Chapter 265
“It has already been three hours, how long is this passage?” Tian Xue started to get worried as she still wasn’t able to spot the end yet . Cheng Yu also had no idea, but continuing on like this wasn’t a feasible solution . So, he took out his Jewel Cauldron .
“I think we should enter the Mountain River Diagram . This is way too slow!” After Cheng Yu spoke, he entered the Mountain River Diagram with Tian Xue . After that, he propelled the Jewel Cauldron to continue forward . Although the Jewel Cauldron wasn’t a flying-type artifact, it’s speed wasn’t any slower than any of those flying artifacts . Furthermore, its defense was very high . Therefore, even if Cheng Yu were to come across those demonic beasts again, there was no longer a need for him to exit and deal with them, but could just bore his way through .
“Tian Xing, how are you feeling?” When they entered the Mountain River Diagram, Tian Xing had just woken up . Tian Xue went over to learn about his status . After all, he was struck heavily by a Golden Core Realm beast without any proper defense . With just his Qi armor alone, it basically didn’t have much of an effect in resisting the attack .
“Senior Sister can be at ease . It’s not much of a problem, just that some of my internal organs have been heavily injured . I just need some days to recuperate and I will be fine,” Tian Xing’s complexion was still pale as he consoled Tian Xue with a smile . Tian Xing was an orphan . When he was young, he was brought to Tianshan Sect . He had been brought up by Tian Xue’s mother . He grew up with Tian Xue . Tian Xue was older than Tian Xing by a few years and had always treated him as her brother while Tian Xing had always treated Tian Xue as his sister .
“Senior Brother, we wouldn’t be trapped here forever, right?” Tian Xing looked at the situation outside . They were advancing, but they still couldn’t see any end to this passage, making it seem like an endless road .
“Not sure . Just like what your Senior Sister said . Perhaps, this passage is not a dead-end . If this passage truly leads to the treasury, it shouldn’t be that long,” Cheng Yu could only try to comfort everyone . What he wanted to do now was to understand why the Art of Derivation from All Living Things would appear here . What exactly was hidden here? This was something Cheng Yu was baffled by .
“But if it isn’t so?”
“Then we can only continue forward,” Cheng Yu voiced out his helplessness in the situation .
“Hmph! It’s all your fault . If you had listened to me and went to search for the god water, why would such a thing happen? Now we can’t even obtain treasure and we even got trapped here!” Tian Xue sat on the grass after giving Cheng Yu a kick gloomily . Until now, Tian Xue had been worrying about her mother’s injury . She hoped to locate the god water as soon as possible . The emergence of Cheng Yu allowed her to see hope, but he kept on wanting to search for treasure . So, she had no other choice and could only suppress her anxiety . Now that they had been trapped, she got even more anxious . The small hope was extinguished .
“Che! Still dare to blame me . If it wasn’t you acting like an intelligent woman to trick me, why would I charge in so casually? If you want to find someone to blame, blame yourself . Acting like a barbaric woman suits you more . In the future, don’t act so intellectual in front of him . Facts have shown that you are just a barbaric woman,” Cheng Yu nipped a piece of grass as he laid down on the grass with his eyes closed . Both his hands were placed behind his head as he voiced out his dissapointment .
“What barbaric woman! Who’s a barbaric woman! You better be clear with your words!” Tian Xue heard the evaluation Cheng Yu gave her and she immediately got angry as she kicked him a few more times .
“I am not blind . Tian Xing, what do you think?” Cheng Yu shut his eyes and didn’t move, allowing Tian Xue to vent her anger on him .
“Tian Xing!” Tian Xue glared at Tian Xing .
“Er…this…I feel…actually…Senior Brother…haha…what you said is extremely correct!” Tian Xing shrunk his neck back . All of a sudden, he laughed .
“Tian Xing, you are asking for a beating!” Tian Xue shouted before pouncing towards Tian Xing .
“I’m wounded!” Just when Tian Xue about to give him a slap, Tian Xing shut his eyes and shouted .
“Hmph! I’m letting you off today . Wait until you have recovered, I will teach you a lesson,” Tian Xue withdrew her hand and glared at Tian Xing furiously . Tian Xing was suffering from some grave injuries so she didn’t wish to worsen his injuries .
“Senior Sister, if it’s like that, my injuries will never recover,” Tian Xing spoke bitterly .
“Who asked you to make nonsensical remark by agreeing with him?” Tian Xing glanced at the unmoving Cheng Yu and commented .
“Then why aren’t you beating Senior Brother? You can’t bear to, right?” Tian Xing chuckled .
“Who says I am not going to beat him? I am going to teach him a lesson now,” Tian Xue walked to Cheng Yu and started giving him a few kicks .
“You are asking for it,” Just when Tian Xue was about to kick Cheng Yu, Cheng Yu opened his eyes and grasped Tian Xue’s ankle . He followed up by kicking Tian Xue’s other leg .
“Ah!” Both of Tian Xue legs went face up to the sky and she fell down onto Cheng Yu . Cheng Yu rolled away causing Tian Xue to land on the grass patch .
“Cheng Yu, you’re dead!” Tian Xue crawled up with her chest in pain . Immediately, she got angry .
“It’s clearly you who tried to attack me . You can’t blame me!” Cheng Yu sat up, looking at Tian Xue’s chest as he laughed . He was thinking, for this woman to fall straight down onto the floor, he was pitying the two rabbits on her chest . Unfortunately, the timing wasn’t right . Otherwise, he would have certainly went forward to give them a massage .
