Chapter 84

Jingyi is a core disciple of the Qingyun Sect. At this moment, she is carefully walking down a passage with a tall senior brother from the same sect.

Originally, the Qingyun Sect arranged for at least three people to travel through each passage simultaneously. However, now only Jingyi and the tall senior brother are walking together.

"The last trap, although we passed through safely, we didn't expect that Junior Brother Bai would injure his leg," the tall Qingyun Sect disciple sighed as he walked.

Jingyi thought of the young junior brother who was usually quite innocent and adorable, and a bitter smile appeared on her face: "Junior Brother Bai has just joined the sect and encountered such a dangerous mission. It's normal that he couldn't adapt immediately. This time, we can only pass through the passage first and then bring the injured Junior Brother Bai back."

Speaking of the junior brother who was usually quite amusing, Jingyi's face finally showed a slight smile.

"However, we need to be more careful about the traps on the way," the tall Qingyun Sect disciple said as he walked cautiously, throwing a chain hammer ahead and causing a loud noise.

After confirming that there were no traps ahead, he let out a sigh of relief. Then, he pulled the long chain hammer back and put it away.

Jingyi, walking in the passage, nodded and said, "However, we are fortunate to have Senior Brother's chain hammer, which has triggered the traps ahead, allowing us to safely reach here."

"Hehe, when I first joined the sect, I didn't expect that choosing this chain hammer as my weapon would come in handy in such a situation," the tall Qingyun Sect disciple said with a hint of pride upon hearing the praise from his fellow disciple.

The tall Qingyun Sect disciple's usual weapon, a chain hammer, is rarely used by people in the martial world, but it has proven quite useful in this trap-filled passage.

With the passage ahead confirmed to be safe, the two slightly quickened their pace. Although the tall Qingyun Sect disciple's chain hammer helped them avoid many traps, they also wasted a lot of time. They needed to speed up to pass through the passage as quickly as possible.

Just as the two were walking on what they thought was a safe section, a very faint sound of a mechanism opening echoed from more than ten feet below the passage.

The sound was so faint and so deep underground that the two did not notice it at all. During this time, more than ten spikes had already risen from the ground beneath their feet, suddenly shooting up from the depths.

...

A quarter of an hour later, a twelve- or thirteen-year-old Qingyun Sect disciple with an innocent and adorable face appeared at the corner of the passage, cautiously examining the passage ahead. His expression changed when he saw something.

Not far ahead in the passage, the female disciple named Jingyi and the tall Qingyun Sect disciple were both impaled by several spikes, their bodies suspended in mid-air by the large spikes, already dead for some time.

The blood flowing from their bodies had stained the ground beneath them red, filling the entire passage with a bloody smell.

However, this very young Qingyun Sect disciple quickly regained his innocent and adorable appearance after seeing the two gruesome corpses.

Next, he walked briskly to the side of the two corpses, looking at their expressions at the moment of death with a regretful expression.

This young Qingyun Sect disciple was clearly the Junior Brother Bai mentioned by the two Qingyun Sect disciples before they died, who had injured his leg and could not keep up. However, judging by his brisk pace now, there was no sign of any leg injury.

This seemingly innocent and adorable Junior Brother Bai had clearly used the excuse of an injured leg to have these two Qingyun Sect disciples clear the way and eliminate dangers for him, and he had achieved his goal.

This young man, who had just joined the Qingyun Sect, though he looked innocent and harmless, had a very deep mind.

"Fortunately, I tricked these two to clear the way and eliminate dangers for me. Otherwise, I would have been the one to die this time," the young man patted his chest, somewhat fearfully.

"However, these two fools only made it this far and died. It seems I will have to take some risks and hurry on my way," the young man sighed, looking at the chain hammer on the ground, picking it up, and thinking.

Throughout, the young man maintained an innocent and harmless expression, showing no sign of guilt for having others die for him.

...

In a large hall at the end of a passage opposite the direction of the cunning young man, a Qingyun Sect disciple looked pale at a pair of massive stone rollers that had collided, filling the entire hall. Between the two stone rollers were the remains of two Qingyun Sect disciples.

The bodies of the two disciples were already mangled and bloody.

The blood and flesh splattered from the two disciples when they were crushed by the stone rollers covered both sides of the hall. Under the pressure of the stone rollers, the two disciples' eyes were bulging as if they were about to burst out of their sockets, their faces twisted in unspeakable agony. The blood and flesh from the two corpses splattered all over the Qingyun Sect disciple's face.

After a long while, he slowly raised his hand to wipe the blood and flesh from his face and then slumped to the ground.

In fact, if this disciple had not been quick to react and happened to stand in the only gap formed by the collision of the two massive stone rollers, he would have been crushed to death like the other two.

After a long while, the disciple finally suppressed his fear, looked at the two corpses of his fellow disciples with a sad expression, and prepared to leave the bloody and terrifying hall.

Then, he walked around the stone rollers and headed for the exit of the hall, reaching out to push the stone door.

"Better to leave this eerie hall first," the Qingyun Sect disciple thought, recalling the instant deaths of his two fellow disciples, his heart trembling.

Just as the Qingyun Sect disciple was about to push the door, his movements suddenly stiffened.

Next, he suddenly felt a chill at his neck, and in a dizzying spin, he saw a headless corpse that looked somewhat familiar flash before his eyes.

"Ah, that's...," the Qingyun Sect disciple thought, his face filled with shock.

This was his last thought in the world, and then his consciousness plunged into eternal darkness.

The headless corpse the Qingyun Sect disciple had just seen was clearly his own.

Dozens of transparent, blade-like threads, stained with blood, flashed with a strange bloodlight behind his headless corpse. However, after the blood dripped off the threads, the transparent threads seemed to blend into the air again, making them undetectable.

At the same time, the body of the Qingyun Sect disciple disintegrated into more than ten pieces of flesh, falling to the ground, and his internal organs spilled out. Only his heart continued to beat on the ground...

As if to prove that the disciple had just died.

The rolling stone trap was actually a double-layered mechanism.

After failing to kill the intruder the first time, it had quietly activated a more lethal mechanism, ultimately killing the Qingyun Sect disciple silently.

This Qingyun Sect disciple, who thought he had escaped, died in shock.