Chapter 181 Bewitching Niu Xuanhai
The Voodoo Doll crawled out from underground and wrote on the ground in front of Niu Xuanhai: "To get revenge, you only killed the entire family of others. You are truly merciful."
Niu Xuanhai saw these words and roared furiously: "What's wrong with me avenging my father? Why are you mocking me?"
Fang Che didn't expect Niu Xuanhai to take his words as a mockery, so he quickly controlled the Voodoo Doll to write on the ground:
"You misunderstood me. I truly think you are merciful. If it were me, I would make the enemy's entire race disappear from this world!"
Niu Xuanhai looked at the words, paused for a moment, then said: "You are a bit too extreme."
Fang Che continued to control the Voodoo Doll to write: "When a life becomes evil, there are two important reasons: one is the influence of bloodline ancestors, and the other is the surrounding influence;
No matter which one it is, killing just one person is useless, killing their entire family is also useless. Only by direct racial extinction can future troubles be eliminated forever."
Niu Xuanhai frowned and said: "But, we are all Horned People, and I also live in this race. Am I even guilty myself?"
Fang Che was momentarily at a loss for how to answer. He directly controlled the Voodoo Doll to take out a special item and hide it beneath its body.
Afterward, Fang Che remotely activated the item and continued to control the Voodoo Doll to write and engage in sophistry:
"The fact that you can recognize your own guilt already surpasses everyone else. When you kill all lives of the entire race, you will usher in a new life!"
Niu Xuanhai looked at these words, his expression blank, but red light flickered incessantly in his eyes.
A moment later, Niu Xuanhai's expression turned ferocious, and he said: "Don't worry, I will definitely eliminate all Horned People!"
Fang Che was delighted and controlled the Voodoo Doll to continue writing: "Next, you can keep capturing Horned People and use their lives to complete the promotion ritual;
Each time a promotion ritual is completed, the Suppression seal on me will be lessened, and I will be able to provide you with more resources;
Now I will write down a formation for a hidden Professional for you. After you finish reading it, clean up the words, hide the underground cave, and go capture people!"
Afterward, Fang Che wrote down the formation that those Bandits used to hide their Professionals.
This formation, improved by Fang Che, could help anyone change their Professional, it just required more materials.
Of course, if Niu Xuanhai could continuously capture Professionals to complete the promotion ritual, all the investment would be worthwhile.
Fang Che controlled the Voodoo Doll to finish writing the formation information, then took out a pile of practical items and the formation materials for the hidden Professional from the Real Domain.
Some special resources were added to these formation materials, allowing Fang Che to accurately locate Niu Xuanhai.
At the same time, these materials could also continuously affect Niu Xuanhai's mind, making him firm in his resolve to kill, even in an wavering state.
Of course, if Niu Xuanhai completely abandoned the thought of killing, these materials would not be able to affect him.
However, Fang Che felt that a person full of hatred would have a very strong desire to kill and would not easily give up the thought of killing. This Horned Person was worth Fang Che's investment.
Afterward, Fang Che controlled the Voodoo Doll and continued to dig the underground cave.
After Niu Xuanhai put away the items, he carefully memorized all the text information on the ground, tore off a branch to use as a broom, swept away the words on the ground, and then found stones and weeds to cover the entrance of the cave. Afterward, he went to the village to capture people.
After Fang Che controlled the Voodoo Doll to dig the underground cave, he buried the items for refining the Concession Token underground and continued to search for other wronged ordinary Horned People.
Fang Che decided to cultivate more Horned People like Niu Xuanhai. If he couldn't find any, he could also have other Horned People help Niu Xuanhai attract attention to ensure Niu Xuanhai's safety.
At this time, after Niu Xuanhai returned to the village, he wandered around.
However, after walking for a short while, Niu Xuanhai saw two patrolling Professionals.
Niu Xuanhai walked past them expressionlessly and continued to wander.
Not long after, Niu Xuanhai figured out the number of patrols and, based on their speed, determined their positions. He immediately went to a blind spot in their patrol, activated the item given by the Voodoo Doll with his weak internal energy, and after confirming there were no surveillance measures, he immediately began to capture people.
However, most families had Professionals, and Niu Xuanhai only managed to capture seven people after a round of searching, which was far from the number needed to awaken a Professional.
