Chapter 82

Shay kicked the three people a few times, and after confirming that they were indeed dead, he let out a sigh of relief.

Next, Shay focused his attention on the small insect flying around him.

With a shift in his thoughts, the insect moved back and forth around him, performing various actions without any verbal or gestural instructions.

Shay watched in amazement.

The ability to command the flying insect with mere thoughts was already quite miraculous to him, but Shay also knew that the insect had even more astonishing qualities, as recorded in the documents he had seen.

After practicing controlling the insect for a while, Shay decided to test its true power.

Shay looked at the stone door in the room, and under his mental command, the insect flew towards the several-feet-thick stone door, circling it quickly a few times.

The heavy stone door emitted a dull sound and shattered into seven or eight pieces of broken rock. The edges of these pieces were smooth and flat, clearly cut by the insect.

The hardness of the insect's body and the sharpness of its mouthparts were far beyond common sense.

Shay looked at the smoothly cut stone door with a smile on his face: "Truly worthy of being a celestial insect as recorded. The doubts about the underground palace and the so-called cultivators mentioned in the notes left by my ancestor are now dispelled. Unfortunately, apart from the information about the insect, the notes did not provide more details about the underground palace."

Generations ago, the Sha family was already part of the Qingyun Sect. When Shay was organizing the items left by his ancestors, he unexpectedly found a notebook left by one of them. In this notebook, there was a mention of an underground palace and the so-called cultivators.

This ancestor of the Sha family was one of the first disciples when the Qingyun Sect was founded. However, he later encountered an accident while on a mission for the sect and lost contact. Otherwise, he might have left more information about the underground palace, which Shay found somewhat regrettable.

However, when he first read the notebook, Shay did not take the matter of cultivators seriously and even mocked the ancestor, thinking it was nonsense.

Moreover, although the notebook mentioned the underground palace, it did not specify its location, so he did not pay much attention to it at the time.

But now, seeing the astonishing celestial insect flying beside him, Shay's previous notion of it being nonsense had long vanished.

After Zhang Tao discovered the map of the ruins from the Ancestor Hall, and the Deputy Sect Leader Sha learned some information about the map, he unexpectedly found that the map had a mysterious connection to the content recorded in the notebook left by his ancestor.

After this, Shay quickly realized that the content in his ancestor's notebook might not be as nonsensical as he had previously thought.

This made his heart burn with excitement.

Throughout the journey, he had deliberately opposed Elder Guan's arrangements to enter this passage without arousing suspicion.

Now, he had indeed achieved his goal.

"Zuoyang, Guanqiu, and those who betrayed me. This time, you will all die." Looking at the celestial insect beside him, a cold expression appeared in Shay's eyes.

Then, he thought of something, and the coldness in his eyes disappeared, replaced by a strange smile: "The notebook left by my ancestor mentioned that there are cultivators' pills in the underground palace. If I can find these pills, I might even become... a cultivator."

Thinking of this, Shay's face showed signs of excitement.

Not long after, Shay left the room behind the hidden door and headed deeper into the underground palace.

However, he did not know that after he entered the room behind the hidden door, a pair of eyes had been coldly watching him from the other side of the door.

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"A mere mortal who cannot even open the Spirit Sea, yet he wants to become a cultivator. What a delusion."

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"Just a commoner, daring to touch the remains of us cultivators. Truly overestimating oneself."

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Not long after Shay left, a faint, mocking voice echoed in the empty small room.

Then, a hidden door on the right side of the small room creaked open.

Behind this hidden door was another hidden door.

A person stood in the passage behind the hidden door.

This person's figure was hidden in the shadow of the door, making it impossible to see his face clearly.

However, when this person stepped out of the shadow and revealed his face, it turned out to be Zhang Tao.

Zhang Tao looked around the small room and then at the direction where Shay had left, frowning slightly: "You can keep the Sandstone Insect for a while. Once I get what I need..."

Considering something, Zhang Tao looked at a corner of the room.

He walked over to that corner, crouched down, and tapped the ground in a special pattern. After feeling around, a hidden compartment popped out from the ground.

He then opened the compartment and carefully took out a jade box.

From Zhang Tao's behavior, it was clear that he was not particularly concerned about the celestial insect, but he treated the jade box in his hand with great care.

The true treasure in this hidden room was clearly not the insect taken by Shay, but the jade box now in Zhang Tao's hand.

After taking out the jade box, Zhang Tao carefully put it in his pocket. He then stood up and walked towards the hidden door he had opened, entering it and disappearing into the shadow of the door, finally closing the hidden door.

After the stone door on the wall of the small room closed, the surface of the wall became extremely smooth, with no trace of the second hidden door.

Not long after, Zhang Tao's figure reappeared in the passage where he was originally assigned to act.

However, the three people who were originally with him in this passage were now dead, their cold bodies lying on the ground.

From the way they died, it was clear that they were betrayed and killed from behind by someone they trusted.

The protector who had been quite considerate to Zhang Tao on the journey had an expression of disbelief on his face at the moment of death, as if something unbelievable had happened.

Zhang Tao narrowed his eyes and silently looked at the bodies on the ground for a long time before sighing helplessly.

Then, his figure disappeared into the darkness of the long passage.

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