Lechuan County is the least populated province in the Juyan Continent, but Lechuan County is still very famous in the Juyan Continent. In addition to the world-famous Huangquan Tiankeng, Lechuan County is also a place where talents are produced. According to the Imperial Department of Statistics, the county's cultivators, as a percentage of the province's total population, are the highest in the country.

There are many famous big names in the Shenwu Empire, such as the Yuan Guoshi, who is a native of Lechuan County. In addition, the Shenqi faction of Lechuan County ranked second among the eight major sects of the empire. Fengming College, located in Lechuan County, is also recognized as one of the top ten famous schools in the empire, ranking among the top three in the empire. Ding Yi also fought against He Qionglan, a player from their academy, in the Qinglian Championship.

There are also several specialties here, which are also unique, especially runes and pumice.

Rune stone, also known as space stone, is the most important raw material for building space beacons and spirit towers. And pumice, also known as anti-gravity stone, is an indispensable and important gemstone for the manufacture of flying props and flying magic weapons. This gem is used on the car puppets and motorcycle puppets made by Ding Yi. These two gems with the same name are very precious, and the pumice stone the size of the thumb head is almost worth more than 100,000 gold yuan, which is nearly 100 times that of ordinary spirit stones.

Ding Yi didn't know much about Lechuan County, and he came to Lechuan County this time for only one purpose, which was to enter the Huangquan Tiankeng. As a top priority, Ding Yi needs to grasp the information about the Huangquan Tiankeng and make a cultivation prop that can safely enter the Tiankeng.

What exactly is the danger in the sinkhole? Ding Yi has a lot of preparation to do.

The puppet system has such an advantage, the puppeteer can remotely control the puppet and enter this unknown territory without having to personally venture into danger. High-level puppeteers can collect all kinds of relevant information through the puppets they make, and then take corresponding countermeasures based on this information.

Now, Ding Yi needs to find a safe and sheltered place and prepare to enter the sinkhole.

Ding Yi found a relatively desolate and uninhabited barren mountain. It is only about 200 kilometers away from the Huangquan Tiankeng, and it is desolate all around, which is very suitable for Ding Yi to lurk.

Ding Yi descended from the sky. He immediately put the golem into his backpack, and then put it in the storage bracelet.

After all, this backpack with a large space is really too conspicuous.

Surrounding this barren mountain, Ding Yi searched further to confirm that there was no one else around, and then he found a hidden hillside and began to build a cave for refining puppets.

Ding Yi arranged several early warning arrays around him, and activated the Earth Spirit Secret Technique to cause the rocks of the mountain to disintegrate in a directional manner, and move these stones away step by step. With little effort, a grotto of about five square meters was opened.

Now Ding Yi's strength is not enough to melt steel ingots and iron ore. He also had to melt these ores, steel ingots, with the help of mortal means. He also had to find some charcoal and build a furnace before he could do the rest of the work.

There are no coal mines near Lechuan, and it takes a bit of brains to get charcoal.

Ding Yi can't enter the city now, and the charcoal is only available in the city, he understands his situation and can't expose his hiding. What he had to do now was to make a phantom mask that would change his appearance. Let's see if we can try our way outside the city.

The materials Lu Yuan gave him contained gelatin, and Ding Yi added some cultivation materials, refined them through the secret method of cultivation, and constructed a small phantom array inside the mask, which took Ding Yi almost two hours, and finally succeeded in making a pair of phantom masks that could change their appearance at will.

In order to make his soul fluctuations not be noticed by those who care, Ding Yi caught a guinea pig, first used the talent and qualification of the beast trainer to control the guinea pig, and then made a psychic resonance device, so that the soul fluctuations of the guinea pig and his own soul fluctuations were superimposed.

Ding Yi was dressed up as a short young man who was a little dark, and he was very different from himself in terms of appearance and soul fluctuations. After doing something, Ding Yi walked to Lechuan County.