However, Niu Xuanhai was not discouraged.
Due to the compressed living space of the Horned People, the population density here was astonishingly high.
As long as he worked hard, he would eventually gather enough people for awakening.
As for the issue of missing persons being discovered, Niu Xuanhai was not worried.
The items for hiding people given by the Voodoo Doll were very expensive, not something ordinary people could afford.
Others would never imagine that Niu Xuanhai, an orphaned and helpless person, could obtain such things.
After awakening, Niu Xuanhai would use the formation to hide his Curse Master Professional, then use a disguise item provided by the Voodoo Doll to transform into someone else, leave this place, and continue to set up rituals and kill elsewhere.
As Niu Xuanhai thought about the items that the Voodoo Doll might reward him with after setting up the awakening ritual, a hopeful smile involuntarily appeared on his face, and his steps became much lighter.
Not long after, Niu Xuanhai arrived at other villages and continued to capture people.
After going to several villages consecutively, two patrolling Horned People suddenly stopped Niu Xuanhai and asked: "Where are you from?"
Niu Xuanhai nervously replied: "I'm Niu Xuanhai from Village Jiazi No. 7 in the east."
Seeing Niu Xuanhai's nervous appearance, the patrolling Horned People's voices involuntarily grew louder: "What are you doing here?"
Niu Xuanhai's eyes flickered, and he stammered in reply: "This, this scenery is good, I, I came to play for a while."
The patrolling Horned People's eyes widened instantly, and they angrily reprimanded: "Tell the truth!"
Niu Xuanhai's body trembled, and tears instantly streamed down his face as he cried out:
"I came to steal, okay? Who told you not to give me awakening materials because I'm an orphan? If I don't steal things to bribe you, when will I ever awaken a Professional?"
Upon hearing these words, the patrolling Horned People looked at Niu Xuanhai's worn-out clothes and immediately softened.
Then, one of the Horned People took out a token and handed it to Niu Xuanhai, gently comforting him:
"Don't cry. Take this token and find the person who distributes materials. Next time, he will give you a portion of materials. Don't steal anymore in the future;
Currently, people are missing from nearby villages, so hurry back. Don't wander around outside;
On the way, remember to take the wide main road. There are more patrol teams there, so it's safer. If any patrol personnel ask what you're doing, just show them this token."
Niu Xuanhai, still in tears, took the token and thanked them: "Thank you, thank you all."
The patrolling Horned People waved their hands and said: "Alright, go back."
Niu Xuanhai nodded, turned, and left.
After moving away from the two patrol personnel, Niu Xuanhai regained his composure, played with the token in his hand for a moment, and then continued to capture people.
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Chapter 182: Concession Token and Sculpture
Niu Xuanhai easily tricked the patrol personnel with the Token and even more easily captured the Horned People needed for awakening.
Following this, Niu Xuanhai drew an array to hide the Curse Master Professional on a gem and stored it in his Niwan Palace.
Afterward, Niu Xuanhai quietly came to the vicinity of the pit when it was late at night.
As soon as he arrived, Niu Xuanhai discovered that the stones and wild grass he had used to disguise the pit had been cleaned up, but there was no trace of the pit itself.
Niu Xuanhai walked over with some doubt, and an item on him suddenly heated up.
Niu Xuanhai pondered for a moment, then touched the ground with the item; the soil instantly disappeared, revealing a deep pit.
Niu Xuanhai smiled with relief, threw his storage ring into the deep pit, and smashed it with a stone.
Illusory figures floated out of the storage ring, transforming into bound ordinary Horned People.
Due to the long capture time, many Horned People were already weak from hunger and collapsed on the ground.
Niu Xuanhai took out a bottle and poured out the transparent liquid inside.
The liquid instantly turned into a light drizzle, scattering into the pit and landing on these Horned People.
The numerous Horned People instantly recovered their spirits and strength, no longer feeling hungry, and rose to their feet, curiously observing.
Soon, someone saw Niu Xuanhai above the pit, and recognizing the person who had kidnapped them, they gathered together somewhat nervously.
Niu Xuanhai, with a slight smile, said, "You lowly beings, today I will kill all of you; in the future, I will also kill your families. You can curse me as much as you like, curse the person who dug this pit."
