Chapter 35 A Blessing in Disguise

The monsters in the tomb are different from ordinary monsters. They are more afraid of light and heat, and because they have no flesh and blood, they are not afraid of ordinary sword and knife damage.

Xu Chuchu cast the cleansing spell on the sword, supplemented by the Taoist talisman, and then struck the vital points to kill with one blow.

This purification spell was originally a fourth-level Taoist spell. She relied purely on her past experience to force it out with her second-level cultivation. Now, all the spiritual energy in her body was drained and she could barely stand.

However, there is no construction without destruction. After her spiritual power was drained, a warm current began to flow from her brows, and then quickly spread to her limbs and bones.

The spiritual power that had been blocked for a long time was released and rolled wildly in his body. Xu Chuchu immediately meditated to stabilize this power. With one go, he finally sprinted from the second level to the beginning of the third level in one breath.

She opened her eyes and let out a long breath.

"How is it?" Xiao Yu could see that Xu Chuchu was recuperating, so he didn't disturb her. He waited until she opened her eyes before asking.

Xu Chuchu breathed a sigh of relief and said happily, "It's a blessing in disguise."

It took only one or two months to go from the first level to the third level. If other physiognomists knew about this speed of cultivation, they would probably be envious and hate him to death. However, Xu Chuchu himself was still not satisfied. After all, it felt too helpless without power in his hands.

She previously thought that staying with Xiao Yu would be beneficial to her cultivation, but without actual experience and combat, it would be difficult to achieve a qualitative leap just by relying on other people's physique.

It turns out that nothing can be achieved by taking shortcuts. Let's leave after this case is settled.

"That's fine." Xiao Yu curled his lips when he heard that. "Can you still walk?"

"We have to go even if we can't." Xu Chuchu joked and stood up with the sword.

Although she is very tired now, she is in good spirits.

Xiao Yu paused and said, "If Brother Shao were here, you could ask him to carry you. But unfortunately, he took his men up first."

"Can you stop messing around with matchmaking? He's not my type." Xu Chuchu said helplessly, "Let's go, we should get out of here quickly. There are corpse silkworms growing in this tomb, and who knows what other monsters there are."

“…Okay, let’s go.”

The two of them simply returned along the same route, and since they still remembered the route, this time it was much faster.

On the way, Xu Chuchu asked Xiao Yu some questions about burying living people with the dead, and only then did he realize that no matter in the previous dynasty or the current Xia Dynasty, the royal family had the bad habit of burying living people with the dead.

Some of them took their servants away, and some even took their wives and concubines away.

"That's too shameless! I really can't bear it. Why don't they just drag their whole family with them to the underworld to enjoy themselves?" Xu Chuchu grew angrier as she listened. "The royal family doesn't treat people as human beings. Sooner or later, they'll get their comeuppance."

Xiao Yu suddenly laughed: "Do you hate the royal family?"

"...That's not it." Xu Chuchu pondered and asked back, "Do you have any relationship with the royal family, Xiao Yu?"

The more she thought about it these past two days, the more she felt that Xiao Yu was from a prominent background.

It would be fine if he treated the officials of the Dali Temple as his sworn brothers, but he even had to treat the governor with respect. Even if he looked down on him in private, he would publicly act submissive and cautious.

But whether it was the governor or his followers, they all called Xiao Yu "Young Master", an ambiguous honorific, as if he had no other identity besides being a noble young master.

Xu Chuchu thought for a moment and added, "It's okay if it's inconvenient to say it."

"It's not inconvenient. Don't you know enough about my secrets?" Xiao Yu said subconsciously, "I..."

The words were on the tip of my tongue, but I froze in the end.

"It's okay." Xu Chuchu said quickly.

"... maybe it's because they are related to the royal family." Xiao Yu said finally.

"Wow! They're truly royal relatives!" Xu Chuchu immediately changed his attitude towards the royal family and said flatteringly, "Good brother, protect me from now on."

"You are so capable, but do you still need my protection?" Xiao Yu smiled helplessly.

"Yes, yes. When I become a great master or a great magician in the future, it will depend on you." Xu Chuchu also answered with a smile.

Of course, she didn't really want Xiao Yu to help her with anything, but she vaguely felt that Xiao Yu didn't like this topic, so she deliberately made a few teasing remarks.

She was about to say something else when she suddenly stopped and looked back at the dark corridor behind her.

Xiao Yu also reacted quickly and said vigilantly: "There's movement behind us."

"Oh no." Xu Chuchu took out the compass from his arms and found that the originally stable needle began to spin back and forth frantically. "It must be the death of the corpse silkworm. Run!"

This time, there were no coffins for them to hide in, so they could only keep moving forward. They ran furiously, knowing that the road ahead was still long and the dark corridor seemed endless.

Xu Chuchu was worried that Xiao Yu would run too fast and step into the mechanism in the corridor, so she was ready to pull his sleeve to make him follow her.

Before he stretched out his hand halfway, Xiao Yu grabbed his wrist.

"Don't be afraid." Xiao Yu ran in front of Xu Chuchu with two big strides and took her hand. "I still remember the route. I'll take you there."

Xu Chuchu: “…”

Both of them moved very agilely, but the sound behind them was getting closer and closer, faster than Xu Chuchu had imagined.

"What is it?" Xiao Yu asked.

"A bunch of corpse silkworms, we can't defeat them." Xu Chuchu listened to the unique crawling and roaring sounds of the corpse silkworms behind him, "No, it's too late!"

She suddenly grabbed Xiao Yu, jumped into a narrow fork in the road, and covered his mouth tightly with her hand.

Almost in the next second, a large group of corpse silkworms rushed past where they had just stood. If they had not dodged, they would have been torn to pieces by the corpse silkworms.

These corpse silkworms are larger and more ferocious. Even though Xu Chuchu has just reached the third level, there is no way he can fight against so many corpse silkworms.

"Hurry up!" Xu Chuchu pulled Xiao Yu up again, "They can sense the breath of living people, they will come back sooner or later!"

Now they had no time to think about how to leave the mausoleum, and could only find a place to save their lives.

"There should be an annex up ahead that contains burial objects." Xu Chuchu glanced at the compass again. "Let's hide inside and use the objects inside to block the door."

This corridor is not long and has no other mechanisms. It leads directly to an ordinary ear chamber.

This side chamber was only the size of the wing room where Xu Chuchu lived in the yamen. The door was only one and a half meters wide and not very spacious, which was just right for blocking the room.

However, Xu Chuchu searched the ground and only found a pile of empty, chopped-up wooden boxes. "Oh no! Tomb robbers have visited this place too, and they've taken everything away!"

If they can't block the door, they will be in a dead end waiting to die!

"Come over here!" Xiao Yu shouted from the side, "You go in first, I'll push the stone tablet over to block it."

Xu Chuchu looked in the direction Xiao Yu pointed and saw a recessed wall in the ear chamber that could barely fit two or three people. Directly opposite the wall was an inscribed stone tablet more than one meter tall.

She understood instantly.

So clever! They couldn’t build a cage to lock up the corpse silkworms, but they could build a cage to lock up themselves.

I don’t care who is inside or outside, as long as they can’t hit me.