Ch.43: Borrowing the Underpath; Night Crawl in Paradise Manor

Shi Qing Xuan frowned, "A dead end? It's impossible."

He held the torch in one hand, and used the other hand to feel the stone wall there, looking for signs of a mechanism that might be hidden there. He then chanted several incantations to clear his own disappointment without success; the wall remained motionless. There was nothing else he could do, "Maybe I should make a hole in the wall?"

"That will cause too much noise," said Xie Lian, "The entire Heaven Manor will be shaken."

Shi Qing Xuan placed her palm on the stone wall and then blew up a burst of spiritual energy there, but then dropped her hand back after a while, "Even if I destroy this wall, it will be useless. This wall thickness might be more than ten feet . "

Xie Lian saw with his own eyes that the masked youth who had previously entered here, wouldn't it be ridiculous to think that he would sneak just to meditate and reflect on this deadlock? There must be some kind of mechanism involved, so these two heavenly officials continue to examine the whole place in more detail. Immediately, Xie Lian pointed at something and said, "Master, Wind Master, look at the ground, it looks like there is something."

Shi Qing Xuan immediately dropped his palm and the two squatted at the place Xie Lian had pointed at.

The tunnel ground was sprinkled with countless square bricks, and each brick looked the size of a small door. The bricks where they stood were right in front of a stone wall that had an image on it. It was not a picture that was so big, it showed a figure of a small person throwing a dice.

Shi Qing Xuan raised her head, "So does this mean the same method as before, that we must throw the right number of dice to open this stone wall?"

Xie Lian nodded slightly, "It seems so, but before that I didn't enter this place with the masked young man, so I don't know what exact number he was throwing."

"We've come this far," said Shi Qing Xuan, "It's not realistic to go back just to know that. Let's throw a few random numbers and see how they react."

Xie Lian agreed, "Master Wind Master, why don't you try it? I don't know how long the fortune I borrowed will last."

Shi Qing Xuan didn't reject it. He then took the two dice and threw them to the floor, "What about that?"

He throws the "two" and "five" dice. Both of them waited in silence but the stone wall remained motionless. Xie Lian took the dice, "I guess it didn't work."

Shi Qing Xuan suddenly shouted, "Your Majesty, look under our feet! The picture has changed!"

Hearing this, Xie Lian immediately looked down. Sure enough, the picture on the square brick under their feet that was once a little person throws the dice, but when they look at it now, the colors there slowly fade and reappear once again, turning into a different scene, looking like a black figure which is long, looks fat and thick. That is a scary figure.

"What is this?" Shi Qing Xuan wondered.

"Earthworms? Leeches?" Xie Lian guessed. "The shape is the same as this. There are lots in the fields, so I've seen it a lot."

Shi Qing Xuan wondered again, "What kind of life have you experienced to see this many strange things ..."

Before his words were finished, the figure of the Wind Master disappeared.

Not only him, Xie Lian himself also disappeared. It turns out, right when the words "what is this" are said, they both feel emptiness under their feet at the same time, and the next time they begin to fall freely into another tunnel.

Apparently, the stone wall is not a door, and if you look more seriously, it is just a wall. The square bricks under their feet are the actual door. After throwing the dice, the door opened suddenly and immediately closed. Xie Lian and Shi Qing Xuan fell freely after that before landing violently to the ground.

Luckily the ground in that place looked soft, if not, both of them would destroy the soil deeper with their two butt imprints. They did not think that the way they fell this time was so painful and only decided to try to get up when their heads collided with each other. The two of them shouted "Ah" and fell back to the ground. Another Xie, with one hand covering her forehead, and felt her surroundings with her other hand only able to make contact with soft, wet, watery, and muddy soil.

There are no stone tiles there. The stone wall has long since disappeared.

When they had fallen down earlier, the flame of the torch ignited by Shi Qing Xuan had been extinguished. Now that he had turned it on once more and tried to illuminate the environment where the two of them were now, both of them found that they were in a mud tunnel.

The tunnel is round with muddy walls, and it seems that this tunnel is not man-made. Shi Qing Xuan rubbed her forehead, "What kind of place is this? Did we get thrown here because we threw the wrong dice?"

Xie Lian muttered and said, "Very likely. The stone door has now disappeared, meaning we don't have a chance to return. Let's think of a way to escape first."

