There's something wrong with me

Chapter 223: Great Harvest

'Yang Mountain? Great Yama?'

After Zhang Feng saw the writing, he thought for a moment, and probably understood that the talisman stone slabs along the way before were likely from the hand of Yangshan True Man.

Following that.

His gaze swept over the writing.

Zhang Feng picked up the more than a dozen bamboo books behind the skeleton from a distance.

Their appearance had a spiritual charm talisman for gathering water and gathering malevolent energy. 'Water' and 'Malevolent energy' both belonged to 'Yin' in a certain type of technique.

This also allowed them to remain undamaged for a thousand years.

These were the secret techniques left behind by Yangshan True Man.

Inside, they recorded the structural convergence of quite a few techniques.

Upon seeing this, Zhang Feng discovered that he, just like the Ming Dynasty world from a long time ago, also liked to 'leave behind fate/opportunity'.

Of course, it was more likely that the Great Yama had carved the method for the six paths' genes onto the skeleton.

After Yangshan True Man came here and saw these methods, he immediately left behind all the techniques he had learned.

This place could be considered as simultaneously holding the inheritance of the 'Netherworld' and the 'Celestial Palace'.

'The Great Yama from fifteen hundred years ago, Yangshan True Man from over seven hundred years ago.'

'And now, me, over seven hundred years later.'

Zhang Feng looked at the bamboo books while sighing slightly.

With a slight movement of his thoughts.

Zhang Feng also used spiritual energy as a pen and carved down on the nearby ground his insights regarding Qi Condensation to Gold Core.

However, it mostly contained traditional cultivation methods and did not include his own knowledge.

Because if someone were to truly stumble in here and see this.

Then the simpler traditional methods would be better.

In case the other party's aptitude was one in a million and their comprehension was extraordinary, they might truly be able to cultivate a Gold Core.

But if his own complex knowledge were added, the other party would only become more confused the more they read.

After finishing writing.

At the end, he left a note: 'Qingshan Daoren'.

Zhang Feng felt quite complete. Although he and the Great Yama had not met, they both left behind the 'fate/opportunity' within the inheritance at this place.

However, Zhang Feng was also curious about one thing.

That is, who left the traces outside the cave before?

And where is the exact location of the Celestial Palace?

Although these bamboo book secret techniques recorded many talismans, in his opinion, they were still 'incomplete', leaving him wanting more.

'Yangshan True Man was probably also afraid that if someone obtained these techniques, they would be too numerous and chaotic, distracting them from cultivation, so he didn't leave much behind.'

Zhang Feng carefully scanned these secret techniques.

'There are twelve types of water-attribute techniques on it, but none for malevolent energy or earth-attribute.'

Zhang Feng pondered, then looked at the stone slab above, the malevolent energy talismans on the bamboo books, and recalled the Malevolent Energy Suppressing Seal in Boss's hand.

All signs indicated that Yangshan True Man also had deep attainments in Yin-attribute and earth-attribute techniques.

Furthermore, the fifth path of reincarnation above was a place full of water attribute.

Therefore, it was highly probable that Yangshan True Man wanted the person who obtained his techniques to specialize in water-attribute techniques first.

He had paved the cultivation path for the other party.

Of course, the premise for all of this was that the other party could find this place and pry open the stone above.

But with current technology, even if it was only 2002, it would be very simple once an excavator started working.

Thinking this, Zhang Feng looked at the Great Yama's skeleton again.

Actually, he wanted to take his skeleton away.

Firstly, to prevent future people from coming to excavate and disturb this Dao Friend.

Secondly, these densely packed Yama characters were really hard to remember.

He had not yet cultivated the ability to remember everything at a glance.

But staying here to memorize for a while was absolutely impossible.

Because above, where Boss was, there was still an unknown 'creature'.

What if, while he was memorizing, that creature suddenly appeared and killed Boss?

Then the process of translating the Yama characters would definitely become much more difficult.

The Great Yama's body had to be taken away.

It was also upon thinking of this that Zhang Feng once again used spiritual energy as a pen and copied all the characters on the Great Yama's body onto the ground beside him.

This also made it convenient for him to leave behind the inheritance, without interrupting his intention of leaving behind fate/opportunity.

After that.

Zhang Feng used spiritual energy to wrap around his skeleton.

"Dao Friend, please excuse me."

