Brother Long glanced back at the old driver on his back.

The experienced driver's face was deathly pale, his lips were blue, and his body was trembling slightly.

"Old driver, are you alright?"

"I...I'm fine." The experienced driver's voice was a little weak.

"Just now... when that pharmacist got close, I felt... I felt like something crawled into my head."

"What is it?"

"I can't quite put my finger on it," the experienced driver shook his head.

"A feeling that is both familiar and strange."

"It's like... I can 'see' what he sees, and I can 'smell' what he smells."

"It was just a fleeting moment, very blurry."

Everyone was stunned upon hearing this.

The special senses that the experienced driver gained after losing his sight actually resonated with the pharmacist who guarded the garden.

Is this just a coincidence, or is there something else going on?

"So... what do we do now?"

Brother Long wiped the mud off his face, his mouth full of bitterness and stench.

"That big guy could come back at any time; we can't stay here forever, can we?"

Lancet looked around, his brow furrowed.

Apart from the platform they had come from, this cave seemed to have no other exit.

Is this really a dead end?

Lu Zhixing's golden bullet comments then appeared.

If the entire Yinshan Mountain is a giant living alchemical furnace, then your current location corresponds to the spleen and stomach in the Five Elements theory. The spleen and stomach belong to Earth, governing transformation and transportation. Therefore, this is a medicinal garden, responsible for cultivating and storing medicinal herbs.

All organs need outlets for release and excretion. If the Qi of the spleen and stomach only enters and does not exit, it will stagnate and become stagnant. Therefore, this cave must have an outlet to release excess waste gas and medicinal residue.

Go find the wind.

The three consecutive bullet comments were logically clear and progressively developed.

It directly pointed out the way for those trapped in the situation.

Professor Chen was startled when he saw the comments, and then it dawned on him.

"The cult leader is right! Everything operates according to its own principles!"

"This place is a Kun Earth formation. Earth generates Metal, Metal generates Water, Water generates Wood, Wood generates Fire, and Fire generates Earth in turn. This cycle repeats endlessly, thus forming a generating formation!"

"But this place is just earth, stagnant with yin energy, teeming with resentment—a classic dead end!"

"Every seemingly hopeless situation has a glimmer of hope!"

"That glimmer of hope is the outlet for 'qi'!"

"Wind!" Professor Chen looked at everyone.

"Just like the cult leader said, if we find the source of the wind, we can find a way out of this dead end!"

These words were a wake-up call, and everyone immediately sprang into action.

Although the air in this cave is almost non-circulating, there will always be a slight airflow as long as there is an exit.

"I'll do it!"

The experienced driver struggled to get off Brother Long's back.

Although he cannot see, after losing his sight...

His other senses, especially his perception of airflow and sound, became exceptionally acute.

He closed his bleeding eyes, tilted his ears, and stood quietly in place.

Brother Long looked at him nervously.

Sudden.

The experienced driver's ears twitched slightly.

"there."

He raised his trembling hand and pointed to the left side of the cave, to a dark corner obscured by huge stalactites.

"I heard you."

"It was very faint, but there was definitely... the sound of wind."

Everyone's spirits lifted, and they immediately headed in the direction the experienced driver had pointed.

They bypassed the enormous stalactite formation.

really!

Beneath the deepest rock face, an inconspicuous crack was discovered, covered by rubble and moss.

The crack was only half a person's height, pitch black, and its destination was unknown.

A faint breeze, carrying the earthy scent of soil, was slowly blowing out from inside.

found it!

[The veteran driver is awesome! The gurus provide theoretical guidance, while the veteran driver handles the practical target selection!]

[Hurry up and go in! What are you waiting for! If we don't leave soon, that hunchbacked pharmacist will be back on patrol again!]

"Walk!"

The lancet was the first to bend down and crawl inside.

The crevice was very narrow, only wide enough for one person to crawl through.

One by one, the people crawled laboriously through the dark tunnel like insects.

The crack was much longer than expected and sloping upwards.

They climbed for nearly half an hour before they finally felt the slope ahead become gentler and the space open up.

A ray of dark red light shone in from the exit.

We're finally going out!

Brother Long was overjoyed and quickened his pace to climb out of the crevice.

But the moment he stood up and saw the scene before him, the joy on his face froze.

Above them, a gigantic blood moon shone.

Under the blood moon, they stood on the edge of a magnificent and awe-inspiring terraced field.

The terraced fields stretched from the mountainside beneath their feet all the way to the far end of the valley, layer upon layer, seemingly without end.

The moonlight stained the entire terraced fields with an eerie, blood-red hue.

If that were all, it would be fine.

What truly blew Brother Long's mind was what was "grown" in the terraced fields.

Those were rows and rows of heads, neatly arranged like soldiers awaiting inspection...

Densely packed, thousands upon thousands.

These heads included men and women, young and old.

Their necks were severed at the root and stuck into the damp, black soil like radishes.

Their eyes were all tightly closed.

Their faces still bore the expressions of extreme terror and pain they had before their deaths.

Under the blood-red moonlight, this terraced field, composed of countless human heads, presents a grand yet eerie "harvest" scene.

【…】

[Holy crap...]

The kitchen and herb garden in front were physically disgusting. This is pure mental pollution!

[Human heads... used as crops... Earth Immortal Temple, I curse your ancestors!]

Both the live streamers and the medical professionals at Lancet were stunned.

Professor Chen was stunned for a long time before he began to speculate based on his knowledge of folk customs.

"They are going to refine the 'Human Essence Elixir'."

"They cut off the heads of living people and planted them in this blood field containing the malevolent energy of the Yinshan Mountains, watering and nourishing it with the essence of the blood moon."

"Then, after the three souls and seven spirits within the skull have been completely refined by the earth's malevolent energy and the moonlight, condensing into a point of innate primordial spirit, it will be harvested and used as the main ingredient in the elixir of immortality?"

"There are at least eight thousand, if not ten thousand, people in these terraced fields."

"In other words..."

"In order to refine that so-called elixir of immortality, the Earth Immortal Temple slaughtered nearly ten thousand lives."

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