Chapter 10 Chapter 10 "Your belt is still attached"
The darkroom is at the end of the corridor, an airtight space like a cage, surrounded by hard and cold stone walls. Murals depicting flowers and trees extend all the way to the top of the darkroom.
After knowing that it was the Albizia Julibrissin tree, Ye Yunxi did not approach the stone wall anymore. Instead, he stood shoulder to shoulder with Ning Shuangchen, looking at this enclosed space through the dim light of the luminous stone.
There were several round stone pillars half a person's height standing around the dark room, with a strange relief pattern engraved in the middle. It looked like some kind of text, with horizontal and vertical strokes and hooks in no regular pattern, making it difficult to recognize.
The two of them turned around and cast their eyes towards the surrounding stone pillars. There were six stone pillars in the dark room, arranged in an arc shape, surrounding the relief pattern in the center like stars surrounding the moon.
Ye Yunxi walked closer and took a look. He found that there was a word engraved on each stone pillar. Under the illumination of the luminous stone, he read out the words one by one: "Wood, wood, two, small, earth, also..."
There are six stone pillars, each engraved with six words.
After finishing reading, Ye Yunxi turned to look at Ning Shuangchen, "What does this mean?"
Ning Shuangchen turned her gaze to the relief pattern in the center of the dark room.
Ye Yunxi followed his line of sight and upon closer inspection, he found that the carvings on the relief were very similar to the text on the stone pillar.
An idea suddenly flashed in his mind, "I know! I'll do it!"
Ning Shuangchen always steals the spotlight, and this time it's finally his turn.
Ye Yunxi walked to one of the stone pillars and looked at it carefully for a moment. Sure enough, he found a mechanism on the side of the stone pillar. It was the same mechanism as the one for opening the stone door, and there was a pattern of some kind of flowers and plants engraved on it.
Only now did he realize that the flowers in the pattern were cassia trees.
Each stone pillar has a mechanism. As the mechanism rotates, red lights converge from all directions into the center of the dark room. The relief in the middle moves accordingly, slowly piecing together the scattered carvings into two eye-catching large characters.
——Forbidden area.
Ye Yunxi repeated it and his expression changed slightly.
He and Ning Shuangchen looked at each other and soon understood that from the very beginning, the word "ban" had been engraved on the stone gate, but the lower half of the handwriting had long been unclear, so only the word "lin" was left.
The so-called forbidden area is a place where entry is prohibited.
Since this place is a forbidden area, it is not the exit of the deep cliff.
"we……"
Ye Yunxi had just opened his mouth, but before he could finish his words, he heard a loud noise coming from outside the corridor.
It’s Shimen!
The two men's expressions suddenly changed. Just as they were about to raise their legs, their feet suddenly felt empty.
A crack suddenly appeared on the relief engraved with the words "Forbidden Area", and like a black whirlpool, it instantly swallowed up the two people in the dark room.
This scene happened too fast and too suddenly. Ye Yunxi had no time to react. By the time he came to his senses, his body had been sucked into the dark crack by a strong airflow.
Faintly, it seemed as if a warm, large hand grasped his wrist.
Is it Ning Shuangchen?
Ye Yunxi only felt a black screen in front of his eyes, and his consciousness suddenly fell into darkness. He didn't know how much time had passed before he woke up slowly in a daze.
It was pitch black all around, and I couldn't see my hand in front of me. It felt like I was in an endless night, and there was not a single star to be seen.
Ye Yunxi moved his wrist slowly, and the hand that was tightly grasping his wrist seemed to have loosened. He lay there in a daze for a long time with his eyes closed, and finally came to his senses.
They touched the mechanism, a crack appeared under their feet, and they fell...
So what now?
Ye Yunxi groped along the stone wall beside him and slowly climbed up from the ground. When he was fully awake, he finally felt a little scared of the darkness before him.
He pursed his lips and called out softly to the dark surroundings: "Ning Shuangchen?"
No response.
A cold wind blew from behind, and a chill went away from my feet.
Ye Yunxi couldn't help but shrink his neck and wrapped the ill-fitting robe tightly around him.
Could it be that Ning Shuangchen also fainted?
He called out again: "Ning Shuangchen? Are you there?"
Still no response.
It seems that either he is really dizzy or he is not here.
Without any lighting tools, the road could not be seen at all. Ye Yunxi decided to look for the lost luminous stone first.
He held onto the stone wall, sword in hand, and walked forward step by step, stopping every few steps. After walking for about half an incense stick of time, he saw a faint light flashing around the corner ahead.
Ye Yunxi thought it was a luminous stone that had fallen down, so he quickened his pace. The faint light was getting closer and closer. When he turned the corner, several fluorescent stone lanterns suddenly appeared before his eyes.
There is no luminous stone in front of us, but a hot spring with steam rising from it. Next to the hot spring is an octagonal pavilion and a stone table. The eaves of the pavilion are covered with fluttering gauze. There are flickering lights and a stone path winding to the ground.
Ye Yunxi never expected that there would be such a place under the dark room. He was stunned for a moment until a soft and charming voice floated to his ears.
"Come here."
He looked in the direction of the sound, and saw a figure in red clothes appearing in the octagonal pavilion. She had her back to him, long hair like a waterfall, and a slender figure.
Is there anyone else in the forbidden area?
But there was clearly no one here just now.
Ye Yunxi took a cautious step forward, then quickly stopped and asked, "Who are you?"
