Manager Liu had a smile on his face and said quickly: "Don't dare, how can I let the master do those chores. It's the city lord. I have an important matter and I want to ask the master to take action."
"Oh? City lord?" Ye Feng became more energetic. The city lord of Taixuan City is the legendary supreme being on the ninth level of the Mahayana stage, a big boss who is only one step away from overcoming the tribulation.
"Yes." Manager Liu lowered his voice and his expression became serious, "The city lord would like to ask you to help maintain and strengthen several core formations of the "Tai Xuan Qi Formation"."
"Tai Xuan Qi Formation?" Ye Feng repeated the name.
"Exactly." Guanshi Liu explained, "This formation is the city defense formation of Taixuan City. It is up to the lower level of the Immortal Level. It was set up by the Lord of the Holy Land himself. The formation has been running for thousands of years, and there are some subtle losses in the energy circuits of several core nodes. Others in the City Lord's Mansion The weapon refiners and array masters have limited capabilities and can only make superficial repairs, but cannot solve the problem at its root. The Lord of the City has seen your method of "inserting weapons with arrays" and thinks you may have a way."
The great array set up by the Lord of the Holy Land!
Ye Feng's heart jumped suddenly. This is really like having someone give you a pillow when you feel sleepy. He was worried that he wouldn't have the chance to get in touch with the core of the Holy Land. Wouldn't this opportunity come?
"Lead the way." Ye Feng stood up, his face expressionless.
Guanshi Liu led Ye Feng through the many guards and arrived at a huge secret room deep under the city lord's palace.
In the center of the secret room is a huge energy ball, exuding majestic spiritual power. Countless mysterious rune chains extend from the light ball, connecting the walls in all directions, submerging into the void, and connecting to the earth's veins of the entire Taixuan City.
This is the core center of the "Tai Xuan Yi Qi Formation".
Standing here, Ye Feng can clearly feel that a vast, pure, and brilliant power like the power of heaven fills every inch of space. This power was enough to crush myself into ashes in an instant when I was in the tenth stage of becoming a god.
"What a terrifying formation." Ye Feng secretly marveled.
"Master Ye, please take a look." Manager Liu pointed at a few of the rune chains, "It is the energy flow of these three nodes that is lower than normal. Although it is extremely subtle, over time, it may become a serious problem."
Ye Feng nodded, walked to those nodes, and pretended to observe. In fact, his consciousness had already penetrated quietly like an invisible tentacle.
The majestic consciousness spread rapidly to the depths along the energy circuit of the rune chain.
Soon, he "saw" the "loss" that Manager Liu said. It was an extremely subtle energy escape, just like a few pinholes that were invisible to the naked eye on a perfect water pipe.
But who is Ye Feng? His spiritual consciousness has been tempered by the origin of the dragon soul, and its sensitivity is far superior to that of monks of the same level.
In his perception, this is not a "loss" at all!
Rather, inside this magnificent immortal formation, there is an extremely weak and extremely hidden alien energy attached. This kind of energy is like a parasite, quietly adsorbing on the energy circuit of the formation, stealing every trace of insignificant energy.
Although it is insignificant, how big is Taixuan City? How many monks are there in the city? What a huge amount of spiritual energy does this formation swallow every day? Accumulated over time, the stolen energy is absolutely an astronomical figure!
What made Ye Feng's scalp tingle even more was that he felt a familiar aura from the alien energy.
The aura was cold, strange, and full of longing for the soul.
It has the same origin as the strange formation that can "steal the sky and change the sun" under the Tianji Sect's forbidden area!
A terrible thought exploded in Ye Feng's mind.
The Holy Land is using its own city defense formation as a cover to secretly set up another evil formation to steal energy and souls! They were not dealing with the Tianji Sect for the sake of the ancient demon heart, but for the formation in the Tianji Sect's forbidden area!
A layer of cold sweat instantly broke out on Ye Feng's back.
What does the Holy Land want to do? What is their purpose in stealing such huge amounts of energy and soul?
"Master Ye? Master Ye?" Manager Liu's voice awoke Ye Feng from his shock, "You...have you seen any secrets?"
Ye Feng took a deep breath and suppressed the turmoil in his heart. He knew that he had touched upon a shocking secret.
"Well, there is some way." Ye Feng's face regained his composure, pointing to those nodes, and said calmly, "This is not a loss, but someone is here, leaving some 'back doors'."
"What?!" Manager Liu was shocked, "Back door? How is this possible! This is the Holy Lord himself..."
"Can't there be a backdoor if it was laid by one's own hands?" Ye Feng interrupted him, "Perhaps this backdoor was left by the Holy Lord himself?"
