Please bring your best friends to practice immortality

Chapter 687 Silver Nail
Gu Shiyi didn't see it for too long before he was spotted by Zheng Gang in front of him, who waved at him.
"Friend Gu, please hurry up!"

Gu Shiyi hurriedly followed, but Pu Yanlan in front frowned. There seemed to be something wrong with these monks!
Their eyes were dull and their movements were slow. Pu Yanlan used the ghost technique of observing souls, but she saw that the souls of these cultivators showed some signs of being out of their bodies.

"Their spirits are not in their bodies. Is someone controlling their souls?"

But it seemed that he didn't want to think about it. After thinking for a moment, she turned her head to look at her current cheap master and several senior brothers. Seeing that they didn't pay attention, they just followed Zheng Gang quickly. However, she paused, flicked her long sleeves, and a wisp of black smoke slipped out of her wide robe. As soon as the black smoke touched the ground, it slipped back in. Pu Yanlan frowned.

"Why don't the evil spirits dare to touch the ground? It seems there is a magic circle underneath..."

She looked down at her feet. Zheng Gang in front of her seemed to have noticed something and looked back. Pu Yanlan raised her head calmly, met Zheng Gang's eyes, and nodded slightly. Zheng Gang looked at the people behind him again, but found nothing suspicious. After thinking for a while, he said to everyone,
"Everyone, let me remind you that this is an important place of our Zhengyuan Sect. The sect's formation master Liu Xiangzi has set up many formations to prohibit any peeping and probing. Fellow Taoists, please restrain your spiritual pets, puppets, ghosts, etc. Once released, they will trigger the formations. Please be careful!"

Everyone nodded to show that they understood. Pu Yanlan raised her eyebrows and thought to herself,

"No wonder!"

Zheng Gang led everyone into a building. A tall man with an ancient face came to greet them. Zheng Gang bowed to the man.

"Brother Wei, I wonder if there is any unusual movement in Wanmiao Mountain?"

The man shook his head and said,

"Since Wan Miao Mountain sent out a group of cultivators the day before yesterday, it has sent people to patrol every day. We have too few people, especially in the southern mountains. There were cultivators coming in and out in the past two days, and our people didn't dare to go close to check, so we looked at Junior Brother and took people to check..."

Zheng Gang nodded.

"Thank you, Senior Brother Wei!"

The man nodded, turned around and opened the two wooden doors behind him.
"Squeak..."

The door opened, and a huge gray-white cave carved out of the mountain appeared before everyone's eyes. A warm breeze with a strange smell blew on everyone's faces, and everyone frowned.
"go in!"

Zheng Gang led everyone in...

It is said that this huge Wan Miao Mountain is a spiritual vein mine, and there are quite a few spiritual vein mines on this continent. The so-called spiritual vein is naturally formed by the spiritual energy contained in the rock, but spiritual energy is really a strange thing. Once the rock contains spiritual energy, you can only use the most primitive means to mine it. No matter whether it is a low-level Qi training cultivator or a high-level cultivator, even a cultivator as strong as the Mahayana period can only mine the spiritual stone mine with pure physical strength such as a hoe and a pickaxe. If you use magic to forcibly mine, the spiritual stone mine will immediately disappear, and you will get nothing!

Of course, there are also cultivators with great magical powers who pack up and move away entire mountains or entire spiritual spring veins, but they also have to take away the ordinary rock layer outside the spiritual stone mine together. Any spells cast on the spiritual stones will counteract the spiritual energy inside and turn the spiritual stones into nothing. Therefore, the cultivators in this world summon a large number of mortals or low-level cultivators to dig out the ore bit by bit, and then manually hammer and chisel them into fist-sized spiritual stones, and then the cultivators absorb the spiritual stones inside bit by bit!
In the Wan Miao Mountain today, the spiritual energy in the spirit stones has been completely sucked away by the formation. The remaining gray-white rock is actually a kind of slag, which still retains the characteristic of being shattered by magic. Therefore, if you want to dig a tunnel leading to the depths of the mountain in Wan Miao Mountain without alarming the people in Wan Miao Mountain, you can only rely on manual labor!
The cultivators in this world are accustomed to the spiritual energy of heaven and earth, and to all the conveniences brought by magic. It would be really difficult for them to live their most primitive lives. This is Wanmiao Mountain, and the Zhengyuan Sect cannot drive a large number of mortals in. It takes only the cultivators themselves to dig out such a large and deep passage. You can imagine how hard it is!
All the people were flying in the air close to the ground. In this long passage, Gu Shiyi was at the end. He looked around and found that there were forks on the left and right of this passage, but he didn't know where they led to. He also saw several monks slowly walking out of the forks. They all looked tired and haggard, and their bodies were covered with gray and white dust. Everyone looked at these people up and down, and one of them exclaimed,
"Brother Liao, is this Fellow Daoist Liao?"

Someone in the team seemed to have seen an acquaintance and called out to greet him. Among the monks passing by, a middle-aged monk with a sallow complexion turned his head slowly and looked straight at the person who spoke. After a while, he seemed to recognize the person who spoke.

