Chapter 64: Sneering at the Wind, Crossing Years, Five Watches Plan (5)

  When we arrived at the other side, everyone let out a sigh of relief. I don't know why, but I felt very tired. In there, it was impossible to distinguish between day and night.

  It wasn't until I walked over and took a closer look that I was able to see the layout of this underground palace more clearly, with a large gate standing upright in front.

  "Dust-covered and motionless... The Emperor's daughter lives on. Must one die to progress?". On the archway was inscribed a phrase in bold, black characters that shone with a faint light: "The Emperor's daughter lives on." The emperor's daughter? "Must one die to progress?" I could understand the first two sentences, but the middle inscription baffled me.

  "It's... whoever enters must die", when I heard Lv Si say this with a sigh, I felt like digging myself into the ground. Everyone else was laughing at me... how could I have misread it? After passing through the archway, the underground palace was right in front of us. A gate as grand as an imperial palace blocked our path, and next to it stood a stone carving - a dragon that seemed to be staring straight at us with its head raised. I felt like I was being stared down by these two, but they were just carvings... was I scaring myself?

  "Stop staring, let's go in." I felt like I was petrified, and had even forgotten that there were things to do.

  "It's so big inside..." The door was huge, and it took several people to push it open. What came into view was a very long stretch of road. On both sides of the road stood many things that seemed real but weren't, with strange shapes that I had never seen before.

  "Hey, Lü Si Jian, did you just feel like that dragon was staring at us? The door opened and then stopped in place for a long time without going inside, I don't know what's going to happen next."

  "What's with these dragons? Are they staring at us?" Lü Shi said after hearing my words, looking at the two dragons. "No way, aren't those just Jiao Feng?"

  "What's mockery?"

  "How did you get into this special group? Even Chao Feng doesn't know." He said, I don't know? Is Chao Feng very famous?

  "Chao Feng is the third son of the Dragon, and each of the nine sons has his own interests. Chao Feng means auspiciousness, beauty, and majesty, and also has the meaning of intimidating evil spirits and eliminating disasters. However, ancient palace gates often have this, and the owner inside must not be simple." Can I blame myself? As a student, I accidentally stumbled upon these things, do students still need to understand the nine sons of the Dragon now? Tang Qi and Lü Si both mentioned that the tomb owner is not simple, do they need to say it?! I can see it for myself.

  "Ah!"

  A sharp, shrill voice pierced through the space, making my ears ache, and a sound like something was struggling to break free came from beside me, accompanied by stones continuously falling and hitting me.

  "Fall back!", Lü Shijian called out to the people in front, and we all retreated backwards. We had no choice but to retreat! Because that mocking stone statue had actually come to life!

  "How did it come back to life!", I felt like it had been staring at me all along, this feeling made me very frightened. The dragon slowly broke free and flew a few meters high in the air, twisting its head to look at us.

  "It's actually Shi Ling!"

  "Shi Ling?"

  I hadn't finished speaking when Lushe Jian directly pulled me to the ground, a huge black shadow passed over my head, and a gust of wind blew against my clothes.

  "Quickly!", Lus hadn't even caught his breath yet when he shouted this out, pulling me to run inside. When I turned my head back around, I saw that dragon had turned around, its two claws still trembling, the paws very sharp, staring at us strangely.

  "Run fast!", Lü Si Jian didn't stop at all, constantly urging us on. Shi Teng was being carried by others while running, I'm worried he won't be able to take it.

  "What is Shiling?"

  "You've become a stubborn fool! There's no way to reason with you now!"

  He spoke hastily and kept running forward. "Ah!" someone let out a miserable cry, that dragon suddenly charged into the sky above us, its tail swept down, and our companion was knocked flying several meters away. It seems that the dragon won't let us get away.

  "Protect Xiao Wang! Protect Xiao Wang!", was that person Xiao Wang? Everyone else stopped running, except for me and Lü Shoujian. Before Lü Shoujian could even react, the dragon flew towards us again from the sky. I saw him take off his brocade robe and throw it out, I thought the robe would automatically fall down, but he held a Buddhist rosary in his hand and muttered some incomprehensible sounds, and the robe flew towards the dragon's head instead.

  His voice was incessant, the dragon stopped under the hundred-pleated clothes, I was marveling at all this wonder, but the dragon shook its head and the clothes fell off, torn to shreds!

  "Laozi's clothes!", at the same time I saw Lü Sheng's eyes turned red and scolded, that dragon turned its head around and stared at us, roaring at us.

  This sound made me crouch down and cover my ears, it was too piercing! I felt like my heartbeat was being controlled by its roar. "Lin Zhe! The stillness of the mountain is peaceful, stillness brings safety, unmoving like a mountain!" That voice continued to reverberate, my Lin character's protective barrier was constantly being shattered by it, I felt like I couldn't hold on much longer, each impact made me feel like my internal organs were being smashed.

