Chapter 287

With this question in mind, no one dared to ask. They all lowered their heads and waited for the vice Lord to speak.

"It's been a hard time. You've been here every day." The Deputy patriarch said faintly, and first expressed condolences to the elders.

Cheng Siming and others quickly bent over and said, "it's not hard. We'll go through fire and water for the future of zongmen!"

Satisfied with their attitude, the vice Lord finally showed a smile and walked slowly, but the smile was very awkward in the eyes of everyone.

"Well, don't be so formal. I just came to have a look at it at will and brought you some good wine to relieve your greed."

The vice patriarch waved his sleeve robe, and then a wine jar with red signature paper appeared underground. The refreshing fragrance was faintly revealed, and everyone was relaxed and happy.

"Good thing. It's aged for at least 500 years. The vice patriarch is so generous!" The Lord of Kaiyuan peak flattered and smiled. Then he came up and directly picked up a wine jar.

When a man took the lead, the other elders followed, picked up the wine jar one after another and immersed themselves in the aroma of wine.

All the people came up. Only the elder and elder Chen stood still and attracted the attention of the vice patriarch.

"What's the matter, two elders? Don't you like my wine?" The deputy leader said with a smile, but there was a sense of threat in his words.

The elder raised his eyebrows and looked at elder Chen. Elder Chen immediately understood, took a step forward and said with a laugh.

"Hahaha, I like it very much, but it's a big thing for us to wait in the secret place. We can't afford any negligence!"

Although they are very dissatisfied with the vice Lord's coming out to deliver wine at this time, they are elders after all. On the surface, they still want to maintain respect, so elder Chen wants to cover it with ha ha.

The vice Lord was dissatisfied.

"Isn't the exploration of the secret place at an impasse? Maybe we'll have some good ideas after drinking two drinks?"

With these words, the Deputy patriarch went to the wine jar, reached out and picked up the two jars and threw them at the elder and elder Chen.

His meaning is very clear. You have to drink today's wine if you don't drink it!

Elder Chen's face immediately became angry. As soon as he was about to attack, the elder behind him stepped forward and held him down, laughing.

"Since the vice Lord has such a good intention, we don't respect it."

With that, the elder caught the two wine jars and opened the lid.

As soon as the wine entered his throat, the elder immediately felt a burst of sweetness in his mouth. The sweet liquid slid down his throat and turned into aura in an instant when it entered his stomach, making him happy.

"It's really good wine!"

"Hehe, these are all the aged wines of our patriarch. I'll comfort you today, hahaha!"

A group of people drank and talked. No one noticed. A dark figure quietly opened the secret place and went in.

In the secret realm.

Yang Xuan stood at the top of a big tree, looked at the map roughly drawn in his hand and nodded slightly.

With the help of the heavenly eye, he has figured out the general structure of the forest.

From outside to inside, there are three different tree groups, which are classified and gathered together, dividing the forest into three layers.

The outermost layer is composed of some ordinary trees, some of which have passed by spirit beasts, but most of them are weak and not aggressive.

All the trees on the second floor grow yellow leaves, and the spirit beasts have begun to grow more, and Yang Xuan was almost attacked several times.

On the third floor, Yang Xuan was afraid to go in because of the terrible smell inside.

Although he didn't know what was inside, Yang Xuan could guess that there was a huge secret inside.

After drawing the general figure, Yang Xuan began to draw more detailed terrain.

Looking at Yang Xuan running in a hurry in the forest, the little black leopard also wondered, "no, you just look for clues! What's so complicated? You didn't come in to draw a map!"

Yang Xuan kept drawing what he saw on the map for a moment, and said without raising his head: "if something happens at that time, if there is a map, you can run away at any time."

This sentence directly made the little black leopard helpless. He scolded Yang Xuan and counselled. He thought about how to save his life before he was in danger.

The little black leopard said so and simply didn't take care of Yang Xuan.

While walking on the second floor, Yang Xuan recorded it. Soon, Yang Xuan came to a small open space. Here, Yang Xuan found the trace of battle for the first time.

Judging from the blood on the ground, there should have been disciples of Wanling sect fighting with monsters here, and it can be seen that the battle is very dangerous.

The surrounding trees were basically broken. There were torn blood stained cloth strips and traces of spell explosion on several broken trees. Those disciples should have paid a high price.

But in the end, the monster should still be defeated by these disciples and dragged away.

Following the trace of dragging underground, Yang Xuan put away his records and followed up.

Not far away, I came to an open space, where there were traces of bonfire. It seemed that the monster was already in the stomach of these disciples.

To Yang Xuan's surprise, there was no trace here.

There was no sign of anyone leaving, and no one dealt with the campfire. Everything was very unusual.

Yang Xuan once read in a book that the most taboo of camping is not to deal with the campfire, because it will help you attract many inexplicable enemies. As disciples of Wanling sect, they can't know it, but no one does it.

Then there is only one explanation. These people have no intention to leave here from beginning to end.

After turning around again, Yang Xuan finally determined that there was no trace of anyone moving within a kilometer around with this as the center of the circle.

Strange, did these people disappear out of thin air?

With doubts in his heart, Yang Xuan put down the clue and continued to look for it.

Walking along this area, Yang Xuan found all kinds of traces in the middle of the second and third floors, all of which were traces of someone passing or fighting here.

But these traces led Yang Xuan to the last place, as before, and the traces disappeared out of thin air.

He was very confused and knew that all the clues would disappear out of thin air in the end. Yang Xuan simply didn't look for it and sat down against a tree.