Although the master didn't say anything at the time, he just turned around and left very quickly.

But it was also on that occasion that her master left the Dan Sect alone for several months without saying a word to her.

That was also the first time she had ever felt the fear of possibly losing her master.

High up on the cliff face, a narrow iron chain ladder hangs down, allowing only one person to climb at a time.

Wu Zhong led the charge again, with Wu Shang close behind.

Wuhen and Xique originally intended to stay behind, but seeing that Ji Fengyao kept her eyes down and showed no intention of moving, they had no choice but to go first.

With only Shang Xiye and Ji Fengyao remaining, he saw that Ji Fengyao still showed no intention of moving and assumed that she wanted to cover his retreat. He whispered, "Little wife, you go first, I'll follow behind you."

Ji Fengyao snapped out of her reverie and met Shang Xiye's gentle and handsome eyes. She barely managed to suppress the urge to hug him: "Okay."

The iron chain ladder extends to the entrance of a cave in the center of the cliff, where two well-equipped guards stand watch.

This time, the guard who checked the waist tag took the tag but did not let him pass. Instead, he looked at Wu Zhong with suspicion and said, "Didn't His Highness already give the order yesterday that anyone coming here from today onwards must change their waist tag? Why didn't you change yours?"

Wu Zhong was slightly taken aback, but quickly recovered and laughed, "Isn't it because I drank too much cat urine and was delayed? Tsk, a few new beauties from the Hu Kingdom have arrived at Cuihong Pavilion. Their figures and dances are absolutely captivating. We'll go and see for ourselves later."

As he spoke, he slipped half a silver ingot into the hand of the guard who was checking the waist token.

To everyone's surprise, the guard didn't fall for it.

"Take off your mask and let me see!" the guard glared angrily and shouted.

Upon hearing the commotion, the other two teams of guards drew their swords and surrounded the area.

Seeing this, Shang Xiye, Ji Fengyao, Wuhen, Xique, and Wushang also slightly clenched their fingers, preparing for battle.

"Hey, why are you taking this so seriously..." Wu Zhong awkwardly took back the half ingot of silver, pretending not to care as he reached out to wipe the mask off his face.

When the guards saw that his hands were empty and that he was about to remove his mask, they relaxed their vigilance.

Unexpectedly, Wu Zhong reached his hand in front of the mask, then suddenly flipped his palm and flung out several extremely sharp darts. The darts pierced the throats of the guards closest to him one after another, and the guards collapsed to the ground clutching their throats before they could even cry out.

Wu Zhong took action at the same time.

Shang Xiye, Wuhen, and Wushang also made their moves almost simultaneously. The tacit understanding they had developed over the years on the battlefield was terrifying; they didn't even exchange a single glance!

Ji Fengyao reacted a beat slower, but she quickly covered the mouth of the last guard who was about to shout to report the news with a packet of medicine powder.

The two teams of highly skilled guards were dealt with before they could even react.

The magpie had barely raised its hand when it hadn't even had time to take out its whip.

She pouted: "..."

The son-in-law and his bodyguards are nothing but bandits; they didn't leave her a single one!

Following the oil lamps along the cave walls, the group easily dispatched several smaller groups of people with their fighting prowess, and arrived deep inside the cave.

There is a large, circular hall here that has been widened by human intervention.

The main hall was brightly lit.

On both sides are stone chambers with tightly closed stone doors, totaling about thirty-two chambers, with four strong and sturdy guards standing at the entrance of each chamber.

In the center of the main hall, a stone path runs straight through, its destination unknown.