After everyone had left, Linghu Zhou walked up to them, looked at Xu Yuehuai, and said, "My name is Linghu Zhou, as you already know. May I introduce you? What's your name?"
Xu Yuehuai had a fairly good impression of the young man in front of her, and she replied, "Qingcheng Academy, Xu Yuehuai."
"Xu Yuehuai...what a lovely name. I'll remember it. I'll be going now. See you again sometime. If you encounter any problems in Beicheng, feel free to come to the Linghu family to find me." Linghu Zhou smiled, revealing a shallow dimple on his face, making him very cute and handsome.
After Linghuzhou left, both Cixi and Jiyue turned their gazes toward Xu Yuehuai.
Cixi spoke first, asking, "Does that young man like you?"
"I have a feeling about it, otherwise why would I treat her so well?"
The two discussed the matter, showing no regard for Xu Yuehuai whatsoever.
Xu Yuehua clarified, "No, he was just curious about me."
The group joked and played around, and time passed quickly. The entire space became quiet, as if there were no living beings there.
Xu Yuehuai felt something was off and asked in her mind, "Yuanshui, can you tell what's wrong with this place? I feel like the surroundings are eerily quiet."
Xu Yuehuai looked around, feeling as if a pair of eyes were watching her from the shadows, making her very uncomfortable.
"It was probably some heretical cultivator who made the move," Yuan Shui said nonchalantly, genuinely believing it wasn't a big deal.
Xu Yuehuai asked curiously, "Do you know exactly what happened to them?"
"How would I know? I don't have X-ray vision." Yuan Shui was somewhat speechless.
Xu Yuehuai: "..."
Xu Yuehuai looked at the two drowsy people beside her and said, "An hour has passed, why don't we go up and have some fun?"
Cixi resisted somewhat. He thought of the disdainful looks those people had given him earlier, and his body and face were both rejecting the idea. "I don't want to. They looked down on us so much just now. If we go up there now, we'll definitely be laughed at."
Ji Yue looked at Xu Yuehuai and said, "I'm fine with anything, I'll listen to you."
Cixi looked at her with dissatisfaction, "Why do you act like a spineless person when you're with Sister Xu? Why do you listen to everything she says? Can't you come up with your own ideas?"
Ji Yue glanced at him, too lazy to bother with him.
Xu Yuehuai looked at Cixi and said, "We've already come all this way, and these evil cultivators in here are determined to drag us in. If we leave without taking anything with us, it would be a bit of a loss."
Cixi was somewhat moved by Xu Yuehuai's words, after all, he had almost lost his precious life just now!
“Well… well, that’s not impossible…” Cixi said hesitantly.
The two of them didn't ask Xu Yuehuai much about what evil cultivation was all about, and they unconditionally trusted Xu Yuehuai.
At first, Cixi admired her strength, thinking that someone with such strength wouldn't lie to her. Later, she saw that when Cixi and Jiyue were about to fall into the black hole, she could have walked away but she turned back to try to save them, which led to them all falling into the black hole together.
In the end, it was Xu Yuehuai who saved his life!
The three of them followed the direction their group had taken and soon saw the steps. Xu Yuehuai walked in front, Ji Yue in the middle, and Cixi Hall at the back, and the group continued to walk up the steps.
After climbing just a few steps, we reached the second floor.
A sliver of light shone from the ceiling of the second floor, and the space was still illuminated by candles. The only difference was that there were only five rooms here.
The characters for metal, wood, water, fire, and earth are written on the door.
Cixi looked at the object with a puzzled expression. "After they came up, they didn't just go into these rooms, did they? Is there something special about these rooms?"
Cixi tried to push the door open, but it was clearly locked shut.
Cixi pursed her lips, feeling it was pointless, and took a step back.
Xu Yuehuai observed her surroundings. The place was airtight, and even the light coming through at the very top looked like two eyes staring at them, making her feel very uncomfortable.
Yuan Shui, who was inside the space, saw this scene and said slowly, "This little fool is still thinking about the inheritance. These separate rooms are just to make it easier for evil cultivators to devour them."
Upon hearing this, Xu Yuehuai's eyes darkened. "You mean to say that they are now in grave danger?"
Xu Yuehuai still wanted to fight against the evil cultivators; she had never fought against them before.
Yuan Shui replied, "More or less."
"Ah!" Cixi screamed, startling Ji Yue.
Ji Yue stepped forward, her face dark with anger, and glared at him. "What are you yelling about! You scared me!"
Cixi hid behind Ji Yue, pointing at the ground with trembling eyes and saying, "Blood! So much blood!"
Ji Yue looked in the direction Cixi pointed, but there was nothing there, just a clean wooden floor. "Can you stop being crazy? Where did the blood come from? You must be seeing things."
Cixi retorted, raising her voice a notch, "Impossible! There it was, so many of them, and there were even some scraps of flesh of unknown origin among them! Could it be that a monster ate them?"
Cixi grew increasingly frightened as he looked at the blood. He wasn't afraid of dead people, but in this dark environment, the blood seemed particularly eerie.
Xu Yuehuai looked in the direction he pointed, but there was nothing there. She frowned.
Cixi's demeanor didn't seem like she was lying or acting, which could only mean that what she saw was different from what they saw. Xu Yuehuai immediately said, "Cixi, look around. Has anything changed?"
Cixi didn't understand, but she did as instructed.
He began to look around, and when he finally saw the staircase they had come up from, his face suddenly turned pale. "Holy crap! There are so many people there! Where did they come from? Why didn't we see them when we came up?! It's disgusting!"
At this moment, in Cixi's eyes, the stairs looked like countless hands reaching out from the walls. If anyone came up the stairs, they would definitely be touched by those blood-stained hands.
Realizing this, Cixi quickly checked herself and, seeing that it was indeed her, breathed a sigh of relief.
He moved from Ji Yue's side to Xu Yuehuai's side and cautiously said, "Sister Xu, what should we do now? I'm so scared. I want to go back."
“What you’re seeing is all an illusion. It’s probably because you touched the doorknob just now. The person behind you touched you and is now teasing you for fun,” Xu Yuehuai reasonably guessed.
She had just checked the surroundings and there was nothing unusual or resentful, so it was impossible for the situation that Cixi had seen to occur.
Upon hearing this, Cixi relaxed considerably, but remained cautious. "How can I avoid seeing these things? They look so creepy!"
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