Chapter 71: I Want to Take a Break (Five Updates, Asking for Flowers)

  But no time to think, the gate of the sixth floor has already opened, and he just killed a strong man of Sword Emperor One Star. The next enemy he will face must be even more terrifying, he must let Xiao Qing and others come in immediately.

  With a wave of his hand, he put away the sword curtain that blocked the way to the fourth floor.

  Xiao Qing and others rushed in with anxious expressions, but saw Shen Dou's face turn somewhat inscrutable. Those eyes that were not originally profound suddenly became full of stories at this moment.

  "Shendu, are you alright?" Yanmuo asked softly, completely disregarding the injury to her own body from Shendu's sword energy earlier.

  Shen Du smiled faintly and said, "I'm fine, but it's possible that there will be even stronger opponents later on. You and Bi Lao should wait a bit before coming in." Shen Du still looked at Yan Mo with concern.

  Xiao Qing's gaze remained fixed on the silver-haired old man lying on the ground, observing the fatal sword that had been struck by a sharp sword energy, which had cut through the old man's neck without any hesitation. Judging from the old man's expression, he seemed to be extremely shocked or incredulous at this blow.

  Xiao Qing's face wore a smile with deep meaning, her eyes still lingering on Shen Dou's face, but she didn't say much.

  "Then let's go in." Shen Du said lightly, and because of Xiao Qing's attitude of not hearing or asking, he became even more vigilant towards Xiao Qing.

  "Hey, although you're a biased guy, we've already discovered that. But there are three women here, and you only left two behind. Why did you specifically pull me in?" Xiao Qing's eyebrows were slightly raised, as if she was extremely surprised by this, and her slender waist swayed gently, looking alluring and charming.

  "Oh dear, isn't it obvious? They must think you're good-looking and have great martial arts skills too."

  Shen Du heard this and thought that Bi Luo was indeed a woman who was hard to grasp, even her tone of speech was sometimes cold and sometimes hot.

  "Hey, is Bi Lian praising me? That's rare." Xiao Qing seemed to be enjoying this immensely, swaying her hips as she walked towards Shen Dou, saying softly: "Then let's go."

  "Goodness, how cheesy." Bi Luo curled her lip and imitated Xiao Qing's tone as she repeated the sentence "Let's go." It was so corny that even she herself got goosebumps.

  Shen Dou was also "drunk", entangled with a group of women, if it were him a thousand years ago, he would never do such a foolish thing.

  But times have changed, he had promised to go with Yan Mei to find Long Yan, even if he now knew that Long Yan was the Demon Emperor, he still had to fulfill his promise.

  Even if it's not for the sake of saving him and losing his sight, as long as he made a promise, he would never go back on his word, whether it was a thousand years ago or today, a thousand years later, it wouldn't change.

  The dimly lit chamber on the sixth floor had several Buddhist lamps hanging from the walls, which made a "hissing" sound due to their arrival.

  He looked around in all directions, but couldn't see any ghostly figures at all.

  "Could there be another mechanism here?" Shen Dou asked with an expectant face, looking at Yan Mo.

  Yan Mo was disturbed by this question and replied in a low voice with flashing eyes: "How would I know if there are any mechanisms here, I haven't been here before."

  "Oh, really haven't been here before?" Shen Du said with a hint of doubt.

  Xiao Qing was extremely sharp and quickly understood the deep meaning behind Shen's words, but she just smiled faintly and said: "Although I don't know what you've been through, you must believe that we will be great friends, and this relationship will never change forever."

  Shen Du heard this and was shocked in his heart.

  He couldn't help but wonder if the unchanging friendship would really exist in this world where interests were at its core. A thousand years ago, he was exterminated by his own master, and even led to him killing his own son a thousand years later... Thinking of this, he couldn't help but feel a surge of heartache.

  "I hope so, but I wish our relationship could be more honest with each other."

  "Honesty may not always be the best policy, sometimes knowing the truth is worse than living in ignorance. Xiao Qing said with a seemingly profound tone, but also admitted a point, "I admit that I'm familiar with this environment, but I have to tell you, I've only been to the first layer, and that was years ago, back then I couldn't even beat that one-armed swordsman, do you think it's possible for me to come to this place?"

  "Oh, then tell me, why did your strength suddenly improve at such a rapid pace."

  "This is a secret of my clan, I cannot tell you." Xiao Qing said in a low voice, her face suddenly turning cold.

  Because a Buddha lamp on the wall suddenly went out, the entire secret room was filled with a foul smell, like a corpse buried underground for several months, emitting a strange odor.

  The flavor was getting closer and closer, and then a rustling sound came from the ground, like hundreds of long snakes crawling towards me.

  But with the remaining eight Buddhist lamps, several dozen mummy-like objects, about the size of infants, could be seen swaying and walking towards them.

  "This... is really too strange, Shen Dou has already been staring with his eyes wide open."

  "What's this?" Xiao Qing drew her long sword from her palm without any surprise, and charged out first. With a few elegant crescent-shaped sword strokes in the air, those dozens of twisted dry corpses immediately turned to ashes.

  "Your swordsmanship is indeed impressive, truly a hidden talent." Shen Da put away his long sword and rested it on his back with one hand, seemingly no longer intending to make another move.

  But the gate leading to the seventh floor has not been opened yet, so I asked again: "What's going on now?"

  "Every time a Buddha's lamp goes out here, a new wave of enemies will appear, so..."

  "So you go ahead and play slowly, I think I'll take a break." As he spoke, Shen Dou surprisingly sat down in the corner of the wall to take a nap.

  Xiao Qing saw the situation and could only helplessly shake her head, secretly scolding: "Good intentions are being treated like a donkey's liver and lungs, such a good opportunity to practice swordsmanship you don't want, but instead make me, a weak woman, take action, it's truly detestable."

  Just as he was saying this, another Buddhist lamp went out.

  Another wave of undead rushed out, but this time the number was significantly more than before. However, Xiao Qing's swordsmanship could still handle it. With a few spins, accompanied by the beautiful crescent-shaped sword aura, the countless undead turned into ashes.

  Xiao Qing's face wore a victorious smile, and she was secretly thinking about something with great satisfaction, when another Buddhist lamp went out.

  "This speed is too fast!" Before she could complain, the rushing out of the dry corpses not only doubled in number, with over a thousand dry corpses pouring out one after another, forcing Xiao Qing to become serious as well.

  Her eyebrows furrowed, and she actually poured the sword energy inside her body into that silver long sword, emitting a faint sword hum, a cold light flashed, and the new moon-shaped sword edge was also covered with a dazzling orange glow.

  Wherever the orange light reached, all the corpses turned into ashes...