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Lin Xiao didn't know at this time whether Ling Ying and the others had received the signal they had sent in time, and how their actions were going outside. But what he knew in his heart was that no matter what the disciples of the sect who came to reinforce him did, he had to go all out to deal with the trouble in front of him now, otherwise, if he wasn't careful, he might die in this "Eternal Tribulation Underground Palace" before Ling Ying and them arrived.

According to the Ji brothers, the original form of the Eternal Tribulation Underground Palace was originally an underground shelter built by the people of Qishan in ancient times to escape the wars of the dynasty, and in this regard, its own structure is actually not very complicated. However, the Youxuan Ji clan studied deeply in the mausoleum, and actually excavated this place to integrate it with the natural karst cave, and connected the two through the underground river, which completely changed the original pattern of the underground, which is why there is now the eternal calamity underground palace.

The ancestors of the Ji family devoted themselves to the study of the secret art of the institution, immersed in this way for many years, and was well versed in the gossip of Qimen, the way of the five elements of yin and yang, the so-called: "Life can be set up to fight the enemy, and death can set up a trap to protect the tomb." "It is the culmination of the tomb armor mechanism in the world. Judging from the Xiaohan ancient tomb built by the "Shenyan Jiang Clan" in Xiangxi back then, a branch can still create such a dangerous tomb mechanism, but now it is facing the underground palace built by the authentic line of the Ji family, and its danger can be imagined.

But what made Lin Xiao feel very strange was that when he and Ye Xin walked into the stone arch, they had been on guard against the appearance of some terrifying and difficult mechanism - Lin Xiao had a deep understanding of this, and he was extremely impressed by the corpse array, corpse floating slaughter, and no return in the Xiaohan Ancient Tomb back then. He wouldn't be surprised to see these disgusting mechanisms again.

This underground palace is extremely large and deep, and he and Ye Xin have been walking and stopping under this ground, and it is estimated that they are still wandering in the middle and periphery. Even so, according to common sense, there should be no shortage of institutions here. But the biggest trouble encountered at the end of the day was just a wrong fork in the road, a dead end, and finally a return the same way, wasting some time;

This came to a great surprise to Lin Xiao, he didn't believe that the dignified Xuan Ji clan would be so perfunctory, in his opinion, the ancestral tomb of a branch clan is still so powerful, not to mention the void tomb of the ancestor who hates it, and what is hidden is such an important thing. But no matter how careful he was, the organs were still those mechanisms, which were so mediocre that he couldn't come up with any other tricks at all.

In contrast, Ye Xin beside him behaved much more terrifying than them-

"I said, can you not be so nervous!" Seeing that Lin Xiao was still that unrelenting, cautiously trying back and forth on a road, Ye Xin only felt speechless for a while, followed by inexplicable irritability.

She listened to Lin Xiao's "one-sided words" at first, and after entering the underground palace, the string in her brain was also tightened and she didn't dare to relax in the slightest, but this was undoubtedly very mentally draining, and she didn't encounter any real danger in a row, so she gradually relaxed.

"What if people just don't have any organs!" Ye Xin looked at Lin Xiao coldly and still looked at him with that uneasy look, and couldn't help but say: "You really can't be idle, you have to find a little trouble for yourself to feel comfortable, right...... Are you done with the residual poison on your body?!" She used three tone words in a row, which was extremely rare for her as a person who never showed emotions easily.

Lin Xiao was stunned for a moment, and subconsciously said, "It's not finished...... But what does that have to do with my residual poison?"

Ye Xin glanced at him angrily, raised his forehead and said with a smile: "I just want to say that you don't need to be as suspicious as you are now-let's not mention that we haven't encountered any decent obstacles since we came in, even if there are really some dangerous mechanisms that can't be prevented, what effect can you use if you are so careful to stop one step at a time?"

"I just don't think it makes sense. Lin Xiao frowned and said, "You can take a look at the 'Da Luo Light Smoke Array' on the halfway of Qishan Mountain and the twenty-four ancient buildings in front of their Ji family's ancestral house, there is no reason for the people of the Youxuan Ji clan to use such a clumsy and low-end mechanism to arrange an underground palace that is almost as important as their ancestral tomb;

Ye Xin actually knew in his heart that what Lin Xiao said was not unreasonable, and on the contrary, it stands to reason that Lin Xiao's thoughts should be in line with normal logic. But the problem is that now this corridor is in front of you, and there is really no movement at all, can they still tear down every brick and tile here and carefully check it for the sake of a non-existent mechanism?!

