Wu Ming's so-called stupid method was, naturally, one that countless people had tested over the three hundred years since the Moli Immortal Mansion opened.
Infiltration.
According to records from the past several centuries, the villages most people encountered from the outer perimeter to the second level—Qinghe Village, in most cases—could hardly be called heavily guarded. Though every man, woman, elder, and child in the village cultivated, they normally lived contentedly, leading the lives of ordinary mortals in the dust of the world.
As long as one avoided discovery, kept one's five senses and perceptions under control, and did not let the villagers' voices contaminate one's mind... even someone with only Qi Refining Stage cultivation could move freely through the villages on the second level. Over the past three hundred years, most of the information on the Immortal Mansion's second level had been collected this way.
The author of the Record of a Hundred Things had likewise relied on an exceptionally ingenious invisibility, breath-concealment, and movement talisman to repeatedly enter and leave the Immortal Mansion's second level. He later wrote travel journals and became a bestselling author...
Yet for Wu Ming and the others, their greatest problem at present was that they had no such invisibility, breath-concealment, and movement talisman, nor did any of them truly excel in infiltration arts.
Among the three Nether Clan members, Yi Yi and Han Gang both specialized in direct combat. Only He Lu was skilled in the way of talismans and carried a large supply of Luohuang Mountain Spirit Talismans, capable of imitating a hundred arts of the world—including, naturally, spells for invisibility and silence.
But the He Lu Wu Ming had awakened was now in her Li Yao form. Though she still possessed magical power and divine abilities, she could not inherit magical treasures