Chapter 89 What's the Point? "I didn't go near her at all!"...

So here's the question.

Lian Zhao dug out several pieces of white bone from the rammed earth, handling them with utmost respect and placing them aside. He asked in great bewilderment, "Since setting up such a formation would inevitably lead to one's own death, why would a sorcerer do it? Are they courting death?"

Unable to find a suitable shovel, Lin Mu had to use his sword to loosen the soil, pondering, "Could it be that the sorcerer didn't know this formation would kill his master?"

Zhou Yaren thought it was unreasonable, saying that a sorcerer couldn't possibly complete the Corpse Star Demon Formation without considerable skill: "To achieve this level is no small feat; the one who set up the formation couldn't possibly be unaware that this formation harms both themselves and others."

While digging, Wen Yi suddenly thought of something and looked up, saying, "Is it possible that because the soldiers who died violently harbored too much resentment, the sorcerer had no choice but to sacrifice his life to maintain peace in the region?"

Lin Mu chimed in, "That's very possible."

Li Liuyun shook his head: "If it is a case of malevolent spirits, building a Jingguan (a mound of corpses) to ward off evil spirits will suffice, but it is too much trouble to lay out corpses and evil spirits, gather the killing energy of the battlefield, and bring misfortune upon the masses, which may lead to the death of the master."

Everyone was completely baffled.

Bai Yuan said, "This formation harms both others and the caster. What is the sorcerer after?"

Everyone looked at each other, completely bewildered.

"Yeah, what's the point? There must be a reason for such a reckless sacrifice, right?"

It's neither a royal or noble tomb, nor does it contain any gold or silver treasures. Why would a sorcerer risk their life and go to such lengths to set up a corpse star acupoint? Is there something they haven't discovered yet?

Following this line of thought, Lian Zhao suddenly stood up: "Yin Sui! Has everyone forgotten that Guan Lan handed Yin Sui over to Prince Jing'an during the massacre? I suddenly wondered, could the sorcerer's actions be related to Yin Sui?"

Zhou Yaren nodded: "That's certainly possible."

"Did you see the Yin Sui in Guan Lan's hand clearly?" Wen Yi asked. "I don't know if I was standing too far away or too far to the side, but I didn't see the Yin Sui clearly."

The scene of the statue changed very quickly at that time. The statue was handed to Prince Jing'an by Guanlan, and no one was able to see it clearly.

Lian Zhao recalled: "I think I saw a piece of silver-white material at the time."

Wen Yi retorted, "No, you've seen it at every sacrificial ceremony in Taihang. How could a fire-making device cast from a copper-tin alloy be silver-white?"

Lin Mu said, "Silver-white, what Senior Brother Lian Zhao saw was probably Guan Lan's fingers."

"Could I be mistaken about fingers? Ask Liu Yun and..."

"Achoo..." Lin Mu inhaled a nose full of dust and sneezed violently. As the sneeze sounded, the rammed earth in front of them suddenly collapsed and created a hole.

The boys quickly retreated, looking at Lin Mu with great amazement. Lian Zhao said, "Wow, Sanmu, if we had known that you could clear away the Jingguan with just one sneeze, would we have had to dig for so long and get our hands covered in dirt?"

It was clearly because they loosened the rammed earth underneath that the building collapsed. Lin Mu knew his senior brother was joking with him, and he rubbed his itchy nose vigorously.

Zhou Yaren said, "Let's go out first."

Although the Yin-Yi self-immolated and the Twelve Killing Formations had been broken, no one wanted to linger in the Corpse Star's Fiendish Cavern, after all, it was a Jingguan (a mound of corpses) sealed with the bones of countless soldiers. The corpses were embedded in the rammed earth, and countless pairs of dark, gaping eyes were "watching" them, making the young men's spines tingle, and they all slipped away.

The moment they stepped out of the Jingguan (a mound of stones), the inexperienced youths were dumbfounded. What they saw was not the scene of leaving a great formation, but rather stepping from one place of trouble into another.

This is a spacious mountain room. The walls, as dark as the night sky, are covered with stars. They seem chaotic and disorderly, but in the eyes of Li Liuyun, who is good at stargazing, the arrangement of each star corresponds to the stars in the sky. It is clear that it has been carefully arranged. This is a polar night filled with stars.

Lian Zhao: "What's going on?"

Bai Yuan lifted his foot to step into the star-filled mountain chamber.

"Wait!" Li Liuyun blurted out as he was observing the starry sky in the tomb. Before he could finish speaking, Zhou Yaren suddenly grabbed Bai Yuan. Li Liuyun warned, "Don't rush over there."

Bai Yuan frowned: "Hesitant and timid."

