Them Again

Clearly not understanding a word I had just spoken, it just sat there within my robes. It was snuggling up like it was in a bed and my clothes were the bed sheets.

'This is probably going be a problem.'

It laid just under the first layer of my robe and I could feel as it moved it's body around. Soon an object's silhouette appeared within it's body slowly floating up to the top of her.

Once it reached near the top I realized it was my rations! Or at least what remained of them after what I gave to the kids from before. Now I watched as it moved around the slime's body, like it was part of it. The meat was visibly dissolving within Zheng Da's body, gradually becoming smaller and smaller.

"Wha.. tha-that.. *Sigh* that was all of my food..." I sadly spoke, looking at the minuscule portion of food that remained, though still being eaten.

"Hehe don't worry! We can always get more food, in fact I brought quite a bit with me. I don't mind sharing some with you." Yao Ya said probably noticing the dejected face I made.

"Thank you Little Sister Ya, I appreciate that." I responded making a bit of eye contact, before resting it back upon the slime which hid in my clothing.

The slime after entirely consuming the seemed to liquefy. It's body morphed itself around my stomach within my robes. Zheng da stretched it's body around my waist and the weight I was carrying in front was decreased by a margin not too overwhelming nor negligible.

After a few moments the noticeability of Zheng Da was significantly decreased. The weird orb like protrusion which was in the center of my robe now became almost like a layer of armor, though the protection provided could be questionable.

'Wait a minute how long have we been in here? Have the others already left without us?! Oh god I need to know.'

"Um, Little Sister Yao do you know how long it's been since we entered this room?" I asked with a hint of worry within my voice.

She flashed a smile towards me before speaking, "Don't worry it hasn't been too long. Only around 30 minutes or so. They shouldn't have left without us if that's what you're worried about." I glanced away for a moment as it seemed like she read my mind for a moment,

"We can leave if you want, after all we've done what we wanted to do in this room. I gotten a nice flower you picked while you've gotten a new friend." She finished, lifting a few strands of her hair away, placing my focus upon the flower she had adorned in her hair. Before taking a deep look at the slime which seemed tp meld a bit with me.

"You mean Our new friend! I'll sure you'll come around to it eventually, for now let's go back to that throne room. We've already spent enough time here." I said taking her hand while walking down the tunnel we cam through.

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After a little while we entered the main room once more, only to see Chen Huang still kneeling towards a skeleton. The only difference from this to when we left him is the fact that he had placed his hand upon the skeleton's body.

His eyes were still closed as he kneeled. Is it possible that he's gaining some kind of fortune right now? This was most definitely what was happening, after all who kneels like this for an entire 30 minutes?

While we had time I readjusted my robe and looked though the remaining supplies which I had hidden within. I think I could probably trust Chen Huang with this new friend of mine, but I don't know about those other two.

I pretty sure that Qiao An is the heroine for Chen Huang so she might be trustworthy as well. The only problem is that other Spirited Sun disciple. I don't know anything about that guy, but it seems that he's always following Qiao An.

Maybe he's a body guard for her, after all she is supposed to be the number one prodigy of their sect right? I could think of numerous stories which had a plot like this: Mc is unknown and suddenly meets up with a "goddess" of a sect/country/world making some kind of connection with each other before parting for some time. Eventually they would meet up again and probably fall in love before even more drastic events occur.

After another minute or two the sounds of footsteps were heard coming from the left tunnel. Before long the figures of a woman and a man emerge from the tunnel shadows.

A woman emerges along with a man a little bit behind her to the side. They glance Chen Huang who is still kneeling in front of the statue before quickly changing their ono Yao Ya and I. In an unhurried set of movements they make their way over to us.

"How long has he been kneeling like this?" Qiao An spoke giving another glance at him.

"We just came back a little bit before you two did, so I think he's been like this ever since we left him alone." I responded, sticking my arm into my robe.

Zheng Da seemed to become restless all of a sudden. It was making weird movements within my robe and although nothing changed about my appearance on the outside I definitely felt it on the inside.

"So he's been doing this the entire time? Hmm.. so what did you two find on the other side of the right path?" She pondered for a moment before asking.

'Oh shit this is the question I've been thinking about. Uh what was my story again? ....Ah that's right!'

Just before I responded though Yao Ya spoke on my behalf, "It was a nice room which mimicked the outside. Look I even found this nice flower over there, doesn't it look nice?" Showing the flower that I picked for her.

"It's beautiful! I wish I went to your side instead, my side only had a small amount of spirit stones as well as even more of those narcissistic statues of himself. There were absolutely no treasures there!" She had hints of disgust as she spoke of the room's contents

"*Gasp* Wait a minute! That flower, I had a strange feeling about that flower, but now I know why. It has properties of Yang within, from it's look as well it should be a Yang Eyed flower. It even looks like it's in it's last stages of maturity" Realization over took her as she understood what the flower was.

"Um, what's this Yang Eyed flower?" Yao Ya asked with confusion.

"It's a rare alchemy ingredient worth quite a sum. Most people would just sell them to dual cultivation sects though. They usually pay a good price for any Yin and Yang related items." She responded in a small fervor.

All of a sudden Chen Huang who's been motionless for half an hour or so made some movement. His eyes were open and his arm lowered while he raised his head a bit, looking at the skeleton's skull.

For a fraction of a second, his golden eyes flashed an even brighter gold color. Then he picked himself off the ground and turned towards us.

"Huh? Did you guys not go explore the side rooms? Why are you guys still here? Let's do it together then." As he stood up he quickly looked between all of us before heading towards the right doorway.

"We've already searched through the rooms. There's probably nothing left for us here." I said stopping him from entering the path.

"O-Oh.. I guess it's time to leave then.." He spoke with a dejected tone facing us.

"Don't worry, there's probably plenty of other places to explore in this realm. I'm sure we'll find somewhere else for you see." I tried comforting him.

"This place was nothing, there's been plenty of other more magnificent structures and old expert tombs to explore in the future. Maybe I'll show you one in the future." Qiao An said

After that we walked out of the tomb though the hallway of triggered traps. Soon we made it back to the stairs at the entrance, and at the end the open doorway shone moonlight into the room.

The boar which blocked our exit before was gone along with a number of the members who came in with us. If we counted the prisoners as being part of our group then 50% of our group was lost within the tomb.

As we exited the tomb a group of people were seen huddled together.

"Where are the rest of your group?! You blue robed bastard! If you think that just because you could find some help from these red robed men then everything would be fine, then you're wrong!" The voice of a familiar man echoed in the distance.

Scattered around the area was a few boar bodies, not those monstrously large one's but more medium ones. Along with those a few disciples wearing the Spirited Sun's dark red and even one which wore our blue with black lie on the ground.

"Speak damn you! Your entire group has already seen our faces so we can't simply let all of you leave! We'll track all of you down soon and when that happens your deaths won't be so simple." The man angerly roared towards a supposed blue robed disciple.

This was the first sight as we left the building and I already want to go back in. You know no that I think about it those statues weren't so hard to look at after all.

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10 more chapters before the revisions begin. I'll explain in more detail when the time comes and I'll post an announcement chapter. I'm putting this here since I know that around 99% of people won't read what's in the author's thought.