Starting from helping someone rob a wedding, he was forced to hide in the Sunset Sect

The secret realm of the great tomb, the third level.

Xia Xiaomo held the scabbard and looked at the two one-horned evil demons coming from afar. This was one of the most common monsters on the third level of the Tomb Secret Realm. It had a huge head with a single horn like a sharp stone, and a long and thin tail that swung up and down with the movement.

Most of the one-horned demons are in the early stage of the foundation-building stage.

Facing two one-horned demons leaping towards her, Xia Xiaomo took a step sideways and dodged to the side and back of the right demon. The demon showed its mouth full of sharp fangs and swung its claws at her.

She swung out the scabbard, which neither blocked the demon's claws nor deflected them. Instead, her entire hand flew into the air and the demon's entire hand was chopped off!

The evil demon was startled and continued to scream. Xia Xiaomo hit the evil demon on the chest with the scabbard of the sword. It flew out and directly hit another one-horned evil demon.

Before the evil demons who caught their companions could steady their steps, the girl's scabbard had already arrived in front of them. The scabbard directly pierced through the two one-horned evil demons. They let out a scream before dying and then lost their breath.

After Xia Xiaomo put away the scabbard, she came to Xu Yeyu in the corner, approached the wall curiously, and observed the pattern on the wall intently. The pattern was composed of countless tiny lines interlaced to form an intricate path. Some lines extended straight, forming a maze-like structure.

In front of them was an iron gate with a huge door lock on it and buttons with numbers engraved on it, from one to nine. Each line represented a number from one to nine, and the intersection of these lines corresponded exactly to the number buttons on the combination lock.

Well, Xia Xiaomo admitted that she couldn't understand the patterns. She only figured out that it was a six-digit password. She turned to Xu Yeyu and asked, "Have you been here before?"

"I just passed by and didn't take a close look at this pattern and formation."

The girl in white thought for a moment and asked, "Then do you know what the password is?"

"In fact, I understand this formation, and I also understand the code represented by this pattern." Xu Yeyu sighed, "But it's useless, it's useless at all!"

Xia Xiaomo was puzzled. Why was it useless even though she understood the formation and the password?

"Why do you say that? If we understand the code represented by the pattern, shouldn't we be able to crack this formation?"

"Because the four and six buttons on the door lock are broken." Xu Yeyu scratched his head, "I looked at it for a long time, but I didn't expect the button was broken. Isn't this bullying?"

Xia Xiaomo walked up and pressed each button. Just as Xu Yeyu said, there was no response when pressing four and six.

"So what should we do? Take a detour?"

She was about to take out the map and look at it, but Xu Yeyu stopped her from doing so.

"Miss Xia, we can't bear this. Cut down this door!"

The girl in white thought she had heard it wrong. This iron gate was obviously protected by a formation. Could she, who was at the Foundation Establishment stage, destroy this formation?

She just stared at Xu Yeyu, wondering whether it was you who was going to chop him or me.

"No need to look at me like that, Miss Xia, make your move!"

Xia Xiaomo came to the iron gate with the scabbard in her hand. She still felt something was not right. She looked back at Xu Yeyu, hoping he would say something else, such as where on the door was the most vulnerable and whether it should be cut horizontally or vertically.

There was silence for a long time. Neither of them spoke. They just looked at each other, which made the girl in white feel shy.

"Is there anything I need to pay attention to?"

"This door is hard, use more force."

Xia Xiaomo turned her head and decided to believe his words. She swung out the scabbard, which cut through the air with subtle momentum and sharpness, making a crisp sound.

As the sword sheath was swung out, a barely visible crack suddenly appeared on the door. With a crisp sound, the crack extended along the iron door, quickly expanding into an increasingly larger gap.

The fragments flew everywhere, making a dull crashing sound when they landed on the ground. Dust spread all over the place. The girl waved her hand gently to brush away the dust.

"It's that simple?"

Xia Xiaomo still found it unbelievable. Was it so easy to break the formation?

“It’s that simple.”

"Then why did you spend so much time here trying to crack the code? Why not just tear down the door?"

"You can't say that. We have to respect the person who designed this decryption and formation. He designed it so that we can crack the decryption and move on." Xu Yeyu said with a smile, "If possible, I really don't want to dismantle it. I can't crack the decryption and then take a detour because I can't enter the password."

Xia Xiaomo thought to herself, but you look like you don’t want to take it down.

As time went by, they continued to move forward, exploring the mysterious tomb, and every step was full of surprises.

