Chapter 94 Junior Sister Switches to the Path of Ruthlessness 5 Secret Passage
"As you said, I have never had any doubts in the past ten years."
Yun Chiyi's voice was light and airy: "Junior brother, I grew up in Chengming since I was a child. I am Master's only female disciple. Have you ever thought that I know everything that Master has done? The reason I am telling you this today is simply to test your attitude. No matter what Master wants to do, even if it is against the will of the world, I will have no regrets."
Lin Yuwan's expression changed abruptly. She took a half step back, a slight sneer playing on her lips.
"You must be thinking I'm an idiot, but don't. Everything I just said was a lie."
Yun Chiyi let go of the kite and slid down the ridge to stand with Lin Yuwan.
"You're allowed to ignore me, but I'm not allowed to lie to you?"
Lin Yuwan gritted her teeth in anger: "Which of your words, Senior Sister, is true?"
Yun Chiyi raised her hand and rubbed his head: "Wanwan, let's find a way out of this predicament together, and then live peacefully. This is true."
"Smack—"
Lin Yuwan slapped her hand away in disgust: "Exchange the information you have."
Yun Chiyi chuckled: "I don't know more than you. I only vaguely noticed it last winter when I smelled a strange fragrance."
"But you didn't mention a crucial thing just now—the snake-head mask."
Upon hearing this, Lin Yuwan immediately cast a probing glance at him.
Yun Chiyi gained a slight advantage: "The incantation is engraved on the mask. I've memorized it. It's the key to breaking the deadlock."
She couldn't remember it, but the system did.
“I will try to find the source of the book. Junior brother, what you need to do is keep an eye on Bai Qi. He is not perfect. We will find a loophole sooner or later.”
Lin Yu said coolly, "Senior Sister doesn't even call Senior Brother Bai Qi anymore."
Yun Chiyi glared at her: "Can you stop being so petty all the time? When I'm talking to you about a matter of life and death, is that all you can focus on?"
"That's all for today. You better stay calm and don't betray me, or I'll take you down with me even if I die." She turned away.
Lin Yuwan chimed in, "Senior sister, me too."
The reason why Lin Yuwan massacred his sect two years later was inextricably linked to the matter they were investigating. Lin Yuwan was vengeful, and if Chengming truly plotted to kill him, he would repay him a hundredfold.
Yun Chiyi had walked far away and could no longer hear him. His expression was indifferent as he said another sentence: "Senior sister, if you betray me, I will kill you with my own hands."
What she wanted to do was find out the truth and leave safely.
Yun Chiyi was still worried about one thing: she hoped to escape within two years, otherwise another calamity awaited her.
While she was wary of Chang Heng, she also kept a close eye on Lin Yuwan's movements.
*
In the afternoon, they learned that Chang Heng had gone into seclusion for at least three months, and possibly as long as a year. The matter seemed suspicious, so the two of them joined hands and secretly searched through Chengming, trying to find the room from that night.
However, after a month, she found nothing. She then tried to go to the back mountain to look for withered vines, but various unexpected events prevented her from doing so each time.
Yun Chiyi has always taken survival seriously. She immediately turned to investigate the snake-head mask. During the day, she would set out snacks in the library and pretend to read storybooks, but at night she would still go to the bamboo forest to practice her sword.
Unfortunately, her cultivation level stagnated and she made no progress. However, her physical strength improved a lot. She was full of energy every day and would smile with two dimples whenever she saw Bai Qi, telling him which story was interesting.
Bai Qi had always been relaxed about her and had no suspicion that she spent all her time in the library.
In just a month and a half, she had searched through all of Chengming's thousands of volumes of books, thinking to herself that Chengming was a small temple with a lot of pomp and circumstance, with only eleven disciples but a vast collection of books. She was there every day, but she hadn't seen anyone come to read them.
She was dizzy from reading it, but then a brilliant idea struck her. She took back the booklet recording Chengming's establishment of the school of thought on the mountain and spread it out in front of her.
It says that the founder, together with six fellow disciples, split the mountain to establish the Chengming Sect. A hundred years after the sect was established, countless cultivators came to admire it, all sincerely wanting to become disciples.
This happened a thousand years ago, and Chengming was quite famous at the time.
Each subsequent generation of Chengming was worse than the last, and by the time of Chang Heng, he was already the fifth leader of the sect.
Thinking of the deserted place now, and the fellow disciples cobbled together from the foot of the mountain, Yun Chiyi could only lament that she was born at the wrong time and didn't live to see the good days.
It's not hard to guess Chang Heng's thoughts. As the leader of a sect, he was unwilling to see his sect fall into decline, so he started researching unorthodox methods in an attempt to regain its former glory.
Yun Chiyi rested her chin on her hand. She played an indispensable role in this scheme and could also use herself when necessary.
Lost in thought, Yun Chiyi heard footsteps outside. She put down her book, hid behind the bookshelf, and peered through the gap to see who it was.
Not long after Bai Qigang left, he came in and knocked on the door to remind everyone who else might be coming to the library.
The moment Yun Chiyi saw that it was Lin Yuwan, she breathed a sigh of relief. She had been on edge at the slightest thing, and now that she had calmed down, she felt extremely tired.
Lin Yuwan picked up the food box and glanced at the desk. The person was not there; there was only the snack box with crumbs and a pile of books scattered around.
Look here.
Yun Chiyi waved to him.
Lin Yuwan was taken aback and, holding her breath to suppress her anger, placed the food box on the desk.
"Senior Brother Bai Qi asked me to deliver the white fungus soup."
Upon hearing that there would be food, Yun Chiyi smiled happily. She ran over and opened the food box. The weather was already getting hot, and the chilled white fungus soup was just in time.
