After hearing Bai Cang’s words, Chen Sanliang immediately relaxed, letting go of the last trace of worry in his heart, and his eyes turned toward the direction of the Divine Land: "I cannot let this world fall into the hands of those despicable people! If I don’t let them suffer tribulations, it won’t ease the hatred in my heart."
"Next, we need to pay a visit to Prince Pingbian’s Mansion," Bai Cang said with a smile.
Chen Sanliang’s words gave him a new idea, which allowed him to come up with a better plan.
Inside the tomb’s stone cave
At this moment, the battle had reached a fever pitch. Zhang Chen transformed into water, secretly flowing in the corner of the ground. Soon, he returned to the center of the battlefield, where everyone was engaged in a melee; jade rulers, treasure swords, and flames clashed in the air. Zhang Chen, hiding in a corner, watched the combatants with a keen eye.
"Now that everyone’s in a melee, it’s just the right opportunity for me. I’ll seize the moment to gather all the experience points," a gleam appeared in Zhang Chen’s eyes. The next moment, he transformed into a stream of water and carefully flowed toward the dry pond, also wanting to see what secrets lay below and where the Cursed Demon God had gone, and why it hadn’t emerged yet.
Zhang Chen’s heart was stirred, and the water stream he turned into was about to advance secretly. However, the combatants, with eyes as alert as a hawk’s and ears as sharp as a bat’s, noticed the sudden appearance of an inexplicable stream. Liu Lin sneered coldly, "Where does this fool rushing into the tiger’s den come from, daring to pluck a tiger’s whisker?"
Liu Lin sneered coldly, releasing the jade ruler from his hand, directly smashing toward the water stream Zhang Chen had turned into.
Zhang Chen dared not let the jade ruler hit him. Seeing the ruler glowing with runic light coming towards him, Zhang Chen quickly rolled out of the cave; however, he was ultimately too late.
The jade ruler smashed directly on the water stream Zhang Chen had transformed into. Then Zhang Chen’s skill failed, and he turned back into his original form, lying on the ground with his heart stopping, as if he’d been killed outright by the jade ruler.
In the distance, Zhong Xiang, who was fighting two others, saw Zhang Chen’s dead appearance, his mouth twitching. After several rounds of combat with the two, he knew how troublesome Zhang Chen was.
He didn’t believe Liu Lin could kill Zhang Chen outright with a single ruler!
Though Liu Lin’s divine soul cultivation had reached the level of possession, and he wielded a mysteriously powerful jade ruler, allowing him to contend with a Yin God strong person, Zhong Xiang didn’t believe Liu Lin had the ability to suppress and kill Zhang Chen.
However, Zhong Xiang did not expose this. Now that he and Zhang Chen were temporarily in the same boat, he chose to silently watch from the sidelines.
"Boom~"
Suddenly, a thunderous noise erupted, causing the entire underground space to shake, the underground tomb beginning to collapse, debris falling from above.
Chen Xu’s face changed drastically upon witnessing this scene: "Everyone, stop fighting. The Feng Shui Grand Array has been broken, the magnetic field here is in chaos, and the mechanisms and traps below have lost their mysterious power support. The cave is about to collapse. We should leave quickly! If buried alive here, it will be catastrophic. Although you all have mysterious power for protection, your bodies are still fragile. If hit by the falling stones from the collapsing cave, they will be crushed into flesh pulp. If buried underground, we’ll be doomed to die here."
As Chen Xu finished speaking, the stone walls within the tomb began to crack, one fissure after another appearing on the surrounding stone walls. The entire stone cave shook with intense tremors like an earthquake, sending rocks plummeting from above, startling the trio into constant evasion.
Even the smallest of the falling rocks was the size of a basketball. Apart from Zhong Xiang, the others, though possessing mysterious power, still found their physical forms a burden, exposing a weakness.
Moreover, as the cracks grew larger, the cave’s tremors intensified, and the falling stones increased in size. Should the entire mountain eventually collapse, the largest stones might be unimaginably large, perhaps even causing a mountain’s half peak to cave in. When such stones rain down, everyone present is destined to be crushed to death.
Except for Zhong Xiang, who possesses the Undying Body!
Yet even with Zhong Xiang’s Undying Body, he would be trapped and unable to move when countless stones piled atop him, only to be squeezed into a meat pie, thus buried alive.
"Stop fighting. Why don’t we negotiate the division of this coffin and its spoils?" Liu Lin suggested.
Upon hearing this, Zhong Xiang’s gaze flickered, neither agreeing nor disagreeing, while Mr. Wuliu refused to acquiesce since he considered the coffin and everything within to belong solely to Prince Pingbian’s Mansion. Why should he share? What harm is there if the tomb collapses?
Prince Pingbian’s Mansion could send people later to dig up the tomb from the ruins.
Thus, Mr. Wuliu, surrounded by sword light, was unwilling to stop, determined to force the two out.
Seeing the tomb collapse at an increasing pace, with the mountain’s framework precariously shaking, Liu Lin was the first to lose patience. Swearing "Madman," he turned and sprinted away.
If he ran too slowly, he’d risk being crushed to death here.
Zhong Xiang also swore under his breath, glancing at Mr. Wuliu: "Old coot, if your Prince’s Mansion wants to have it all to yourselves, I’m afraid it’ll shatter your teeth. You likely don’t have the stomach for it."
Finishing his words, Zhong Xiang transformed back into his corporeal form and bolted. As he passed by Zhang Chen’s ’corpse’, he deliberately trampled over Zhang Chen’s ’body,’ stamping Zhang Chen’s face fiercely and causing him to roll his eyes.