“Over the years, I’ve had less and less contact with my childhood classmates because I feel ashamed in front of them! We once made a vow together to overthrow the Holy Light Church, but I turned around and started believing in the Saint Temple Knights….”
Seeing her state, Wang Hu couldn’t help but say, “Yun Qiaoqiao, I didn’t know about your past before, and you never mentioned it, but now that I do, I’m your elder brother, and you should listen to me! Don’t go. I don’t want to see you suffer like this.”
Lu Hai, who was standing nearby, echoed, “That’s right, Second Sister, don’t go. I think if you go, you’ll become unrecognizable to us. Those Holy Light Church people are heartless!”
“But if I don’t go to the Holy Light Church, how can I gain power? I can’t even protect you all, let alone think about eradicating the Holy Light Church.” Yun Qiaoqiao’s face showed a mix of tears and laughter, extreme contradiction evident in her.
Her parents’ revenge, her promise to childhood classmates, her yearning for power, her resistance to the Holy Light Church—all of this was practically crushing this twenty-three-year-old girl.
If this continued, Lu Chenxing felt that she wouldn’t need anyone else to act against her; she would become mentally unstable herself.
So, after thinking for a moment, he said, “Actually, you don’t have to go to the Holy Light Church. I might have a way, but you might need to re-cultivate. Are you willing?”
Upon hearing this, Yun Qiaoqiao suddenly looked up, her red eyes fixed on Lu Chenxing, momentarily speechless. After a long pause, she asked incredulously, “Boss Lu, are you… serious?!”
Wang Hu and Lu Hai, standing nearby, also stared intently at Lu Chenxing’s expression, their eyes filled with disbelief! Because they had never heard of any other Knight inheritances!
Both of them had initially resolved to stop Yun Qiaoqiao from doing anything foolish, but they hadn't expected there to be a turning point!
“Hmm, it shouldn’t be a problem.” Lu Chenxing smiled and nodded. After all, if Guan Yang could succeed, Yun Qiaoqiao should be able to as well.
So he said, “If you trust me, then after you leave the secret realm, go find the person in charge of the military camp outside. Tell them I sent you, and that you need to see Lei Tai Mayor. If Lei Tai Mayor and the others ask for the reason, you can just tell them the truth.”
Wang Hu was stunned for a moment, then tentatively asked, “This Lei Tai, is it the Lei Tai Mayor from our Tianyuan City?”
“Yes, it’s him.” Lu Chenxing smiled and nodded.
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Soon after, Lu Chenxing watched the three of them leave, filled with Hope, and let out a soft sigh, feeling a bit sorry for Yun Qiaoqiao, as if fate had played a cruel joke on her.
But since he had already promised to help her, Lu Chenxing composed himself and continued towards his final destination, the Dark Night Bat’s cave.
As he drew closer, Lu Chenxing keenly noticed a pungent smell of urine in the air, realizing that it must be ammonia again.
When Lu Chenxing arrived at the cave entrance, following the foul smell, he was about to use Bombardment Art to send this nest of bats to their demise when he remembered to take out the parchment and glance at it, just in case there were any landmark buildings or something that would complicate things.
Opening the old, yellowed parchment, the patterns on it were already somewhat blurred, but by using the surrounding reference points, he could roughly discern that the entrance to this hidden secret realm was indeed inside this cave.
“The location where they found this parchment should be in the Zombie Village further southwest? The distance from here isn’t that far.” Lu Chenxing mused, stroking his chin.
Since this parchment was found on a zombie, it meant that these zombies were likely normal living people before, but turned into zombies for some unknown reason?
Lu Chenxing had seen the scope of that village on the map before. Based on its size, it was just an ordinary small village, without any wealthy families.
So Lu Chenxing felt that the probability of there being treasure inside was very low. Most likely, this parchment was also accidentally picked up by someone in that village, but the person who found the parchment didn’t become rich or powerful. Their strength might have been a bit stronger than those around them, but it seemed to be limited…
Perhaps it was a not-so-powerful inheritance?
But no matter how he speculated, Lu Chenxing still decided to go inside and take a look. After all, in his previous life, he had heard a saying from his instructor, “To know the taste of a pear, you must taste it yourself.”
The pattern on the parchment indicated that after entering the cave, one should follow the right side all the way inward, eventually reaching the deepest part of the cave, and then there were no further instructions.
After confirming there were no reference objects, Lu Chenxing put away the parchment, took out a Tier 2 Bombardment Art card, and directly threw it in.
This bat cave’s entrance wasn’t downward-sloping; it was a normal ground-level cave. Lu Chenxing stood to the side of the cave entrance, to prevent anything from being carried out by the explosion’s shockwave.
“Boom—!”
Moments later, fire erupted, and a huge explosion echoed through the forest. The shockwave, carrying hot, scorching air and some shattered bat flesh, flew out of the cave entrance.
As the yield increased, the effective attack range of Bombardment Art also expanded simultaneously, and in a confined space, the explosion effect would increase even further!
Without surprise, the Dark Night Bats, only at the early Tier 3, were blown to smithereens by this Tier 2 ultimate card. The other numerous Tier 2 Dark Night Bats were also crushed into a pulpy mess by the high-temperature, high-pressure shockwave, leaving behind only that nauseating, complex smell.
Lu Chenxing drew a wisp of Wind Element to himself, letting it filter the disgusting smell in the air, then walked inward.
With a faint golden shimmer in his eyes, the scene inside the cave was now fully visible.
This was just an ordinary cave, with many stalactites on the ceiling, most of which had broken after the recent explosion. The ground was covered with thick bat guano, and now, an additional thick layer of bat corpses.
Lu Chenxing waved his hand slightly, and earth elements surged. In a short while, all the crystal cores on the ground were gathered in front of Lu Chenxing. Counting them, there were less than a hundred this time.
These crystal cores were not very useful to Lu Chenxing now, but he could save them for Guan Yang and the others.
After putting away the crystal cores, Lu Chenxing followed the map’s instructions, slowly walking forward along the right side. The cave was only a few dozen meters long, and he quickly reached the end, but he saw nothing.
After searching around, Lu Chenxing frowned slightly, “Did I look in the wrong place? Or did I miss something?”
Thinking this, he took out the parchment again, but as soon as the parchment appeared this time, it immediately emitted a faint white light and floated up!
Then it slowly unfolded. Lu Chenxing was incredibly surprised to see this, because it was the patterns and ink on the parchment that were emitting the white light!
At this moment, under Lu Chenxing’s gaze, the ink slowly faded a bit, and the patterns on it looked even more blurred. Then, the parchment glowed brightly, carrying Lu Chenxing and disappearing into the cave!