Chapter 37: The Ghost Castle (Part I)
"Hey, listen, why is there no movement inside, can't they all be dead as the Tang Sect Master predicted?" Outside the entrance of the underground palace, four people from the Lieyang Gate and the Huangshan Sect were whispering around the entrance. At this time, Tang Ye, the master of the Tang Sect, led a group of disciples to walk down slowly from the second floor of the ghost castle, and the four people who were guarding the entrance hurriedly greeted Tang Ye respectfully.
"Master Tang, we have already sealed the entrance according to your orders, and now these people inside can only wait for death obediently, hehe!" The people from the Lieyang Gate stepped forward and said to Tang Ye with a smile, "Then, the reward that the Tang Sect Master promised to give us ......"
Tang Ye waved his hand at his subordinates, and the two subordinates each walked behind the Tang Sect with a box of silver, and then they handed the box to the hands of the four people who were already excited at this moment.
"Everyone, you have worked hard, please leave the ghost castle immediately with Tang through the secret passage in the castle, so as not to cause changes later." After thanking the four of them, Tang Ye led them to a dimly lit stone room on the first floor of the ghost castle, and instructed his subordinates to open a secret door in the room that could clearly see to the outside.
After thanking Tang Ye with a smile, the four of them hurriedly ran towards the secret door that shone in the sunlight in the stone room. Suddenly, the secret door and the door to enter the room were closed at the same time, and the four people in the room still didn't know what was going on, and one of them innocently called out to Tang Ye to ask if the mechanism was malfunctioning.
Immediately afterward, several large holes suddenly opened in the floor of the stone chamber at the same time, and three of the four fell into the holes at the same time before they could react, and then the three of them were pierced through the body by the dense blades in the cave and lost their lives screaming.
The rest of the retinue of the head of the Huangshan Sect was frightened by the sudden situation in front of him, and then he trembled and put the box on the ground and knelt down and cried heartbreakingly begging Tang Ye to spare his life, but not surprisingly, he still lost his life under the subsequent "baptism" of the Flying Arrow Mechanism. After a while, the floor closed, and the two doors opened again at the same time, leaving only the attendant who had been pierced into a hedgehog by random arrows lying on the floor of the stone chamber.
"The Tang Sect Master is really ruthless enough, and he deserves to be the favorite ally of our big boss!" Xun Xi teased with contempt in his eyes.
"Miss Xunxi has won the award, compared with the methods of Wang Da's master, it is already merciful enough for these four people." Tang Ye said nonchalantly to Xun Xi, who was sitting leisurely on the railing on the second floor, "If the master of this sect is not mistaken, among the sixteen people who are now in the underground palace, I am afraid that there are still chess pieces that have been planted by the Wang Da master, right?" β
"Heh, this, who knows......" Xunxi sneered meaningfully.
At the same time, in the underground palace at the feet of everyone, several masters and their entourages who had just entered the wrong passage finally discovered the mystery on the door frame of the passage and entered the correct passage. When they successfully escaped from the traps set up in their respective passages and entered the hall surrounded by faint candlelight, Chen Deng, the master of Huansha Pavilion, found Ouyang He and Yuxin lying on the ground due to serious injuries at this moment, and immediately beckoned nearly ten people who had been with him all the way to check on the situation of the two.
"They don't seem to be lightly injured, but fortunately they are all breathing, Brother Xiaohu, the two of us will try to inject internal force into their bodies to see if we can temporarily alleviate the aggravation of the injury." Zhou Kehe, the leader of the Nanhai Gang, briefly checked the condition of Ouyang He and Yuxin, and then beckoned Chen Xiaohu, the head of the Kunlun faction, to try to heal them together.
"Hmph, why do you want to lose the Yuan Shen for two little girls who are going to die, it's a burden to bring them around!" Hu Sheng said nonchalantly on the side.
It didn't take long for Yuxin to wake up first, and Chen Xiaohu immediately told the awakened Yuxin that there was not much residual poison left in her body, and she only needed a moment of luck to recover.
Yuxin looked at Ouyang He, who was sitting next to her in a daze, who was healed by Zhou Ke and luck, and the grief in her heart lingered again. She held Ouyang He's cold hands tightly and leaned them against her cheeks, her reddened eyes moistened again, and at the same time, her heart kept praying that Ouyang He would wake up soon.
"Miss Yuxin, don't worry, Brother Zhou is very good at healing people's injuries. As long as he is there, Miss Ouyang will be fine. Chen Xiaohu comforted Yuxin on the side.
