"Why are they so afraid of you?" Yan An asked curiously. After all, she could only hear rumors about what kind of person Yue Xiyuan was before, and this was how she saw him.
"I don't know. Maybe their martial arts skills are not good enough and they can't beat me. I'm not sure." Yue Xiyuan had no idea why they were afraid of him. He hadn't done anything wrong.
If the two people in front knew that Yue Xiyuan described them like that, they would definitely complain in their hearts, since they couldn't (dared not) say it openly.
They're claiming they didn't do anything, when they clearly did everything they could and couldn't have done! They weren't just outmatched; they were completely one-sidedly getting beaten up...
"Xiyuan, did we just pass through here?" Qi Hongchen stopped in his tracks. Although the area was full of deep mountains and trees, he had a feeling that this place was familiar.
Yue Xiyuan and Yan An also stopped. Yue Xiyuan carefully looked around. "This is the place we just passed. It's the Inverted Qimen Formation. No wonder the Imperial Guards searched for many days without finding anything. They didn't really go deep into this mountain forest."
"The Reversed Qimen Formation? I think I've heard my master mention it before, but unfortunately he said I just don't have the knack for mystical arts. Even if I memorize all the contents of the book, I still won't be able to understand a single thing."
Yan An recalled wanting to go down the mountain when she was a child, but she couldn't open the mechanism set up by her master no matter what she did. She begged her master to teach her the mystical formations, but the old man Bai Qing gave her such a sentence and gave up.
She was heartbroken over this for a long time, and studied many books on formations, but she couldn't understand even a fraction of them, so she had to give up.
“Junior Sister Wuai, no one is perfect. If you knew everything, how would we live? Although you don’t know, Xiyuan does, right Xiyuan?”
When we went to Tianshan before, we encountered formations many times, and we were able to escape death thanks to Yue Xiyuan and the others.
Since meeting Yan An, Su Jingzhan has clearly realized the real difference between people. Now that Yan An also has something he doesn't know, it gives him a little comfort.
"The Inverted Qimen Formation is set up according to the principles of the Eight Trigrams and the Five Elements. Because it goes against the usual logical arrangement, this formation is very mysterious. Those who do not understand this formation will feel as if they are in a fog, no matter how hard they try, they cannot see the left and right paths. It is difficult to break this formation. If the key to the formation is extremely hidden, even a person who is good at formations may be trapped for ten days or half a month. It would be better to follow Hongchen."
"Follow me?" Qi Hongchen was a little confused, but he immediately understood. He covered his eyes and listened to the birds' calls. "Over here, some birds are going out from over here."
Yue Xiyuan and the other two followed Qi Hongchen towards the northeast. "Go this way." The four then turned left. "Go this way again."
Half an hour later, Su Jingzhan plopped down on the ground, exhausted from all the wandering. "I'm so tired, I'm finally out of here."
Yan An took out two chairs from her spatial storage and sat down. This was deep in the mountains and forests, and there might be some unknown insects around. She didn't want to sit on the ground.
"Junior sister, that's not very kind of you. You have a chair but you won't give your senior brother one." Su Jingzhan saw Yan An take out a chair and immediately stood up.
"You just plopped down on the ground without even saying whether you wanted a chair or not." Yan An's consciousness flashed again, and two chairs were pulled out of his spatial storage.
Su Jingzhan took a chair and walked to the side. He had just offended the living devil in front of him, and if he wanted to live a little longer, he had to stay away from Yue Xiyuan. Su Jingzhan found a clean place to rest.
"Xiyuan, come here quickly, look, there's a nice grave here." Upon hearing this, Yue Xiyuan and the other two followed.
Yue Xiyuan grabbed a handful of soil from the grave. "There shouldn't be a grave here."
Because the moat is close to the capital, it has always been strictly guarded to prevent people from entering the capital through the moat, so it is impossible for anyone to build a tomb there.
"Yue Xiyuan, come and see, the soil in these graves is relatively fresh." Yan An called out to Yue Xiyuan from a few meters away.
Yue Xiyuan grabbed a handful of soil and rubbed it. "It's definitely new. There should be a hidden door here."
Yue Xiyuan carefully examined the three graves in front of him. The soil on them was all fresh, but only the memorial tablet on the grave in front of him had been disturbed. "It's this one."
Yue Xiyuan pointed to the grave in front of him and said, "The secret door should be inside this grave."
Yan An took out two shovels from his spatial storage and handed them to Yue Xiyuan. Qi Hongchen took one from Yue Xiyuan, and the two began digging the grave.
"Xiyuan, why don't you give it to me? I'll dig it up." Su Jingzhan felt a little embarrassed watching Yue Xiyuan digging the grave while he stood there.
“Okay.” Yue Xiyuan tossed the shovel in his hand to Su Jingzhan without hesitation and pulled Yan An to sit down beside him.
Su Jingzhan was stunned. That's it? Not even a little politeness?
After half an incense stick's time, "Xiyuan, it's ready, come and take a look."
"Open."
Su Jingzhan and Qi Hongchen removed the coffin lid, finding it completely empty, without even a piece of clothing. "There's definitely something fishy going on."
Yue Xiyuan stepped forward and tapped the bottom of the coffin. A crisp sound came from it. "Empty?" Qi Hongchen confirmed.
Yue Xiyuan fiddled with the bottom plate and removed it, revealing an opening large enough for one person to pass through. "I'll go first," Yue Xiyuan said to Yan An.
"Okay, I'll be behind you." If there was any danger, she would quickly lead him into the space.
After the four entered the cave, the entrance was narrow, barely wide enough for one person to pass through. After less than a few dozen meters, they reached the hidden door. Yue Xiyuan touched the hidden door and knocked on it.
"How is Yue Xiyuan?" Yan An asked.
"This door is made of two hidden doors weighing thousands of pounds each. There is a mechanism here and another mechanism inside. Both mechanisms need to be opened to enter. Moreover, brute force cannot open them. Even if they are opened, a self-destruct mechanism will be activated, making it impossible to enter through this entrance. I can open the outer door, but the inner one can only be opened by entering from Yue Zhixiao's mansion."
"That old man Ji Yuan is really something," Su Jingzhan exclaimed. "Wasn't this trip a waste?"
“It wasn’t a wasted trip. If Yue Zhixiao really has an army here, it’s impossible to pass through just one narrow opening. There must be other openings. Let’s look for them again. Let’s get out of here first.”
The four of them returned the way they came, exited the cave, and returned to the outside.
“Let’s restore this place to its original state, lest we alert the snakes.” Yue Xiyuan looked around. “Hongchen, can you draw this place?”
Qi Hongchen didn't even look up, and replied while filling the hole with dirt, "No problem."
Besides being able to understand the calls of some birds, Qi Hongchen's most impressive skill is his lifelike painting. If this scene could be painted, it would be much easier to do it again next time.
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