Lu Mingfei, who had read Dragon Clan before slaying the dragon

"Gongsun Shu is not the Dragon King?" Chu Zihang frowned slightly.

"Gongsun Shu is not the Dragon King. He is merely the one chosen by the Dragon King. The real White Emperor—the King of Bronze and Fire—is his subordinate, using the alias Li Xiong, also known as Norton."

Lu Mingfei gently brushed away the moss and rust clinging to the bronze city. The bronze walls looked brand new, emitting a glossy blue-black luster under the spotlight.

Lu Mingfei slowly groped along the huge wall until his hand, wrapped in a diving suit, touched a high bulge.

……

Zizi!

A hoarse sound of electricity passed by, and the familiar and clear voice came out again from the loudspeaker in the control room.

"Professor Mans, Lu Mingfei and I are both still alive. We have arrived at the gate of Baidi City. In front of us is a huge bronze wall. Further ahead should be the palace of the King of Bronze and Fire. Please reply if you get it."

Chu Zihang's signal flashed on Norma's channel, and the flickering green light on it showed that his body functions were in a healthy state.

This was what Lu Mingfei suggested when they first came into contact with the Kuimen Project. They connected Norma's signal directly to the sensor in the diving suit, using the dual protection of signal lines and wireless signals to prevent the underwater mission personnel from being directly cut off from the surface in the event of an accident underwater.

"As expected of an S-class commander, he's damned foresighted!" The third officer slammed his broad palms down on the console.

"Damn it, I'm glad you're alive!" Mans roared loudly at the console, then exhaled heavily, as if to expel all the previous worries and panic from his brain in one breath.

If he lost the only top elites in both "S" and "A" levels at the same time, it would be difficult for him to bear this responsibility, or rather, the entire Kassel Academy would find it difficult to accept such a heavy loss!

Mance slumped down in his seat, the deep worry gradually fading from his face, replaced by deep surprise and anger.

"Bastard, why did you cut the lifeline? Give me a legitimate reason!" Mans asked loudly after he reacted.

"The situation was critical. If the lifeline hadn't been cut immediately, Lu Mingfei and I would have crashed into the stone spikes and been impaled on human skewers."

"I see." Mance seemed to agree with the answer, and then he said in a trembling voice, "By the way, you just said that you found the palace of the King of Bronze and Fire... Is that true?"

"Well... Lu Mingfei said it was quite reliable. If this wasn't Norton's Bronze City, he would have eaten all the moss on the wall." Chu Zihang's voice came.

"Asshole, it's already this late and you're still thinking about eating!"

Mans used the sonar detector to determine the approximate location of the two based on the data sent back by Norma. "Wait a minute, I'll go down to find you with 'Key''s' blood sample and a spare lifeline. Stay where you are and remember to keep communicating!"

"No need, Professor Mans." Chu Zihang said.

"Huh? What do you mean?" Mans, who had just put on his windbreaker and was about to leave the control room, asked with a frown.

"Lu Mingfei has already opened the Bronze City."

"Opened? How did he do it? With his own blood?" Mance asked with a frown.

This speculation is not impossible. The King of Bronze and Fire has unmatched achievements in alchemy. There will most likely be living spirits with spirits and wills guarding his palace. Such living spirits rely on high-purity blood to satisfy them and then let them pass. Lu Mingfei is "S" level, and his blood purity is high enough!

Mans thought he was very clever and guessed the truth!

"No, professor, you guessed wrong. He just said a word and the door opened." After Chu Zihang said this, he temporarily cut off contact with the control room.

"Hey... hey! Damn it, finish your sentence. What do you mean by 'just say a word and it will open'? Is this damn door voice-controlled?" Mans put his hands on the back of his head and pulled his black hair in distress, the roots of his hair were pulled so hard that it hurt.

underwater.

A strange pattern bulged out on the wall in front of Lu Mingfei. A twisted and weird bronze face was biting a burning piece of wood tightly, and its spike-like teeth were as sharp as daggers.

Lu Mingfei's eyes suddenly lit up with two brilliant golden lights, and the dazzling golden light seemed to pierce through the diving suit and illuminate the entire dark bottom of the water. His voice was cold and majestic, like an emperor high above.

"Open sesame."

The bronze human face quickly opened its clenched teeth as if it had been pardoned. The bronze wall trembled violently, and the sophisticated mechanical gears turned and engaged inside the wall. A black hole like the mouth of an abyss slowly extended and opened in all directions on the bronze wall.

For a moment, the whole city seemed to be turned upside down!