"Well, in my heart, there will always be only one Ouyang He in the four seas. Even if she dies, I will never leave her. Yuxin lowered her head and kept wiping the tears that overflowed from the corners of her eyes.
While Zhou Kehe was healing Ouyang Heyungong's injuries, Hu Sheng and Chen Deng took their respective entourages to enter the secret door that Bai Lichen and Han Yi had entered before, because they were a little impatient waiting. After about a pillar of incense, Zhou Kehe, who was sweating profusely, finally stopped his luck, and Ouyang He gradually woke up at the same time as Zhou Kehe stopped.
"Miss...... Miss! You've finally woken up, and you're really scared to death! Yuxin cried with joy when she saw Ouyang He who woke up, and then she hugged Ouyang He tightly.
"Okay, I'm all right, what about you? How do you feel now? Ouyang He said softly while gently stroking Yuxin's head.
Yuxin replied that she felt a lot better now, thanks to the help of the Kunlun Sect Leader Chen. At the same time, Zhou Kehe, who was healing Ouyang He, wiped the sweat on his face tiredly and told everyone that fortunately, the sword that pierced Ouyang He's left shoulder did not hurt her meridians, so now the wound has improved significantly after his luck treatment, and then he only needs to ask Yuxin to help wrap the bandage he brought on his body for Ouyang He's injured left shoulder, and he finally warned Ouyang He to pay attention to rest and recuperate, and never use force again until the wound heals.
Subsequently, after Zhou Kehe and Chen Xiaohu said goodbye to Ouyang He and Yuxin, they also followed the four who left before into the secret door. In the cold hall, Yuxin helped Ouyang He to the back of a large wardrobe in the corner of the hall, helped her take off the clothes on the left side, and wrapped layers of bandages around the wound.
"Miss, it's been a long time since those two people from the Wind Thunder Hall entered that door, do you think they have already obtained the Dragon Soul Sword?" Yuxin asked with some concern while wrapping a bandage for Ouyang He.
"Let's not talk about the Dragon Soul Sword, Xin'er, whenever I recall what we have seen and heard since entering this ghost castle, I always have a faint suspicion that this so-called 'test' is really just as simple as it seems?" Ouyang He whispered to Yuxin with a solemn expression, "And you can also see that all the organs in this underground palace are extremely powerful, and if you are not careful, you may die here, and using this kind of mechanism as a test for the heads of various factions with prominent positions will inevitably seem a little too harsh." β
"What Miss means is that this test arranged by Tang Ye's head actually has another mystery. In fact, Xin'er also felt a little strange about this, if those heads really died here, wouldn't the Tang Sect really be afraid of being retaliated against by the martial arts people related to this? Yuxin also raised her doubts to Ouyang He after thinking for a while.
As the two girls whispered about what they were facing, a sound came from another corner of the hall like a stone door opening, and the two girls immediately fell silent and watched out against the gap in a tattered drawer.
"Hmph, it was you who asked me to come at the beginning, and now it's you who told me to leave, my second leader of the Wind and Thunder Hall is inevitably too insignificant in the eyes of the eldest brother, right?" Bai Lichen said disgruntled as he and Han Yi walked into the hall from inside the newly appeared stone gate, and at this time, there was a mysterious person who was masked and wrapped in black robes.
"The second master, please dissipate your anger, the big boss must have done this for a reason, I'm afraid the big boss has already figured out a way to successfully obtain the Dragon Soul Sword at this moment." Han Yi said to Bai Lichen on the side.
"Hehe, Han Yi is still smart enough to get to the point, the second brother's trust in Brother Wei is not as good as Han Yi, it really makes Brother Wei feel chilled!" The black-robed man's voice was very deep, and it seemed to sound like he had deliberately concealed his original voice through some kind of tool.
"Come on, the eldest brother will come to this set less, you are the big boss of the Wind Thunder Hall, since you said that you and Xunxi have arranged everything, then the younger brother will naturally not compete for the prey that the eldest brother can already reach." Bai Lichen said with some indignation, "It's just that according to rumors, the Dragon Soul Sword can only be completely controlled by people with the bloodline of the Ancient Yellow Emperor, if I'm not mistaken, I'm afraid that the eldest brother doesn't have such blood flowing in his body, right?" Isn't the eldest brother really afraid that the sword qi will backlash and hurt himself? β
"Hmph, thank you for your concern, but I have my own arrangements for my brother, so I won't bother with my second brother...... Who? The black-robed man seemed to suddenly sense something, and then he used a powerful true qi to shatter a screen not far from the three of them, and then a white-clothed figure jumped out from behind the screen with a long sword in his hand. Ouyang He and Yuxin looked at each other, and the person who jumped out was actually Pei Sheng, the master of the Changge Sect who they thought had left the underground palace.
