C18 Enemy Lurking
Relying on their improved concealment techniques, the group sneaked into the forest, which was only fifty miles away from the enemy's camp.
After analyzing the information, Nie Changfeng, along with Ling Qingsong, decided to sneak into the camp to gather the information as they weren't able to gather enough information.
Liu Tianjiao led the crowd to wait outside, acting according to the circumstances.
Nie Changfeng moved like a cool breeze through the forest, silently and silently.
Ling Qingsong merged into the forest and disappeared without a trace.
Under the protection of their respective mental energies, as long as they were not seen directly by others, they would be completely invisible in other people's mental energies. Only people with the same level of mental energies would be able to detect them.
Fifteen kilometers …
Twenty miles …
Ten miles! The two of them stopped in their tracks at the same time. They could sense a strange energy fluctuation in front of them.
Ling Qingsong's sixth sense told him that there was something abnormal up ahead. Nie Changfeng had released his spiritual power to investigate and with his knowledge of formations, he quickly recognized that the energy fluctuation in front of him was a defensive formation that could be used as a warning.
However, the destruction of the array would immediately trigger an alarm, alerting the enemy.
After pondering for a while, Nie Changfeng wrapped his spiritual power around his hand, adjusted the fluctuations to the same frequency as the array, and slowly approached the edge of the array.
As expected, even though his palm had penetrated the array, there was no reaction from the array.
Ling Qingsong immediately understood the principle. The two of them looked at each other and nodded. Spiritual force fluctuations surged from their bodies as they soundlessly passed through the warning array and entered the enemy camp.
The warning array covered an area of ten miles, but the campsite was only a few miles in size. In the center of the formation was a circle of low buildings, and in the center was a tall palace that was exuding bright lights and vibrant colors.
The entire camp was extremely quiet as they walked in a circle. After two hours, they did not see anyone coming in or out, nor did they see anyone moving about within the camp.
All of the buildings seemed to be protected by some kind of energy. It was actually able to stop their spirit energy from infiltrating the building, making it impossible for them to investigate the situation inside the building.
Nie Changfeng was very curious, so he used his hand to touch the material of the buildings. Only then did he discover that these buildings weren't made of ordinary houses made of clay or stone, but were instead magic treasures made from the same material. The reason why these buildings were able to block the penetration of spiritual energy was because the structures of these magic treasures had many monitoring formations engraved on them.
This formation that he had never seen before could continuously emit spiritual force particles from the center of the formation. These particles could enter the space of the spiritual force dimension and form a barrier against the spiritual force energy produced by the formation.
The energy of the array formation was very weak, so much so that the protective energy it emitted couldn't even break through the edges of magic treasure material. With the two's mental strength, they could easily use violent methods to destroy the array formation and break through its defenses.
Nie Changfeng was wondering why these cultivators didn't use this kind of spiritual power detection array. If they did, wouldn't their spiritual power be discovered and immediately reported to the police when they were hit by the particles sent out by the array? He then recalled that if he had not observed from a close distance, he would not have noticed this phenomenon. From a distance, he could only feel that his spiritual force was weakening, so he did not dare to investigate forcefully.
No one could have imagined that in less than a breath's time, Nie Changfeng would be able to completely decipher the spiritual power defensive array. His understanding of formations even exceeded that of the person who engraved the array on the magical treasure.
Knowing this and knowing what it means, it is not easy for a cyclists who have studied a lot of hacking techniques to crack it.
The most important skill to counter detection was concealment and deceit. Now that the spiritual force had been discovered, the main point was deceit. Since the array thought that the energy particles it sent out were 'legal', then it would be better to transform one's spiritual force into this' legal 'energy.
Nie Changfeng's spiritual power entered the room and began to scan through the surrounding buildings. He discovered that most of the buildings were for cultivators, and most of them were only secondary rooms. The outer room should be the living room, and the inner room should be used for cultivation and rest.
Nie Changfeng couldn't help sighing with emotion. A cultivator's construction techniques were indeed much better than when they were back on Earth. If each person carried a house with them, who knows how comfortable it would be to live on Earth.
He also discovered that several tens of even more luxurious two-bedroom, three-bedroom, and even four-bedroom rooms should belong to the high-level cultivators.
Over a thousand rooms actually only had three rooms with people visiting them. One of them had two people imparting cultivation techniques, while the other had gathered seven to eight men and women to drink and chat. It seemed that one of them thought that he had just broken through and invited a good friend for a meal, while the other one was crying bitterly.
There was no valuable information. About a third of the high-ranked cultivator's rooms were empty. It was obvious that the master had gone out. Most of the rooms with people were in the state of cultivation.
There were still a few people doing unspeakable things with the Foundation Establishment stage female cultivator.
