Behind the stone door was a wide passageway that gradually led downwards. This was no longer the structure of a cave, and the rocks that formed the passageway were abnormally hard.
The passageway was very dark, but there was a faint light in the distance. Gu Zheng used his divine will to open the way, but it was blocked by an invisible force before he could explore further.
Gu Zheng was not surprised that his divine will was blocked. After all, it was not surprising that there would be restrictions that could block divine will in such a difficult place.
Moreover, based on his experience in the immortal formation space, Gu Zheng knew that the faint light ahead was probably the formation patterns drawn on the walls of the passageway.
Gu Zheng led Meow Meow to the end of the darkness. This was the corner of the passageway, and the shimmering things on the walls in front of them were the dense, flamboyant formation patterns.
"With so many formation patterns protecting it, you can imagine how sturdy this place is. It really is a good place to fight!" Gu Zheng joked, feeling that the atmosphere was a bit tense.
"I don't know how big this place is, and these formation patterns are not easy to draw. It's really shocking!"
Meow Meow's voice paused, and then she raised her little face and asked, "Master, do you think Lu Qi and Cao Yi will do well here, or will they be in a difficult situation?"
"I think they should be doing pretty well. At the very least, they should know more about this place than us," Gu Zheng said with a faint smile.
Just as Gu Zheng and Meow Meow were discussing, Lu Qi and Cao Yi stopped in their tracks.
This was also a wide passageway, but the terrain was no longer sloping, and on both sides of the passageway were many tightly shut stone doors.
Lu Qi and Cao Yi stopped in front of a stone door. Cao Yi looked at Lu Qi, who was about to open the door, and asked, "What's behind this door?"
Hearing Cao Yi's slightly mocking tone, Lu Qi raised his eyebrows and said in annoyance, "I don't know!"
"I hope this really isn't some trick you're playing!"
Cao Yi sneered. She, who was standing in front of the door, took a few steps back.
Lu Qi gritted his teeth and stopped bickering with Cao Yi. He channeled his immortal power into the door and began to break the formation.
In Lu Qi's hands, the immortal formation was quickly broken. With the sound of the stone door opening, a swarm of evil Qi rushed out from behind the door like a swarm of bees.
Although the evil Qi rushing out from behind the door was very powerful and had already condensed into the shape of a skull bee, it was quickly dealt with by Lu Qi and Cao Yi, who was protected by the witch puppet.
"Ha."
Looking at the empty room behind the door, Cao Yi sneered and looked at Lu Qi again, "Give me an explanation!"
Just like the stone doors just now, Lu Qi had opened eight of them, but two of them were empty and six of them were dangerous. This made Cao Yi suspicious. Did Lu Qi deliberately open the dangerous doors so that he could use the things inside to deal with her?
"Explain?
Lu Qi flew into a rage. He thought that with the treasure map, he could return with a full harvest after entering the treasure trove. Who would have thought that the map that he had painstakingly obtained was actually different from the real situation in the treasure trove?
The map that Lu Qi had clearly marked the dangers in the treasure trove, but the truth was that the places marked as dangerous were sometimes not dangerous, and the places that were not marked as dangerous were actually frighteningly dangerous.
However, the treasure map wasn't completely wrong. At least the description of the building layout was still correct. This made Lu Qi even more depressed! The layout was correct, and there wasn't much in the room. What was going on?
"Could it be that the map you got is really a fake one?"
Seeing that Lu Qi didn't seem to be lying, Cao Yi couldn't help but mutter to herself.
"It doesn't matter whether this map is real or fake. I've had enough!"
Lu Qi sneered. A blood-red mist seeped out from his fingertips. He used his blood as ink and quickly drew on the wall.
"This is the map that I know. Now that I've drawn it, we can be considered to have truly shared it. So our cooperation is now over," Lu Qi said.
Even though he had suspected that the map was fake, if it weren't for the Heart Demon Oath, Lu Qi wouldn't even want to let Cao Yi know that it was fake.