After saying these words, Niu Xuanhai poured scalding aluminum water into the pit, and countless people turned into statues of death.
The living turned and ran towards the underground passage.
Not long after, the pit below became completely silent, and a Curse Master's aura also emanated from Niu Xuanhai.
Niu Xuanhai quickly injected energy into the gem in his Niwan Palace, activating the array on it.
The next second, the Curse Master's aura on Niu Xuanhai disappeared, replaced by the most common Warrior Professional of this Plane.
Niu Xuanhai felt the aura on him, smiled in satisfaction, and then took out a mask-shaped item and put it on his face.
The next second, Niu Xuanhai's appearance changed.
Just then, the ground vibrated, and the Voodoo Doll, which had just put away the Concession Token materials, emerged from underground.
Fang Che looked at Niu Xuanhai through the Voodoo Doll and found that Niu Xuanhai's disguised Warrior Professional was very crude; Fang Che could see through it at a glance.
However, Fang Che could see through the disguise because his Emperor Plane knowledge was extensive, and because the array was improved by Fang Che.
In this knowledge-scarce Plane, this disguise was already sufficient.
Fang Che immediately manipulated the Voodoo Doll to release a pile of items and elixirs that Curse Masters could use, then wrote text on the ground:
"In the future, you can capture First-Order Professionals. The number of Professionals can be reduced by ninety percent compared to the number of ordinary Horned People. When you complete the contract, I will reward you. The ritual location is..."
After the Voodoo Doll wrote down a bunch of address information, it drilled back underground to dig pits at the addresses it had just written down and place the materials for refining the Concession Token.
After placing the materials in various areas, the materials prepared by the Iron Hand Group for Fang Che were exhausted.
Seeing this situation, Fang Che stopped digging underground pits and manipulated the Voodoo Doll to go to the central area of the Horned People's gathering place, find the Four-Order Horned People, and eavesdrop on their conversations.
Countless pieces of information quickly reached Fang Che's ears.
After summarizing all the information, a surprised expression appeared on Fang Che's face.
Fang Che had originally intended to eavesdrop on the Horned People's next war plan before leaving.
Then, Fang Che could eliminate a group of people according to their plan and prevent them from attacking the Iron Hand Group's defense line.
However, Fang Che did not expect that these Horned People would interpret the Iron Hand Group's cessation of attacks as the Iron Hand Group wanting to let them go.
Especially since the previous probing attack did not provoke a large-scale attack from the Iron Hand Group, it further solidified their belief.
To avoid angering the Iron Hand Group, these Horned People chose to stop all military plans.
Of course, they did not place all their hopes for survival on the Iron Hand Group's temporary benevolence.
They were accelerating the cultivation of Professionals, preparing to deal with potential crises that might erupt in the future.
Fang Che could understand the thoughts of these Horned People.
After fighting until now, countless Horned People had died, and the living Horned People had been in a state of high mental tension.
Now, the dissemination of such news could give the living Horned People hope and prevent them from having a mental breakdown.
However, such propaganda might not be a good thing.
If they gained hope of survival from the enemy, would they still have the courage to fight to the death against the enemy?
Of course, Fang Che was happy to see such a situation.
The Horned People's voluntary retreat would never rescue the suppressed Plane Will, giving Fang Che more time to process materials using the lives of the Horned People.
Afterward, Fang Che communicated with the Real Domain and was instantly teleported into the Real Domain.
Not long after, the Voodoo Doll was also teleported back to Fang Che's Niwan Palace.
Fang Che walked to the location where the materials were stored, classified and arranged the processed materials, then mobilized energy to melt the materials and refine them into Concession Tokens.
Several hours later, the processed materials were successfully refined into Concession Tokens.
Fang Che took the Concession Tokens to a fixed position, and just as he was about to integrate the Concession Tokens into the Plane, he saw the statues molded from aluminum water.
The statues had ferocious expressions, emitting strong resentment, affecting the surrounding environment.
At this moment, many energies related to Curse Masters had already emerged around them.
Fang Che pondered for a moment, then immediately closed his eyes, condensing the map and array of the Real Domain, as well as these sculptures, in his mind, and silently uttered: Observe.
