230 | Linglong Dice 1 Point to Settle the Mind 2
by Jessie@AFNCCIf that giant stone idol was here, it would have taken a few quick steps. But now it was left by Xie Ren to suppress the evil spirits in the Imperial City, and the three mountain monsters have also been transformed into swords, so it is better not to come.
Xie Ren said, “Sanlang, can the Silver Butterfly fly us there?”
Hua Cheng said, “The magma is scorching hot, I’m afraid the Silver Butterfly will be melted halfway across the river.”
Halfway across the river, falling through the air and plunging headfirst into the center of the lava flow would not be a pretty sight. Hua Cheng added, “However, there are ready-made passages.”
The crowd followed his gaze. Not long after, Xie Ren said, “Why is there someone in the lava?”
It was true, he was absolutely right. Just a moment ago, he saw a ghastly white hand turn up in the lava, reaching out to the sky. Taking a closer look, Mu Qi said, “There really is one! And more than one?”
There were at least hundreds of people, many of their bodies and heads were floating on the surface of the river, some of them were being swept around by the hot current, and some of them were even swimming upstream against the current. Their bodies were all strangely white, their faces blurred, not living.
Xie Ren understood, “It s those hollow people …… in the Uyong Imperial City who were washed here by the lava.”
With their skill, it shouldn’t be difficult for them to use these hollow monsters as stepping stones and fly over them. However, these undead were struggling in the scorching heat, and they had to be stepped on by them, which was quite miserable, but they couldn’t care less about that right now.
Mu Qi was the first to go over, took a good look at his bearing, and with a few starts and stops, he crossed the moat in no time and stood on the opposite bank of the river, looking back this way. Xie Ren said to the State Master, “I’ll send you over first.”
After all, the State Master was not a Martial God, or even a practicing one, he needed someone to lead him, he nodded and went ahead. Hua Cheng, however, said, “Brother, I’ll do it.”
Going with the flow, Xie Ren said, “Good.”
Hua Cheng then walked up, supporting the aged old man generally laced the State Master’s arm and said, “State Master, your old man please. Keep an eye on your feet.”
When the State Master turned around and saw that it wasn’t Xie Ren who was holding him up, he frowned and said, “Ah? How come it’s you?”
Xie Ren couldn’t help but cough lightly and said, “Sanlang said very sincerely that he wanted to help you, so I let him do it for me.”
The Master of the State said, “What’s the point of offering something for nothing?”
Hanagi, on the other hand, smiled brightly and said, “It’s no different if it’s me or if it’s my brother, right? Besides, I respect you ah, so of course I don’t mind lifting this hand on your behalf.”
The State Master was speechless for a moment and said, “If you really respect me, put away the fake smile on your face, this fake is too much.”
Flower City immediately stopped smiling, “Oh.” Without saying a word, he took the State Master and brushed his body to move to the opposite bank.
His figure was so deceptively fast that the State Master stood beside Muyi before he could react, and his entire body froze. And those hollow shell people who were stepped on by Hua Cheng’s boots didn’t even realize that they were stepped on, looking upwards to see nothing, touching their heads in bewilderment, and continued to swim in the lava. The State Master finally came back to his senses, glanced at Hua Cheng, and commented, “Not bad hands.”
Over here, Xie Renxin said, “Too strict, how can you call this kind of stance just ‘okay’?” Shaking her head, she said, “I’m going over there too!”
Hua Cheng turned around and said, “Brother, you stay over there first, I’ll go over and pick you up.”
But Xie Ren action faster than his words, has long moved, flying leap out, in a supine hollow monster belly a little, feel the hard body under the feet of a slight sinking, and he has once again leaped out, in front of another hollow monster head a little.
In this way, after stepping over five or six of them, he came to the center of the inflamed stream. Who knows, just as Xie Ren was about to rise up in the air again, his body sank unexpectedly, nearly losing his balance!
He steadied himself with his unerringly swift reflexes and looked down – the strange man at his feet had actually reached out and grabbed his boot!
Xie Ren thought, “Oh no, here we go again!”
Bad luck had struck again. The first few people crossed the river unharmed, but when he did he met a bad monster that grabbed his right ankle and wouldn’t let him get up!
