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Chapter 4328: 5.0080 Assassination 1

Everyone followed the young couple's pace and hurried to the back of the village.

Upon seeing it, they were all somewhat stunned.

Ahead lay a vast stone array, each stone roughly three people in circumference and more than one and a half times an adult's height.

These large stones seemed to have been moved there by an unknown cultivator from an unknown location.

They stood very abruptly on the open ground behind the village.

Each stone was set apart from the others, and all were carved with various intricate patterns, giving them a somewhat eerie appearance.

Qiaomu glanced at it and then withdrew her gaze.

The little one, unable to understand the array, looked up at her husband.

She saw him with furrowed brows, staring intently at the array before him, lost in thought, without even blinking for a long time.

Adult Qiaoqiao didn't dare to disturb him, so she stood beside him, carefully observing the expression on his face.

Qiaoqiao's Lian usually looked handsome, but now, with his serious demeanor, he appeared even more strikingly beautiful and distinguished.

Handsome, the little one thought to herself.

Her small hand wanted to reach out and hold his, but it paused midway.

When Mo Lian snapped back to reality, he happened to catch sight of the little one's retracted, lotus-white hand. He reached out without hesitation and took it.

"Qiaoqiao, I've found two birth gates and understood the essence of this array. Let's go." Mo Lian joyfully squeezed her small hand, pulling her into the stone array.

"Everyone watch your step, keep up and don't break formation," Mo Lian instructed, pulling Qiaomu into the stone array.

Feng Chen, Feng Changqing, and the others naturally followed without hesitation.

Long Hui, Long Xiangyun, Qingxuexue, and the others quickly followed suit.

Qinghongse hesitated for a moment, but seeing that everyone else had gone in, she could only reluctantly follow.

She couldn't possibly be left behind alone, not following the group, could she?

What if those people left through another exit and abandoned her on this desolate island? Then she'd be completely finished!

"Everyone be careful," Qiaomu cast a dozen defensive talismans, covering everyone. "There might be many corpse puppets here; pay attention to your defenses."

"Mm." Everyone nodded with vigilant expressions, following closely behind Qiaomu and Mo Lian. While fully concentrating on following, they also had to spare some spiritual sense to scan for any approaching corpse puppets.

"Didn't you say that the strong young men from Fisherman's Island trapped the mutated adventurers in this stone array? How come we haven't found a single corpse along the way?" Long Xiangyun couldn't help but ask, pouting.

"Don't slack off," Qiaomu said calmly.

Long Xiangyun rolled her eyes, then her gaze suddenly tightened. A white figure lunged out from an angle, heading straight for her neck.

Upon seeing it, the thing's pale, ghastly face, combined with its distorted features, almost made Long Xiangyun vomit from distraction.

Just as the corpse puppet lunged at her, Long Xiangyun's sword "clanged" as she summoned it from her spiritual ocean. As she cut down the corpse puppet, the breath she had just let out suddenly caught in her throat.

From the bursting body of the corpse puppet, countless white, grotesque birds leaped out. One of them opened its beak and lunged at her arm.

In a flash, a dark gold arrow whizzed past Long Xiangyun's arm, instantly severing the grotesque bird's neck.

Everyone collectively raised their swords to strike down the white corpse birds that flew at them.

Suddenly, a milky-white mist emanated, instantly enveloping everyone so densely that they couldn't see their own hands.