Illusory eyes appeared out of thin air, staring at the map and sculptures. A moment later, the sculptures merged into the array, and the effect of the Concession Token instantly increased. At the same time, the future curse energy of this Plane would also greatly increase, making it more suitable for Curse Masters to cultivate.
Fang Che opened his eyes somewhat happily, released energy, and cleared out the Horned People's sculptures.
Then, Fang Che took out the Concession Token, hung it on the sculpture, and moved the sculpture to a suitable position.
Immediately after, Fang Che released energy, integrating the array with the sculpture.
The next second, the sculpture disappeared, completely merging with the array and semi-merging with the Plane.
The semi-merged state would not allow the Concession Token to exert its full effect, but it could reduce the conflict between two different Concession Tokens.
Currently, Fang Che had refined too few Concession Tokens, mainly relying on the Emperor Plane's Concession Token. Therefore, Fang Che needed to preserve the Emperor Plane's Concession Token for now.
The best solution would be to fully integrate the Concession Tokens into the Plane when he had refined enough of his own Concession Tokens.
Next, after integrating all the sculptures and Concession Tokens into the Plane, Fang Che returned to the Emperor Plane via the Plane coordinates.
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Chapter 183 The location of the cave is discovered
After returning to the Emperor Plane, Fang Che removed the language conversion tool and went to the market to purchase some elixirs, tools, and other materials exclusive to first-tier Curse Masters. Then, he stopped the Transformation Array, allowing himself to revert to his original appearance.
Immediately after, Fang Che returned to the Iron Hand Group, retrieved the other materials for refining Concession Tokens from the mailbox at his residence, changed his appearance again, and headed to the Niu Jiao Ren Plane.
As soon as he arrived at the Niu Jiao Ren Plane, Fang Che perceived that many materials had been successfully processed.
Fang Che prepared the language conversion tool, released the Voodoo Doll, and manipulated the Voodoo Doll to go to the area where the materials were located, collecting the materials and aluminum sculptures into his Real Domain.
After collecting materials for some time, Fang Che discovered that another batch of materials had been processed.
Fang Che had only told Niu Xuanhai the location of these materials.
Fang Che manipulated the Voodoo Doll to quickly approach the area where the sculptures were located, finding a pile of first-tier Professional sculptures. The resentment emanating from these sculptures was incredibly strong, far exceeding that of ordinary Horned People sculptures.
If these sculptures were integrated into the Real Domain, the effect would definitely be even stronger!
The Voodoo Doll collected these sculptures and materials, but found that Niu Xuanhai, who had arranged the ritual, was not there.
Fang Che sensed Niu Xuanhai's location, then manipulated the Voodoo Doll to move in Niu Xuanhai's direction, emerging in front of him.
Niu Xuanhai's face showed a relieved smile when he saw the Voodoo Doll.
After completing the ritual earlier, Niu Xuanhai had waited for a long time, but the Voodoo Doll had not appeared.
Niu Xuanhai thought that the Plane Will had been completely suppressed, felt a little disappointed, and decided to give up on the ritual.
Of course, Niu Xuanhai had not given up on the task of destroying the clan. He planned to commit crimes sporadically in the future, randomly killing people, which would reduce the likelihood of being caught.
Unexpectedly, not long after Niu Xuanhai decided to give up the ritual, the Voodoo Doll appeared.
Niu Xuanhai excitedly said, "I have completed a ritual. What reward will you give me?"
Fang Che immediately manipulated the Voodoo Doll to connect to the Real Domain, throwing out the first-tier Curse Master exclusive items he had purchased earlier, along with some life-saving tools.
Niu Xuanhai happily picked up the items and suggested, "In the future, you can directly transmit items to my Niwan Palace. That would be more convenient."
Fang Che could not fulfill this request.
Although Fang Che had already controlled the Plane, he had not yet gained the ability to transmit items to the Niwan Palace.
Moreover, this Plane did not belong to Fang Che. Even if he had the ability to transmit resources, he could only do so within his own Plane.
To avoid Niu Xuanhai's suspicion, Fang Che could only manipulate the Voodoo Doll to write on the ground:
"I am suppressed, and many of my abilities are Invalidation. Currently, I can only grant you some Professional skills or occasionally transmit a small amount of materials.
