I, a minor character, fell into the Shura field of the heroine and the villain

The holy land is so vast that finding a specific person is both easy and difficult.

The easy part is that Her Majesty the Holy Lord has many spies, and almost no one can escape her eyes and ears.

But they are afraid that the other party has accomplices who can help them cover up.

Unless they mobilized their forces to turn the holy land upside down, they might be able to find the person, but that would also cause chaos. Wouldn't it be embarrassing to have so many foreign guests during such a special period?

Currently, only a few people know what is happening in the holy land, and everyone else is kept in the dark.

Mu Wanyi and Zhao Kangping guessed that Shao Yang and the others wanted to open the mysterious teleportation array in the underground space of the secret valley and connect it to the outside world after the trial began.

In this way, the secret realm of the valley will no longer be a closed secret world, but will be connected to the main world.

But in this case, the integration of the secret valley and the main world is very slow.

However, if the teleportation array is turned on and special means are used to expand the spatial channel connecting the two teleportation arrays, it may be possible to accelerate the convergence of the time flow rate in the inside and outside worlds.

In this way, the situation that Zhao Kangping is worried about might really happen.

After Zhao Kangping entered the secret realm, he found a place to hide.

He cannot be discovered by anyone, including the surveillance eyes flying in the sky.

Fortunately, he remembered the patrol routes of most of the surveillance eyes. As long as he was not too active before those disciples appeared, he should not be discovered.

Even though he only entered the secret realm an hour earlier than those disciples, according to the speed of time here, he arrived one or two days earlier than those disciples.

These one or two days cannot be wasted, he must find the underground space he had been in before within this time.

After the last time he went out, the terrain in the secret realm had been adjusted and he couldn't recognize it anymore.

"I don't know what the theme of this trial is?" Zhao Kangping was not a disciple participating in the trial, and he did not get the identity jade token.

This jade token can not only detect the physical condition of the disciple wearing it, but also record the points the disciple has earned in the secret realm of the valley. In times of crisis, the jade token can be crushed to teleport out of the secret realm.

When they originally came in to inspect, there were damages caused by fighting in many places in the secret realm, but they were later repaired using sand table magic tools.

Every time he entered the secret realm after the terrain changed, he felt like he was entering a completely new map.

It took him about five or six hours to finally find the mountain that was pressing down on the underground cave.

He had moved this here using the sand table, and had also roughly memorized the shape of the mountain. The reason it took him so long to move here was entirely because he wanted to avoid being detected by the surveillance eyes.

Along the way, he was paying attention to whether there was any other person's breath left here, so as to determine whether Shao Yang and others had been here.

During this process, he connected the clues bit by bit, trying to figure out if he had overlooked anything.

It would have been fine if he hadn't thought about it, but once he did, he noticed many details that he hadn't paid attention to.

For example, the biography mentioned that there was something suppressed beneath the secret valley.

For example, there should be a corpse-raising array at the bottom of the underground riverbed. That array should not only be used to raise the bone snake and the white bone puppet. There may be big creatures in that river.

Perhaps there is some connection between the things suppressed underground in this secret valley and the things that the corpse-raising formation wants to raise?

When they were in the underground space with Dongfang Jingrou, they were both in a hurry to get out and did not explore the underground space thoroughly.

There might be some secret hidden in it, which might be related to Shao Yang's plan.

Zhao Kangping's fingers gently brushed across his storage ring. For this operation, he brought enough supplies, including many magic weapons, talismans and pills.

Many of them were given by my senior sister.

He suddenly remembered a famous saying by a wise man: To cultivate immortality, one must be with a rich woman.

Mr. Zhao deeply agrees with this.

Facing that huge mountain, he would definitely not be able to enter the underground without external help.

He had never learned earth-walking techniques, so he couldn't escape underground. Like most cultivators, he yearned to fly into the sky, never thought of burrowing into the earth.

So he didn't learn earth-walking techniques.

In fact, this is also related to his dual spiritual roots of fire and thunder. After all, he does not have the spiritual root of earth. It is not impossible for him to learn earth-walking techniques, but the result will be half the effort with twice the results.

