4456

Chapter 4456: 5.0208 Life and Death

"You, you!" Gu Yixuan pulled Mu Xiaoxue back repeatedly, stumbling into the seawater. Looking back, he saw that they were surprisingly close to the light circle, and immediately scurried a few steps back onto the shore in fright.

An ice sword was then pressed before his eyes.

"You should be thankful that the idiot who stabbed me in the back got what he deserved and is already dead." Qiao Mu looked at Mu Xiaoxue with icy eyes, speaking coldly, word by word, "Does Shadow City want to be buried with him?"

"Compensate! Compensate! Compensation! Compensation!" Lin Zhen'er quickly ran forward, holding out her hands to block Gu Yixuan and Mu Xiaoxue. She hastily pulled out a spirit coin card from her inner world and presented it with both hands.

"Sister!" Lin Miu'er couldn't help but stomp her foot.

Lin Zhen'er ignored her, directly handed over the spirit coin card, then cupped her hands towards Qiao Mu. "Misunderstanding, misunderstanding, it's all a misunderstanding."

Mu Xiaoxue leaned against Gu Yixuan, her face slightly pale, seemingly frightened. She glanced at Qiao Mu with lingering terror.

Seeing Qiao Mu's cold gaze sweep over, she quickly averted her eyes, not daring to look further.

Qiao Mu took the spirit coin card and turned to stand beside Mo Lian, tugging his sleeve. She whispered, "The runes above represent only two words: life and death."

Mo Lian paused, looking at the shrinking light circle on the sea.

"I don't think this entrance will last much longer," Peach Blossom Immortal Venerable said with a schadenfreude smile. "Do we go in?"

Qiao Mu nodded. "Yes, of course, we go in."

A small difficulty like this could never stump Grand Master Qiao Qiao.

If the Xuanji ancestors knew that she couldn't even enter the secret realm entrance of ancestor Tianjizi, they might just pop out of the ground and beat her up.

"Do you see the pulsating runes above?" Qiao Mu's lips curved slightly. "Watch my movements and follow me."

With that, she turned back to Mo Lian and the others, beckoned with her small hand, then rose into the air. She glided into the light circle's range, flicking her fingers repeatedly.

Mo Lian and the others clearly saw the little girl rapidly tap four of the pulsating runes, and her figure immediately vanished into thin air.

"Go," Mo Lian said flatly, then drifted over, tapped the runes a few times, and also vanished.

Feng Chen, Feng Changqing, Rong Qing, Wushuang, Fu San, Ming Ya Si, and Ding Yun, all seven of them, entered the formation one after another, all passing through successfully.

"Oh no, that entrance seems to have shrunk a lot more."

"What's going on? Did they just tap some runes?"

"Yes, yes, they tapped runes."

A middle-aged rogue cultivator quickly rushed into the formation, frantically tapping some runes. Immediately, a rush of wind came.

He looked up in horror, seeing a floating light shroud descend from above, instantly shredding him.

"Ah!"

"What's happening?"

"How did they get through?"

"Everyone, don't panic." Mu Xiaoxue stared intently at the shrinking light circle. "I... I know! It's the runes; you can't just tap them randomly!"

"I don't know if you noticed, but just now, those people, when they went in, each only tapped four times."

"It's either the life or death character. The Crown Princess also said earlier that the runes here only represent two words: life and death."

"Life? Death? Where are those two characters?" The runes above were chaotic and messy, their strokes like graffiti. Who could tell what they were?

"Is there a rune master here who can help identify them? A rune master's writing for 'life' and 'death' might be different from ours."