Mu Qingyan raised his head and hummed, refusing to pay attention to her.
Cai Zhao crossed his waist and wanted to be angry, but suddenly his eyes turned aside and saw that his sleeves were scratched, and the back of his pale hands was scratched by gravel, leaving several shocking blood marks.
She thought of Han Yisu's unhesitating defense of her just now under the coercion and inducement, and her heart softened: "Oh, I haven't apologized to you yet. I thought I could help you when I came to Netherworld Huangdao, but I didn't expect you to be pregnant already. You have a good plan. Not only did I not help you, I almost got you in trouble. Alas, I shouldn’t be so self-righteous. The world is so big and I’m not as capable as I think..."
After hearing these words, Mu Qingyan's expression softened, "No, you took the risk to come to Netherworld Dao just because you don't trust me. I feel very happy in my heart."
Cai Zhao looked at him, and Mu Qingyan looked back.
silence.
"That's not right." Cai Zhao narrowed his eyes, "You asked Uncle Cheng to wait for me at the Zhulin Jingshe outside Qingque Town for many days. It shows that you not only expected that I would come to you, but also planned to let Uncle Cheng lead the way for me. With your scheming mind, how could you not think that my identity would make Nie's followers even more crazy? You should have dissuaded me from coming."
Mu Qingyan looked away with a guilty conscience.
"You are spreading suspicions and deliberately releasing false news to confuse Nie Zhe, so it is impossible to seal all the passages. Those believers who have seen the Yanyang Sword, while spreading the news that you are planning to attack the Paradise Palace head-on with strong troops, will inevitably spread a few words to Nie Zhe's ears. Therefore, my identity cannot be concealed, so why don't you dissuade me from coming to Netherworld Huangdao?"
Mu Qingyan coughed lightly to hide his guilt: "You have to believe me, I will never put you in danger."
Cai Zhao was expressionless: "I believe this. You wanted me to come to you, and you also expected that my identity cannot be completely concealed. You originally wanted to hide me, right?"
"I originally wanted Uncle Cheng to take you to hide for a while, and then come out after the Nie family is destroyed." Mu Qingyan smiled bitterly, "Among the divine sect, the only ones who really hate your aunt are the Nie family members. A handful of bright sunshine The sword sent away many of Nie Hengcheng’s close and beloved generals - when Nie Hengcheng was in charge of the church, his men were always the first to kill."
Cai Zhao snorted: "Of course. My aunt is not bloodthirsty. Even if she is a member of the Demon Cult, as long as she does not do evil, my aunt will mostly turn a blind eye. If Duan Jiuxiu hadn't lost her mind and gone crazy, After killing Qingfengguan, my aunt is too lazy to pay attention to him."
Mu Qingyan smiled bitterly: "That's right. Therefore, if someone like Elder Qiu Baigang doesn't deal with Nie Hengcheng, even if he is forced to take orders to go out on errands, he will still be unable to do his job. How can he have such a deep hatred against your Cai family?"
Cai Zhao thought about it and said in a loud voice: "In that case, just let Uncle Cheng and I hide and you can go find Nie Zhe!"
Mu Qingyan sneered and said, "You can rest assured that you will let your three senior brothers follow me into the Palace of Paradise? Then Song Yuzhi will bump into each other, and you won't be blamed for me!"
Cai Zhao couldn't help shouting: "Then you can ask Third Senior Brother to hide with me and Uncle Cheng!"
"Yeah, I'd rather die if I let you two hide and talk to each other!"
Cai Zhao was almost furious: "Third Senior Brother and I really want to express our feelings to each other. We have told each other so much already, why should we wait until now?! You'd better drink two pairs of Qingxin Decoction to wake up!"
Mu Qingyan rarely spoke back and sighed: "I thought that I had thoroughly checked the area around Nie Zhe and that there would be no big risk in the Paradise Palace, so I took you in. I didn't expect that Han Yisu was not dead. Alas, long ago Knowing this, it would be better for you and Song Yuzhi to hide and say bad things about me."
Cai Zhao simply laughed angrily: "You are really incredibly thoughtful. I admire you, I admire you!"
