Chapter 95

The cultivator surnamed Feng looked at the bones and sighed deeply again: "With this Ghost Spirit Array, as long as it doesn't attract cultivators, combined with the numerous traps and mechanisms set up in this underground palace, even if ordinary people accidentally discover this place and enter, they will never return. However, it seems I was overly cautious back then. In these two hundred years, no one has entered this underground palace under the protection of the Ghost Spirit Array."

This person looked at the bones scattered on the floor of the hall, sighing over the past, but suddenly frowned slightly, looking at the neat fracture on one of the bones, his face gradually showing a very strange expression.

Not long after, the cultivator surnamed Feng left this hall and quickly entered the stone door leading to the maze passage.

Standing in front of the maze passage, he paused for a moment, then stepped into the maze entrance, turned a few corners, and disappeared from sight.

Since the cultivator surnamed Feng entered the maze passage, two hours quickly passed.

In a small hall within the maze, Ding Qi was examining the situation inside.

After deciding to explore the maze alone, Ding Qi did not directly use the silver handkerchief to cut through the walls and advance towards the inner layers of the maze in a simple way.

Since Ding Qi wanted to search the maze thoroughly, he naturally had to check every place in the maze to see if there was anything there.

The small hall he was currently in was one of many he had discovered during his exploration of the maze.

Ding Qi quickly searched through the small hall, leaving it empty.

"Just like the places I passed through before, there's nothing here either," Ding Qi shook his head in disappointment, left the small hall, and walked towards a corner ahead.

Ding Qi had been deep in the maze for quite some time. Although he searched the underground palace thoroughly during this period, he had now entered the deepest part of the maze again.

But so far, he had found nothing, which inevitably made him somewhat disappointed.

In the time that followed, Ding Qi continued to walk a distance through the maze. During this period, he encountered two changes in the maze passages.

One of these changes even sent Ding Qi a distance back, delivering him to an area of the maze he had already explored.

This forced Ding Qi to use the silver handkerchief to break through the walls of the maze ahead, allowing him to return to the area he was originally exploring.

After this period of re-exploration, Ding Qi gained a more detailed understanding of the maze's transformation patterns.

Although the mechanisms and traps changed frequently, Ding Qi discovered that they would only move in a straight line in one of the directions: forward, backward, up, or down.

After figuring this out, Ding Qi could basically deduce which direction the maze had transported him to by carefully examining the surrounding environment after a transformation. After that, he could use the silver handkerchief or his innate power to return to the area he was originally exploring.

This time, Ding Qi used the silver handkerchief in his hand to cut through the walls ahead, returning to the area he was originally exploring.

Just as Ding Qi returned to his original location and was about to start exploring the next part of the maze, he suddenly looked towards a nearby place and frowned slightly.

Soon, a sound of footsteps came from that direction.

Several figures appeared near the corner of the maze not far away.

"The people from the Qingyun Sect," Ding Qi muttered to himself when he saw those figures.

After several hours of entering the maze, the Qingyun Sect, with its ample manpower, explored the maze faster than Ding Qi.

Despite starting their exploration later, some disciples of the Qingyun Sect had already reached the area where Ding Qi was.

When Ding Qi saw those Qingyun Sect members, they also saw him.

These Qingyun Sect members were taken aback when they saw Ding Qi, stopping in their tracks, and their faces showed a look of surprise, as if they had encountered something unexpected.

Ding Qi, looking at these Qingyun Sect members with strange expressions, was also surprised to meet Qingyun Sect disciples here, and he was momentarily stunned.

However, when he saw the eyes of these Qingyun Sect disciples, which gradually changed from surprise to joy, Ding Qi seemed to realize something.

"This spy of the Tianquan Sect was actually encountered by us," one of the ordinary-looking male disciples said, staring straight at Ding Qi with a joyful expression.

A very muscular Qingyun Sect disciple beside him also smiled: "Patriarch Zuo said that we should kill this person on sight, right?"

The last person not far from Ding Qi, looking at him with interest, said: "The great merit promised by Patriarch Zuo will likely be shared among the three of us."

While these three were talking, they also moved to surround Ding Qi, as if afraid he would run away.

Ding Qi, looking at the three people surrounding him, showed a bitter smile: "So those two arranged this charge for me."

After seeing the strange expressions on the faces of the Qingyun Sect disciples, Ding Qi had already guessed. Now, after hearing the brief conversation of the Qingyun Sect disciples, he understood everything.

Ding Qi looked at the people surrounding him with a helpless sigh, but his eyes gradually turned cold.

These Qingyun Sect disciples completely ignored Ding Qi's strange behavior, treating him as an easy and significant achievement.

In their minds, although Ding Qi was a spy of the Tianquan Sect, he clearly did not seem to have any cultivation, just an ordinary person.

With the skills of three Qingyun Sect disciples, capturing Ding Qi was more than enough.

However, at the same time, Ding Qi's eyes looked as if they were dead.

Ding Qi looked at the three people in front of him and then at the maze passage he still needed to explore. He did not want to waste time on them. He shook his head, gave them a final glance, and before they could get closer, Ding Qi's figure instantly disappeared from their sight, reappearing behind them.

The three people who were originally surrounding Ding Qi were stunned, their mouths wide open, as they saw Ding Qi disappear from their sight.

Before they could understand what had happened, Ding Qi's fingers silently touched the back of their heads.

They felt a sudden darkness and lost consciousness completely.

Then, the three bodies fell to the ground with a thud.

After a long time, red and white substances slowly flowed out of their seven orifices.

Ding Qi looked at the three lifeless bodies on the ground, shook his head, and finally walked deeper into the maze.