Chapter 51 Illusion

A huge bronze disc with a diameter of more than three meters appeared in front of Chu Zihang. It looked like an oversized gear, and the outer edge of the gear was covered with a circle of wolf-like sharp teeth.

The river water passed through the huge black hole opened by Lu Mingfei as if it was filtered by an invisible sieve, and the water quality became clear and transparent, so the light from the spotlight was enough to shine far away, and the visibility of the field of vision suddenly became wider.

In front of Chu Zihang stood countless ferocious discs that were larger than him. The sharp teeth of these discs bit each other to form a giant bronze wall tens of meters high. It was shocking but also had exquisite and rigorous technology, which was no less than modern precision mechanical watches.

This is the alchemy technology of Dragon King Norton. The King of Bronze and Fire masters the greatest mechanical alchemy in the world, and bronze and fire are his loyal servants at his disposal.

Chu Zihang looked up along the ferocious giant teeth. Above him was a dome so big that the end was as far as the eye could see. Intricate and delicate patterns were outlined on it. The patterns spread out like curved branches and leaves, and when gathered together, they looked like strange and twisted human faces, hiding the oldest secret in the world.

"It's dragon pattern." Chu Zihang recognized the origin of the pattern at a glance, and then his eyes were attracted by an upside-down bronze sculpture right above his head.

The bronze sculpture was about the same size as him, with a human face and a snake body. In his hands, he held a bronze sword and halberd in the style of ancient China. From his waist was a long and thick tail, which was connected to the dome and coiled into a circle.

What terrified Chu Zihang the most was the bronze sculpture's face. Its eyes seemed coated in gold powder, and under the spotlight, they shone with an eerie golden light, as if winking at him. Like a vortex sucking away souls, its mouth held a cold, mocking smile, and its face...

It's exactly the same as Lu Mingfei!

"Lu Mingfei, come and take a look at this bronze sculpture. It's very strange!" Chu Zihang said, staring at the bronze sculpture with a human face and a snake body.

But no one answered. The surroundings were eerily quiet. After arriving in the Bronze City, the dark green water around seemed to be still. The river water poured into such a huge cavity like irrigation, and there was not even a sound of a bubble bursting!

"Lu Mingfei?" Chu Zihang asked tentatively, tilting his head slightly. He slowly placed his hand on the signal cable that tied him and Lu Mingfei together at his waist, his eyes still fixed on the whirlpool-like golden pupils of the bronze sculpture.

The only answer he got was still deathly silence. The only sound he could hear was the rustling sound of electricity passing through the helmet, as if a ghost was whispering in his ear; the thumping of his heartbeat became more and more intense, as if someone was hiding in his chest and beating a cowhide drum, making his head swell and hurt.

Sudden!

Chu Zihang broke free from the bronze sculpture's strange gaze. He turned his head abruptly, grabbed the signal line, and his face became extremely ugly in an instant.

The signal line that tightly connected him and Lu Mingfei had snapped at some point! The broken end was stretched into thin strands, clearly not by a sharp weapon but by a tremendous force. All around him was the stagnant green water...

Empty!

"Brother...I am in so much pain..."

A sudden voice sounded above Chu Zihang's head. Chu Zihang looked up suddenly, his pupils shrinking. The scene that came into his eyes stimulated his nerves violently, and it was as if a string of fear in his heart exploded.

The bronze sculpture above his head turned into a living creature, or rather, it directly turned into the appearance of Lu Mingfei. His golden eyeballs bulged outwards, and his thick snake tail swung up and down like an iron whip. The face of the snake "Lu Mingfei" was full of ferocity and pain, and when he opened his mouth, two rows of sharp silver teeth were exposed.

Suddenly, the giant tail of the snake "Lu Mingfei" stretched straight like a straight sword, and the tip of the tail pierced heavily into the bronze dome. The whole body cut through the water like an arrow and shot towards Chu Zihang.

Murasame instantly grabbed the sword and held it across his body. This sword was almost his only asset to fight against this half-snake, half-road monster.

This is deep underwater. If his diving suit or oxygen tank is cut by the monster, he will be in a desperate situation with almost zero chance of survival!

The silver-cast fangs clashed with Murasame's blade, and the harsh friction sound was maddening and heart-pounding, which made Chu Zihang inexplicably think of the sonic attack of the class representative sitting in the front row at Shilan Middle School who rubbed the blackboard with his long nails.

"Senior Brother... why... why don't you care about me!" The snake-shaped Lu Mingfei screamed in shock, his face full of resentment and jealous anger. He bit Chu Zihang's Murasame tightly, and the tip of his tail was like a sharp gun stabbing straight at Chu Zihang.

Oops!

