Chapter 862

Wind and Snow in the Ancient Vault

The Hemp-Clad Youth climbed up from the ground with a muffled groan, his mind spinning.

Holding onto the wall, he barely opened his eyes. Turbid dust whirled in the air, as if a sandstorm had just blown past. Everything was hazy.

At the same time, other figures also slowly climbed up amidst groans, their eyes full of blankness.

"... What happened?"

The Hemp-Clad Youth vaguely remembered that after Zhu Zhong pushed open that stone door, a golden hurricane rushed out from it, sweeping them all in... And then, there was a roar and a spinning sensation, and he lost consciousness.

"Ah Qian?"

His hands groped in the dust. Seeing a beautiful figure radiating light not far away beside him, he immediately walked towards there.

"You've found the wrong person." A cold and clear female voice came out. The person was holding her forehead with one hand, seemingly having also just woken up. "The person you are looking for is over there."

After saying sorry, he walked to the direction the other party pointed at, and picked up Ah Qian, who was still sound asleep, onto his back...

"I saw you carrying her on your back all the way... Who is this girl to you?" Wu Qiong asked in confusion.

"The daughter of a neighbor's family." The Hemp-Clad Youth replied looking back. "I am an orphan. When I was young, her family was quite good to me. Before setting off this time, her parents cried the whole way, begging me to protect her well... No matter what, I must bring her safely to the Tianshu Domain."

"Oh, you're so attentive to her, I thought it was your little girlfriend."

"..."

"Being ready to help others is a good thing, but you also have to distinguish the occasion." Wu Qiong glanced at the sleeping girl on the youth's shoulder. "Don't forget we are running for our lives right now, and we've also fallen into who knows what godforsaken place... She is too young. At critical times, she will be a deadly burden."

The Hemp-Clad Youth raised an eyebrow, looking at Wu Qiong for a long time... He was not angry, nor did he even show any emotion. A few seconds later, he finally asked back:

"Why are you telling me this?"

"I like your eyes, especially the corners of your eyes, beautiful like a phoenix's tail. So I paid a bit more attention... And I can feel that you and I might be the same kind of person." Wu Qiong paused for a moment. "Judging from your reaction, my judgment is correct."

"Making a conclusion now is inevitably too early." The Hemp-Clad Youth gently stroked Ah Qian's hair, a trace of softness emerging in his eyes.

Seeing this scene, Wu Qiong gave a cold snort and changed the subject,

"Right... From just now, did you see anything strange?"

"What?"

"... Words, words floating in front of your eyes."

The Hemp-Clad Youth was stunned, seemingly not understanding Wu Qiong's meaning.

"It's nothing." Seeing this, Wu Qiong shook her head. "Just pretend I never said it..."

Just as the two were talking, Zhu Zhong's figure also stood up from the dust. He first frowned and looked around, then as if discovering something, his eyes stared deadly at a certain patch of nothingness in front of him... He even reached out to touch it, his expression incomparably surprised.

"There's a path ahead! We can get out!" A pleasantly surprised voice came from ahead.

Everyone simultaneously turned their heads to look, only to see at the end of this dust corridor, a patch of tiny whiteness was silently brushing past. There was even the sound of wind coming from ahead, seeming to connect with the outside world.

Everyone's eyes lit up, swarming and running towards the front!

Carrying Ah Qian on his back, the Hemp-Clad Youth deliberately slowed down his footsteps. After waiting for most people to rush ahead, he silently followed... Turning his head, he found that Wu Qiong, like him, was trailing at the back.

Passing through the dust corridor, the bone-chilling severe cold swept over. White wind and snow howled and whirled beside everyone, making the thinly-clad crowd unable to help but shiver...

"This..."

Everyone's gazes were full of shock.

In front of them was a wasteland where wind and snow raged together. Pure white snow piled up on the ground, enough to submerge their knees... Countless bare tree trunks stood in the endless wind and snow, being the only scenery in this patch of heaven and earth.

The wind and snow howled, the heaven and earth merged into one line;

"Underground of the Gray World... there is actually a snowfield?" Zhu Zhong's brows were tightly locked. He immediately discovered something was wrong, because colors had already been restored on himself and the other people around him.

"This isn't the Gray World?!"

"We walked out of the Gray World!!"

Everyone was first ecstatic, then subsequently frozen to shiver again by the bone-chilling severe cold. They looked around, but discovered that wherever their eyes could see, they couldn't see the shadow of any domain cities... They didn't even realize until they turned their heads that the corridor they came from had also disappeared.

No, that's not right...

"This is definitely not a normal Human Domain." Zhu Zhong spoke in a deep voice. "Just now we were clearly underground in the Gray World, how could we instantly move to a Human Domain? Besides, in the Human Domains, apart from the Aurora Domain, where would have such terrifying wind and snow?"

Zhu Zhong's words made the Hemp-Clad Youth and Wu Qiong both unable to help but look at him sideways... They originally thought this Zhu Zhong was just a reckless brute who didn't care about the consequences of his actions. They didn't expect him to still have a bit of a brain.

That makes sense. He knew to find a scapegoat to scout the way first when going down the earth crevice, he was definitely not a pure idiot.

"But we clearly have colors on our bodies... This isn't the Gray World either, right?" A figure spoke hesitantly.

"I've heard my elders say that there are also some Divine Dao Ancient Repositories in the Gray World, hiding great opportunities of various Divine Pathways inside... Perhaps, we are in a certain Ancient Vault?"

Hearing these words, Zhu Zhong's eyes lit up, and his whole person became excited.

"Let me ask you guys... Just now, did any of you see any words in front of your eyes?"

"Words... no?"

The corners of Zhu Zhong's mouth became increasingly brilliant. His tall figure stood in the wind and snow, like a high-spirited general... Then, he resolutely took strides, walking towards the depths of the wind and snow.

"Let's go! Everyone walk forward for me! There are definitely secrets ahead..."

Zhu Zhong walked at the very front, blocking a lot of the wind and snow by himself. The crowd was shivering from the cold at this moment, but there was nowhere else to go around them, so they could only bite the bullet and follow behind him.

The Hemp-Clad Youth suddenly seemed to remember something, turning his head to look back!

Oh no, where is Senior Jiang Xiaohua?

Just now they were stunned by the shock, their minds a mess of paste. Only after walking out from the corridor did they remember that no one cared about that mummy that fell down... But at this time the corridor had already disappeared, and Jiang Xiaohua naturally had disappeared without a trace as well.

"Brother Xiao Li... Where are we? I'm so cold." Ah Qian woke up in the wind and snow. Her whole person curled up on the Hemp-Clad Youth's back, asking in a small voice.

"... We probably stumbled into a certain Ancient Vault by mistake."

The Hemp-Clad Youth took off his own coat, covering the Ah Qian on his back together within it to resist a bit of the wind and snow. He said softly, "Don't be afraid, there should be a place to resist the wind and snow ahead... Let's go."