“I’ll kill you!” Tian Xue crawled up, pouncing at Cheng Yu . Cheng Yu hugged onto the pouncing Tian Xue, causing both of them to start rolling on the ground . Tian Xing widened his eyes, before shifting his eyes away, ”Sinful, sinful . I saw nothing . ”
“Senior Brother! Look! The exit!” Tian Xing turned his head around and spotted the exit . He shouted out excitedly . It was at this moment Tian Xue noticed that she had been lying on top of Cheng Yu . With both of their faces near each other, they were almost sticking towards each other . She was startled as she quickly climbed up while blushing . Cheng Yu paid no heed to it . He had experienced situations like this numerous times . He spotted a bright light at the end of the passage, and if it wasn’t a mistake, that should be the exit . The Jewel Cauldron increased it’s speed, as they looked at the bright light getting bigger and bigger . The trio finally felt at ease . Treading a never ending passage had truly caused them to feel stifled .
Very quickly, an exit appeared before them and the Jewel Cauldron charged in . The trio leaped out from the Jewel Cauldron impatiently . But when they saw how familiar everything was before them, the trio was dumbstruck . It was exactly the side palace they were at before entering the passage!
“This…isn’t this the palace hall we were at?” Tian Xing voiced out his confusion . The decoration, layout, everything was exactly the same as that palace hall they were at previously .
“Could it be another palace hall that has a resemblance? In such a big palace, it’s not much of a big deal to have a similar one,” Tian Xue also felt that they had arrived at the previous palace hall but such a thing was unlikely to happen . So, she was somewhat unconvinced .
“It should be the previous palace hall,” Cheng Yu surveyed their surroundings, especially that shut stone door . That was the door he came in from .
“But we clearly went into the middle door . Now, it’s opened again and why did we came out from this door?” Tian Xing pointed to the door at the back and said .
“Isn’t it just nice? One for entrance, one for exit . A total of nine doors . This means that only one is the real passage,” Tian Xue analyzed .
“…” Cheng Yu didn’t speak but looked at Tian Xue .
“Wha…what . Am I not right? There’s such a possibility!” Tian Xue saw that Cheng Yu’s eyes were filled with doubts . But when she recalled the ambiguousness she had with Cheng Yu just now, her face had unknowingly turned red .
“Senior Brother, what Senior Sister said seems quite reasonable . One for entrance, one for exit, by calculations, there will be a remaining door,” Tian Xing felt that Tian Xue’s analysis seemed to be quite justifiable . So, he voiced out his approvement . Cheng Yu started to contemplate . He didn’t speak but went forward to study the stone doors .
“Oi! What I said is certainly right . At least what I said previously wasn’t wrong either . These passages aren’t a dead-end,” Seeing how Cheng Yu was not replying to them and was studying the stone doors carefully, Tian Xue spoke from behind Cheng Yu .
“Which door do you think we should go to?” Cheng Yu was truly unable to tell any differences in any of these doors . Perhaps, what Tian Xue said was right . So, he wanted to know her opinion .
“In any case, it’s either they are connected or the right passage . So, I feel that choosing any one of them will give the same result . If we were wrong, we will just return here . At most, we will just be wasting a few more hours . We have already entered once . So, there’s another seven passages . At most, we will go the wrong path three more times and the fourth one will absolutely be the right one,” Tian Xue looked at the faintly lit passages . Who would know which one was the correct one? So, she spoke irresponsibly .
“Alright . I will trust you once more,” Cheng Yu felt that although this method was quite stupid, it was currently the best solution . At least the current him was still unable to resolve the mystery behind the nine doors . Cheng Yu looked at the other seven doors before choosing one on the left side and walking in . Similar to the previous one, when the three of them entered the passage, the entrance they came in from shut itself automatically .
“Everyone enter the Mountain River Diagram!” Cheng Yu took out his Jewel Cauldron once again . Once again, the trio hid themselves inside the Mountain River Diagram . With experience, Cheng Yu no longer had anymore concerns, increasing the cauldron speed to its maximum, they rushed through the passage .
“Our luck shouldn’t be that bad to have to finish treading all the eight passages before locating the true passage, right?” Sitting on the grass, Tian Xing spoke .
“No good words are to be expected from a scoundrel! Can’t you say something nicer? Perhaps, this might be the correct passage?” Tian Xue replied ill-manneredly .
“Perhaps, it might not be the correct one?” Cheng Yu looked the other direction, giving a nonchalant reply . Cheng Yu felt that it shouldn’t be that simple . There might be the possibility of these nine passages to be all be fake, but he wasn’t able to find any other method . So, he could only do it the long and hard way .
“You are just spouting rubbish . If it’s all fake, it will mean that there’s nothing here . Since there’s nothing here, why would the palace master use so much effort to make such a weird passage?” Tian Xue was clearly insisting her viewpoint was right . Who would be so bored and make nine different passages inside a palace hall? Wouldn’t it be quite pointless? In any case, no matter which door they went through, they would keep on returning to the side palace hall .
An hour later, a few demonic beasts appeared . However, it wasn’t a leopard, but monkeys . Seeing the emergence of the Jewel Cauldron, the monkeys blocked their path forward . Cheng Yu didn’t have the mood to fight with them . So, he just rammed his way through .
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