I practice cultivation cautiously in a strange world

Inside the Lingshi Mine.

Chen Lin stood deep in the mine, looking at the huge collapse area in front of him with a solemn expression.

Four huge stone pillars stand in four directions, with a huge chain extending from the top of each stone pillar, hanging a sarcophagus in the middle!

Whether it is the stone pillar or the sarcophagus, there are strange patterns engraved on it, and I don't know what they mean.

"Are there any other abnormalities?"

After hearing Chen Lin's inquiry, Feng Kuocheng immediately replied: "Not yet. After the miners dug here, the ground suddenly collapsed, exposing such an underground space. However, several miners in the early stage of Qi training fell. Go down, but it’s okay, they all climbed up along the pillar.”

Chen Lin nodded and said: "That's good. Now organize people to seal off the place. I will send a message to Zhenren He and ask him to come and deal with it."

He didn't want to deal with such a weird situation by himself. No matter whether there were treasures or evil objects in the sarcophagus, he didn't want to be contaminated.

"Elder Chen, would you like to open the sarcophagus and check it out?"

Feng Kuocheng had some ideas, but was immediately denied by Chen Lin: "It's better not to think nonsense. This coffin is sealed here at first glance. The chance of there being treasures inside is extremely small. And with such a big battle, the sealed things inside It must be extraordinary, and if you are still alive, I’m afraid you and I won’t be able to handle it with our strength.”

"Okay, I'll organize people to seal this place off right away, and wait until Master He comes over."

Feng Kuocheng felt that what Chen Lin said made sense. He had been stuck in the late stage of foundation building for too long and was a little impatient.

After leaving the mine, Chen Lin immediately took out the communication talisman and explained the situation here before activating it.

What he didn't expect was that the other party responded immediately, but said that he was busy with things recently and asked him to handle it by himself. He didn't even say that he would send someone to help.

"Elder Chen, what should I do?"

Feng Kuocheng next to him had a strange look on his face and asked aloud.

Chen Lin did not cover up the voice of the messenger just now, he also heard it, and there seemed to be some impatience in Zhenren He's tone.

Chen Lin smiled and said: "Zhenren He is responsible for presiding over the overall situation. How can he have so much time? In this case, let's seal the mine first! I will go back tomorrow and ask an array master to come over to the array hall. Add a seal to the mine. Since the sarcophagus has been here for so many years, it is unlikely that something will go wrong in the past few days. We will slowly figure out how to deal with it."

"That's all we have to do." Feng Kuocheng nodded.

He heard that Elder Chen didn't seem to be well received by Zhenren He. He even lost his position as the deacon elder of the Pill Hall and was sent here. It was probably impossible to invite Zhenren Jindan to come here.

However, Feng Kuocheng would not look down upon Chen Lin because of this. After all, Chen Lin was still a registered disciple of Fairy Baiyin and was proficient in alchemy, especially the Seven Star Pill. He might still beg Chen Lin in the future.

The registered disciple of True Monarch Nascent Soul has nothing to do with him, but there is no need to offend an alchemy master in any case.

Thinking of this, he spoke again: "If Elder Chen wants to deal with it, I can also invite some foundation-building monks to come over and leave it alone. If something goes wrong, I'm afraid it will have an impact on Elder Chen."

Chen Lin glanced at the other party. This was a good sale. It seemed that he had not yet reached the point of being beaten by thousands of people.

After thinking about it, he nodded and said, "Okay, if it's something to deal with, I will discuss it with you in advance."

The other party is right. This thing really cannot be left alone. He is responsible for supervising the construction of this city. If there is really something demonic in the coffin, it is also a hidden danger. If something goes wrong, He Zhenren will definitely use the topic to play out, and even the Silver Fairy will probably be displeased.

It's nothing else. If I lose my identity as a registered disciple, I won't be able to stay in Silver Immortal City anymore, and I will have to continue wandering.

It's not that he is attached to power, but there are too few stable places to practice in this world, and he is reluctant to part with this hard-won life.

One night, Chen Lin was thinking about how to deal with it perfectly, but he couldn't think of any good way.

If that didn't work, he would use his hands to dig out the stone pillars, and then send the stone pillars and the sarcophagus far away without even seeing them.

Anyway, he would not be curious enough to open the sarcophagus and take a look.

He had just made the decision, but he didn't expect to receive news that surprised him the next day.

"What did you say!"

Chen Lin looked at the Qi Practitioner who came to report, his face full of astonishment, and he felt like he was hearing hallucinations.

"Report to Elder Chen, the monks who fell into the mine yesterday and were in the early stage of Qi training all turned into scarecrows!"

The qi-training monk looked frightened and his voice was trembling.

"Scarecrow?" Chen Lin looked at the other party steadily, "Did you read that correctly?"

Even if those people went crazy or turned into monsters, Chen Lin wouldn't find it strange. After all, this world was already full of monsters and monsters, but turning into scarecrows was beyond his imagination.

