Shi Jingzhi's fingers were cold and his palms were slightly wet. This wasn't acting, he was really scared. Yin Ci didn't bother to care whether it was polite or not, so he clenched his hands tighter.
The top-notch fun he finally came across cannot be let go easily.
Seeing that Yin Ci didn't let go of his hand, Shi Jingzhi breathed a sigh of relief and muttered "Thank you" in a low voice that was too quiet to hear.
Yin Ci suddenly came up with a strange idea - he was so happy when he found out that he was willing to go to the grave and had his last name. Could it be that he was afraid of ghosts and didn't want to explore alone
Fear can easily affect performance, so you need to reassure him.
"Master."
"Um?"
"There are no ghosts in this world."
Shi Jingzhi just thought that the young man was talking nonsense. He turned sideways and patted Yin Ci's head with his other hand: "Master, I know."
Yin Ci continued to coax him: "Some people have said that I am very tough and can defeat evil spirits. Even if a ghost appears, I can protect you."
Shi Jingzhi turned his face, his eyes a little complicated: "It's good at defeating evil spirits."
After saying this, Shi Jingzhi calmed down strangely, and even his pulse became much more stable. Yin Ci was quite satisfied.
There is a spell inside the door, so walking does not feel like descending, but more like moving forward in a dark tunnel. Chi Goujiao walked at the front, exploring as he walked. In the darkness, the team moved forward very slowly.
"Aci." Shi Jingzhi suddenly put a little more force on his hand, "walk slower."
After saying that, Shi Jingzhi turned around quietly, put something on Yin Ci's neck, and adjusted his collar. The whole set of movements was so fast that others would only think that he was arranging his apprentice's clothes.
Yin Ci lowered his head and saw a round shadow in his collar - Shi Jingzhi threaded the Buddhist bead with strong silk and hid it on his body.
Yin Ci was almost confused by this man's occasional wariness. What on earth was he thinking if he dared to bring this kind of thing out
"Wear it well." Shi Jingzhi pulled his hand back again, and it felt a little warmer.
"Master, aren't you afraid that I will run away?"
Shi Jingzhi said without hesitation: "If you really run away, no matter where you go, I can catch you."
Yin Ci: "..." Forget it, let him dream first.
There was a little blue light at the end of the tunnel, and people stopped when they reached their destination.
The scene in front of me was like a fantasy.
However, when he saw the scene clearly for the first time, Yin Ci pushed Shi Jingzhi down, and the two fell to the ground. Before Shi Jingzhi had time to ask, his face was splashed with the blood of the person next to him.
Just when everyone reached the end of the tunnel and were shocked by the scene on the second floor, several fine steel wires were cut from behind, like a strong wind.
The sect has rich combat experience and has not lost many people. The rest of the people were not so lucky - many of them were cut into several sections by the steel wire, and their blood and internal organs flowed all over the floor.
The original team of nearly 300 people, excluding the wounded who remained on the first floor, now has less than 100 people left.
"It's really, really vicious. Brother Yin, you react so quickly." Jin Lan's reaction was a little slow and he lay down a little late. A lot of hair was cut off from the back of his head.
"Intuition. Being stared at by a wild beast in the mountains is very similar to what I felt just now." Yin Ci explained in a mysterious manner.
Just as he expected, Shi Jing's skills were ordinary, his muscle reflexes were not perfected, and he almost turned into an offline ghost. His cheap master was sitting on the ground, still in a daze.
Yin Ci knelt down and poked his Nuo face: "Master, look, I think I have a tough life."
Shi Jingzhi slowly stretched out his hands and held Yin Ci's hand tightly: "Good disciple, I can't repay you as a teacher, I can only use my body... Bah, I will be a cow or a horse in the next life."
Yin Ci made it clear: "You can increase my monthly salary back."
Shi Jingzhi suddenly became serious: "Is this a matter? One code must be the same."
Most people have been in the world of martial arts and won't panic over dead bodies. Only the Changle sect was almost completely wiped out, and the leader of the Shou Ma Gang was still crying. The rest of the people quickly regrouped and observed the scene in the "Dianxian Palace".
Yan Budu picked the timing very well, and the scene in the palace was truly shocking and made people forget about their actions.
Different from Paper Man Street, the Ascension Hall is filled with cold light and stands on the lake. There is no land on the ground, only ice with neat lines. The liquid under the ice shimmered with blue fluorescence and was crystal clear.
