Pengxi has a place of mourning 2

Several foxfires suddenly appeared around Bai Bumian.

Surrounded by the Xuan Ye foxfire, Bai Bumian calmly pointed at Cang Lun and Shi Yulu and added, "But they should have a better way than me."

Cang Lun and Shi Yulu looked as embarrassed as children whose clothes had been exposed. While Huai Wen glanced at the two, Xuan Ye's gaze fell on Bai Bumian. Everyone here seemed to have a secret.

"Is what he said true? Do you have a solution?" Huaiwen asked cautiously.

When Canglun and Shi Yulu received the Heavenly Emperor's instructions to come to Pengxi Lake, they looked hesitant. But they were divine officials, subjects of the Heavenly Emperor, and divine officials appointed to save the world. No matter how unwilling they were, they would still come here.

Their reluctance to come here is related to something that happened two hundred years ago.

Shi Yulu retorted, "How do you know we have a way?"

Bai Bumian said, "I'm part of Fulin, what do you all think?"

At this point, Shi Yulu stopped asking questions, put aside her embarrassment, and instead observed Cang Lun's expression. Seeing that he was also holding back, she felt guilty.

But Shi Yuluo wasn't one to drag things out. She walked to the lakeside and placed the glass umbrella over the water. As the glass umbrella rang crisply, the lakebed churned, appearing from the surface like a giant whirlpool.

Slowly, a broken bridge appeared.

The broken bridge is connected to the shore in one section and buried at the bottom of the lake in the other.

Shi Yuluo said, "Since the small boat can't go in, we have no choice but to take the risk and go to the bottom of the lake."

The group exchanged glances, eventually accepting the solution. Huaiwen was the first to step forward, followed closely by Xuanye, Bai Bumian, and Canglun. After everyone had gone inside, Shi Yulu walked towards the broken bridge while retracting her glass umbrella.

Then, the lake surface calmed down again, but the bottom of the lake remained unknown.

As Huaiwen and the others walked along the broken bridge towards the bottom of the lake, they expected to be surrounded by water. However, they seemed to be in a secret passage of Pengxi Lake. They could clearly see both sides of the lakebed and watch as white bones, seemingly floating from nowhere, sank to the bottom.

Green seaweed and fluffy balls drifted by, with unidentified plankton moving among them. When they saw a skeleton, they would swarm around it and gnaw on it.

The sound of "crack" was the sound of Huaiwen stepping on a bone and it breaking. She looked down and then looked around; bones were scattered everywhere in this secret passage.

Huaiwen asked, "How did you know about this secret passage?"

Silence fell over the secret passage. After a long while, Canglun finally spoke. They hadn't known about this secret passage before. They had only been here once before, intending to take the small boat to the island in the lake, but the boat capsized halfway there, and they thought they had been swallowed by the lake.

Unexpectedly, he was caught in a whirlpool at the bottom of the lake, where he saw the broken bridge and was sucked into this secret passage, thus escaping.

They only had one way to escape, and that was the exit. They had never traveled the road ahead.

"Why did you come here?" Bai Bumian asked.

Shi Yuluo and Cang Lun exchanged glances, their frequent avoidance of these words raising suspicion. Xuan Ye, standing behind Huai Wen, concluded with, "Because they are guilty."

With just one sentence, Shi Yuluo and Cang Lun's eyes turned red. Their eyes fell on Huai Wen, and they felt even more ashamed, yet dared not meet his gaze. They could only stubbornly walk forward.

"You two!" Huaiwen called out to them, "Can you explain yourselves clearly?"

Rumble—the secret passage suddenly narrowed, and Canglun turned around and shouted, "Run!"

In an instant, everyone was running forward when suddenly, the lake water rushed in from behind them, extremely fierce. Then, suddenly, there was a dead end ahead, and they were about to be surrounded by the lake water.

Bai Bumian was the first person to be devoured. He struggled, and Huaiwen tried to swim back to save him, but he couldn't reach him. He watched helplessly as Bai Bumian was grabbed by the tentacles behind him and disappeared in an instant.

Huaiwen froze. She wanted to move forward, but the tentacles reached out again to grab her. Seeing this, Xuan Ye pulled her to his side. He put his arm around Huaiwen's waist, looking at the dead-end passage, and at Shi Yuluo and Canglun confronting the tentacles.

