Chapter 331: Friend or Foe? (1/2)
10 minutes after Ling Tianlong and Ling Cao had left, the Yang Monarch snake woke up inside the strange dungeon.
”Bah, damn that stupid rock…”
The Yang Monarch finally regained his consciousness after he had swallowed a tank shell, coated with a soul stone and strange metal material. Had it not because of his unique immortal physique, he would have died there.
The snake looked around, searching for his comrade.
”Where are Tianlong and that stupid snake?”
He flickered his tongue and glanced left and right. Upon sensing that his main body was several kilometers away on the surface, he realized that Ling Tianlong and the Yin Monarch had left him here.
”DAMN TIANLONG!! DAMN THAT ASSHOLE!! I'LL GET YOU FOR THIS!!”
The snake faded and became invisible, planning to fly through the ceiling to get to the surface and return to Ling Tianlong's side.
RUMBLE
As the snake was about to leave, he noticed the thunderous footsteps of giant golems with massive rifles, which Ling Tianlong had seen when they had first encountered the ambush.
'Were they always this big? The guys we met later on were a lot smaller…'
After Ling Tianlong had been attacked, these giant golems went missing and were replaced with human-sized golems with sentry guns. Though his master hadn't paid attention to the detail, Yang Monarch spotted the irregularity of this place.
He was interested in the secrecy. The yang snake had a change of heart as he stayed in the dungeon, observing the activities of these giant golems.
The snake checked the weapons in the golem's arms. Then, it figured out something.
'These weapons and the giants must have been precious. The puppeteer might have switched these guys out and used the expendable ones as pawns to wither down Ling Tianlong's strength. If it were me, I would have done the same and used these guys as finishers.'
RUMBLE
The dungeon's walls and ceilings flipped, rotated, and moved around as if they were a part of a jigsaw puzzle or a puzzle cube. Even the room he was in sometimes trembled as if it was being carried on a colossus forklift.
The four giant golems with rifles patrolled in a square formation while twenty others carried pickaxes, shovels, and mining carts as if they were miners. They stayed in the room for 20 minutes, waiting for the living dungeon to finish its room adjustment.
BOOM
The ceiling dropped several piles of dust as the room finally reached its destination. Only then, one of the sealed walls receded to the ground and revealed another path to a dark cave.
The golems started marching toward the cave. Then, the miners began shoving and digging through the soil.
All soil, stones, and minerals were loaded into the mining carts, and the sentry golems helped the miners push the carts into the room. As soon as the carts returned to the room, everything in the cart disappeared, after which the sentry golems returned the carts to the working miners to reuse them.
The cycle went on as the underground dungeon continued to expand.
The snake used this opportunity to follow the miners to the cave. He rechecked his position and compared the distance between him and Ling Tianlong's presence.
Surprisingly, the snake got a lot closer to the Mount Hua Sect. They were only less than a kilometer away!
Moreover, it seemed that these golems had been digging in the direction of Mount Hua, where Ling Tianlong and others were!
The snake had a scare, believing that the golems had been planning to raid the sect. He rushed back to his master to report about the potential crisis.
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Mount Hua Sect, historically in Miaomiao's world, was a Taoist School with nothing to do with martial arts. Moreover, it was found several hundred years later after the Three Kingdom Period.
But in this world, this martial art sect existed as one of the orthodox sects. They primarily focused on cultivating, martial arts, fencing, and sword daos.
Mount Hua Sect's signature was the renowned Plum Blossom Sword Techniques. Though the teaching of the sect contained only 24 moves, many elders and top disciples added almost a thousand variations to these techniques and created their own styles.
As such, everyone had a different comprehension of the Plum Blossom Sword Techniques and came up with unique skills and abilities.
Mount Hua was separated into five peaks, each housed a division, governed by one elder and their inner disciples. One mountain peak only accepted 20 inner disciples at a time. As for outer disciples, they stayed at the sect's central building at the foot of the mountain, training and competing to earn their position as inner disciples.
Ling Tianlong had already finished his early story arcs, and he had been acknowledged as one of Mount Hua's top inner disciples. Although he still had a feud with his cousin, who had the same surname, he had no trouble living in this sect and solidify his foundation using Ling Cao's resources.
As soon as Ling Tianlong and Ling Cao, the elder of the 3rd Mountain Peak, had returned, the inner disciples came out to receive them.
Ling Tianlong had already reverted back to his human appearance and put a new uniform on. As such, no one but his mentor was aware of his transformation ability.
14 men and one gorgeous maiden bowed to Ling Cao.
”Welcome back, 3rd Elder!”
”Welcome back, father!”
The only female disciple greeted the elder first, then she beamed a smile when she saw Ling Tianlong's handsome face.
”You're back, senior brother Ling!”
Ling Tianlong nodded at the girl, ”I'm back, Chen'er.”
The girl was Ling Chen, Ling Cao's daughter. She was also his cousin as their parents were relatives.
Like common heroines, she was a peerless beauty. She had a gravure idol sexy figure, white jade-like skin, silky smooth black hair, and inhumane charm that could fall a nation. Moreover, everyone in the sect yearned for her, hoping to win her heart one day.
Unfortunately, her heart had already been captured by this protagonist.
”How's your day?” Ling Chen inspected Ling Tianlong's condition since his facial expression seemed exhausted.
Ling Tianlong patted his robes and shoulders, ”So-so, I guess.”
As soon as Ling Tianlong touched his left shoulder, he sensed something missing as his body weight was unbalanced.
The Yang Monarch wasn't with him. Also, his immortal-grade sword wasn't in his scabbard as both Yin and Yang Monarch hadn't transformed back into the sword yet.
Currently, the black snake was hiding within Ling Tianlong's robes, pretending to be one of his belts.
Ling Tianlong glanced inside his robe and saw the black snake's face, who showed a wry smile.