Lechuan County has four satellite cities: Icheon, Yingcheon, Fengdu, and Tianfu. The direction of Ding Yi's march is Fengdu City.

Fengdu City is a small city about the same size as Jiyun City, with a population of only a few hundred thousand. To say that the biggest difference between Fengdu City and Jiyun City is that outside the city of Fengdu City, there is not a single villager. When Ding Yi was flying in the sky earlier, he discovered this situation north of the Blazing Sun Desert. This made Ding Yi more and more convinced that the Giant Rock Continent was the largest experimental ground in the Shenwu Empire.

Ding Yi believes that those poor villagers should be captured by those unscrupulous cultivators in an organized and planned manner, and imprisoned in one experimental base after another, so that those cultivators can easily engage in those appalling experiments.

According to the guidance of the map, Ding Yi walked towards Fengdu City.

I didn't go ten kilometers, and I made a surprise attack, and I appeared without warning. A large hole suddenly cracked in the ground, and a figure sprang out of it, facing a cloud of sand. At the same time, Ding Yi's front and back, left and right, four figures jumped out of the dirt pit. They attacked Ding Yi with sharpened wooden sticks, bone grass, and stones.

This sudden change caught Ding Yi off guard. Ding Yi has experienced a lot of battles, although the incident happened suddenly, but he still made the right response at the first time, and in an instant, he got out of the encirclement.

When Ding Yi carefully observed those raiders, his heart swooped out, and cold sweat came out.

A humanoid creature with sharp horns on its head, and several others, one with a long tail, and one with an ugly face

Ugly scales, one hand is a beast's claw, and one has wings with fleshy membranes, this is a group of humanoid monsters.

These monsters are ugly and hideous, but they all have human characteristics.

Are these humans who escaped from the laboratory, or are they evil ghosts who crawled out of the Huangquan sinkhole? Ding Yi was still a little frightened when he suddenly encountered this group of strange attackers.

But after the fight, Ding Yi's heart fell into his stomach. These guys, who look like demons, are not very strong. According to the division of cultivators, these five guys are probably only feather-level cultivators.

Ding Yi dodged and moved, not directly fighting with this group of monsters, he was observing the movements of these monsters, obviously these monsters, although some of them were similar to the magical powers of cultivators, but they could not use them, and their attacks were more like a biological instinct in Ding Yi's opinion.

The raid and siege were ineffective, and the five monsters whistled and scattered in all directions, trying to escape. Ding Yi rushed forward and punched the head of the scaly monster with a critical punch, the monster's ability to resist the attack was super strong, this punch did not stun him, but the magic vine that suddenly came out restrained his lower body and trapped him on the spot.

The monster with a fleshy membrane wanted to fly away, but Ding Yi conjured up a spirit wing, used teleportation, and suddenly appeared beside him, kicking him from the sky to the ground with a powerful kick.

The monster with sharp horns emitted a golden lightning light from its horns, and it also wanted to rescue its companions. Ding Yi dodged and sent a fireball at him, blowing him up. The two monsters with fluffy tails and claws were also caught by Ding Yi after defeating these three monsters, making the two guys lose their resistance.

"I have no intention of being your enemy, why are you attacking me? Who are you? Why do you look like no one or ghost? Don't worry, I won't hurt you, can you speak?"

The five raiders didn't say a word, just looked at Ding Yi with hatred.

Ding Yi asked again, "Can you speak?"

The five monsters remained silent.

Ding Yi sighed, he collected his magical powers, and untied the shackles on the scaly monster.

Ding Yi looked at the strange five people, sighed, took out some food from the storage bracelet, put it on the ground, and turned around to leave.

"We are human beings and we can speak. The horned monster spoke suddenly.

Ding Yi was stunned for a moment and turned around.

"You caught us, you didn't kill us, you gave us food, you're a good man. Sharp Horn continued.

"We are the evil spirits of the world, and you are the only one who gives us food. The monster with the long tail said.