As he spoke.

Zhang Feng swept his gaze around again, and after seeing that there was nothing else here, he hurried upwards.

And on the way.

Zhang Feng actually also had an idea about the location of the Celestial Palace.

That was based on a simple sea surface drawing in the secret techniques, and these water attributes.

Zhang Feng felt that the 'Celestial Palace' should be somewhere underwater.

As for this drawing, it was at the beginning of one of the bamboo books.

It seemed like it was meant to give people an impression of water, similar to a kind of meditation activation.

For example, when looking at a book about the anatomical structure of a rabbit, the cover is a detailed 'anatomical cross-section' of a dissected rabbit.

Then relatively speaking, people's minds will have some general impressions.

This sea surface drawing was also the same principle.

But based on the character of Yangshan True Man as currently known, he seemed to hope that future generations would obtain the inheritance through certain searches.

Just like in the Ming Dynasty world.

Then based on this.

This water attribute cultivation, as well as the fifth path of water attribute, and this sea surface.

Became very thought-provoking.

Zhang Feng felt that the answer to the Celestial Palace was very likely in 'water'.

Similarly, Zhang Feng had many ideas and strong logical reasoning ability.

But in most past situations, he would rely on brute force to break through everything, and his thoughts were more focused on analyzing cultivation.

So Zhang Feng was too lazy to use his brain to think about external matters.

But if he really pondered external matters.

With Zhang Feng's thinking ability far exceeding ordinary people, and his hundreds of years of various life experiences and knowledge.

When deducing some not-too-complex puzzles, he could also quickly find the relevant logical connection points.

Unless the other party released nothing but smoke bombs and completely illogical clues, in which case it might take longer to sort things out.

It would also require borrowing some data, manpower, and resources, similar to the investigation methods of the Criminal Police world, to achieve maximized problem-solving efficiency.

Taking this as the center.

Zhang Feng thought of the organization where Boss belonged.

Since these people could find this place, they had something going for them.

Don't waste it if you can use it. Let them help him search together then.

Whoosh—

Also during his thoughts.

Zhang Feng carefully carried the skeleton while climbing the walls and rocks without slowing down, occasionally leaping up and jumping to the reincarnation place on the layer above.

And at each layer, Zhang Feng would move the stone slab back to its original position.

This was partly to give subsequent people a bit of a challenge, and partly because the water attribute below needed to be 'sealed'.

The fact that the entire Netherworld could achieve such an area underground and not collapse for so long was entirely due to the water attribute below supporting it.

Of course, if natural forces like crustal movement altered the rock carriers of the formation structure.

Then problems like collapse would be unavoidable.

In fact, if Yangshan True Man hadn't set up so many formations for the Netherworld, this place would have collapsed long ago over the vast expanse of time.

Groundwater, rain, and so on were all hidden dangers.

Under natural conditions, it was not enough to support such a massive Netherworld structure.

It could hold up now entirely thanks to a 'large-scale water attribute combination formation' that 'covered the entire Netherworld' exerting its power, and the 'River of Forgetfulness' was constantly replenishing the formation's consumption.

Such consumption was also obvious, causing the River of Forgetfulness under the Bridge of Helplessness to dry up.

That is, the earliest labyrinth, which should have been filled with the River of Forgetfulness.

Including now.

After Zhang Feng discovered the water attribute formation, he had also sorted out the entire operational structure of the Netherworld, including Yangshan True Man's subsequent spellcasting replenishment.

This was a very vast and exquisite water attribute technique.

It belonged to a type of 'reinforcement' talisman.

If counted by strokes, it was '4 strokes'.

And there were nearly hundreds of thousands of these 4-stroke talismans, distributed on the upper and lower sides and all around within the Netherworld walls.

He had noticed them before, but didn't expect them to be arranged by Yangshan True Man, and whether these talismans had offensive power, coupled with his single-minded focus on going underground, he hadn't paid too much attention.

But according to the current situation.

If he could now expand his Spiritual Sense to about five li in radius, covering the entire dark Netherworld.

Especially in the spiritual energy sensing, each talisman would naturally emit a faint glow belonging to spiritual energy.

Then he should be able to see a scene of breathtaking beauty, like an 'underground starry sky'.

The fifth path of reincarnation, on the other hand, was a brilliant galaxy filled with water attribute.

