Chapter 60: The Mysterious Gate Escapes the New Year's Eve Five Watches Plan (1)

  "Shēng Téng! Shēng Téng!" As soon as I walked in, I lost my direction! Is this what they mean by "stretching out your hand and not seeing five fingers"? I shouted Shēng Téng's name but didn't hear a response... "Ah!" I don't know what tripped me up and made me fall to the ground. As I felt around on the ground, I got back up, it seemed like a rock. This land seems quite flat, where did this rock come from?

  "I'm going! How could I have forgotten that I can use my phone to light up!" I saw the phone falling out of my bag and emitting light, I had completely forgotten. When I was holding the phone to light up, I saw that there was blood on the stones in front of me!

  "Shìténg, Shìténg what's wrong with you!" I turned my head and only then did I realize that the one who tripped me was actually Shìténg! He was lying on the ground, his dagger had fallen to the side, who else could have snuck up on Guānmén? I shook him, and blood was still flowing from his head, what's going on here, he only entered not much earlier than me!

  "Cough..." I grasped tightly onto Shī Téng's person in the middle, "Zǐ Chuān... big brother..."

  "Shi Teng, who did this to you? What just happened?", I looked at Shi Teng shaking his head with his hand, slowly getting up. "I don't know either, just now... I chased in and didn't see anything, but felt like I was knocked out..."

  "It's not like that, I was really knocked out." I looked at Shitian who still had a dazed expression... didn't even know he got hit. "Right, Tang Qile?"

  "I don't know... I came in and didn't see anyone..."

  "We...", now Tang is nowhere to be seen, I'm in a dilemma. I was thinking of going in to find him, but Sheng and the others can be ambushed too. With just our two powers, we don't know what kind of danger is inside.

  "It's okay, let's go, Subuta," I said to Seto, who jumped up and down in response, as if to reassure me that his body was fine.

  "Let's go, we'll leave marks on the road so others can find us too." I followed Shengteng in, he was taller than me, but at this moment I still put my hand on his shoulder, trying to be more at ease. It was my first time entering a tomb, and I had no idea what would happen inside...

  It's very dark in here, I use the only light from my mobile phone to illuminate the road ahead, and along the way, I encounter many forks in the road. "Which way to go?", for a moment, I lose my sense of direction...

  "I... I'm not sure either, let's just charge in!"

  "Go!"

  All roads lead to Rome, I don't believe I'll still get lost here... But it wasn't until later that I realized I was really lost! Going around in circles and ending up back at the starting point, seeing the mark I made myself... "Shìténg..."

  "Let's go again! This time, let's take a detour!" I followed Shitian's lead and walked for what felt like a long time, only to find ourselves back at the starting point... "Zi Chuan, it seems we've been walking in circles..."

  "No need to say, I already know...", I leaned against the wall, my body was already exhausted, panting... "Let's go again!", I took a deep breath, determined that we could still make it today. But in the end, we ended up back at the starting point...

  "I'm exhausted! Let's take a break." I really couldn't go on anymore, I didn't know how long I'd been walking around here, so I just sat down on the ground.

  "Zihe, big brother... do you think we'll encounter the ghostly wall again?", Shitian was a bit better off than me, but still panting, "Ghostly wall? It's possible!", I've encountered the ghostly wall before, previously Mengmeng trapped me inside and it left me with a embarrassing story for Master to mock... what should I do? My cultivation is not yet at Master's level, do I have to use the child's urine again?

  "Shì téng... Let's pee...", I sighed, we're stuck in this situation and have no other choice.

  "Really, it seems like we can break through. Brother Zikun, you're on that side, I'm on this side." Shitian directly faced the wall... Forget it, forget it, I'll follow up too, "Let's go, let's try again!" If it's really a ghost hitting the wall, it should be broken by now. When we hold onto hope and return to the starting point once more, that feeling of despair is truly devastating.

  "Shit! I've wasted a whole pee!", I don't know why I still have this mood, but it's really nothing can be done about it now!

  "Zihe River... it seems we're really going to be trapped here..." Looks like the current situation is no better for Shitian either.

  "This is Qimen Dunjia, we are trapped inside!" This voice... isn't it Tang Qi's?! When I looked for the source of the sound, it was indeed Tang Qi!

  "Tan Qi! Finally found you!" Sheng Teng and I were trapped here just to find Tan Qi, and now seeing him appearing in front of us as if nothing had happened really felt like a dream come true.

  "Zi Chuan, let's first think of a way to get out of this strange door and then talk about it later. I have a premonition that the owner of this tomb is definitely not ordinary!" I feel like Tang Qi has become someone I don't recognize, very unfamiliar.

  "Is it the Eight Gates Formation? Is it a trap?" I recalled that last time, Chang Sang's ghostly formation had trapped us in the Eight Gates Formation. We had to find the Life Gate to have any chance of survival. Was this Qimen Dunjia the same?

