Looking at the maze model that was gradually taking shape, Han Yunxi and the others were shocked. They all woke up and stared at it seriously.
Soon, a layer of the maze model appeared in front of them.
Long Fei Ye glanced at it and said Coldly, "Look carefully. This should be the highest layer, the one where Ning Jing and Su Xiaoyu are. This is the stone room that the sound amplification tunnel leads to. “
Everyone looked at it seriously after Long Fei Ye said that. Sure enough, they felt that it was familiar.
"The cliff that Ning Jing fell off is here." Han Yunxi found the cliff.
Just as they were talking, the maze model was raised. It was raised quite high, and the second layer of the maze model appeared.
Everyone did not say anything. They looked at it quietly and memorized it.
The second layer of the maze model was exactly the layer they were on. The distance between the first and second layer of the maze model was quite big. There were countless traps and secret passageways between them. It was too much to take in.
Han Yunxi and the others watched without blinking, afraid that they would miss any secret passageway or trap. When the first and second layers of the maze model were completely formed, the second layer was slowly raised, and the second layer of the maze appeared.
The distance between the third and second layer of the maze was quite far, and there were all kinds of secret passageways and traps in between. Including Gu Qishao's previous trap of a thousand cuts.
Han Yunxi and the others did not say anything. They all looked at it seriously and memorized it.
When the entire maze model was completely presented in front of them, the four of them let out a long sigh almost at the same time! One had to know that throughout the entire process, they had almost forgotten to breathe!
Long Fei Ye's judgment was accurate. This maze was a huge multi-layered beehive maze! The entire maze was hexagonal with a total of six layers and six sides. Other than the two exits on the second layer where they were standing, the other five layers all had a cliff trap.
These cliffs were not cliffs that led to the outside world, but cliffs hidden inside the maze. They were deep and shallow, corresponding to the five major traps of metal, wood, water, fire, and earth. It could be said that these five cliffs were the most dangerous places on each layer of the maze.
The cliff that Ning Jing fell from was the Fire Cliff.
Han Yunxi read it once, but she really couldn't remember it. After all, it wasn't something she was familiar with. It was already good that she could understand it at a glance.
Gu and Gu Beiyue were the same. They had already silently watched it for the second time, hoping to remember it. After all, this model only showed the maze and the hidden traps, but did not show where the mechanisms to open the hidden passages and traps were.
If he couldn't grasp the mechanism, he could only remember the places where the traps would appear and raise his vigilance.
However, Long Fei Ye, who had a photographic memory, had already seen through this model and remembered it clearly. His memory was absolutely outstanding. As long as he looked at it once, he could reproduce the entire model in his mind.
Like Han Yunxi and the rest, Long Feiye was still staring at the model. However, he wasn't memorizing it, but waiting.
In such a huge and complicated maze, Bai Yanqing couldn't have personally walked through every path and tried every trap. Therefore, Bai Yanqing must have also seen this model.
Bai Yanqing was so familiar with the hidden passages and traps, which meant that he could definitely find the mechanisms to open and close the various hidden passages and traps from this model.
Long Fei Ye was pondering, but who knew that the entire maze model would suddenly operate. All the mechanisms were activated, and all the traps and hidden passages were opened and closed again.
"Oh my god …"
Han Yunxi couldn't help but exclaim. She was worried that they wouldn't be able to gain the upper hand if they didn't know where the mechanisms were. She didn't expect that the entire model would suddenly operate. All the hidden mechanisms would emerge from their hiding places and immediately hide again.
As the mechanisms were repeatedly opened and closed, all the hidden passages and traps were also opened and closed. In fact, every three-way junction in the maze had a mechanism that could be closed and sealed off the passage.
"Oh my god …" Gu looked at everyone in disbelief.
Gu Beiyue also looked up, his face full of shock.
Han Yunxi was even more delighted. "Bai Yanqing can't gain the upper hand! Let's go find him! "
"Hide this thing well first. If this is exposed, it won't be fun!" Gu said with a chuckle.
Han Yunxi didn't know how to put away the maze model, but she tried dripping a drop of blood from her fingertip onto its surface. The Xuan iron absorbed the drop of blood as soon as it touched the surface. At the same time, the entire model seemed to melt away, gradually collapsing into the Xuan gold door and disappearing from sight.
Gu picked up the fake stone pieces that had fallen on the ground and set them up. He knocked on it and said with a smile, "Alright, we didn't see anything."
Since Bai Yanqing didn't have any advantage, how could they let him continue to be so carefree?
Naturally, they had to go find him immediately!
At first, Han Yunxi was still worried that Bai Yanqing would be involved in the dark and prepare a trap to lure them over. Now, Han Yunxi couldn't wait for Bai Yanqing to do so! So that they could beat him at his own game!
The group immediately walked into the secret room. At this moment, Bai Yanqing still didn't know anything about the model that Han Yunxi and the rest found.
He was in a secret room, holding a pot of wine, drinking while talking to Mu Qingwu.
He waited at the exit for a while, but the guards didn't send Bai Yuqiao and Ning Jing over. He then went to the top floor of the maze using the secret passage and found that a guard had been poisoned to death. As for what kind of poison it was, he couldn't find out.
He didn't know that Ning Jing had fallen into the sea of fire, and mistakenly thought that the poison was Han Yunxi's doing. Han Yunxi and the rest had rescued the hostages.