"Well, you're a man. Do you have to be like this? I'm just a little angry because I've repeatedly encountered unexpected dangers. Don't take it to heart. Let's move on! "
Cao Yi, who was smiling like a flower, winked at Lu Qi, completely different from the previous indifference.
"Put away your seductive manner. I won't fall for it!"
The anger in Lu Qi's eyes didn't subside at all. He licked his lips with a cold smile and said, "Since our cooperation is over and there's no Heart Demon Oath binding us, I'd like to see how much weight you have!"
Lu Qi had always wanted to test Cao Yi, but because of the Heart Demon Oath, this idea could only be suppressed in the bottom of his heart. Now that their cooperation was over, he immediately launched an attack on Cao Yi.
Following Lu Qi's action, the energy of heaven and earth pressed towards Cao Yi with a huge pressure.
A white light flashed on the wizard puppet next to Cao Yi, and the energy of heaven and earth that Lu Qi used to suppress Cao Yi immediately disappeared.
"Whoosh …"
A strong wind suddenly blew, and the violent energy of heaven and earth surged between Lu Qi's palms. He raised his palms and pushed them towards Cao Yi.
Cao Yi still didn't make a move herself. With a thought, the wizard puppet's palms also carried the energy of heaven and earth and collided heavily with Lu Qi's palm wind.
"Bang!"
Amidst the loud noise, Lu Qi didn't move at all, but the wizard puppet took three steps back.
"Do you think you can keep playing tricks with a wizard puppet?"
Lu Qi roared angrily. The blood aura emitted from his body turned into a rope and shot towards Cao Yi as fast as lightning. He didn't stay idle either. He pushed out his palms and directly blocked Cao Yi's path of retreat.
Lu Qi really hated Cao Yi. The person sent to him by the Black Sky Snail Sect had died at Cao Yi's hands, and Gu Zheng was also trapped in the frozen space. This made him really want to tear Cao Yi to pieces.
Lu Qi hadn't expected that he'd finally be able to enter the treasure trove that he'd been yearning for day and night. It was because he didn't know if he could enter that Lu Qi hadn't really gone to meet Gu Zheng and Meow Meow on Bloodtide Island at the beginning.
Meeting Gu Zheng in the Heavenly Snail Cave and finally cooperating with Gu Zheng, Lu Qi's heart was blooming with joy. Although there was no one hundred percent proof that Daoist Xian Yun's white jade ball had ultimately fallen into Gu Zheng's hands, it was most likely the case. And Lu Qi knew that the white jade ball contained the map of the second level of the Heavenly Snail Cave's treasure trove!
Because of Cao Yi, the immortal formation space had turned into a frozen space. This completely disrupted Lu Qi's plan to find a chance to get rid of Gu Zheng and see if he had the white jade ball on him.
Now that the map of the first level was unreal, this made Lu Qi want to get the map of the second level even more. But now that Gu Zheng had died in the frozen space, Lu Qi, who wasn't sure he could break the formation, naturally couldn't go in and clean up the battlefield. How could he not hate Cao Yi?
Cao Yi wasn't afraid of the rope made of blood, and she didn't dodge as Lu Qi expected. She laughed, and laughed very mockingly.
"Whoosh!"
A strong wind blew from Cao Yi's side. Just as the rope was about to touch her body, her aura soared in an instant, from the late fifth level to the late Soul Formation stage! Her appearance also changed greatly, from a beautiful young woman to an old woman with a head full of silver hair and a face full of wrinkles.
"It's you!"
Seeing the old woman's appearance, Lu Qi immediately screamed, as if the old woman was poisoned, and quickly retreated far away.
"I didn't expect you to recognize me!"
The old woman swung her palms, and the violent energy of heaven and earth rolled up the blood-red rope, and hit it back at Lu Qi.
"You didn't die?"
Lu Qi waved his hand to knock down the blood-red rope, and there was no longer any desire to fight on.
"I won't die even if you die!"
The old woman screamed, as if she was vomiting, and countless Gu worms spewed out of her mouth.
"Let's mind our own business!"
