Fortunately, after walking for about five minutes, Xiao Jin discovered that the road in front of him was a dead end.
Seeing this, she had no choice but to stop and go forward to check.
After realizing that there were no secret passages or mechanisms, Xiao Jin left without looking back to chase after Yun Ye.
This is the advantage of having two people exploring; even if they encounter a fork in the road, it won't delay their progress.
Xiao Jin moved forward at full speed, faster than Yun Ye. But she didn't expect that Yun Ye didn't move forward, but stood alone at a fork in the road.
Upon seeing Xiao Jin, Yun Ye breathed a sigh of relief: "That's perfect, I didn't know which way to go."
"The usual?"
"OK!"
After saying this, the two chose a topic that appealed to them and went off to scout out the way.
This time, it was Yunye who encountered a dead end.
After that, Xiao Jin and the other person encountered three more forks in the road before finally finding the right direction.
"The stone wall is moving."
Not long after they reunited, Xiao Jin and Yun Ye headed towards the final passage, but after only a short while, they encountered another problem.
After Yunye whispered those words, Xiao Jin listened carefully and indeed heard a faint rustling sound.
Suddenly, she abruptly took half a step back, and five withered fingers suddenly emerged from where she had been standing. The bluish-gray nails grazed her nose, bringing with them a putrid smell.
Upon closer inspection, the two saw countless human-shaped protrusions emerging from the stone wall, as if countless corpses were trying to break through the wall.
"Run!" Xiao Jin shouted.
The two ran wildly through the narrow passage, the stone walls behind them writhing as if alive, withered hands constantly stabbing out like bamboo shoots after a rain.
Xiao Jin swung his longsword in a backhand motion, the sharp blade energy carving deep furrows into the rock face, the sound of bones cracking echoing as rocks flew everywhere.
"We'll be able to leave soon."
Xiao Jin looked up and found that the cave entrance in front of her was no longer incredibly narrow; there seemed to be a faint light coming from it. They must have found their destination.
But the moment the two ran out of the tunnel, the darkness suddenly became as thick as ink.
Xiao Jin's pupils suddenly contracted—the faint light before her eyes vanished, and she could no longer hear Yun Ye's footsteps. She felt as if she had been thrown into an asphalt pool, her five senses completely stripped away.
What's going on? Was it those ghostly figures?
Xiao Jin was tense all over, not flustered, but alert.
Don't panic, don't panic~
Xiao Jin repeatedly reminded herself of this.
She immediately mobilized all her senses, determined not to miss any slight movement around her.
I don't know how much time passed—a minute? An hour? Or maybe longer.
As the icy breath touched the back of her neck, Xiao Jin's knife shot out in an instant, following the sound of the wind. Her movements were incredibly fast, as if she had been waiting for this moment.
With a "splat," the blade made a sensation like piercing a rotten watermelon. Putrid liquid splattered on my face, and the darkness receded like the tide.
Xiao Jin blinked; her five senses had returned.
After wiping his face, Xiao Jin saw Yun Ye pulling a weapon from a headless corpse—the thing was wearing a Taoist robe, but its severed neck was covered with mycelium.
"What is that?" Xiao Jin asked.
"A trick to deceive, a petty charade. I've encountered it before," Yunye replied calmly.
"These things aren't very strong. As long as we don't panic, we can turn the tables when they make their move."
"I see!" Xiao Jin nodded.
really!
If they were truly strong, they wouldn't need to hide!
………………
Finally, I had time to observe my surroundings.
After leaving the passage, Xiao Jin and Yun Ye entered a vast space.
How big is it exactly?
It's as if the entire mountain has been hollowed out!
The seven stone pillars that originally stood atop the altar are also present here. And what is most eye-catching is undoubtedly the bronze coffin in the center of the pit.
At this moment, the coffin emitted a ghostly green rusty light.
“That must be where the remains are hidden, right?” As he spoke, Yunye walked forward slowly, with Xiao Jin following closely behind.
With the final push in sight, neither of them wanted to slip up, so they were both extremely cautious.
Stepping forward and looking at the coffin covered in engravings, Xiao Jin silently patted a one-time defensive talisman onto his body.
"Open the coffin!"
They exchanged a glance and then began to act simultaneously.
Xiao Jin's long sword embedded itself hard in the coffin seam, and at the same time, she twisted her wrist, causing the heavy coffin lid to fly off instantly.
On the other side, Yunye did the same thing.
The moment the coffin lid was lifted, the two of them leaped backward simultaneously—
Sure enough, it was another trap.
Instead of the remains of any evil god, the coffin contained a gigantic, rotting, stitched-together monster.
Realizing that its 'home' had been destroyed, the giant monster made of rotting corpses burst forth from the coffin!
Several arms moved like the legs of a centipede, and the head at the very top suddenly split into four pieces, revealing a ring of sharp teeth inside.
Yunye severed three attacking corpse arms, but the severed limbs turned into black snakes and shot up as soon as they hit the ground!
Xiao Jin spun around and cleaved through the swarm of snakes. The moment his blade pierced the main body of the snake, pus and blood gushed out, congealing into a blood arrow in the air.
She turned her head to avoid it, but a bloody scratch was still left. The wound burned with pain, and her vision began to blur—oh no, it was corpse poison again!
Xiao Jin activated the 'Key of the Moon' to summon a clone to hold off the Stitches monster while she quickly detoxified herself.
After taking an antidote, Xiao Jin's blurred vision finally cleared. Immediately, her speed increased dramatically, and she began to work with her clones to fight the stitched monster.
Of course, during the intervals between their fight, Xiao Jin would occasionally observe the surrounding situation.
Sure enough, she did discover something was amiss.
"There's a mechanism in the bottom of the coffin!" Xiao Jin's eyes lit up, and she quickly shouted.
Yunye understood Xiao Jin. Taking advantage of the gap between Xiao Jin and his clone holding back the stitched monster, he pounced on the side of the coffin and stabbed his claws into the gaps in the bottom plate.
With a loud "crack," the entire pit trembled violently, and rocks from the right side of the mountainside crumbled away.
"Aaaaaah!!!"
But their actions angered the Frankenstein's monster.
As if his treasure had been coveted, the other party, enraged, began to let out a piercing roar, causing the surrounding stones to fall off one by one.
However, Xiao Jin and Yun Ye had no time to pay attention to it at the moment, as their eyes were completely drawn to the direction of the stone wall.
The moment Yunye broke the bottom plate mechanism, a huge piece of ice was exposed in the cave space.
A black-haired youth was trapped in a three-meter-high ice floe, his eyelashes still covered in frost, as if he were simply asleep.
That face was almost eerily beautiful, like a statue sculpted from moonlight.
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