This was left behind by Yangshan True Man for the Great Yama, his Dao Friend, protecting his masterpiece, the Netherworld.

But it was also a large parallel stable knowledge base.

Zhang Feng learned as he traveled.

Even if his Spiritual Sense could currently only cover a dozen meters, as long as he looked at more structures, he could learn everything by inferring the whole from the part.

Unconsciously.

Zhang Feng also arrived below the skeleton again.

Rumble—

He moved the stone slab away and stepped into the skeleton's location again.

"Zhang Daolang?"

From a hundred meters above, the somewhat tense calls of Boss and the others also came.

Because they had been watching their watches and found that Zhang Feng had been gone for over ten minutes.

They had shouted before, but there was no response.

And at this moment, sounds came from within the pile of bones again.

They were definitely nervous.

If Zhang Feng hadn't told them not to come down, Boss, Ge Ge, and Brother Zhou would have tried to go down to see if it was Zhang Feng.

Among this trio, Brother Zhou was relatively bold, while the other two were more curious.

"Could it be Zhang Ge..." After the other security personnel saw the movement within the pile of bones, if they hadn't been worried about danger outside, they actually would have wanted to leave.

Clatter—

It was also at this time.

Zhang Feng came out from within the pile of bones, carrying the Great Yama's skeleton beside him with Spiritual Sense.

Under the flashlight's illumination, and the faint light spreading from nearby.

Made this scene appear incredibly strange.

"Zhang... Zhang Daolang...?"

After Boss saw this sight, he was also a little scared.

"Mhm." Zhang Feng nodded and continued to push off the wall beside him.

"Zhang Daolang looks alright, right?" Brother Zhou, however, looked at Ge Ge beside him, wanting to know if Zhang Daolang had been possessed by the 'skeleton ghost' inside the pile of bones?

Including everyone nearby, they all looked at Ge Ge, who could observe evil aura.

Because who among normal people would bring up a skeleton?

This was also because, in everyone's eyes, the skeleton beside Zhang Feng seemed to have been brought out from the bone pit.

After all, the bone layer over twenty meters thick blocked their view, preventing them from seeing the stone slab below, and naturally, they couldn't see that this skeleton was brought up by Zhang Feng from the lower layer.

"It's a normal skeleton." After Ge Ge saw there was no evil aura, a single sentence also dispelled everyone's panic, "And it looks like, this skeleton seems to..."

He suddenly paused when he got here.

Because as Zhang Feng got closer and closer.

He saw dense, tiny words on this skeleton.

"Words? Is it Yama writing?" Boss also saw it at this time.

As Zhang Feng reached the ground, the skeleton no longer moved with Zhang Feng's movements, but instead fixed its position in their line of sight.

Boss walked a few steps closer, shone his flashlight on it, and confirmed his guess.

However, Zhang Feng's next words startled them.

"I have finished exploring the Netherworld and went to the lowest heavenly dao.

And this skeleton is the Great Yama.

The words recorded on it are genetic modification technology."

"What? The Great Yama?" Boss's eyes widened, "Are you saying... he... he is the master of this Netherworld? Is he that immortal from over a thousand years ago?"

"This is the remains of a Gold Core immortal?" Several security personnel were also badly frightened and moved a few steps away.

Ge Ge, while shocked, stepped forward with a curious expression.

"Awesome!" Brother Zhou, however, exclaimed and gave a thumbs-up, not expecting Zhang Daolang to have 'broken through' the six paths by himself and even captured the King of Hell.

"It's nothing strong." Facing everyone's shock, Zhang Feng said very honestly, "If the Great Yama were still alive and at his peak, I probably would have been easily suppressed and killed by him before I even saw him."

Zhang Feng carefully placed the skeleton on the ground.

"But now, he has been deceased for many years.

And the legacy he left behind also doesn't contain any killing techniques.

My ability to obtain his six paths of reincarnation technology was just luck."

"Zhang Daolang, you are too humble..." However, everyone didn't feel the slightest bit of luck; instead, they felt that there were dangers everywhere here.

Even without mentioning the disgusting lizards below, and the unknown in the lower levels.

Just the maze before could have trapped them here to their deaths.

Because the surrounding bluestone was extremely smooth, making it difficult to climb, and the upper part truly resembled a bridge with sides leaning inwards, any claws or grappling hooks would slip.

