My heart is dead

This... Everyone opened their eyes wide, their eyes full of surprise.

They actually arrived right in front of this gate!

Fortunately, they didn’t have to wander around among those golden terracotta warriors anymore… Everyone was filled with joy and subconsciously wanted to step forward, but then they paused and turned to look at their employer.

Seeing the girl in white nodded and said "hmm", everyone decisively protected her and walked into the thick mist.

White jade and water flow alternate, and looking into the water through the gaps in the mist, the water is crystal clear and you can see the bottom.

Everyone walked up the jade steps with trepidation, but they had a safe journey.

Everyone breathed a sigh of relief, "Let's go, let's go!" and laughed, pushing the door forward together.

The heavy door was pushed open a crack, revealing the darkness within. Everyone paused, their smiles vanishing as they continued pushing, their bodies tense.

The gap grew larger and larger, until it finally stopped at a width large enough for two people to walk through at the same time.

Everyone looked inside.

In the dimness, fragments of light were sprinkled down, vaguely outlining the magnificent broken valley and the lush vegetation growing there, stretching endlessly into the darkness.

"That's..." One person blinked in confusion.

The broken valley is towering. Looking inside from behind the door, you can't see the dome, but the fragmented light... can't help but remind people of the moonlight.

“Bang, bang, bang—”

Everyone's faces were stunned and their hearts were beating wildly.

"Walk."

A clear and resonant voice suddenly sounded behind him, and several figures came forward, protecting the girl in white.

Everyone suddenly came back to their senses.

Several people were the first to get into the door and stood firmly on the white jade platform extending from the gate steps. They turned around excitedly and said, "It's okay, come quickly!"

Everyone slowly walked into the door and closed it until there was only a gap wide enough for one person to pass through.

Standing on the warm and heavy white jade platform, Jiang Jingyuan looked around.

The cliffs are vaguely visible, and the vegetation is lush here and sparse there.

The view from inside the door was much clearer than that from outside. The valley continued but the end of the darkness was still not in sight.

Jiang Jingyuan's sight climbed up along the hazy cliff, and he raised his head little by little. High up, the cliffs were squeezed together, and only a corner of the night sky was vaguely visible.

This dark blue and strange night sky has a faint sheen and undulations like silk, dotted with only two broken stars.

The mountain where Dongling is located is so different from the outside world both day and night.

Mysterious and thrilling, yet peaceful and tranquil.

Jiang Jingyuan's heart suddenly became chaotic, beating wildly, but he couldn't find the reason for it strangely.

“Thank goodness…”

Suddenly, the maid beside him breathed a sigh of relief, then smiled and said, "Our young lady is deeply blessed by our ancestors."

Jiang Jingyuan was caught off guard when he heard this, and he almost choked as he tilted his head back.

She suddenly lowered her head, slowly opened her mouth as if she wanted to say something, paused, and then closed it silently.

Jiang Jingyuan: "..."

At least, at least they...she shouldn't be saying this here.

Jiang Jingyuan simply pretended not to hear and looked at the cliffs around him again.

Suddenly, that strange feeling of panic surged up again. Jiang Jingyuan stood still, his brows slightly frowned.

She pursed her lips, but couldn't suppress her panic. She walked towards the cliff next to her and spoke:

"Let's go up the cliff face."

The people around them suddenly came back to their senses when they heard the words, and said "Oh oh oh" and "Okay, okay", and hurriedly walked towards the cliff closest to them.

Jiang Yi was the first to climb up the cliff, turned around, and asked hesitantly, "Employer, do you think..."

“BOOM!!”

Suddenly, there was a huge rolling sound of thunder in my ears.

“Ku, ku—”

There was a strange and loud noise, and it was impossible to tell where it came from.

Jiang Yi's expression suddenly changed, and he yelled instantly—

“Hold onto the cliff face!!!”

Almost at the same time, the heavy white jade platform under everyone's feet suddenly sank rapidly!

“Ah, ah!”

Everyone screamed in panic, and rushed towards the cliff. "Tap, tap!" Hands grabbed onto the sharp rocks of the cliff.

In an instant, blood flowed down and dripped onto the person's face.

"Ah!!!" With a scream, two figures fell into the depths of darkness.

"Once you land on the platform, quickly climb up the cliff!" Jiang Yi shouted at them from above.

The two people who were falling rapidly and unable to catch up with the white jade platform felt a little relieved when they heard this.

Suddenly, loud screams came from high above.

At a high place, the people clinging to the cliff face looked down and saw.

The white jade platform, hidden in the darkness and falling rapidly, suddenly made a huge buzzing sound, and the white jade platform abruptly retracted into the side of the cliff.

Moonlight pierced the darkness.

Two barely perceptible figures thrashed and fell, screaming.

"ha!"

In the darkness, countless long figures twisted and squirmed, suddenly jumped up and wrapped around the limbs of the two people.

The two men struggled more violently, but were entangled and suppressed by long black shadows.

Their eyes bulged out and their mouths opened wide, as if they were about to scream or call for help, but they only made one sound and then fell silent.

Everyone's eyes widened and their pupils trembled.

A sticky black tide surged in the darkness. On the necks under the two faces, the fangs retracted, and a silver-white flash appeared. Blood dripped from the necks of the two men.

The shadow lying on the two people twisted and shook, and a human figure emerged. The face turned over and looked straight upwards.

Immediately afterwards, one pale human face after another rose up, stretching out half of their human form in the black tide.

Human faces appeared in the vast black tide like waves.

Their white eyeballs rolled around but their pupils couldn't move. They looked up as if they had heard something.

Human body with a snake tail, human head with a snake body... Holy crap!!!