Seeing the old woman spit out the Gu worms, Lu Qi was like a cat whose tail was stepped on, and ran away after saying that.
The old woman didn't chase after Lu Qi until she felt that Lu Qi had really run far away, and then she put away the ruthlessness in her eyes, and a trace of pain appeared on her face.
"Fortunately, you're afraid of my Gu worms, otherwise, if you really want to fight with me, I'll have to consume too much energy. Since Lu Qi is unwilling to cooperate, it seems that I need help. "
The old woman's voice paused, and she looked at the hundreds of Gu worms on the ground, "Although you scared Lu Qi away, you don't have the strength to match your appearance! Since that's the case, you might as well become my tonic. "
With infinite regret, the old woman took a deep breath towards the ground. Those beetle-like Gu worms all flew into the old woman's mouth and were chewed into pieces by her as if she was eating jelly beans.
Dirty liquid overflowed from the corner of her mouth, and the old woman who took the Gu worms was surrounded by a faint layer of black fog. Her whole person seemed to be in good spirits, and even her bent waist was straightened a little.
The hundreds of Gu worms were quickly gone, and the old woman made a gesture with both hands, and after muttering some words, she opened her mouth again and made a vomiting sound.
"Ugh …"
Accompanied by the old woman's vomiting, an oval ball of light the size of a papaya was spat out of her mouth with great effort.
The ball of light fell on the ground, and in a very short time, it became a huge egg of light. Something inside was struggling, as if it wanted to 'break out of the shell'.
"Ugh …"
After resting for a moment, the old woman spat out another papaya-sized ball of light. And the egg of light on the ground also cracked at this time, and a naked fat man climbed out of it.
"Greetings, Protector!"
As soon as the fat man appeared, he immediately bowed to the old woman.
"No need for formalities."
The weak old woman forced a smile, and immediately let out a sharp whistle from her mouth.
The originally sluggish wizard doll at the side, with the old woman's whistle, shrunk to the size of a foot, and she held it in her hand.
At the same time, a thin man who looked a little weak climbed out of the other egg of light.
"Wah wah …"
A strange sound came from the old woman's mouth, and she, who was holding the wizard doll, jumped around.
A green light floated out of the wizard doll, and like raindrops, it fell on the old woman and the two men. The originally weak three people, under the baptism of the rain, immediately became a hundred times more energetic.
About five minutes later, the wrinkled old woman turned back into Cao Yi, and the two weak men emitted the aura of immortal cultivators.
At the same time, the path Gu Zheng and Meow Meow were moving forward was no longer slanted downwards, but flat. Along the way, Gu Zheng and Meow Meow did not encounter any great danger, only two small immortal formations blocking their way.
There was still a wide passageway in front of him, and there were stone doors on both sides of the passageway.
"Sir, what do you think is behind these stone doors? Is it really a treasure? "Meow Meow asked curiously.
"I don't know, but the layout looks very much like a prison cell."
Gu Zheng paused, and then asked with a smile, "Weapon Spirit, don't you think this place is familiar?"
"Of course it is. From the layout of the passage room, the place we are now is on the first floor of the map we got from the white jade ball! After all, from the map, we can see that there are rooms like the one we are seeing now. Only the relationship between the upper and lower floors would have the same layout. When we got the map from the white jade ball, we thought about the location of this ruin, and maybe we could find some clues from the Sacred Blood Sect. But I really didn't expect it to be the Heavenly Snail Cave on Blood Tide Island! "The Weapon Spirit said with a smile.
"Who said it wasn't?" Gu Zheng smiled and said, "The map that we obtained had all the dangerous places marked out. That's really cool! But we can't use our divine sense to explore here, and there are two paths. Which one should we take? "
The two paths Gu Zheng mentioned referred to the one they had encountered on the way, which led in another direction.
"Looking at the whole thing from the map we got, the internal structure of the treasure is not complicated. The periphery is a square corridor, and where we are now should be at the corner of the square. Since this is not a complicated maze, if we go down the corridor, we will eventually find a passage that leads to the depths. No matter which path we take, entering the core of the treasure is the final step, "the Weapon Spirit said.
