Chapter Fifty-Eight: The Secret Passage of the Palace
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Shu Ye's long sword swept away, forming a sword shield to block the first wave of attacks, while the Moon Princess was full of energy, turning into a layer of air in front of her, resisting the iron arrows that shot in front of her.
"Uncle Huang, do you remember that when the palace was built, in order to prevent accidents in the future, craftsmen were asked to build secret passages under the palace in all directions?"
In the rain of arrows, the Moon Princess took a diagonal step, stepped on a huge square stone slab and said.
The mighty king was stunned for a moment, and he didn't know why Princess Yue was mentioning this matter at the moment of life and death, so he nodded lightly and responded: "Shuangyue is right, there is such a thing, but our royal family has never seen the secret passage drawings from beginning to end, and we don't know where the entrance and exit are." ā
"But I've seen it. Princess Moon said solemnly.
She bit her lip hard, and the vitality under her feet gathered violently, and the thick stone slab quickly shattered.
She pulled Shu Ye with her backhand and yelled, "Go!"
Then, in the rolling rubble, the two of them fell from the stone slab to the endless darkness of the ground.
Shocked, the mighty king hurriedly led people to approach the deep hole where the stone slab was broken, and threw several torches downward, but Shu Ye and Princess Yue were no longer visible.
"Think you can escape in this way?" The mighty king looked at the drop of bright red blood on the broken stone slab, snorted coldly, and ordered backwards, "Send a team of 100 people down to inspect and follow the traces of the two, Princess Yue is injured, and she should not be able to escape far." ā
The commander of the Praetorian Guard behind him answered, counted the number of people, and jumped down first.
Shu Ye and Princess Yue fled far away in the darkness at a rapid pace, and only then did they gradually slow down and polish the fire fold.
"You...... Hurt. Shu Ye saw that Princess Yue's entire left shoulder had been stained red with blood, and an iron arrow grazed the upper edge of her heart, deep into her shoulder blade, and couldn't help but be shocked, "Your vitality failed to resist the feather arrow?"
He had seen how the masters of the Condensation Realm could resist the rain of arrows falling from the sky in the Absolute City, and he had always thought in his heart that ordinary iron arrows could not hurt the people of the Condensation Realm at all, but he didn't expect ......
Princess Yue's face turned pale and she laughed miserably: "The realm is unstable, so naturally." ā
She gripped the shaft of the arrow, but she didn't dare pull it out, and the blood soaked red all over her left shoulder, dripping down her arm to the ground.
The iron arrows used by the Imperial City Guards are specially made, narrow and sharp, with sharp barbs, which are easy to penetrate, and after penetrating deep into the flesh, once they want to pull it out, they will tear a large piece of flesh and blood around them, which is unbearable.
"You go, I can't get out. Her eyes were resolute, and she handed over the secret decree of Emperor Chu in her arms to Shu Ye, "You promise me, you can't go back." ā
Shu Ye looked at her cold and resolute appearance, sighed, and did not take the secret decree in her hand.
"They'll look for the blood, so let's take care of the wound first. Shu Ye knew that she wouldn't last long like this, and said.
He helped Princess Yue to sit down on the ground, and pointed to cut off the iron arrow shaft, gathered his palms, and said, "You bear with it, it's good for a while." ā
Princess Moon didn't know what he was going to do, but she nodded seriously and bit her lip.
Shu Ye didn't hesitate, the lightning in his palm pushed forward, hitting the broken iron arrow arrow, caused by the huge force, the iron arrow instantly penetrated the shoulder blade of the moon princess at a lightning speed, and shot out from her back.
Princess Moon snorted and bit her lip tightly, but did not make a sound.
Shu Ye was amazed at her endurance, reached into her arms, and took out a bottle of golden medicine powder the size of a finger, quickly sprinkled it on her penetrating wound, ripped off a large piece of her clothes, and said offended, then tore open the skirt around her wound, and tightly wrapped the strip of cloth from the wound to her shoulder.
Princess Yue saw that he took out the iron arrow to bandage the wound in one go, like a cloud of water in the same way, and was surprised, but couldn't help but feel a little embarrassed. After all, this is the first time she has been touched by a young man, and it is in the shoulder blade position near her crisp chest, even though her heart is like ice, leaving no traces, but between her expressions, she is still a little embarrassed and shy.
"Okay!" Shu Ye got up, watched the blood from the wound slowly soak out, much better than before, and said in a deep voice, "I barely helped you stop the blood, but you were injured too badly, and if it goes on like this, it won't last long, we have to get out as soon as possible." ā
Princess Yue nodded, stood up, gritted her teeth and walked towards the secret passage with Shu Ye.
The two of them extinguished the fire and walked along the secret passage, until two hours later, the narrow secret passage began to open up.
Shu Ye thought that he was almost at the exit, but he didn't expect to turn east and west for a while, but he returned to the place where they had left before.
"How could it be ......" Shu Ye was stunned for a moment, and said in surprise.
"I think we accidentally walked into the fork in the road. Princess Moon sighed.
Her face was extremely pale, and the blood had once again completely soaked the bandaged strip of cloth.
Shu Ye closed his eyes and recalled carefully for a moment, and found that they had been touching the wall of the secret passage and walking to the right, but at some point, they had missed the correct passage.
"Turn back again. Shu Ye gritted his teeth and said.