What was surprising was that the exploration of the maze progressed extremely quickly. The mechanisms encountered along the way became more and more complicated, but Xu Yeyu could successfully solve them every time. Xia Xiaomo speculated that the time spent each time might not be as long as it took her to make a pot of hot tea.

The girl swung the scabbard, and the wolves in front of her fell directly to the ground. The fighting of monsters was left to Xia Xiaomo, and the decryption was left to Xu Yeyu. The two formed a tacit combination.

"How do you know there are mechanisms and formations in these places?"

Logically speaking, no matter how proficient Xu Yeyu is in the art of formations, it is impossible for him to discover a formation that is hidden so deeply at this level, right?

"I was born with a natural sense for formations, and it's easy for me to find where there are formations."

"So that's it."

Xia Xiaomo recalled the books she had read in the sect before. She had read a book about special Taoist bodies, but it didn't seem to record the Taoist body with the characteristics that Xu Yeyu mentioned. Could it be that this was just a talent rather than a special Taoist body?

Xu Yeyu said it casually, but he didn't expect the girl in front of him to believe it. He smiled and said, "What I just said was all false. I was just kidding you. I know more about formations, so I can find these."

Xia Xiaomo came back to her senses and clenched her fists. They became hard.

It's actually fake!

Xu Yeyu did not notice that the girl in white behind him had clenched her fists. He picked up the last few pieces of the puzzle and now came to the final step to unlock the formation. After the formation was triggered, fifty pieces of the puzzle appeared. The fifty pieces needed to be put in a certain order to create a new path.

"Miss Xia, can you help me pick up the knife?"

Xia Xiaomo looked in the direction he directed, and saw a small knife deeply inserted into the head of a giant spider in the distance. Blood was oozing from the handle of the knife, and the spider was killed with one blow.

She walked over, picked up the knife, came to Xu Yeyu and gave it to him, wondering in confusion when he had just thrown the knife away?

Xu Yeyu took out the kettle and took a sip of tea, then said with a smile, "Finally I have finished it."

Xia Xiaomo waited for a while, but no changes occurred where they were, and no stone wall suddenly disappeared.

"It seems that no new passage has appeared. Is this puzzle piece wrong?"

"There is definitely no problem with this puzzle, it just lacks the last step."

He used a knife to pierce the pattern that had just been put together on the wall, and a mysterious secret door suddenly appeared in front of them. The pattern on the door exuded an ancient and mysterious atmosphere.

After the pattern is assembled, you have to break it to open the next channel.

Xia Xiaomo wondered if some monks had come here before and put the puzzle together, but who would have thought that they would have to destroy the puzzle to create this secret door.

Xu Yeyu didn't move forward. He went to the corner and sat on a flat floor.

The girl's eyes were full of confusion. She didn't know why Xu Yeyu didn't push the door open and move forward. Could it be that this secret door would open automatically and she would have to wait for a while?

"Miss Xia, interpreting the formation is very exhausting. I need to rest for a while." He stretched his waist. "This is a safe area. The monsters will not attack us. This is the best place to rest."

Xu Yeyu was not very tired, he just felt a little sleepy. It was already the middle of the night outside. In the past, he would have fallen asleep under a tree at this time. Sleeping had become a habit for him.

Xu Yeyu leaned his head against the wall, his body gradually relaxed, and his eyes slightly closed.

He fell asleep.

Xia Xiaomo stood quietly beside him, watching him gradually fall asleep. The elders in the sect once told her that when cooperating with other cultivators outside the sect, she could only believe half of what they said and always be wary of others, especially those independent cultivators who had not joined the sect.

Was the man in front of her too defenseless, or was he very confident in his own character? She shook her head and decided not to think about it. She thought of other things.

Along the way, Xu Yeyu's progress in cracking the formation and decrypting the information was so fast that if the secret realm of the tomb had not restricted cultivators above the third realm, she would have thought that Xu Yeyu was some powerful person.

He must have been to some places before, but according to him, that iron door lock was the first time he came there, and yet he still cracked it so quickly.

You can't just say you know a little bit about formations, right? Who are you?

Xia Xiaomo looked up at the mysterious secret door, then looked at Xu Yeyu who had fallen asleep.

She also sat down and leaned against the wall, feeling the coolness brought by the wall. She closed her eyes, her thoughts gradually relaxed, her consciousness gradually blurred, and she fell into a beautiful and peaceful dream.