Guanshi Liu turned pale as if struck by lightning and waved his hands repeatedly: "Master, be careful what you say! Be careful what you say! If these words get out, your head will be lost!"
Ye Feng smiled and did not continue the topic. He knew that saying too much would arouse suspicion.
"Okay, it's not a big problem." Ye Feng waved his hand, "Prepare some "Star Spirit Sand" and "Void Crystal Stone" for me, and I will block these "back doors"."
Of course he will not really block it. Under the guise of repair, he wants to use his own star formation to quietly leave his own "mark" on these nodes.
He wants to trace back! Look where this stolen energy ends up going!
In the next few days, Ye Feng stayed in this core secret room in the name of repairing the formation. While pretending to refine repair materials, he quietly used his spiritual consciousness and formation skills to analyze the structure of the "parasitic evil formation".
The more he analyzed it, the more frightened he became. The complexity and weirdness of this evil formation far exceeded his imagination, and the laws contained in it even involved the illusory aspects of cause and effect, reincarnation, etc.
That night, Ye Feng was deducing the formation in the secret room when a lazy voice suddenly sounded from behind him.
"Master Ye, just hiding under the ground and being a mouse all day long is not a good habit."
Ye Feng knew who was coming without even turning around.
"Master Xiao is really well-informed. When I step down, you will follow." Ye Feng said angrily.
Xiao Wuhen walked in, feeling like he was in a deserted place in this tightly guarded core secret room. He looked around, waved his fan and said with a smile: "I'm just curious. Brother Ye, when he came, patted his chest and promised to solve the problem that so many weapon refiners and formation masters in the City Lord's Mansion were unable to solve. So come and see what earth-shattering methods Brother Ye has."
"I'm sorry to disappoint you. There are no earth-shattering methods, just ordinary tinkering." Ye Feng continued to carve an formation flag.
Xiao Wuhen walked up to him, looked at the shining star formation flag in his hand, and his eyes narrowed slightly: "Ordinary repairs, do you need to use the "Star Drawing Technique"? Brother Ye, you are a bit dishonest."
Ye Feng's movements paused for a moment.
The "Star Drawing Technique" is a tracking and marking method he created by combining "Zhou Tian Xing Jue" and "Dayan Star Formation". It is extremely secretive. This Xiao Wuhen can be broken with just one bite!
"Who are you?" Ye Feng turned around and looked at Xiao Wuhen with a very serious look for the first time.
The smile on Xiao Wuhen's face also faded a little. He looked at Ye Feng and said slowly: "I just said, my name is Xiao Wuhen. As for my family, it does have some connection with the power of stars. I just want to remind Brother Ye..."
He paused, and his voice was very low, almost only two people could hear it.
"The water in Taixuan City is much deeper than you think. There are some things that you can't touch. It's still too late to stop now."
After saying that, he took a deep look at Ye Feng, turned around and prepared to leave.
"Wait." Ye Feng stopped him, "Since you know there is a problem here, why don't you expose it?"
Xiao Wuhen stopped. He did not look back, but just left a meaningful word.
"Because if it is exposed, people will die. Not only will you die, but I will die as well, and ninety-nine percent of the people in this city will die."
After the words fell, his figure had disappeared at the door of the secret room.
Ye Feng stood there, frowning.
Xiao Wuhen's words confirmed his guess and brought him a bigger mystery.
The secret hidden behind this evil formation can actually threaten the entire Taixuan City, and even people with a strong background like Xiao Wuhen are afraid.
"Stop?" Ye Feng murmured to himself, then sneered, "I don't have the word 'stop' in the dictionary."
He lowered his head and looked at the completed tracking formation flag in his hand, with madness and determination flashing in his eyes.
In the next few days, Ye Feng "repaired" those formation nodes with astonishing efficiency. On the surface, he just used expensive materials to strengthen the energy circuit to perfection. Even the acceptance array master sent by the city lord's palace, after checking it dozens of times, was full of praise and admired Ye Feng's skills.
But only Ye Feng himself knew that he had buried three "seeds" deep in those nodes.
That is the "Star Soul Beacon" that he refined with a ray of his own original soul and the star power of "Zhoutian Star Jue". This beacon is extremely concealed and will be transmitted along with the stolen energy. No matter whether the other party is hundreds of millions of miles away, he can vaguely sense its location.
After doing all this, Ye Feng returned to his courtyard and thanked the guests behind closed doors on the grounds that "it takes a lot of energy and needs to rest."
He sat cross-legged in the quiet room, his mind completely immersed in the three "Star Soul Beacons".