Chapter 265: Chapter 196: The Cabin (Part 2)
"That guy actually escaped from me, truly bold." Qin Yuesheng said angrily.
Without the one-eyed dragon, swimming became quite troublesome for him.
At this moment, a stiff corpse slowly drifted over from the side. Qin Yuesheng was instantly surprised at the sight: "One-eyed Dragon?"
The One-eyed Dragon was already dead, with a lump of evil insect wriggling in its mouth, trying to crawl out.
Qin Yuesheng directly grabbed the One-eyed Dragon’s corpse and dissected it, then slashed the evil insect in half.
[Decomposition successful, obtained ’Diving x1’, ’Swimming x1’, ’Innate Water Affinity x1’]
Seeing the three orbs of light that fell out after decomposing the One-eyed Dragon, Qin Yuesheng’s eyes lit up at once, what a good thing! It directly solved his problem with water skills.
"If I’d known dissecting him could solve my problem, I wouldn’t have kept him alive. What a bother." Qin Yuesheng thought to himself.
The death of the One-eyed Dragon didn’t bother Qin Yuesheng at all. He was originally just bringing this guy down as a guide. Since he chose to escape and die by the parasitic evil insect, he could blame no one else.
With matters settled, Qin Yuesheng continued to investigate the conditions of the Copper Sword City.
Soon, Qin Yuesheng noticed something unusual. The entire Copper Sword City was consistent except for a piece of land that showed signs of being disturbed, obviously tampered with before he arrived.
Qin Yuesheng immediately showed his interest at this situation.
He started digging into the spot with the Celestial Demon Evil Blade, and after a short while, an iron plate appeared before his eyes.
The iron plate seemed to be a door to something, perhaps collapsed and covered the ground due to the tsunami.
"Traces of someone having been here, the map was known only to me and Master Bao Jing, and maybe some from the Demon Sect. Could they have beaten me here?" Qin Yuesheng quickly extended four arms and grabbed the iron plate, exerting force to lift it. Suddenly, turbid mud surged, revealing a pit to Qin Yuesheng.
"So it’s here." Qin Yuesheng immediately swam into the pit.
The pit was pitch black, but it posed no issue for Qin Yuesheng.
Soon after swimming through a rather short water channel, a platform standing above the water appeared before Qin Yuesheng.
Compared to the ruins outside, this platform was intact, like a secluded paradise.
"I didn’t expect the underground of Copper Sword City to hold such wonders." Qin Yuesheng climbed onto the platform from the water, unable to resist a sigh.
The stone platform was bow-shaped, with a three-story pavilion at the end, alongside blossoming plum trees, creating an elegant setting.
After a quick survey and seeing nothing special, Qin Yuesheng headed straight to the pavilion. Suddenly, countless bugs crawled out from under the stone platform, swarming towards him.
There’s an ambush!
Qin Yuesheng swung his blade, and the Celestial Demon Evil Blade clanged against the bugs like it struck iron.
Even steel was no match for the Celestial Demon Evil Blade, as the bugs swiftly perished beneath Qin Yuesheng’s blade.
Ribbit!
At the same time, black frogs with white pustules on their backs, obviously filled with poison, started crawling from beneath the stone platform.
"Roar!"
Qin Yuesheng couldn’t be bothered to waste time, he unleashed a Soul-Shattering Roar. Though it was aimed at malevolent spirits, the sound wave was truly powerful. These bugs were no match, and one by one they fell stiff to the ground, completely immobilized.
Bam!
Suddenly, the sound of something falling into water echoed, faint yet detectable to Qin Yuesheng’s ears.
"Who?" He swung his blade at once, the energy slicing through a section of the stone platform, revealing a hidden woman beneath.
It was Chen Lan!
Chen Lan looked at Qin Yuesheng with a grave expression, not expecting him to possess a Sound Wave Skill, catching her off guard and exposing her location.
This was seriously bad. Although Chen Lan was a master of inner strength, she was at the bottom among inner power martial artists, without her poison techniques, any first-layer Inner Power Realm martial artist could defeat her.
Without hesitation, Chen Lan fled towards the pavilion, seeking aid from her comrades.
However, her Lightweight Skill was no match for Qin Yuesheng. Within a few steps, he caught up, forcing Chen Lan to turn and strike with both hands.
Her palms were dark green, clearly poisonous, known as Poison Palms.
"Five Venom Coiled Hands!" Chen Lan’s eyes flashed with ruthlessness.
Immediately, a foul scent of poison emanated as dark green inner strength was released.
Star-Picking Hand!
Qin Yuesheng swiftly moved, cutting off Chen Lan’s arms instantaneously, disabling her with his overwhelming inner strength.
A sword to Chen Lan’s neck, Qin Yuesheng questioned, "Are you from the Demon Sect?"
Unexpectedly, Chen Lan took the initiative to slice her neck against the blade, dying under Qin Yuesheng’s Dragon-Slaying Sword.
"Anyone capable of such acts is undoubtedly a member of the Demon Sect." Qin Yuesheng flicked the blood from his sword and began dissecting Chen Lan.
Obtaining the ’Scripture of Ten Thousand Poisons,’ designed for nurturing poisons and controlling toxic creatures, with toxic inner force cultivation being secondary—a classic example of a deviant path.
It held limited value to Qin Yuesheng, given his lack of interest in poison, and Chen Lan, being only at the first-layer of the Inner Power Realm, offered negligible Inner Strength Pill gains, better than nothing.
Treading over insect corpses, Qin Yuesheng headed straight to the pavilion.
If this poison-handling inner strength martial artist may belong to the Demon Sect, then certainly the other Demon Sect members came here, and Qin Yuesheng intended to capture them all to prove his prowess.
"If this is truly the site of the sword tomb secret cache, everything must come into my possession."
Pushing open the pavilion’s door, Qin Yuesheng walked right in.
...
An ordinary iron sword was placed inside a small cauldron, filled with fine sand to hold it steady.
Three human-height incense sticks were releasing mist in a bamboo-constructed room.
"Huh?" As Qin Yuesheng took in the surroundings, he froze, feeling that something was inexplicably strange about stepping into this room.
Cicadas chirping, summer days.
Ducks swam outside in the small pond, with dragonflies hovering above, occasionally landing on the foxtail grass by the pond.
Qin Yuesheng finally realized something was wrong, the space was unnatural.
He clearly knew this was underwater, and he had inspected around the pavilion; it couldn’t possibly have a pond outside, let alone a shining sun reflection on the pond surface.
How could there be a sun beneath the sea?
Resisting his doubts, Qin Yuesheng headed straight for the iron sword, surely the most valuable item here.
As he approached, it seemed his vision extended infinitely, the sword within reach yet he couldn’t grasp it.
So near yet so far.
Unable to reach, Qin Yuesheng opted to stop moving and extended the Star-Picking Hand, attempting to draw the sword from the small cauldron.
However, the sword remained motionless, solid as a rock, seemingly weighing a thousand pounds.
Just as Qin Yuesheng planned to exert more force, a soft chuckle came from a corner of the room.
"If you want the sword, young man, why make it complicated? Just take it."
Qin Yuesheng was startled, surprised there was someone else!
After entering the room, he had scanned the entire place, finding no one or anywhere someone could hide.
Where did the speaker come from?
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