Two days later, three figures stood in a lifeless swamp. The swamp was very vast and filled with gloomy air everywhere.
The swamp is covered with black mud. It is foggy and swampy all year round. The trees growing here have no bark, exposing their smooth tree trunks.
On some branches, there are only a few scattered leaves hanging, as if they will fall at any time and reach the end of their lives.
In the swamp, Li Yan and the others saw some erratic figures, wandering aimlessly. At the same time, in the black swamp, they actually saw many large flags or incomplete weapons.
Those big flags have long been covered with mud, and the original color cannot be seen at all. Only some embroidered patterns can be vaguely seen. They are inserted diagonally or straight into the swamp, looking so lonely.
And more broken flags, like those broken weapons, are lying in the swamp, with more or less parts exposed in the floating and sinking, and even some are covered with black things like earthworms...
This is the other end of the Yin Tomb, and it is filled with endless corpse gas. Even just one whiff of it will make you dizzy and nauseated.
Li Yan sensed that even if a Nascent Soul cultivator came over, as long as he was not a ghost cultivator, he would not be able to stay here for too long.
"It seems that no clues can be found here, and the most likely place has been destroyed by that small family.
In the past two days, we have checked tens of thousands of corpses. Among them, there are indeed monks, monsters, and some with a trace of evil energy lingering on their bodies, but there is not a single soul cultivator.
The Great Ancestor and the others fell into a trap in the end and broke out and retreated, so the Great Ancestor and the others should have been fighting and retreating at the same time.
Maybe the first battle was not here, but when he finally retreated here, there were no other disciples around the great ancestor, and he finally fell near that tomb.
And here is the ancient battlefield of the past. There was more than one fight at that time. The lingering souls here are basically fierce souls or resentful souls.
They will even devour each other. If they devour too much, their souls will naturally mutate.
The overwhelming murderous intent and resentment in the body will cover up the differences in the original soul, which even we cannot distinguish..."
Elder Hao frowned and said in thought. He actually hated that small family very much in his heart, but Li Yan saw his murderous intention and said that he had some connections with this family.
Elder Hao had no choice but to give up in the end, but think about it, even if this small family is not here, there will be other ghost cultivating families or sects.
After all, when they discovered this place, they were the first to establish the foundation here, but they were the latecomers...
Elder Hao has been speculating on one point, why there is only the storage bag of the great ancestor, but no trace of other things can be found.
It stands to reason that based on the cultivation level of the Great Ancestor at that time, he must already have a storage ring. After thinking about this carefully, Elder Hao gave an explanation.
When the great ancestor retreated here while fighting, he may have felt that he was about to perish, so he put some things in his storage bag.
Even in the hands of many mid-level monks and even high-level monks in the fairy world, there are some low-level storage magic weapons such as storage bags.
This kind of thing usually has no effect on them at all, but it is of great use under certain conditions and can be used to hide one's identity. For example, Elder Hao also has several on his body.
The reason why the Great Ancestor did this was to consider whether he wanted to preserve his own soul or other important things.
Once placed in the storage ring, if the items are obtained by others after his death, the better items will naturally fall into the hands of powerful monks.
Then the possibility of keeping the secret becomes smaller. If his remaining soul falls into the hands of a powerful monk, he may even be enslaved by the other party.
If you use a storage bag, you will avoid these things to the greatest extent. Only low-level monks will put important things in it.
But the so-called important treasures of low-level monks are simply a pile of scrap metal in the eyes of mid-level monks and above.
If the great ancestor does this, the jade box that retains his remnant soul will be protected to the greatest extent.
Even if something unexpected happens, his remnant soul can kill low-level monks who are up to no good.
It's just that if his remnant soul wants to return to the "Soul Prison Clan", it will be many times more difficult with a low-level monk's level of cultivation.
But in that kind of crisis, the great ancestor made a hasty decision, which was already the best choice. It was better than letting his remaining soul fall directly into danger.
But where did his soul go in the end? Why was only the storage bag left? Elder Hao couldn't figure it out.
In response to Elder Hao's analysis, both Li Yan and Master Lan nodded.
"Actually, it is not an accident that we got such a result. In order to find the Great Ancestor, the Second Ancestor and the Third Ancestor later came to the Lost Continent to search.
No relevant clues were found at that time. It can only be said that it was a chance that Li Yan would come across him after a long period of time.
In this case, I think we should rush to Qingqing Continent as soon as possible and go to the Soul Prison Clan to look for other clues.
Once we get there, we will probably find the clues left by the Second Ancestor and the others, and the situation will be better, at least there is still the long underground alley and the formation there!"
Master Lan's eyes flashed with purple light and he spoke his thoughts.
"Senior, Master Lan, you must be prepared for any eventuality. I know that the only place that has not been found is the underground long alley formation.