Even after nearly a week of devilish training, the huge underwater resistance still made it very inconvenient for Chu Zihang to move. The Murasame in his hand was tightly gripped by the snake-like Lu Mingfei in front of him, and he had no means of defense.

Chu Zihang's pair of eternally extinguished golden eyes flickered in the dark green water. He knew in his heart that there was only one way to go: release the devil in his heart, slide into the abyss of sin, and bleed...

Just as Chu Zihang was about to start bleeding profusely, a slender silver light suddenly appeared, and the snake-like body of Lu Mingfei was split in two from the waist. Dark green blood spread out like mist, soaking the surrounding water.

Chu Zihang narrowed his eyes and his gaze passed through the dark green mist of blood. He vaguely saw a familiar figure.

The figure holding a long knife swam through the thick dark green blood, and his appearance gradually appeared in Chu Zihang's sight.

"Brother, what's wrong?"

It was a monster with a snake head and a human body. It was holding Lu Mingfei's Guanshi Zhengzong in its hand. When it spoke to Chu Zihang, it was spitting out a forked snake tongue that made people feel sick!

"Damn it, it's never going to end!" Chu Zihang was furious. Without hesitation, he raised Murasame and slashed the monster with a swift cassock.

"Chu Zihang, are you crazy?" The monster roared, dodging and twisting to avoid Chu Zihang's slash, looking at Chu Zihang with golden vertical pupils full of confusion and anger, and the red snake tongue kept spitting out from its open mouth.

"Shut up, I hate snakes the most, you know? If you want to fight, then fight. Put away that disgusting face of yours!" Chu Zihang slashed with his sword angrily, while the monster dodged and seemed to be shouting something loudly. Anyway, Chu Zihang couldn't hear clearly through the diving suit and the thick water wall.

"Damn it, hitting a bronze statue is like playing house, but when it comes to chopping my own junior brother, each blow is more powerful than the last!" Lu Mingfei's diving suit was almost cut through by Chu Zihang's sword. He also realized that Chu Zihang was probably trapped in some kind of spiritual vision illusion. He couldn't hit him, and blindly defending and dodging was no solution!

Having practiced with Chu Zihang for no less than a hundred times, Lu Mingfei had already mastered his senior brother's swordsmanship like the back of his hand. He took advantage of the gap in Chu Zihang's attack and turned the Guanshi zhengzong blade in his hand 180 degrees. He suddenly lashed Chu Zihang's neck with the back of the blade, as if waving a sharp silver whip!

"Wake up, you foolish brother!"

Chapter 52 Dark Shadow

"Brother, what do you want to say?"

Lu Mingfei crossed his arms and glanced at Chu Zihang.

"Well... your head now is much more pleasing to the eye than the snake's head just now."

Chu Zihang rubbed his neck where Lu Mingfei had hit him with the back of his knife, and felt a burning pain there.

Lu Mingfei couldn't help but twitch the corner of his mouth, thinking that it seems that talking nonsense is not his own special skill. Even a reserved person like Chu Zihang can occasionally utter some harsh words that pierce the heart.

"The dragon characters on the dome should carry some kind of power. Brother, you've been staring at it for so long that you've experienced some kind of clairvoyance. It seems the contents recorded there may be extraordinary."

Lu Mingfei looked up and glanced at the pattern on the bronze dome above his head that stretched out like a giant tree.

Then he turned to look at Chu Zihang beside him and found that the other party was staring at the direction above their heads with his head raised motionlessly.

"Stop looking at it, senior brother. We can't understand these dragon characters now. We might as well take pictures of them and bring them back to the academy to give the professors a headache. If you continue looking at them, you will be driven crazy by clairvoyance again!" Lu Mingfei said unhappily.

"No, look there..." Chu Zihang pointed in the direction above their heads, as if his attention was attracted by something strange.

Lu Mingfei looked up in the direction of Chu Zihang's finger. That was the place where Chu Zihang found the bronze sculpture with a snake body and a human face. The bronze statue had just been cut in half by Lu Mingfei with a knife and sank to the bottom of the dark water. There was a circular groove hidden where the statue had originally been.

Lu Mingfei squinted his eyes and looked, it seemed like something was moving in the groove?

Lu Mingfei and Chu Zihang looked at each other, and in tacit understanding, they slowly approached the groove until the light from the overhead spotlight shone into the groove, revealing the shape of the moving object inside.

"What is this?" Chu Zihang frowned deeply.

In the cylindrical groove, a small copper piece in the shape of a gear is swinging gently. The gear is covered with rust and looks like it has not been used for a long time. It seems to be trying to break free from the copper rust wrapped around it and trying its best to turn.

