Chapter 266: Demon-Suppressing Tower

After entering the cave, everyone walked inside for several hundred zhang, and suddenly it became enlightened.

After everyone released several illumination spells, they discovered that it seemed they had entered a huge underground cave.

It was just that after coming into this place, everyone felt a trace of gloomy wind blowing toward their faces, making people feel somewhat terrified.

"This aura is somewhat wrong. Everyone be careful, don't disperse." Seeming to smell a strange bloody smell in this gloomy wind, Wang Mengxiao hurriedly reminded everyone.

After everyone heard this, the few people who had walked away a bit hurriedly approached back.

"Martial Brother Wang, I think it's better to explore the road first!" Bai Yunhua also reminded after hearing this.

Wang Mengxiao nodded, then took out a purple spirit beast bag from his waist.

Only hearing a squeaking sound, a spirit-exploring mouse about a foot high jumped out of the spirit beast bag.

Under Wang Mengxiao's instruction, the somewhat cute-looking spirit-exploring mouse walked carefully in front, while Wang Mengxiao led the crowd and followed behind at a distance.

The further they walked inside, the more obvious the bloody smell in the air became, and a trace of heaviness gradually appeared on everyone's faces.

It was so gloomy inside this cave that it didn't look like a cultivator's cave dwelling at all. Everyone took out the magic tools on their bodies, ready to take action with people at any time.

Fortunately, there were no changes along the way, and everyone came to the depths of the cave without spending much effort.

"Look, there is a corpse in front." Following Bai Yunhua's loud shout, everyone's eyes immediately gathered over.

"Not bad, this is the magic robe of our Xiaoyao Sect. It seems it is them. What kind of person is so vicious that they dare to take action against our Xiaoyao Sect people here." In front of everyone was a corpse that was already very old.

Because Qi Condensation cultivators absorbed spiritual energy to temper their flesh all year round, even if they died, they almost wouldn't be damaged within ten years. By reason, it was very easy to identify this person's identity.

But the corpse in front of them could no longer see the original specific face. It seemed as if all the essence blood in the whole body had been sucked dry in an instant. The whole person's face had become a shriveled dry corpse, and the expression on the face was also very terrified. I don't know what kind of terrifying thing they encountered back then. At this time, the storage bag on the corpse had already disappeared. Fortunately, the Dao robe unique to the inner sect disciples of the Xiaoyao Sect worn on this person was too obvious, so his identity could still be determined.

Seeing the appearance of this corpse, Song Qingming couldn't help but feel a trace of uneasiness in his heart. This miserable appearance was really somewhat beyond his expectations.

Before everyone could think carefully, a second corpse was discovered not far ahead. The situation was about the same as the previous corpse, also in such a miserable state of death, and the storage bag on the body had also disappeared. However, when Song Qingming saw this corpse, he still felt a trace of familiarity instantly. After checking carefully, he still confirmed that this was Third Brother Song Qingze's corpse.

At a position dozens of zhang in front of Song Qingze's corpse, everyone discovered a somewhat damaged stone platform, with four corpses that had encountered the same situation lying around it. It seemed that these were the remaining missing people.

"Martial Brother Bai, what kind of magic array is this? Do you recognize it?" Seeing a stone tower built of stones on the stone platform, and many restriction spells drawn on it, Wang Mengxiao, who was walking at the very front, hurriedly asked the second-grade formation master Bai Yunhua on the side.

Bai Yunhua stepped forward to check it after hearing this, and then said seriously, "This doesn't seem to be a magic array; it is a Demon-Suppressing Tower used to seal evil things. It looks like several martial nephews have touched the seal, and the evil things inside have been released by them."

"Demon-Suppressing Tower? How could there be this thing here? It has never been recorded in the sect's ancient texts!" Hearing that this thing was a Demon-Suppressing Tower, everyone's faces revealed a trace of panic one after another.

This kind of thing like a Demon-Suppressing Tower was not common in the cultivation world and was generally used to seal those powerful demonic cultivators or some evil spirits and ghosts that were difficult to completely eliminate.

Unlike the low-tier demonic cultivators like Yang Wuqi that Song Qingming had seen before, demonic cultivators above the Jin Dan level could cultivate the Yin Demon Reincarnation Technique. At critical moments, they could reincarnate into the substitute bodies prepared before their death. If the demon-subduing person didn't have special means, even if they killed their flesh, it would be very difficult to completely eradicate this hidden danger.

And the Demon-Suppressing Tower was one of the ways to deal with these high-tier demonic cultivators. When the demonic cultivator died, their primordial spirit was directly imprisoned in the body, and they were suppressed with the Demon-Suppressing Tower for hundreds or thousands of years. By the time the demonic cultivator himself or the prepared substitute body had exhausted their lifespan, they wouldn't be able to make any waves.

This kind of means was relatively clumsy, and the hidden danger was also very great. Without cultivators guarding it all year round, it was very easy to appear like this, being discovered by low-tier cultivators, who mistakenly thought it was something left by a senior ancient cultivator, and risked their lives to break the seal and release the demons sealed inside.

"Martial Brother Bai, are you sure this is a Demon-Suppressing Tower? Could it be mistaken!" Wang Mengxiao looked at the stone platform in front of him and asked somewhat thoughtfully.

"I haven't seen a Demon-Suppressing Tower with my own eyes either. It's just that from the talisman scripts of this seal, it is indeed this kind of thing that seals evil things. I am still sure of this point."

"Martial Brother Wang, this matter involves great demons, so we still need to report it to the sect quickly. Let's not approach this magic array first and go outside to notify Martial Uncle Li!" Hu Zhongxing saw that Wang Mengxiao had been staring tightly at the Demon-Suppressing Tower in front of him, as if he still wanted to step forward to check it, so he hurriedly reminded him.

Wang Mengxiao turned to look at the crowd and saw that everyone didn't oppose Hu Zhongxing's statement. He also quickly changed the attitude he had just wanted to step forward to check, let everyone collect the corpses around the stone platform, and retreated from this stone cave on the spot.

One day later, Song Qingming, who was waiting in Black Stone Valley with the Xiaoyao Sect people, saw two spiritual lights fly past the sky quickly. Not long after, a man and a woman, two Jin Dan cultivators, landed in front of everyone.

One of these two people was known to Song Qingming. It was exactly the Xiaoyao Sect Law Enforcement Hall Elder Li Wutong. Back then, Song Qingming obtained an opportunity to exchange for a Foundation Establishment Pill from him, so he could be considered a great benefactor who helped Song Qingming's Dao path a lot.

The other one was relatively strange, and Song Qingming had never seen her before. This woman was wearing a blue and white long skirt. Although she looked only eighteen or nineteen years old, her appearance was beautiful, her aura was like an orchid, and she emitted a unique aura like a fairy stepping into the mortal world. Song Qingming had been cultivating for decades and had never seen such an outstanding woman, so he couldn't help but look at her twice more.

Such a beautiful woman could attract people's attention with every move. Fortunately, Song Qingming's concentration in this aspect was relatively good, so he didn't show too much loss of composure on the spot.

"Pay respects to Martial Uncle Bai, Martial Uncle Li!"

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