That hollow shell monster could only float on the surface of the magma because it was hollow, but it couldn’t bear much weight, and the scorching gas steamed up Xie Ren’s body, and a corner of his sleeve actually caught fire.
If he stayed any longer, he was only afraid that he would either sink into the lava with his footsteps, or his whole body would burn up!
Just in the nick of time, Xie Ren was in a hurry, Ruoxi flew out, pulling the other hollow monster three feet away in front of him, and stepping on that monster’s back with his left foot. In this way, the two stone shells shared his weight alone, buoyancy increased, for a while not to sink. Responding to the emergency, only then did Xie Ren pull out Fang Xin and chop off the arm that grabbed his boot. Just about to leap out again, a red shadow has flashed to his side, Xie Ren said: ”Sanlang? I’m already fine, you don’t need to come over.”
Hua Cheng blasted the hollow monster that grabbed Xie Ren with a palm from afar and said, “Let’s talk about it on the shore.”
The two of them came to the shore together, and Xie Ren patted out the fire on his sleeve and said, “I’m sorry for making you worry.”
Flower City said, “My fault. I should have told you before I went over there to wait for me to go back and pick you up.”
The State Master said, “Okay, okay, stop, His Highness isn’t that delicate, he can handle it if you don’t go over there, what’s the catch? Go! This way.”
A few people went ashore and walked for a while longer, coming before the Uyong Palace.
Half of the palace was buried in the ground, and after a few people entered, the pavement was sloped, leading all the way deep underground.
Leaving the ground, the scorching air gradually cooled and sank. The entire underground palace was empty, and the tiniest of rattles buzzed and echoed.
Several people separately lit palm flames, illuminating the surroundings. Although this palace had been dusty for a long time, it could still be called opulent and magnificent, the firelight reflecting many golden patterns and carved beams. Only, it was empty and dead, as if it was a huge ancient tomb.
The State Master said, “This is where His Highness the Crown Prince grew up.”
Muoi said, “Is he really going to be here?”
The State Master said, “What do you think? This is where his magic power is strongest. All beware.”
At this time, Xie Ren suddenly realized something.
At Hua Cheng’s waist, the silver eyes on the hilt of the Doom Blade were spinning wildly, unusually agitated.
Flower City, however, had a cold look on its face and completely ignored it. Xie Ren couldn’t help but reach out and touch it, and only then did Eldritch settle down a bit. Hua Cheng slightly lowered his head, saw his hand was still on the hilt of the sword, slightly smiled, was about to speak, at this moment, the corner of the hall came a “hee hee hee hee” sound of laughter.
It was the voice of a middle-aged man. It was treacherous and cunning, as if it was ill-intentioned, and hearing it caused chilling hairs to rise on Xie Ren’s back. Moreover, this voice, he had heard it before.
It was the voice of the fetus spirit!
Muyi drank, “There it is!” A flame struck out, illuminating the top. Only to see a corner of the palace’s high top, a gecko-like pile of white blossoms affixed to it was the tire spirit!
Its long bright red tongue licked its back as if it was tickling itself. Seeing the firelight flying, it hemmed and hawed, and vomited a vomit-like mass at Mu Qing, who dodged and avoided it with a disgusted expression. The State Master looked at the slimy thing on the ground, then looked at the fetus spirit on it, and said with difficulty in accepting it, “Is this really the son of that kid Feng Xin???”
Xie Ren was busy saying, “Wait! Wrong Wrong! You’re called Wrong Wrong, aren’t you?”
That tire spirit heard his name and paused for a moment, looking back at him. Xie Ren said, “Wrong wrong, we are here to find …… find …… find your father. Do you know where he is?”
The fetus spirit heard “your father”, sneered, four feet, snapped and climbed out of sight. Xie Ren said, “Wrong wrong? Quickly find it!”
The crowd burned the flame higher and searched in all directions. Suddenly, Muoi said, “This way!”
Xie Ren said, “Which side?”
Muoi pointed to a path and said, “I just saw it go in here.”
The path he pointed to opened on the side of a palace, a long, eerie corridor of entrapment that, even if he didn’t know where it ended, he knew it definitely wouldn’t lead to anything good.
Flower City suddenly said, “Did you really see it come in here?”
Muoi probably felt that she was being targeted and said with a bit of disgust, “What do I have to gain by lying to you guys?”
