Even hybrid monsters have their day

As soon as the two stepped out the door, they saw a white light flash past them, followed by a figure quickly passing by and running towards the entrance of the secret passage.

That figure was clearly Jin Mo!

"Captain Jin!" Geng Miaowan exclaimed with delight.

Jin Mo and Xiao Bai, who was running ahead of him, stopped at the same time upon hearing the shout. They turned around and looked at the empty secret passage, then turned back in confusion.

Geng Miaowan then remembered that she was hiding. She quickly let go of Peng Yuxian's hand and shouted at Jin Mo again, "Captain Jin!"

Jin Mo turned around and saw Geng Miaowan looking at him excitedly. She asked, "How did you end up here?" He clearly hadn't seen anyone just now.

“I came to find you. I heard there was trouble at the festival, and I thought…” She glanced at him and Xiaobai, then continued, “By the way, how did you two end up together? Didn’t Xiaobai go to follow the Rain Festival Fairy?”

“We…” At this moment, another roar came from the depths of the secret passage, louder than before and seemingly closer. Jin Mo’s expression changed. “It’s a long story. Let’s get out of here as soon as possible.”

So the three people and the dog ran together toward the entrance of the secret passage.

As they approached the entrance to the secret passage, a voice suddenly came from the other side, "Quick, come down with me and see what's going on down there." It was Aunt Ying leading several girls from Yuntian Pavilion down into the secret passage.

Geng Miaowan asked, "What should we do now?"

Jin Mo said, "I've investigated. Although Aunt Ying's cultivation is above yours, it's not much higher than mine. The other girls from Yuntian Pavilion don't have very high cultivation levels either. I'll hold Aunt Ying off for now, so you and Brother Peng should be able to break through without any problems."

"What about you?"

"I may not be able to beat them, but escaping shouldn't be a problem. Once you guys break out, I can easily run away on my own."

At this moment, the roaring sounds from inside the secret passage grew closer, suggesting they would arrive soon. Geng Miaowan glanced at the dark passage and said worriedly, "That thing..."

If Jin Mo were to stall Aunt Ying here, she would inevitably run into that thing in the secret passage. Although she didn't know what it was, judging from Peng Yuxian and Jin Mo's attitude, it certainly wouldn't be anything ordinary.

perhaps……

She suddenly remembered what she had seen in the side hall last night. Perhaps it was related to that thing, or perhaps it was that thing all along! The more she thought about it, the more horrified she became. She had seen with her own eyes how perverted that thing was.

Geng Miaowan looked at Peng Yuxian and called out softly, "Brother Peng..." with a hint of pleading in her eyes.

Aunt Ying led several girls from Yuntian Pavilion down the secret passage and headed towards the secret chamber.

After the figures disappeared into the secret passage, three figures emerged from the wall. Jin Mo stared at Peng Yuxian in disbelief. Geng Miaowan was a novice in the cultivation world; her ignorance didn't mean Jin Mo was oblivious. If he remembered correctly, the technique this person had just used was an invisibility technique—the kind that was said to be only achievable by those who had reached the Tribulation Transcending stage.

Who exactly is this Peng Yuxian? He looks so young, yet he knows how to become invisible.

Peng Yuxian looked at his hands with a strange expression. He had originally intended to tell them that there was another exit in the secret passage that they could use to escape. But Geng Miaowan's call of "Brother Peng" made his heart tremble. He had never felt that way before, as if he had suddenly found something he had lost for a long time.

His hand reached out as if possessed. He felt that ever since he met Geng Miaowan, he had been doing strange things.

As the three people and the dog stepped out of the secret passage, several screams of young girls came from inside, as if they had seen something extremely terrifying.

The group exchanged glances and closed the door to the secret room.

Back at the inn, Jin Mo recounted what she had found out. Since Peng Yuxian was also involved in the secret room incident, they didn't deliberately avoid him this time.

Most importantly, after the investigation, Jin Mo had decided to abandon the mission, because the opponent was simply beyond the capabilities of their group. He had heard before that level-up missions were more difficult than the original level-up missions, but he hadn't expected the difference to be so significant.

But now that they know Peng Yuxian has such profound cultivation, a small hope has risen in their hearts. If they can persuade him to help them, then this mission is not impossible to complete.

Just imagine, if their group can complete the level-up mission, then when they go back, they'll make those who looked down on them look at them with new respect and finally get to hold their heads high.

It turned out that at the start of the Rain Festival ceremony, he noticed someone lurking suspiciously around the altar, so he followed that person away from the altar. Later, he learned that the person was actually Jin Lingshan's childhood sweetheart, who was unhappy that Jin Lingshan had been chosen as the Rain Festival Fairy and planned to sabotage the ceremony.

When he tried to return to the altar, before he even reached it, he sensed a strange energy fluctuation emanating from its direction. This energy seemed to enter through any opening, disrupting the spiritual energy within his body. Because he was far away and had only just entered the edge, he quickly retreated without any serious harm.

He instinctively felt that the energy must be related to the Rain Festival, so he thought he would wait for the energy fluctuations to subside before entering the altar to check the situation. Unexpectedly, after waiting for a short while, he saw Aunt Ying coming over with the young man he had been following earlier, bound up. Thinking he had nothing else to do, he followed her to see what was going on.

Who knew he'd follow him all the way to a secret chamber? Seeing so many hidden passages, he randomly chose one to investigate. That's where he met Xiaobai, and then he saw…

Jin Mo paused at this point.

"What did you see?" Geng Miaowan asked anxiously, voicing a suspicion she had been harboring: "Was it a zombie?"

Jin Mo nodded. "To be precise, they are zombies that have cultivated for at least three thousand years."

“Three thousand… years…” Geng Miaowan was stunned. A zombie that had existed for three thousand years—what kind of concept was that?

“This isn’t the worst of all,” they said. If it were just a three-thousand-year-old zombie, they might still have a chance of winning if they fought it out. “The worst thing is that besides that zombie, there’s also a demon that has been cultivating for nearly a thousand years.”