"Large-scale resource transmission methods like this often fail. To ensure accuracy, I can only actively seek you out."
Niu Xuanhai nodded gently, then asked, "I have now arranged a ritual using the lives of first-tier Professionals. Has it helped weaken the Suppression seal?"
Fang Che continued to manipulate the Voodoo Doll to write: "It has a slight effect. Continue to arrange rituals.
"Also, be informed that the time I send you resources will not be fixed. Just arrange as many rituals as possible."
Niu Xuanhai nodded gently and promised, "Don't worry, I will definitely work hard to complete more rituals."
After receiving Niu Xuanhai's assurance, Fang Che manipulated the Voodoo Doll to burrow underground to search for other materials.
As for new ritual arrangement locations, Fang Che was not in a hurry to excavate them.
The current excavation sites were sufficient, and excavating more would leave them idle. If they were discovered by others, it would be even more troublesome.
Just as this thought crossed his mind, Fang Che discovered that one of the ordinary Horned People he had previously selected was discovered by a patrol team during the kidnapping process!
Fang Che quickly manipulated the Voodoo Doll to enter the cave, collect the materials inside, fill the pit, and then move away from the area.
Not long after, the patrol team brought the ordinary Horned Person Fang Che had chosen to the location.
The patrol team cleared the weeds and broken stones that concealed the cave, only to find that the ground was perfectly flat.
The Horned People in the patrol team showed no extra emotion. They simply threw the ordinary Horned Person near the cave, but the ground still showed no change.
At this moment, the Horned People in the patrol team frowned, picked up a tool provided by Fang Che from the ordinary Horned Person, and touched the ground where the cave should have been.
The ground still showed no change.
Seeing this, the Horned People of the patrol team took out shovels and quickly dug downwards, observing the condition of the soil layers.
However, they were destined to find no problems; Fang Che had already dealt with everything here.
The patrolling Horned People dug a huge deep pit, carefully observing the soil layers several times, but still found nothing.
The Patrol Captain directly took out a pile of torture instruments and walked towards the ordinary Horned Person.
The ordinary Horned Person hurriedly shouted, "There was a cave here before! It must have been filled by the Plane Will!"
The Patrol Captain played with the torture instruments in his hand and sneered, "From the very beginning, I didn't believe your nonsense. How could the Plane Will allow you to do these things?
"Even if the Plane Will needed help, it should come to us Professionals. What are you?
"I think you just accidentally obtained some tools and then wanted to retaliate against the Horned People who hurt you before. But why would you hurt the innocent?"
The ordinary Horned Person shouted agitatedly, "I really didn't lie, I... Oh, right! I heard that many people have gone missing in many places. If there was no contact from the Plane Will, how could so many problems occur?"
The Patrol Captain pondered for a moment, handed the torture instruments to the person next to him, and said, "No matter what, the Plane Will cannot allow people to participate in kidnapping. Interrogate him carefully."
The nearby Horned Person took the torture instruments and immediately began torturing the ordinary Horned Person, who instantly screamed in agony.
The Patrol Captain, meanwhile, walked aside and said to the people around him, "What that culprit said just now made me think of a possibility.
"Do you think it's possible that someone is using the name of the Plane Will to create chaos internally?"
The surrounding Horned People nodded in agreement, and then someone else spoke:
"If enemies from Other Planes had the ability to enter this place, there would be no need to kidnap ordinary people. They could completely destroy the defenses or hunt important targets.
"Those who do such things must be certain ambitious individuals. They are using the Plane Will to deceive these resentful Horned People, intending to achieve some special purpose."
The Patrol Captain nodded in agreement, stating with a solemn expression, "That culprit doesn't seem to be lying. There should have been a cave here before.
"The enemy was able to hide the cave so perfectly, their strength is extraordinary. This is no longer something we can handle. Report all our suspicions."
The surrounding people nodded in unison, saying, "Understood."
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Chapter 184: Cleaning the Cave Materials
Meanwhile, Fang Che hid the underground tunnel and pondered.
When the patrol team appeared earlier, Fang Che added more hidden features to the outside of the underground tunnel, which could only be activated with the help of tools.