The Qi Practitioner said anxiously: "You read that right, Senior Feng and the others are all there to check on the situation. Let me come over and inform you."

"Let's go and have a look!"

Chen Lin still didn't quite believe it, thinking it must be some kind of cover-up, or there might be some other inside story.

There are all empty houses in the city, so even the monks who are in the early stage of Qi training live in one courtyard. At this moment, there is a group of monks surrounding one of the courtyards, and Feng Kuocheng is among them.

"Brother Feng, what's going on?"

Chen Lin walked closer and asked Feng Kuocheng first.

"Come here, Elder Chen. Let's take a look. I'm afraid we've provoked something we shouldn't have provoked!"

Feng Kuocheng pointed to the room in the courtyard, his tone full of shock.

Chen Lin frowned, took a demon-suppressing talisman and the talisman given to him by Master He in his hands, and then walked in.

Sure enough, there was a scarecrow lying on the bed in the room. It was the same size as a normal human being, with a prickly face that looked like a real person. It also exuded a very strange aura.

"Who discovered it first? What about the others? Are they all the same?"

Chen Lin did not step forward to check rashly, but asked in a deep voice.

"Replying to Elder Chen, I discovered it first. Lu Qiang didn't go to work this morning, so the captain asked me to come over and have a look, and I saw this scarecrow on the bed. At first, I thought it was a prank, so I ignored it until I found out that several of my companions who fell into the mine yesterday had not come to work, so I realized something was wrong and reported it to the captain. After checking, I found that there was a scarecrow with the same appearance as them on the bed of several other people."

The speaker was a short young man, who was also in the early stages of Qi training, and his voice was trembling a little at this moment.

"No one else has touched him, right?" Chen Lin pointed to the scarecrow on the bed.

"No, no one dares to touch it. Now everyone is in panic. What does Elder Chen think should be done? Otherwise, should we report it to Master He again?"

Feng Kuocheng glanced at Chen Lin and made suggestions.

Chen Lin shook his head, "Don't panic yet. This matter is too bizarre. Let's talk about it after we find out more about it. Let's go see a few others first."

Now that Chen Lin said this, Feng Kuocheng didn't object anymore. After asking people to look at the yard, he took Chen Lin to look at the residences of the other three Qi Practitioners. Sure enough, there was a scarecrow on each person's bed.

"Is there anything unusual in the mine?"

After reading the last one, Chen Lin was not sure whether it was true or not, and asked Feng Kuocheng in a deep voice.

"The entrance to the cave over there has been sealed. There's nothing unusual from the outside. It's hard to tell what's going on inside. Do you want to take a look?"

Chen Lin shook his head and said, "No need for now. I'll try to see if there's anything special about this scarecrow. Everyone, please leave."

Everyone retreated outside the yard. Chen Lin patted the storage bag, took out the monkey puppet, and controlled it into the room.

After a while, he frowned and watched the monkey puppet walk out holding a handful of straw in one hand.

Feng Kuocheng and other foundation-building monks also looked at a loss. They had used their spiritual consciousness to check the situation in the room. After the monkey puppet entered, it gradually dismantled the scarecrow, but nothing abnormal happened during the whole process. The scarecrow was really just a scarecrow. That’s all.

After careful consideration, Chen Lin began to give orders.

"Let people search a hundred miles radius. Whoever has a tracking spirit beast on their body, try to see if they can be tracked through the aura on their belongings. I want to see if there is really a ghost, or someone is pretending. ghost!"

He still didn't believe that a good living person could become a scarecrow.

Not to mention the Golden Core cultivator, even the Nascent Soul cultivator probably does not have such an ability. In fact, he has never seen such an outrageous ability in any classics, unless it is really a god coming to the world.

He even suspected that the four Qi Practitioners ran away because of something, so they put on such a show to draw their attention elsewhere.

After thinking about it, he added: "Send someone to take a look at the sarcophagus in the mine. Be careful not to get too close. Just take a look from a distance."

Following Chen Lin's instructions, Feng Kuocheng immediately went to arrange manpower, while Chen Lin put away the monkey puppet and waited quietly.

The information will be fed back soon. There is nothing unusual in the mine, but the four monks who are in the early stage of Qi training are nowhere to be seen. I don't know if they have run away or if something else has happened.

A female cultivator named Xiao Linghui who was in the late stage of Qi training actually raised a spiritual beast with tracking ability, but she also failed to track it.

After the spirit beast sensed the aura residue on the personal belongings of the four qi-training monks, it simply wandered around the city, where people here were working.

After a lot of trouble, Chen Lin saw that it had no effect, so he asked everyone to disperse first, and reassured them that there was no need to panic, as he would find out the matter soon.

night.

Chen Lin hadn't rested for several days. Although monks meditating can be considered a rest, he still felt a little sleepy, so he lay on the bed and took a nap.

After he fell into a deep sleep, an aura exactly like that of the scarecrow emanated from his body.