Ye Tiancheng said, "Are you implying that the turtle spirit might have deceived us."
As he spoke, Ye Tiancheng's tone was very certain, and Nie Chongyang's meaning was indeed that.
If the turtle spirit had truly lied about such matters, and Ye Tiancheng and the others had taken a serious attitude before, then lying about such things would basically be for the purpose of harming others.
However, this kind of harm could be divided into situations.
Some people might be forced into it, having no choice but to act as henchmen, while others might do so willingly, or perhaps everything behind it was closely related to her, which is why she was so proactive in doing these things.
However, even though the turtle spirit had deceived them, when Ye Tiancheng and the others questioned the turtle spirit, they had already maintained a reserved attitude towards the turtle spirit's answers and had not fully believed them.
Therefore, Ye Tiancheng and the others were not caught off guard by this situation.
"If it's a lie, then it's a lie. Anyway, we didn't really trust that turtle that much. It wasn't a complete plan; we were just following the clues provided by the turtle spirit."
"At worst, if it's confirmed this time that the turtle spirit was indeed behind it and did something it shouldn't have done, we'll just revoke its identity certificate and not issue it. We won't be overturned by her."
The little fox said the same thing.
However, Ye Tiancheng still expressed that everyone should not be careless and underestimate the enemy, lest they capsize in the gutter.
When Ye Tiancheng said this, the little fox stopped talking and listened to Ye Tiancheng very obediently.
However, no matter what, they still had to focus their attention on the matter at hand as much as possible.
Nie Chongyang said to Ye Tiancheng, "We are not as skilled as you, Ye Tiancheng, in handling these matters. So, you tell us what to do, and we will all listen to you and act according to your instructions."
Ye Tiancheng nodded and did not rashly issue orders, but first fell into thought.
After thinking for a while, he finally said, "The situation here is unclear, and we don't know how dangerous it is. Therefore, we must be careful in everything, lest we inadvertently capsize in the gutter."
"In such a completely unfamiliar environment, if everyone gets separated, we might not be able to find each other again. Therefore, my suggestion is that we should not split up and should act together."
This point was indeed very reasonable, so the little fox and Nie Chongyang all nodded, thinking this was acceptable.
Secondly, it was to determine a direction for investigation.
Ye Tiancheng fell into thought. He could sense the direction of the fragments of the Fuxi Qin in several places. He could not rely too much on the possibility that every direction would not be a dead end, as the chance of such good fortune was really too small. The probability of misleading interference was the highest.
And if there was indeed a possibility of misleading interference, then most likely, there would be traps among these interferences. Therefore, they had to be vigilant, and there might be someone manipulating all of this behind the scenes.
Secondly, it was to judge which directions were more valuable for exploration.
Ye Tiancheng then discussed his senses of these directions with Nie Chongyang and the little fox, asking them to help make judgments and make reasonable choices.
There were a total of nine directions that Ye Tiancheng sensed. For cultivators like them, this number itself already represented a certain problem.
Because, from their perspective, nine was a very special number.
It could basically be confirmed that the locations represented by these directions must have something hidden behind them, and there should be traps and illusions.
And among these nine directions, Ye Tiancheng's senses were not entirely the same.
Some directions had stronger auras, some weaker, and some had more mixed auras, feeling like they were mixed with many strange auras.
What was alarming was that some directions felt very subtle, yet one could not sense any danger. In matters that were clearly problematic, one could not feel a sense of crisis. This instead indicated that the problem behind it should not be small.
It was possible that a more formidable trap awaited them.
Nie Chongyang and Liang Ping discussed and proposed to start investigating from the direction with the highest probability of reaction.
However, the little fox had completely different opinions from them.
He believed that in places with extremely high danger and potential traps behind them, one should not make such an easy decision to directly pursue the choice that felt easiest to achieve.
On the contrary, the better choices were generally two. According to conventional thinking, the least dangerous was a relatively moderate choice, meaning that among all the options, they all felt quite mediocre, neither so strong as to feel intense, nor so weak as to be almost nonexistent.
Secondly, it was to start from the least likely option.
However, the latter was not particularly recommended by the little fox, but compared to the proposals of Nie Chongyang and Liang Ping, it was slightly better.