So they could see clearly - all kinds of corals and landscaping at the bottom of the lake were all made of white bones, many of which were human bones. The bone fish is driven by magic and swims leisurely.
The surroundings were as bright as day. Beautiful blue light envelopes all kinds of skeletons, and all life is sealed in the ice. This place is more like a courtyard of bones than a palace.
The scenery in the middle of the lake is particularly spectacular. The giant fish bone is located in the center of the space, huge and huge. The fish's head is tilted, half of its body is frozen in the ice, and the tail of the fish is naturally connected with snake bones. Snake bones cover the entire second floor, and the ends of the ribs are embedded in the ice, creating countless passages.
The carp leaping over the dragon gate symbolizes good luck, but the atmosphere is extremely gloomy.
Shi Jingzhi: "...Did Yan Budu have any misunderstanding about the word 'climbing to immortality'? He has only changed half of his carp. Is he stuck in the dragon gate?"
Yin Ci wiped his face. It seemed that the boy was not frightened and recovered quickly.
The focus of everyone's attention was not on the half-changed carp - in front of them was a dazzling maze of bones, without any prompt information, and even the teams could not be separated. If we want a group of people to explore together in a mighty way, I don’t know if we can explore the year of the monkey, the horse and the moon.
"Stop looking for it, there won't be any prompts. Yan Budu made this thing to prevent thieves, not for people to play with." Wu Xue Po said calmly. "The matter has come to this, and we can only part ways."
She tapped her crutches on the ice and led Chigou into the maze.
A certain lone ranger seemed to want to take advantage of Chi Goujiao, so he hurriedly followed him. Unexpectedly, as soon as he stepped on the ice, the ice suddenly sank, and the man fell into the lake instantly.
He was wrapped in pearly foam. After the foam dissipated, the man's clothes, weapons, and body were all dissolved, leaving only a pair of pure white bones and a complete network of blood vessels that made people uncomfortable.
The dark red blood network is incomparably exquisite. After falling off the skeleton, it floated for a while and finally sank to the bottom of the lake, gradually losing color and crumbling into fine sand.
The head of the Changle Sect was about to collapse. He tried to turn back the same way, but found that there was only a solid wall behind him, and the tunnel had no idea where it went.
"Chi Goujiao used his inner strength under his feet." Shi Zhongyu recalled for a moment and raised his voice. "Everyone, please gather your Qi in the soles of your feet at all times and don't relax."
She led by example and stepped onto the ice just now, and the ice did not collapse.
Shi Jingzhi thought for a moment, then knelt down and said, "Ah Ci, come up here and I will carry you on my back."
Yin Ci was polite: "Master, this is really..."
"It's okay, I can't leave you here." Shi Jingzhi did not hesitate. "We are following the Taiheng faction, it's not that dangerous."
Shi Jingzhi was slightly taller than Yin Ci, and because of his abundant internal strength, it was not difficult to carry it. Yin Ci hooked his arms around Shi Jingzhi's neck and lay down quietly. This man's hands and feet were always cold from fear, but his body temperature was not low and he felt very comfortable.
Yin Ci couldn't help but relax slightly, and he began to look around again.
Paper Street was full of fireworks before, so he didn't pay much attention. Now when I look at it, people from Prince Rong's Mansion actually came in with a small sedan, and I don't know how they managed to avoid the steel wire.
The sedan was hung with expensive evil-proofing tools and was carried by several masters as it moved forward steadily.
Every time they reached a major fork in the road, several people from Taiheng Sect and Prince Rong's Mansion would separate. After walking for two or three hours, Shi Zhongyu and his party were left with less than ten people.
Among them are the masters and apprentices of Changle Sect, Kushan Sect, and Shen Zhu of Yueshui Pavilion.
Prince Rong's sedan chair swayed slowly behind him, and a trace of disgust flashed in Shi Zhongyu's eyes. She breathed steadily and asked Yan Qing in a low voice: "Is that voice still there?"
"Well, there is a very regular clicking sound, we are getting closer." Yan Qing answered honestly.
Yin Ci didn't notice the crisis. Shi Jing's back was so warm that he almost fell asleep while being rocked. In a trance, a strong Yin energy swept over him, and Yin Ci's consciousness suddenly became clear.