Mu Qingyan tugged at the corner of the girl's clothes, his eyes full of apology: "It's all my fault that Zhao Zhao took such a big risk."
"Forget it!" Cai Zhao was so angry that he adjusted his breath in his Dantian and repeatedly recited the four-character mantra of "harmony brings wealth" in his heart.
"Let go of the past and let's get down to business now!" She waved her hand vigorously, "Where is this place?"
Mu Qingyan said: "I heard from my father that there is a huge underground palace below the Paradise Palace. It was built by the fifth-generation leader Mu Donglie. It should be here."
Cai Zhao looked around and saw that the corridor was indeed straight, deep and wide. She complained: "With such a big underground palace, wouldn't it hollow out the entire underground palace of Paradise? He is not afraid that the Palace of Paradise will collapse."
"No. Because the entire underground palace is made of fine iron mixed with various secret steels, and is supported by huge jade rocks at the back. It is not only extremely strong, but also has a stronger load-bearing capacity than mountain rocks."
Cai Zhao was speechless, and then he thought something was wrong: "But the machine room where Han Yisu was just now was made of stone."
Mu Qingyan scornfully said: "That was probably built by Nie Hengcheng in the cracks of the underground palace in his early years. It was a sneaky trick and extremely ridiculous."
Cai Zhao nodded and said: "Yes, that stone chamber is small and fragile, but it is also full of exquisite mechanisms. It can be seen that the person who built the stone chamber is a meticulous and trivial person. It is not at all like the craftsmanship and workmanship built here. , magnificent."
Mu Qingyan sighed and said, "Yes, the annals of the divine religion also judge Mu Donglie the same way. It's a pity that he has not been in charge for a long time."
Cai Zhao was shocked: "Did he die very early? Who could kill such a powerful leader? Did he die of illness?"
Mu Qingyan: "No one dared to kill him, and he was not sick - he did not pass away at all. Instead, he passed the position of leader to his nephew and asked his subordinates to help him. Then he disappeared in the distance and disappeared. For many years Later, someone said they saw him behind the towering snow-capped mountains in the Western Regions, but I don’t know if it’s true or not.”
Cai Zhao opened his mouth wide and said after a while: "...I didn't expect that there are such casual people among the leaders of the Demon Cult."
"What's casual? I think it's willful. I just put it down. I don't know what's going on in my heart. I think he should take the medicine." Mu Qingyan said angrily, "Let's not mention him anymore. We have to Find a way out."
Cai Zhao looked around: "It's impossible to go back the way we came. It's all blocked. We can only find the way out through this underground palace."
"Okay." Mu Qingyan patted his robe and stood up, while holding up the girl, "Let's learn about the courage of this ancestor of the Mu family."
Cai Zhao looked forward and then behind, "Which direction are you going?"
"It's all the same, let's take a walk first."
Cai Zhao agreed.
As soon as Mu Qingyan moved, his sleeve was grabbed by the girl behind him, and he turned around strangely.
Cai Zhao hesitated and whispered: "Back then, did Mrs. Sun have you first before marrying your father?"
Instantly, a chill filled Mu Qingyan's eyes, and his body became stiff.
After a while, his expression returned to normal and he said calmly: "Not bad."
He picked up a wooden stick from the ground - it was the remnant of Han Yisu's wooden wheelchair that rolled down after breaking into pieces. He lit it with a fire stick and held it high to lead the way.
"If it weren't for me, my father might have left the Hanhai Mountains long ago." His tone was normal.
The tall figure dragged a long shadow in the tunnel, and Cai Zhao suddenly felt a hint of bitterness.
She pulled Mu Qingyan again, thought for a moment and said, "My aunt was only fourteen when she ran out of Peiqiong Villa. She woke up one night, drank a cup of cold tea, packed her bags and set off, even the note she left was casually left. Written on steamer cloth..."
Mu Qingyan lost some of the coldness in his eyes: "Why steamer cloth? Is there no paper in Peiqiong Villa?"
"Because I have to bring dry food with me when I go out." Cai Zhao explained seriously. "My aunt went to the kitchen to steal cold steamed buns in the middle of the night. She thought she should leave a message for Uncle Zhou, but she was too lazy to go back to the house to find paper and pen, so she used black bean sauce on the steamer cloth. After writing a few words on it, stuff it into the crack of Uncle Zhou’s door, and that’s it.”