"This road is going downward, and the trend is indeed gradually moving towards the depths of the underground palace. Ye Xin shook his head, as if he was shaking off those chaotic thoughts, and then continued, "Except for the fork in the road at the beginning, we haven't encountered any other intersections, it should be 'a road from ancient Huashan'." I guess the weird mechanism you're talking about should be in ......."

Before Ye Xin finished speaking, Lin Xiao suddenly raised a finger to his mouth and made a silent gesture. Ye Xin was stunned, thinking that something had really happened, and hurriedly whispered, "What's wrong?"

The underground palace corridor was extremely dim, and the flames of the open flame talisman in the hands of the two kept jumping, and the dark blue flames flashed one after another, illuminating the faces of the two of them with a ghostly atmosphere. Lin Xiao hid his face in the shadows at the moment, ignoring Ye Xin's question, looking at his posture, it seemed that he was looking sideways to hear what sound. After a long time, Ye Xin saw that Lin Xiao's head did not turn, his mouth/lips did not open, but his voice sounded in his ears, so he knew that he was speaking in the way of "transmitting sound into secret", probably afraid that his voice would reveal the location of the two of them.

"Did you hear anything?" said Lin Xiao.

Ye Xin's heart tightened: "What voice?"

"I don't know, it seems to be ...... Footsteps!"

Ye Xin only felt that his heart was skipping a beat, logically speaking, there should be only the two of them in this underground palace, and now that they are all standing still, where did the footsteps that Lin Xiao said come from?!

Ye Xin hurriedly picked up his true qi, held his breath and concentrated, and listened to Lin Xiao's appearance, trying to catch the strange sound. She is well versed in the way of assassination, and her skills in listening to sound and identifying positions are better than Lin Xiao's, but she listened carefully for a long time, but she didn't hear any footsteps from Lin Xiao's mouth, and she couldn't help but wonder if this was someone's suspicion and another offense.

"You're ...... blind again" Ye Xin suddenly closed his mouth again.

Her original words were to say, "What are you talking nonsense again, why didn't I hear any footsteps anywhere?" She just used her true qi to penetrate several acupuncture points in her ears, such as "Ear Gate", "Listening Palace", and "Wind", and her hearing was fully open to listen to the so-called sound in the Yongdao, and now that the true qi had not been completely put away, she clearly heard that just when she was speaking, there were suddenly a few sounds of "da-da, step-on" in her ears, and when she was silent, the sound disappeared mysteriously.

This voice was extremely thin and light, if it weren't for the fact that Lin Xiao was always on high alert, and he still maintained the perception of full hearing at the moment, he wouldn't have heard it at all. Ye Xin nodded at Lin Xiao, signaling that she had heard it too, and then she tentatively kicked a stone out of the ground.

The stone rolled out a long way under Ye Xin's kick, and the sound of hitting the ground was extremely loud in this corridor that was so quiet that you could almost hear the heartbeat. Ye Xin heard it again, and the sound of "da-da, step-on" sounded again when the stones were rolling, and the rhythm gradually accelerated and had a certain degree of gradual change - the sound was subtle and almost inaudible when it was "da-da", and when it reached the "da-da" two sounds, it obviously became dull and clear, as if someone was running along the sound made here in the depths of the road ahead.

When the stone stopped rolling, the footsteps disappeared again, as if a person who was sprinting suddenly stopped standing in his steps with a sudden brake, and there was not even a trace of a buffer transition.

This is definitely not something that a normal person can do!

Ye Xin also began to get nervous at this time, although Lin Xiao often had a cynical attitude, he was by no means a man of his word, everything he described about the Xiaohan Ancient Tomb should be true and credible. If the ancestral tomb of a side branch clan is still as dangerous and abnormal as he said, then this eternal tribulation underground palace built by the Ji family's orthodox lineage really makes people dare not imagine that there will be some unseen and unheard of obstacles here!

"Then what now?" Ye Xin didn't dare to speak rashly now, so he used the "Sound Transmission Secret Technique" to force the sound into a line to communicate.

Lin Xiao was also hesitant to be honest: if the strange footsteps were following them, the two of them would be on their own guard one after the other, and move forward together into the dungeon, but at this time, listening to the sound was obviously coming from the front, could they still run backwards - their destination was just in front.