Zhou Yaren said helplessly, "I know you are fearless, but these teenagers are following you and me into danger, so we can't act recklessly."

“That’s easy,” Bai Yuan said. “Just make them avoid it.”

Zhou Yaren: "..." Good idea.

Therefore, Bai Yuan decisively sent them back: "You should return to the Jingguan first."

The teenagers: "..."

Lin Mu hadn't expected to be driven away: "No, we also want to see what secrets this place holds."

Bai Yuan: "What's so interesting? Don't get in the way."

To think she'd actually looked down on him! Lin Mu hated that tone of hers the most: "When have we ever been in the way?!"

Bai Yuan: "Now."

Lin Mu was furious: "You..."

He was ruthlessly interrupted halfway through his sentence: "I am not human."

"Ha, you admit it now, you evil spirit..."

“I am your ancestor,” Bai Yuan said casually, glancing at him sideways. “Have you forgotten that you once planted a spirit banner on my grave? Be filial and take it back quickly.”

“Filial piety…” Filial piety my foot! Lin Mu was momentarily at a loss for words. “Are you never going to stop? Don’t forget, your spiritual veins were sealed by Ting Fengzhi. You can’t use any moves right now. You might not even be as good as us. Don’t be so arrogant!”

"Very well," Zhou Ya sighed inwardly. This straightforward fellow Daoist Lin Mu was really bringing up the very thing he shouldn't have, and he really didn't forget to make him the target of hatred.

Sure enough, the conflict immediately shifted, and the person giving the sidelong glance naturally became Zhou Yaren.

How can you so confidently talk about such despicable acts of sabotaging others?

Zhou Yaren was humiliated, while Lin Mu was clearly proud of her, because the latter had no idea how Ting Fengzhi had secretly taken advantage of her vulnerability to seal Bai Yuan's spiritual vein.

This matter is actually a bit difficult to talk about. Zhou Yaren patted the righteous and determined Lin Mu, the young Daoist, on the shoulder: "I took advantage of her vulnerability to seal her spiritual veins."

Lin Mu's almond-shaped eyes widened suddenly: "You, you took advantage of someone in distress?"

"Um."

“Taking advantage of someone in distress is not the act of a gentleman,” Lin Muxiong’s arrogance immediately diminished a bit, but, “However, she is not human, she is evil, insidious and treacherous, so it is not a matter of taking advantage of someone in distress.”

Bai Yuan laughed and said, "Compared to cunning and treachery, your Wind-Reading Technique is far superior. I, a mere evil spirit, am truly unworthy of such praise."

Seeing Tingfeng's ashamed expression, Lin Mu completely deflated, as if the justice that supported him had suddenly lost a leg and could no longer stand upright, and his confidence immediately waned.

"As for being unable to use my skills due to the sealed spiritual veins, that's easy to solve," Bai Yuan lied through his teeth. "I just need to have some meat right now and eat a few young Taoist boys who are cultivating on Mount Taihang, and that will solve the problem. There's plenty of meat right here in front of me."

Bai Yuan did indeed overlook the blockage in his own spiritual veins and almost overestimated himself. If he had acted rashly just now, getting injured would have been a minor matter, but losing face would have been a major one.

Lin Mu, who had believed it, turned pale and involuntarily took a step back.

"She's lying to you. If she wanted to eat, she would have eaten already." Li Liuyun said calmly. He really thought that this junior brother was mentally unstable. He believed whatever others said, was completely honest, and had a quick temper. He was easily angered, so it was no wonder that the other party always teased him like a monkey.

Bai Yuan continued his fabrication in a nonchalant manner: "I'm not lying to you. The reason we didn't eat you earlier is because we weren't very hungry, so we're storing up our food for now."

forest:"……"

Li Liuyun glanced at Bai Yuan subconsciously, not understanding why she loved hanging out with Lin Mupin so much; she didn't seem like a proper evil spirit at all.

Bai Yuan glanced at Li Liuyun: "Why are you looking at me? Do you have a problem with that?"

Li Liuyun said seriously, "Don't scare him."

This made Bai Yuan seem quite absurd: "What, isn't the job of evil spirits to haunt and scare people?"

Li Liuyun: "..." So you're just doing your duty?!

“Aren’t you familiar with formations?” Bai Yuan asked. “Is there any taboo in this tomb chamber that prevents us from rushing through?”

Li Liuyun did not answer, but instead picked up a pebble and struck a point on the ground. Instantly, fine, spider-like lines appeared connecting the stars on the tomb wall and the surrounding area.

Lian Zhao asked in surprise, "What is this? A mechanism?"

“Heavenly silkworm silk,” Li Liuyun said, “is exceptionally sharp, capable of slicing through bone and severing flesh, killing without a trace.”

