Volume 2: Jade Promise Chapter 180: There is no way out when the car reaches the mountain
Tang Zheng did not ask any more questions , because Xu Qingyan had made it clear when they first met that he would not risk his life for Tang Zheng. If he was really unwell, he would not be polite and would immediately withdraw midway.
But Xu Qingyan had already taken into account the route, the Underworld Palace, the Gate of Life and Death, and so on, so he should have an estimation of his physical condition.
However, in Tang Zheng's opinion, all of them were fine, and only Xu Qingyan suddenly had health problems, which was a bit weird.
The group walked inside the tomb passage, which suddenly became wider and a row of doors appeared on both sides.
"Is the Hades Palace behind these doors?" Tang Xiaotang asked.
"Don't worry about it, they are just accompanying the tomb." Xu Qingyan stopped Ning Mo and others who wanted to go in and take a closer look, and walked forward again, "One, two, three, four..."
Tang Xiaotang blinked and wanted to ask Xu Qingyan what he was counting, but she was afraid of disturbing him and making him count wrong, so she suppressed her curiosity for the time being and did not ask.
Xu Qingyan counted all the way and said, "Nineteen pairs of tomb chambers..."
There was no expression on his face, but there was a hint of doubt in his voice.
"What's the problem?" Tang Zheng asked.
"No...it's just that nineteen pairs of tomb-mates are a bit too many." Xu Qingyan shook his head, "Go on."
Since it was a harmless detail, no one paid attention to it. After passing through this passage, they continued to move forward.
Xu Qingyan's pace is getting slower and slower...
In fact, he himself could clearly feel that the further he walked, the more uncomfortable he felt all over his body, and the sweat on his body was pouring down like rain.
However, this change is not a sudden increase, but a gradual accumulation.
In addition, Xu Qingyan continued to adjust his breathing, so the condition of Xu Qingyan that Tang Zheng and the others saw was relatively stable.
After passing through the passage to the tombs, the cemetery suddenly began to slope.
Go down level by level, nine steps at a time...
Although the stars behind Tang Zheng and the others were still bright, the feeling of constantly going down without knowing where the end was still made people feel a little uneasy.
With a "thump", Xu Qingyan stumbled and fell to the ground when he was walking down a step.
Of course, he immediately got up and said calmly, "Let's go."
But Tang Xiaotang, who was closest to Xu Qingyan, was startled when she touched his arm, which was almost dripping with sweat, when she helped him up. She tried her best to suppress her voice and not shout out loud: "Xu Qingyan... I'm not kidding you, what's wrong with you?"
In fact, other people had wanted to ask this question a long time ago, but Xu Qingyan was always talking about "business" and no one interrupted him.
Now that Tang Xiaotang asked, everyone else's attention was focused on Xu Qingyan.
Tang Zheng clearly saw that the corner of Xu Qingyan's eyes twitched slightly.
Although this action was very subtle, it was considered a big move for Xu Qingyan, who usually had no expression on his face.
"I...can't use star power." Xu Qingyan answered calmly, as if he had never intended to hide it.
"Huh?" Tang Xiaotang looked at Xu Qingyan and found that the stars behind him did not rise.
"But why is it that you can't use the star power?" Leng Zhan asked Xu Qingyan with a pair of cold eyes.
"I don't know. Maybe an ancestor with the same constellation as me once had a feud with Leng Xianyuan?" Xu Qingyan was not good at telling jokes. Even if he said something like this in a joking manner , the effect would be very stereotyped.
"Maybe." Unexpectedly, although Leng Zhan's thinking process was different from his, he also came to a similar conclusion.
Leng Zhan's gaze swept over Xu Qingyan, but Xu Qingyan continued to move forward without changing his expression.
After looking for a while, Leng Zhan gave up looking because the road ahead was getting narrower and narrower, and the stairs going down were getting steeper, making it inconvenient to walk.
"No! There is a wall ahead..." They walked for about half an hour, but at the end of the stairs going down, they saw a wall!
How could it be a wall?
Following the path Xu Qingyan pointed out, this should be the Underworld Palace!
But all they saw was a wall...
"Let me try." Ning Mo thought it was another mirror illusion at the entrance, so he walked towards the wall, but ended up getting rejected.
Under the illumination of the stars in the fate palaces of so many people, the entire image of the wall gradually emerged in everyone's sight.
The entire wall was dark red, like jade but not jade, like stone but not stone. There seemed to be bloodstains on it that had dried for who knows how many years, but it was not certain whether the things that looked like bloodstains were the patterns of the jade itself.
"Mr. Xu?" Everyone turned around and looked at Xu Qingyan.
In front of the wall, Xu Qingyan took three steps back and fell to the ground again, with his palms on the ground and his head buried in his chest. His heavy and long breathing could be faintly heard.
Although Xu Qingyan had been Tang Xiaotang's archenemy for more than a decade, his physical condition still made Tang Xiaotang a little worried: "Xu Qingyan...why don't you go out first?"
"We can get here, so we shouldn't have taken the wrong road. This is the only road we've come this far, and there are no other forks." Jiang Wuyan said.
"Yes, I came in through the main door." Ning Mo nodded.
Xu Qingyan shook his head, raised his head, and uttered a word with difficulty: "Push!"
Tang Zheng originally thought that Xu Qingyan would do as written in those novels, calculate and then find out where the mechanism is on the wall, or recite a spell like "Open Sesame"...
As a result, I didn’t expect that the cemetery in Xingyao Continent was built so simply and crudely?
push!
The wall is built by pushing?
Unexpectedly, just when Tang Zheng thought this method was simple and crude, Xu Qingyan seemed to have exhausted all his strength and uttered six words: "If you can't push it, smash it!"
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Tang Zheng was trying to push the wall, because he could not feel any fluctuation of star power on the wall, which meant that the wall was not made up of an array.
Most of the mechanisms on the Xingyao Continent rely on formations. Those exquisite handmade mechanisms may be very effective for people without star power, but in front of star cultivators, they are basically a pile of scrap metal. Therefore, it is a common sense that mechanisms rely on engraved formations.
So, this wall can only be pushed.
Tang Zheng stood in the middle of the wall, took a deep breath, circulated the sticky star power, and slowly gathered the power in his palms.
The palms, which were filled with great strength, slammed into the wall, causing Tang Zheng's palms to hurt...
However, there was not even a mark left on the wall, not even a vibration!
"Smash it?" Leng Zhan looked at the wall as if he was looking at a pile of rubble.
"Wait a minute..." Tang Zheng looked at the wall, " If we find the right fulcrum, we should be able to push it! If we smashed it, what we see now should have been a big hole."
"Yes, Li Zhi and the others are ahead of us." Jiang Wuyan nodded.
"But what is that...focus point you mentioned? Well, the focus point, how do you find it?" Tang Xiaotang asked.
"That's the first problem we have to solve today!" Tang Zheng tapped Tang Xiaotang's head.
They entered the tomb from the main gate and had almost no obstruction or difficulty.
Not to mention any attacks, the ground of the cemetery was so clean that there wasn't even a speck of rat shit, as if someone was cleaning it carefully every day!
And this wall is the first obstacle standing in their way.