Xuan Ye's brow furrowed, a look of danger and resentment appearing on his face.

In just a moment, Huaiwen understood Xuan Ye's meaning. Feeling ashamed of her actions towards Bai Bumian, she held her breath and swam in front of Xuan Ye.

Huaiwen crossed his palms and formed a hand seal, his ten fingers nimbly weaving a spell. As his fingers alternated, he opened his arms, unleashing a fierce and powerful magical aura.

The lake water in the secret passage began to crash against the sides, then rapidly froze into ice, forcing out tiny gaps for breathing. Xuan Ye immediately placed Wei Yuan in the center of the secret passage, clasped his hands together, crossed and rotated them, and Wei Yuan suddenly grew longer and larger.

They broke through the secret passage, then sliced ​​through the wall, and escaped with the sound of the wall collapsing. But the mayflies and other creatures that had been hiding in the lake all around them rushed towards them fiercely.

The underwater environment was too dangerous to linger in, so Huaiwen immediately used the water as a support, sending the four of them to the surface with a thunderous roar. The monstrous creatures from the lakebed leaped out of the water, baring their fangs, seemingly ready to swallow the four of them whole.

Then I looked at Shi Yuluo and Cang Lun, one holding a sword and the other holding a glass umbrella, and they killed the monster that leaped out of the water in one fell swoop.

But then the lake began to swirl, and huge whirlpools of water surged up from underground, surrounding the four of them. Soon, these whirlpools swept them in like a tornado. Trapped inside, they couldn't breathe.

She looked around and saw Cang Lun and Shi Yuluo being swallowed by the water column, struggling to break through the water column and get air.

Like a tornado sweeping across the land, a column of water roared and raged across the surface of Pengxi Lake. The sky was bright, but beyond the water column lay only deathly darkness.

Huaiwen tried to cast a spell, but something around her seemed to be affecting her, preventing her from doing so.

It was a scream. Huaiwen clutched her ears in agony in the water, the pain causing her to gasp for breath. Lake water filled her body, and she began to float.

Before drowning, Huaiwen felt someone kiss her lips, pry open her mouth, and continuously pour air into her body. Huaiwen opened her eyes, saw the person, and her relaxed heart began to continuously demand air. The give-and-take ended with them embracing each other as they broke through the whirlpool of water.

A red and a white figure shot into the sky, escaping the pursuit of the swirling water column. Suddenly, a dark figure appeared behind them, quickly rescuing Shi Yuluo and Cang Lun.

The water jets transformed into a torrential downpour, pounding against the lake's surface. A powerful lake wind began to pull them, forcefully dragging the four of them towards the lake. But before they could even make a move, a dark shadow flashed past like lightning, sweeping them all ashore.

In the chaos, Xuan Ye lit a foxfire beside the dark figure. It was a familiar face—Mo Heng.

But he looked so haggard, unlike before, with no color in his skin.

"Mo Heng!" Cang Lun shouted!

Shi Yulu was slightly startled; she wanted to scream but didn't say anything. Mo Heng merely glanced coldly at the four of them and turned to leave.

"What exactly happened?" Huaiwen asked, one hand on Xuan Ye's wrist and the other clutching his chest.

Huaiwen's expression was calm, but his tone was icy as he asked himself, "What exactly happened in these three hundred years?"

Three hundred years have passed since the passage of time, and no one has ever found peace.

The temple of Fulin was still emitting black smoke from the fire, but Shi Yulu and the other three approached the Tiannan Temple with trepidation. Upon entering, they saw the Heavenly Emperor sitting on his throne, his hand supporting his head, pressing his forehead, seemingly troubled.

After the four of them respectfully addressed the Heavenly Lord, the Heavenly Lord sat up straight, sighed, and said, "You can see for yourselves how angry Lingshan is."

Rong Yun, always outspoken, said, "That wasn't anger; it was clearly retaliation!"

Mo Heng retorted, "It's not retaliation, A-Ling just made a mistake!"

Before Canglun became an immortal, his sect master had told him to regard the Heavenly Lord as the emperor of the mortal realm. Although he wanted to say something, he remembered his master's teaching—one should not speak recklessly in front of the emperor. So he nudged Rongyun with his elbow and gave Mo Heng a look, signaling them not to speak carelessly.