Now that the underground tunnel had been discovered, Fang Che silently considered more ways to hide it.
However, after a moment of thought, Fang Che still decided to abandon the underground tunnel near the village.
The reason was simple: to prevent the Horned People from finding the underground tunnel, the materials used would have to transcend this Plane.
And only the Intruder possessed materials that transcended this Plane.
By then, these Horned People might once again attack the Iron Hand Group's defense line, which would be detrimental to Fang Che's development.
What's more, the biggest flaw of the underground tunnel was the ordinary Horned People; if they were captured, even if the underground tunnel remained, no one would continue to use it.
Thinking of this, Fang Che manipulated the Voodoo Doll to go to the underground tunnel near the village and excavate the materials buried beneath it.
These materials could also prove Fang Che's identity as an Intruder.
To ensure safety, the materials had to be taken away; as for the underground tunnel, Fang Che did not fill it in.
As the first underground tunnel was discovered, the information would surely spread, and its exposure was only a matter of time.
Although the Voodoo Doll filled the underground tunnel quickly, facing the actions of all the Horned People, the Voodoo Doll simply couldn't keep up.
Furthermore, after all the materials were taken, one underground tunnel wouldn't prove much information; there was no need to waste time filling it in.
Next, under Fang Che's control, the Voodoo Doll quickly collected the materials buried beneath the underground tunnel.
Since many Horned People had used the underground tunnel to awaken as Curse Masters before, Fang Che had already collected a batch of resources.
This meant there weren't too many underground tunnels left, so Fang Che quickly cleared out most of them.
During the cleanup, Fang Che discovered many Horned People carrying tools, investigating underground information.
What relieved Fang Che somewhat was that their tools were of slightly inferior quality, and these patrol teams had not found the ordinary Horned People selected by Fang Che.
This gave Fang Che more time to clear the materials from the underground tunnels.
When the Voodoo Doll arrived at the last underground tunnel near a village, Fang Che discovered that the patrolling Horned People were releasing skills, destroying the ground.
Before long, the skills struck near Fang Che's underground tunnel.
After the underground tunnel was attacked, there was no change, which instantly attracted the attention of all patrolling Horned People; they quickly surrounded the area and activated the containment Array.
Seeing this, Fang Che abandoned the collection of hidden Array materials, but only put away other materials that could easily expose his identity, and then manipulated the Voodoo Doll to leave quickly.
In the last second before the containment Array closed, the Voodoo Doll successfully escaped.
At this moment, as the containment Array closed, countless skills struck the entrance, quickly breaking through the hidden Array.
Many Horned People activated defensive skills, put on defensive tools, and jumped directly into the underground tunnel.
Before long, the Horned People emerged from the underground tunnel with dilapidated materials, placing them on the ground.
A Horned Person who was an Array Master spoke, "There are many excavation marks underground; important items must have been taken away.
However, the other party left in a hurry and did not have time to destroy the Array; many Array materials were left behind."
Immediately, a Horned Person asked, "Can we determine the other party's identity through these Array materials?"
The Array Master replied with a solemn expression, "The Array laid by the other party is very simple; even the lowest-level materials can be used to set it up.
However, the other party used some relatively expensive resources, which proves that the hidden items are very precious, and also proves that the other party's affiliated force is relatively wealthy.
I speculate that this force possesses at least half the strength of a tribe; in the past, they had the ability to destroy a tribe.
But now that various tribes are gathered here, they don't have the ability to destroy a tribe, but they can create some malicious incidents."
Upon hearing this, the expressions of many Horned People became very serious.
A moment later, a Horned Person asked, "Is it possible that an Intruder did it?"
The Array Master smiled and shook his head, "I used to suspect the Intruder, but now that suspicion can be dismissed.
Because I have studied the methods used by Intruders; Intruders have extremely strong attainments in Array, and their layout methods are very neat, obviously having excellent inheritance.
But this current Array, the layout method is crude, more like the work of an Array Master from our side."
The Horned Person who questioned the Intruder continued to ask, "What if the person who set up the Array was self-taught?"
The Array Master gently shook his head and replied, "Impossible; I have observed the situation of Intruders.
Most Intruders like to master one thing and will not let other things distract their energy.