Both of them talked about it and decided to continue to follow the tunnel path. The tunnel has many twists and turns, and if an adult who is an adult wants to stand up straight in it, they will have difficulty. They can only bend at waist level to walk, or crawl, move slowly and so tiring. The air in this tunnel also feels warm and moist, the mud that is always sticky and irritating, each step they sink and make them have to drag it, runny and dirty. Sometimes, they will even step on the remnants of decomposed plants or animals. Xie Lian's face never changed, but Shi Qing Xuan looked so shivered. But the more they crossed the tunnel the more Xie Lian felt something was wrong. "Mr. Wind Master, we better move faster, otherwise ..."

At that moment, a howling sound that was so loud and strange was heard.

Noise hit them instantly, the entire tunnel shook, and small mud splotches scattered down caused by the earthquake. The two looked at each other, and without a word, they darted in the opposite direction from where the noise came from.

However, the loud voice and great vibration shook the tunnel so loudly, and its speed was far faster than theirs, almost approaching the figure at the back. The two of them moved with difficulty, one shallow step and one step in, crawling through the confusing tunnel with no end in sight, not even a single ray of light there. And not only that, but from the direction they were running, from there also came the same big noise and made the place also vibrate!

Both front and back of the road they had seemed to be blocked, both stopped. Simultaneously with a crash sounding, a large and gigantic body's voice pushed a lump of mud there to pass through it, and two earthworms seemed to squirm, appearing in front of Xie Lian and Shi Qing Xuan.

Both worms are swollen and large, their bodies are purple like bruises, their skin is rather translucent. The body possessed by insects seems to be segmented in the worm, no head, no tail, the front is just a stump of flesh. If it's not a worm, then what is it?

The stone door did open and threw them into this monster's lair!

Xie Lian raised his hand to provide security in front of himself, Ruoye seemed ready. Shi Qing Xuan let go of her Wind Master fan who knows where. Unfortunately in this narrow tunnel it is not possible to start a gust of wind, and each blow will only make the worms retreat, making it difficult to use the spiritual instrument. At this time, Xie Lian remembered that the worm was afraid of light and heat, and he shouted, "Master, Wind Master, please give me strength, and light a fire in your palm!"

Shi Qing Xuan followed his direction, and knocked Xie Lian with his left hand while the fire in his right palm exploded several meters higher. Sure enough, the two giant worms felt the heat and then shrunk back, away a few meters. Both of them, using fire, continued their journey slowly, forcing the giant earthworm to keep its distance from the two, and prayed to get out of the place.

However, the tunnel was so narrow, and before long, it was not only worms that felt the heat from their flames, but Xie Lian and Shi Qing Xuan themselves seemed to be sweating profusely, as if they were being roasted in an oven, so visibly bad and wretched. And what was even more terrible was that Shi Qing Xuan could not continue to burn his strength to keep the fire alive, and their flames were getting smaller and smaller. They also noticed that although the giant earthworms in front of them were avoiding them, they did not seem uneasy.

After a few more steps, Xie Lian felt her breathing getting harder and said, "Master, Master of Wind, this torch will not last long. The mud here may be moist and loose, but we are still far underground. Soon the air supply will no longer be through, then this fire will die, and we will faint. "

Shi Qing Xuan gritted her teeth, "Then we can only use the Shortening Array."

Although neither of them has the free hand to draw an array and the environment in which they are currently located is not entirely ideal, there is no other way. "Let me find a flat place." Xie Lian said.

Right at that moment, he felt beneath his steps a small plate that did not appear to be moist and springy but was more like a stone tile. Xie Lian's mind moved and he immediately crouched down to check. As he expected - it was another stone door!

There is also another picture of a small person throwing a dice on this door. Shi Qing Xuan also stepped onto the tile and was very excited, "Hurry up, hurry up, hurry up! Throw the dice and open!"

Xie Lian was just about to throw the dice but suddenly thought, But what if I get worse results and open a more terrible place? ' Xie Lian then gave the dice to Shi Qing Xuan, "Here, you do it!"