"Your aunt is really free and easy." Mu Qingyan showed a smile, "But didn't she also take Lei Xiuming's clothes and jade crown?"
"Yes. But I didn't get it for free, I exchanged it for snow lotus!" Cai Zhao couldn't help laughing. When she mentioned this deceased elder, she was filled with warm admiration.
"My aunt said that the so-called 'everyone has a destiny' is often caused by his own nature. Those who can leave will leave no matter what, and those who stay will always have a reason to be tied up."
"My father has had reasons why he couldn't leave for so many years, so how can I blame you?" She pulled Mu Qingyan and looked at him steadily, "It's not your fault. You have to remember, it's absolutely not your fault." Your fault."
Mu Qingyan's long eyelashes trembled slightly, and after a while, he hummed softly, then pulled the girl up and walked towards the deep and dark tunnel ahead.
Chapter 80
The two of them walked in the abyss-like passage of the underground palace. At first they were afraid of traps and did not dare to walk quickly. However, they walked for half an hour in peace, which was even calmer than the alleys in remote corners of Luoying Town.
However, beneath this calmness, there is an almost eerie silence.
Half an hour later, the two of them galloped forward with all their might. With their cultivation level, they can run back and forth across an area as large as five Paradise Palaces by exerting their Qinggong with all their strength. However, more than half an hour later, they were still in the tunnel.
The smooth iron walls occasionally engraved with ancient patterns, the flat cast iron floor, the faintly glowing luminous pearls, and the tall and wide underground palace passages seemed to be endless. After walking for a long time, Cai Zhao even felt that he was no longer in the world, but in the world. A lonely soul wandering in the underworld.
What is even more despairing is that there are several skeletons in rags lying scattered in the passage, implying that no one who entered the underground palace will survive.
"This man committed suicide." Cai Zhao pointed to a skeleton a few steps away. "With one strike, his neck bones were almost severed. Such a strong man would commit suicide in despair."
Mu Qingyan's eyes darkened: "Killing yourself while you still have the strength is better than what happened to the two corpses just now."
Cai Zhao felt nauseated when he mentioned this matter.
Just around the corner, they saw two corpses lying a few steps apart. There was nothing unusual at first glance, but with sharp eyes, Mu Qingyan discovered that there were traces of teeth gnawing on the bones of the second corpse. The black round beach stained on the ground was unusually large, and it seemed that there was a huge amount of bleeding. Then he opened the second corpse. There were several human finger bones in the clothes of a corpse...
There are various indications that the first man actually resorted to cannibalism due to extreme hunger and thirst.
However, even after eating all the flesh and blood of his companions, this man was still unable to get out, and finally died trapped here alive.
"Promise me one thing, if you are extremely hungry and want to eat me, you will beat me to death first." Cai Zhao's stomach was full of acid and he was so sick.
Mu Qingyan lowered his head and took off his waist bag: "I'm really hungry after what you said. Let's use some dry food." The moment they left Fanghua, Uncle Cheng prepared water bags and dry food for everyone, just in case. .
Cai Zhao couldn't believe it: "You can still eat it under such circumstances."
"Of course I can eat it." Mu Qingyan broke a piece of dry food to her and encouraged her enthusiastically, "Think about the cannibal just now. In order to survive, he just ate meat and drank blood. In the end, he was so hungry that he went crazy. Even swallowing the fingers and bones of dead people - what a perseverance this is, we must not be discouraged!"
"..." Cai Zhao, "You, shut your mouth."
Then she ran around the corner and vomited.
Mu Qingyan was a little dazed, and walked over silently, helped the girl who turned pale from vomiting back, and pulled her to sit down along the wall, "Actually, this is really nothing. Back then I..."
"If you keep talking about the mushy and rotten meat under the Immortal Sacrifice Cliff, I will bite you!" The little girl bared her white teeth viciously.
"...Then you should drink some water first." Mu Qingyan handed over the water bag, and for the first time in his eight lives, he changed the subject and said, "It seems that we are trapped in a maze."
