Xie Lian was lying on the cold ground, his face covered with a mixture of half crying and half laughing. Bai Wuxiang was standing beside him, seemingly admiring his appearance which was exactly the same as his own.

The mask of joy and sorrow stuck to Xie Lian's face with a strange force, and he couldn't pull it off. Bai Wuxiang said, "Wear it. Don't struggle in vain. Do you want to get out? As long as you do what I say, you can break through the copper furnace quickly."

Xie Lian just pretended he didn't exist.

Bai Wuxiang always gets annoyed by him, but he never gives up. He sighs and says, "We could have been the strongest master and disciple and the best friends. Why do you have to be so rebellious?"

Xie Lian finally stopped and said with disgust: "Don't teach me with the tone of someone who has experienced many vicissitudes of life and knows people's hearts. I really don't want to have a teacher and friend like you at all."

His disdain was already clear, Bai Wuxiang sneered and said: "I know that in your mind, the two people who can teach you are the Imperial Master and Jun Wu, right?"

His tone was strange, as if he was somewhat disdainful and amused. Xie Lian didn't intend to dwell on this with him, and asked something else: "Lang Ying, is he the first prince of Yong'an Kingdom?"

Lang Ying was from Yong'an and had been infected with the human face plague. The young prince was the only candidate Xie Lian could think of. Bai Wuxiang said, "Yes, it was you who chopped Lang Ying's body into pieces, knocked him unconscious, threw him in the Yong'an Palace, and set him on fire."

Prince Yong'an was Lang Ying's nephew. It was probably at that time that the Human Face Plague remaining on Lang Ying's body infected him. Xie Lian asked again, "Why didn't his Human Face Plague spread to others?"

Bai Wuxiang said, "Because the people in Yong'an Palace found out that he was sick. In order to prevent him from infecting others, they sent someone to suffocate him with a quilt, but he fought back and escaped."

Yong'an announced to the public that the King and the Crown Prince of Yong'an had died of a serious illness, but internally, a strife broke out and Lang Ying's other nephew was made the Crown Prince. This was Lang Qianqiu's ancestor.

Xie Lian asked, “How did you trick him?”

Bai Wuxiang said: "I didn't lie to him. I just told him the truth about who was the culprit who turned him into this monster. As long as he lends me something, I will avenge him."

Xie Lian said, “You call this lending you something? You swallowed it whole as if it were nutrients.”

Bai Wuxiang said calmly: "He looks like neither a human nor a ghost. No one will treat him sincerely. It would be a torture for him to stay in this world."

Suddenly, Xie Lian asked, “Your Highness?”

“…”

For a moment, Xie Lian felt that the thing wanted to respond, but he held back.

So, Xie Lian asked again tentatively: "You, must be Prince Wuyong."

As soon as he said this, he felt the stuffy air in the copper furnace solidify instantly.

From the moment Xie Lian fell in, he had been thinking about this question.

The reason why he could understand the human language spoken by the corpse-eating rat must be because one of the three, Jun Wu, the national teacher, and Bai Wuxiang, implanted a certain memory and feeling in him. In other words, at least one of these three people is from Wuyong. Jun Wu was born later than the destruction of Wuyong, so the national teacher and Bai Wuxiang are the most suspicious.

Why was Hua Cheng refused to enter the Bronze Furnace? It was not because he was Jue, because Xie Lian had confirmed with him that a Ghost King who had become Jue could also enter the Bronze Furnace again, just like a priest who had ascended to heaven could be punished again. But he still disappeared halfway. The most direct reason Xie Lian could think of was that this Bronze Furnace obeyed Bai Wuxiang's orders!

So, what role will Bai Wuxiang most likely play?

After a long while, there was a dead silence in the darkness. Xie Lian repeated affirmatively: "You are Crown Prince Wuyong."

Finally, Bai Wuxiang was no longer silent.

