Shangguan Ruoli took out the masks sewn with herbal medicine and gave them to each person one by one. "This is for preventing miasma and sterilizing."
Ruhua said in admiration: "You are really well prepared."
Shangguan Ruoli gave him a blank look. She came to the state to meet with Yunxia Hall, so she was naturally well prepared.
The mountain peak in front of us is not big, just like a large stone pillar cut by a knife. It goes straight up and down. The Yunxia Palace is on that mountain peak.
There are dense rocks and dense trees under the mountain peaks, and the areas under the trees that are not shaded by trees are full of thorns.
Looking at the steep and smooth mountain wall, which is as sharp as an axe, it is too high and too far. I am afraid that I will not be able to go up with light skills. The bare rock wall is easy to expose my tracks when climbing.
If the opponent shoots an arrow, he is a living target.
Shangguan Ruoli frowned, "How to go up this mountain peak?"
"Master, something is wrong ahead..." Two of the men from Meihua Pavilion who were exploring the way at the front ran over with extremely ugly expressions.
Shangguan Ruoli looked in the direction the two men came from and saw something white and white among the weeds.
Ruhua said kindly: "They are all corpses."
One of them replied: "Those in front are just a few, there are more inside."
Everyone couldn't help but look at that area, and several people quickly went over to check and clean up the dead branches and leaves.
I saw more and more corpses exposed, some already turned into bones, and some looking like they had only been dead for a few days, and they were densely distributed in the valley.
That disgusting stench comes from this.
Shangguan Ruoli's face was extremely cold, and he approached the corpses to check, "These people are not like ordinary people. Their injuries were mainly caused by falls. I just don't know whether they were alive or dead when they fell into the valley."
Most of these corpses were dressed in good quality materials, and some of them were dressed in similar attires, just like the uniform uniforms of some sect disciples seen on TV.
"Most of these people are Jianghu people." Ruhua pointed to a few of them.
Everyone continued to walk forward, perhaps the main place for dumping corpses was in front of them. The corpses were piled up like a hill. The smell of corpses became stronger, and the masks sewn with charcoal and herbs were no longer effective.
"These are all Jianghu people? Why did they die here? They are not here to punish rape and eliminate evil, are they?" Shangguan Ruoli recalled the scene in some martial arts TV series where the martial arts leader leads the Jianghu righteousness to kill the evil cult.
Ru Hua said: "I am afraid that the Lord Yunxia wants to control some people with strong martial arts skills. Otherwise, even if ordinary people are controlled by her, how much power will they have?"
This statement makes sense. Those who attacked them yesterday were very skilled.
Although the younger brother was recruited from the villagers, he had already undergone three years of training. Compared with long-term training, it is of course more convenient and faster to have ready-made martial arts masters.
But martial arts masters have stronger minds than ordinary people and are more difficult to control.
So those who died at the bottom of the mountain were defective products that failed in the experiment. Or some of them went to rescue their fellow sect members, but they couldn't get up the mountain and were thrown down.
Shangguan Ruoli's brows were furrowed. The mountain wall was too steep. How were they going to go up?
And how do people from Yunxia Palace usually get up there?
"Get out of here quickly! It stinks!" Ruhua had a look of disgust on his face.
For someone with a particularly sensitive sense of smell, this smell was like killing him.
It's really not advisable to stay here for a long time. It's not good for people to keep breathing in the smell of corpses.
Everyone came to the upwind direction and took a deep breath.
Ruhua took a proud look at the Yunxia Palace that stood on the mountain like a temple, and said to Shangguan Ruoli: "Guess how they usually go up and down the mountain?"
Shangguan Ruoli was not interested in playing guessing games with him, so he slapped the Black Iron Sword directly on his face, "Do you know the consequences of trying to cheat on me?"
The black iron sword was very sharp, and when it touched the skin, a line of blood slipped from Ruhua's face.
Ruhua was frightened. He was extremely protective of his face and had never been injured. After all, he relied on his face to make a living.
"It's a zipline. We all use the zipline to go up and down!" Ruhua's face turned pale as he touched the blood on his face and hurriedly pointed to another mountain peak not far from Yunxia Palace.
It was a steep mountain peak juxtaposed with this mountain peak. It was surrounded by strange rocks, and the positions of those rocks seemed to be organized.
Shangguan Ruoli took out his telescope and looked between the two mountains. The mountains were shrouded in clouds and mist. They didn't notice two gray ropes in the sky at first.
There are one high and one low on both sides, one for going up the mountain and one for going down the mountain. Regardless of whether it is going up or down, it is done from the peak next door. It can be seen that the peak next to it is the key to entering Yunxia Palace.
"Then, if you didn't bring us to the foot of that mountain peak, but brought us here, are you kidding us?" Shangguan Ruoli looked at Ruhua with a very unkind look, and there was no concealment of murderous intent in his eyes.
Ruhua wailed, "It's unfair. You also know that the mountain peak is the key. You can imagine the formation traps around it! It is not easy to get there directly from the foot of the mountain! Besides, it was you who said in the beginning that you should take a detour for safety.
Yes!"
Okay, you have a point! Shangguan Ruoli snorted coldly and led everyone to turn towards the mountain peak.
It's not that far on both sides, about four or five miles, and you'll arrive through a patch of trees and rocks in the valley.
"Oh, please treat my face first!" Ruhua begged from behind.
Shangguan Ruoli looked like he didn't hear anything and didn't abandon him at all. It was just a very shallow wound and would not leave a scar.
Ruhua almost cried, "Please! Treat my face first!"
"Shut up!" An Yi shouted angrily and stopped his howling with a sharp look.
Ruhua decisively shut up and held back her breath.
In order to prevent being discovered, everyone held their breath and moved quickly through the trees very carefully. They stopped only when they arrived near the rocks.
An Yi led a few secret guards around the Stone Forest, and the expressions on their faces were a little solemn.
Ruhua stared at the stone formation and said: "This is not an ordinary stone formation, but a formation arranged according to the Qimen Dunjia Technique. I haven't been back for many years, and it has long been different from the original formation."
Shangguan Ruoli has no doubts about this. She knows that the formations on Yunxia Mountain will change every once in a while. This is also the mysterious and terrifying part of Yunxia Palace.
An Yi frowned and said: "This formation is quite superb and profound, and cannot be accomplished by ordinary magicians."
"Can't you see this? You are really ignorant." Ruhua finally found a sense of superiority, and her peach blossom eyes instantly looked at An Yi like a country bumpkin.
That looks like a naive smile and an uneducated one.
An Yi frowned, "Did Yunxia Palace also invite talented people from the Murong family?"
Shangguan Ruoli has read information about the Murong family in Meihua Pavilion. The Murong family is also one of the aristocratic families and is proficient in Qimen Dunjia and various mechanisms and numbers.