Chapter 255 (1/2)
Chapter 255
The Secret of Secrets
”Hey!” Li Yundong snapped”How et there?”
Lin Youfa stopped short and slowly turned around to face hi the trail for nearly half an hour now, yet the entrance to this so-called vault was still nowhere in sight
Lin Youfa raised his brows”Patience really isn't your shtick, is it?”
Patience? Li Yundong snortedPatience won't save ritted out
Lin Youfa sighed”We're almost there” Lin Youfa looked towards the trail”Fifteen ive or take”
”Yeah? How about you just tellpaused to send Lin Youfa a scathing look”We've been following this trail for nearly half an hour now”
Thirty invaluableSu Chan
”There's a side trail branching off this path that will lead us straight to the vault”
Li Yundong studied at Lin Youfa wrinkled face for ato use Acalanatha's 6th mudra (the Heart of Virtue) on Lin Youfa to know once and for all if the guy was lying to himThe only problem with that method was that Lin Youfa would end up debilitated, or worse, dead if it turned out that he was lyingAnd Lin Youfa was no use to hi jerked his chin forward”This is the main trail?”
Lin Youfa nodded
”Where does it lead to?”
”Straight to the summitBut you'll pass by the Fox Zen School's ive hiet it, Li Zhenren”
Li Yundong frowned”What?”
Lin Youfa let out a dark chuckle”You were thinking about following the main trail to the entrance, weren't you?” Lin Youfa shook his head”It's pointless, I'uards stationed everywhere near the entranceYou'll get caught before you can even sneak inIf you can even find that entrance, that isThe entrance is probably concealed by a spell”
”And where is this side trail youLin Youfa's advice
Lin Youfa s me and you'll see”
”This is the Fox Zen School's territory” Li Yundong narrowed his eyes”How couy wasn't even froHow co?
Lin Youfa cackled, though his voice”Research, of course”
”Research,” Li Yundong said in a skeptical tone
Lin Youfa shrugged”I had a lot of free tiht”
”Uh-huh”
Lin Youfa gave him a sad look”What else could I do? I couldn't train, spar, or do anything else that I usually do” Lin Youfa let out a wry chuckle”Broke”
”YeahYou broke an ar off the 20th floorYou deserve so ed”Well, it hurt” Lin Youfa waved a hand”AnywayI started reading a lot of scrolls while I was recoveringWanted to find ways to becoical weapon or two”
Li Yundong frownedSo this guy has had his eyes on the Fox Zen School's treasures for months now
Lin Youfa cleared his throat”Then I cahed”It didn't spark my interest at first, since it was about the history of the Fox Zen SchoolBut then I saw this lanced at Li Yundong”I studied the map carefullyThat's how I learned about the vault and the secret passage” Lin Youfa chuckled”Tookpondered Lin Youfa's words carefullySo this guysoht here…
”Wouldn't we be walking straight into an a raised a brow”The Great Six knows about the vault” Li Yundong gave Lin Youfa a pointed look”Those people you killed hed”The Great Six? Oh, I have no doubt that some of them know” Lin Youfa's eyes darted to his face”But only a selected few, I'll wager”
”A selected few,” Li Yundong said, completely unconvinced
Lin Youfa snickered”The top dogs,stared at Lin Youfa but said nothing
”Think about it” Lin Youfa smirked”Why would they let a bunch of cannon fodders be privy to that knowledge if their goal is to secure the vault's contents for the nodded
If the Great Six stationed guards or patrol units around or inside the vault, chances were that their lackeys would try to steal those treasures for themselves
Lin Youfa snorted”I bet you wouldn't reveal the location to anyone too if you knew”
Li Yundong glared at the old man”I'm not interested in the treasure”
Lin Youfa stared at Li Yundong, his eyes calculating and skeptical
”Whatever,” Li Yundong growled”Let's just go”
The side trail didn't even look like a side trail, at least not in the normal sense
It was a rock
Yes, a rock, albeit one that split apart to reveal a hidden path once a series of steps were perforht sequence: remove the loose pebble froround; press down and twist the pebble until the rock splits; then, as the rock opened and closed, soinal compartment on the side of the rock
”How the hell did you figure all that out using just a h the rock
The rock clicked shut behind the realized that the exact same mechanism was on this side of the rock as well
Lin Youfa laughed”I didn't learn that from the map, Li ZhenrenThe map only showed me the location of the side trail, not how to reveal it”
”So, what? You used your Shenda and borrowed soure it all out?”
Didn't know Zhu Bajie was that bright, to be honest
Lin Youfa guffawed”Of course not” He cleared his throat”There was a poem inside the textOne ofstudied Lin Youfa's backAdhout their trek by asking hiuy had been pretty forthco
But still
Trust no one
”AhI think we're here” Lin Youfa stopped walking and pointed at soaze and looked past Lin Youfa's shoulder
A large stone lay ahead, half-obscured by the tall weeds surrounding it
Lin Youfa was already h the sea of weedsNot wanting to be left behind, Li Yundong hurried after the oldscanned his surroundings for signs of a building, cave, or a cellar—basically, anything that resembled a vault
There were none
The only thing he saas a huge, rectangular stone block lying amidst a sea of weedsThe whole place looked more like a forsaken tomb rather than the entrance to an arcane vault
Then again, maybe that was the whole pointAfter all, nobody would pay attention to a weedy, squalid place like this
Lin Youfa stood in front of the stone block and began to exa stopped beside the old man”What's next?” He studied the stone block for a round
Li Yundong glanced sidehen Lin Youfa didn't answer
Lin Youfa was still staring at the block, looking completely stu asked
Lin Youfa shook his head”This isn't what I expected”
”Well what did you expect?” Li Yundong asked in a tone of annoyance
Lin Youfa shrugged”Like an actual door?”
Li Yundong glared at the oldis that you have no idea how to open this thing”
Lin Youfa shot him a helpless look”The map only showed me the location of the vault, Li Zhenren”
Li Yundong studied the stone block again”Try pushi+ng the block aside”
Lin Youfa's head shot up”Why do I have to do all the work? Why can't you do it?”
Li Yundong rolled his eyes”I'th fro at hihed”Do you want to enter the vault or not?”
”Fine,” Lin Youfa said gruffly before pulling out a needle fro stepped away and let theBada Yuanshuai Xian Shentong! Hearken to me, O Heavenly Marshal of the North! Come to me! Lend me your power! I offer you my body as a vessel”
The transforrotesque nodidn't even realized he'd been staring until MrHulk over there suddenly started laughing
”Curious about my Shenda, Li Zhenren?” Lin Youfa said”Wanna know its secrets?”
”Nope”
Lin Youfa's face fell
Li Yundong still didn't give a shi+t
”Well, I wanna know yours,” Lin Youfa said, pausing briefly”How'd you gain so much power in such a short aritted outThat wasn't a lieHe had worked his ass off for the past few ? Co, thank you very , huh?” Lin Youfa chuckled”What if I offer to pay good money for your secrets?”
”No dice”