Peerless Divine Doctor in the City of Flowers
Chapter 296 She Ba Nine Palaces Formation

Chapter 296: Chapter 296 She Ba Nine Palaces Formation

"Boom... Boom..."

The ground suddenly shook.

The intense shaking made Beitiao Qian Naizi, who was standing by the shore, somewhat unsteady on her feet.

Fortunately, this unexpected earthquake quickly subsided.

And at this moment, a huge vortex unexpectedly rose from the calm surface of the lake.

As the water surged wildly, the water level actually began to drop.

The entrance, hidden underground, finally began to reveal itself.

"This kid really has some skills!"

Beitiao Qian Naizi waved her hand.

Dozens of knife-wielding samurai had already jumped down first.

She, however, sat in a bamboo sedan chair, escorted by eight sturdy men and dozens of bewitching women, following closely behind.

By the time the large group passed through the long black hole,

Lin Fan and Xu Zhi Rou had already been waiting at the exit.

"Husband!"

Ning Mengyao, walking behind the samurai, immediately ran towards Lin Fan when she saw him.

She threw herself into Lin Fan’s arms, "I was so worried outside, terrified that something might happen to you. If you weren’t here anymore, I wouldn’t want to live either!"

"I’m perfectly fine, aren’t I?"

Holding the tender Meng Yao, Lin Fan wiped the tears from her face.

Meanwhile, the rest of the party had arrived at the city gate.

Beitiao Qian Naizi, still sitting in her sedan chair, sized up the gate in front of her.

At this moment, several samurai were already trying their best to push the gate open.

Unfortunately, despite exerting all their strength, they could not budge the massive door.

"Stop wasting your energy, the water from Death Lake has already gone through the secret passage into the underground. If I’m not mistaken, all the mechanisms of the entire underground lair rely on hydropower. Now with the water, all the mechanisms here will start operating. There’s a mechanism on this gate, which is not something that can be opened by brute force."

Lin Fan, with Ning Mengyao by his side and holding Xu Zhi Rou, walked to the front of the troop.

Smiling at the disheveled samurai.

This sort of thing cannot be done with brute force.

"Since you’ve managed to come all the way here, it proves that you are indeed very capable, so please continue and open the door for us."

Beitiao Qian Naizi still had no intention of stepping down from her sedan chair.

Yet, her eyes gleamed with excitement.

"Watch closely, today I’ll let you all understand what is called the wisdom of Huaxia."

Lin Fan stood in front of the gate, intently studying it.

As an amateur tomb raider, he had to think this through.

"Can you open it?"

Xu Zhi Rou asked with a voice tinged with concern.

Whispering in Lin Fan’s ear.

"Of course, my husband’s head is filled with wisdom."

Ning Mengyao, hugging Lin Fan’s arm, said with full confidence.

"That’s right, I understand now. These doornails are designed according to the layout of the Nine Palaces; to open the door, each one must be triggered individually."

Lin Fan, stroking his chin, gazed at the nine doornails on the gate.

"Stop talking so much, just do it!"

The sharp-faced man, previously scornful of Lin Fan, immediately commanded.

Several martial masters rushed forward and struck the large doornail in the center.

As each doornail was pressed,

All nine doornails sunk completely into the door.

"Click, click, click..."

Indeed, from behind the door came the sound of something like a winch turning.

But just when everyone was waiting for the door to open,

Suddenly, from behind the original long-burning lamps on the city wall, countless arrows were shot out.

The arrows, swift as the wind, instantly enveloped everyone.

"Clang, clang, clang..."

Facing the dense volley of arrows, the surrounding samurai quickly used their knives to fend off the incoming barrage.

Meanwhile, the eight stalwart men who had been carrying the palanquin

set it down on the ground, forming a line.

Like a wall, they protected Beitiao Qian Naizi from the arrows.

"Damn, this is insane, indestructible as a diamond!"

Lin Fan watched as the sharp torrent of arrows struck the porters’ backs.

To his surprise, they were, to a man, repelled.

These guys were impervious to both blade and spear, truly formidable characters.

Finally, all the arrows had been shot.

Yet, at the city gate, dozens had already fallen.

The samurai who did not block the arrows and the women from the Hundred Fragrance Group

had turned into hedgehogs, collapsed in pools of blood.

Without exception, their faces were an iron blue.

It was clear they had died from poisoning.

Turned out the arrows had been coated with a deadly poison.

"You... you actually deceived me!"

The lanky man who had narrowly escaped death by lying on the ground pointed at Lin Fan angrily.

This fellow had just dragged two women to one side and had merely been watching the entire time.

"You’d better get it straight, when have I ever deceived you? I merely told you about the origin of this Nine Palaces diagram and the positions of the palaces. It was your own rash act of wanting to take all the credit that got them killed, not me," Lin Fan said, standing there with a cold sneer.

His words left the man speechless.

"Then tell me, what’s the correct sequence?"

Beitiao Qian Naizi couldn’t be bothered to argue with him.

All she wanted was to enter and seize the treasure as soon as possible.

"The correct sequence, I guess, is to start from the central palace then to Qian, Dui, Gen, Li, Kan, Kun, Zhen, Xun, and back to the central palace. Only by this can the formation be broken!"

Lin Fan said casually, arms crossed over his chest.

What he proposed was the pattern of the Mysterious Heavenly Flying Stars.

But he just wasn’t telling them the truth.

"You guess? What do you mean, ’you guess’? The Great Protector wants an accurate route, not your baseless ramblings!"

The gaunt man rebuked loudly.

A guess meant there was no certainty.

With that said, who would dare to test it?

"Anyway, that’s my guess. Why don’t you make a guess too? There are only nine palaces, eighty-one variations. We’ve already tried one just now; you have eighty left, feel free to choose any," Lin Fan said with a shrug, appearing indifferent.

This immediately made the gaunt man’s face darken.

"If we try all eighty variations, will there be any survivors left here?"

The gaunt man immediately turned his head: "Great Protector, I think this kid is deliberately causing trouble, we definitely can’t trust his words."

"If you don’t trust him, do you have a solution? Or are you going to make a blind guess as well?"

Beitiao Qian Naizi’s face darkened.

Her words rendered the gaunt man utterly speechless.

"I... I won’t make a blind guess!"

"If you can’t, then shut your mouth!"

Beitiao Qian Naizi glared at him sharply.

She then made a discreet gesture to the women by her side.

Two spirit controllers immediately stepped forward.

Although somewhat frightened, they still followed the sequence Lin Fan had stated and pressed the buttons.

"Click... Click... Click..."

As the central protruding door bolt was pressed down once again,

mechanical sounds began to emanate from within the underground palace.

Yet, at this moment, everyone wore a look of tension on their faces.

Only Lin Fan, his eyes cold, was swiftly scanning the group for something.

Soon, he found what he was looking for.

"Creak..."