Chapter 831

Zhang Daohe leaned against the steps, half-lying, looking like he was still in shock.

"When did you get caught?"

"Don't know? What did you see?" Chen Guanlou looked emotionless, his mood complex—a bit relieved and a bit annoyed.

"I saw myself obtain the opportunity and become a Grandmaster. I was just happy when I instantly woke up and found myself about to fall off a cliff. Can you imagine that feeling?"

"You didn't have any doubts?" Chen Guanlou was curious. When he saw the money, he was suspicious. His money couldn't have an unclear amount.

Hmph!

What kind of female immortal? It seems that's all there is to it; it couldn't even materialize his inner thoughts. Giving him a hundred million directly—is that so hard?

However, if it really gave him a hundred million, he would definitely have woken up earlier. Because he knew there wasn't a hundred million in his account. Even if he was in a trance, his brain could still maintain a part of clarity; could it be the effect of the Dao Fruit of Longevity?

"How could I doubt it!" Zhang Daohe said excitedly. "That is what I have been striving for; how could I doubt it? What about you? How were you able to wake up on your own?"

"The amount of money was wrong!" Chen Guanlou said concisely.

Zhang Daohe was incredulous, looking unable to understand and greatly shocked.

"What are you talking about? Here, they set up a mechanism to fulfill all your wishes, and you were still thinking about money? Brother Chen, are you that short of money? Don't you have any other pursuits, like the Martial Path, like power..."

Zhang Daohe seemed to see a peerless oddity who was always unexpected. No wonder the world said the man surnamed Chen was rebellious. This train of thought, these ideas, were completely incomprehensible.

"You don't understand!"

"I indeed don't understand!"

Zhang Daohe gave up thinking. "We've already been caught twice. The first time, there were traces to follow, knowing it was that golden statue playing tricks. Now? We were walking and got caught, nearly dying without a burial place. This ancient tomb seems to have no murderous mechanisms or hidden weapons, yet it is more terrifying than them, with murderous intent everywhere. We fell into a trance without knowing it. It is worthy of being an early Great Yu ancient tomb, with solid materials and strange methods."

Chen Guanlou turned his head to look at him. "Solid materials, where does that come from?"

"Look at this underground palace, look at this scale; how much manpower and material resources must have been used to build it. Brother Chen, we've struck it rich. It looks like this is not just an imperial ancient tomb; it's likely some important figure, possibly even an emperor's mausoleum."

"If it is an emperor's mausoleum, I'm afraid there is even more terrifying murderous intent ahead. I don't know when we'll get caught again."

"Yeah!" Zhang Daohe was somewhat dejected. "What now? Can we still move forward?"

Chen Guanlou stood up; he had been thinking about how they had been caught. What was up with that immortal?

"We must go to the other side. The road is on the other side, and the answer is also on the other side."

The surroundings were pitch black, and the range of the oil lamp was limited.

Wanting to go to the other side relied entirely on one's high skills and bold heart.

Fortunately, both were martial artists with profound cultivation.

A mere natural chasm was nothing to them.

Zhang Daohe crossed to the other side first, lighting a fire starter as a coordinate.

Chen Guanlou followed closely behind.

Looking back, the chasm was dozens of meters wide; ordinary people would have no way to pass. Only martial artists could.

Of course, this distance was nothing to a Grandmaster.

"If one were to fall down, is it possible to only end up half-crippled?" Zhang Daohe looked down into the chasm, naturally seeing nothing.

Chen Guanlou retorted, "Even if half-crippled, you'd be poisoned to death. You don't think there are no poisons or toxic gases in this ancient tomb, do you?"

Zhang Daohe:...

He'd better shut up decisively.

By the edge of the cliff was a wide platform.

The two walked forward along the platform when suddenly, Chen Guanlou stopped.

He looked up. "Look! Perhaps this is the reason we suddenly got caught."

On the stone wall above, there were dense, half-person-high caves, like a beehive, making one feel extremely uncomfortable. Inside the caves, female corpses were sitting cross-legged. Each female corpse had the same expression: a smile at the corners of the mouth, left hand forming a mudra, right hand with the palm facing upward.

"Does it look like the female immortal we saw when we were caught?" Chen Guanlou asked.

Zhang Daohe's expression was serious. "I seem to have heard of this situation—a kind of ancient torture. Selecting pure virgins, pouring in secret medicine, alive-peeling the skull, pouring in mercury, sealing the soul... their souls will seduce everyone who breaks into this place."

Hearing this, Chen Guanlou's expression was somewhat indescribable.

Some beliefs are hard to put into words.

Finding the road, they continued forward.

They entered another stone chamber.

Lighting the oil lamp in the stone chamber, it instantly shone brightly, enough to blind someone.

Looking closely, the walls were inlaid with various jewels. On the central stone platform, various gold and silver jewels were scattered, discarded like trash.

And, by the stone platform, a fresh corpse lay fallen.

The reason it was called fresh was that the blood on the ground hadn't coagulated yet.

"Little Lu, Master Jin's disciple!" Zhang Daohe was the first to recognize the identity of the corpse and exclaimed, "Master Jin and the others have been here; Master Jin arrived here one step ahead of us."

His expression was excited; he stepped forward and flipped the corpse over.

A sharp sword pierced through the chest.

What was strange was that there were traces of beast bites on the face.

"What is going on? How can there be wild beasts inside an ancient tomb?"

Chen Guanlou looked around; his intuition made his heart feel a bit panicked. It was an unprecedented feeling of danger. The previous two times they were caught, he didn't have this feeling.

It was as if he had been targeted by something strange.

He hurriedly entered the state of 'Epiphany'.

Eyes!

Countless eyes!

Malicious eyes were inlaid in the walls and hidden on the stone platform.

"Stay away from that pile of jewels," he roared.

Zhang Daohe didn't ask for the reason and retreated rapidly. Having experienced two brushes with death, he now trusted Chen Guanlou completely without reason. He executed everything the other said without discount.

"Brother Chen, what did you discover?"

"We must leave here immediately. Cover your mouth and nose, cover your eyes, and shut off your five senses. This place is extremely treacherous; if nothing goes wrong, I estimate we've been caught again. What exactly is going on, I'm not sure yet. There are seven stone doors ahead; take the middle one."

"But..."

"But what?"

"The stone door is clearly behind you, and there aren't seven stone doors, only one."

"Bullshit! Behind me is the stone door we came in through."

"Right, that's the stone door we came in through. Brother Chen, hurry!"

A claw grabbed his wrist.

Chen Guanlou's hair stood on end; he drew his blade and slashed!

A harsh creaking sound rang out, and the stone chamber instantly plunged into darkness.

Creak, creak...

It sounded like the gnawing of a beast, and also like the movement of a mechanism...

The sounds became more and more dense, more and more mixed. The ground seemed to be rotating, faster and faster, making it impossible to distinguish directions.

A gale of wind came from behind!

Swish!

Regardless of whether it's human or ghost, kill it with one blade!