entering it."

Cheng Zongyang's eyes suddenly lit up.

This is just level one. As the level increases in the future, the strength will naturally increase!
He seemed to have thought of something again, and suddenly an idea came to his mind.

The next second, the gray fog in the area centered on him dissipated and returned to its original appearance.

The gray mist emanating from the Soul Gathering Monument rose straight up and filled the area ten meters away again.

In other words, the area he controls is not disturbed by the gray fog and ghost walls!

He then tried to stop releasing the gray fog and reduce its range, but it did not affect the Soul Gathering Monument's ability to absorb souls.

The Yin Realm is the area covered by the gray fog, and the gray fog only affects the ghost wall.

"I didn't expect it to be so effective. It's like a natural maze!"

But he didn't know whether it would have the same effect if stored in an ordinary place, or whether it would only work in a dark place? Finally, could the soul crystal also absorb the souls in the soul-gathering monument?
"No matter what, fill up the soul crystal first, and let the soul-gathering monument absorb the rest slowly."

Having made the decision, Cheng Zongyang left behind the soul crystal and the soul-gathering monument and headed for the Soul-Lost Pit.

Although he had the Soul Requiem Slope, he also wanted to know what the Lost Soul Pit was like. After going around in circles, he quickly arrived at a place at the foot of a low mountain on the outskirts of the southern city.

Without Cheng Zongyang looking for it deliberately, he saw the so-called pit.

There was an empty space with almost no grass, and the so-called pit was actually a long and narrow crack.

This crack is like a ground fissure caused by an earthquake, winding from north to south, but it is only a hundred meters long.

"So this is it."

When Cheng Zongyang saw the crack from closer, he suddenly realized.

It has different names. The county town calls it the Soul-Lost Pit, and the people of Jinqiao Village called it the Ghost Abyss.

At that time, the villagers occasionally talked about it, saying that there was a ghost land near the county town where no grass grew. There was a crack in the ghost land, and nothing could get out if it went down.

But at that time he was just listening, but he never thought that this was the Soul-Losing Pit.

The center area of ​​the crack is about four meters wide, which is also the widest place, and gradually shortens in the north-south direction.

Standing nearby, Cheng Zongyang stared at the soul crystal in his hand with a frown, without any reaction.

"According to what Zhang Chuqi said, there are many corpses here, but not only is there no stench, there are no souls or even soul fragments? Where are the corpses down there?"

Cheng Zongyang was quite curious about the Ghost Abyss, but no matter how curious he was, it was impossible for him to go down there.

There are many possibilities underground. The body may have been eaten by underground creatures, or it may have been washed away by an underground river. There may also be magma deep inside, and the body was burned.

But whatever the possibility, without the soul, it has no value to him.

He did not stay any longer and returned to Anhun Slope.

However, Cheng Zongyang didn't know that when he approached the hundreds of meters deep ghost abyss, a green eye the size of an adult's fist suddenly opened in the darkness, emitting a faint green light. The eye turned slightly upwards, as if waiting for something.

But after waiting for a while and seeing no response, his eyes slowly closed again. Silently.

Returning to Anhun Slope, Cheng Zongyang put the third soul crystal aside.

The progress of the Soul Gathering Monument has reached more than five hundred, and the progress of the second Soul Crystal has reached more than four hundred.

This means that the collection speed of soul crystals is not as fast as that of the soul gathering monument.

Cheng Zongyang thought about it and placed the second and third crystals farther away so as not to affect the speed.

After all, the area of ​​Requiem Slope is not small, and it won’t be slow for each of us to go to one place.

As the crystal was removed, the speed of the Soul Gathering Monument indeed increased slightly.

Cheng Zongyang set up a normal area, sat cross-legged, and began to practice the breath-holding technique.

Only once you get started, the speed of practicing breath-holding technique will gradually increase.

Time passed slowly, and before he knew it, as a prompt indicating that the progress of the breath-holding method had increased by one appeared in Cheng Zongyang's mind, he finished exhaling the last bit of air.

