Too stubborn!
His mouth was too stubborn!
His bones were too stubborn!
The female cultivator had long grown tired of hearing “I don’t know.”
Her name was Liang Tingyu. She now had late Nascent Soul cultivation and had begun serving Night Sailing Ship thirty years ago. She was currently one of the three great sacrificial wine officials in the hall.
Yesterday, she had been ordered to capture Zuoliu for interrogation.
But after using a dozen methods of threats and inducements, she still hadn’t extracted half a bit of useful information!
Where did this guy look like some small rogue?
Even the most iron-blooded cultivators she had tortured under interrogation didn’t have his backbone!
“Good, good, good, you still refuse to speak!”
Having questioned him to this point, Liang Tingyu felt her patience was finally exhausted. She no longer wanted to waste words with Zuoliu and directly raised her hand high, about to slap down on that imprisoning cage.
“Just keep refusing to speak! Let’s see whether your bones are harder, or this prison cage!”
Her five fingers tensed as substantial spiritual power flowed between them—a special technique for triggering certain array seals on the prison cage.
The black iron cage also seemed to sense its presence and began humming and trembling.
But just as her palm was about to fall—
“Boom…”
A low, deep rumble, faintly accompanied by a strange, low roar!
The entire stone chamber suddenly shook along with it, and fine fragments and debris fell densely from overhead!
Liang Tingyu was immediately shocked!
Night Sailing Ship’s dungeon was made of special Nether Void Stone that ordinary magical artifacts couldn’t break. Not to mention, this stone chamber where she was interrogating Zuoliu was located in the deepest part of the entire dungeon!
Even cultivators with cultivation as high as the Worldly Entry realm might not necessarily be able to cross layers of arrays to reach here, much less shake the stone chamber!
Something had happened!
Her heart immediately tensed, her entire body instantly on guard. How could she still care about using cruel methods to interrogate Zuoliu? With a flash, she directly exited the stone chamber and appeared in the corridor outside.
“Is it from up ahead?”
“Quick, go check the front!”
Several guarding cultivators nearby were also greatly alarmed, thrown into chaos, rushing hurriedly toward the front.
In the deep, dark corridor, not half a point of light remained visible. A heavy, deep black aura surged from above the corridor, almost filling the entire passageway.
Suffocating, oppressive.
That was a power so strong it made people want to prostrate themselves!
Liang Tingyu looked up and saw that the centipede painting shadow originally drawn on the left side of the corridor had now actually protruded halfway out.
Like something buried in a cocoon about to rupture.
The fierce beast hidden within was about to struggle out!
As a sacrificial wine official of Night Sailing Ship, how could she not know of this thing’s existence? But hadn’t the hall master said that “It” would remain in eternal slumber?
What was this situation now?!
“Enemy attack! Enemy attack—”
Before Liang Tingyu could figure it out, a heart-rending shout suddenly came from the middle section of the corridor ahead, but before the cry could finish, it abruptly stopped!
“Puchi!”
A spray of fresh blood suddenly scattered from the neck.
A long sword with white body and black blade pierced through. Sharp and surging sword qi instantly shredded this Night Sailing Ship cultivator’s consciousness!
Where the sword edge passed, only a corpse remained!
Bai Yin’s handsome face was now completely covered with surprise and gravity. Although he had dealt with an opponent, his mood wasn’t relaxed at all. He even had a vague premonition that things were completely out of control.
The steps and methods for breaking arrays were all researched by Yashan.
Today, as he infiltrated all the way, he had been extremely careful when breaking each array, absolutely impossible to make any mistakes. Not to mention, having already descended into the dungeon where every array was a killing formation, he absolutely dared not be careless.
He had just broken through to the nineteenth array and was about to succeed!
But suddenly there was earth-shaking commotion around him, then the entire corridor darkened, as if the light from the illumination stones had all been swallowed, revealing nothing.
Terrifying, frightening aura immediately surrounded him!
Although the “Shadow Concealment Lamp” had the effect of hiding one’s form, it couldn’t operate under such heavy pressure and instantly shattered, forcing him to reveal his figure.
This was how Night Sailing Ship cultivators discovered him, leading to this extremely brief battle!
Without doubt, he had won.
But at this moment, Bai Yin couldn’t be happy at all. Exposed tracks meant he would almost immediately face siege by the entire Night Sailing Ship!
Moreover, he completely didn’t understand—
Where exactly had the array-breaking steps gone wrong?
“Damn!”
Bai Yin ultimately couldn’t hold back and cursed under his breath, but his hand movements weren’t slow at all. He directly raised his sword, and a wild sword light slashed toward the front!
“Rumble!”
Another huge sound, sword qi whistling!
Several cultivators pursuing from the depths of the corridor were immediately knocked down by the sword qi, unable to advance an inch. But in just the blink of an eye, a golden light pierced through the darkness, thrown toward Bai Yin.
“Where are you going!”
It was a female cultivator’s voice, at this moment sounding sinister and gloomy, full of killing intent!
One of Night Sailing Ship’s three great sacrificial wine officials, Liang Tingyu!
She wielded mandarin duck axes with both hands, her cultivation at late Nascent Soul stage—definitely not a simple female cultivator!
Bai Yin knew things had become troublesome.
He swung his sword to block that golden light, momentarily unable to advance or retreat.
A perilous great battle was about to unfold in this narrow corridor.
Only…
Jian Chou, not far behind Bai Yin, had no intention of intervening to help.
She positioned herself at a high place, letting the breeze cling to the upper part of the corridor, looking down from above. She could take in the entire battle situation, but her gaze was looking toward the deeper areas.
Although this white-clothed cultivator’s sword techniques were sharp, his angles tricky, and his choices decisive, seeing them only made her inwardly praise once.
