Chapter 158: Discovering the Elder's Secret

Zhang Yi glared at him with annoyance, "You little brat, are you too timid? Three little demons have scared you like this?"

"It's not that, I just saw the emblem on their waist tokens; these three guys are the personal guards of the Demon King, specifically responsible for patrolling the Di Lao. If they catch us skulking around, we're definitely going to be in for it!"

Quetzalcoatlus explained.

Upon hearing this, Zhang Yi felt a jolt in his heart.

It seemed the security of this Di Lao was even more rigorous than he had imagined.

"Then what should we do now?"

Quetzalcoatlus asked.

Zhang Yi pondered for a moment and said, "It seems breaking in by force won't work; we must think of another way."

"What way?"

Zhang Yi looked around.

His gaze fell upon a dry well not far away.

"Perhaps we can enter from there."

Quetzalcoatlus followed Zhang Yi's gaze and immediately understood his meaning.

That dry well was located at the rear of the Di Lao.

Usually, few people would notice that place.

Moreover, the well mouth was covered by dense vines, making it difficult to be discovered.

If they could sneak into the Di Lao from the dry well, perhaps they could avoid the guards' line of sight.

"Good idea!"

Quetzalcoatlus said excitedly, "Let's do that!"

The two quietly approached the dry well, pushed aside the vines, and looked down cautiously.

The bottom of the well was pitch black and bottomless.

It emitted a cold and damp aura.

Zhang Yi and Quetzalcoatlus exchanged a glance and nodded at each other.

In order to rescue He Lao, they had no other choice.

"I'll go down first to scout the path."

Zhang Yi said.

"No, it's too dangerous, let me go down first!"

Quetzalcoatlus insisted.

Before Zhang Yi could say anything more, Quetzalcoatlus had already leaped and jumped into the dry well.

"Careful!" Zhang Yi couldn't help but shout.

The voice of Quetzalcoatlus came from the bottom of the well: "Don't worry, I'm fine!"

Zhang Yi steadied himself and followed by jumping down.

The dry well was deeper than imagined; Zhang Yi fell for a long time before feeling his feet touch solid ground.

The bottom of the well was damp and cold.

"Cough, cough!"

Zhang Yi covered his nose, "What is this smell? It's truly foul."

In the darkness.

The voice of Quetzalcoatlus came, "It seems to be the smell of rotting corpses."

Zhang Yi felt a chill in his heart.

Could it be that there was some secret hidden beneath this dry well?

He fumbled to light a tinderbox.

The faint light illuminated a small area around them.

They saw that on the damp mud floor at the bottom of the well, there were scattered white bones and some tattered clothing.

"It seems many people have died here before."

Zhang Yi sighed.

"Yeah, and who knows who they were."

Quetzalcoatlus's voice was somewhat low.

Zhang Yi looked around and discovered a crack in the wall of the dry well.

It could barely accommodate one person passing through.

"It seems we have to enter from here."

The two squeezed through the crack and entered a narrow passage.

Zhang Yi and Quetzalcoatlus moved forward cautiously, fearing they might disturb something.

The passage twisted and turned; after walking for about the time it takes to burn a stick of incense, they finally arrived in front of an iron door.

The iron door was covered in rust and looked ancient.

Zhang Yi tried to push it, but it didn't budge at all.

"It seems this door is locked."

Quetzalcoatlus took a thin, long wire out from his bosom.

He skillfully poked it into the keyhole and fiddled with it a few times.

With a "click" sound, the iron door opened in response.

The two slipped inside the iron door and discovered that it was a spacious underground space.

By the faint light of the fire-starter, one could see a huge stone coffin placed in the center of the space.

The area around the stone coffin was carved full of strange-looking runes.

It emitted an eerie aura.

"What is this place?"

The Quetzalcoatlus asked in a low voice.

"I don't know."

Zhang Yi shook his head, "However, I feel that something is not right here."

Just at this moment.

The stone coffin suddenly made a dull sound, and the coffin lid moved slowly, revealing a crack.

Suddenly, a withered hand reached out from the stone coffin.

It gripped the edge of the coffin lid tightly.

"Ah!" The Quetzalcoatlus screamed in fright and retreated repeatedly.

Zhang Yi also felt a shock in his heart.

But he forced himself to stay calm, gripped the fire-starter in his hand, and stared at the stone coffin vigilantly.

That withered hand slowly exerted force, pushing the coffin lid open to reveal the scene inside the stone coffin.

It could be seen that a dried corpse was lying in the stone coffin.

On the face of the dried corpse was an eerie smile.

The dried corpse slowly sat up.

Its hollow eyes stared at Zhang Yi and the Quetzalcoatlus.

"Ah—a ghost!"

The Quetzalcoatlus let out a shriek.

It abruptly hid behind Zhang Yi.

It clutched tightly onto the tip of Zhang Yi's bird wing.

Zhang Yi helplessly clutched his forehead.

He thought to himself: Isn't it just a dried corpse? Is there a need to be this scared?

He patted the Quetzalcoatlus on the shoulder.

He comforted it: "Calm down, calm down, this thing has been dead for a long time, could it really eat you?"

Zhang Yi walked forward and gently flapped his wings.

A strong gust of wind swept past instantly, and the dried corpse immediately shattered into dust, scattering all over the ground.

"Sorry about that, the wind was a bit strong just now and blew you to pieces." Zhang Yi cupped his hands in a bow.

Only then did the Quetzalcoatlus dare to poke its head out from behind Zhang Yi.

Looking at the remains on the ground, it pretended to be calm.

This fellow feigned boldness and walked around the stone coffin once.

It was even humming a little tune.

Seeing the Quetzalcoatlus in this state, Zhang Yi couldn't help but find it somewhat amusing.

Suddenly, Zhang Yi's eyes lit up, and he pointed below the stone coffin.

He said excitedly to the Quetzalcoatlus: "Treasure! There is treasure below!"

The Quetzalcoatlus looked puzzled, "Treasure? What treasure?"

"Down here, there is treasure down here! I can feel it!"

Zhang Yi was not relying on intuition.

Rather, he truly felt a powerful Spirit Energy coming from beneath the stone coffin.

Countless spiritual treasures must be hidden down here.

Zhang Yi couldn't wait and grabbed the Quetzalcoatlus, who hadn't reacted yet.

He leaped and jumped into the space beneath the stone coffin.

Sure enough, there was a world of its own beneath the stone coffin.

This was a huge underground space.

Countless spiritual treasures were piled up like a mountain.

It was dazzling to the eyes.

"My god! So many treasures!"

The Quetzalcoatlus's eyes went straight, and drool was almost flowing out.

Zhang Yi looked around and discovered that this space actually led to the main hall of the Demon Saint Mansion.

He suddenly realized.

So all these spiritual treasures were things that the Elder of the Demon Saint Mansion.

Had secretly hidden here after taking them from the Monster Race Territory!

"This old guy is truly daring!"

Zhang Yi cursed angrily, "To actually dare to privately hoard so many treasures, let's see if I don't tell the Demon King about this and have him properly punish this old thing!"

However, before reporting it, Zhang Yi decided to "gorge himself" first.

He rubbed his hands together, excitedly pounced toward the mountain of spiritual treasures, and began to pick through them.

"This one is not bad, this one is not bad either..."

Zhang Yi picked while...

He stuffed them into his Storage Bag while doing so.

Before long, the Storage Bag was filled to the brim.