750 Linked Halls (2/2)
He walked into the next hall which was totally dark, and the wall had a jade-like texture.
Oil lamp on her head, Han Fen walked in, putting aside the debate with the others on the topic of ownership.
This was a jade hall, which was just as colorful – black, white, red, yellow, green jade, just to name a few, gleamed in the light of the lamp. All of the jade had been sanded down and then assembled into a wall like seamless bricks. ”This one feels better. The previous one gave me blisters.”
Soon the five discovered the rule of the halls: the passages on the left always led to the next hall, and those on the right were either dead ends or led to the underground lake.
None of them seemed to have any interest in leaving, and they just kept going, one hall after another. Deng Yuanlei and Lu Mian, each with a wounded leg and sweating buckets, tried very hard to keep up with the others, as though they would lose their claim to any of it if they missed a glance at any one of the halls.
”The mausoleum is indeed circular.” Old Man Mu had forgotten which hall this was. Looking at the hall full of jade, he gave an involuntary sigh. ”I wonder what's at the center of the circle.”
He had just finished his sentence when the oil lamp went out.
Han Fen rushed in between the Dragon King and Old Man Mu in one quick step, and grabbed their hands with her own. ”You protect me if there're ghosts, and I'll protect you if there're humans.”
”What about us?” Deng Yuanlei asked.
”Shh, ” Gu Shenwei hushed the others. ”There were many ebony planks in the previous hall. We can make some torches with them.”
”Good idea,” Old Man Mu said. Although they hadn't gotten into any trouble on their way here, they felt anxious when the lamp went out and none of them knew why.
Gu Shenwei retraced his steps to the passage they had went through previously. Han Fen was holding his left hand tightly and holding onto Old Man Mu's with the other. Deng Yuanlei and Lu Mian followed after hesitating for a while. The former found the other hand of Old Man Mu and gripped it quickly, and he wouldn't let go no matter how hard Old Man Mu tried to shake him off.
”Dragon King, your hand is cold,” Han Fen spoke whatever came first to her mind. ”Old Man Mu's hand is much warmer.”
”That's because my Yang Qi is stronger.”
”So are you saying that the Dragon King has a strong Yingfor visiting.
Gu Shenwei opened his arms and harshly pressed his palms against the walls on the two sides. Like this, he stopped himself from falling and also saved Han Fen and the others.
The mausoleum guardians didn't follow, and they seemed to believe that the people who had fallen had surely died, so they closed the stone door. Gu Shenwei could hear the sound of the stone scraping against the floor.
”I… I got hit twice. Who can help me?” Deng Yuanlei screamed feebly, with his right hand still grasping onto Old Man Mu tightly.
”Can we go up?” Old Man Mu asked, holding his breath. Without his internal power, two people's body weight was too much for him.
”Not if we don't take care of two of them first,” Gu Shenwei said. There were still two enemies up there whose sabersmanship was excellent, so he didn't want to go up there with any encumbrances this time.
Deng Yuanlei yelled out loud, ”Please show some mercy to me, Dragon King. I don't want to die. We… the Qingcheng Sect will answer to Dragon King only.”
Old Man Mu had been annoyed with him for a long time, and he raised his leg and kicked towards Deng Yuanlei's face. ”Liar, go to hell.”
Deng Yuanlei gave a screech and Gu Shenwei felt a considerable reduction of the burden pulling on him.
”Eek, I reached the end.” Deng Yuanlei's excited voice came from the bottom. It turned out that this hole was not very deep.
The stone door above opened once again and several torches emerged.
Gu Shenwei loosened his hands and the three slid down together, the torches following them.Ying Qi is the opposite of Yang Qi, an supernatural aura related to the underworldOld Yang is someone who has extremely strong Yang Qi