Crossing the Cultivation Realm: Two Souls Coexist

But this time the secret door is more obvious, just below the hole on the far left.

The stone button lay there quietly, covered with a thick layer of dust. It seemed that it had not been used for a long time.

After Gu Yang pressed it, a crack appeared on the wall next to him, some dust was shaken down, revealing a square stone door.

"The mechanisms inside this relic are truly ingenious. In the world I live in, it would be difficult to create these mechanisms without electricity."

Gu Yang didn't understand the chill of electricity, but he still marveled at the ingenuity of the mechanism.

The two men pushed open the stone door and walked into the cave. This was indeed the interior of the ruins. Gu Yang walked inside holding a kerosene lamp.

What caught my eye was the brown blood on the ground and the pungent smell of blood.

"What happened that day? Why was there so much blood?"

Hu Qing shook his head. He was not quite sure. He looked around and found that the brightness of the kerosene lamp was still too dim. He could not see anything in the distance.

All the night pearls have been used up, and now we can only use kerosene lamps. We have to prepare some items with high light intensity next time.

He asked Gu Yang for a kerosene lamp, and the two of them separated, each holding a kerosene lamp and exploring in both directions.

Hu Qing was struggling to lift the heavy object with his soul power, and he had to walk for a while and then stop for a while.

When he walked over to the mural, he found it was a mess, with debris all around and the ground had been destroyed beyond recognition.

It seems that the melee has affected an area too large, and the entire cave is almost completely destroyed.

Hu Qing stayed for a while and didn't find anything valuable. Instead, he found some symbols mixed in the fragments of the mural.

I picked up a few pieces at random and checked them. They all had the same characters on them. This was a bit strange. I looked through all the fragments and found that they all had the same characters.

"Ah Qing, here, there's a clue here, come quickly!"

Gu Yang's shout interrupted his train of thought, but he was not angry. After all, he couldn't understand the meaning of these symbols now, and it was meaningless to imagine them out of thin air. It would be better to look for clues.

Hu Qing picked up a piece of debris with characters on it and walked towards where Gu Yang was. He arrived there soon.

At this time, Gu Yang was squatting on the left side of a square cave, surrounded by rock fragments.

When I got closer, I found that the place Gu Yang was observing was actually an empty space. Why did he say that?

Because the surrounding area was also covered with brown blood, this small area was left empty.

This clearing seemed to have sucked in all the blood from the entire cave.

Hu Qing released his mental power and explored the surroundings. Sure enough, all the blood in the cave was gathering here, finally forming this open space.

"And this, there's actually a stone door underneath."

Hu Qing looked in the direction of Gu Yang's finger, and sure enough, there was a mottled stone door in the square hole next to it. The material looked the same as the stone door in the fifth passage.

Hu Qing looked around, comparing the scenes of that day with his mind one by one, and remembered the original locations of these items.

"Brother Gu, there should be a statue standing in this open space. The stone gate next to it should be another exit. The emperor and the imperial preceptor walked out from here that day."

Gu Yang looked at the broken objects around him and found it hard to reconcile them with the scene he saw that day.

"Wait, Brother Gu, let's look around to see if there are any fragments of the statue. If it's broken, we should be able to find it."

Hu Qing thought of the strange statue he had caught a glimpse of here when he escaped that day, and the two of them began to search the ground.

After a while, both of them searched through the debris in the area.

"Ah Qing, is the material of the statue the same as these stones? I've been searching for so long and haven't found any unusual fragments."

"That might be it. Let's go and take a look at the stone gate below."

Hu Qing handed the kerosene lamp and character fragments to Gu Yang, asked him to put them in the storage ring, and began to lead the way.

The two men pulled open the stone door with force. It was covered with moss. When they exerted force, the moss was crushed into juice, which flowed onto their hands in a slippery and sticky manner, making it even more difficult to exert force.

After great effort, the two men finally opened the stone door, revealing an empty passage with gusts of cool breeze blowing out from inside.

The ground was covered with dust, and there were some trampled footprints, and there were some bloody handprints on the walls of the passage. It seemed that the emperor and the imperial teacher had escaped from here that day.

Hu Qing stepped in first, guarding against danger in front, while Gu Yang followed carefully behind with a kerosene lamp in his hand.

The bloody handprints on the wall became more and more numerous as they got closer to the exit, and dried bloodstains began to appear on the ground.

The further they walked out, the more frightened they became. The amount of bleeding at the back was so terrifying that the entire passage was covered in blood.

Does it mean that the Nascent Soul stage can produce unlimited blood?

The two men stepped on the dried blood, making a "crunching" sound under their feet, and soon a flash of light came from the front.

Hu Qing flew forward quickly, the dazzling sun shining on his body, and his soul almost dissipated.

Gu Yang then walked out. He looked at the surrounding scenery and couldn't help but sigh:

"Where did this come from? Is this still in China?"

The exit of the passage here is actually at the foot of a tall cliff, and the surrounding trees are extremely tall, blocking all the surrounding sunlight, leaving only the cave entrance.

There was a small path in the distance leading to here. Gu Yang walked towards the path, and before he took two steps, he smelled the strong stench of a rotting corpse.

Hu Qing frowned. This smell could actually affect the soul. He felt a little dizzy and went straight into Gu Yang's dantian.

Gu Yang covered his nose and led Hu Qing towards the source of the stench. A highly decomposed corpse was lying in the grass on the path.

One of his thighs had been taken away by a monster, and his body was covered with writhing insects and some marks of monster bites. The torn clothes on his body reminded Gu Yang of this man's identity.

"Ah Qing, this seems to be the Qin Shan you killed. Why is he here?"

Hu Qing was also a little confused. Shouldn't he have died in the cave? Why was he left here? Could it be that the emperor and his men brought him out?

Then why did he drop it again? And isn’t the wound on his chest too long? I didn’t make such a long wound that day.

Hu Qing had more and more questions in his mind, and his head began to hurt.

Gu Yang broke off a stick from a nearby tree and poked the corpse. There were wounds of various sizes on his back, and it looked like he had bled.

Gu Yang swallowed his saliva. What on earth had they encountered that would make them cut a corpse into such a shape and even bleed it?

"Ah Qing, this isn't right. You didn't cause these wounds, but there are so many of them, and they're not deep. Is there some monster?"