Of course, if the entire organization were to enclose a mountain, claiming it was for development, but in reality deploying some mechanical setups and more personnel, then it could be solved.

But the commotion would be too great and might alert the authorities.

And regarding this strange technology that would inevitably cause panic, it would naturally not be left to them.

If they didn't talk about enclosing the mountain but instead brought complete sets of equipment directly, then this kind of secretive approach would attract even more attention.

They had experienced it once, so it was best to operate with a small number of elite personnel.

These were the experiences they had gained.

It was just that the danger was also high.

They all knew that.

But now, it could be considered a 'successful conclusion' to the operation.

...

Half a day later.

Zhang Feng led them out of the Netherworld and arrived at the forest outside.

They didn't see that unknown creature along the way either.

Instead, outside the cave, they saw the security personnel who had 'retreated early' before.

"Boss, you're out!"

After they saw Zhang Feng and the others come out, they immediately crowded around, looking completely guilty as they offered greetings and inquired about their well-being.

But most of their attention was on the skeleton being carried by Ge Ge and Brother Zhou.

Ge Ge and the other person used the simple small stretcher prepared for this expedition and carried the Great Yama out all the way.

Boss, along the way, had been continuously studying these Yama writings and occasionally translating them for Zhang Feng.

"Hmm..."

At this moment.

Facing the greetings and inquiries from these people, Boss had no intention of talking to them.

Driven by curiosity, his attention was focused more on this skeleton.

But thinking of something, he said to those guilty security personnel, "Did you contact the company?"

"No..."

Hearing Boss speak, one of them cautiously glanced at Zhang Feng, then replied, "There's no signal in this forest, and the satellite phone can't connect.

So we were thinking, we'd wait a bit, and if we still couldn't connect, and Boss, you still hadn't come out, we would go in and look for you..."

As he spoke, he essentially gave a

'We weren't scared and running away, but rather worried about you' excuse.

Look again, as soon as we saw the phone couldn't connect, we immediately started preparing to go back and rescue you!

Anyway, they were all adults, and their pleasantries were very polished.

Boss, however, didn't care about these matters and said very directly, "The Netherworld has been fully explored, and Zhang Daolang has helped us get what we needed.

After we return to the company, don't say too much, and especially don't talk about matters concerning the Netherworld.

As long as you can do this, the previous matter will be written off."

"Okay!"

"We promise! Boss, rest assured!"

"Right! Zhang Daolang, Boss, we also know it's embarrassing, and we know that the company will punish us if we talk about these things, so we won't say anything!"

They mistakenly thought that Boss and the others wanted to hide something, so they quickly promised.

Furthermore, this wasn't a loss for them either.

As for using what as a threat?

Just looking at Zhang Daolang's inhuman strength, they decided against it.

In reality, the reason Boss didn't let them talk much was also something Zhang Feng had instructed him to do.

Otherwise, with wave after wave of unrelated personnel coming, the Netherworld would definitely be inadvertently damaged by them using machines.

Then there would be no talk of fated people, but rather a pile of ruins from a collapse.

Similarly, although Boss didn't know this, he thought that too many people coming would definitely attract more attention, and might even attract the attention of the authorities at that time.

Therefore, it was best not to say anything.

Zhang Feng and Boss had reached some consensus.

It was also under consensus, not considered a military deterrent.

This negotiation was quite successful; at least everyone was satisfied, and no one was uncomfortable.

Zhang Feng still cared about Boss's mood, because he was now his exclusive Yama writing translator.

He had helped him and hadn't offended him, so he couldn't just smash him with a big hammer and force him to work.

...

Late at night.

Zhang Feng and a dozen others came out of the deep mountains and old forest and stayed at 'his' home.

This was a small courtyard, and Zhang Feng also lived alone in this world.

Also this evening.

Zhang Feng valued the trio of 'Boss, Brother Zhou, and Ge Ge'.

They had rich experience in exploring ruins, and perhaps they could help him.

And besides them.

Because Boss's position within the organization was relatively high, he was one of the core personnel.

So he could also mobilize some resources to search for the 'sea surface' scene on the bamboo slip.

Start by investigating this clue.

Anyway, it meant sending people out and casting a wide net.

Then contact some tomb raiders with heavy rewards to see if they had any information.

After all, it was related to ruins.