He suddenly grabbed Xie Lian, his palm wind was extremely fierce, this time, it was Xie Lian's turn to dodge. He jumped up, dodging and said: "Your Highness, let me ask you a question, why do you never show your true face to others?"

Bai Wuxiang said in a deep voice: "Your Highness, I warn you not to call me that."

Xie Lian said, “You can call me Your Highness, so why can’t I call you that? Since you didn’t answer, I made my own guess. There are only two reasons why you don’t want others to see your true face. Either you are someone I know, or I don’t know you, but as long as I see your real face, I can easily find out who you are; or, your true appearance is extremely ugly, so ugly that even you can’t stand it! For example…”

With two "crackling" sounds, a sharp pain came from his arm. Bai Wuxiang twisted his arm fiercely and said, "Prince, oh prince, if I am a little more friendly to you, will you feel that you don't need to be afraid of me?"

The voice was filled with chills. In the midst of the severe pain, Xie Lian remained conscious. Bai Wuxiang seemed to be really angry. He held the black sword in one hand, approached Xie Lian, and asked, "You named this sword Fang Xin?"

Watching the sharp blade getting closer and closer to his throat, Xie Lian remained expressionless and said, “Is it not possible?”

Bai Wuxiang snorted, "You don't even know how to name something. Listen carefully, the original name of this sword is 'Zhu Xin'."

Suddenly, Xie Lian opened his eyes wide and asked, “Who?!”

Bai Wuxiang did not even turn his head and said, "Do you still want to use this trick on me that you use on children?"

“…” Xie Lian was surprised and asked, “You…didn’t you notice?”

Bai Wuxiang said coldly: "There is nothing, what am I going to find?"

He didn't notice it, but Xie Lian did.

Just now, Fang Xin's sword reflected the fire on the ground, and the fire flashed across the stone wall above the two of them. At this moment, Xie Lian saw a face.

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Xie Lian dared to guarantee that he was definitely not mistaken. What he saw was definitely a human face, a huge human face!

Bai Wuxiang’s cultivation is only higher than Xie Lian’s, not lower. How could he not have noticed?

Unless...it is something more terrifying than Bai Wuxiang!

He saw that face for too short a time, but the vision remained in his memory. That face had all the features, and... it looked familiar. Xie Lian felt a little terrified and said, "There's something else in the copper furnace!"

Bai Wuxiang said, "Inside the copper furnace, besides you and me, there are only stones and magma."

Xie Lian was about to say something else, but suddenly he thought to himself, “Wait… stone? Face? Looks familiar?”

With a flash of inspiration, he suddenly realized what he was seeing.

I see!

As soon as he understood, Xie Lian quickly formed seals with his hands behind his back. Bai Wuxiang noticed his unusual movements and said, "It's useless. Even if you..."

Unexpectedly, before they finished speaking, there was a loud creaking sound from behind them. At the same time, rocks and dirt fell like a rainstorm!

Bai Wuxiang sensed something was coming towards him, and dodged quickly. He dodged really fast, no one could move faster than him, and he should have dodged it perfectly, but unfortunately, the thing that attacked him was too huge. @无限好文，尽在Jinjiang文学城

It was a giant hand, with five fingers clenched into a fist, smashing down heavily - hitting Bai Wuxiang right on the spot!

This hand is a giant rock hand.

It was so big that a fist alone was as big as a large house. The fire on the ground could only illuminate this part, and the part above the wrist was completely immersed in darkness.

Amid the sound of rolling stones, it turned its hand towards Xie Lian, with its palm facing up. Although it was huge, its fingers were long and slender, with thin knuckles, which could pick up flowers or hold a sword. Xie Lian snatched the sword, rolled off the ground, and jumped onto the palm. Just as the hand was about to lift him up, Xie Lian suddenly remembered that he had forgotten something, and hurriedly said, "Wait!" He jumped down again to grab the bamboo hat, and jumped up again. Then, the giant hand rose up, getting farther and farther away from the fire. Xie Lian also felt that it was rising higher and higher. He formed seals with his hands again and said, "Charge out!"