"It seems so." Cai Zhao took a sip of water. "The formations in this underground palace are very powerful. Those marks we left along the way are useless. Some marks can be encountered several times, but some marks are never seen again. We couldn't see it either. When we encountered a fork in the road, we tried to go both ways, but ended up with the same destination. What's terrible is that now we can't even find our way back to where we first fell in. Alas, it would be nice if there were some traps .”
Mu Qingyan smiled and said: "You think this journey is too peaceful and want to make some noise."
Cai Zhao shook his head: "It's not that I dislike peace, it's just that when I was a child, I heard my grandfather say that manpower is limited, and the mechanisms that people can create will eventually be exhausted. On the contrary, the situations without mechanisms are the most dangerous. For example, Nine There is no structure at all in Mount Li's Chatian Peak, but over the past hundred years, countless heroes have fallen into it."
"The people who built this place obviously know this very well. They have built this underground maze in a seamless and repeated cycle. Once you enter, you will be trapped alive. If there is a trap, maybe I can follow the trap to find a flaw. ." The more she thought about it, the more annoyed she became, "Speaking of which, your ancestors went through a lot of trouble to build a place like this. Did your demon sect have so much money at that time that there was nowhere to spend it?"
"...There is no record in the history of our religion why Leader Mu Donglie built the underground palace." Mu Qingyan said thoughtfully, "However, after he left, there was a rumor in the sect that there were secret books and treasures left by him in the underground palace. But then it was settled.”
"So these people are here to hunt for treasure?" Cai Zhao looked at the skeletons and frowned, "What to do next? Judging from the bones of these dead people, they have been dead for at least a hundred years. Do we have to do it in the future? Turned into such a skeleton?"
Mu Qingyan: "We can't move forward endlessly, otherwise we will die of exhaustion and starvation like those skeletons."
He stood up and looked at the iron wall. Then he became angry and pushed his palms forward. He heard a very low roar from the iron wall. Where he pushed with his palms, it sank two deep. About three or four inches of palm print.
Cai Zhao was shocked when he saw it, thinking that Mu Qingyan's skill was indeed higher than mine, and he didn't know how much he gave up to me in the previous fight between the two.
"What are you doing?" she asked, "Didn't you say that the iron wall is three feet thick?"
Mu Qingyan returned his palms to his luck, "Since there is no hope of moving forward, break through the wall and find another way out. I want to see what will be revealed behind the iron wall when it breaks." After saying that, he slapped his palms on the iron wall again, There was a rumble and low roar in the tunnel, but the iron wall only sank deeper.
Cai Zhao leaned over and took a look: "This won't work. This iron wall is made of fine iron and has excellent ductility. You can't break it like this." She pulled out the Yanyang Knife and handed it to Mu Qingyan, "You can break the iron wall." Scratch it first, then beat it and see.”
Mu Qingyan took the sword and acted as he was told.
When the third deep low cry sounded, the breach caused by the Yanyang Knife was torn apart by Mu Qingyan's palm force, revealing a breach the size of a human head and the solid rock behind it.
Cai Zhao lost his voice and said: "Basalt granite? My God, after a three-foot iron wall and then pressing granite on it, this leader is really busy."
Mu Qingyan struck another blow at the breach. The granite made a rattling sound and shattered a little, but the stone behind it remained motionless.
Cai Zhao stopped him from continuing to hit, "These granites may be part of the mountain. Don't you want to break the whole mountain? Forget it, let's try the iron wall on the left. I want to see what's behind this iron wall. Isn’t it also granite?”
Just as she was about to slash the iron wall with her knife, the blade suddenly stopped halfway and let out a whoosh.
Mu Qingyan saw her strange expression and asked what was wrong.
Cai Zhao reached out and touched the pattern on the iron wall, "We didn't notice it before, but it turns out this is not a pattern. Come and see, does this look like a map?"
Mu Qingyan took a few steps closer and took a look. Wrapped in the complex patterns of a large group of cloud bats was a pattern that looked like the Eight Diagrams. Upon closer inspection, he found that there was no polarity between Yin and Yang in this Eight Diagrams. Instead, it was engraved with layers of layers. The overlapping curved lines are very much like a map.