"Keep going. Lin Xiao finally made up his mind, "Whether there is that voice or not, we have to move forward anyway." Whatever it was, it was supposed to be part of some kind of mechanical magic. Let's stop talking and then we'll all keep our feet down and try not to let that thing hear us. If you do encounter it, be careful. ”

2.

The two slowed their pace, clenched the blades in their respective hands, and slowly moved forward side by side. The thing in front of it seemed to really make a move when it heard the sound, and only when Lin Xiao and Ye Xin accidentally stepped on the sound, the sound of "dada, stepping" would follow, and once calm was restored in the corridor, the footsteps would disappear immediately.

Ye Xin had undergone special training in Dark Incense, and her hearing was far sharper than Lin Xiao's, so she had been listening to the distance from them when the voice sounded. But what made her feel strange was that the voice did not gradually approach, but always kept a certain distance, as if the thing was retreating as they were advancing, as if it was going to enter the depths of the dungeon with them.

The road that Lin Xiao and Ye Xin took at this time was a natural cave road, and after passing a stone gate in front of it, it was the underground palace tomb road built by the Ji family. The two of them slowly walked through the gate, and then they heard a muffled sound of "boom" behind them, and the huge stone gate suddenly descended, completely blocking their retreat.

Lin Xiao sighed and said: "It seems that we have no choice now, we can only continue to move forward, even if we want to open this floodgate, we must first pass through this tomb road, and it is impossible for the mechanism to be set up at the entrance." ”

The two of them turned to face the grave in front of them. I saw that there were two rows of stone beasts lined up on both sides of the tomb, which looked like the image of a strange beast, and each stone beast opened its bloody mouth, facing the center of the tomb, as if it wanted to eat all the people passing by here. Lin Xiao picked up a piece of gravel from the ground, waved his arm, and threw it far away.

The gravel flew through the center of the tomb, and the two rows of stone statues suddenly made a sound of a mechanism running, and a flame gushed out from their bloody mouths, and for a moment the heat hit their faces, and the road was engulfed in flames between every two face-to-face foxes.

Lin Xiao and Ye Xin couldn't help but be afraid for a while, this is fortunately a little more careful, first use the stones to explore the way, if the two of them didn't think too much about it, they walked up directly, triggered the mechanism, and the two rows of stone beasts spewed fire together, no matter how fast your body is, you can't pass through the entire tomb road in an instant, you can only be roasted into a pile of charcoal!

Ye Xin said in a deep voice: "In this way, you can only step all the way from the top of the stone statue." ”

Lin Xiao nodded, and the two were about to jump on the stone beast, but suddenly saw that at the end of the tomb, the stone statue suddenly erupted into flames, obviously something was passing through the tomb. Immediately afterwards, the strange sound of "da, da, step" sounded in the ears of the two again, and this time it was no longer heard back and forth from far and near, but gave people a feeling of being close at hand.

"Beware!" the two shouted in unison, each stepping back in one direction. I saw the two fierce foxes closest to them spitting flames, followed by a loud sound of breaking through the air, and two dark shadows cut through the blockade of the wall of fire and slammed into the gate behind them. Looking through the light of the open fire talisman, it was two spears made of pure steel.

Before Lin Xiao and Ye Xin could react, two more shadows rushed out of the flames, but they looked like two humanoids, and they hit the stone gate straight and pulled out the two spears. I saw two dry corpses in cloth armor stretching out their withered and shrunken arms, firmly holding the black and heavy war spear, like two soldiers charging into battle, directly rushing towards Lin Xiao and Ye Xin, and stabbed with a spear.

Lin Xiao and Ye Xin hurriedly pulled out their blades to meet the enemy, how did they know that the moves of these two dried corpses were extremely orderly, and the war spears made a glance, quite charming, as if they were really two soldiers. And their strength is extremely great, which is extremely inconsistent with their thin figure, Ye Xin didn't pay much attention to it at first, and when he waved the ruthless blade against the spear, he suffered a loss all of a sudden, only to tremble his forearm slightly, and the long knife almost came out of his hand, and hurriedly concentrated on the battle.

"What is this?Walking corpse?" Ye Xin swung his knife to open the spear that was pressed, and the palm of his left palm shook out to knock the dried corpse away, and the blade followed closely, and with a move, "Wild Goose Swinging in the Sky", he cut off the head of the dried corpse. The corpse dropped its spear and staggered twice, then fell to the ground, never to move again.