As soon as he finished speaking, the man in red in the pavilion suddenly disappeared. Then, a warm body came up from behind and blew gently on the back of his neck.
The voice reached my ears, extremely gentle, "What do you think?"
Ye Yunxi felt goosebumps all over his body when he heard this. He frowned and asked impatiently, "Who are you?"
When he turned around, the man in red disappeared again and returned to the octagonal pavilion not far away.
Is it an illusion?
But everything before my eyes is so real.
"Want to know who I am?" The man in red leaned against the pavilion railing, playing with the glass wine glass in his hand, and said lazily: "You might as well turn around and take a look."
Of course, Ye Yunxi did not just listen to him. The man in red was too far away from him. From just now until now, he could not see the other person's appearance at all. He could only tell from the voice that it seemed to be a young man.
He hesitated for a moment, wondering whether to turn around and look, when suddenly a voice came from behind him.
"Ye Yunxi?"
Sounds very familiar.
It is the sound of Ning Shuangchen.
Ye Yunxi then turned around and saw that the person who called him was indeed Ning Shuangchen, standing in the shadow of the corner of the stone wall with a long sword in hand.
Seeing that it was him, Ning Shuangchen took a step towards him and said as she walked, "So you are here."
Ye Yunxi didn't expect Ning Shuangchen to fall behind, and was a little surprised, but when he thought that he might wake up before him, he didn't think much about it.
He raised his chin slightly and snorted, "You are too slow."
Then he turned his eyes and said, "But you came at the right time. I just saw a strange man here. He just told me..."
When I turned around, I found that the man in red was no longer in the pavilion. The light gauze was fluttering in the wind, and the pavilion railing was empty.
Ye Yunxi couldn't help but look ashamed: "Where is that person? He was clearly there just now..."
Ning Shuangchen had already walked to his side, followed his gaze towards the octagonal pavilion, and asked, "What kind of person?"
Ye Yunxi said truthfully: "He had long hair and was wearing a red shirt. I didn't see his face clearly, but from the sound of his voice, he should be a man."
He still felt strange and continued, "I asked him who he was but he didn't tell me. He just asked me to guess and then he asked me to look back. I turned around and saw you coming."
"Red clothes, long hair..." Ning Shuangchen thought for a moment and said, "What you saw might be the Fengyue Sect's illusion technique."
Fengyue Sect? Ye Yunxi was slightly startled when he heard this: "You mean, that was an illusion created by the Fengyue Sect?"
Ning Shuangchen nodded: "Yes."
Ye Yunxi was still puzzled: "But isn't this a forbidden area? Could it be... that this forbidden area is related to Fengyue Sect?"
If this is the case, then it is not just as simple as a disciple of Fengyue Sect being here.
Ning Shuangchen took over and said, "It's not impossible."
After he finished speaking, he looked around, walked to the hot spring, bent down and put his hand into the water.
Ye Yunxi was about to ask him what to do next when he turned around and saw Ning Shuangchen standing next to the hot spring, apparently untying the belt around his waist.
He paused, turned away hastily, frowned, and asked, "What are you doing?"
Ning Shuangchen tested the water temperature and said slowly, "Don't you want to change clothes? There is a hot spring here, and you can take a rest."
He wanted to change his clothes, but he didn't want to take a hot spring bath with Ning Shuangchen!
Ye Yunxi still looked away: "Let's talk about it after we get out."
This is a forbidden area, who knows if something might suddenly come out, and it always sounds a bit weird to change clothes and soak in the hot spring here.
Seeing that Ning Shuangchen didn't move, Ye Yunxi tilted his head slightly and glanced at her with the corner of his eye, only to see that Ning Shuangchen had already taken off his clothes and soaked in the water.
Are you really planning to take a hot spring bath?
He had no patience and turned around and said, "If you want to rest, do it yourself. I'm leaving."
He just wanted to get out as soon as possible, but he didn't have the leisure time.
Just as he took a step forward, a hand suddenly grabbed his ankle from behind. His foot slipped and with a splash, the water surface splashed and he fell into the water from the hot spring.
Ning Shuangchen!
Ye Yunxi was forced to swallow his saliva, poked his head out of the water, wiped the water droplets on his face, and was caught off guard by the sudden fall into the water.
He couldn't help but said angrily: "What are you doing! Do you want to die?"
The next second, Ning Shuangchen surfaced from beside him, slowly approached him, stared at him intently, and said in a tempting voice, "Guess what I want to do?"
Ye Yunxi subconsciously retreated back to the edge of the pool, his back resting against the stone bank of the hot spring, and his expression finally showed a hint of panic.
"Who knows what you want to do?"
This feeling is so strange.
It was as if... Ning Shuangchen suddenly became a different person.
Seeing him getting closer and closer, Ye Yunxi realized something was wrong and asked hurriedly, "What happened to you? Are you under an illusion?"
Ning Shuangchen stopped in front of him, still staring at him intently, with an expression that had never been so gentle, as if coaxing him, "You haven't untied your belt yet, I'll help you."
Ye Yunxi's ears felt hot from being stared at by him. He tilted his head slightly and uttered two words hesitantly: "No, no need..."
But Ning Shuangchen seemed not to listen to him at all. The warm breath fell slowly. He was so close that he could even see the water droplets rolling down her broad arms. His heartbeat inexplicably quickened.
In a trance, the burning palm fell on his waist.
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