Chapter Thirty-Eight: The Ghost Castle Shocks (Part II)

After Ouyang He walked into the secret door with a torch and walked through the dark passage for a while, she came to a room where there were many bottles and jars of items like pills. At this moment, the people who had entered the secret door before her were gathered around a Dan furnace in the room, whispering something to themselves. After a while, Zhou Kehe's entourage spotted Ouyang He and beckoned her to go over to them as well.

Ouyang He took a closer look, Huansha Pavilion Master Chen Deng and his entourage were lying quietly on the ground motionless, according to Zhou Kehe, they were originally in the Dan room to check if there were any mechanisms that could open other passages, but Chen Deng and his entourage suddenly let out screams one after another, and when a few people came to check in the dark, they were no longer breathing. In the face of this sudden situation, everyone present was also confused by the second monk for a while.

After Ouyang He saw this, she also briefly told everyone present about the incident in which she and Yuxin rescued Pei Sheng, who was seriously injured by the mysterious black-robed man in the hall, and then she guessed that maybe Chen Deng's death was also related to this black-robed man.

"So, aren't those of us who are still trapped here all in danger? This murderer may also be able to do it against some of us. Chen Xiaohu said with some anxiety.

Ouyang He squatted down and briefly checked the condition of Chen Deng's body by the faint light of the fire, she found that Chen Deng could hardly find any external wounds on his body, only an obvious blue and purple scar near his neck, so she speculated that Chen Deng should have been strangled by someone with a murder weapon such as iron wire and caused suffocation. However, what is a little strange is that his entourage was killed by a sharp blade that cleanly cut the artery in his neck from the front, and Ouyang He felt a little unable to understand why the murderer would use two completely different killing methods to kill two people at the same time, wouldn't it be time-consuming and laborious to do so.

"Grandma's, Lao Tzu just reacted, according to the current situation, this Tang Ye is afraid that it is fake for us to let us go and get the Dragon Soul Sword, and it is true that he wants our group of people to die here, I am afraid that now the people of Lieyang Gate, Huangshan Sect and Ziyun Cave have also been eliminated by him!" Hu Sheng complained angrily.

"Brother Hu, don't be impatient, since we already know that there is still a master hidden in the underground palace who wants our life, we should be more careful not to be left alone, after all, we don't know the details of the other party yet." Zhou Kehe said calmly to Hu Sheng.

It didn't take long for Chen Xiaohu's entourage to find a gray medicine jar fixed to the cabinet shelf and unable to be moved. When the attendant tried to turn the back of the jar clockwise, a stone door hidden on the side of the Dan room opened. Ouyang He thought about it and slowly stood up after inspecting the remains of Chen Deng and his entourage, and then followed everyone into the stone gate under the greeting of Zhou Kehe.

However, not long after entering the passage inside the stone gate, Zhou Kehe, who was the first to find the corpses of Chen Deng and his entourage, suddenly covered his neck with his hands, and then fell to the ground unconscious with painful convulsions. Zhou Kehe hurriedly leaned down to check the situation and said that he was poisoned by the Broken Intestine Grass and died, and because the poison could penetrate into the human body through the skin, and the entourage had not eaten any food before, Zhou Kehe judged that he should have touched some kind of poisonous item in the Danfang to cause poisoning and death.

"Hehe, just now, except for Miss Ouyang who has been squatting beside the Lord of the Chen Pavilion, everyone else has more or less touched the things on the cabinet shelf in order to find the mechanism of the secret door, we are really unfortunate compared to Miss Ouyang!" Hu Sheng said to himself with a sneer on the side.

"So, Brother Hu suspects that the little woman was poisoned?" Ouyang He asked a little helplessly.

"Master Hu, there is no evidence, don't spew blood. Yufeng Villa has long been praised by many martial arts people for its chivalrous deeds, and the head of this family believes that the owner of Ouyang Zhuang will never be such a despicable person. Zhou Kehe defended Ouyang He firmly in a firm tone.

"Brother Zhou is right, before the situation is clear, we must not mess with ourselves, otherwise we will be careful and people will have a gap." Chen Xiaohu also patiently persuaded on the side.