Ding Yi thought for a while and said, "This is only more than twenty miles away from Fengdu City, it's not a place to talk, do you have a suitable place to talk?"

The man with claws on his hands said, "Please come with me." ”

Ding Yiyi was bold, and followed these five strange-shaped humans to the barren grass next to him.

The five of them led the way in front, and after a while they came to a small dirt slope, and the beast's claws lifted a covered dead tree, revealing a cave, and took the lead in getting in, and Ding Yi followed and also got in.

The cave was pitch black, Ding Yi took out a glow stone, and the cave lit up. The five of them sat down in all directions, and Ding Yi also sat down.

Sharp Horn said, "We are the demons who escaped from the demon cave. ”

Ding Yi asked, "The demon cave you are talking about, is it the Huangquan Tiankeng?"

Hearing Ding Yi mention the Huangquan Tiankeng, the guy with the long tail shuddered, and his tail curled up.

Jianjiao said: "The Huangquan Tiankeng is the place of death, and we say that the Demon Cave is the testing ground over there." The sharp horn pointed to the south, and Ding Yi suddenly understood. It seems that his assumptions are completely correct.

Ding Yi sighed, and he told the five people about the giant he had seen.

Jianjiao said: "We are actually normal human beings, and we have gone through some terrible experiments in various test sites to become what we are now. ”

It turned out that all five of them had escaped from the experimental field.

Ding Yi remembered what Yang Qi saw when he was fighting a nerve against him. His heart was unusually heavy. He hadn't seen the real scene before, he hadn't seen the real evidence. Everything just exists in the record of Lee Jae-min's "The Source of Mystery", and everything just exists in the scene where his soul travels.

Who would have thought that all this would really happen in front of you. The settlements to the south, and the cities that were not marked on the map, turned out to be those horrific existences.

"We need help, we want to get back to the way we were, we don't want to be monsters. The guy with scales on his face looked at Ding Yi and said weakly.

Jianjiao said: "I was originally a civilian in the Tian Yuan Continent, but because of a sudden disaster, I was driven out of the city and became a villager, and it didn't take long for me to be caught and sent here. There are some terrible cults here who keep us like cattle and do all kinds of horrible experiments on us. ”

"Kind monk, we beg you to expose this matter, we are willing to testify and bring these evil cultivators to justice......

The man with the claws seemed to want to say something, but in the end he said nothing.

Ding Yi looked at the sharp corners that were still a little innocent, and sighed heavily.

"I can't help you, in fact, this matter is far more complicated than you think.

I don't know how long you've been in the testing ground, as far as I know, there are no less than a hundred testing grounds like this in the Empire. In order to seek eternal life, in order to obtain great powers, to obtain supreme qualifications, these testing grounds have existed for four or five hundred years. This is a project that has been continuously researched at the behest of the highest levels of the Empire. In fact, the existence of the test ground is not a big secret in the cultivation realm. If you're still willing to believe in the Empire, I think you might be disappointed. ”

Jianjiao didn't expect Ding Yi to say this, the civilian life and memories when he was a child made him create an illusion, he always thought that the cultivators who persecuted them were evil cultivators hiding in the shadow corners of the empire, and he had a lot of illusions about the empire, but he didn't expect that this was originally a basic national policy of the empire.

Jianjiao also fantasized that Ding Yi would find a monk and a reporter to expose this matter, and also fantasized that one day he would be able to show Xue, he has been instilling this concept in his partners, but he didn't expect that Ding Yi directly shattered his illusions.

The sharp horn stood up violently, and his expression was a little dazed.

"Good monk, you're deceiving me, aren't you? You're scaring me, aren't you?"

Ding Yi was somewhat sympathetic to the mutant, but he didn't want to deceive him.