Without saying anything, Shi Qing Xuan grabbed the dice and threw it. Clack, clack. This time the dice that appears is the number 'three' and 'four'. Xie Lian immediately took the dice and the two of them stood together on the tile. The torch in Shi Qing Xuan's hand became smaller by an inch ready to die, and the two giant worms writhed and twisted, struggling to get close. Xie Lian looked closely at the picture on the tile as it slowly dissolved into another image. It was a picture of a forest and a number of strange people dressed in strange dancing around the others.

At that moment, the worm could no longer hold them back, and rushed toward them both with small mouths open on their heads, dragging their heavy bodies to approach.

How lucky, when the worms were only a few meters away from them, the stone door opened!

This time, the two fell into another narrow hole, but the ground there felt harder, narrower and drier. The fall was so painful and both of them fell and collided. Xie Lian was accustomed to this kind of pain so he didn't make a sound, but Shi Qing Xuan shouted in excitement in pain. Xie Lian's ear was injured by the loud scream. Worried that something might happen, he exclaimed, "Master Wind Master, are you all right?"

Shi Qing Xuan's head seemed to be underneath and his feet were above, "I don't know if I'm okay. I've never fallen like this before! Your Majesty, there is too much excitement when working together with you hehehe."

Hearing this, Xie Lian could not help but laugh, and then realized that they had both fallen into a hole in the tree.

Xie Lian crawled out of the hole with difficulty and reached out to help Shi Qing Xuan, "Thank you for all your hard work."

"You're welcome," Shi Qing Xuan answered

He pulled Xie Lian's hand and tried to climb out of the hole, so filled with mud and disheveled, his robe was torn and disheveled. When he came out, he placed his hand on his eyebrows to block out the sharp sunlight. "Where is this?"

"As you can see, a forest in the deep mountains." Xie Lian replied. He looked around and said, "I think this stone door is a spiritual instrument that has the same function as the Shortening Array. The number of numbers thrown will take us to a different place. I wonder if we threw the correct number."

Shi Qing Xuan crossed her two arms which were then open and pondered seriously, "Using a Short Distance Array once would require enormous spiritual power. To make this stone door and prevent others from peering into it, the Rain of Blood Reaching for Flowers really is indeed extraordinary and familiar with this kind of mind play. "

Although his expression was serious, with his bare hands and unkempt appearance, he did not look serious at all and looked a little funny. Xie Lian suppressed his laughter with difficulty and thought about the way Hua Cheng raised his lips and shook his head. 'Instead of mind games, it's more like that he's naughty. Ah!' Xie Lian thought.

Both of them had just come out of a hole in the tree, and they hadn't even stepped in at all when a number of naked red-skinned people suddenly came out of a nearby bush and surrounded them both. They started jumping, howling as they did, "O000000HHHOooHHooohhhh !!"

"..."

Both of them were shocked, and Shi Qing Xuan shouted, "What is this again?"

Xie Lian raised his hand soothingly, "Don't panic, don't panic!"

He calmed himself to look at the savages, and they were not really naked, but wearing animal skin and leaves, looking like they were ready to drink blood. They had long branched spears and sharp axes, and when they smiled at the two of them, their teeth were sharp as saws.

No need to wait longer. Both of them ran without saying a word.

Shi Qing Xuan shouted as she ran, "My brother always told me! Stay away from the southern mountains, there are many savage cannibals that live from eating human flesh! Aaaaahhhh! He told me to never come to such a place alone! Is this the place he meant? ? Aaaaahhh ",

Xie Lian had often practiced himself in the art of running away so that his attitude and behavior were much calmer than Shi Qing Xuan's. He answered calmly, "Hm. That's very possible! Whatever the way, let's find the door first! Let's see if there are still more stone doors near here!"

The savages ran after them, screaming and howling tirelessly. Initially, Xie Lian and Shi Qing Xuan could only run away and not fight because there was a heavenly law that determined that if a god ever descended into the mortal realm, they would not use their power to oppress. This law is to prevent celestial officials from intimidating humans and creating disasters that are under their authority. But these cannibals relentlessly threw stones and sharp wooden branches at them, and one branch seemed to be scraping Shi Qing Xuan's cheek.

This is totally unacceptable. Shi Qing Xuan felt her face and she felt a small bloody scratch, and her face looked red.