Hu Sheng glanced at everyone with disdain, then picked up the big knife and continued to walk in front, and the few people behind also followed Hu Sheng and continued to walk forward along the passage. Just as they noticed the faint glow of fire flickering inside the other stone door in front of them, the surrounding walls once again heard the unsettling sound of gears turning, and the ground suddenly began to shake violently. Immediately afterward, the ground behind everyone began to collapse one after another, and everyone quickly ran through the passage in some shock.

Seeing that Chen Xiaohu, who was running at the end of the line, was about to fall into the abyss after the ground collapsed before reaching safety, at this critical moment, Ouyang He turned around and jumped out on the edge of the cliff and grabbed Chen Xiaohu's hand. And at the moment when Ouyang He's own place was about to collapse, she used all her strength to pull Chen Xiaohu up and throw it to the location of the others with internal force, while she herself fell with the collapsed rock into the surging underground river below the underground palace.

When Chen Xiaohu was still lying on the edge of the cliff in horror and calling Ouyang He's name loudly, the room with a faint fire behind several people suddenly became brightly lit. Surprised by this, they entered the room one after another, and found a man covered in black robes sitting leisurely on a dragon chair placed at the highest point of the room.

"Hmph, looking at your outfit, are you the one in this underground palace who wants to put us to death? Let me ask for advice first! Hu Sheng picked up the big knife with a wicked smile and slashed at the black-robed man, but before he could get close, he was pushed back by a powerful internal force condensed around the black-robed man and fell heavily to the ground.

Seeing that Hu Sheng was not an opponent at all, Chen Xiaohu and Zhou Kehe glanced at each other and then raised their swords to kill the black-robed man, and they each used enough true qi to try to break through the internal force barrier maintained around the black-robed man in one go. However, when the two of them persisted for a long time, they still failed to take a step forward in front of the black-robed man, and then Hu Sheng also rushed up again, but he was still blocked by the black-robed man's six steps.

"Hehe, the idea of daring to fight the Dragon Soul Sword with this little ability is really beyond my strength!" With a contemptuous smile, the black-robed man waved his hand, and the exploding internal force barrier knocked the three people who were struggling to support him to the ground one after another.

The black-robed man then stretched out two silver-glossed swords from his sleeves and quickly jumped down from the dragon chair, and instantly slitted the throats of the two attendants who tried to rush up to help. Hu Sheng raised his big knife and shouted unwillingly and rushed forward to fight the black-robed man, but in just a few rounds, Hu Sheng's body was left with dozens of deep or shallow wounds by the black-robed man's blade. Hu Sheng continued to fight the black-robed man with a big sword in front of him, but soon the black-robed man grabbed the flaw in Hu Sheng's move and stretched out his double sword to quickly stab him into Hu Sheng's body, and Hu Sheng was then killed on the spot.

"Hehe, if it weren't for Ouyang He's face, you would already be dead. Okay, then, which of you is going to die? The black-robed man sneered and wiped the bloody blades of his twin swords against Hu Sheng's corpse, and then aimed them at Chen Xiaohu and Zhou Kehe, who looked anxious in front of him.

"So, Ouyang He is really ...... Is it your people? Zhou Kehe still felt a little incredulous when he heard the words of the black-robed man.

"Heh, is it necessary for you two dead people to know this?" The black-robed man sneered and then approached the injured two step by step.

At the same time, Ouyang He, who was fortunate not to fall into the dark river because she grabbed a piece of vine on the cliff, climbed along the stone wall with difficulty to the place where she had fallen before. When she followed the light into the room where the black-robed man was before, there was no black-robed man in the room, and Chen Xiaohu and Zhou Kehe were lying on the ground without moving at the moment.

Ouyang He leaned down and tried to wake up the two, and soon Chen Xiaohu woke up, but Zhou Kehe never showed any signs of waking up, and Ouyang He couldn't feel Zhou Kehe's breathing.

"It seems that Brother Zhou should have been strangled to death by the black-robed man at that time, and then he knocked me unconscious with the hilt of his sword when I was fighting the black-robed man." Chen Xiaohu looked at Zhou Kehe's body and said to Ouyang He.

"Well, it looks like it should be so, it's all my fault that I was too slow, otherwise I might have a chance to save Zhou Gongzi's life, it's all my fault!" Ouyang He couldn't help but reddened his eyes when he recalled the scene when Zhou Kehe helped him heal before.