"Chu...Brother Chu?"

"It's me. I heard that Brother Liao disappeared without a reason, so I wanted to go out and get some information, but I didn't expect that Brother Liao was here..."

It turns out that Brother Liao joined Zhengyuan Sect earlier than me!
The monk surnamed Liao nodded woodenly upon hearing this.
"Yes, I am here...I am here..."

The monk surnamed Chu asked again,

"How have you been, Brother Liao?"

“Good…good…very good!”

The man surnamed Liao spoke in a very strange manner. Anyone with a discerning eye could tell that something was wrong. Zheng Gang, who was standing in front of him, frowned tightly. He glanced behind the monks with wooden expressions, and a hint of anger appeared in his eyes. He coughed lightly and said,

"This is not the time to reminisce about the past. Let's talk about it later if we have anything to say!"

Although the man surnamed Chu noticed that something was wrong with the man surnamed Liao, if he really wanted to ask, he couldn't say much in front of Zheng Gang, so he could only bow and say,
"In that case...Brother Liao, wait until I finish my mission and come back to discuss in detail!"

The monk surnamed Liao was stunned and nodded slowly.
"Okay..." After seeing the two of them finish talking, Zheng Gang led everyone to fly forward again, but he reminded them,

"Everyone... my Zhengyuan Sect is recruiting talents from all over the world. Many of the Taoists here came here before you to work for the sect. They have worked hard for several months and are extremely tired. You are now doing your work. If you have anything to say, please come back and talk!"

Everyone was silent after hearing this. They all noticed that something was wrong with those monks. Their companions looked at each other, and the monk named Chu lowered his head thoughtfully!

These people were all smart people. They saw that there must be something fishy going on with these monks, and they all started to wonder. Zheng Gang saw this and felt annoyed.
"What are these people doing? Didn't we tell them to clear this place out? Why are there still people here?"

Gu Shiyi was the last one to walk. He turned around to look at the man surnamed Liao, but saw that he had been standing there, watching them leave with a wooden expression. Gu Shiyi's heart moved, and he quickly appeared in front of the man surnamed Chu, bowed and said,
"May I ask this Taoist friend if he knows that the Changqing couple and Taoist friend Qiu Siqing are here?"

The one with the surname Chu was stunned.

"Guan...Guan Changqing...Four...Four Clearances..."

After a long pause, he slowly shook his head.
"No...I don't know..."

After he finished speaking, he turned and left. Gu Shiyi was stunned and thought to himself,

"Sure enough, there is something fishy going on. Looking at the appearance of this Liao, it is clear that his soul has been controlled by someone..."

After thinking for a while, he took two more steps and tapped the man surnamed Liao on the shoulder. The man did not move, but just twisted his neck to look back. Gu Shiyi saw a faint silver light flashing in his skin hidden in the collar. Just as he was about to take a closer look, he heard someone shouting in the fork in the road.
"Hey...what are you doing?"

Gu Shiyi immediately let go and turned to chase in the direction where the team disappeared. As soon as her figure disappeared, two figures appeared beside the cultivator named Liao.

"Who was talking to you just now?"

The man surnamed Liao shook his head woodenly, and the other said,

"What's the point of asking him? He is not far from being a fool now..."

The questioner frowned and said,
"It's all the fault of the people here being too slow. They had said earlier that the people over there would be coming over tonight, but there are still a few that they haven't taken back yet..."

Another said angrily,

"It's their fault for not handling this matter properly. I'm afraid that the final punishment will fall on us brothers!"

"Humph! What are you afraid of? They have backers, but we don't. At worst, we can ask Elder Liu to come out and talk to them later!"

As they were talking, the two of them chased after the monks ahead, gathered them together, and drove them towards the fork in the road...

Gu Shiyi was full of doubts, and his heart sank slightly. He was afraid that the Guan couple and Qiu Siqing were in danger!
When she heard what Guan Xiaoxiao said before, Gu Shiyi had already suspected that the missing monks were abducted by Wanyuan Sect. After she entered Zhengyuan Sect, she felt more and more that they must have ended up here. Now seeing the appearance of the monk surnamed Liao, she became more and more worried about the three of them.

"Could it be that these three people's souls have also been controlled by someone?"

The silver dot on the man's neck looked like a silver nail...

What is that?

The Dazhui point on the back of the neck is the most important acupuncture point in the human body. She has never heard of any martial arts method that involves nailing a nail into the back of one's neck. What if someone nails her there?

Gu Shiyi frowned tightly. This might be the method used by Zhengyuan Sect!
The group flew in the air for about half an hour before they saw a big gate at the end. The gate was also guarded. After Zheng Gang and the guard checked the identity badges, they led everyone out to look again. They were already in the depths of Wanmiao Mountain!

As soon as they got out of the passage, they felt their bodies sink, and they fell to the ground one by one involuntarily with a thud.

"This is the heart of Wan Miao Mountain. There are formations of Wan Miao Mountain here. All cultivators are forbidden to fly in the air..."