Moreover, he has a substitute, so there is no need for him to learn this spell.

Zhao Kangping took out an earth escape talisman from his storage ring.

This talisman can replace the Earth Movement Technique to some extent. Of course, it is not without its shortcomings. For example, the speed of the Earth Movement Talisman is fixed, while the Earth Movement Technique can increase the speed according to the cultivator's realm.

But he still has time, so it's not urgent.

About a cup of tea later, Zhao Kangping sneaked into the underground space he had been to before.

This time, the place was not completely deserted, and he could still use some lighting spells.

With the light source, the eerie atmosphere here disappeared completely.

This time, he first investigated the underground river whose bottom was filled with bones.

After using the water repellent technique, he dived into the water and searched for about three sets of human remains. Perhaps due to the passage of time and the erosion of time, most of these remains were missing.

But from the number of skulls and vertebrae, it can be determined that there are three people.

In fact, Zhao Kangping also checked the list of people who disappeared during the holy land trials since Shao Yang entered the Ziyang Holy Land yesterday.

Coincidentally, if the time is limited to after Shao Yang entered the holy land, the number of missing people is exactly three.

These three people are the female disciple Ding, who disappeared fifty years ago, and Liu and Wang, who disappeared twenty years ago, all within the same sixty-year period. Liu and Wang appear to be a young couple who disappeared during the same Holy Land Trial.

He examined three skeletons, and their pelvises were relatively intact, indicating that they were one male and two females.

It just corresponds to the gender of the three missing people.

Zhao Kangping remembered that these three disciples were all in the Foundation Establishment Stage, and there happened to be some monsters with strength stronger than theirs wandering around in this underground river area.

"Maybe they accidentally entered this place and were killed by the white bone monsters here." Zhao Kangping guessed.

This time, there was no Jueling here, so he could use his spiritual sense to explore further.

Then he discovered a hidden passage behind a rock wall. He blasted the thin rock wall open with his palm, and a dark passage was revealed behind it.

After entering, he went through many twists and turns and found that there was a different world inside.

Unlike the pitch-black areas along the underground river, there is a light source here.

Inside this vast underground cavern, numerous luminous, transparent crystal clusters grew on the ceiling. Because of the light source, some low ferns and some bizarre fungi also grew there.

There's something unexpectedly lively here.

But Zhao Kangping did not dare to go in rashly.

As a formation master, he only needed to be a little careful to keenly notice the existence of a defensive formation here.

If he had been careless and rushed in directly, he would probably have been attacked by the defensive formation.

The level of this formation should not cause him serious harm, but if it is caught off guard, he may indeed be injured.

He stood where he was, released his spiritual sense, and soon found the weak point of the formation.

He took advantage of this weak spot to make a breakthrough.

It took more than an hour to break the formation, which proved that the person who set up the formation was at least quite knowledgeable about formations, and not just the superficial understanding that can be seen everywhere.

"I don't believe it if there's nothing hidden in here."

Zhao Kangping explored this cave very cautiously.

To his surprise, this place was not only quite large, but also divided into several areas.

There were actually a few houses built of earth, stone, wood and thatch, as well as a few acres of abandoned spiritual fields. A small river happened to flow by the fields, which could be used for irrigation.

He walked to the river and found that the water was rich in spiritual energy, which was very suitable for watering spiritual medicine.

"This place is very suitable for secluded practice." He immediately came up with this idea when he saw the layout here.

The concentration of spiritual energy in the entire secret valley is much higher than that of the outside world. However, the spiritual energy in this cave is probably filtered and not as rich as in the valley, but it is very suitable for long-term living. Long-term cultivation here will not cause crystallization disease due to the high concentration of spiritual energy.

Anyone with eyesight can see that there are obvious signs of human activities here.

Zhao Kangping pushed open the door of a house.

After a creak, the door opened.

He was worried whether there was anyone living there, but his worries were unnecessary.

There was no one inside, and time seemed to have stopped in the room. It was spotless and had been cleaned thoroughly.

"The owner of this house must be a mysophobe. He actually used a formation to create a spell that automatically cleans and prevents corruption."