Gu Zheng nodded, then came in front of a stone door. After injecting his immortal power into the stone door, a light array immediately appeared on it.
"I feel that Lu Qi and Cao Ying are not on the same path as us," Gu Zheng, who was breaking the array, said.
"Why do you say that, Mister? Is it because this immortal array has not been broken by anyone? "Meow Meow asked curiously.
"Yes, this is the first room we saw on the way. If they were on the same path as us, they would have opened this room to take a look, right?" Gu Zheng paused, then said with a cold smile, "Unless they also have the treasure map and know that there is danger in this room!"
As soon as Gu Zheng finished speaking, the immortal array on the door was also broken. Accompanied by the rumbling sound of the stone door opening, a large amount of evil qi condensed into skull bees rushed out.
Gu Zheng, who was already prepared, slashed at the Skull Bees with Tang Mo in his hand. A black light flashed on Tang Mo, and all the evil aura seemed to be attracted to it. They all crashed into Tang Mo, and the Skull Bees that crashed into Tang Mo instantly turned into nothingness.
A group of formed evil qi, the number of which was as large as a swarm of bees, but in front of Tang Mo, the nemesis, they disappeared quickly.
Gu Zheng was actually looking forward to seeing the skull bees fly out of the room, to see if there was a source of evil qi inside, but after entering, he found that there was nothing inside.
"Alright, nothing!" Gu Zheng said with a shrug after carefully inspecting the room.
"It's okay, this is only the first room. Just because there is nothing in this room, it doesn't mean that there is nothing in the next room," the Weapon Spirit said.
Gu Zheng nodded, walked to the door of the second room, and began to break the array.
The second room's immortal array was quickly broken. Gu Zheng and Meow Meow waited outside for a while, but didn't find anything.
"No way!"
After entering the room, Gu Zheng's disappointment was written all over his face. It was an empty room, and there was no danger inside. Of course, there was nothing to be gained.
"That damned Ancestor Tian Luo, if he didn't have so many treasures, why did he have so many empty rooms? Even if he wanted to show off, he shouldn't have done this!" Meow Meow said angrily.
"That's good, at least there is no danger!"
Gu Zheng pinched Meow Meow's cheek. "Let me have some of the fragrance, and I'll have good luck next time!"
Meow Meow blushed, and Gu Zheng laughed and walked to the third room.
The immortal design of the third room was quickly broken by Gu Zheng. As the stone door slowly opened, Gu Zheng saw that in the center of the room, there was a golden box that was one foot long and half a foot tall! At the same time, a strange sound came from the room.
The stone door opened completely, and Gu Zheng saw a demon standing in each of the four corners of the room.
The four monsters looked very much like the human-shaped zombies he'd seen in the Heavenly Snail Cavern, but they were much larger. They'd been encased in ice at first, but after the immortal formation was broken, the ice quickly cracked open.
Gu Zheng struck first, and quickly struck out with four palms.
The four demons standing in the corners had no way to retreat, and after being hit by the huge force, they all bent over and knelt.
With Gu Zheng's current cultivation, a palm strike that wasn't considered a big move actually couldn't finish off a demonic creature. This was enough to show that the demonic creature's defense wasn't inferior to a cultivator at the level of transforming energy into qi.
"Awooo …"
The demons that had been kneeling on the ground suddenly jumped up with strange cries. The frost energy that restricted their movements had disappeared.
Of the four demons that jumped up, one spat poison at Gu Zheng, one waved its claws to tear Gu Zheng apart, and one stuck out its long tongue to entangle Gu Zheng.
"You're courting death!"
Gu Zheng sneered, and the Tang Mo in his hand turned into a screen of light. Instead of retreating, he charged into the room, only to hear the sound of a knife, strange cries, and demon blood splattering out of the room.
In an extremely short period of time, the room became completely quiet. The originally aggressive four Demonic Beasts were cut into eight pieces by Gu Zheng, leaving only broken limbs and bloodstains on the ground.
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