Demoness, where are you Fleeing to?
Chapter 314 - 267: Teaching You What is Superconductivity (7400 Words Climax - , Monthly Votes Needed)_1

Chapter 314: Chapter 267: Teaching You What is Superconductivity (7400 Words Climax Chapter, Monthly Votes Needed)_1

Within another tunnel found near Qin’an Palace, Xue Yunrou pilots the ’Xuanming Zhiyang Shuttle’, moving at nearly the speed of light through a damp, dark tunnel five feet wide.

Inside the flying shuttle, Tingtian Ao manifests itself, perched on Li Xuan’s shoulder.

"Why did it latch on to you? If you looked into the Princess’s Jince Yudie, you would know."

Tingtian Ao scratches its face with a paw, looking somewhat agitated: "While there is indeed no connection between you and the princess, your birthdates are the same. That is the bond between you both. You met her when she was most desperate, in a near hopeless situation, thus forming this bond."

Li Xuan glances wordlessly at the red-robed figure behind him, then furrows his brow: "Why didn’t you say all this before?"

"I wanted to." Tingtian Ao ’cheh’-ed, looking helpless: "The problem is that Xie Kun, the Dicheng of Nanjing, is still alive. When he was the Grand Secretary of the Jin Dynasty, he was one of the world’s renowned heavenly-level beings. Now that he’s turned to the path of the dark arts, his power is even greater.

He has planted 81 fire traps in Nanjing City. Once triggered, half of the city’s population will be incinerated. He uses this to force my master to restrain himself. The key is, I dare not speak about it, what if he takes his anger out on me afterwards, kills me?"

It sighs quietly: "Even if he doesn’t slaughter me, I wouldn’t dare to intervene in this dragon power struggle. Isn’t the previous Dongting Dragon King an example? He was attacked by the rebound of dragon Qi and entangled with killing intent, she’s still sealed under the water, unable to move for three hundred years."

Li Xuan ’hmm’-ed, about to ask why you’re not afraid of the backlash from the dragon Qi, not afraid of Xie Kun’s revenge now? However, Xue Yunrou, who is maneuvering the flying shuttle with both hands before them, suddenly said: "Xuan, we should be at the exit, but this place ——"

She frowns, appearing uncertain: "It seems to be the Xiao Mausoleum?"

The tunnel extending from the palace leads to the imperial mausoleum of the Great Ancestor of the Jin Dynasty?

Li Xuan quickly steps out of the ’Xuanming Zhiyang Shuttle’, looking ahead with a furrowed brow.

In front of him is a massive stone wall. The blue bricks carved with raised characters combine to form a large eight-diagram board pattern.

"If it’s the Xiao Mausoleum, I can probably understand why Zhenru brought the blood coffin here. The strongest dragon Qi in Nanjing is located at the Xiao Mausoleum."

Xuanchenzi also steps out, looking at the sight before him seriously: "This eight-diagram board seems to be a mechanism, quite troublesome. It appears to be an eight-diagram image combined with a Luo script, aligning with the celestial bodies. The method to open it is constantly changing. Within a short period, we are likely powerless."

In terms of talisman array, he and Xue Yunrou had some achievements, but it would take at least a day or two to decode this.

"No need to break it, she should know how."

Tingtian Ao turns around and looks at the blood-eyed girl behind Li Xuan: "After Jianling died, Emperor Taizong ascended the throne in Nanjing until the fifteenth year of Yongle when the capital was moved north. So, the Forbidden City and this secret tunnel were all renovated at that time. The entrances and exits of this secret tunnel, as well as the way to open this mechanism, are completely different from the time of Jianling. The reason why Zhenru and his sister could come and go here is probably stolen from her memory——"

At this time, the blood-eyed girl is hovering in the air, ’looking’ at the stone wall in front of her with her pupil-less blood-red eyes.

The next instant, dozens of blood threads stretch out from behind her, each connecting to those engraved blue bricks.

Li Xuan’s eyes brighten, and he steps forward, pressing the blue bricks in the order directed by the threads.

"What I’m really worried about right now is the situation inside. You guys don’t know that about two moments ago, the dragon-guarding gate of the Xiao Mausoleum’s Under Palace was lowered. Many high-level beings, including the Fumo Zongguan, were isolated outside the gate."

At this point, Tingtian Ao looks helpless: "Her body is almost becoming a real ’Drought Demon’. Inside the Xiao Mausoleum, she has endless dragon Qi to use. The Yinsha within her can no longer suppress her. There’s also Dicheng Xie Kun inside. I fear that even if you three enter, it’ll be to no avail."

"But Mr. Fulong is also with the second prince."

Xue Yunrou only just speaks when she stops, remembering another ’Changle’.

Dicheng Xie Kun couldn’t possibly stand against Helian Fulong inside the Xiao Mausoleum, but if a person he trusts were to betray him, then the situation inside Xiaoling Under Palace is indeed concerning.

She can’t help but think of Vice Master Zhang, think of Jiang Hanyun, her heart involuntarily tightening.

Xuanchenzi asks strangely: "Their arrangement seems not only for the purpose to refine the Drought Demon, right? Is it for the second prince?"

From the current situation, the refinement of the Drought Demon is not necessarily required to enter the Xiao Mausoleum.

"No! My master and I have guessed a few times and suspect that they want to open the tomb of the Great Ancestor. So, I don’t know now whether it’s right or wrong to let you follow in. Maybe it’s just a one-way trip, throwing meat buns at a dog, no return——"

While Tingtian Ao is mumbling, it suddenly stiffens and looks behind: "Who’s there?"

"Me!"

With this voice, a towering figure holding a Square Sky Halberd, suddenly steps out from the darkness.

He is dressed in moon-white robes, his demeanor gentle and scholarly, yet he exudes an overwhelming Gang Qi. Ice fog and lightning are entwined around him: "Luckily, it seems that Jiang didn’t arrive too late."