Now that he had no hostages and no one to order around, he remembered Mu Qingwu and decided to return to the labyrinth.
So what if Gu didn't die?
So what if Han Yunxi wasn't afraid of poison?
In this beehive maze, he could still deal with them.
Mu Qingwu was locked in the stone room and wasn't tied up. However, at this moment, Bai Yanqing was leaning against the sealed stone door and drinking. He couldn't escape at all.
"What do you want? Let me tell you, even if I, Mu Qingwu, die, I won't collude with someone like you! "
Bai Yanqing drank a mouthful of wine and smiled rather calmly. "Haha, hasn't your Li Clan always been neutral? Why, even you have your eyes on a Western Qin princess? "
Mu Qingwu immediately knitted his brows. "What did you say?"
He didn't understand what Bai Yanqing meant. The Li Clan? Wasn't the Li Clan one of the Seven Noble Families? Weren't they the military strategists who'd disbanded an army of 100,000?
Of the Seven Noble Families, he was the most interested in the Li Clan. It wasn't because he approved of their neutrality, but because he was curious about their military strategies.
When Bai Yanqing saw Mu Qingwu's reaction, he suddenly laughed out loud. "Stop pretending! Tianning's Mu Clan is a descendant of the Li Clan. It's a pity that Long Fei Ye attacked the Tian An imperial capital and slaughtered your entire Mu Clan. He hung the heads of your father, your beloved little sister, hehe … and your entire clan at the city gates. By now, those heads should be rotting to the bone. "
Mu Qingwu immediately froze. After a while, he said angrily, "Impossible! You're lying to me! Don't even think about lying to me! "
Bai Yanqing tossed a command medallion to Mu Qingwu. This was General Mu's command medallion with the character "Mu" carved on the front.
Mu Qingwu had seen this medallion before, but he'd never touched it. This was the most authoritative command medallion in the Mu Clan's army and was equivalent to a tiger tally.
"Touch the back and see if there's a 'Li' character on it," Bai Yanqing kindly reminded him.
Mu Qingwu didn't believe it, nor did he want to touch it. But he still couldn't control himself. His little finger secretly rubbed against the markings on the back of the medallion.
The "Li" character!
That's right!
Could it be that Bai Yanqing wasn't lying? The Mu Clan really was a descendant of the Li Clan. But why didn't father tell him? Why did father hide it from him for so long?
Mu Qingwu still didn't want to believe this was true.
He carefully examined the medallion in his hand. He'd seen this medallion several times before. It was the same medallion in his father's hand! This medallion could be forged, but there was no mistaking the brown tassel pendant his mother had personally tied onto it!
"It seems that there are many things you don't know!" Bai Yanqing said mockingly. He told him about the Hundred Poisons Sect incident.
It was the Hundred Poisons Sect incident that made him suspicious. Duanmu Yao's spies in Western Zhou's palace discovered the truth. Only then did he know that it wasn't Western Zhou's Emperor Kang Cheng who led the world to the Hundred Poisons Sect, but Mu Yuanbo!
Mu Yuanbo had sent one of the Chu Clan's deputy generals to Emperor Kang Cheng through Long Tianmo. Only then did Emperor Kang Cheng appear to help him.
If not for Duanmu Yao's help, he really wouldn't have guessed that Mu Yuanbo was the mastermind behind the incident, not Emperor Kang Cheng. To be able to plant a spy in the Chu Clan's army and have been a military strategist for generations, Bai Yanqing quickly thought of the Li Clan's descendants.
Mu Qingwu was dumbfounded. He and Long Tianmo had never understood the Hundred Poisons Sect incident. They didn't understand why his father would do such a thing. They didn't understand how his father could bribe a deputy general in the Chu Clan's army when they didn't have any dealings with each other.
After hearing Bai Yanqing's explanation, everything could be explained.
He'd always thought that his father didn't like war. He'd always thought that his father only helped Long Tianmo guard Tian An for his younger sister. He didn't expect that … his father was also ambitious. He also didn't expect that the Mu family was the descendants of the Li Clan who abandoned the army and fled!
Mu Qingwu laughed loudly. His laughter was incomparably bitter and pained!
He'd once rejoiced that he wasn't born into an imperial family. If he'd been born into a military family, he wouldn't have had to deal with so many brothers fighting each other, father and son turning against each other, fighting for power and scheming. He'd have been able to be loyal to his country and protect it.
When he was very young, his father personally taught him the art of war and told him the history of the military families.
Every time he talked about the Li Clan who held 100,000 soldiers but didn't participate in the war between Eastern and Western Qin, he and his father would argue until their faces turned red because of their different opinions.
He couldn't help but wonder if it was because he looked down on the Li Clan and accused them of being deserters, so his father never told him the truth.
Thinking of this, Mu Qingwu's heart ached even more!
Bai Yanqing didn't mention his deal with Long Fei Ye. He smiled Coldly and said, "Your father also hoped that Long Fei Ye and Han Yunxi would turn against each other. Unfortunately, Long Fei Ye personally led an expedition to the south and fought back to the imperial capital of Tian An. He hung the heads of your Mu family on the city gate and threatened the entire Tian An army to surrender. Young General, you …"
"Enough!" Mu Qingwu angrily interrupted.
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