Chapter 1866 - 1867: Bizarre Corpses
"Little brother, we’re living in our own little world now, aren’t we? Do you feel happy and satisfied?"
"To be honest, besides Lou Xinyu, no other man has ever spent time with me like this. Oh, not even Lou Xinyu, because he didn’t dare come too close to me."
"Ah, it’s truly comfortable without those random people following us!"
"Little brother, did you know? Though we’ve only been together for a few days, my fondness for you has already transformed into love!"
"Little brother, I love you, I, Lou Yaoyao, love you!"
"..."
At this moment, Ye Xuan had already been clinging to Lou Yaoyao, as they proceeded about two miles down the passage.
Ye Xuan felt he was about to lose his mind again.
Lou Yaoyao, you’re not a femme fatale, you’re a devil!
Even my colleague Xiao Zhiqing, who watches me daily in the office, doesn’t come close to your level!
Here I am, anxious and fearful of accidentally triggering a trap, and you don’t even help me stay alert, instead you disturb my mind. What...what exactly do you want?
Do you want to die with me?!
For the first time, Ye Xuan realized that the words ’I love you’ could be so absurdly unreasonable.
Lou Yaoyao, I don’t believe you at all!
I bet you’ll be thrilled if I die right away, won’t you?
Suddenly.
Ye Xuan stopped.
Lou Yaoyao also stopped moving and ceased bothering Ye Xuan.
Both of their expressions turned somewhat serious.
Lou Yaoyao looked down, and with an awkward smile said, "Little brother, I think I stepped on some kind of trap mechanism..."
Ye Xuan twitched his mouth: "I know, I stepped on it too."
"Oh, you stepped on it too." Lou Yaoyao’s guilt instantly vanished: "Then it’s not just my fault, it’s a mistake we both made."
Ye Xuan: "..."
If not to blame you, then who? If not to blame you, then who?!
The trap was right in the middle of the passage, if you hadn’t been driving me crazy, would I have carelessly stepped on it?
Have a look, have a look!
There are no bodies around here, indicating nobody touched this trap before us!
Ye Xuan was too lazy to argue with Lou Yaoyao about responsibility. Since they were already caught, he could only sigh: "What do we do now? Without Ye Lang, there’s no way we can break this mechanism. I suppose once we lift our feet, the trap will immediately trigger."
We can’t just stand here helplessly and watch someone else take the Sky Mountain Blood Lotus, can we?
"Judging by this, the mechanism probably includes some sort of hidden weapons, and we truly can’t deactivate it." Lou Yaoyao glanced around, nonchalantly saying: "There’s no other way, we can only force our way through."
"Force our way through?" Ye Xuan raised an eyebrow.
Lou Yaoyao shrugged, saying carelessly: "What else? We’ve already stepped on it, what can we do?"
"Alright."
Ye Xuan let out a deep sigh, mentally cursed Lou Yaoyao a hundred times, then accepted his fate.
He braced his formidable physique, and the potent energy within him surged out, forming an invisible and colorless protective barrier around his body.
Qi Gong Protection!
Lou Yaoyao also trembled slightly, releasing a powerful energy that was no less potent than Ye Xuan’s, shielding herself thoroughly.
The two lifted their feet and continued advancing.
Whoosh whoosh whoosh!
The sides of the passage began to emit piercing, sharp sounds, as razor-sharp arrows shot at them aggressively.
If not for Qi Gong Protection, they would have become living targets in less than a second...
Under the Qi Gong Protection, they walked leisurely, bulletproof.
Clang clang clang!
Arrows with immense penetration power hit them, creating bright sparks, unable to truly harm them.
If such a scene reached the common folks, it would undoubtedly be a mind-boggling shock!
Up to several tens of meters.
The two marched several tens of meters, only then escaping the area covered by arrows, entering a relatively safer zone.
Ye Xuan sighed secretly, glanced back at the area still firing arrows, and couldn’t help but twitch his mouth.
This trap, while simple and easy to spot, is exceptionally fierce.
A passage extending tens of meters filled with arrows whose penetration power rivals bullets; without Qi Gong Protection, ordinary people wouldn’t stand half a chance.
With arrows ejecting from the side walls of the passage simultaneously, it’s almost impossible to dodge such an assault, especially considering the arrows are likely poisoned!
Ye Xuan glared at Lou Yaoyao in exasperation: "Look at the trouble you’ve caused!"
"Little brother, didn’t you say we couldn’t just blame me?" Lou Yaoyao said indifferently: "You also stepped on the trap, didn’t you?"
Ye Xuan rolled his eyes, too drained to argue with Lou Yaoyao.
He lifted his feet and continued to advance deeper.
Having learned from the first trap, Ye Xuan became increasingly cautious, even with Lou Yaoyao continuing to pester him, he managed, with vigilance, to avoid several other dangers similar to the previous trap.
After crossing another five miles.
As they penetrated deeper, corpses in the passage became fewer, and those they did encounter occasionally were dead due to trap mechanisms.
Clearly, those who reached this depth were already extremely skilled masters, unafraid of fighting, but sadly couldn’t escape the traps and secret techniques within the ancient tomb ruins.
Thanks to their warning corpses, Ye Xuan and Lou Yaoyao, neither familiar with trap techniques, managed to navigate safely.
At this point, the passage widened.
Ye Xuan and Lou Yaoyao could distinctly sense that the spiritual energy in this area was much denser than where Ye Xiaoying and others were.
Ye Xuan furrowed his brows slightly: "The deeper we go, the more abundant the spiritual energy becomes. Could there be a world-class treasure at the end of this Li Gate passage?"
"We’ll know once we go inside, won’t we?" Lou Yaoyao joked: "Seems like we’re almost at the end!"
Ye Xuan nodded.
Yet they hadn’t walked much further.
Ye Xuan and Lou Yaoyao paused again.
Because, before them appeared countless corpses piled like a mountain, a sight not seen for some time.
Ye Xuan’s pupils contracted, his gaze scanning the bodies, noticing that although they hailed from different factions, none died from combat.
Their foreheads were dark, their faces pale, lips blue and purple, and their bodies showed black veins, an extremely eerie sight.
Ye Xuan took a deep breath.
Aside from the dense spiritual energy, he discovered a noxious gas here, a poison unlike any he’s seen.
These corpses all fell to poison gas!!