On the other side, Lin Xiao had already driven the Hongchen Sword to cut off the spear-holding arms of the dry corpse, and his left hand directly grabbed its neck, and then his true anger rose and twisted its head directly. He looked at the dried corpse that fell to the ground after losing his head, and said in a deep voice: "It's not a walking corpse, it's a Yin soldier!"

The Yin soldiers mentioned by Lin Xiao are not the ghosts in the underworld as people usually understand, but a means of driving away corpses. The corpse chaser puts the corpse of the person who died under the scorching sun, exposes the corpse for seven days and disperses the three souls and seven spirits, and then summons the undead with the assistance of the "Yin Formation", which is generally mostly the soul of a soldier or a dead soldier, and introduces it into the dry corpse after exposure, forming a brave and combative corpse, which is a "Yin soldier".

The Yin soldiers have no pain, they are not afraid of swords and arrows, swords and axes, and they don't care about flooding, fire, lightning and lightning, even if they cut off their limbs, they roll their bare bodies, and they can continue to fight with their teeth, only by cutting off their heads where they hide spirits, and making them completely incapacitated, can they defeat them.

Ye Xin's face suddenly became ugly: "It seems that the footsteps we have been hearing are all from these Yin soldiers, but they usually come in groups, where is the only reason for such one or two?!"

As soon as the words fell, I heard a long, dull sound at the end of the corridor, like the sound of antlers in the barracks, coming from far and near, pressing the eardrums of the two men. In the sound of horns, there is also the sound of "clanging" armor blades rubbing and colliding, as well as the sound of uniform footsteps.

Lin Xiao and Ye Xin glanced at each other, and both of them couldn't help but show a trace of fear in their eyes.

The Yin soldiers and iron horses borrowed the road, and there was nothing left left!

The stone statue at the end of the corridor began to spew flames, illuminating the situation at that end - but seeing that a group of Yin soldiers under the pressure of black were lining up in a neat line, approaching Lin Xiao and the two in the face of the flames, the infantry went first with shields and spears, and the cavalry was behind, the ghost horses under the crotch raised their hooves and neighed, and the archers pressed the formation in the rear. In the middle of the Yin soldiers, there were also five figures wearing heavy armor and iron armor and holding spears and swords, like generals and marshals commanding the three armies.

As far as the eye can see, the Yin soldier column is neatly aligned, and the queue is strictly organized, which is really the kind of posture of marching and fighting.

The infantry soldiers in front continued to advance, and there was a sound of bows and arrows in the rear, and then with a "bang", one hundred and ten iron arrows rang with a neat bowstring, and in an instant they were densely packed like locusts flying in the sky, cutting an arc in mid-air, and shooting straight at the two people who were stunned at the entrance of the corridor.

Lin Xiao and Ye Xin didn't know what kind of language to use to describe their true feelings in their hearts at this time, and it was no wonder that there were some painless little organs in front of them, and they dared to ambush behind them with a big deal that really wanted people's lives. Looking at the head-numbing rain of arrows, the two of them waved the blades in their hands, using various moves to protect their bodies in the sword wind and sword qi, and the true qi urged without reservation, ready to take these iron arrows head-on.

The arrow flew with a tooth-souring sound of breaking through the air, and it was about to reach his eyes, Hongchen suddenly broke free from Lin Xiao, and the spirit sword body flew into the air, and with the flow of a red man, he transformed into a body, and rushed into the tomb with a long sword in his hand. Two rows of stone statues erupted together, instantly enveloping the red dust in a sea of fire.

"Hongchen!" Lin Xiao was shocked and exclaimed.

The flames that spewed into the tomb suddenly spun in the same direction, and in an instant, a blazing tornado rolled up, and all the iron arrows that flew halfway through it were swept into it, and the arrows followed the rising momentum of the fire tornado in a straight line, like a long dragon burning with flames all over its body.

Hongchen held a long sword, and her whole body was red in the sea of fire, as if she was a part of the flames, I saw her raise her sword and wave it in the wind, her footwork was light, and she changed her body shape several times like a dance, and suddenly a sword pointed forward and pointed out, and the burning dragon let out a deafening roar, wrapped in Hongchen's violent sword qi, and rushed directly into the array of Yin soldiers.