Nie Changfeng was interested in only one room. It was a luxurious four-room, two-room room room with three Nascent Soul cultivators sitting in the living room. Both of them were at the great circle of the Nascent Soul stage, and one of them was at the late stage of the Nascent Soul stage.
The late stage Nascent Soul stage cultivator sat at the main seat drinking his tea calmly while the other two peak Yuanying Stage cultivators spoke to one of them in a flattering manner.
At this time, one of them said: "Junior brother Lu, your senior brother Huang and I can be considered to have watched you grow up. We watched you soar into the heavens, reaching the Nascent Soul stage before even five hundred years old, and now you have reached the Deity Stage before even a thousand years old.
Junior Martial Brother Lu lightly sipped a cup of tea and said: "Senior Martial Brother Sun, Senior Martial Brother Huang, you don't need to say these words. If I wasn't Master's disciple, you wouldn't treat me like this. These days, you guys aren't the first to find me, I also know what you want.
Senior Brother Huang stepped forward and said, "Brother Sun and I have already made up our minds. As long as Junior Brother Lu provides us with immortal pills to help us advance our lifespan, we will give you all our income in the sect in the next five hundred years. You also know that once you become a god, the sect will give us immortal pills every year.
Junior brother Lu chuckled: "You guys are really willing, however, I can also see your sincerity, but with both of you nearing your end and your vital energy and blood being insufficient, what if you fail to advance and your cultivation falls backwards, or even your souls dissipating, then wouldn't I suffer a huge loss?"
Junior brother Lu continued: "Since the two of you are my enlightened teachers, I will not be so heartless. If the two of you were to successfully advance, then of course, everyone would be happy, but if you fail, then I still have other conditions."
Elder Sun hastily said, "Junior brother, please speak!"
Junior Martial Brother Lu: "If any of you fail, the family behind you will join our Lu Family as slaves. All of your family property will belong to me. All of the cultivators that you belong to will sign a master and slave contract with me."
He was about to die, how could he control the flood and overflowing of descendants. Even if he did not agree to this condition, his family would not be any better off after he dies. The two consoled themselves and quickly made a decision, cupping their fists towards Junior Martial Brother Lu and said: "Thank you Junior Martial Brother Lu, there is no better condition!"
After the three of them signed the Heavenly Law Contract, Sun and Huang left.
Only then did Junior Martial Brother Lu reveal a complacent smile. His Master was the best. To be able to reap such great benefits just by taking a few immortal pills, he truly was an old fox.
Nie Changfeng sent a sound transmission to Ling Qingsong, "These cultivators have amplified the evil of human nature to the extreme. This is an absolute power that leads to absolute power, and absolute power leads to absolute corruption. It seems like we still have a lot of things to do if we want to live happily!"
Ling Qingsong nodded with a solemn expression.
Nie Changfeng was most interested in the "Heavenly Law Contract". He had heard about it from Liu Tianjiao before, but he had a hard time understanding how this thing could maintain the validity of the contract. If it was useful to the heavens, who knows how many people on Earth would die?
He finally saw the real thing today. It was a piece of paper made of some unknown material, and it contained the contract information described by the three of them using their spiritual energy. Then, it was burned down by the three of their True Fires.
What was even more peculiar was that both he and Ling Qingsong felt new energy fluctuations at the same time. Within the world of mental energy, there were a large amount of energy fluctuations that they could not understand and could not understand.
Nie Changfeng couldn't help but think that when the contract was burnt down, they felt this energy and then were submerged in a boundless sea of energy. He decided that he would study this energy again in the future and now he could only guess that this energy should have some sort of relationship with the source laws.
The person who invented the Heavenly Law Contract must be an extraordinary person. Nie Changfeng knew that at this moment, he must be an existence that he could only look up to.
There were also eight monitoring rooms on each side. There were cultivators on duty, and they were using the monitoring array to monitor the surroundings. The array was very tight, and there were no blind spots. No wonder no one was patrolling outside.
However, Nie Changfeng was puzzled by the fact that they were only monitored by the array, not any kind of video monitoring. Because his level of energy was high, he couldn't detect them through the array, but if someone saw it with their naked eyes, they would be able to see it. They weren't in another space.
What Nie Changfeng didn't know was that there were countless low-level camouflage techniques in the cultivation world that would cause a lot of disturbance to the video surveillance. There were many camouflage techniques that would make it hard for the naked eye to distinguish them, let alone the camera.
Compared to the formation, the camera's field of vision was extremely small, and the person on duty had to keep watch. The efficiency was extremely low, so, other than a few extremely important locations, the cultivation world had basically abandoned this kind of primitive monitoring method.
The most common method of cultivation in this camp was through formations. If a formation detected any suspicious information, there would be a special video surveillance array that would transmit the images of the target area back to the camp for further verification.
This way, Nie Li and Ling'er were able to enter the core area of the camp easily.