Not long after, Shi Jingzhi also stopped.
The snake bone maze shows an "end". There is no exit at the end, just a transparent ice well.
The well was built on top of the ice, and dangerous cyan liquid rippled in the well. Directly below the wellhead, in the depths of the lake, sat a skeleton.
The skeleton is entangled in red thread, and the bones are not scattered. It sat cross-legged, counting beads with one hand, and looking upward with its empty eye sockets.
The Buddhist beads are also carved from white bones. There are fourteen in total. Only one of them is dark in color - the wooden beads are mixed in and intact. But the whole skeleton sank to the bottom of the lake, some distance from the ice.
Shi Zhongyu tried to cover the magic weapon with yin fire, but the magic weapon entered the water and immediately dissolved completely. The people in Prince Rong's Mansion also tried for a long time, but they couldn't find any equipment that could enter the water.
Yin Ci watched with cold eyes. He already knew how to get this thing - the Buddhist beads from the Dengxian Palace. He was afraid that they would have no chance of getting it. This institution is completely different from the one in Paperman Street, full of pure malice.
Shi Jingzhi thought for a while, then turned his head and said, "We don't want this Buddhist bead. Let's find a place to rest."
At the same time, Shi Zhongyu also frowned and slowly shook his head: "Well, let's find the exit first."
The experts from the royal palace opened the sedan curtain and reported to the people inside the sedan. Not long after, one of them came towards the Taiheng faction. Shi Zhongyu thought the other party was coming to talk, so he just took a step—
The man grabbed the head of the Changle Sect and snapped his neck. He placed the thin hemp pole at the mouth of the well and opened the neck of the corpse with a sharp knife.
Immediately, the blood fell into the lake and formed a twisted blood rope in the water.
The length was still not enough, so the man reached out to catch Yan Qing. Shi Zhongyu swung his sword horizontally, flickering the blade with Yin Fire: "You dare!"
While Shi Zhongyu was lured away, another person followed suit and killed the only remaining disciple of the Changle sect.
There was one more corpse, and more blood ropes fell down.
Shi Zhongyu's expression was frighteningly ugly: "Don't even think about it again-"
Unexpectedly, one of them looked at the length of the rope and killed himself at the mouth of the well. Finally, the blood rope hung down to the beads and condensed with the beads. At the same time, the blood rope that was first formed began to collapse.
Another person grabbed the blood rope and started to recover it. The blood rope was stained with lake water, and his hand was quickly corroded to a bloody pulp. But the man didn't say a word and continued to pull the blood rope.
The prayer bead was quickly fished out, and the man picked it up with his almost skeletal hand and put it into the sedan.
When the blood rope saw the air, it quickly turned into thick blood clots, black and red, scattered all over the place. Yin Ci narrowed his eyes and suddenly had a bad feeling.
"Prince Rong's Mansion is nothing. Senior Shi seems to be very angry. Master, let's stay away from each other..."
Before he could finish speaking, the ice surface shook. The red thread on the skull changed its binding method, binding the bones into an insect-like structure. It suddenly moved, climbed up from the well mouth, and rushed toward Jin Lan, who was nearest.
Even though Shi Zhongyu drew his sword, the distance was still too far. Jin Lan turned her back to the skeleton, unable to react for a moment, seeing that the tragedy was about to happen—
"Ding."
The hard bone collided with the sword.
Yan Qing accurately pulled out Jin Lan's sword and blocked the attack with one strike. He gritted his teeth, the sword storm rose, and threw the skeleton away.
Yin Ci couldn't help but raise his eyebrows. This kid's skills are not very good, but his movements are quite delicate. He has obviously put in hard work and is a promising talent.
There is only one problem - it is the orthodox swordsmanship of the Taiheng Sect, and it cannot be passed down to subordinates. A blind man cannot secretly learn such precise moves.
"Yan Qing, explain!" Shi Zhongyu shouted, and the Qingnv Sword slashed through the skeleton.
When she didn't get an answer, she waved her hand and picked off Yan Qing's black cloth blindfold with the tip of her sword. Yan Qing sighed and opened his eyes.
His eyes were intact and his vision was clear. It's just that the color of his eyes is different from ordinary people's, they are as red as blood.
Shi Zhongyu's face quickly turned pale.
"...Are you a descendant of Yan Budu?"
"yes."