Princess Yue answered, followed behind Shu Ye, and walked towards the secret passage where she had set off again, but her body was under heavy blood loss, and her consciousness gradually became trance.
When she got to the back, she was weak and couldn't keep up with Shu Ye's pace at all, and she stumbled and fell to the ground.
"I'll carry you!" Shu Ye saw that she was difficult to support, and couldn't help but stretch out his hand to her.
Princess Yue shook her head, wanting to say that she could still walk, but Shu Ye had already grabbed her and put her on her back.
"There are so many forks in the road, and we're lucky to be able to go back to where we were. Shu Ye said, "This secret passage is only familiar to you, if you faint, we will only be trapped in it." ā
Previously, it was the Moon Princess who was in a trance and made Shu Ye go the wrong way, but now that she has walked back to the passage, Shu Ye will never let her make the same mistake again.
Princess Yue knew that Shu Ye was telling the truth, although she didn't want to be carried on his back, but she was physically exhausted, lost too much blood, and had no ability to keep up, sighed, and could only helplessly lie on his shoulder, with a small fire, and pointed out the way for him.
The two continued to walk along the same path for an hour, and the Moon Princess finally found the clue, pointed out Shu Ye, and let him turn into a hidden dark passage.
Shu Ye found that there were six passages extending in all directions in the place he turned into, all of which were in an inconspicuous dark place, very hidden, and his heart was terrified, and he couldn't help but be shocked by the complexity of this place.
Without the Moon Princess's guidance, he knew that it would be difficult for him to find the right path.
Shu Ye knew that there might be a lot of complicated sections behind, so he couldn't help but quickly break away from the original route and carry the Moon Princess towards the dark passage.
After walking forward for another half an hour, Shu Ye was about to approach the exit when a flickering firelight and noisy human voices suddenly appeared in front of him.
"It's the Praetorian Guard. Princess Yue listened to the accent in her voice and whispered to Shu Ye.
"It came so fast. Shu Ye's heart froze, he extinguished the fire, the long sword was unsheathed, hidden in the darkness and slowly approached.
"How can there be half a figure in this hellish place, the bloodstains that have been tracked all the way are gone, how to track them. ā
"There are so many forks in the road, the devil knows which one is the way to live, even if we don't chase it, it is estimated that the two of them will be trapped in it. ā
"It's worth dying too, that kid is accompanied by Princess Yue, and he should be happy to be a ghost. ā
"That's right, with a peerless beauty like Princess Yue by his side, that kid doesn't know if it's a blessing from several lifetimes. ā
"Let's go, let's go back, it's estimated that this is also a dead end, we have been going forward for so long, maybe the commander has already caught someone. ā
A Praetorian Guard soldier turned around and was about to go around, when Shu Ye suddenly appeared from behind him and stabbed his heart with a sword, ending his life in an instant.
Without waiting for these warriors to roar or flee, Shu Ye's black sword met the air, and attacked with the sharpest sword momentum, killing the closest five people, and then the middle palace went straight forward, and killed the remaining five people between the thunder with the Ling sharp swordsmanship that only attacked but not defended.
After making sure that there was no one alive, he picked up a torch, then extinguished all the torches of the rest of the warriors, and carried the Moon Princess forward again.
From beginning to end, Shu Ye didn't say a word, nor did he have a trace of mercy, and his sword was life and death, but in the blink of an eye, an elite squad of the Praetorian Guard became the soul of his sword.
Seeing that he was extremely decisive and strong, Princess Yue felt a pang in her heart and said, "You can practice such a sharp swordsmanship and mind, no wonder I am not your opponent." ā
"If your strength can stabilize in the Qi Condensation Realm, and if you make a more decisive move, I will not be able to defeat you. Shu Ye said, "You just have too little combat experience, and you don't know how to use your own strength." ā
Princess Moon gave an 'um' and nodded, admitting her shortcomings.
Of all the people she had ever seen, few of them had used their own power to the fullest as Shu Ye.
"Can you hold on?" Shu Ye asked with a frown.
He found that the wound of the Moon Princess, after the vigorous exercise of the battle he had just engaged, had been pulled and torn again, and began to pour blood again, soaking the clothes on his shoulders.
"Let's go, I'm fine. Princess Yue gritted her teeth and said in a deep voice, "Just turn the passage on the east side in front of you and keep going, there will be no forks in the road." ā
Shu Ye answered, walked more than a dozen steps, and found that the moon princess on her back gradually lost her support, passed out, and completely lay on her shoulder.
"Princess, don't sleep, don't sleep......" He walked like a fly, raising his speed to the extreme.
He has experienced the battlefield of blurred flesh and blood, and knows that people are extremely seriously injured, as long as they lose consciousness, it will be difficult to wake up again, after the Moon Princess was seriously injured, she held on for four hours, and she has already reached the limit that her body can bear, and now when she sleeps, I am afraid that her life will be in danger.
Shu Ye was like the wind, shuttling quickly through the secret passage, and finally threw the torch and ran wildly all the way.
Fortunately, the rest of the journey was not too long, and after half an hour of running with all his might, he finally saw the bright sky.
Shu Ye was covered in sweat, and in his eagerness, he couldn't help but take a breath and rushed out of the secret passage.
However, when he clearly saw the situation outside, the whole person was stunned.
Outside the exit, it was not a wilderness, let alone a hidden place, but the backyard of an iron refining workshop, and the huge word 'Ming Pavilion' on the refining workshop stabbed his heart for a while.