Chapter 48: Exploring the truth
Jiang Yu opened the door and felt a damp smell coming directly from the shop floor.
The room was pitch dark, and with the little light coming from the door, Jiang Yu managed to take a look at the scene in the room.
The window was closed tightly, and the thick cloth completely covered it, not a trace of light could be revealed. On the cloth, someone drew a formation.
Jiang Yu recognized it at a glance. It was a formation that belonged to monks and was used to conceal the aura.
She looked around and found that many places were painted with these formations.
It was broad daylight, but the whole house looked eerie and dark.
Even though the door was wide open and sunlight finally came in, Jiang Yu still had goosebumps all over his body.
No matter how you look at it, this doesn't look like a place where a seriously injured person should live.
Jiang Yu tentatively took a few steps inside and walked around the screen in silence.
Unsurprisingly, I saw an empty bed.
"Suning."
Without saying a word, she turned around and swung her sword directly, slashing open the closed doors and windows.
The sky light rushes into the room, the light is sufficient, the sword energy is rampant, and the formation is broken.
Waves of evil energy surged out from the ground.
Jiang Yu lowered his gaze and found a large blood stain beside the bed, as well as another blood formation drawn with blood, which was like a smaller version of the formation outside the city.
There was the sound of fighting outside the house, and the sound of weapons clashing into the house. Jiang Yu frowned and carefully inspected the house, knocking here and touching there.
When Wei Xu dealt with the two evil cultivators and Yuan Heng and the others ran in together, Jiang Yu happened to touch the edge of the bed, lifted the quilt, half-knelt on the bed board and banged the wall inside.
"Dong dong."
There was a dull knocking sound, and Jiang Yu's frown slightly relaxed, he straightened up and jumped out of bed, pointing the tip of his sword directly at the hollow wall.
"This is it." She said to Yuan Heng.
Yuan Heng took a look at the destroyed formations in the room, as well as the blood formation beside the bed where Jiang Yu had rubbed a few random strokes with his feet, and his face became solemn: "The evil spirit is very strong."
He looked at where the tip of Jiang Yu's sword was pointing. Since there were no evil spirits in the room, such heavy evil energy could only come from here.
Jiang Yu directly split the wall with a sword.
The wall collapsed suddenly, and the long stone door shattered into several pieces, raising a cloud of dust and slightly confusing the five people's eyes.
Jiang Yu stood at the front and was the first to bear the dust. She subconsciously raised her arms to cover her eyes. When she lowered them again, the dim door behind the wall was completely exposed.
She rushed inside with her sword in hand, and several people behind her quickly followed.
There were no lights in the dim passage. Fortunately, there was only one road, so Jiang Yu and the others didn't need to tell the direction.
All the way down, Jiang Yu felt that he had walked through an unknown length of steps. Finally, light appeared in front of him. After walking a few steps, his vision suddenly became clear.
Another stone door.
Two candles illuminated the space in front of the door.
Jiang Yu reached out and touched the stone door: "There is no formation."
This is just an ordinary stone gate with no formation barrier attached, but they don't know where the mechanism is for the time being.
Jiang Yu carefully groped for the pattern on the door: "I don't believe that the city lord's wife would recuperate here." She also doesn't believe that Wen Renhuai didn't know anything about it.
The room was so dark that there was almost no light. She didn't believe that he didn't know or see the formations deliberately drawn in various places.
They were indeed wrong from the beginning.
They had preconceptions that Wen Renhuai was definitely on the side of the normal monks, and that he could not collude with those evil spirits who mostly could only hide in the dark and hide from people, so they stayed stuck in place, guarding the city on the ground. Waiting for the evil spirit to come to your door.
Now that his thinking has changed, the impossible has become possible, and the previous doubts about him can be explained.
Why couldn't he know in time that there were fewer people in the city, because he was covering for those evil spirits;
Why didn't he know about the disgusting blood sacrifice formation outside the city, because he was the evil devil's accomplice;
Why did she, an outsider, need to inform him that even the guards in his house were missing? Because he was one of the culprits of the disappearance. No, maybe he didn't arrange guards at all, so that the group of evil spirits who had hidden their aura could come in and out openly.
It seems that he doesn't know, Jiang Yu thought, all developments are probably under his control. He only needs to show that he doesn't know, so he can stand on the sidelines and watch them like headless flies in the situation he has set. Spin.
If the city lord himself is the so-called traitor, then it is not surprising that the group of evil spirits can keep track of their whereabouts at all times.
I just don't know if their breaking into this place is part of his plan.
"This pattern looks familiar."
Wei Xu followed Jiang Yu and carefully looked at the patterns carefully carved on the door, "I just can't remember where I saw it."
This seemed to be drawn randomly by someone. It looked like a butterfly but was not a butterfly pattern. He always felt that he had seen it somewhere, but he couldn't remember it for a while.
Jiang Yu also followed his words and looked at Shimen again. Unlike Wei Xu, she looked at it carefully this time and didn't feel familiar at all.
"I have never seen such patterns." She turned slightly and looked at the three people from the Sun and Moon Immortal Sect who were looking for mechanisms in other corners. "There is no mechanism on the door."
Fang He shook his head: "I don't have one here either."
Sang Yang walked out of the corner, dejected: "I didn't find it either."
Jiang Yu finally looked at Yuan Heng. He held the sword he had summoned at some point in his hand and shook his head slightly.
Jiang Yu looked back at the closed stone door: "Let's break through."
Anyway, they had used brute force to break open the first door, and they had no patience to continue searching at this moment. It was best to find out the truth before Wen Renhuai returned home.
No one refused her proposal. Yuan Heng stepped forward holding the Qingman Sword: "I'll do it."
It didn't matter who came. Jiang Yu didn't refuse and took a step back with Wei Xu to make room for Yuan Heng.
The stone door without formations and barriers was very fragile. Yuan Heng raised his sword and swung it, and the sword energy rushed towards the stone door. In an instant, the scene of the first door breaking open reappeared, and Jiang Yu was broken by this stone door of poor quality. I was choked by the dust that was flying up, so I didn't stop for a long time and walked inside despite the flying dust.
After walking through the spacious, lighted secret passage, Jiang Yu and the others turned a corner, and the road ahead suddenly became clear.
Countless lights illuminate the entire venue.
Jiang Yu and others froze on the spot, their whole bodies stiff.
The huge circular field was painted with a formation that was exactly the same as the blood formation outside the city.
Countless columns stood in the formation, and on each column, a scarred ordinary person was tied. Blood flowed down the columns, into the small grooves on the ground, and flowed in all directions, forming a huge formation.
A high platform was built in the center of the formation. On the high platform, there was a long sword. Black energy surrounded the entire sword body, making it exude evil energy everywhere. There was a steady stream of evil energy coming out of the formation. Little by little, they got closer and blended in. Next to the sword, there was a man and a woman dancing a dance they couldn't understand.
In addition, several demons turned their heads and stared at the entrance, their eyes falling on the five people who came in.
(End of chapter)