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Chapter 69 Grotto
Ji You didn't know that his reputation outside had been badly ruined.

What about one fiancée, two fiancées, fiancées everywhere?

He didn't even know that someone was waiting for him at this moment, intending to see what his non-existent fiancée looked like...

At this moment, he was crouching, following Yuan Chen through a narrow and dark cave. He felt a tightness in his chest because he had been bending over for too long.

This jade token must be of the Gaode brand...

Ji You groped in the darkness and felt that the atmosphere around him was extremely agitated, as if it was the eve of a storm.

At this time, the sound of breaking air continued to be heard from the cave, accompanied by sounds of ecstasy.

Ji You didn’t know what those disciples of the immortal sect had seen on the mountain, but there was always an aura of breakthrough emerging on the mountain, as if there really was an immortal fate here.

But the so-called enlightenment is all about the word "enlightenment".

If there is an opportunity to lead people to enlightenment, Ji You believes it, but if there is something that can use external forces to bypass enlightenment and make people attain enlightenment, this itself is illogical.

It’s just like reading a book, taking some medicine to improve your memory, but in the end you still have to see it with your own eyes.

Unless, there is something in this world that is incomprehensible.

At this moment, Yuan Chen, who was walking in front, suddenly called out "brother-in-law".

Ji You looked with the light from the jade plate and found that there was a completely different blood-red rock in front of him. The two types of stone had an obvious fault where the two people passed, just like water and oil separating.

"The outside of the mountain is rock, but what's wrapped inside... may not be something else."

Ji You whispered, "Hurry up and move forward, and then you pay me and I'll retreat, and we'll settle the deal."

Yuan Chen pursed his lips after hearing this: "Where's my sister?"

"Don't even think about using your sister to lure home a brother-in-law as brilliant as me."

After listening to this, Yuan Chen followed him sullenly, and then the two of them passed through the cave and walked into an empty and quiet cave.

What is horrifying is that there are bones everywhere.

The good news is that most of the bones here are not human, because the difference can be told just by looking at their appearance.

In particular, there was an extremely huge thing that looked like a leg bone and was thicker than Ji You himself.

"Di people..." Yuan Chen murmured.

"what?"

Yuan Chen raised his head and looked at him: "It is said that in the ancient times there was a very huge race that lived in the Hundred Thousand Mountains outside Jiuzhou, but was eventually devoured by the survivors. However, a tribe among the barbarians seems to have preserved a trace of the blood of this race, but it needs to go berserk to achieve a giant body."

"When the Zhenbei Army captured Beiyuan before, they encountered such a barbarian army, but their physique is not as strong as that of their ancestors."

Ji You frowned: "Barbarians are not a whole race, but a general term?"

Yuan Chen turned his head and looked at him, making Ji You feel the contempt of a high school student looking at a junior high school student.

Ji You chuckled, "I'm from Yuyang County, Fengzhou, a place where people can't even afford to eat. Only Master Chen has a few tattered books at home, and there aren't even any pictures. What do you expect me to know?"

Yuan Chen was stunned for a moment: "There are still such poor places, no wonder my brother-in-law loves money so much."

"There's nothing I can do. I'm afraid of being poor."

Yuan Chen turned his head and looked at the leg bone: "Actually, this is not a secret. The ancient war was so fierce that other tribes fled to the wild continent outside the Northern Plains to avoid the war. Therefore, the barbarians are not just one race, but all races except humans."

Ji You thought for a moment and said, "Aren't there still demon tribes?"

"That's right, but in that war, the demon race stood on the side of the human race, so they are not considered as barbarians."

Ji You was thinking, when he suddenly stretched out his hand and grabbed Yuan Chen who was walking forward.

The sudden drop in gravity caused the veins on his arms to bulge, but the explosive force generated at that moment was just enough to support the weight of Yuan Chen's entire body.

At this time, Yuan Chen's feet were hanging in the air, and cold sweat instantly broke out on his forehead.

He did not notice when he was moving forward that there was no ground in front of him. Now he was suspended in the air, and there was a deep pit under his feet.

If Ji You hadn't reached out and grabbed him in time, he would have fallen in.

Afterwards, Yuan Chen was lifted up, and with the help of the light from the jade plate, he looked over. The deep pit in front of him was full of corpses, lying in all directions and stacked up layer by layer.

Unlike the ancient skeletons before, these corpses are all human, or in other words, cultivators.

All the bodies had their abdomens cut open, leaving a huge hole in the center.
Before coming here, Ji You was just a clear-headed and stupid college student who didn't know how to judge the time of death of a corpse.

Moreover, there seems to be no natural decomposition behavior such as "decay" in this relic, so even if a detective came, it would be of no use.

But judging from the dried blood and the dust on the clothes, these bodies were probably not recent.

The good news is that there are no alchemists among these people.

Ji You squatted down, pointed at the empty spaces and looked at Yuan Chen: "What is missing at this location?"

“Spiritual essence…”

"?"

Yuan Chen swallowed and shuddered.

The alchemist is also a doctor and has a very good understanding of the structure of the human body. After practicing Qi, the cultivator will produce spiritual energy and hide here.

But even he had never seen such a thing as dissecting the spirit essence alive.

How painful this is...

Although Yuan Chen does not practice the way of heaven and does not condense spiritual energy, he also has an inner elixir, and it hurts just to look at it.

So he turned around and looked at Ji You, and found that the other party's expression was normal and he was not touched at all.

Ji You also turned to look at him at this time, thinking, why are you looking at me? I don’t have this thing.

"What can we do with the spiritual essence?"

"When the spirit essence leaves the human body, it becomes a pill bead. There shouldn't be anything special about it. Or maybe there is something else I don't know."

There had been an incident of disciples going missing in Tianshu Academy before, and five bodies were later found in a cave.

However, in order to avoid causing panic and to prevent other immortal sects and families from having any other thoughts, the Office of Administration did not disclose the details to the public.

But even so, Ji You could still vaguely remember the missing disciples of Tianshu Academy.

"Keep going, find someone quickly, you can't make money and not live to spend it..."

Ji You drew out the long sword in his hand, and spiritual energy attached to the sword like smoke and dust, and a cold light bloomed in the night.

The body cultivation in the lower three realms follows the path of tempering the body with spiritual energy.

Only when you reach the final upper stage of condensation can you condense your spiritual essence and finally complete the three lower stages.

In other words, the lowest realm of those who died here was the upper realm of Condensation, or even the perfection of the lower three realms, the same as his cultivation level.

It is not easy to earn these thousand taels of gold.

The two continued forward and saw countless iron cages arranged throughout the cave, densely packed together, with marks of scratches from fingers and claws all around.

In addition to the iron cages, there are also some cushions, incense burners, etc. Judging from the number, there are quite a few people.

But just like the corpses in the pit, these cushions and incense burners were all covered with a layer of fine ash. Judging from the time, they had not been moved for at least half a month.

The ruins originally known as the "Unknown Land" had actually been occupied by people a long time ago. Then evil disasters continued and immortals appeared...

Then the people here evacuated early, leaving behind only a huge conspiracy.

While Ji You was thinking, Yuan Chen saw the jade plate in his hand suddenly burst into brilliant light.

Afterwards, the aura emitted by the mutual induction of spiritual energy quickly drove the jade plate to rotate, and finally locked onto the south direction of the cave and froze there.

Yuan Chen ran in quickly holding the jade plate.

At this moment, a loud rumbling sound came from the top of the mountain, and the mountains began to shake continuously.

(End of this chapter)