Evil Master and Disciple

Ye Feng saw the complicated expression on the face of the old man guarding the temple, which seemed like a desperate person trapped in darkness seeing the light of day.

He could conclude that the old man guarding the temple must know what the red circle on the map of Tianyun Mountain meant.

He looked at the old man guarding the temple with a look of sternness on his face.

However, the old man guarding the temple did not answer.

Instead, he made a very strange move.

His cloudy eyes slowly looked around.

It seems that in the quiet forest, there are many eyes hidden that Ye Feng cannot see.

The old man guarding the temple said slowly, "This is a topographic map of the Tianyun Mountains."

"I already know that. I want to ask what secrets are hidden in the area circled in red on this map."

"Secret? How would I know if there is any secret? I'm just an old man guarding the ancestral hall."

After saying that, the old man turned and left, taking the map with him.

Ye Feng said: "Old senior, Tutu... my map!"

The voice of the old man guarding the temple came slowly. It did not ring in Ye Feng's ears, but directly entered Ye Feng's mind.

"Young man Ye, although I don't know why this map is in your hands, I can tell you that this map does hide a huge secret."

"Another secret transmission of sound!" Ye Feng said secretly in his heart.

"There are some thieves around here. If you want to know, just follow me."

"thief?"

Ye Feng was stunned, then looked around, quickly expanding his spiritual sense and mental power, but found no trace of human beings.

However, he had great faith in the methods of the old man guarding the temple.

Since the old man said there were people around, there must be people.

So Ye Feng picked up the purple-green sword and strode after him.

Soon we arrived at the ancestral temple.

After entering the ancestral hall, the old man sat on a cushion, and Ye Feng also skillfully pulled out a cushion from under the curtain of the altar and sat down.

Of course, he also broke off a banana from the altar.

While eating, he asked, "Old Senior, is there really someone secretly monitoring me?"

There is a soundproofing array in the ancestral temple, so people outside cannot hear their conversation.

The old man guarding the temple slowly said, "It's not surveillance, it's protection."

"Protect? Who is protecting me?"

"There are three of them, all of them are girls. You are so lucky." The old man guarding the temple said with an envious smile on his face.

He was young once, but unfortunately, he was ignorant when he was young and put all his time and energy into cultivation.

When I reached the pinnacle of the immortal path, I looked back and found that there was no one around to share my happiness, and an unprecedented feeling of loneliness surged in my heart.

But he was already very old at that time.

I have practiced Taoism all my life, but I have no one who understands me.

So he came to the ancestral temple and became a keeper of the temple.

If he were to start over again, he would choose Ye Feng's lifestyle, putting picking up girls first and practicing Taoism second, so as not to leave himself with any regrets.

"what?"

Ye Feng looked a little confused.

"Three girls are protecting me in secret? Who are they?"

The old man shook his head and said, "I don't know either."

Ye Feng scratched his head, but he couldn't figure out the identity of one of the girls no matter how hard he tried.

He asked, "Old Senior, have these three been here all along?"

The old man who guards the temple said, “No, one of them is always around, and the other two just appeared recently.

It seems that someone who wants to harm you is about to appear, so there are three people protecting you.

Let’s not talk about this anymore, let’s talk about you…”

The old man didn't take it to heart.

As long as Ye Feng is within a thousand feet of him, no one in the world can hurt this kid.

The old man still has confidence in this.

"Me? What can I say?" Ye Feng didn't understand what he meant.

The old man spread out the cloth map and said, "Tell me about this map and that mass grave."

"You all know?"

"I don't know everything. If you want to know the secret hidden in this picture, tell me everything."

Ye Feng's heart suddenly jumped.

Could it be that the old man in front of him has already realized that he is a time traveler?

No, judging by the old man's expression, he probably doesn't know about this.

After hesitating for a moment, Ye Feng told the story of how he crawled out of the mass grave about three months ago, and how he dug out his bag, magic sword, two silver ingots, and the big box that Yue Yinling dug out from the forest east of the zoo overnight.

After listening to this, the old man silently looked at the picture spread out in front of him.

He said slowly: "Well, that's right."

"What's right?" Ye Feng looked doubtful.

“Although your master Huang Youdao’s reputation is real, his status in the Yunhai Sect is very important, and you are his only true disciple. No one dares to take the risk of killing you to silence you.

Unless the secret you know is too big, the other party will have to risk being tracked down by Huang Youdao and kill you.

This picture holds the secret.”

Ye Feng also looked at the map and frowned, "I've studied this map all night, but I don't see anything wrong with it, except for the circles marked on it."

"The key to the secret lies in these circles. The distribution of these circles is almost consistent with the distribution of the underground spiritual veins in the Tianyun Mountains, but it is incomplete." The old man guarding the temple slowly revealed the secret of this map.

After a pause, the old man continued, "Not only that, they are also the core of the Yunhai Sect's mountain-protecting Yunhai Sword Formation.

Although not complete, these thirty-two red dots have almost outlined the main points of the Cloud Sea Formation."

"Spiritual vein? Cloud Sea Sword Formation? Formation core?"

