Tomb raiding: Trying to become a little painter

"Now that we've arrived here, we can say we've truly entered the Palace of the Queen Mother of the West!"

Wu Xie then took a flashlight and shone it around.

Qin Henian, on the other hand, sensed an extra breath in the group. The aura around the person was also very familiar. He knew who it was but dared not ask. He could only make hand seals under his sleeves to search for the familiar aura.

Ugh!

"Who fills the holes in their graves with mud? If you're not going to do this, you should at least put some gold and silver treasures in them, even if you don't want to put in some valuable antiques!"

After Wang Pangzi crawled into the tomb, he turned on his flashlight and looked around at the densely packed grottoes. He had originally planned to pick up some bargains and explore, but some grottoes were empty, while others were covered in mud. What terrible luck! So frustrating!!!

"What mud cocoon? Let me take a look?"

Wu Xie was a little curious, so he followed Wang Pangzi's figure to his side and saw him standing in front of a cave with a frustrated look on his face. He immediately understood what was going on and quickly bent down to take a look.

In a grotto, a large lump of mud, about 1.5 to 1.6 meters long, lay there properly. He raised his hand and touched the mud on it; it was dry and still had a lot of dust. He tapped it again, and just as he was about to find something to poke it, he pulled out a dagger from behind his back, but Wu Xie's hand was stopped by another hand.

"Bro?"

Wu Xiaogou was puzzled and looked at Zhang Qilin in the darkness.

"Don't touch it!"

Zhang Qilin succinctly stated what he wanted to say, but unfortunately, he was met with Wu Xie.

"Why can't we touch it? Is the mud poisonous? Or is some kind of sulfuric acid used to isolate it? Is it corrosive?"

Pfft!

Qin Henian, who was watching their conversation, noticed Wu Xie's question. He had originally wanted to hear a joke, but he hadn't expected Wu Xie's thought process to be so peculiar. He wondered how Wu Xie had managed to live to such an old age...

Hearing the laughter, Wu turned his head and looked at Qin Henian in the darkness by the light of his flashlight.

"what happened?"

cough cough...

"It's nothing, I'm just curious how you've survived to this age with your IQ."

"Oops... Oh no, I blurted out what was on my mind..."

Qin Henian felt a little embarrassed. He stopped looking at Wu and glanced in another direction. He turned his head and glanced at Wu, and immediately met a pair of peach blossom eyes and a charming smiling face.

"Did you hear everything?"

Qin Henian looked at Xie Yuchen with a smirk.

"Yes, I heard it all! Not a single word was wrong."

Xie Yuchen looked at Qin Henian with a smile, a hint of interest in his eyes.

Qin Henian scratched his head.

"Hey! Xie Yuchen, can you just pretend you didn't hear anything?!"

"cannot!"

He answered the question as soon as he finished speaking. At that moment, Qin Henian just wanted to find a crack in the ground to hide himself in and never want to see "human world" again!

"Hey, don't be nervous about He Nian. Actually, I'm quite curious about how Wu Xie lived to be so old."

Xie Yuchen suppressed her laughter, glanced at Wu Xie behind Qin Henian who seemed heartbroken, and echoed Qin Henian's words without batting an eye.

"Really? You find it strange too?"

Qin Henian was a little surprised, his face full of astonishment. His phoenix eyes met the peach blossom eyes, as if trying to determine whether what the other party said was true or false.

"Yes! Don't you think so?"

During the conversation, Jie Yuchen didn't seem to care that the person being spoken to was his childhood friend, and responded accordingly.

"No! I just find it very strange. The first time I met Wu Xie, I saw... no, I calculated that his life would be full of twists and turns, with an imbalance of good and bad luck. In short, he is a very peculiar person."

Qin Henian stopped himself from speaking in time and offered a rational assessment.

"He Nian can tell fortunes?"

Xie Yuchen was a little surprised. She took two steps closer to Qin Henian, and a warm and gentle aura, along with a floral fragrance, enveloped her.

Qin Henian, who was being approached, only felt a warm current flowing in the air and a faint, pleasant floral fragrance.

"I know a little! I studied it for a few years in my early years, but I'm just a dabbler and can't say I'm very accurate. This is just an objective assessment."

The sudden closeness of the unfamiliar presence made Qin Henian feel somewhat uncomfortable, but the fragrance of flowers helped to alleviate the discomfort, so Qin Henian did not feel repulsed by Xie Yuchen's approach.

“When I was a child, I had my fortune told. Someone said I was destined to be a noble person, and that noble people and things would be more valuable than myself.”

Xie Yuchen frankly recounted how he was criticized by Master Qi when he was a child, and tilted his head slightly to look at Qin Henian, wanting to hear what the other had to say.

Qin Henian blinked, wondering whether he should offer some comfort, but what if he said something like "fate is predetermined" and then came back to his mistake later...?

Thoughts raced through his mind. After a moment's thought, Qin Henian finally raised his right hand, his slender, fair, and warm palm patting Xie Yuchen's shoulder. Qin Henian then flashed a bright smile at the man.

"Your life is your own; live it however you want!"

As soon as they finished speaking, Wu Xie and Wu Sanxing and the others had already explored the area where they had jumped down. It wasn't a large area, with caves on both sides and a stone wall behind them. They had already tapped it with a Luoyang shovel, and yes, it was solid.

So, apart from the grottoes on the left and right and the stone wall behind them, the only place they could walk was in front of them.

Wu Sanxing first sent someone ahead to scout the way. A few minutes later, someone returned and said that it was passable. After hearing the news, Wu Sanxing took the lead, and everyone headed in the same direction.

In the darkness, the beam of the flashlight swayed constantly, making Qin Henian's eyes blurry. He only felt better when he smelled the fragrance emanating from Xie Yuchen beside him. The group hadn't walked for long, about a hundred or two meters, when the area in front of them opened up. There was a large bend in the road, and a small stone platform lay beneath their feet, leading to three forked paths.

"A fork in the road! Third Master, which way should we go?"

Pan Zi had been staying close to Wu Sanxing, so Wu Sanxing could see what Pan Zi could see. The sudden appearance of three paths made Pan Zi frown.

"We can't be apart!"

Wu Sanxing did not answer Pan Zi's question. Instead, he became serious as soon as he saw the fork in the cave and then said something that told everyone not to separate.

"Which way should we go, Uncle?"

Wu Xie asked curiously.

Um....

Wu Sanxing did not answer Wu Xie's question. Instead, he turned to look at Zhang Qilin to the side and gave him a meaningful look.

Qin Henian noticed these details. Ever since entering the underground palace of the Queen Mother of the West, he had sensed a familiar aura as soon as his feet touched the ground. The distance was very close. If there were no obstructions, he could fly to the person he was looking for within a minute.

While pondering this, Qin Henian's eyes didn't wander. His little Qilin was now standing in the middle of the three forks in the road, carefully observing each path against the stone wall, seemingly searching for something...

"Go this way!"

Zhang Qilin's cold voice rang out as he turned around and pointed at a cave entrance.