Upon hearing this, the Heavenly Lord laughed and said, "So, Ling Shan is indeed a person with flesh and blood."

Rong Yun wanted to say something in agreement, but after Cang Lun's prompting, he was too embarrassed to speak.

The Heavenly Emperor then asked, "You also narrowly escaped death at his hands. What are your thoughts on Lingshan?"

After the four pondered for a while, Shi Yulu spoke first: "Ruthless and unscrupulous."

Rong Yun initially wanted to say that Xuan Ye was a scourge to humanity and must be killed, but then he remembered that Xuan Ye had saved him in that tree hole, so after considering it for a while, he replied, "He's a demon who loves to scheming against people. One minute he wants to kill, the next he wants to toy with them. It's said that in Luo Fu, he has devoted himself to developing many games for people to play, but he's only after money. In short, he's a pervert who wants my life but also lets me live a wretched existence."

The Heavenly Emperor's eyes lit up with a delighted smile: "That floating game is famous for its variety of moves; I have indeed heard of it."

"Where are you two?"

Mo Heng didn't want to say that Xuan Ye was a bad person, but Xuan Ye wasn't a good person to them either. He was conflicted, and finally he could only say, "I think he... can be trained. If he's trained well... he shouldn't be bad anymore."

Cang Lun's expression suddenly changed, fearing that the Heavenly Lord would reprimand Mo Heng. But instead, the Heavenly Lord seemed thoughtful and said, "It's alright." Cang Lun seized the opportunity to ask, "I wonder, what is the Heavenly Lord's purpose in summoning the four of us here?"

"There is indeed something going on," the Heavenly Lord said meaningfully.

“When Fu Lin went to the Void Realm, that ghost was already gone. But if left unattended, it will surely bring disaster to the world. I originally intended to descend to the mortal realm myself to find her, but Fu Lin’s disappearance has made me even more worried. So I thought that since you four have seen that ghost and know something about her, I would like the four of you to go and eliminate her completely. Are you willing?”

Pei Suqin was the source of all trouble for the four of them. From the moment they became priests, everything they encountered was inseparable from this ghost, which completely disrupted their path to advancement. Their pass rate was far lower than that of other priests in their cohort.

However, Pei Suqin is a formidable character. If we eliminate her, our path to advancement will be a head higher than that of the other priests in the same batch.

"Your subordinate is willing!" Rong Yun said, cupping his hands in greeting.

The other three nodded in agreement.

The Heavenly Emperor rose from his throne and walked down to the four people. He held up his palm, and a diamond-shaped jade tablet immediately stood and floated in his hand. The Heavenly Emperor said, "This object can track the location of the ghost, and it can also be used to collect the ghost."

Shi Yuluo accepted the diamond-shaped jade pendant and then heard the Heavenly Lord say, "You will surely suffer a lot on this journey. I will have Zhenli prepare more immortal pills and protective magic items for you. Remember, this ghost spirit must not be killed; it can only be captured alive."

After making the promise, the four of them descended to the mortal realm.

Guided by the diamond-shaped jade tablet, the four arrived at the mouth of a well in a deep palace.

The wellhead plunged downwards, its depths unseen; even if you threw a stone in, it would take a long time to hear an echo.

They sneaked in, so naturally they couldn't be discovered. But why was Pei Suqin here? The four of them had their own opinions.

Rong Yun felt that there was a lot of resentment in the deep palace, and Pei Suqin absorbed as much of it as possible. Mo Heng felt a chill all around him, and he was a little scared. Cang Lun, on the other hand, was calm. He even thought that the four of them should change into palace clothes so that they wouldn't look strange.

Shi Yulu felt they were talking too much nonsense, so she threw the bold Rong Yun and Cang Lun in, and then stuffed Mo Heng in as well, before jumping in last herself.

With their screams, they fell to the bottom of the well. The three men piled on top of each other, and Shi Yulu stood on their backs, lighting a small fire. Only then did she discover an opening on the left side of the well, small enough for a three-year-old child to fit through.

Shi Yulu made a hand seal, and the four of them suddenly transformed into the height of three-year-old children, quickly climbing inside.

With their mouths full of dust, the four stood up and heard Rong Yun shout, "Oh my God—this is a bunch of dead old hags!"