Chapter 19, Your Excellency
My goodness, you guessed it all, little kitty!
The approach and shooting of the skeleton army are all intimidation, just to stop them from climbing up!
If the kittens and their companions hadn't been delayed by the fallen disciple, they could have climbed just six more steps to reach the unbroken stone steps.
But it's too late to say anything now.
If you fail to jump up and fall into the hands of these skeleton legions, the consequences... you'll have to bear them yourself.
Ye Kemeng touched the falling rocks in front of her with her toes, and by stepping on them, she reduced the speed of her fall and that of the two people in her arms.
That's far from enough.
Ye Kemeng looked at the broken stone steps that were getting further and further away from her, and tried to gather her qi again.
The yellow sand was shaken up by the skeleton army. Ye Kemeng took a deep breath and didn't feel anything at first, but then she faintly smelled a very familiar bloody scent.
This was the bloody scent she smelled on Phoenix when she first met him.
It is the blood of a phoenix.
These skeletons had fought the phoenix before.
While Ye Kemeng was pondering, Gu Qingli, who was being pulled by Ye Kemeng, slightly moved her wrist, trying to break free from Ye Kemeng's grip while also pushing her upwards: "Senior Sister Ye, you can jump up, let us go..."
Ye Kemeng had already made up her mind. She looked down at Gu Qingli with unprecedented calmness in her eyes. She didn't hear what Gu Qingli was saying at all, but suddenly raised her arms upward.
She flung Gu Qingli and her junior brother, whom she was holding hands with, toward the unbroken stone steps.
Gu Qingli's eyes widened in horror. She opened her mouth wide to scream, but the yellow sand immediately poured in, silencing her.
Bai Lingyu, who was falling and couldn't find any foothold, was also struggling while holding onto two disciples. Suddenly, he saw Ye Kemeng fall in front of him. His heart skipped a beat, and he threw the two disciples up while chasing after Ye Kemeng.
Gu Qingli's gaze pierced through the rolling yellow sand, catching a glimpse of this scene. She gritted her teeth: "I am a diviner, I can manipulate the weak-willed with words. Jumping down might be useful! You all hurry back and report what happened here to the elders!"
After saying that, he ignored his fellow disciples' attempts to stop him and jumped down.
Ye Kemeng plunged headfirst down, desperately searching for the scent of phoenix blood, but apart from the initial whiff, she found nothing.
However, Ye Kemeng was not discouraged. All she needed to know was that Phoenix had fought against these skeleton legions.
A chain thicker than Ye Kemeng's wrist suddenly appeared, wrapping around her waist and binding her hands to her sides.
Ye Kemeng looked up and could only see huge chains stretching out like black dragons in the rolling yellow sand, with no indication of their origin.
"General, she jumped." A crimson glint flashed in the adjutant's dark pupils. "The Immortal Execution Lock has captured her. However, two of her companions also fell down with her."
"Separate them into different prisons," the general said.
"Yes, sir." The adjutant accepted the order.
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At first, when Ye Kemeng was entangled in chains, she thought it was just ordinary binding and didn't pay much attention to it.
Her shoulders were clearly not wrapped, but Ye Kemeng felt her body getting heavier and heavier until she could no longer support herself and completely fainted.
When I regained consciousness, I was actually shaken awake by someone's hand.
Before me stood Bai Lingyu and Gu Qingli.
Both of them looked disheveled, as if they hadn't taken care of themselves for many days.
Further away, there are imposing fences and stone walls.
Through the gaps in the fence, you can occasionally see patrolling skeletons passing by.
Gu Qingli covered Ye Kemeng's mouth with one hand, while simultaneously gesturing for her to be quiet.
Ye Kemeng nodded blankly.
What are these two doing here? Could it be that the skeleton army shattered all the stone steps, causing everyone to fall down without exception?
Gu Qingli lowered her voice and, to make a brief account, recounted how she and Bai Lingyu had followed Ye Kemeng down the mountain, been arbitrarily tied up by the Skeleton Army, and thrown into an ordinary prison.
Ye Kemeng still suffered from the aftereffects of being suppressed by the chains, and her mind was a little slow. It took her a while to understand Gu Qingli's words.
It turned out that the six disciples had split up; the other three went back to seek help from the elders, while the other three were captured.
She asked, "Is this the prison for the skeleton legions? Are there any other people besides us?"
Bai Lingyu shook his head: "That's it. This place is empty, except for the patrolling and guarding skeletons, there are only the three of us living people."
Ye Kemeng's heart skipped a beat: "There are...dead people?"
Gu Qingli nodded heavily. Under Ye Kemeng's staring gaze, she said, "Yes, judging from their clothes, they should be disciples of the academy. But the oldest of them died at least half a year ago, and the oldest may have been hundreds or thousands of years ago. They should all be senior brothers and sisters who came for the trial."
