My best friend asked me if I was still doing system tasks.

Bai Jing sat on the shoulder of the white-bellied silver fire bear and pointed: "Nuomi! Over there!"

The silver-white giant bear charged forward, waving its arms, to catch the scattered swordsman and bring him back to his team.

The wind-winged falcon circled in the sky, and Dou Xueran formed a hand seal to command: "Feathers! A thousand feathers unleash!"

With a cry, the wind-winged falcon spread its wings and flapped them, the wind condensing into transparent needles that shot down one after another at the enemy.

Kong Jiu tossed out the flying honey squirrel: "Go, Xiao Wu!"

The Flying Honeyfly expanded its size, gliding through the air. It spread its body, opened its mouth, and spat out a viscous, honey-like sphere. It lay on one side of the enlarged sphere and continued to glide, defending itself against the black-robed man's barrage of arrows, spells, and talismans.

Luo Hanying and Ji Leshan escorted Wenren Ya to the center of the formation, protecting Danxiu and Lexiu. Ruan Chayan called out Huajiao to help guard against enemies who had broken through the blockade and reached the formation.

Seeing that they could not defeat the Shiren Sect members, the men in black robes unleashed their best skills. The light from their magical artifacts and talismans exploded in front of the tomb, inevitably injuring Ji Daoyun and the others, and the formation of Hidden Peak was also on the verge of collapse.

The ground trembled more violently, and Bai Yize was the first to shout, "An earth dragon is turning over?!"

The level of tremor was far beyond what their battle could have caused!

Holding the Jinhua cat with its airplane-shaped ears, Ruan Chayan had a bad feeling: "Could it be that the tomb has collapsed?!"

Before Ruan Chayan could finish speaking, the ground cracked open with a loud rumble, and stone bricks fell through the crack into the darkness that was shimmering with fluorescent light.

Jin Caiyu and Ran Jie stood up with their musical instruments in their arms, and Dan Xiu also put away his alchemy furnace. Luo Hanying helped Wenren Ya, who had difficulty moving, up. Just as she was about to walk to Ruan Chayan's side, a large swath of purple-white liquid suddenly surged out of the abyss!

An unknown purplish-white object broke free from the underground restraints and attacked the group, shattering all the formations!

Upon closer inspection, Luo Hanying realized that it was composed of countless insects resembling mayflies!

The fire spells struck down but failed to disperse the dense swarm of insects, which grew increasingly thick and heavy, pressing in on him.

Neither magic, talismans, nor spirit swords could cleave through the swarms of purple-white insects. The insects landed on the people, controlling their limbs and dragging them into the abyss!

Ruan Chayan forced herself to swallow her nausea and stuffed the Jinhua cat and peppercorns into the spirit beast pouch. Luo Hanying's eyes widened in horror, and she, like the others, let out a scream as she was dragged into the abyss.

*

"Jiang Li's formation is really useful!"

If it weren't for the commotion these people made up there, we would have overslept again!

"If we miss this opening of the secret realm, we'll have to wait another ten years or more."

A small, human-shaped doll, about the size of a palm, waved its transparent mayfly wings, which refracted a rainbow of colors under the light emitted by the luminous pearl.

It has short purple hair, tied up with a smoky purple jade crown, and a small character "浮生" (Floating Life) written between its eyebrows, like a floral decoration;

She wore a gray and white robe and adorned with smoky purple jade ornaments, making her look exquisite and lovely.

The little baby flapped its wings and approached the stone mirror in front of it, almost lying on it: "Bai Shun, look! This woman and this man have actually come out of the illusion array!"

I couldn't even see what their illusion array looked like!

In the separated images within the stone mirror, the two bewildered figures are Luo Hanying and Ji Daoyun.

"Wow! That female cultivator you were eyeing has also emerged from the illusion array!"

The little child pointed to the other side of the separated image and said, "Her willpower is also very good! She hasn't lost her way!"

In the scene, Ruan Chayan cautiously extended her divine sense to observe the surrounding situation. She opened the spirit beast bag, hugged the Jinhua cat into her arms, and let Huajiao perch on her shoulder. She then carefully explored forward with her sword in hand.

Beside the little baby stood a white deer with a shimmering luster and a slender body. Its four hooves trod on the clouds, and its majestic white antlers were forked, with unknown gold and silver flowers blooming on them, the flowers resembling hibiscus.

A gold and silver ribbon was wrapped around the deer's antlers and hung down, just enough to cover its blood-red eyes.

"Fusheng, don't get so close, you're blocking my view."

Bai Shun said softly, "Now that all three of them have come out, let's activate the next mechanism and see how strong they are."

Fusheng flew to a stone table directly opposite the stone mirror, stepped on it repeatedly, and struck a round stone mechanism. The sound of armor clashing came from both sides of the underground palace.

Bai Shun turned to look at Fu Sheng and asked with difficulty, "Which mechanism did you open? Was it a maze mechanism?"

Fusheng belatedly realized the shock and covered his mouth: "It's over! I released the puppet army first!"

It's all your fault! This is your master's tomb, and you made me open the mechanism!

It's normal that I misread the words above because they were blurry!

Bai Shun shook his head helplessly: "Never mind, the maze is just full of puppet beasts anyway."

Fusheng's bright, watery eyes darted around, and she said excitedly, "Since I've already accidentally released the puppet army, I might as well consider it another test!"

Fusheng flew around the stone table once to make sure it understood all the mechanisms on it, and then jumped a few times on another round stone next to the round stone mechanism, causing a rumbling sound throughout the underground palace.

Fusheng clapped his hands triumphantly: "That's great! The maze, plus the pursuing puppet army and puppet beasts! Let's see the strength of these youngsters."

Bai Shun hesitated slightly: "Isn't this putting them in a lot of trouble..."

Fusheng flew back to the stone mirror and said indifferently, "Why are you pretending to be so high and mighty with me?"

Do you really want to just find a new master and watch him die, only to have him slumber in his tomb once more?

Bai Shun fell silent.

Fusheng didn't pay attention to Bai Shun's reaction. It pointed to a scene in the mirror and exclaimed in surprise, "Hey, look at this beautiful female cultivator! She's so strange. Why is her illusion array all white?"

Is she reciting scriptures? She looks like she's serving someone...

Bai Shun followed Fu Sheng to observe. In the scene, Wenren Ya was dressed in a snow-white top and bottom, kneeling steadily in front of a half-zhang-high shrine, performing a grand kowtow.

All around was a vast, white void, and suddenly a pale, large hand reached out from the dark shrine.

The hand lifted the black cloth covering the shrine, and the deity enshrined within stepped out, revealing a dark blue knee covering with intricate gold embroidery.

The jade pendant jingled as it fell, and it seemed as if He was about to step out and reveal His true form. The next moment, the image on the stone mirror vanished, and Wenren Ya, covered in sweat, opened his eyes in the passageway, weakly lying on the ground panting.

“This female cultivator is quite interesting.” Fusheng looked at Bai Shun. “She seems to have served a deity, but I don’t know if it was a righteous god or an evil god.”

After a moment of silence, Bai Shun said, "Whether she is a righteous god or an evil god, I will not choose her."

Fusheng laughed: "Good friend, that's what I think too. Being too close to the Heavenly Dao will also restrict us."