"I didn't lie to you, what I said was true. The Empire's cultivation technology was not used in the right direction, but instead was used in these evil paths, and the high-level people who had mastered the power of the empire had always supported these experiments, and they also provided a large amount of material and financial resources. ”

"Wow, I don't believe it! It's not true!" shouted Sharp Horn, all four of his companions grimacing.

Suddenly, the sharp horns attacked, and with all his strength, he slammed into the stone wall of the cave.

There was a loud bang, the sharp corners were broken, the blood flowed profusely, and the whole person fainted. Ding Yi just felt that Jianjiao was a little emotionally out of control at first, but he didn't expect that he would go to extremes.

He hurriedly jumped up and hurried over to help with treatment.

If there were no sharp horns on the head, maybe this time it would have been a dead whimper. However, it is precisely this keratinized sharp horn that although the blood is flowing profusely, life is not in serious trouble. Four of his companions hurriedly stepped forward to stop him from continuing his madness.

Ding Yi still has some elixir on his body, although he can't restore the sharp corners to their original state, at least he stopped the bleeding in time. Seeing that the sharp corners were still struggling, Ding Yi frowned.

Ding Yi scolded loudly: "You are not afraid of death, are you still afraid of living? The empire will be punished by heaven sooner or later, you have been made like this, people are not like people and ghosts, and if you have the heart to seek death and life, it is better to think about how to take revenge." ”

The sharp horn turned over and wanted to kneel down for Ding Yi, but Ding Yi held him down.

"I'm just a spiritual-level monk, there's only so much I can do to help you, in fact, I'm a fugitive wanted by the Empire, and like you, I've lived a life of hiding, and this time I met you by accident. ”

Beast Claw said: "My lord, we are not qualified to be your followers, we just want to ask you to guide us, we are now without food and clothing, and we have to evade the pursuit of cultivators......"

Ding Yi had a headache, he originally came out to look for charcoal, but he didn't expect to bump into these mutants who escaped from the test site.

Can't you save yourself when you see death? The plight of these five mutants is really sympathetic. No matter how much they mutated into monsters with terrible shapes, their essence as human beings remained the same. Ding Yi hesitated for a while.

In the middle of the night, Ding Yi took out a piece of charcoal and asked the five people, "Do you know where you can get this?"

The flesh film looked at it and said to Ding Yi: "My lord, I know that there is a place, but it is very dangerous there......

Ding Yi asked, "Tell me about it." ”

Flesh Membrane finally mustered up the courage to say: "There are many such things in the experimental field more than 200 kilometers northeast. ”

Stone coal is a very ordinary daily necessities, not worth anything at all, even in a heavily guarded testing ground, this kind of thing, there should be no one to guard, this is much less difficult than sneaking into Yankai Prison.

Ding Yi nodded and asked another question he had always wanted to ask.

"How did you evade my divine sense before, supposedly, even if you were hiding underground, I would have been able to find out in advance. ”

"These are the reasons for the saliva of the 'lizard'. ”

Ding Yi was stunned for a moment, looked at the guy with scales on his face, the guy stood up, got some mud directly from the outside, and then spat in his mouth, he mixed the mud mixed with saliva, and evenly applied it to the body of the beast's claws......

Sure enough, Ding Yi's divine sense swept over, and it was clear that the beast's claw was in front of him, but his divine sense did not find his figure.

That's a really good skill.

Ding Yi thought for a moment and decided to tell the truth to these five guys.

"I'm going to the Huangquan Tiankeng this time, there is no way, the empire is looking for me, I have no escape, I can only escape to the Tiankeng. Of course, I won't go to die in vain, and before I go in, I want to make some detection equipment and auxiliary equipment. It's because I'm looking for coal that I met you, and I'm dying myself, and there's really no way to solve your problems. ”

"Kind adult, the golden horn is willing to follow the adult, no matter how bad it is, I can still explore the way for the adult. The sharp horn lying on the ground was the first to take a stand.

The remaining four also expressed their willingness to follow Ding Yi. It seems that they are now cornered.