Chapter 345: Abandoned Body

This was not a mechanism to resist thieves, but a proclamation of the four words "not qualified." The man was still uncontrollably kneeling on the ground, and in the hall, another terrifying change was already happening.

Seeing Pei Ye first heard a cold, light "crack" sound, and then countless "cracks." This was an experience that could never be repeated—the sound did not come from any one point, but from the entire hall behind him.

Qu Zhu barely supported his body in pain, turned his head with a tremor, and froze in an instant.

It moved.

That creation climbing on the dome, the thing he thought he had perfectly bypassed, was now slowly turning its body.

For the next ten years, this scene had been branded in the man's dreams.

It was not the touch of the jade pendant that alarmed it, nor did he trigger any secret mechanism of the magic array... Only those who truly understood this grand array would lose their souls in front of this scene today.

He had clearly bypassed this defensive array from the bottom layer.

This huge creation clearly should not have had any reaction to his entry!

Unless it was really alive.

The star worm turned its body, and the ferocious head floated out from the top of the hall. The scene by the lake that night was about to be reproduced here.

Qu Zhu looked up at all this with a pale face. No matter how bravely he advanced on the array path, he would never be able to understand how an array could make these hundreds of millions of tons of metal really have a near-autonomous consciousness!

The cruel reality gave this man who called himself a genius a heavier blow—even in the field where you think highly of yourself, you are just a frog in a well.

In the past few thousand years, countless geniuses in the world have been as bright as meteors, and the Buried Star Tomb has been watching them turn into withered dust one by one... Why do you think you are the most special one?

The head had already protruded more than half. At this moment, Qu Zhu finally woke up, his heart and lungs clenched tightly. He gritted his teeth, pursed his lips, staggered to his feet, and rushed toward the bright pearl on the other side of the jade pendant, but he couldn't get close at all.

His hand was frozen a foot away. The invisible, insurmountable rejection blocked all his movements. The entire divine hall was high and cold, as if revealing a cold mockery to this intruder.

Qu Zhu's emotions were completely furious at this moment. He smashed his fist onto this barrier, like a cake smashing onto an iron door. The sound of broken bones rang out inch by inch, but the barrier did not have any disturbance.

——Without the authority of an immortal, how can one inherit the heart of the Western Court?

The sound of wind above was sharp, and the star worm on the dome had lowered its head that covered everything.

But at this moment, as if fate finally gave him a tiny bit of favor—outside the protection of starlight, not belonging to the immortal object, but a hazy and deep black bead embedded in the eye pupil of this storage jade pendant seemed to run toward him because of feeling the True Qi.

Qu Zhu was stunned, grabbed this object, gritted his teeth and looked up. The door that had melted open was slowly closing. The Eighth Life True Qi erupted suddenly, and he flew out from the shadow that was pressing down. But the giant worm that was falling behind him did not hit the ground. At a distance of less than a foot, it made a turn without any stagnation, without losing any speed, and went straight for Qu Zhu.

This speed was definitely faster than Qu Zhu. At the last moment, the man threw out a magical artifact of unknown shape, and his whole body was pulled by the sudden landing point, already at the door.

It was just enough for one person to enter and exit.

But the next moment, as if a giant curtain was built in front of him, the wind blew his long hair and clothes huntingly. Qu Zhu stopped his footsteps abruptly, and the bronze worm body had already cut off the road behind him.

The head hit from behind, and the wind had already forced onto his spine. Qu Zhu felt completely cold in his heart in an instant. But it was at this moment that a gray figure jumped up from the other side of the worm body.

Qu Zhu raised his head in astonishment: "Mas—"

A long rope had been thrown from the air. Qu Zhu reached out and grabbed it. The next moment, his body soared into the air, and a wild wind whistled past his feet.

The long rope rotated, and the man was accurately thrown into the exit. The old man in the air was about to jump down, but the giant worm had already landed on his spine. At the last moment, the old man turned around, and the bronze touch broke his flesh and blood to meet it. This scene was like a mosquito flapping its wings against a toad. The star worm's momentum stopped for a moment, but the collision still happened. Blood splashed in the air, and the old man's broken body fell onto Qu Zhu, and the two rolled out a zhang away together.

There was no time to look at any situation. Blood covered his eyes. Qu Zhu dragged the old man and staggered out of the worm's belly at the last moment.

The door closed slowly behind them.

In the silent tunnel, Qu Zhu gasped heavily, staring at this section of the worm body with a tremor. Finally, it didn't come toward him again. After confirming that everything in the tomb hall was safe, it slowly returned to calm.

Only then did he have time to look back at the situation of the person beside him. The shocking blood and bones tightened his heart and lungs. However, the old man had not lost consciousness. On this broken body, the blood-stained face stared at him fixedly. That was cold, absolute fury.

In the heavy and oppressive silence, only the smell of blood kept surging into his nasal cavity. Even for an Eighth Life cultivator, this was a situation on the verge of death.

In the twenty-plus years of his life, this was perhaps the first time the man bit his lip and shed tears... He gritted his teeth, pulled out the sword from his waist with a tremor, and walked staggeringly toward the old man.

——

The old man's funeral was held half a month later.

Qu Zhu was in gray clothes and barefoot, with loose hair and shackles on his hands, and finished this burial. After everyone left, he knelt before the grave with his head lowered, and the flying ashes and residual paper floated up to the sky.

Qu Zhoufu walked over from behind with a cold expression: "Get out."

Qu Zhu didn't raise his head and said in a low voice: "Are you still going to continue guarding it like this?"

"The ancestral teachings of the Hushan Jianmen have nothing to do with you."

"I have already seen it, Zhoufu." Qu Zhu raised his head, "You don't know how fascinating they are..."

"I'll say it again, it has nothing to do with you." Qu Zhoufu looked at him coldly, "The mission of the Hushan Jianmen for thousands of years, the duty Master passed to me, you don't need to worry about it."

This sentence ignited something, Qu Zhu gritted his teeth: "Bullshit mission for thousands of years! We paid so much, and the result is still feeding the worm! Still nothing has changed! Didn't Master die in vain?!"

Qu Zhoufu punched him in the face, his eyes equally red: "Master didn't have to die in the first place!!"

"..."

It became quiet before the grave, with only the panting of the two brothers.

"According to Master's last wish, you are expelled from the Hushan Jianmen." Qu Zhoufu said hoarsely, "There is no such person as you in Hushan anymore. Get out."

Seeing Pei Ye watched the man get up and leave. He was not allowed to take anything, so he left the Hushan Jianmen in a single garment and shackles, his swaying body disappearing into the darkness of the mountain pass.

He stood at the end of this river and looked forward. For many years to come, Hushan would no longer have the figure of this man. He wanted to move forward again, but his mind-spirit felt unbearable again, and Seeing Pei Ye withdrew from it.

(End of chapter) ===== CHAPTER 346 =====