Hua Cheng let out a harrumph, which didn’t carry any emotion, but wasn’t too friendly either. The State Master said, “What’s all the noise at this hour? Don’t let go of any suspicious places you see, it’s fine to go in and take a look.”
That long corridor was very narrow, originally it must have been wider, but it seemed to have been squeezed, now it could only accommodate one person. Probably resenting the skepticism in Hua Cheng’s words just now, Mu Qing was the first to go in. Hua Cheng rightfully wanted to walk in front of Xie Ren to open the way, but Xie Ren realized that the doomed eyeballs around his waist had started to furiously rotate again, and with a heartbeat, he pulled him to the back in a flash. Hua Cheng said, “What’s wrong?”
Xie Ren lightly coughed, said, “I said I want to protect you well …… stand behind.”
In a flash, Hanagi laughed softly.
A group of four people, entered the long corridor. The further in they went, the more uncomfortable Xie Ren felt.
His instincts were extremely precise about what was dangerous. That which made him uncomfortable was from the front. Xie Ren said, “State Master, do you remember where this road leads to? How come the more I walk, the more I feel that there is something very heavy …… in front of me?”
Killing Aura.
And it wasn’t a living killing aura, but a cold killing aura. The deeper he went, the tighter his spirit became.
However, the State Master did not answer him, and Xie Ren’s heart thumped as he raised his voice and asked again, “State Master?”
Still no answer. Xie Ren jerked back to look, and at some point, behind him, it was actually already empty!
And the only reason he hadn’t realized it was because the lights put out by Hana Castle and the Master of the State were still floating in the air, ghostly following him, illuminating the way forward for the masters who had disappeared.
Mu情 also turned around and was taken aback at first glance, “Where’s the Blood Rain Tanager?!”
Xie Ren walked back without saying a word. Mu-ye grabbed him and said, “What are you doing? We’re almost there! And do you really think he’ll walk back?”
“……,” said Cheri, “it won’t.”
It’s the fact that Hanagi would never just walk back alone without saying a word that makes it scary!
Xie Ren suddenly remembered that Hua Cheng had left something on him and hurriedly raised his hand to look. Only to see that the red line on his third finger was still there, still bright and colorful, indicating that Hua Cheng was fine, Xie Ren was relieved. But thinking of the point that Hua Cheng threw out before he came over, his eyebrows jumped even more.
Mu Qi added, “You most likely won’t be able to find it even if you go back now, so why don’t you continue forward and see what’s inside. Otherwise, if you go back and find nothing, you’ll still have to return again, won’t that be a waste of time?”
Xie Ren was about to speak when he suddenly held his breath and said, “Shhh. Listen, what’s that sound?”
Muoi also listened intently.
It was the low breathing of a man.
It’s coming from the front!
The two were on alert, each holding their blades in a dark grip as they moved forward.
They finally walked out of the long corridor and came to a hall. Mu Qi carefully groped around inside the hall, and with a snap of Xie Ren’s fingers, a little bit of lamp flame ghostly flew forward, instantly illuminating a silhouette that had fallen on the ground.
As soon as she saw the man’s back, Xie Ren recognized him and went up, “Feng Xin?!”
Turning over to take a look, it is really Feng Xin, his body is full of burns and sword wounds, but there should be no fear for his life. Xie Ren carefully patted him for a while before he woke up, once he woke up, he cursed a few times, when he saw that it was Xie Ren in front of him, he immediately stopped cursing: “Your Highness? Why are you here?”
Xie Ren let out a breath and said, “Why don’t you tell me where this place is first.”
Feng Xin sat up and looked around, saying, “Where is this place?”
Sure enough, Feng Xin didn’t know either, asking in vain. Xie Ren shook his head and reached out, “Get up first. After finding you, it’s time to find Sanlang again.”
Feng Xin said, “Did you say Blood Rain Tanager? What happened to him? Not next to you?”
Xie Ren said, “It’s like this, we are together ……”
Before the words left his mouth, Feng Xin suddenly raised his hand and said, “Wait! Who is that person behind you?!”
Xie Ren turned around, only to see a dark shadow immersed in the shadows, not moving at all, and said, “That’s Mu Qing. What’s wrong?”
Feng Xin’s pair of pupils instantly contracted as he said, “Quickly grab him!”
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