Chapter Ninety-Four: The Ancestors’ Long-Delayed Rebellious Phase (21)

After asking around, Jiang He learned about the Flying Dragon Sect.

The rumors matched the gossip circulating among the common folk.

Two days earlier, the Flying Dragon Sect had been robbed, and many monster remains were said to have been destroyed.

Ling Qiong pulled up the illustrated compendium and opened the still-dark page for the Qilin.

The structure shown on the card really did look like a beast tomb.

At first, she had not understood what it was at all, just a mass of white, skeletal remains...

Ling Qiong closed the compendium and immediately decided, “We’re going to the beast tomb.”

“...”

Jiang He took several seconds to recover, then looked at her in utter despair. “Little ancestor, what are we going to the beast tomb for?”

They were also a major subject of rumor now, weren’t they?

All over the place, people were saying she used demonic arts to kill and cultivate.

Those stories were told so convincingly that if he had not followed her every day, he might have believed them himself.

And now she wanted to get mixed up in yet another rumor?

Wasn’t her notoriety already high enough?

Ling Qiong blinked and said in a soft voice, “I want to go take a look. I’ve never seen a beast tomb before.”

“The elders have urged us several times already, little ancestor. We really need to go back,” Jiang He pleaded.

“If you want to go back, you go back. I’m not going.”

“...”

What was he supposed to go back for?

So the elders could take turns beating him?

...

Before it was stolen, no one knew where the Flying Dragon Sect’s beast tomb was located.

But after the theft, the entrance was exposed, and since many things inside had been damaged, it could not be concealed again in the short term.

The Flying Dragon Sect was now guarded like a fortress, with patrol disciples visible everywhere, all afraid that someone might covet the beast tomb.

When Ling Qiong reached the entrance, she found people already fighting with the Flying Dragon Sect’s disciples.

Those men were dressed in matching black clothes for night travel, revealing only their eyes. Their attacks were ruthless and lethal.

The Flying Dragon Sect disciples were no match for them at all.

Ling Qiong watched from the side for a moment, then waved to Jiang He and motioned for him to follow her.

Clenching his teeth, Jiang He trailed after her with his heart in his throat.

Ling Qiong skirted around the fighters and carefully made her way to the entrance.

Just as the entrance came into view, someone suddenly appeared from nowhere and met their eyes.

The other person clearly froze as well, apparently not expecting anyone to have slipped over here.

Ling Qiong held down Jiang He, who was about to draw his sword, and with a faint upward curve of her lips, she asked the other person in a soft, gentle voice, “May I go in?”

Jiang He: “...”

Had his little ancestor gone mad?

The other person’s gaze wavered and gradually lost focus, then he stepped aside to make way.

Ling Qiong did not find this the least bit surprising and immediately walked in. Jiang He and the others stood there looking somewhat dazed.

He... really let her through?

Jiang He exchanged glances with the disciples beside him for a few seconds, then heard the sounds of fighting outside and hurried after Ling Qiong.

The entrance to the beast tomb was a teleportation array.

After a flash of white light, they were standing in an underground corridor paved with black stone.

Glowing stones were set into the walls, providing just enough light.

On both sides of the corridor stood round stone pillars about half a person tall, each supporting the complete skeleton of a small beast.

They looked like guards stationed here.

Some of the pillars, however, had already been broken and were piled against the wall.

Cracks ran across the floor of the corridor, whether they had always been there or were the work of the tomb raiders, no one knew.

Ling Qiong tapped the floor with her toe and asked the walking encyclopedia of the continent, “Have you been here before?”

“This is the Flying Dragon Sect’s beast tomb. I’ve only heard about it myself.” The entrance to a beast tomb had always been mysterious and unknown to outsiders. Even after so many years, the Yue Lu Mountain Estate still did not know where the entrance was, let alone having come here.

Though Jiang He had never been here, he had gathered some rumors about the place.

“These should be mechanisms,” Jiang He said, looking toward the depths of the corridor. “But from the looks of it, they’ve already been destroyed. I’ll go scout ahead first.”

“Mm.”

Jiang He went ahead to scout the way.

The whole corridor held little danger. It really did seem as though the old mechanisms had been broken by someone.

The vast underground palace twisted and turned in every direction, with many beast bones placed in various chambers.

But Ling Qiong did not see the place shown on the card.

That place looked... dim and shadowy, with rough, unpolished stone all around.

All kinds of beast bones were piled together at random, not neatly assigned to luxurious private chambers of their own.

Where was it...

...

On the other side of the underground palace.

The dark serpent slithered down the corridor, turned a corner, and reared up its head. “Can you open it or not? They’re about to break in.”

Luo Xingluo stood across from the dark serpent, facing a wall in thought, no one knew what he was considering.

The wall appeared blank, yet somehow different from the rest.

Hearing the serpent’s voice, he parted his lips and said, “Hold them off.”

“Me, by myself?” The dark serpent flicked its tail.

“Otherwise?”

“...”

The dark serpent cursed inwardly and roared in fury, “Move faster!”

It turned and slithered back, and soon the sounds of fighting came from that direction.

Those disturbances did not make Luo Xingluo feel the slightest bit anxious or panicked. He continued studying the wall with calm focus.

When the serpent’s roaring drew nearer and nearer, Luo Xingluo finally moved.

He raised a hand and swiftly pressed several spots on the wall.

As he did so, a formation slowly emerged upon its surface.

With a thunderous rumble, the wall withdrew, revealing a pitch-black passage before him.

The dark serpent shot over from that side, and Luo Xingluo entered the passage with it. The wall gradually closed behind them, and the pursuers outside slammed into it.

Luo Xingluo took out a fire striker to light the way.

The passage seemed endless, nothing but darkness.

Without any hesitation, Luo Xingluo walked straight ahead.

No one knew how long he had walked when he finally saw a pale glow ahead.

He drew a breath and quickly stepped through it.

Darkness fell away. Blue ghost flames drifted through the air around him, and the floor was piled high with beast bones.

At a glance, beyond the sea of skeletal remains and the blue flames floating in the air, there seemed to be no end in sight.

Luo Xingluo strode through the bones, apparently searching for something. The dark serpent shrank down and coiled on his shoulder, flicking its tongue.

The blue flames drifted up and down and swayed left and right with Luo Xingluo’s movement, until they gradually gathered together.

They looked like spirits watching him, or perhaps like lights guiding his way.

Whoosh—

The gathered blue flames suddenly split apart.

Luo Xingluo’s body reacted faster than thought; the instant he sensed danger, he had already slipped aside.

With a deafening boom, a massive skeleton was blasted apart by spiritual power and collapsed.

Several figures appeared from both sides, stepping over the beast bones and closing in on Luo Xingluo.

Luo Xingluo had not expected them to get in so quickly. He yanked the dark serpent off his shoulder and hurled it toward them.

Still arcing through the air, the dark serpent did not forget to curse, “Fuck your damn ancestors!”

Luo Xingluo answered calmly, “The one on the left.”

“???”

The left one?

That left one was his damn ancestor?

The dark serpent nearly spat blood in its heart.

Could this actually work?

The man on the left looked rather old, which did fit the word “ancestor” rather well.

“Take that beast down!”

At the old man’s command, everyone attacked Luo Xingluo at once.

“Take him alive!”