Only the Intruder's Manager, out of fear of being deceived, will understand knowledge from various aspects; therefore, the situation of being self-taught is more likely to appear in the management layer.
This Manager cannot possibly run here to personally set up the Array; even if he suddenly had a whim to do something, he should have cleared this place immediately, not left so many traces."
The Horned Person who suspected the Iron Hand Group continued to ask, "What if it was a feint?"
The Array Master shook his head again and replied, "Someone has already caught the kidnapper and found the underground tunnel he mentioned.
However, that underground tunnel seemed to have never appeared, not even the soil layer had strange changes.
If the other party has such powerful hiding ability, why bother with a feint? Wouldn't it be better to make all traces disappear?
Furthermore, someone previously sent a message saying that many underground tunnels were discovered, but there were no other superfluous traces.
But now this place has left obvious traces; I think this is their attempt to distract our attention, done intentionally."
At this moment, the Horned Person who suspected the Iron Hand Group was finally convinced and no longer raised questions.
The rest of the people also nodded, and their emphasis on this place significantly weakened.
The Array Master continued to explain, "No matter what, we are the only ones who found clues, so we will definitely receive many rewards."
Upon hearing this, everyone's faces showed joyful smiles.
At this time, Fang Che was manipulating the Voodoo Doll to search for the underground tunnels far from the villages.
These underground tunnels were prepared by Fang Che for Niu Xuanhai earlier; Niu Xuanhai was a Professional and could travel to many places in a short time.
Additionally, there were more Horned People patrolling near the villages, and Niu Xuanhai holding a ritual there would easily be exposed.
Fang Che had given Niu Xuanhai a lot of resources; if he were exposed, Fang Che would suffer a great loss.
Therefore, Fang Che did not arrange the underground tunnels near the villages as before, but in more desolate areas.
When the Voodoo Doll arrived in this desolate area, it found no traces of Horned People around.
Fang Che understood that most of the Horned People were attracted by the underground tunnels in the villages and would not find this place for a while.
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Chapter 185 Devouring Plane
The Horned People were attracted to the underground caves near the village and would temporarily not pay attention to the underground caves in the desolate area.
After a moment of thought, Fang Che decided not to disturb the underground caves in the desolate area for now.
These underground caves could allow Niu Xuanhai to eliminate Professionals, and the Professionals' resentment could process many materials, and the Professionals' sculptures were also more powerful than ordinary sculptures.
It would be too regrettable to give up these underground caves now.
After making this decision, Fang Che manipulated the Voodoo Doll to set up perception arrays in all directions around the underground caves.
If the Horned People really came over, these arrays could also provide early warning, giving Fang Che time to destroy the underground caves.
After setting up arrays around all the underground caves, Fang Che then controlled the Voodoo Doll to observe the situation of the Horned People.
Fang Che discovered that the Horned People were currently building city walls near their residential area, completely separating it from the desolate area.
In addition, countless Horned People were collecting population information.
All the Horned People were confined to that densely populated area, and no one paid attention to the situation in the desolate area.
Fang Che relaxed slightly, then used the Voodoo Doll to start randomly killing people, further attracting their attention.
Of course, Fang Che deliberately ignored the area where Niu Xuanhai was located to prevent Niu Xuanhai from being exposed.
After the internal chaos among the Horned People further expanded, Fang Che returned to the Real Domain, using the previously collected materials to refine new Concession Tokens.
After integrating most of the Concession Tokens and the Death Sculptures of Professionals into the array, the array's power increased once again.
However, the number of Concession Tokens that the Real Domain could integrate had already reached its limit, and the Real Domain needed to expand to integrate more Concession Tokens.
The first target for expanding the Real Domain was the small Plane that the Plane Will rewarded Fang Che with after he created the Substitute Puppet.
Fang Che first returned to the Emperor Plane, then activated the Plane coordinates, and then arrived at this Plane that had been used by someone, had no signs of life, and no Plane Will.
Upon arriving here, Fang Che mobilized the power of the Real Domain and released it.
Wherever the domain power passed, a surrounding teleportation force was emitted; if anyone entered now, Fang Che could draw them into his domain and fight the enemy within the domain.
If the enemy's domain was stronger than Fang Che's domain, the enemy could break free from the domain at any time, or even inversely draw Fang Che into the enemy's domain.