At the command, he felt a slight sense of falling, as if the giant holding him slightly bent his knees in preparation. The next moment, he felt his whole body suddenly sink, and the giant soared into the sky and crashed into the closed crater of the copper furnace!

Boom! Boom! Boom!

Along with the violent vibration, Xie Lian heard a very obvious "cracking" sound.

That was the sound of the rock unable to withstand the fierce impact and about to break!

Then, a ray of white light poured down from above.

Rushed out!

The roof of the copper furnace was broken, and a large amount of dazzling white light poured out like a waterfall. A strong wind swept in, howling.

Xie Lian stood on the giant's palm, holding his hat with one hand and shielding his face from the oncoming blizzard with the other. The stuffy air was swept away, and he took a deep breath of the cold and fresh air, and shouted loudly: "Sanlang——!!!"

The echo of the first sound was still echoing when he was suddenly pulled into an embrace by a pair of hands. Xie Lian froze for a moment, then lowered his head. A red sleeve and silver wristband were wrapped around his waist, and then he relaxed. A deep voice said in his ear: "...I'm going crazy!"

Hearing this, Xie Lian quickly turned around, cupped his cheeks with both hands and consoled him, “Don’t be crazy, don’t be crazy, I’m already out!”

It was Huacheng. Huacheng’s black hair was messy, and his eyes were a little dazed. He took off the sad and happy mask that Xie Lian couldn’t take off and threw it away. Xie Lian didn’t know why he held his cheeks with both hands, but he did it subconsciously, probably to comfort him, or maybe because he was afraid that his face would be frozen by the wind and snow. After all, as long as Xie Lian stayed in this copper furnace, Huacheng must have been guarding this crater for as long.

They all went in together, but one of them was suddenly thrown out. They had no idea what was going on inside. Wouldn't that drive them crazy?

Hua Cheng hugged Xie Lian tightly and said in a deep voice: "...I can't get into the copper furnace no matter what, and I actually let you get out by yourself! I really am..."

Xie Lian hurriedly said, “Sanlang is fine, he’s really fine! Besides, I didn’t get out of here by myself!”

Hua Cheng finally calmed down a little and asked, "What? Brother, how did you get out?"

Xie Lian said, “You helped me get out. Look.”

As he spoke, he pointed upwards, and Hua Cheng looked in the direction he pointed.

In the midst of the snow, a giant statue carved from rock was seen with frost all over its face. It seemed to stand tall and upright. At this moment, the two of them were standing on the palm of the giant stone statue.

The stone statue has a soft face, long eyebrows, beautiful eyes, nice lips, and a slightly raised mouth, as if smiling. He talks a lot but is not frivolous, and he is silent but not cold. He has a compassionate and handsome face.

——It was Xie Lian’s face!

Xie Lian looked up at its face and whispered, “This is the best statue you carved, right?”

“…”

Hua Cheng also looked up at it for a long time, then his eyes fell back on Xie Lian beside him and said, "Hmm."

This gigantic rock statue must have been carved by Hua Cheng when he was trapped in the copper furnace, undergoing countless trials and tribulations and in great pain.

For hundreds of years, it has been hiding in the darkness deep inside the Tonglu, partly covered by green ivy. The Tonglu is its natural and sinister cave, and it is the only god in this most spectacular cave.

It is integrated with the copper furnace and is made of the same material. Otherwise, if it was just a statue carved out of ordinary rock, it would not be able to break through the copper furnace and would only shatter bones; and if it was not Xie Lian himself, or if Hua Cheng did not give Xie Lian a strong enough wave of magic power before they jumped down, it would not be possible to summon this statue.

Xie Lian turned to Hua Cheng and said, “So, San Lang, I’m out. You and I got out together.”