Chapter 323 (2/2)

“What was your goal in backing out of here?” asked Long Chen .

“Hehe, I wanted them to explore and find the path . I feel like this tomb isn’t so simple . There’s not even a mark on this map .

“Furthermore, look at the dirt outside . It’s all very fresh . In other words, this tomb only appeared in the last twenty years . Some kind of change in the secret realm should have brought it aboveground .

“When I entered, I felt like it was a maze . It’s shockingly large inside . In any case, my strength is limited, and it’s more fun to go at it in a group than by myself .

“After those Righteous disciples made me leave, I ran into some powerful Righteous disciples and, for a very cheap price, I told them about this tomb’s position so they could explore it for themselves!”

“So you were really just using them to find the right path . ” Long Chen almost laughed .

“Yup . That tomb is shockingly large, and I don’t have the ability to consume it all on my own . With this many people helping out, I’ll be able to slip in and hopefully get an advantage . But if I had known that you would arrive, I wouldn’t have shouted for so many people to come . Us two brothers could have consumed it all for our own, tch!” Guo Ran sighed gloomily .

“What is it?”

Guo Ran was a bit embarra.s.sed . “Maybe my conning skills are too powerful, but a couple Chosen ended up going in .

“More importantly, even Corrupt disciples heard of it and quite a few powerful figures came over .

“Ah, maybe they’re fighting and killing each other inside at this very moment . Well, you know me, I don’t like being splashed by blood, so I just hid in the distance, waiting without saying anything . ”

Long Chen was speechless . This little fellow really was evil . But the little fellow’s way of handling the situation was very much to Long Chen’s taste .

That kind of style could be summed up in the following: even if I can’t beat you, I can still play you to death .

“Let’s go in and take a look . ” Long Chen walked through the sinister entrance with Guo Ran . The instant he did, that sinister air penetrated him straight through to his bones .

He had only just walked in tens of meters before seeing two corpses lying on the ground, their blood already dry .

Ordinarily, Tendon Transformation cultivators’ blood would still look fresh for three days after dying . From the look of these two corpses, they should have died over a week ago .

From their robes, these two should be Righteous disciples . But they weren’t wearing robes from the monastery, so they were most likely from another Righteous sect .

“No way? They killed people as soon as they entered?” Guo Ran was a bit shocked .

“They weren’t killed by fellow Righteous disciples . It was done by Corrupt disciples . Look at their injuries . They were all killed with a single attack that came from a crafty angle . That’s completely different from the style of the Righteous path . Let’s keep going . ”

Once they had advanced several hundred meters, it had grown much darker . It was lucky that cultivators had powerful eyesight and they could still see everything in a range of thirty meters . But everything beyond that was murky now .

As they were walking, the cave suddenly enlarged, and nine separate paths appeared .

“This is where I got lost . I picked the middle path back then . Look, there’s the mark I left behind . ” Guo Ran pointed to a mark beside one of the tunnels .

“Let’s go . ” Long Chen started walking to one of the other tunnels .

“Boss, how do you know which one is the right one?”

“You spread a faint layer of dust over each one of the entrances . Eight of the nine tunnels have footprints going in and out, but only this cave has no footprints going on . Little fellow, you still have a couple smarts . ”

Guo Ran truly was smart . That faint layer of dust was something he had specially made . It was extremely difficult to see, especially in this dark cave . If Long Chen didn’t understand what kind of person Guo Ran was, he could easily have missed it .

“Boss really is boss!” Guo Ran said admiringly . He had been completely convinced by his observation of even this small detail .

The two of them continued another four hundred meters . The light was growing even darker, and they couldn’t even see over three meters ahead of them . Guo Ran’s hair was standing on end .

Guo Ran took out an extremely odd cylinder around half a foot long . One side of the cylinder was covered by tens of tiny holes .

This was one of Guo Ran’s protective inventions . There was a small trigger that would make it instantly release dozens of steel needles .

Each needle had been coated by a powerful poison Long Chen had given him . It was perfectly suited for close-range fighting .

“Put that toy away . In this darkness, you’d probably end up hitting me . With me present, there’s no need for you to do anything,” advised Long Chen .

He knew that this invention shot out needles in a broad area . Although he wouldn’t die from that poison with his powerful physical body, he still didn’t want to be hit with a poison needle .

Guo Ran hastily put it away and laughed mischievously . “Hehe, boss is domineering!”

The two of them continued for a short time when a sharp bend in the path appeared . Just as they turned, a harsh astral wind attacked the two of them .

Blood splattered!