The pain left as quickly as it had come.
After leaving the hidden garden, Gou Monan's expression was no longer as pained as before. Although Ye Zichen still couldn't see his smile, he could sense that his emotions had stabilized considerably.
In Gou Monan's own words, blindly suffering wouldn't change the outcome. He couldn't bring the sea back to life, so all he could do was avenge him.
From this, Ye Zichen could tell that Gou Monan was a very rational person.
Several days passed in the blink of an eye. Ye Zichen wasn't the last person to appear in the hallway. At the very least, he'd seen a few scattered experts enter the tomb.
They were unfamiliar.
From the looks of it, they were once reclusive seniors. After the tomb's collapse, they wanted to take advantage of the opportunity to fight for their lives before the end of the era.
These seniors weren't as enthusiastic as Gou Monan. When they saw Ye Zichen and Gou Monan, they all stopped far away, looked at each other, nodded, then left.
They weren't friendly ….
The way Ye Zichen saw it, they simply didn't want to cause any unnecessary trouble. Besides, the people who'd entered the tomb were scattered all over the place. The fact that Ye Zichen and Gou Monan were able to stand side by side meant they'd reached some sort of mutual understanding.
If they approached the two of them rashly, it was hard to say what would happen.
Recently, the perverted murderers had become more and more active. Over the past few days, more and more victims had appeared in the palace. As a result, everyone in the palace was anxious. If they didn't run into old friends, they'd assume anyone they saw was the cruel murderer.
Bamboo Garden, fourth floor of the Yao-Sealing Pagoda.
Ye Zichen wanted to merge the fourth floor with the other spaces. That way, it'd be livelier with more people. If the yao emperors were in a good mood, they might even give the other yao servants some pointers. However, as soon as Ye Zichen suggested it, he refused.
Ye Zichen had no choice but to send the Divine General-level yao servants to the larger tribes. The fourth floor remained intact for the three great emperors to rest in.
Now that the Ruler yao servants had left, the fourth floor was much quieter.
"Why are you in the mood to come here? Aren't you racing against time to plunder treasures?"
Cang Xiong sat arrogantly on a chair and munched on a fruit several dozen centimeters long. He'd been like this ever since he'd led Ye Zichen out of the hallway. Seeing Ye Zichen made him even more cocky than before.
From time to time, he would even raise his eyebrows at him, as if to say, isn't Master Xiong ruthless?
Ye Zichen also learned from Qinglan that the fruit Cang Xiong ate every day was actually peaches. He liked the juice of peaches, so he ate a few every day.
Ye Zichen had never seen such a huge peach before.
Even the Modern World's genetically modified peaches wouldn't be as big as one-tenth of this.
"It's too dangerous outside. Let's take shelter here."
Cang Xiong was the one who had brought Ye Zichen out of the hallway. At the end of the day, Ye Zichen owed him a favor. Seeing that Cang Xiong was talking to him like this, he didn't argue with him like before. Instead, he smiled calmly.
Unexpectedly, Cang Xiong nodded and took a bite of the peach.
"Earlier, I also felt that the Yin Qi was a bit heavy!" "That's right. It was originally a tomb, but it just had to be made to look like a palace. There wasn't even a shadow of a ghost to be seen. Come to think of it, it's strange. Logically speaking, this kind of tomb should be full of traps, but the secret chamber with elixirs and treasures has no traps at all. Whoever comes here can just take it. "
Said Ye Zichen.
Ye Zichen hadn't been to many secret realms, but it was just as he'd said. Taking treasures wasn't easy. This Transcendence Mausoleum, the God Emperor's Tomb, was truly bizarre. So long as you touched the pills, talismans, and treasures, they belonged to you. There were no traps at all. It could be said that this was a race against time. Whoever moved faster would get to the place where the treasure was placed first. The treasure would not be used.
How could they accidentally fall into the hands of the first person?
When they ran into other people, no one would try to steal the treasures.
The palace was simply too vast. No one was around when you went to take the treasures, and no one would see you leave the room with the treasures.
No one knew who had the treasures, but everyone seemed to have them.
As a result, everyone seemed to have come to some sort of mutual understanding. When they saw something, they just nodded and passed it by. No one had any designs on the others. Perhaps the pills, treasures, and talismans weren't particularly valuable, so no one was willing to risk their lives for such petty gains.
"Based on what you're saying, shouldn't you be searching for treasures outside more often?" Cang Xiong's coarse voice boomed like thunder, hurting Ye Zichen's eardrums.
"We've pretty much scoured the outskirts of the palace. Right now, everyone's trying to find a way into the inner palace. Didn't I just say that it's too dangerous outside? My cultivation is the lowest among them. What if I die out here? "Ye Zichen was speechless.
Not being able to enter the Inner Palace was indeed the biggest problem faced by the experts who had entered the tomb.