After all, she didn’t recognize this person.
When the sudden change occurred, Jian Chou was right behind this cultivator.
She also didn’t know where the other party had gone wrong, and in such a short time didn’t know of any remedy, so she watched everything happen.
But…
This might be exactly her opportunity!
In muddy waters, it was best to fish!
Her wind-riding movement technique could ignore most array restrictions and attacks! The four-fingered cultivator ahead had attracted everyone’s attention and become the focus of conflict.
At this time, would anyone guess that someone else was lurking in the shadows, waiting for an opportunity?
No.
Even Jian Chou herself might not necessarily consider this comprehensively in the instant of sudden change.
So seeing a black-clothed female cultivator with a scarred face rush out from the depths of the corridor to battle with Bai Yin, she didn’t hesitate—
Instead of retreating, she advanced!
She precisely threaded through the chaotically splashing palm force, spiritual energy, and sword qi from everyone’s battle!
“Fight on, fight on, just keep fighting like this! It doesn’t matter if it gets apocalyptic!”
The longer they could delay, the more time she gained to rescue Zuoliu. If they simply fought each other to mutual destruction… well, that would be even better!
Jian Chou thought to herself, not looking back even once, quietly moving forward.
Not far ahead was that nineteenth array.
That four-fingered white-clothed cultivator had broken through to the end of the array when somehow he made some error, triggering the array and causing the black aura that now filled this entire corridor.
This evil, wanton aura…
Actually faintly resembled the feeling that great demon Fu Chaosheng had given her, but was overly fierce, as if taking a completely opposite path, making people extremely uncomfortable.
Jian Chou felt that the closer she got to the array, the more severe this discomfort became.
But after pondering briefly, she still silently stopped before the array and began carefully observing, trying to find the correct method of breaking it.
At first, she didn’t discover anything unusual, just slowly looking from the array’s periphery to its core, feeling the heart-trembling complexity of this array.
Just the structure and arrangement of this array would probably fill ten jade slips!
This wouldn’t be easy to solve.
Jian Chou pondered and was about to look a second time. But just as she was about to withdraw her gaze from the array’s core and continue observing the periphery, she suddenly widened her eyes!
No…
How was this possible?
Endless confusion and surprise immediately surged in Jian Chou’s eyes—
This array, where was there any need to break it?
This was completely an already-broken array! One could pass through unobstructed!
But that wasn’t right.
Just now, that four-fingered cultivator ahead had broken the array, and had even made an error, causing the surrounding changes. No one else had touched it in between.
How could this array possibly be in a broken state now?
Unless…
In a flash of thought, a chill shot up Jian Chou’s spine!
Unless that four-fingered cultivator’s array-breaking technique had no problems at all, the array was indeed opened by him, but because of the sudden changes around them, he mistakenly thought he had broken the array incorrectly!
At this moment, Jian Chou’s mind raced. Her entire person stopped before this array, but suddenly she dared not advance even half a step!
A more terrifying question slowly crept into her mind:
If this ink-black aura surging around them wasn’t caused by incorrectly breaking the array, then what exactly was it caused by?
Her eyelids jumped, and her scalp went numb.
Countless changes flashed through Jian Chou’s mind. All the details since entering Night Sailing Ship sped past, ultimately leaving only that statue that had always made her feel eerie—
That extremely centipede-like statue!
The moment this thought flashed by, she suddenly turned around, with extremely startled vision falling directly on the left side of the corridor—that eyeless centipede painting originally drawn on the wall!
Instantly, she sucked in a breath of cold air!
What had originally been just a flat painting attached to the wall surface had now actually become a vivid “relief sculpture.”
The entire insect body covered with knife-like long legs seemed like it was about to break free from the wall surface!
Clearly a fierce beast about to revive!
Alive!
This thing was definitely alive!!!
In this instant, Jian Chou didn’t even think much, completely disregarding the possibility of fighting this “monster.”
Without hesitation—
Run!
The faster the better, the farther the better!
Whoosh!
Escaping into concealment within the breeze, speed pushed to the extreme!
As hand seals moved, she flashed past the chaotic battle in the blink of an eye, fleeing toward the entrance of the incoming corridor.
But what she never expected was that in the instant she fled, the “relief sculpture” on the wall seemed to sense her behavior.
“Crack crack crack!”
All around, sounds of fracturing suddenly arose.
On the originally smooth, flat left wall, countless cracks actually appeared!
Even more intense, more viscous black aura, carrying that more distant, more unreachable feeling, seemingly fierce from ancient times, surged out from countless suddenly appearing fissures!
The “relief centipede” that seemed trapped in the wall surface seemed to protrude outward by a large section again!
Almost eight-tenths of its body was already completely exposed!
Only the surface still had black Nether Void Stone covering it, but the cracking traces were too severe, as if fragments would peel off the next moment, releasing the monster inside!
Not only was it alive!
It also had consciousness!
Jian Chou’s heart turned ice cold, generating an unprecedented sense of crisis—even greater than the life-and-death crisis when battling Lord Qin Guang!
Run!
Run!
Run!
She couldn’t generate any desire to fight at all. All the spiritual power in her body instantly operated at the limit, driving her Wind-Riding Dao Seal, maintaining concealment while frantically racing!
In the blink of an eye, she had cut through like a sharp, cold wind, sweeping past Bai Yin’s side!
Only at this moment did he realize something was wrong: not only was that recent wind wrong, but also that bone-chilling sound of fracturing…
This sound came from his left side!
In alarm, Bai Yin looked back and only then discovered that “centipede” whose form had almost completely emerged from within the wall!
Wasn’t this the thing from the statue?
When had it appeared?!
Damn!
In this instant, even though he was completely an elegant person, he couldn’t suppress the urge to curse!