It seed that on this trip to the Qian Ling Mausoleum, besides being wary of the mausoleum’s own traps and arrays, they had to be cautious of enemies lurking behind them.
You thanked Zi Qian and hung up the phone, then turned to Dong Fangxiao beside you and asked, "Miss Dong, how good is your shooting technique?"
Dong Fangxiao looked up at you, smiled slightly, and said, "It’s passable."
"Once inside the mausoleum, the enemies behind will have lost track of you."
Dong Fangxiao raised her eyebrows and smiled, "No problem."
As she spoke, you took a Type 54 pistol from Dong Fangxiao’s black travel bag, checked it quickly, and then tucked it into your waistband.
On seeing your movents, Dong Fangxiao laughed and said, "I didn’t expect it, but you’re quite skilled with a gun."
You grinned at her and replied, "It’s passable."
The next morning, just as a sliver of dawn began to lighten the sky, four figures were slowly walking along the ridge of a field.
By the ti the sky in the east began to glow with a reddish hue, the four of you were standing on a hill overlooking the Qian Ling Mausoleum, which was no more than a hundred ters away.
Dong Fangxiao looked at the mausoleum across from her and asked you, "Aren’t we supposed to go down into the Qian Ling Mausoleum? Why have we co here?"
You smiled and said, "We are indeed going down into the mausoleum, but I never said there was only one entrance."
With that said, you took a few steps forward.
At that mont, you stood at the edge of a natural gully filled with dense bushes. If one weren’t careful, the so-called entrance would be completely hidden from view.
Leaping into the gully, you pushed aside the bushes with your hands and found the deep hole you had fallen into that day.
Looking at the deep hole before you, you couldn’t help but feel reflective.
Fate was unpredictable, as if an invisible hand were steering your path.
If that day you hadn’t fallen into the hole, just so, you never would have t Zhao’er, nor would you have experienced such a fate as you faced now.
Taking a deep breath to clear the scattered thoughts from your mind, you looked up at Wu Qiyi, knowing that, no matter what, you had to find a way to cure her!
While others used ropes to descend into the hole, you used a climbing ladder. After securing the ladder, you lowered it down.
After placing the ladder, you didn’t rush to descend but instead slowly closed your eyes.
Dong Fangxiao watched you, thinking you were being timid, and gently pushed you, coldly suggesting, "I’ll go down first."
You grabbed her hand and pulled her behind you, keeping your eyes closed, and said, "Don’t move yet. I’m checking our surroundings to see if we are being followed."
The three girls beside you weren’t very familiar with your abilities. Hearing what you said, they crouched down, trying their best to stay out of sight.
After a mont, you finally opened your eyes and said to Dong Fangxiao, "Miss Dong, let’s form a team formation, and after we descend into the underground palace, we’ll keep this formation."
Dong Fangxiao saw the solemn look on your face and nodded seriously.
"I’ll lead, with Er Ya behind , Xue Le following Er Ya, and Miss Dong bringing up the rear, keeping an eye out for enemies behind us."
"Okay, good."
The three won gave their silent nods of agreent.
"Alright, let’s go down."
As you said this, you took out a piece of yellow talisman paper from your pocket and, under the astonished gazes of the three, folded it into a Thousand Paper Cranes. You placed the origami crane in your palm and gently blew on it.
"Look, it ca to life!"
Nong Xuele let out a cry of alarm, but saw the Thousand Paper Cranes slowly rising from your palm, then descending into the cave.
"Senior Li, these Thousand Paper Cranes are so magical, they can actually fly on their own," she exclaid.
"Just a little trick," you smiled and followed by climbing down the soft ladder.
You had fallen from above before, landing directly on the ground, but climbing down the soft ladder now took several minutes!
After reaching the bottom of the Underground Palace, you stepped forward, wet your fingertip with saliva, and then held it up in the air.
Indeed, there was airflow in this cave.
Once the other three won had co down, you turned on the Wolf’s eye flashlight, and the four of you proceeded, one in front of another.
Although you had been through this corridor before, at that ti you were being chased by a Vengeful Ghost, completely unaware of your direction, it was like hitting your head against the wall blindly.
But now it was different, as soon as you entered the corridor, you activated the Sen Luo Eye, leading the three won behind you slowly forward.
As you had seen the day before, there were indeed side passages in the corridor, and now the four of you stood in front of them.
"Why are we not moving?" Wu Qiyi asked.
You didn’t respond imdiately, but quietly observed the corridor in front of you.
Under the gaze of the Sen Luo Eye, a mist pervaded the corridor, and about twenty ters down its depths was a stone door, with a Bronze beast of the sa height and size as the corridor placed in front of it!
A Tomb Guardian Beast!?
You hadn’t expected to find a Tomb Guardian Beast here.
This Tomb Guardian Beast was distinctly different from ordinary Bronze ware.
Typically, Bronze wares are food vessels or used for sacrificial purposes, engraved with inscriptions representing auspices; but this Bronze beast was different, it resembled a qilin with only one inscription on it, similar to a collar resting on the qilin’s neck. Moreover, there were many skulls carved on top of its head, and beneath its front paws, it was even standing on a set of human white bones!
"Senior Li, why aren’t we going ahead?"
Nong Xuele asked again.
You imdiately replied, "This Qian Ling Mausoleum might be more dangerous than we have imagined, everyone needs to be cautious."
With that, you slowly took a step forward, and the Thousand Paper Cranes floating in front of you glided further.
As the Thousand Paper Cranes entered the mist, they suddenly burst into flas and turned into ashes in an instant, falling to the ground.
"Tch! Forcing to take action right from the start!"
You let out a cold snort, pulled an Orange talisman paper from your pocket, bit your fingertip, and with your own blood, you drew a Talisman on the paper. As soon as the Talisman left your palm, it ford a gust of wind that blew open the mist filling the corridor.
"Hold your breath, rush through!"
You imdiately grabbed Wu Qiyi’s hand and ran towards the Tomb Guardian Beast at the end of the corridor!
The mist seed to float only in that section of the corridor and couldn’t approach the Tomb Guardian Beast. As the four of you rushed near the Tomb Guardian Beast, the dispersed mist began to gather slowly again.
Nong Xuele seed to sense the mist and said with a frown, "Why is there a Bewildering Miasma here?"
"Bewildering Miasma? What is that?" you turned and asked Nong Xuele.
"It’s like a kind of hallucinogenic agent. Once a person inhales this miasma, they will fall into hallucinations, and it can also cause nerve paralysis, likely resulting in death within the illusion. This Bewildering Miasma only exists deep within the perilous mountains of the Miao Region, who would place such a dangerous thing here?"
You pulled a face, glanced at Wu Qiyi beside you, and said with a laugh, "Who else could it be?"
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