  A surge of something gathered in my mouth, "I'm done!", I shouted out loud, the stuff in my mouth was sprayed out, some of it splashed onto that dragon's body, a foul smell filled my mouth, I was about to vomit, but that dragon seemed to be hurt by something and crashed to the ground, I felt the ground shaking like an earthquake, knocking me down.

  "What did you spit out? Blood?" Lü Si Jian was stunned by the scene, Did I spit out blood? A dark liquid stain on the ground, but it had a strong smell of blood...

  "I don't know. Maybe it is." I said, my heart skipping a beat as I spoke. Was it because the zombie's blood that I had just spat out? "Could it be zombie blood?"

  "It's possible! The extremely yin object against the extremely yang object!", That dragon on the ground was struggling weakly, its head constantly slightly raised staring at us, its two whiskers still striking the floor. I saw cracks appearing on its body, slowly shattering into many large and small stone blocks. All of this is too unbelievable, I haven't recovered from the shock yet.

  "What's going on?", I stared at Lü Si Jian with my mouth agape as he helped me up.

  "Shi Ling didn't know how to say it, but Shi Tou is not a plant, it takes at least a thousand years to become a spirit. And then there's another... which is Tian Qi." He paused for a moment when he said Tian Qi, and then continued with his head down, thinking about something. "What is Tian Qi?"

  "Revelation... Revelation is a heavenly book... It records many impossible things, and it's said that the method to create Stone Spirit is recorded in it... But it's also impossible. Revelation shouldn't exist at all." He continued thinking, seemingly having many thoughts he couldn't get through, I listened very mysteriously, that kind of mystery wasn't about being unrealistic, but rather feeling astonished? Can you say it like that?

  "How can it be impossible?"

  "The Revelation is in a different way of existence, it's not a book."

  "Wait! You said it was a book, and then you said it wasn't a book!" I interrupted him, feeling like he was confusing me.

  "Listen to me, the way of the Apocalypse exists is different! In history, only the Yellow Emperor could do it, and it's said that the Nine Heavens Xuan Nü taught him in a dream. These are all legends... I feel like I've forgotten something..."

  "An emperor? Impossible, every dynasty has an emperor, how could we not know?" I stared at him, waiting for him to continue, but instead he got me flustered. "Hurry up! Shi Ling is indestructible! Those stones will reassemble."

  The news exploded as soon as it came out of his mouth. I rushed forward and shouted at them to run. "Why didn't you say so earlier!"

  "I forgot for a moment too."

  But only then did we realize that while we were running, those stones had slowly gathered together. The sound of the stones rubbing against the ground echoed through the air. Run, just run, and yet they couldn't be beaten to death. What else could we do but run?

  "Scatter!" When I saw a black shadow covering us in the air, I knew it had arrived. A huge tail swooped down, fortunately everyone dodged, but unfortunately, Shitian was thrown out. I saw Shitian seemed to have woken up and coughed twice.

  "My junior brother is someone who can't be woken up unless he wants to wake up himself..." I remembered that night when Shi Teng and Ze Hong were taken away by the police, what Ze Hong told me was true. Indeed, just now that dragon shouted so loudly but he didn't move at all, and now he's even okay.

  "Shi Teng, are you okay?" I rushed forward and helped him up.

  "What's going on, Brother Zikong?" He kept coughing, and I helped him to the side... That dragon seemed to have only taken a liking to Lusijian and his group, ignoring me and Shitian.

  "A monster made of stone, can't be killed." I stared at the dragon's movements and said to Shitian.

  "Ah, then I won't be of much help... I'm busy..."

  "It's okay... we can't do anything..." I turned my head to look at Shiteng, but saw him push me out. I looked at him in confusion, and a black shadow flew over from the air, a huge claw grabbed Shiteng!

  I grabbed its tail but before I could get a good grip, the dragon took off into the air. I saw Xi Teng being grasped tightly by its claws, his neck and above were completely red, this is going to be fatal!

  "Zi Chuan!", in an instant, it left the ground, and Lü Si saw this scene and panicked, shouting at me to come over. That tail was constantly exerting force, I felt that if I relaxed even a bit, I would fly out. I felt my fingernails were about to be pinched by its tail, slowly struggling upwards, sitting on top of its tail, tightly clenching it. The dragon kept roaring as if I had insulted its dragon prestige, feeling like I couldn't climb up anymore, this dragon was over 6 meters long, and Shi Teng was still far away from me...

  "Zihe...gege...I'm...fine...", those claws were pinched so tightly, I felt that if they pinched any harder, people would be crushed flat! Shitian has already helped me a lot to save me!

  For a moment, I was at a loss for what to do, so I directly bit down on its tail... The pain brought me back to reality, and only then did I realize how foolish I was... A rock... How could I have bitten it?