Although the Yin soldiers were not afraid of the attacks of fire and arrows, the sword qi emitted by Hongchen was hidden in the flames, and it was like a sharp edge on the body, and many Yin soldiers were killed and separated. However, they were lined up closely, and the front row had infantry shields to protect their bodies, so the lethality of the sword qi to the back row was greatly weakened.

As soon as the formation of the infantry was overwhelmed by the sword qi, the knights in the rear rode out, shook the spears and long knives in their hands, and swept forward with a roar. Hongchen's face did not change color, and the longitudinal sword slashed off the heads of the four fierce stone statues on both sides of the body, triggering the rebound device at the bottom, and the mechanism exploded directly, and four flames erupted, blasting the two knights running in front to pieces.

Hongchen swung his long sword, and then deftly footwork, shuttling back and forth in the flames, and slashed the premise of the two ghost horses with a low body, and took advantage of the situation to pick off the knight's head sword on horseback.

Suddenly, another stone statue beside him was shattered, and a wave of qi came towards him, shaking Hongchen back two steps. I saw that in the midst of the flames, one of the five generals had already urged the war horse under his crotch, rushed forward under the cover of the cavalry, dragged the heavy broadsword, and slashed towards the head of Hongchen.

The true qi that lingered around Hongchen's body suddenly drummed up, and as soon as the sword qi came out, the four cavalrymen who came on horseback were crushed by her. When she was about to leap to the side, the machete with a long handle and broad blade had already slashed in front of her.

Hongchen had to pause in a hurry and raise her sword to block, but in order to resist the rain of arrows, she had already spent a lot of true qi, and she blocked the charging cavalry several times in a row, and her rear strength was even weaker. The leader of the Yin soldiers dressed as a general was wearing heavy armor and iron, and he was not comparable to an ordinary pawn, and the sword qi could not hurt it for a while, but was directly pressed to the ground by its sword.

Hongchen was smashed to the ground by the knife, hurriedly danced the long sword in his hand to protect his body, and at the same time stretched out his hand and jumped up, the heavily armored Yin soldier suddenly swept with a knife, Hongchen barely turned over and dodged, after all, it was still a fraction worse, his waist was swept by a knife, and the whole person flew out directly backwards, crashing into the wall of fire behind him.

Lin Xiao and Ye Xin hurriedly stepped forward together to take Hongchen down, only to see that her face was like gold paper, and a mouthful of blood spurted out of her mouth.

Lin Xiao had never seen Hongchen suffer such a big loss, and his heart suddenly became anxious, he didn't know if sealing the acupoints on the sword spirit's body would work, so he could only hold her hand and inject true qi into her body. Unexpectedly, Hongchen shook his wrist with his backhand, and said, "You still have the level ahead to deal with, don't waste your true qi." Those Yin Soldier leaders are only a little stronger, and if I can take a break, it will be enough to deal with them. ”

As he spoke, Hongchen wiped the blood that overflowed from the corner of his mouth, and used blood as a medium to urge spiritual power to conjure up a talisman, and stuffed it into Lin Xiao's hand: "This is a 'teleportation talisman', which can take you directly through this corridor." The Yin soldiers can only move forward and not backward until they kill their targets, and as long as I drag them here, they will not be able to turn back and pursue you. You guys go to the next level first, and I'll go and join you when I've got these guys out. ”

Lin Xiao shouted, "What kind of! When the have you ever seen me leave you alone and run for your life?!"

Hongchen didn't say much anymore, and said directly to Ye Xin behind him: "Take him away!"

Ye Xin quickly stretched out his finger and hit the sleeping hole on Lin Xiao's body almost at the moment when Hongchen's words came out.

Hongchen watched Ye Xin pick up Lin Xiao, who had passed out in a coma, took the "teleportation talisman" in his hand, and suddenly said: "Demon Sect, you listen to me—if he makes any mistakes, I will kill you!"

Ye Xin looked at her silently, although his face was still cold and motionless, there seemed to be something in his eyes that flickered slightly. She helped Lin Xiao to stand up, transported her true qi to the palm of her hand, and activated the "teleportation talisman" in her hand, and a burst of bright red light suddenly appeared on the bodies of the two people, and the next moment, it was gone.

Hongchen looked at the direction in which Lin Xiao and Ye Xin had disappeared, let out a sigh of relief, picked up the spirit sword body and stood up, facing the several Yin soldier leaders who rushed with the queue, the vertical sword turned into a red light, and went straight up!

【To be continued】