"It looks like a small trigger mechanism or something like that. So the bronze sculpture with a snake body and a human face was used to seal this little thing?" Lu Mingfei analyzed, stroking his chin.

"What will happen when it starts moving again?" Chu Zihang asked this question out of the blue.

This problem was solved in the next second, and the answer was the entire huge bronze city in front of them!

The copper rust peeled off, and the gear-like copper sheets slowly began to turn. Crunching sounds began to come from all directions, as if in the darkness that they could not see, countless people were rubbing sharp iron sheets against each other. The noisy sounds penetrated the diving suits made of nanomaterials and were extremely harsh.

The copper sheet in the groove above his head was spinning faster and faster, and the huge noises around him were getting sharper and sharper.

When the frequency of rotation reaches a certain critical point, a vast bell sound comes from far away, as if a huge bell hidden in the corner of this huge and boundless underwater city is rung by someone, like some kind of warning!

As the giant bell vibrated, the wall in front of Lu Mingfei and the others, which was made up of huge gears, began to move. Every gear on it began to rotate and engage, and the water waves were stirred into chaos.

The entire bronze city seemed to come alive, like a giant over a hundred meters tall!

"Damn it, I've fallen into a trap! Either I'm going to be trapped in the illusion created by my psychic vision, or if I chop down that bronze sculpture, the mechanism will be triggered. This is an unsolvable trap! This fingernail-sized piece of copper is actually the switch that unlocks the entire Bronze City!"

Lu Mingfei cursed as he looked at the Bronze City that had begun to move.

Chu Zihang turned over and thrust the Murasame in his hand into the groove of the dome. The copper piece the size of a fingernail was stuck by the tip of Murasame and could not be rotated. The activities in the entire city came to an abrupt halt in an instant.

"Senior Brother..." Before Lu Mingfei could finish his words, Murasame and Chu Zihang himself were flung away by an indescribable terrifying force. Murasame was driven out of the groove by the gear and was caught by the quick-eyed and quick-handed Lu Mingfei.

That is the mighty power of an entire city, which is beyond human power to contend with!

The huge black hole on the wall awakened by Lu Mingfei is shrinking rapidly, and the city seems to be about to eat them both!

Lu Mingfei held Murasame in one hand and Chu Zihang in the other and swam madly towards the shrinking cave entrance. If they couldn't leave before the cave entrance was completely closed, this city with walls made of thick bronze would be their burial place!

"Brother, you look thin but not very light. Can you swim by yourself?" Lu Mingfei yelled in Speed.

"I didn't fucking ask you to hug me!" Chu Zihang also roared at Lu Mingfei.

The giant wall made of gears rotated rapidly, and the huge hole shrank quickly. Outside the hole, you could still see a little light penetrating from the water surface. If you were trapped in this underwater ruined city, it would be eternal darkness!

Finally, just before the cave entrance closed completely, Lu Mingfei and Chu Zihang fled from the almost closed city. The two floated fifty meters underwater, breathing the remaining oxygen in the oxygen tanks luxuriously as if they had survived a disaster.

"It seems like this mission has been completed...but it also seems like nothing has been done?" Chu Zihang said panting.

"At least we have confirmed that the palace of the King of Bronze and Fire is buried here, and we have roughly figured out its structure. The complex dragon characters inside are also a considerable gain." Lu Mingfei said.

In fact, when Chu Zihang fell into the spiritual vision, Lu Mingfei had already completed the goal of his trip. He found a brass jar hidden deep in the Bronze City and secretly disposed of it.

But this was a secret he could not tell anyone, and he had to remain silent even in front of Chu Zihang. It was not because he did not trust Chu Zihang, but because the brass jar contained a monster that could subvert the world - Constantine, one of the twins of the Bronze and Fire Kings, and Lao Tang's younger brother.

If Constantine hadn't been discovered and awakened, Old Tang could at least live peacefully as a human being for the time being - Lu Mingfei thought so.

"Be careful!" Chu Zihang suddenly shouted.

Lu Mingfei turned his head and was shocked to find that a huge black shadow had appeared behind him. The shadow was incredibly large, and its black wings that covered the sky and the sun stretched out in the water, stirring up a chaotic current!

Before he could see the whole face of the monster, the pitch-black spikes rolled up a surging wave and stabbed towards Lu Mingfei fiercely. Lu Mingfei stared at the behemoth, holding Guanshi Zhengzong tightly in his hand, and a golden light began to boil in his eyes.

However, what Lu Mingfei didn't expect was that just when he was about to fight the monster, Chu Zihang behind him knocked him away.