"Boom... Boom..."
The ground suddenly shook.
The intense shaking made Beitiao Qian Naizi, who was standing by the shore, sowhat unsteady on her feet.
Fortunately, this unexpected earthquake quickly subsided.
And at this mont, a huge vortex unexpectedly rose from the calm surface of the lake.
As the water surged wildly, the water level actually began to drop.
The entrance, hidden underground, finally began to reveal itself.
"This kid really has so skills!"
Beitiao Qian Naizi waved her hand.
Dozens of knife-wielding samurai had already jumped down first.
She, however, sat in a bamboo sedan chair, escorted by eight sturdy n and dozens of bewitching won, following closely behind.
By the ti the large group passed through the long black hole,
Lin Fan and Xu Zhi Rou had already been waiting at the exit.
"Husband!"
Ning ngyao, walking behind the samurai, imdiately ran towards Lin Fan when she saw him.
She threw herself into Lin Fan’s arms, "I was so worried outside, terrified that sothing might happen to you. If you weren’t here anymore, I wouldn’t want to live either!"
"I’m perfectly fine, aren’t I?"
Holding the tender ng Yao, Lin Fan wiped the tears from her face.
anwhile, the rest of the party had arrived at the city gate.
Beitiao Qian Naizi, still sitting in her sedan chair, sized up the gate in front of her.
At this mont, several samurai were already trying their best to push the gate open.
Unfortunately, despite exerting all their strength, they could not budge the massive door.
"Stop wasting your energy, the water from Death Lake has already gone through the secret passage into the underground. If I’m not mistaken, all the chanisms of the entire underground lair rely on hydropower. Now with the water, all the chanisms here will start operating. There’s a chanism on this gate, which is not sothing that can be opened by brute force."
Lin Fan, with Ning ngyao by his side and holding Xu Zhi Rou, walked to the front of the troop.
Smiling at the disheveled samurai.
This sort of thing cannot be done with brute force.
"Since you’ve managed to co all the way here, it proves that you are indeed very capable, so please continue and open the door for us."
Beitiao Qian Naizi still had no intention of stepping down from her sedan chair.
Yet, her eyes glead with excitent.
"Watch closely, today I’ll let you all understand what is called the wisdom of Huaxia."
Lin Fan stood in front of the gate, intently studying it.
As an amateur tomb raider, he had to think this through.
"Can you open it?"
Xu Zhi Rou asked with a voice tinged with concern.
Whispering in Lin Fan’s ear.
"Of course, my husband’s head is filled with wisdom."
Ning ngyao, hugging Lin Fan’s arm, said with full confidence.
"That’s right, I understand now. These doornails are designed according to the layout of the Nine Palaces; to open the door, each one must be triggered individually."
Lin Fan, stroking his chin, gazed at the nine doornails on the gate.
"Stop talking so much, just do it!"
The sharp-faced man, previously scornful of Lin Fan, imdiately commanded.
Several martial masters rushed forward and struck the large doornail in the center.
As each doornail was pressed,
All nine doornails sunk completely into the door.
"Click, click, click..."
Indeed, from behind the door ca the sound of sothing like a winch turning.
But just when everyone was waiting for the door to open,
Suddenly, from behind the original long-burning lamps on the city wall, countless arrows were shot out.
The arrows, swift as the wind, instantly enveloped everyone.
"Clang, clang, clang..."
Facing the dense volley of arrows, the surrounding samurai quickly used their knives to fend off the incoming barrage.
anwhile, the eight stalwart n who had been carrying the palanquin
set it down on the ground, forming a line.
Like a wall, they protected Beitiao Qian Naizi from the arrows.
"Damn, this is insane, indestructible as a diamond!"
Lin Fan watched as the sharp torrent of arrows struck the porters’ backs.
To his surprise, they were, to a man, repelled.
These guys were impervious to both blade and spear, truly formidable characters.
Finally, all the arrows had been shot.
Yet, at the city gate, dozens had already fallen.
The samurai who did not block the arrows and the won from the Hundred Fragrance Group
had turned into hedgehogs, collapsed in pools of blood.
Without exception, their faces were an iron blue.
It was clear they had died from poisoning.
Turned out the arrows had been coated with a deadly poison.
"You... you actually deceived !"
The lanky man who had narrowly escaped death by lying on the ground pointed at Lin Fan angrily.
This fellow had just dragged two won to one side and had rely been watching the entire ti.
"You’d better get it straight, when have I ever deceived you? I rely told you about the origin of this Nine Palaces diagram and the positions of the palaces. It was your own rash act of wanting to take all the credit that got them killed, not ," Lin Fan said, standing there with a cold sneer.
His words left the man speechless.
"Then tell , what’s the correct sequence?"
Beitiao Qian Naizi couldn’t be bothered to argue with him.
All she wanted was to enter and seize the treasure as soon as possible.
"The correct sequence, I guess, is to start from the central palace then to Qian, Dui, Gen, Li, Kan, Kun, Zhen, Xun, and back to the central palace. Only by this can the formation be broken!"
Lin Fan said casually, arms crossed over his chest.
What he proposed was the pattern of the Mysterious Heavenly Flying Stars.
But he just wasn’t telling them the truth.
"You guess? What do you an, ’you guess’? The Great Protector wants an accurate route, not your baseless ramblings!"
The gaunt man rebuked loudly.
A guess ant there was no certainty.
With that said, who would dare to test it?
"Anyway, that’s my guess. Why don’t you make a guess too? There are only nine palaces, eighty-one variations. We’ve already tried one just now; you have eighty left, feel free to choose any," Lin Fan said with a shrug, appearing indifferent.
This imdiately made the gaunt man’s face darken.
"If we try all eighty variations, will there be any survivors left here?"
The gaunt man imdiately turned his head: "Great Protector, I think this kid is deliberately causing trouble, we definitely can’t trust his words."
"If you don’t trust him, do you have a solution? Or are you going to make a blind guess as well?"
Beitiao Qian Naizi’s face darkened.
Her words rendered the gaunt man utterly speechless.
"I... I won’t make a blind guess!"
"If you can’t, then shut your mouth!"
Beitiao Qian Naizi glared at him sharply.
She then made a discreet gesture to the won by her side.
Two spirit controllers imdiately stepped forward.
Although sowhat frightened, they still followed the sequence Lin Fan had stated and pressed the buttons.
"Click... Click... Click..."
As the central protruding door bolt was pressed down once again,
chanical sounds began to emanate from within the underground palace.
Yet, at this mont, everyone wore a look of tension on their faces.
Only Lin Fan, his eyes cold, was swiftly scanning the group for sothing.
Soon, he found what he was looking for.
"Creak..."
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