Everyone was instantly horrified, their hair stood on end, and screams rose and fell one after another.

“Climb up, climb up, hurry up!!!”

"Go!"

"Wait!!" Jiang Yi suddenly shouted, and immediately stopped everyone's screams.

Everyone looked at him in unison, their expressions extremely ugly.

"Let the employer come over first." Jiang Yi said calmly, "It's too easy for something to go wrong if we spread out."

As he spoke, he grabbed the rock wall with one hand and untied the long rope wrapped around his arm with the other.

The long rope hung down, swaying in the air.

Jiang Yi said to the people opposite him, "I'm going to throw the rope over. Employers, come here carefully!"

“Huh?!”

Yu Linhuan was suddenly shocked and dissatisfied and said, "How can we let the boss take such a risk?!"

Jiang Yi paused, looked at Yu Linhuan who was not far to the side, and said with a helpless expression of "I can't do anything about it".

"The employer has few people, so it's the fastest and best way for them to come."

Yu Linhuan's face was suddenly filled with heartache.

Then, Jiang Yi looked at his employer again and said, "Employer, what do you think? If you want us to go over, it won't be a problem."

Jiang Jingyuan looked at the few people on his side and said to him, "Let's go higher and throw the rope over."

Jiang Yi immediately nodded and said "yes".

The two sides grabbed the rock wall and climbed up with a rustling sound.

Jiang Jingyuan suddenly blinked, looked at the sunken holes on the rock wall in front of him, paused, tentatively reached out to grab the holes, stepped the toe of his shoe into the edge of the hole, and climbed up.

She looked a little confused, thinking:

"These holes... can't be for people to climb through, right? Then... what are they?"

After a pause, Jiang Jingyuan collected his thoughts, looked up, and decided to go to the other side first!

Having made the decision, Jiang Jingyuan lowered his head to concentrate, when he suddenly caught a glimpse of a shadow flashing in the dark hole.

Jiang Jingyuan's heart suddenly skipped a beat, and then started beating wildly. He froze in place, staring at the hole.

But the dark hole was quiet, and the swaying shadow seemed to be just an illusion when her peripheral vision turned.

Jiang Jingyuan paused, climbed up a little further, turned around and said to the person opposite:

"Throw the rope over here."

Across from him, Jiang Yi stopped immediately, stood firm, and tied one end of the rope around his arm, then strung a few copper coins on the other end.

Even though I have no spiritual power left, after all these years I can't be useless without spiritual power, right?

Just be careful and pay attention. At most you will feel uncomfortable or unaccustomed to it, but it won't be difficult.

"Miss."

Suddenly, a maid next to her spoke up and looked over, her eyes worried yet determined, "Miss, I'll go over there to meet you first."

Jiang Jingyuan understood what she meant and said "hmm" without any reaction. "Okay." He simply agreed.

The maid smiled at her immediately, then turned to Jiang Yi and shouted, "Throw the rope to me first!"

Jiang Yi responded "Okay", suddenly exerted force on his hand, and swung the rope tied to the copper coin over!

The mottled luster of copper coins cut through the darkness.

The maid reached out and grabbed a few copper coins steadily. She glanced at the figure in white next to her with a firm look in her eyes. She tapped the rock wall with her foot and flew across the abyss.

"Click, click..."

White hands grabbed onto the rock wall where the vegetation was lush.

Then, "whoosh——" the grass and vines broke, and the white hand slid down suddenly.

The maid gritted her teeth, exerted force with the five fingers of her right hand, and dug into the rocks. She struggled to grab the rock wall with her left hand, and gradually found a place to stand firmly.

She then breathed a sigh of relief, let go of the long string of copper coins, and turned to look across.

Above, Jiang Yi quickly pulled the long rope back into his hand and turned his head to look at the opposite side.

Jiang Jingyuan paused and said loudly, "Throw it to me."

Jiang Yi responded again, held the copper coin firmly, exerted force on his hand again, and threw it over.

“Snap!”

Jiang Jingyuan grabbed the copper coin, then turned around, kicked the rock wall with his feet, and leaped to the opposite side.

However, as soon as she left the rock wall, a chill suddenly rushed up Jiang Jingyuan's back.

Several people around suddenly screamed:

"Your Highness!!! There is a snake-!!"

They were suddenly in a panic and frantic, looking everywhere for pearls and coins.

Everyone's pupils trembled.

In the gray darkness, behind the white figure, a long shadow suddenly popped out from the sparse grass and trees on the rock wall.

"Ha!" The scarlet mouth opened wide, and the long fangs flashed coldly in the moonlight—

Bit towards the neck of the figure in white!

Under the terrified gazes of the crowd, the girl in white remained calm, as if she had expected it, and did not even look back.

Jiang Jingyuan's expression remained calm. Suddenly, blood-red lines appeared on the back of his right hand...

The aura around her suddenly became powerful and majestic.

The white clothes were faintly filled with an illusory blood color.

The next moment!

The incomplete blood-red lines on the back of Jiang Jingyuan's hand suddenly stopped.

“???” Jiang Jingyuan suddenly had an ominous premonition in his heart. The black and red lines disappeared in an instant, and the back of his hand turned white.

Jiang Jingyuan: "???!!!"

Jiang Jingyuan cursed loudly in his heart, and then called out in grief in his mind:

"Xu Qinglin——!!!"

Xu Qinglin...his mind was at peace.

"Puff!"

There was a sharp pain in the shoulder and neck, and the silver-white fangs suddenly pierced through the skin and penetrated into the flesh.

Jiang Jingyuan's eyes suddenly became dull and lifeless.

Jiang Jingyuan was heartbroken.