Strangely enough, during this time, Ye Zichen had scoured the outskirts of the palace. However, he hadn't run into Yang Jian or Gu Li. Gou Monan had said that there were four outer palaces in total. They might be in the other palaces, but once he entered the inner palace, he might run into them. In order to find a way into the inner palace, the two of them split up. Considering Ye Zichen's low cultivation, Gou Monan had him find a suitable location to ensure his safety.
If he discovered anything, he'd return here to inform Ye Zichen.
Ye Zichen was actually a bit embarrassed by such a considerate arrangement.
However, seeing Gou Monan's solemn gaze, Ye Zichen nodded in agreement.
He didn't know how long it would take for Gou Monan to return. Ye Zichen silently took out a bottle of peach juice from his spatial ring. Just as Cang Xiong was about to say something, he suddenly stopped.
All of a sudden, Ye Zichen felt his vision darken. When he looked up, he saw a pair of bull's eyes staring straight at him, causing him to nearly cough up in fright.
"What are you doing?"
"Why didn't you share this with me earlier?"
Cang Xiong directly chucked the peach in Ye Zichen's hands to the side, then snatched the peach juice from Ye Zichen's hands like a thief.
It was only a small bottle of juice, so even Cang Xiong's mouth wasn't enough for him to drink a single mouthful.
In the blink of an eye, the bottle was empty. Cang Xiong continued to stare at the bottle, then licked his lips when he saw that it was truly empty.
"Is there more? Give me some more."
Cang Xiong's gaze burned with passion. He was truly obsessed with peach juice.
Ye Zichen thought back to what Qinglan had said before. Cang Xiong liked peaches because he liked their juice.
Why didn't I think of that? From Cang Xiong's gaze, he would do anything as long as he was given juice!
Although peach juice had already been mass-produced in the Heavenly Court, Ye Zichen couldn't make it seem too cheap.
"You still have the nerve to say that? I only got this bottle of juice with great difficulty. I got the Peach of Immortality. Do you know? Peaches of Immortality only appear once every several tens of thousands of years. It was such a small bottle, and I was prepared to drink it a few times. But you drank it all! Hurry up and compensate me! "
Ye Zichen had definitely put his emotions into it, and his acting skills had already reached the point of perfection.
Although Cang Xiong didn't know what the hell the Peach of Immortality was, he knew that it was definitely a treasure that was hard to get since it only appeared once every several tens of thousands of years. What's more, Ye Zichen's expression was truly pained. Thus, Cang Xiong couldn't help but smile embarrassedly when he saw the bottle he had tossed to the ground.
"Look at you, I just drank some juice. I have plenty of peaches. Laozi can just pluck as many as you want!"
"Can your crappy peaches compare to the Peach of Immortality?" Ye Zichen glared.
Cang Xiong's peaches truly couldn't compare to the Peach of Immortality that only appeared once every several tens of thousands of years. The boorish Cang Xiong didn't know what to do when he saw Ye Zichen's expression.
He couldn't help but scratch his head, "Fine, I was wrong! Then, didn't I bring you out of the hallway earlier? How about we call it even? "
"Even …"
Ye Zichen twitched his mouth and put on an unwilling expression. However, he was already overjoyed in his heart.
Cang Xiong is like this with just a bottle of juice. It seems like I've found the blockhead's weakness. Since he's so passionate about juice, it'll be easy for me to make him do it in the future.
As for Qinglan …
He's definitely much stronger than Cang Xiong, but he's always acted very indifferent, and doesn't seem to like anything at all.
"Brother Gu, are you there?"
"You're lucky, I won't argue with you this time."
Ye Zichen glared at Cang Xiong, then left the bamboo garden. When the unreasonable Cang Xiong saw Ye Zichen glare at him, he could only nod and smile coyly. When Ye Zichen disappeared from the fourth floor, he let out a long sigh and sat down, then looked at the bottle in front of him.
"I didn't expect this thing to be so expensive, but it tastes really good."
"You, your brain is too simple. Can't you tell that you got screwed over by him?" Qinglan shook his head with a smile. Hearing that, Cang Xiong glared, "Big Brother Qinglan, what do you mean by that? You're saying that he lied to me just now? "
"I don't know if the origin of this juice is real or not, but he definitely isn't telling the truth when he said that he ran out. He definitely wants to use this juice to keep you hanging. Let me ask you this, if he told you that the price for helping him was the juice just now, what would you choose? "Qinglan asked.
Ye Zichen licked his lips and recalled the taste of the juice.
After drinking the juice, Cang Xiong felt that the peaches were tasteless when he touched them. If Ye Zichen really wanted him to help out with the juice, then he probably wouldn't refuse.
Cang Xiong nodded. Qinglan couldn't help but smile when he saw Cang Xiong nod.
"That's exactly it."
"Hmph, I knew that kid was sneaky. That said, if he really wanted me to help out with the juice, then I wouldn't have lost out, "said Cang Xiong with a grin.
"Brother Gu!"
Gou Monan returned to the rendezvous point and called out to Ye Zichen. At the same time, Ye Zichen emerged from the corner of the Yao-Sealing Pagoda.
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