As for other places in the ruins, they have been searched many times. Even now that there are too few monks in the past, it can be seen that no one is interested in exploring them.
This shows that the clues there are also seriously damaged, but what I said is just in case, maybe after Senior and Master Lan go there, they can find other hiding places, it’s not necessarily certain!”
"What you said makes sense. We need to try our best to find out. Otherwise, I won't be able to explain it to the Third Ancestor!"
Elder Hao nodded, but then he continued.
"Since we are leaving here, we must fully investigate the things that need to be investigated, and we must not miss anything!"
Having said this, he looked at Li Yan.
After Li Yan heard this, he immediately responded without any hesitation this time.
"This is natural. Thank you for your mercy, senior!"
Of course, Li Yan knew what Elder Hao meant. There were still unexamined areas and further investigation was needed.
That is Fengjia Fort, so they will thoroughly search Fengjia Fort before leaving.
The purpose of their search was two places, the storage space of each monk, and the place where the treasures are stored in Fengjia Fort.
Li Yan knew that Elder Hao was doing it for his sake, so he never took action against them. Naturally, he thought that if he could find clues in the Yin Tomb, he would not touch the Feng family again.
But now I see that I have no clues at all, so of course I have to take action to investigate.
And since the Feng family destroyed the place where clues to the great ancestor were found, it is impossible to say that Elder Hao did not have murderous intentions.
This kind of person is completely cold-blooded to outsiders, including Master Lan, who only cares about the soul cultivation lineage.
Just by looking at the methods they use to rule the "Earth Realm", you can know their character. Anyone who resists at all will have their entire sect bloodbathed.
The Feng family destroyed the clues left by the great ancestor, and Elder Hao would think of murder to vent his anger if something went wrong.
However, because Li Yan's words came first, they thought about it and realized that the other party was not the key, so they gave up.
This kind of thing is very common among immortal cultivators, especially sects such as soul cultivators and ghost cultivators. They are often hostile and even hunted down by outsiders.
This makes the monks of this kind of sect extremely repulsive to the outside world. Even if they kill irrelevant people, they will not feel any burden in their hearts. Instead, they will feel that it is perfectly justified.
But Li Yan is not the kind of person who kills indiscriminately. Even if this is not the Feng family, if it is just a normal sect, he will discourage unreasonable killings.
However, Li Yan also strongly advocated Elder Hao's last suggestion, not to mention that he planned to do it, since he came here just to find clues.
Of course, he was really afraid that some blind person would pick up the pieces of the broken wine vat, even though it would be of no use to the other party.
But maybe it was thrown into the storage bag, and I just missed it as if it was dark under the lamp!
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Somewhere in the west of Qingqing Continent, there are grand canyons all over the land, ravines and steep mountains.
Most of the mountains are dominated by black and gray low vegetation. When viewed from the air, they look like giant black monsters standing or crouching. They rise and fall one after another, towering between the sky and the earth.
In a canyon, there is a path winding through it. There are clusters of bushes on both sides of the path, like dark green hedgehogs, lying there quietly, spreading towards the mountains on both sides.
At the end of this path, there is a high mountain. One end of the path is facing the entrance of a dark cave, like a monster's huge mouth waiting for prey to enter its belly.
The dark entrance of the cave was constantly blowing out the cold air, and the cave was so dark that you couldn't even see your fingers.
The cave has rugged rocks, and in some narrow places, only one person can pass through. The dark cave stretches downwards.
About ten miles later, a bright yellow light suddenly appeared there, and the surrounding area was brightly illuminated. It was a bright yellow light mask ten feet in size.
On the surface of the mask, there is yellow aura flowing rapidly and erratically, like fish swimming back and forth. It feels like an exit at the other end suddenly appears.
And this place is the entrance to the once ancient "Soul Prison Clan", but it is now under the jurisdiction of several major forces.
Any monk who wants to enter and explore must either have an entry token, or each person needs to pay 10,000 yuan of low-level spiritual stones before they can enter.
On this day, three invisible breaths came here silently.
Then, they only paused briefly in front of the yellow light shield, and then, without the knowledge of a group of monks guarding the entrance, they quietly passed through the yellow light shield and entered the rear passage.
On a piece of land, Elder Hao was looking forward with his hands behind his back. Li Yan and Master Lan stood behind him.
Although the light here is still not too bright, it is no longer dark. The dim light in front has illuminated the vast land, making the scene in front of the three people suddenly clear.
The sky is dark, as if there is a huge black curtain covering the entire sky, giving people a feeling of being suppressed from the heart to the depths of the soul and unable to breathe.
At this moment, in front of the three people, there is an endless stretch of desolate desert. The dim light that appears here comes from countless grains of sand on the ground.