He roared and suddenly stopped. Turning around, he shouted, "YOU ARE A FUCKING FUCK! YOU JUST DON'T SHOW YOU ARE FEARED IN YOUR FACE !!!, THE MASTER WIND THE MASTER, YOU EVEN EVEN DURING TO DAMAGE MY FACE !! CANNOT BE TRUSTED !!!

After that scream, he took out a fan of his Wind Master, opened it with a strong sigh and then swung it with so much strength. The savages were flown from the ground and crashed into nearby trees, howling as they hung on the branches of the tree. Both of them finally stopped running, and took a deep breath and tried to calm their heartbeat. The thought came to Xie Lian again, it was difficult to become a god ... in the three realms, nothing was easier ...

Shi Qing Xuan snorted and looked at Xie Lian, "Your Majesty, you saw it, right? Those who asked for it themselves! I didn't use my power to oppress. They started it with me !!"

"Yes, I see." Xie Lian said.

Shi Qing Xuan felt her face again and murmured softly, "Even my brother won't dare uh ..." He turned back, "Let's find the stone door."

Xie Lian nodded silently and watched Shi Qing Xuan, who was repairing her clothes and hair, look full of cheerfulness once more. Unfortunately she was wearing a purple silk gown that was soaking wet, so the air of her cheerfulness felt strange, it was an unforgettable sight. Xie Lian couldn't help but complain. Thinking back to when they first met on the Small Road Inside Ban Yue, Mr. Master of the Wind was a figure so brilliant, so large that Xie Lian considered him a powerful creature with immeasurable depths; if not from the highest demon cultivator, then he is a supreme saint. Now that they were this close, he understood that everything was an illusion ... Yes! Illusion

The two of them walked round and round in the forest and finally found another set of stone doors next to a different tree hole. This time, Shi Qing Xuan refused to throw the dice and shook her head. "I don't know what's going on, but even though my luck isn't the best every time, it's also not the worst every time. The Goddess of Luck doesn't seem to be with me today, twice I've thrown this dice and the first to appear is an earthworm tunnel, and the second is cannibal forest. Who knows what will come next. I don't want to be worse! "

Xie Lian cleared his throat softly and guiltily answered, "Maybe it's because I'm with you, so I made your luck worse."

"What do you say!" Shi Qing Xuan exclaimed, "It's impossible for anyone to drop my luck, I'm Mr. Wind Master! But why don't you try it? Maybe there is still some luck you borrowed from your remaining San Lang."

Xie Lian didn't know why, but he felt a little embarrassed when he heard him say "your San Lang". He wants to explain, but at the same time, he thinks what can be explained? If he had to explain then it would be a little strange, so in the end he didn't say anything. He felt the two dice in his hand and threw them lightly.

The two dice he tossed surprisingly showed two 'six' numbers.

Xie Lian held her breath when she saw the pictures on the stone door change, and mentally prepared herself to face whatever happened next. But this time, the picture did not change and the stone door creaked open.

Behind the door was another long staircase that descended into the darkness, blowing cold air.

Both looked at each other, both thinking, 'Are we going back to the beginning after going through all that? Good trial, let's see and finish it! '

Even if they returned to the beginning, it was still better than the strange dangers they had experienced before, more than enough. Then, both of them decided to go down. When they entered, the door closed behind them, and when they reached out to push it, it had become a stone wall. There is no turning back.

"Looks like the only way is we have to go down." Said Xie Lian.

"Ugh, alright." Shi Qing Xuan sighed, "Give me a break and we will continue to play this game of Blood Rain Reaching this hate-filled Flower!"

The two of them once again descended the long, rocky path of the rectangle. After two hundred steps, Xie Lian realized something. "Good news, Master, Wind Master. This is not the same path we took the first time, even though they are similar."

Shi Qing Xuan realized too, "You're right. The first time we reached the stone wall after two hundred steps, but not this time."

Xie Lian said softly, "Looks like this time we are on the right path."

When he finished saying his words, both of them stopped.

Not far in front of them in the darkness was the smell of blood that smeared their smell. Besides that which accompanied the smell was a man's heavy breathing.

Both of them did not move in the slightest and said nothing. There was no light, there was no fire, but someone in front of them already felt the presence of the two, because right after they stopped, a cold voice rang out.

"I have nothing to say." A deep male voice said.

Hearing that voice, Shi Qing Xuan immediately lit a torch.

A meeting that binds destiny is never inevitable.