  "Qimen, Du, Jing, Sheng, Si, Kai, Men, Xiu! We must find the life door if we want to get out of here! I know all this, and using attribute correspondence techniques should work, right? I remember last time when dealing with Yang Tie, I used the Earth Character Technique, and coincidentally, Shi Teng was born in the Earth element!"

  "Shi Teng, use your earth escape technique to find the birth door!" I suddenly thought of this point, but Tang Qi shattered my hope. Originally, Shi Teng was eager to move, but: "It's useless, the real Qimen Dunjia layout is complex and changeable, and this time's layout has me stumped. I feel that there may even be a hidden eight-door displacement..."

  "What is Ba Men Yi Wei?", "What is Eight Gates Shift?"

  "Yes, the Eight Gates Shift can transform and shift the eight gates you have identified. For example, if you choose Life Gate, it can make you enter Death Gate!"

  "Then we'll be trapped inside? If the eight gates are shifted as Tang Qi said, won't it be impossible to find the exit forever?"

  "No, there's another way, we can force our way in." It really is so unfamiliar, Tang Qi speaks very coldly, and doesn't even look us straight in the eye. What exactly is inside that makes him become a different person?

  "Force our way through?...", I recall that Zehong and I have entered the Gate of Death before, just the ghostly Gate of Death was enough to make us struggle to escape, feeling as if we were going to be swallowed inside. Do we still need to force our way through this time? "Can we get out alive?"

  "I don't know, if we don't take the risk, we can't survive either." Is this going to be a dead end for us no matter what? I looked at Shitian, he nodded at me. "Let's do it, Subo."

  "Go for it! Charge!"

  "Follow me." Tuo Qi didn't say much, seemingly knowing that we were going to force our way through. He led us directly into a fork in the road. "According to reason, this should be an open door. Since it's going to move, let's not look for the living door for now." Tuo Qi was leading the way, and Sheng Teng and I didn't have any ideas of our own. Whatever he said, we just did it.

  "It seems like there's nothing here...", and indeed, after walking for a long time, no danger was found except for the dark space. "Don't worry, the Eight Gates Relocation is not as easy to deal with as we thought, if we exit now it might still be this road." Listening to Tang Qi say this, this is probably the most difficult thing about the Eight Gates Relocation.

  "What should we do now?"

  "Keep moving forward! I believe the person who set up this trap won't let us have an easy time."

  Tang Qi walked quickly, and Sheng Teng and I followed closely behind.

  "Tang Qi, I want to ask you, was it you who knocked out Sheng Teng just now?"

  Now that there are only three of us left inside, I've been wanting to ask this question for a long time, but I didn't dare, fearing what his answer might be.

  "No." He asked me a simple and direct question, which made me breathe a sigh of relief. But then I thought, could there be someone else here? Shitian also heard it, according to Tiantian's personality, he would admit it. Since it's not him, then there must be an enemy in this tomb, no matter if the enemy is human or not! This is the most terrifying thing, we are in the light while they are in the dark!

  "Be careful." Tang Qi walked ahead, seemingly carefree, but the longer we walked, the more I felt that something was off. The atmosphere felt eerie, as if there was something lurking nearby. My pores were on edge, and Shi Teng gripped his life knife tightly.

  "Righteous energy gathers like a knife, knife energy collects in one body."

  "The blade falls, the ghostly shadow drops! The blade drops, the ghostly shadow dies!" Not only did Shitian discover this, but also a group of ghost heads rushed out from the front and charged towards us. Shitian blocked them at the forefront. "Shitian, look after Tang Qi!", Tang Qi grabbed the ghosts I knew he was skilled in divination, but as for grabbing ghosts, I wasn't so sure. Shitian ran ahead of Tang Qi, chopping down those ghost heads one by one.

  "Present! Metal, wood, water, fire, earth, three births and five elements, shape metal knife, slay evil spirits!" I don't know why my abilities are increasing, the number of Golden Knife Techniques I'm releasing has actually increased, the golden knives gathering in the air have split into three, chopping towards those ghost heads. "No good! Brother Subei! The ghost heads just keep coming and we can't eliminate them fast enough!" Shiteng shouted to me from a distance, I also knew that this number was too much. Endless ghost heads kept closing in on us.

  "Hide in that cave over there!" Tang Qi pointed to a deep and profound cave entrance ahead, Shi Teng led the way at the front, I was at the back covering our rear, it wasn't until we squeezed into the cave that we discovered the space inside was very large, what's even stranger is that the ghostly heads were only gathered at the entrance but didn't come in.

  We hid in the cave, not knowing why, but saw Shitian's foot slip and fall in. There was still room inside? Tang Qi grabbed onto Shitian, but it wasn't in time before being dragged down by Shitian. I looked at the bottomless pit and jumped down without hesitation.

  "Shìténg, Tāng Qí you guys are where!", I jumped down and only then realized the ground was quite soft. "Zǐchuān big brother...you stepped on me...", Shìténg was actually under my feet! I hastily dodged to the side, "I said why it's so soft," I helped Shìténg up, while Tāng Qí had already stood aside staring forward, and in front of us there was actually light?