Gu Xicheng closed his eyes. He didn't know how to awaken the sleeping god; he was just searching for that aura by feeling.
Before long, he saw a miniature version of himself deep within his soul.
Was this his past life, that deity?
As Gu Xicheng was engrossed in watching, the deity suddenly opened its eyes.
A golden light flashed, and Gu Xicheng fainted.
In reality, Gu Xicheng slowly opened his eyes.
Although the person was still the same, Lu Qing could tell that he was no longer Gu Xicheng.
"Are you...a god?"
The god turned his head and glanced at Lu Qing, his expression indifferent, without saying a word.
Lu Qing frowned slightly, a sense of panic rising in her heart, as if Gu Xicheng had disappeared.
"Where did Gu Xicheng go?" Lu Qing asked anxiously.
The deity did not answer, but slowly stepped forward and approached the statue.
"It's still here after all this time!"
Lu Qing, unwilling to give up, chased after him and demanded sharply, "Where did Gu Xicheng go?"
The god looked at her and said in a cold tone:
"Didn't you ask him to wake me up? I woke up, and he naturally fell asleep again."
Lu Qing's heart skipped a beat, and an unprecedented sense of panic crept into her heart.
"Impossible! When I dealt with Shaluo last time, I clearly..."
The deity interrupted Lu Qing:
“Last time I took the initiative to appear and he took the lead, but this time he took the initiative to wake me up.”
Lu Qing's eyes narrowed: "Then... will he wake up again?"
The deity did not speak, but turned and left.
He was very fast and disappeared in the blink of an eye.
Lu Qing immediately gave chase, but the person disappeared from sight in a short while.
"Gu Xicheng! Gu Xicheng, where are you?!"
Lu Qing was filled with regret at this moment. Why did she have to let Gu Xicheng awaken that so-called god?
But it's too late to regret now; the most important thing is to get out of here.
Lu Qing wasn't worried about Gu Xicheng's safety; that god wouldn't let his reincarnation die in his own tomb.
Lu Qing picked up a torch from the wall and poured out the fuel from the other torches, wrapping it in his clothes to prevent it from losing its light in the tomb.
She walked along the tomb passage for a while and then discovered another tomb chamber.
The tomb contained several coffins, with paintings and inscriptions carved on them.
Lu Qing couldn't read the words, but he could roughly understand the meaning of the painting.
The coffins here are the coffins of the eight elders who guarded the god. After the god's fall, they volunteered to be buried with him.
There are eight coffins here, each corresponding to one of the eight elders.
The coffin was filled with a heavy yin energy; it was definitely a giant, thousand-year-old zombie. Lu Qing wasn't afraid, but he didn't want to get involved easily.
Lu Qing examined all eight coffins, but found that the last coffin had no yin energy at all.
"strangeness!"
Lu Qing pushed the coffin lid open forcefully and found that it was completely empty; there was no corpse inside.
The funerary objects and gold and silver treasures were still there, so it didn't seem like they were taken away by tomb robbers.
Moreover, there was an array on the coffin lid, and there were no signs of damage from the outside.
Then there's only one possibility—the last elder who was to be buried alive with the deceased has run away.
Since some people were able to escape, it means there must be a hidden escape route in this underwater tomb.
Lu Qing tried to find any trace of the person who had escaped, but found nothing.
Thousands of years have passed; even if there are traces, they have probably disappeared!
Lu Qing sighed and continued examining the tomb chamber.
Just then, a dog's bark made her instantly tense.
Red-eyed mastiff!
Lu Qing looked towards the entrance of the tomb chamber and saw a red-eyed mastiff walk in.
It looked at Lu Qing, then suddenly raised its head and barked wildly:
"Woof woof woof..."
Lu Qing quickly realized that it was calling for its companions.
She immediately rushed forward and smashed the red-eyed mastiff's head with a torch, using it as a stick.
But it was too late; countless red-eyed mastiffs were charging towards her.
Faced with so many red-eyed mastiffs, Lu Qing could only hide if he wanted to conserve his strength.
She quickly closed the tomb door, but a second before it closed, she saw Gu Xicheng's figure flash by.
Immediately afterwards, the door to the tomb was opened.
Countless red-eyed mastiffs rushed in.
Lu Qing's brows furrowed deeply. Gu Xicheng... no! It was that god who wanted to kill her!
But why? Does she have a grudge against the gods?
Without time to think too much, Lu Qing quickly climbed up a pillar in the tomb chamber.
At first, the red-eyed mastiffs couldn't get up, but as their numbers increased, they somehow managed to climb up one after another like a ladder.
Lu Qing was quickly cornered.
Just as she was preparing to fight the group of red-eyed mastiffs, she suddenly noticed out of the corner of her eye that something was wrong with a brick on the top of the tomb.
It seems to protrude a little more than the other bricks, as if it were loose.
Is this the escape route of the fleeing elder?
Lu Qing struck out with his palm, and the brick fell down, revealing an upward passage.
Lu Qing breathed a sigh of relief and smiled slightly:
"There's always a way out!"
Goodbye, little puppies!
Lu Qing leaped up, bracing his legs against the wall of the passage, and slowly climbed upwards.
This passage is very narrow, only wide enough for one person to pass through, and you can't be too fat, otherwise you won't even be able to squeeze through.
After climbing for a while, the angle of the passage gradually decreased, but the exit was still not visible.
Lu Qing could only keep climbing forward along it.
Fortunately, she had cultivated since childhood, and her physical strength was unmatched by ordinary people; otherwise, she would have been exhausted after climbing for so long.
After an unknown amount of time, Lu Qing finally saw a glimmer of light.
She cautiously peeked out from the passageway, making sure there was no danger around before climbing out.
However, before she could rest for a while, she heard a whistle.
Immediately afterwards, Lu Qing felt the red-eyed mastiff approaching her.
She immediately turned and ran, cursing as she went:
"Gu Xicheng, you were a bastard in your past life!"
"What kind of bullshit gods are you! What have I ever done to you? Why do you insist on killing me?!"
The god hidden in the shadows frowned upon hearing the curses.
Gu Xicheng, who was asleep inside the body, trembled with his tightly closed eyes, as if he was about to wake up.
Sensing the abnormality in his body, the god's indifferent expression finally softened slightly.
A ruthless glint flashed in his eyes.
This woman must disappear as soon as possible!
More red-eyed mastiffs approached Lu Qing.
Lu Qing arrived at a four-way intersection, only to find that all the passages in all directions were blocked by packs of red-eyed mastiffs.
She had no doubt that the god had summoned all the red-eyed mastiffs in the entire tomb to kill her.
Damn it!
Lu Qing took a deep breath, then formed hand seals and summoned her weapon.
That was a judge's pen, a gift from her master.
Because of its immense destructive power, she rarely had the chance to use it. She only remembered using it twice, and both battles nearly cost her her life.
Lu Qing gripped the pen tightly, his aura surging around him, making no attempt to conceal it.
She found a direction and, before the red-eyed mastiff could move, she preemptively struck.
The judge's pen danced through the air, drawing powerful magical seals. With a single strike, a large number of red-eyed mastiffs fell.
The red-eyed mastiffs behind them pounced over the corpses of their companions, the smell of blood driving them even more frenzied.
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