The house was made of wood and earth, and should have been unable to withstand the test of time. It would have crumbled to dust at the slightest touch. But it didn't.

Time flows so fast in the secret realm that they should have existed for countless years, but this place still looks as good as new.

Zhao Kangping found women's clothes in the closet in the room, but did not find any men's clothes.

"That's not right. Wasn't it Shao Yang who built this place? Or does he have a cross-dressing fetish?" He had a preconceived notion that Shao Yang was the black-clothed envoy of God, but when he saw the women's clothes here, he was confused.

Could it be that this place was not built by the black-robed envoy of God?

He also found a lot of books in the house, many of which were about formation research, spiritual medicine cultivation, and puppet making.

"He's quite versatile." He himself couldn't even say how deeply he had studied formations, yet others had dabbled in so many fields.

He picked up the book on formation research and flipped through it. He didn't pay much attention at first, but after turning page after page, his eyes became wider and wider.

The Sealing Formation, a formation that cuts off communication between those within and outside the formation. Divine consciousness can't penetrate it, nor can it enter, and the communication jade slip can't send any messages. He had encountered it before, both at the auction venue in Chuanliu City and in the secret cave outside the valley.

The book also recorded the sinister formation of the Hemolytic Soul Refining Formation. He had suffered a loss from it not long ago and was deeply impressed.

He had only heard of this kind of formation before, but he had never learned it himself.

He continued to flip through a few pages and saw another formation that shocked him a little.

A formation that gathers yin and raises corpses.

Needless to say, this is the formation in the underground river.

This kind of corpse-raising formation can gather negative energy and ghosts, and refine them for the formation to absorb and use for nourishing corpse demons.

"Corpse demon?" Zhao Kangping's heart almost skipped a beat as he muttered the word.

Corpse demons are a type of powerful undead monsters, and their meanings vary significantly in different periods and regions.

In the Great Zhou Dynasty of Zhongzhou, the term "corpse demon" is used to refer to certain higher-level zombies that either suck blood or eat humans.

However, in the Eastern Region, corpse demons generally refer to undead monsters capable of wreaking havoc across large areas. This is due to the shadow cast by the demons' invasion of humanity in ancient times, and many people classify many terrifying monsters as demons. In reality, these monsters have no connection to the demons.

No matter which one it is, once the corpse demon takes shape, it will be a great disaster.

He carefully read the contents of the Yin Gathering Corpse Raising Formation. This formation was very unpopular, not because it was useless, but because it had a single function: to raise corpses, and only corpse demons.

"We have to take the initiative to capture the sacrifice, which is so troublesome."

Zhao Kangping thought that setting up this formation was time-consuming and laborious, but suddenly a light bulb went off in his head.

"No wonder he wants to merge the secret valley with the main world. If he succeeds, how many people will die? Where will all these souls go? Now we finally have the answer."

The book also mentions that the more dead souls the corpse-raising array refines, the stronger they are, and the stronger the corpse demon that is finally cultivated will be.

Maybe he could reach the level of refining emptiness, or even the level of corpse demon above fusion.

Once such a corpse demon is born, it will cause great suffering to the people of the Eastern Region.

Zhao Kangping is now very impatient. He knows some of the other party's plans and can't wait to sabotage their actions.

Before leaving, he searched the house carefully again and found a special jade pendant under the pillow on the bed.

After seeing the words above, he was so shocked that he didn't know what to say.

It really surprised him.

Afterwards, he hurried out of the house, wanting to explore this cave as quickly as possible, and then go to the underground river to destroy the corpse-raising array.

This cave is even more complete than he imagined. There is even a special area for practicing martial arts and a small puppet workshop.

But this didn't shock him too much.

What surprised him most was that he actually found some fungi in the abandoned spiritual field.

He originally thought that these were naturally grown, but upon closer inspection, they were almost identical to the fungi on the mushroom people found in River City.

"Fuck, this must be the secret base of the Black-Cloaked Divine Envoy. It's actually built here."

That guy must have cultivated this kind of fungus here, and later used it as his own means of attack.

These things cannot be kept, so Zhao Kangping summoned the pure yang energy in his body. This energy is not just used for dual cultivation.