However, there was nothing in this Plane now, so Fang Che could continue to release domain power.
After releasing domain power for a period of time, the domain power deeply merged with this Plane, and the stones and soil in the Plane were absorbed into the Real Domain.
This process was the process of devouring a Plane.
When ordinary Professionals used their domain to devour a Plane, the resistance was very great, and even without the resistance of the Plane Will, it was difficult to devour it.
The reason for this was that the domain and the Plane were not equal in quality.
However, Fang Che's Real Domain was a real Plane, equal in quality to Other Planes.
Therefore, Fang Che's speed of devouring a Plane would be ten thousand times faster than others' speed of devouring a Plane!
The Plane's soil decreased at a visible rate, and the Plane's area also rapidly shrunk.
In addition to the Plane shrinking, the gas barrier at the edge of the Plane was also absorbed by Fang Che's Real Domain and integrated into the Real Domain's gas barrier.
This gas barrier was the foundation for a Plane's survival.
When Professionals used their domain to devour a Plane, the gas barrier would be hidden within the domain, uncontrolled by the Professional, and completely independent.
In the future, after the Professional died, the gas barrier would purify the Professional's domain power, re-gather the Plane's power, and allow the Plane to regain its freedom.
Of course, if a Plane was devoured by multiple people, the Plane gathered by the gas barrier would shrink.
But now, Fang Che used the Real Domain to devour the Plane, and the original gas barrier became part of the Real Domain, losing its independence.
Even if Fang Che died in the future, these gas barriers would no longer gather the Plane.
A moment later, the last bit of soil and the gas barrier of the Plane enveloped Fang Che's body and were absorbed into the Real Domain together.
Immediately after, the Plane coordinates shattered and disappeared.
From this moment on, the devoured Plane had completely disappeared and could no longer be used by Other Professionals!
After Fang Che returned to the Real Domain, he atomized his body and quickly spread out.
After spreading to four-fifths of the area, the spreading speed instantly stagnated.
This remaining one-fifth of the Plane was precisely the Plane that had just been devoured.
Since Fang Che had not yet fully mastered the Plane, his body could not expand to these brand new Planes.
Even if arrays were set up there, the body's spreading speed would not be too fast.
These newly added Planes would even affect Fang Che's cultivation speed.
However, Fang Che had previously improved it using his eye ability and already knew how to deal with these Planes.
Fang Che mobilized the Plane's power to dig out the soil from the central area and directly placed it in the new Plane area, piling it into mounds.
As this new Plane area touched these soil mounds, its integrity was instantly destroyed.
Then, Fang Che re-gathered his atomized body, went to the newly added domain location, began digging deep pits, and collected the soil into his storage ring.
Then, Fang Che filled the deep pits with the soil mounds that had just been placed there.
When all the soil mounds were filled into the deep pits, Fang Che returned to the center of the domain and spread his body again.
His body easily spread to four-fifths of the area; this time, the body's spread did not stop abruptly, but continued to spread slowly.
At this time, Fang Che opened the storage ring containing the soil, mobilized the Plane's power, placed the soil inside into the area where his body was spreading, and used the Plane's energy to pile the soil into mounds or spread it evenly.
After all the soil was handled, the domain's topography changed.
The changed topography gathered terrifying energy, pushing Fang Che's atomized body to instantly spread to the gas barrier, regaining control of the entire Plane's energy!
However, this level of control was slightly weaker than before.
Fang Che did not worry, directly mobilizing the Plane's power to shape the overall topography of the Plane.
When the topography shaping was complete, the rivers in the domain quickly flowed to lower ground, quickly forming a peculiar symbol within the Plane.
At the same time, groundwater flowed along the cracks, also forming a peculiar symbol underground.
The two symbols resonated with the topography, and Fang Che's control over the Real Domain instantly returned to its previous level and continued to improve.
After some time, Fang Che's control over the Real Domain no longer increased.
At this moment, Fang Che's control over the domain had surpassed his previous level.
However, due to the Plane's expansion, if Fang Che wanted to advance to the fifth stage, his cultivation time would still be the same as before.
In short, while Fang Che's strength improved, it did not affect other aspects; everything could continue as usual.