Dare to Cancel the Engagement? I Will Marry Your Ancestor! - Chapter 28

The Saintess of Xingyao Sect followed closely behind Mo Ling, and upon hearing his words, she collapsed to the ground, crying, “You bullied me, and now you’re blaming me!”

Mo Ling felt a sharp pain in his head.

“Alright, let’s call it even, okay?”

The Saintess of Xingyao Sect raised her teary eyelashes and looked at Mo Ling. “My name is Shui Yue, what’s yours?”

What does this mean?

This crazy woman is looking at him with such affection—it’s really unsettling.

“Ahem, my name is Mo Ling.”

Shui Yue murmured, repeating the name softly. “Mo Ling, why does it sound familiar?”

Mo Ling stepped on something, and it made a crisp cracking sound. He immediately stopped and shone the fire stick on it, discovering a small fragment of white bone.

Shui Yue, hiding behind Mo Ling, whispered, “Don’t touch it, what if it’s cursed?”

Mo Ling paused, reminded by her words. He stooped down and examined it closely, realizing it was a human elbow bone. It must have been there for a long time because it broke easily when stepped on.

“What is it?”

Mo Ling’s expression grew cautious as he spoke softly, “It’s a human bone. We should keep our guard up.”

Upon hearing this, Shui Yue immediately stopped talking and kept a vigilant watch as they proceeded.

Suddenly, they both stopped in unison. A faint yellowish light was emanating from behind a house.

The light seemed to stretch up from the ground, and even a small amount of light in the dark underground was quite noticeable.

Shui Yue unexpectedly grabbed Mo Ling’s sleeve, but it wasn’t entirely out of fear. She pushed him forward, clearly using him as a human shield.

As they got closer, the light from the fire stick surpassed the dim yellow light, revealing an ancient well.

The wheel at the entrance was still intact, and the wooden bucket hanging from it was even swaying.

Since they were underground with no wind, how could the bucket be moving?

Shui Yue carefully examined it but didn’t dare to go further. She asked Mo Ling, “Should we take a look?”

Mo Ling, however, wasn’t in a hurry. “Let’s explore the entire place first. It’s better to be sure before going back.”

Shui Yue thought this made sense and followed Mo Ling as they circled around to the front of the house.

At the center of the house was a tablet. The characters at the front had been deliberately scratched out, but the words “Temple” could still be seen clearly.

An underground temple?

Mo Ling recalled hearing the disciples of Da Yan Sword Sect mention a temple on Jinghuan Mountain. Could it be this one?

No, that couldn’t be right!

From the withered grass and carbonized tree trunks in the back of the temple, and the broken bones, it was clear that this place had been around for at least a hundred years.

“The door is open…”

Shui Yue used the same trick again, pushing Mo Ling toward the door. Mo Ling, who was also planning to go in and didn’t mind her small movements.

With a creak, Mo ling kicked the door to open it. To his surprise, it was so fragile that it fell apart upon and landed on the ground.

Mo Ling held up the fire stick and looked inside the temple. The hall was huge, but what he saw made his bl00d run cold—inside, there were people.

They were dressed in monk robes and bald-headed. They are clearly monks from the temple.

The monks sat cross-legged, hands clasped, their faces frozen in a terrifying, twisted expression. Their nails were long enough to pierce through a person’s throat.

On the altar was a broken Buddha statue, half of its body was destroyed, but still standing proudly. The calm and gentle aura from the statue only contrasted the terrifying faces of the monks below.

Shui Yue tightly grabbed Mo Ling’s arm, shaking. Mo Ling instinctively started to retreat, preparing to chant a sealing spell.

The plaque above the inner hall read “Three Thousand Arhats Hall,” and the surrounding walls were filled with Buddha statues. But in such a place, all the monks had turned into corpse spirits!

Seeing that Mo Ling was still staring at the inside, Shui Yue let go of his arm and quickly backed away.

She accidentally kicked out a finger bone, which flew out into the courtyard and, before they knew it, burst into flames, turning to ashes.

Shui Yue quickly moved and retreated along the edge of the temple. However, Mo Ling grabbed her hand.

“What are you doing? There are so many corpse spirits here! We should retreat first!”

Shui Yue raised an eyebrow and tried to shake off Mo Ling’s hand.

Mo Ling’s voice was cold, “Didn’t you see that bit of red light just now? There’s likely a formation set up here. Don’t wander off carelessly.”

Shui Yue still shook off his hand, her foot tapping a piece of broken stone. As it flew through the air, it was immediately consumed by a flame, turning to ash before disappearing.

“This—didn’t we just walk past here?”

“Seems like we triggered a trap in the temple.”

The two of them had been so focused on the corpse spirits in the temple that they hadn’t noticed the trap had been activated.

“Damn it, why am I so unlucky?”

If they were going to venture into a secret realm, they should’ve been prepared for danger. Did this Saintess really think everything would go smoothly?

Mo Ling didn’t bother with her complaints and instead focused on the formation, silently communicating with his system.

Ding! Identification of the local formation: Bl00d Shadow Labyrinth Formation

The system interface displayed the layout and explanation of the formation.

Mo Ling nodded. “It’s a one-way, inescapable formation. It’s probably the infamous Bl00d Shadow Labyrinth Formation!”

Shui Yue’s face immediately turned pale. If Mo Ling hadn’t pulled her back just now, one wrong step and they’d both have been swallowed by a sea of bl00d and will be destroyed completely.

Having figured out the formation, Mo Ling already had a solution but deliberately crossed his arms, looking sideways at Shui Yue. “Xingyao Sect Saintess, it’s up to you to break the formation.”

Shui Yue, choking on her words, said, “You’re so cruel. You want me to go and break the formation? I’m only just selected as the Saintess. I’ve never even heard of this Bl00d Shadow Labyrinth Formation!”

Mo Ling coldly observed her reaction.

Hah! If she really didn’t know about the Bl00d Shadow Labyrinth Formation, she wouldn’t have been so terrified just now.

It was clear she wanted him to take the lead.

However, Mo Ling wasn’t about to trust her with their lives, so he sighed. “Looks like I’ll have to figure something out.”

Shui Yue wiped away her tears and asked, “Do you have a plan?”

“Of course!”

The Bl00d Shadow Labyrinth Formation was a formation that triggered bl00d fire to burn anything that entered the place. The difficulty lay in the fact that you couldn’t see how the formation was laid out and had to explore it yourself.

To get through the Bl00d Shadow Labyrinth Formation, the key was a protective method.

Mo Ling silently called out to the system, “System, I want to exchange for a method to get through the Bl00d Shadow Labyrinth Formation.”

Ding! Consuming 3000 emotion points to simulate thirty years of experience. After entering the formation, you comprehend it for thirty years, and create your own method to break the formation. You obtain the Tribulation Lotus Stage Method.

This was perfect.

Mo Ling made a hand seal, sending his energy out to form a shallow golden lotus platform around them. The golden light interwoven into a protective barrier.

Shui Yue, seeing the golden shield, was shocked.

Such a powerful external barrier could only be cast by someone at the Yuan King Realm, yet Mo Ling was clearly at the same level as her!

“Stop staring, and get on!”

Shui Yue snapped out her surprised face and smiled faintly. “I was just a bit distracted.”

Mo Ling jumped onto the lotus platform and immediately entered the Bl00d Shadow Labyrinth Formation.

As soon as they stepped in, they triggered the bl00d fire, which erupted and enveloped everything entering the formation. Without the golden lotus shield, they would have turned to dust.