Ye Feng was completely confused, and a string of question marks seemed to float across his mind.

He thought he now had a very good understanding of the Yunhai Sect.

This spiritual vein, the sea of ​​clouds sword formation, the formation eye and the like, is the first time I’ve heard of it.

"Does our Yunhai Sect also have a mountain protection formation?"

The old man nodded slowly and said, "Almost all the righteous and evil sects in the world have mountain protection formations, which are used to activate the formation to defend against foreign invasions.

Our Yunhai Sect's mountain protection formation is called the Yunhai Sword Formation, and it is based on the underground spiritual veins of the Tianyun Mountains.

The method is also very simple, which is to arrange the array eyes at the place where the spiritual vein passes, connect the underground spiritual vein, and then use the underground spiritual vein as the array map to connect the array eyes at various places.

Since the sect's founding, the Cloud Sea Sword Formation has only been activated once, over three thousand years ago, when the Demonic Sect launched a massive attack on the Yunhai Sect. This formation is incredibly powerful; when activated, the sky and earth change color, and the sound of the clouds stops. Back then, the Yunhai Sect relied on this formation to defeat the larger force with a smaller force, defeating tens of thousands of disciples from the Demonic Sect.

Ye Feng nodded slightly upon hearing this.

This is the mountain protection formation in the novels about cultivating immortals.

For example, the Zhuxian formation on Qingyun Mountain...

I didn’t expect that Yunhai Sect also had a similar magic array.

After Ye Feng understood, he said, "Old Senior, what does this have to do with the last time I was buried in a mass grave?"

"The most crucial part of this formation is the center. The center is located on the surface, and the spiritual vein is located underground. The two are connected.

Because this formation is of such great importance, only the successive Yunhai Sect masters know the locations of all the formation's core points. Others, even the four sect leaders, only know the locations of a very few."

"Huh? How would I know that? It's even on the drawing?"

The old man shook his head and said, "I don't know about that. If I'm not mistaken, the reason you were assassinated was because you discovered that someone was secretly stealing the spiritual power of the underground spiritual veins, so they silenced you."

"what?"

Ye Feng stood up with a bang, a look of surprise on his face.

"Seizing the spiritual power of the underground spiritual veins? Can this thing also be seized?"

“Yes.” The old man nodded and said, “The underground spiritual veins are interconnected, covering the three thousand miles of Tianyun Mountains, and the spiritual power contained is very powerful.

For cultivators below the middle level of Void Transformation, it is very nourishing. However, when reaching the peak of Void Transformation, the spiritual power of these earth veins is not very useful.

To reach the peak of Huaxu realm and reach the limit of heaven, one relies not on spiritual power but on the comprehension of the laws of the universe.

The Yunhai Sect strictly prohibits its elders and disciples from seizing the spiritual power of the earth's veins in any form or by any means.

Because the spiritual power of these earth veins has been accumulated bit by bit over tens of millions of years, and the spiritual veins are connected to the Yunhai Sword Formation, it is related to the life and death of the Yunhai Sect.

If it were seized by anyone, it would not only directly affect the power of the Cloud Sea Sword Formation, but also the spiritual energy of the entire Tianyun Mountain Range. Once the spiritual energy of the earth veins was exhausted, the Tianyun Mountain Range would become a dead place.

In the past thousand years, the Yunhai Sect has discovered that an elder has been absorbing spiritual energy from the earth's veins almost every two or three hundred years.

Without exception, all the elders who were found out received severe punishments, some even dying.

Although the Yunhai Sect has a strict punishment system for this, and once discovered, the death penalty is almost certain, the desire of cultivators for greater power often leads some to take risks.

After listening to the words of the old man guarding the temple, Ye Feng finally figured out the whole context of the matter.

At the same time, he also understood why the old man guarding the temple did not tell him these things in front of the bamboo building, but instead took him to the temple with a soundproof barrier.

The old man didn't want this secret to be known by the three women who were secretly protecting him.

Ye Feng fully agreed with the analysis of the old man guarding the temple. He believed that he was killed because he discovered that someone was secretly stealing the spiritual power of the earth veins.

Lihuo Peak, which was marked by the original owner, is very close to the medicinal garden where the original owner used to work. Given the original owner's late-stage ADHD personality, it is impossible for him to stay in the medicinal garden honestly to apply fertilizers and pesticides. He will definitely run around everywhere.

Maybe he ran to the vicinity of Lihuo Peak and found someone passing through the formation of Lihuo Peak and absorbing the spiritual power of the earth veins, which brought him to death.

The only thing Ye Feng didn't understand now was this map.

The old man guarding the temple also said that all the array points connected to the earth veins are very secretive and only the head master knows them.

It is impossible for other people to know the specific locations of so many array points.

Ye Feng believed that even his fat master had no way of knowing.

But how did the original owner know?

Could it be that this map wasn't drawn by the original owner? Did he get it from someone else?

The original owner had serious moral problems and often stole things. Perhaps the original owner accidentally stole it from someone else.

Then he secretly searched according to the marks on the map and discovered the other party's secret.

"Well, this possibility should be very high..." Ye Feng muttered to himself in his heart.