Mountains and rivers are waiting for you to return

Chapter 157: Checkmate
Under the leadership of Grandma Axun, they quickly went down three levels and reached the seventeenth area.

I don’t know if it was because they were traveling too fast but they didn’t meet any other companions along the way.

However, they encountered three mutated monsters, all of which were quickly killed by Pei Nai.

Just as they were about to reach the entrance of the eighteenth domain, Daxian suddenly made a gesture and called them to stop.

Pei Na looked at him in confusion.

Daxian pointed in the distance and tapped his ears, meaning that he heard some subtle noises.

Daxian's hearing has always been very good, and Pei Nai has no doubt about it.

"What's that sound?" Pei Nai lowered his voice to a very low level, almost lip syncing.

Da Xian lay on the ground, listening to the sounds in the distance, then opened his eyes, stood up and whispered to them, "Wu people."

"Are there many people?" Pei Nai asked silently.

Daxian nodded seriously.

"Shall we wait until they leave before going over?" Pei Nai used his mouth and fingers to express his meaning to them.

Daxian shook his head and mouthed, "They are guarding there."

"Why?" Pei Nai frowned and wondered.

Grandma Axun had been watching from the side and whispered, "Because that is the entrance to the Eighteenth Domain."

"How insidious." Pei Nai sighed softly, "Then let's rush over? I'll take care of them."

She was about to leave when Daxian grabbed her arm.

Daxian shook his head anxiously: "I'm worried there's a trap."

"Then let's show our heads and see if they come over," Pei Nai suggested. "If they remain where they are and don't chase us, it means there's an ambush there."

Da Xian thought for a moment and hesitated.

But now they were anxious to go downstairs, and had no better way, so they finally agreed.

The two of them walked in front. Pei Nai was worried about the two heroes, so he asked Da Xian's guards to protect Grandma Xun from behind.

When they reached the corner of the road, Pei Nai and Da Xian looked at each other, nodded, and stood out together.

There were no prepared arrows ahead, nor did they see any mechanical devices.

There were only a dozen or so Wu soldiers standing, leaning, or sitting in the middle of the stone corridor, surrounding the entrance to the eighteenth domain, waiting for something. When they saw their figures, they stood up one after another.

Everyone's face was dull and pale, and there was a sense of panic as if death was approaching.

What are they afraid of?
This was Pei Nai's first reaction.

The leader of the team of Wu soldiers walked to the front of the team and shouted something to them in Wu language.

Pei Nai didn't understand, so he looked at Da Xian beside him.

Da Xian translated for her immediately: "He asked you if you were the one who chased the Northern Spear from the Three Mountains?"

"Ah? Should I tell him then?" Pei Nai didn't understand.

Da Xian didn't let her feel confused and directly replied to the Wu general on the opposite side with a few words of authentic Wu dialect.

Pei Nai was stunned when he heard this. He marveled at the education of the Qilu royal family and asked, "What did you say?"

"I say, if it were Zhubei Qiang, we would have gone up and killed them long ago." Da Xian explained.

Pei Nai didn't even need to ask him why he denied it.

He was worried that the Wu people had set a trap specifically for her.

Da Xi'an looked at her face and said in a voice that only the two of them could hear: "Take care of yourself and be careful of the water. If anything goes wrong, cover your mouth and nose and run back. I'll cover your rear."

But there was no time for him to come and save the beauty.

Because a Wu soldier in the distance saw the Lingyue Spear behind Pei Nai, and walked up and whispered something to their general.

Immediately afterwards, the Wu clan general's face suddenly changed and he cursed a few words in the Wu clan language.

"They guessed it." Daxian frowned, not knowing the other party's purpose. The eyes of the Wu people were all focused on a soldier in the middle, watching him take out a horn from his bag.

This time, Pei Nai and Da Xian couldn't help but curse.

"Suicide in exchange for life, a fight to the bitter end?" Pei Nai said angrily.

Daxian changed the language again and shouted something in the Wu language to the other side.

The Wu clan general was as calm as if facing death. He uttered two sentences at last, then raised his fist and patted the armor on his chest, looking as if he was ready to die.

All the Wu soldiers behind him raised their fists and hit their armor hard.

The sound was deafening, and it made Pei Nai's heart tremble violently.

No longer alive?
"He said that for the sake of the Wu clan, for the sake of the Wu clan's god, and for the sake of the Xihan Sword, their sacrifice was worth it to kill Zhubei Spear and the Second Prince of Qilu." Da Xian stopped Pei Nai with his hand, preparing to pull her back.

Before he finished speaking, the Wu soldiers blew their horns.

The loud and high-pitched roar echoed throughout the entire slide.

In an instant, the earth rumbled and the rocks shook.

Countless unknown mutated monsters heard the sound and rushed towards this place.

"Are you crazy? These bastards." Daxian was furious as he listened to the noise coming from all directions.

Pei Nai's hearing was much worse than his, and he couldn't tell the situation around him. "Let's get out of the way first. Is there any way to go?"

Da Xian shook his head and said quickly: "There are countless monsters on every road. Once we encounter obstacles, we will be surrounded!"

Pei Nai had already seen several deformed creatures crawling towards him from the end of the road behind him.

Da Xian made a quick judgment and suddenly calmed down. "There are fewer monsters in the Eighteenth Domain. If we kill the Wu tribe and rush down, there may be a glimmer of hope!"

However, at this time, the alien monsters on the slide level had been angered by the sound of the horn.

In their violent state, their movement speed was far beyond Pei Nai and Daxian's imagination.

Pei Nai and his men were just about to set off when they saw that behind the Wu tribe troops on the opposite side, a dense crowd of alien monsters were jostling and shoving in chaos, and were pressing towards them in an overwhelming manner.

The sound of the impact was terrifying.

The two friends were already in a state of panic. They asked anxiously, "What should we do?"

Pei Nai looked down at his feet, "Da Xian, step back."

Da Xian suddenly understood her plan, took a big step back and made way for her on the main road.

"Thank you for the gift from Gu Jinheng." Pei Nai drew his gun and spun it in the air.

If it weren't for his great care, even the birthday gift for her after her death was made of priceless Gongshan black stone, they would be facing a situation of certain death.

She held the gun with both hands, gathering all her internal strength.

The tip of the blade, as sharp as jade, pointed straight down, cutting Jingfeng with a tremendous force.

Where the gun pointed, the indestructible stone wall seemed to have been decayed by thousands of years, and a deep stone pit was dug out from the center.

The cracks gradually exploded outwards with a thunderous sound.

The deformed monster in the distance has already leapt over the entrance to the eighteenth realm.

The Wu people who were still breathing and staring at them with their eyes open had their flesh and blood torn to pieces in an instant.

Under the irresistible force of nature, life is as thin as a hanging thread and fragile beyond touch.

What a despairing picture that is?
Bloody fireworks exploded in the passage under the impact of countless horrific alien monsters, flesh splattered everywhere, as if one was in hell.

The oppression makes humans' limbs become limp and all hopelessness disappears.

Pei Nai gritted his teeth and raised his gun to strike again. The muscles in his arms were slightly torn and he was in great pain.

Too hard! Is this the meteorite layer inside the 21st Domain? Compared to it, gold and stone are as brittle as glass.

But she only had a few moments.
The spear split the ground and broke the rocks, sending up clouds of dust. The string in her mind was stretched to the limit and was about to break.

(End of this chapter)