However, just when Ouyang He was sad, Chen Xiaohu suddenly pulled out his sword and put it across Ouyang He's neck.

"Hey, senior, ...... you are" Ouyang He, who was quietly wiping away his tears, was frightened by Chen Xiaohu's sudden behavior, and stopped feeling sentimental in his heart.

"Miss Ouyang, I just want to ask you one thing, are you an accomplice of the black-robed man?" Chen Xiaohu asked Ouyang He in a tough tone.

"What? Senior, I don't know why you suddenly thought like this, the little woman really has never had any contact with this black-robed man. Ouyang He was a little confused by Chen Xiaohu's question, she guessed that maybe he had heard some rumors from elsewhere, "Could it be that someone said something to the seniors that made the seniors suspect the little girl." ”

"Indeed, according to the words of the black-robed man, it is not certain that she is their accomplice, but everyone who knows is dead except for the two of them, who else can there be?" Chen Xiaohu thought for a moment and slowly moved the sword away from Ouyang He's neck.

"Miss Ouyang, I hope it wasn't you, but now there are only two of us left among the people who come here, and for the sake of caution, this boss has to doubt you!" Chen Xiaohu still said to Ouyang He mercilessly.

"Well, I can understand the senior's concerns, but the little girl really didn't do anything to hurt everyone. So no matter how much the predecessors misunderstood the little girl, the little girl would never admit that she had never done it. Ouyang He also replied in a firm tone while his face did not change.

"Hmph, it's useless to talk too much, let's prove it with action." Chen Xiaohu was still a little reluctant in his words, but he couldn't bear to embarrass her too much when he thought that Ouyang He was still a little girl, "Let's go around first to find out if there are any mysteries here, but let's talk about it first, if you let the head of this see that you have any suspicious behavior, the head of this will definitely not show mercy." ”

"Well, the little woman understands." Ouyang He didn't have too many disputes with Chen Xiaohu because he was misunderstood.

After that, Chen Xiaohu moved the three bodies on the ground to the rectangular carpet in front of the dragon chair, while Ouyang He found a wooden lever behind a screen on the left side of the dragon chair that seemed to be able to activate some kind of mechanism. As she tried to pull down the lever under Chen Xiaohu's gaze, the sound of gears turning began to be heard in the walls of the entire room, and then the floor of the entire room began to climb upwards at a steady pace.

"In Xia Tang Ye, I am here to welcome the arrival of the two!" When the ground rose to the highest point, Ouyang He and Chen Xiaohu suddenly discovered that Tang Ye was leading a group of Tang Sect disciples to surround them at this time.

"Master Tang, it's been a long time, it seems that everything that happened here is expected by Your Excellency." Chen Xiaohu forcibly held back the anger in his heart and said to Tang Ye with a smug face in front of him, "I don't know how Master Tang should feel after seeing so many people with heads and faces in today's martial arts dead in the underground palace?" ”

"Hehe, Master Chen is really frustrated, how could such a big game of chess be set up by Tang alone? Oh, no, you should call Your Excellency Pavilion Master Chen now! Tang Ye turned to look at Ouyang He, who was beside Chen Xiaohu, who also had a displeased look on his face, after a mysterious smile on his face.

"Hmph, it seems that Master Tang has really found a big backer to rely on!" Chen Xiaohu seemed to understand something, and a mysterious smile appeared on the corner of his mouth, and then he turned to face Ouyang He and sighed deeply before slowly removing the camouflage mask on his face, it turned out that he was actually Chen Deng, the master of Huansha Pavilion who had died before.

Recalling the strange appearance of the remains of 'Chen Deng' and his entourage, as well as the unnaturalness of Chen Deng, who originally used his left hand to make a sword, switching to his right hand after pretending to be Chen Xiaohu, Ouyang He had already roughly deduced the identity of the fake Chen Xiaohu in front of him from many suspicious signs. Facing the many malicious eyes in front of her staring at her, Ouyang He took a few steps back with some caution, and at the same time, her hands also clenched the scabbard of the Ning Kun Sword behind her, a cruel battle for the ancient divine weapons was coming.