He opened his eyes and nodded slightly.

"Hold your breath for ten minutes, exhale for two minutes, that's quite a progress. Not bad."

According to the practice experience and techniques, it was like a master was guiding me. The number of mistakes was reduced a lot, so I was able to persist for a much longer time than last time.

Although there was some progress, the time it took to repeat the practice this time was only half an hour, which was half an hour shorter than the last time, which showed that he was making progress.

He immediately stood up and looked at the soul-gathering monument beside him.

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Soul Collection Monument

Grade: second grade

Yin domain: 700 meters

Quantity: 25/3000
Function: Ghost Wall Lv2
Other: Unlocked
Controller: Cheng Zongyang

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Cheng Zongyang smiled as he looked at the Soul Collection Monument, which had already been upgraded in value. Although only the range and the level of the Ghost Wall had been upgraded, at least the effect was visible.

Cheng Zongyang did not plan to take him away. If needed in the future, he could recall him anytime and anywhere.

When I arrived at the soul crystal, the progress was already over 900.

Cheng Zongyang thought about it and felt that the progress in the prison should not be complete yet, so he continued to practice the breath-holding method.

Whenever you have time, you must speed up the progress of the breath-holding technique.

Two hours passed again.

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Exercise:

Turtle Breathing and Breath Holding Method (7/12000)

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He called up the interface and saw that the progress had increased to 7 points, but he was not discouraged. His progress was visible, and it would only get faster and faster in the future.

"The entry level is 100 points, and there are 93 points left."

With a murmur, he closed the interface and looked at the soul crystal beside him.

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Intermediate Soul Crystal: 2000/2000
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full!

Looking at the soul crystal emitting red light, Cheng Zongyang smiled. He put it into the wilderness world and went to the third position.

As expected, even the soul crystals that took a long time to complete were full.

"There are really a lot of souls in this place."

Cheng Zongyang put away the third crystal and finally went to the Soul Gathering Monument.

As a result, perhaps because of its large coverage area and the fact that soul crystals were not fought over, this soul-gathering monument had reached the third grade, with a range expanded to 900 meters and the ghost wall level reaching the third grade.

But the progress towards the fourth stage has increased to 6000.

Cheng Zongyang did not intend to take the Soul Gathering Monument back. He planned to leave it here and continue absorbing it to see what grade it could eventually be upgraded to.

In addition, in order not to affect the people in the county from sending the corpses here, he shortened the range of the ghost wall to an area of ​​three meters in radius to ensure that the soul-collecting monument would not be taken away by anyone.

Of course, it doesn’t matter if he is taken away by someone, he can summon him back at any time.

The three-meter distance is just to conceal the truth.

After dealing with these things, Cheng Zongyang looked at the time and it was already past noon.

He quickly rushed back to the city and entered the prison, and the progress of the first soul crystal was also full.

At this point, the three soul crystals can be used at any time. However, according to the situation, only two can be used at present, and the remaining one can only be put aside until the next time there is a good warrior corpse.

After returning to his residence, Butler Zhang immediately followed Cheng Zongyang and reported immediately:

"Master, Lord Li came here, but he left again when you were not around. He said that if you come back, he wants you to go to the backyard of the county government office to discuss something."

Hearing this, Cheng Zongyang nodded and said, "I understand. By the way, when you have time, go find Zhao Laoqi and ask him to get some good tea. The tea at home is really not good to drink, it's very dry and astringent."

Butler Zhang said immediately: "Yes, I will remember it."

Cheng Zongyang was not in a hurry to go to the county government office, but went to the study.

He prepared to write down the prescription.

Not only the medicinal materials needed for the medicinal bath, but also Qi Yuan Dan and Que Ti San.

Many of the medicinal materials are duplicated, so they are mixed together, and there is no need to worry about Li Lu knowing the specific formula.

A quarter of an hour later, Cheng Zongyang finished writing and took out the design drawings. He left his residence and went to the county government office.

(End of this chapter)