If they had rushed over there, they would have triggered the trap and been strangled by the silkworm's silk.

Li Liuyun turned right a few steps, picked up a few more pebbles from the ground, and scanned every corner. He then used the pebbles to strike the corresponding stars on the tomb ceiling. The order in which the pebbles were struck had to be perfect, otherwise, if a “star change” occurred, it would cause the silkworm threads to crisscross and fill the entire tomb chamber, leaving them with nowhere to go.

Li Liuyun struck the vital point with the last pebble, and the silkworm silk that could cut through bone and flesh suddenly retracted.

Li Liuyun said calmly, "Pay close attention to each stone that has struck the star. The places where the stones landed are the safe zones. Stepping on the stones will prevent you from triggering the traps."

Lian Zhao couldn't help but exclaim, "Liu Yun is amazing!"

As the boys spent time together, they gradually discovered that although Li Liuyun seemed serious and rigid, he was not as unapproachable as they had imagined.

Perhaps because of his special status as the last disciple of the Celestial Master, he always kept to himself on Mount Taihang and never associated with the other disciples. Everyone felt that because of his noble birth, he was aloof and arrogant and disdained to associate with them, a group of lowly commoners.

But that's not actually the case. During this time, no matter what questions they asked or what advice they sought, Li Liuyun never made excuses and always spoke his mind.

His fellow disciples gradually changed their opinion of him and grew closer to him. Unconsciously, they changed their address from the Celestial Master's personal disciple and Li Liuyun to Liuyun.

Wen Yi said, "It still has to be Liu Yun."

Zhou Yaren followed the palace rules and always addressed him as His Highness, which she had been corrected several times but never changed: "In a few more years, His Highness will be able to inherit the mantle of the Celestial Master."

"One can discern praise from criticism by listening to the wind..."

Li Liuyun was interrupted by Lin Mu halfway through his polite remarks, who proudly said, "Of course, Senior Brother Liuyun was originally destined to be the next Celestial Master."

Bai Yuan couldn't help but laugh at Lin Mu's pathetic attitude. It wasn't like he was that great himself, so why was he being so proud of someone else? It was as if he could rise to heaven just because Li Liuyun became a celestial master.

"It's still somewhat useful." Bai Yuan said this and stepped on Li Liuyun's move to move forward.

Lin Mu naturally didn't like hearing this, so he turned around and followed, questioning Bai Yuan's back: "What do you mean by 'somewhat useful'? You still stepped on the path paved by my senior brother Liu Yun!"

"What else can I do but walk by myself?"

Seeing that Bai Yuan was about to place his other foot on a spot without pebbles, Lin Mu exclaimed in alarm, "No!"

The boys behind him also felt a chill run down their spines.

However, Bai Yuan's feint was merely a blunder, and he landed steadily on the stone.

Lian Zhao couldn't stand it anymore and grabbed Sanmu, saying, "No, why did you provoke her!"

"No, Senior Brother Lian Zhao," Lin Mu said anxiously, "It was clearly her..."

"She and we are inherently mortal enemies, but now we're in the same boat. If you really anger her, she can do whatever she wants without caring about our lives. Do you understand?"

Lin Mu hadn't anticipated this crisis at all. He froze, a wave of fear washing over him. But then he remembered how Bai Yuan had saved their lives amidst a hail of arrows, and instinctively thought this evil spirit wouldn't harm them: "But..."

"Alright," Lian Zhao knew his junior brother's character well; he would repay a silver ingot with a half-cent piece of candy. So he interrupted, "Stay away from her and don't keep getting close to her."

Upon hearing this, Lin Mu felt that Senior Brother Lian Zhao was simply going too far: "I didn't go near her at all!"

During the Twelve Killing Formations, Lian Zhao had seen this kid approach countless times. Whenever the other party spoke, this clueless junior brother would practically transform into a giraffe, stretching his neck several feet long. If he could be so eager to learn in the Taihang Mountains, craning his neck to listen to the elders' teachings, he would surely achieve great things.

Moreover, crooked paths and evil ways are most likely to bewitch people's minds. If someone like Lin Mu, whose Dao heart has not been tempered, were to fall into evil ways, he might very well go astray. Of course, Lian Zhao had to keep a close eye on Lin Mu to prevent any mishaps.

The tomb chamber was riddled with traps and the dangers ahead were unknown. For safety's sake, Lian Zhao had no choice but to leave Liang Youyi where he was and take him out once they found a way out.

Liang Youyi was completely terrified and couldn't speak. He did whatever these people told him to do obediently and dared not have any objections. He lived a quiet life under the full protection of the teenagers until now.