"He wasn't wearing the academy's disciple's robes," Ye Kemeng suddenly said out of the blue.
Gu Qingli was somewhat taken aback. It took her a moment to realize that the "he" that Senior Sister Ye was referring to was probably the missing companion, but she really couldn't remember who this companion was.
Bai Lingyu had a good level of cultivation, and coupled with his deep impression of his former fiancée's current husband, he was able to recall some details at this moment.
His gaze was somewhat bitter: "Your person... shouldn't be imprisoned here."
Ye Kemeng felt relieved. She flexed her wrists and said, "I have to go find him. You guys find a safer place to stay first."
Bai Lingyu hurriedly stopped her and whispered, "Before we found you, we peered over the wall. It's all flat outside, and there are skeletons patrolling everywhere. Even ants can't hide. The dungeon is actually one of the safest places. Besides, Junior Sister Gu used her abilities to get some information out of that drunken skeleton. It's said that these skeleton legions are divided into two parts: one part is formed from the dead divine soldiers of the celestial realm, and the other part is formed from demons. Both legions have a commander called 'Your Excellency'."
Gu Qingli nodded and said, "That drunken skeleton also said that he was supposed to take you out and present you to His Majesty the day before yesterday, but His Majesty was suddenly attacked... Now the entire battlefield is under lockdown, and not even a mosquito can fly out, so he had a couple of drinks to relax."
Ye Kemeng felt that she had vaguely grasped a key point.
However, the amount of information was really limited, so she could only piece things together by guessing and intuition.
Blocked by the two, she couldn't move, so she simply lay on the ground to recover her strength. She said to 666, "You once said that in the original story, the phoenix risked his own rebirth to suppress the rampant black tide. Later, he did indeed undergo rebirth, losing all his spiritual power. It wasn't until ten years later, at the end of the story, that he reappeared in a powerful form."
Ah...yes, that's right.
But these are all part of the original storyline.
Its host now has the phoenix by its side, and it doesn't know if the story will change.
"You also said that immortals cultivate for tens of thousands of years, but at the end of the story, the phoenix regained its unparalleled strength in just ten years. There must be some... opportunity involved." Ye Kemeng racked her brains to come up with this word.
【you're right. 】
so what?
"So, if it was Phoenix who attacked this 'Lord,' could it be that he stayed in the ancient battlefield for ten years, which is why the outside world thought he had disappeared?" Ye Kemeng mentally gestured 666. "Exactly, what did Phoenix get from this 'Lord' who commands two legions to be able to recover his strength so quickly?"
666 suddenly understood: 【!!! Kitty, your head is small, but you're really smart!】
"...Does that mean I'd better not bother him, and that everything is up to his fate?" Ye Kemeng asked. "So, my falling down was pointless? Should I have followed Phoenix's instructions, taken the Nine-Aperture Exquisite Flower Leaf, climbed the stone steps, and returned to the academy? It was because we delayed that the Skeleton Legion caught up with us and captured us."
"It wasn't you who deliberately delayed it. Everyone thought the task was too easy, so we all decided to wait for Gu Qingli's divination results," 666 comforted her. "Besides, you haven't finished your task on our system's end yet."
[666: "Together with Bai Lingyu, Gu Qingli and other disciples, we entered the 'Ancient Battlefield' to search for the Nine-Aperture Exquisite Flower Leaf.
Ye Kemeng: "I will try my best to pick this leaf."
"No, your task is not to pick the leaves, but to provoke the companion beast that guards the Linglong Flower's leaves, the Chishou."
"???"
Wait, speaking of flowers and leaves...
Putting aside the provocation of her companion beast, what happened to the Nine-Aperture Exquisite Flower Leaf she was holding in her mouth?!
When Ye Kemeng suddenly sat up, Gu Qingli and Bai Lingyu were both startled.
She grew anxious: "Where's the leaf that completed the task?"
Gu Qingli quickly gestured for her to be quieter.
Bai Lingyu said, "Once the Nine-Aperture Exquisite Flower leaf is bitten, it melts in the mouth. At that time, the stone steps shattered and everyone fell. Miss Ye probably swallowed it."
"???" The situation was urgent at the time, and Ye Kemeng did seem to have bitten through the leaf. Could it be that she really swallowed it?
Is this stuff poisonous?!
It's not poisonous, it's just...
Just as 666 opened its mouth, a sudden earthquake shook the ground, and a foul gust of wind swept down from above, blowing several of the patrolling skeletons apart! Ye Kemeng and the other two were blown sideways against the railing, and she felt like her back was about to break.
At the same time, an angry dragon's roar rang out, piercing Ye Kemeng's eardrums.
666 finally finished the second half of the sentence: "[However... it will anger its companion beast, the dragon-headed creature.]"
Congratulations, little kitty, you've completed your mission.
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