"It turned out to be Master Pei, I thought you had left, but I didn't expect you to be so concerned about the private affairs of our Wind Thunder Hall." Bai Lichen said coldly to Pei Sheng.
"Hmph, I wonder why the way back to the ghost castle was blocked from the outside, and now it seems that it is really your people from the Wind Thunder Hall who are making trouble, it turns out that all this was secretly planned by you." Pei Sheng pointed his sword at the black-robed man standing in front of him and said.
"Hehe, yes, you're right, it's just a pity that you didn't have a chance to talk about it to the second person." After the black-robed man finished speaking, two long swords flashing with bright silver light stretched out from the sleeves of his hands and killed Pei Sheng, Pei Sheng hurriedly resisted with his sword, but the strength shown by the black-robed man was amazing, and the moment the two sides collided, Pei Sheng was bounced to the wall with the blessing of the other party's strong internal force and fell to the ground heavily, and a stream of blood was suddenly spit out of his mouth.
"You're the first entrΓ©e of the night, but don't worry, soon, all the souls wandering in this dark dungeon will be with you, hahaha!" After the black-robed man finished laughing, he slashed at Pei Sheng with a knife, but Pei Sheng alertly struggled to dodge sideways, and then he tried to get up and fight back, but the black-robed man easily defused Pei Sheng's several attacks like the end of a strong crossbow, and then hit Pei Sheng again with a strong palm and fell to the ground, and this heavy blow also made Pei Sheng, who was seriously injured in all his internal organs, lose the strength to stand up and fight back again.
Pei Sheng lay on the ground motionlessly, watching the black-robed man approaching step by step, his eyes were also full of despair at the moment. Just as the black-robed man was about to give Pei Sheng the final blow with his sword, Ouyang He and Yuxin couldn't bear to watch Pei Sheng being killed and broke open the wardrobe with force, and then they quickly ran out and blocked Pei Sheng's face.
"Oh, I didn't think there were two cats hiding here. Could it be that this girl in blue is Ouyang He, the owner of Yufeng Mountain Villa? Seeing Ouyang He's appearance, the black-robed man seemed to temporarily restrain the murderous aura in his eyes.
"The little woman Ouyang He has seen the senior, and now that this person is seriously injured and unable to resist, can the little woman ask the senior to raise his noble hand and spare his life?" Ouyang He held the Ning Kun Sword that flashed with purple light and saluted the black-robed man.
"Hehe, the lord of the dignified faction must rely on the protection of women, what if I am determined to get rid of such waste? What about the girl? β
"That little woman must sacrifice her life to save her, even if she dies today by the sword of her predecessors!"
"That's right, Miss is right, you can't kill him!"
"Miss Ouyang, Miss Yuxin......"
After noticing Ouyang He's left arm, which was trembling in pain, the black-robed man seemed to see something. He then sneered with a slightly mysterious look in his eyes and said to Ouyang He that sooner or later there would be a battle between them, but it was not yet time, he didn't want to kill them here so unaesthetically, that would make him feel a little reluctant.
The black-robed man then smiled and put away the double swords in his sleeves and left the hall to return to the secret door where he came in, Bai Lichen and Han Yi walked towards the entrance after looking at Ouyang He and Yu Xin with a few complicated glances, and when he left, Bai Lichen said to Ouyang He in a flirtatious tone, let her take care of her injuries, otherwise when he occupies Yufeng Mountain Villa in the future, no one will assist him in managing the villa, and he will be very distressed.
Since Pei Sheng's injuries were so serious that it was difficult to get up, Ouyang He guessed from the conversation they had heard just now that Bai Lichen and Han Yi should be preparing to leave the underground palace, but since Pei Sheng had said that the entrance had been sealed, they probably walked in the direction of the entrance because they knew about other secret passages that could get out. Thinking of this, Ouyang He asked Yuxin to carry Pei Sheng on her back and quietly followed behind Bai Lichen and the two to see if there was any possibility of leaving the underground palace, while she herself continued to insist on keeping up with the footsteps of the heads of other sects.
"Who the hell is that person?" The crushing force displayed by the black-robed man made Ouyang He also feel a little surprised and terrifying.