She sat down, picked up a spoon, scooped up a spoonful and put it in her mouth. The sweet taste melted in her mouth, and she stretched out her legs with satisfaction, her whole body relaxing.
Lin Yuwan frowned as she looked at him: "Senior sister, you ate the food that Senior Brother Bai Qi made without even looking at it?"
Yun Chiyi nodded in confusion, "I saw it, and it looks pretty good."
Lin Yuwan pursed her lips in silence.
Yun Chiyi chuckled, her laughter like a clear, melodious silver bell: "Wanwan, we live in Chengming, and everything we eat, drink, and use has been handled by Bai Qi. If we have to be wary of everything, how can we possibly protect ourselves?"
She picked up the white fungus soup and noticed Lin Yuwan staring at her intently. She tilted her head curiously and asked, "Why are you glaring at me?"
Lin Yuwan was so angry that she simply stopped talking.
Yun Chiyi suddenly picked up the bowl and stood up enthusiastically: "It tastes pretty good, do you want to try some?"
Lin Yuwan turned her head away: "No need."
He didn't even want to look at the food she had eaten.
Yun Chiyi, determined to tease him, relentlessly handed him the bowl: "Try it, it's not too sweet or greasy. Senior Brother Bai Qi's cooking is pretty good."
"Senior sister, didn't I say I didn't need it?" Lin Yuwan swept her hand across, knocking the porcelain bowl away.
The porcelain bowl hit the pillar and shattered into pieces.
Yun Chiyi narrowed her eyes, a half-smile playing on her lips: "Lin Yuwan, you must be feeling terrible having to work with someone you hate, right?"
Lin Yuwan, having been hit where it hurt, turned her face away with suppressed anger.
"Even if you feel uncomfortable, just bear with it," Yun Chiyi said.
The two were arguing when a rustling sound broke the awkward silence. With a click, the wooden pillar that had been hit by the porcelain bowl suddenly slid down, revealing a dark hole about half a person's height.
Lin Yuwan took a step back warily. A figure walked past in her peripheral vision, a pink figure peering down from the edge of the cave.
Yun Chiyi said calmly, "Come here, there's a secret passage... but there's a barrier around it."
She was startled to realize that her hand had already penetrated deep into the barrier, as the barrier seemed to be not stopping her.
"Since we're already here, let's go down and take a look."
As soon as she finished speaking, Yun Chiyi went back to get the candle from the desk, ran over quickly, crouched down, and entered the secret passage.
Lin Yuwan's brows twitched. She took two steps back to catch up, knowing she would never surpass Yun Chiyi. If anything unexpected happened, she would still have a chance to escape.
The secret passage was lined with stone walls on both sides, extending downwards. A musty smell permeated the air, which was extremely stuffy and made it hard to breathe. Yun Chiyi held a candle, raised one hand to cover her mouth and nose, and tried her best to observe the situation ahead. She could only see within a range of no more than ten steps.
She slowly stopped, and Lin Yuwan, who had groped her way in from behind, bumped into her shoulder.
"Do you think we can fool Chang Heng if he were in seclusion down there?"
She spoke with a smile on her lips, which inexplicably made Lin Yuwan angry.
"Senior sister, if we're going to die, let's die together."
Yun Chiyi flicked his forehead and said, "Pah, pah, take back what you said. Aren't you afraid of bringing bad luck?"
Lin Yuwan covered her burning forehead and silently stared at her back.
The secret passage continued downwards. After walking about twenty steps, the space suddenly opened up before Yun Chiyi, who stopped in her tracks, stunned by the scene inside and forgetting to breathe.
Lin Yuwan reached out and pushed her: "Senior sister, don't block the way here."
Yun Chiyi spoke, her tone unusually gentle: "The air inside seems to be normal now. Walk in slowly and watch your step, okay?"
She stretched out the candlelight to illuminate the semi-circular chamber. Beneath her feet lay a mountain of white bones, and in the center of the bones was a bulging, transparent black gilded snakeskin. The snow-white snake's head was coiled on a piece of black jade that emitted a bloody glow. The snakeskin was still lifelike, and its eyes stared coldly at the doorway.
Lin Yuwan walked up from behind Yun Chiyi's shoulder and her pupils trembled when she saw this scene.
Yun Chiyi lowered the candlestick and poked at the bones with her trembling feet: "These don't seem to be human bones."
Lin Yuwan took a deep breath and leaned closer to examine it: "It's a blue-and-white beast."
The Blue Flower Beast was an unfamiliar creature to Yun Chiyi. She quickly asked the system to check and learned that it was a four-legged beast that was as tall as a person and had three horns on its head.
The Azure Flower Beast is incredibly fast, capable of covering several miles in a short time. On the night it comes of age, its shed feathers transform into five-petaled azure flowers, which, when consumed, can cure all ailments. Legend has it that the Azure Flower Beast was also the mount of a certain deity before his ascension to immortality.
However, the skeletons here look no bigger than a dog, suggesting they were just young animals.
Lin Yuwan looked around and studied the talismans on the wall: "The Azure Flower Beast is a divine beast, and its blood has the miraculous effect of reviving flesh and bones. Chang Heng probably wants to use the Azure Flower Beast to revive the giant snake."
"This snake skin is smooth and has a phosphorescent sheen. With such a large size, even if it is a snake demon, it must be a thousand-year-old snake demon."
His figure gradually disappeared into the darkness, then reappeared from the other end.
Yun Chiyi was puzzled: "I've seen this snake before. The mask Bai Qi was wearing is it. Making such a big fuss shouldn't be as simple as resurrecting a snake."
Lin Yuwan stood before her again, her eyes now clear: "Senior Sister, have you ever heard of the Evil God Prisoner Kun?"
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