The little fox believed that those who set traps would more or less use conventional thinking, and choosing extremely strong and extremely weak were often the two options with the highest probability of choice in conventional thinking.
Instead, those options that felt quite mediocre were often very inconspicuous.
These options would at least be safer, and it was even possible that the answer lay within them.
Generally, the probability of such options being traps was lower.
However, if the owner who set the trap was even more cunning than them, and precisely used traps designed to make clever people outsmart themselves, then they could only consider themselves unlucky.
After all, if they encountered such a low-probability event, they could only say they had bad luck; there was no other better solution.
Nie Chongyang and the others indeed had some conventional thinking, exactly as the little fox said. They initially started searching from the direction with the highest probability.
After the little fox finished speaking his thoughts, Nie Chongyang and the others were somewhat convinced, thinking that what the little fox said made sense, and perhaps this was the best choice. It depended on themselves, their conventional thinking, and how they chose.
Most people would either make a choice directly, choosing the option with the highest probability, or they would go to the other extreme, thinking that since the probability was so high, it was impossible, and thus choosing the least likely option, which was also a very common conventional thinking.
These two extremes were very common and were the most easily exploited aspects of human nature.
What the little fox said indeed broadened Ye Tiancheng's thinking.
Finally, because their opinions tended to unify, they all followed the little fox's words and made their choices as the little fox suggested.
Ye Tiancheng sensed it carefully, but then thought that if the choice was too mediocre and very moderate, it might also lead to a trap. In the end, he simply chose a direction that was neither outstanding nor mediocre.
Not only that, but to prevent these potential phenomena from exploiting everyone's conventional thinking and ideas biased towards the clever, Ye Tiancheng chose options that were less likely to be chosen.
It could not be said to be completely mediocre, but it was also not at the extreme ends.
Nie Chongyang and the little fox could not see any problems with Ye Tiancheng's choice.
After all, their senses were not as clear and distinct as Ye Tiancheng's.
Ye Tiancheng only roughly explained it to them, without going into too much detail, as a general understanding was sufficient, and explaining too much was not very necessary.
Thus, after deciding on their target, Ye Tiancheng and the other three set off in that direction.
However, in such a backyard, they could not walk in a straight line, so they inevitably appreciated the various scenes within the mansion. They did not idle and began to memorize the routes, drawing a map in their minds.
Moreover, if their luck was not good, they would have to make multiple attempts to find the true route to the place they wanted to reach.
At the same time, they also tried to observe their surroundings as much as possible, looking for any other anomalies that could be detected.
Understanding their location and environment more would help them safely leave this mysterious place and increase their chances of survival.
The four of them left the initial poolside one after another.
Because they were somewhat worried that they might not be able to return to their original location after going far, Ye Tiancheng and the others left marks along the way. Although they could not count on these marks to be effective, it was better to have them than not, as it was better than nothing.
As they gradually went deeper, they seemed to have entered the inner residential area of the mansion.
It could be seen that in the past, this was a very luxurious mansion. The families living in such places were generally not ordinary people. Ordinary wealthy merchants or minor officials did not have the means to live in such houses; only wealthy families with strong backgrounds could afford them.
Ye Tiancheng and the others walked in the mansion for a long time without seeing any signs of human activity. The entire mansion was very clean. Looking at it this way, it should have been continuously inhabited and regularly cleaned to be so clean.
Therefore, not a single person was seen, let alone people. No trace of any moving beings was seen, which seemed somewhat strange.
However, considering that this was not a normal place, such a situation was quite reasonable, and there was nothing particularly surprising about it.
The four of them walked and stopped, looking for directions everywhere. It took them about an hour to ensure they had found the correct direction. The reason they took so long was:
On one hand, the house was indeed too large. On the other hand, it was also because Ye Tiancheng and the others did not know the way. Sometimes, if they walked straight in a direction, they would end up in a dead end, and then they had to return to the previous intersection and go in another direction they hadn't taken.
Therefore, it took so long.
Finally, Ye Tiancheng felt that they were close enough, so he greeted Nie Chongyang and the little fox, telling them that they were almost there.
The little fox and the others immediately breathed a sigh of relief and looked around.
Without entering the house, no one could be sure where they were.
The little fox looked around and then said curiously, "I wonder what kind of place this is."