Chapter 832

"Brother Chen, Brother Chen, Brother Chen..."

"Zhang Daohe, you're courting death!"

"Brother Chen, Brother Chen, Brother Chen... blood, blood... bugs..."

What bugs?

"Trance! Break it!"

Chen Guanlou:...

"Poison! We've been poisoned! Hurry, take the antidote, hurry..."

Antidote!

Right, the antidote!

Swallowing an antidote pill, the scene before his eyes gradually brightened, and lamp flames flickered.

There was no golden splendor or brilliant light. It was clearly just a pile of scrap metal.

There were no gold and silver jewels piled up like a small mountain, only a pile of skeletons. Every bone emitted a faint blue light.

He saw Zhang Daohe leaning against the stone door, his face swollen as large as a basin, his eyes squeezed into a single slit, and his hands and feet also swollen like buns. Under the bulging flesh, one could see bugs moving one by one. He didn't know how many bugs were rampaging and moving inside his body, gnawing on his flesh. There were several wounds on his body, and there were dead bugs on the ground.

Not afraid of bleeding, not afraid of death.

However, reality was desperate.

Digging into the flesh to catch bugs couldn't keep up with the number of bugs; this was the most terrifying and desperate thing. No one wanted to be gnawed to death by ten thousand bugs.

"Brother Zhang, you are..."

"Damn it, I didn't die earlier, but I didn't expect to get caught here. Brother Chen, I estimate we got caught the moment we entered this stone chamber. We actually mistook bugs for jewels. I was even stupid enough to flip the corpse. I guess that's when the bugs crawled into my body. I'm afraid I'm going to end up here."

"You won't die! You saved my life, and I will protect yours."

Chen Guanlou was still a bit confused, not understanding how they had been caught.

Could the furry claws be a hallucination?

Could the fierce gale be a hallucination?

Why did they mistake the bugs filling the stone chamber for jewels? Fortunately, he loved wealth but wasn't greedy for it, so he didn't use his hands to pick at the 'jewels'!

He took out two porcelain bottles, one cyan and one white.

He told the other, "The white one contains a deadly poison; it can kill people, and naturally, it can kill the bugs inside your body. The cyan one is the antidote. If you can hold on for half a quarter of an hour before taking the antidote, I guarantee that no matter how many bugs are inside you, they will all be killed. Even if there are thousands of bugs, it's not a problem."

Having said that, he opened the white porcelain bottle and sprinkled a few drops onto the dense bugs on the stone platform.

Instantly, the sea of bugs boiled like boiling water, and the bugs scattered to flee for their lives. But they died in the process of fleeing.

He knew that no matter how poisonous the bugs were, they couldn't be more poisonous than human-made poison.

In his previous life, he had watched a video.

A cobra and an old lady holding a pesticide spray were confronting each other.

In the end, the old lady won completely!

The cobra was highly poisonous, but it couldn't withstand the power of the pesticide spray, paying with its life to prove that no matter how poisonous a snake was, it was trash in front of man-made poison.

For this trip, he had spent a large sum of money to ask Medical Official Mu to make poison; it was definitely not ordinary.

"How about it? Do you want to try?"

"It's already come to this; either die from poison or die from bug bites—let's gamble!" Zhang Daohe gritted his teeth and reached out to grab the white porcelain bottle.

Chen Guanlou hurriedly stopped him. "Don't rush. This poison is highly toxic and shouldn't be taken in large quantities. Based on your age, height, and weight, I estimate one or two drops are enough. Absolutely do not exceed two drops, otherwise, even if you drink the antidote, you will have sequelae."

He carefully estimated the dosage and gave two drops to Zhang Daohe.

Excruciating pain!

Pain that made him roll on the ground, as if his internal organs were burning.

"Hold on! The bugs are all fleeing!"

They saw a terrifying scene at Zhang Daohe's wounds: countless bugs were crowding toward the wounds to crawl out, wanting to flee for their lives!

A black mass of them—he feared there were no less than a hundred, a thousand bugs.

Seeing this, Chen Guanlou almost vomited. He wasn't afraid of bugs, but he hated dense swarms of them.

Zhang Daohe's body had become a poison barrel.

Poisonous bugs are sensitive; fleeing, fleeing for their lives is what matters.

Bugs crawled out of the wounds one by one, scattering to flee. After fleeing a few steps, they all died without exception.

Half a quarter of an hour was about to pass, and no more bugs were crawling out.

Zhang Daohe had also reached the point of being on his last breath.

Chen Guanlou decisively took out the cyan porcelain bottle and poured the antidote in.

After half a stick of incense, Zhang Daohe caught his breath. "Brother Chen, you saved my life."

"Remember to pay extra."

Zhang Daohe couldn't help but laugh out loud. "If it were someone else, they might not have given me the antidote."

Chen Guanlou was expressionless and said emotionlessly, "If it were someone else, they wouldn't have reached out to save you when you jumped off the cliff. If you were being gnawed by bugs, they would just watch you die instead of trying to save your life. It's only because it's me—I take money to do things, and I'm fair and honest. In this dark underground palace, I also keep my promises and didn't tear up the agreement. Sigh, if I were a bit more ruthless, you'd already be a corpse. It's a pity; who told me to be a person with principles? Being too principled isn't good either; it costs money!"

After hearing this, Zhang Daohe laughed heartily.

Even though the swelling hadn't gone down and he looked like a balloon, he looked very happy and joyful.

"Rest assured, I will definitely pay double, money that can't be spent in several lifetimes. If we can successfully get out of the underground palace, from now on, you, Chen Guanlou, are my sworn brother from different parents. If you are in trouble, just give a shout, and I'll hack whoever you point at. Even if it's the old emperor, I'll help you hack him to death. If I violate this oath, may I be struck by lightning and die a horrible death!"

"Save the poisonous oath for when the Thunder God and Goddess are on duty."

Chen Guanlou looked at the dense poisonous bugs in the stone chamber, his scalp tingling.

He didn't even know when they got caught or how they got caught; he estimated it had something to do with these poisonous bugs.

For the rest of the journey, he had to cover his mouth and nose tightly to be safe.

Even though the scene made his scalp tingle, he had to bite the bullet and continue forward.

There were five stone doors ahead.

He had actually mistaken them for seven stone doors earlier?

The illusion created by this group of poisonous bugs was half-true and half-false, extremely powerful.

Entering the 'Epiphany' state.

The malicious eyes he saw earlier were actually composed of poisonous bugs. The walls of the stone chamber were built with poisonous bugs. Having glimpsed the truth of the stone chamber, he finally breathed a sigh of relief. He hoped not to repeat the same mistake and fall into an illusion again.

"Choose the middle stone door."

"I'll listen to you. However, Brother Chen, have you ever thought that the safe stone door you chose is already so dangerous? How dangerous must the other stone doors be?"

"To the point of certain death!"

"Could it be more serious than the situation we just encountered?"

"We didn't die, which means there was a chance of survival here. Behind the other stone doors, there must be no chance of survival at all—certain death. Think about it: how much cannon fodder is needed to test out the correct path?"

Those disciples from sects who followed into the underground palace with slightly lower martial cultivation would inevitably become cannon fodder for breaking into the underground palace. The number of people who died this time, tsk...

"Brother Zhang, have you ever thought that after we get out, you will be an enemy of the martial arts world? At that time, the imperial court will want to kill you, and your fellow martial artists will also hunt you down. What will you do?"