Chapter 162 - Chapter 162: Chapter 162. Su Qing Isn’t Being Humble, She’s Feeling Guilty
Chapter 162: Chapter 162. Su Qing Isn’t Being Humble, She’s Feeling Guilty
Translator: Dragon Boat Translation Editor: Dragon Boat Translation
Su Qing helped Xiaoying and handed her over to Li Shuang’er and the rest to take care of her. She asked Zhong Yong and Li Daniu to protect the safety of the villagers while she returned to the cave along the vines to find Ji Shuisheng and Qiu Yongkang.
The centipedes in the cave had already been burned to ashes, and some flames still had not been extinguished. With the light, they could see the situation in the cave.
Su Qing lit a torch with the remaining fire. She didn’t hurry into the cave and first looked at the footprints on the ground. She noticed that Ji Shuisheng and Qiu Yongkang had entered the cave on the left and walked in with the torch in her hand.
Before she reached the end, she heard a creaking sound. Su Qing quickened her steps and saw that Ji Shuisheng had solved the mechanism. A door appeared in front of them.
“Why did you come down?”
When Ji Shuisheng saw Su Qing coming down again, he chased after her, “It’s dangerous here; go up and wait for us.”
“I’m curious.
I’ll go in first,” Su Qing said calmly. She stepped through the door and entered another long secret passage. There were pine oil torches on the wall. Su Qing lit them all, and the dark cave was instantly lit up.
The three found that the ground was not a real road but a plum blossom dome.
“Don’t go; I’ll solve the mechanism first.”
Ji Shuisheng stopped Su Qing, who wanted to go over, and first observed the surroundings. The eye of the array was in the middle, but if he wanted to go to the center, he would have to activate the mechanism. He looked at the rock walls on both sides, hoping to find a place to borrow strength and fly over. Unfortunately, the rock walls were very smooth, and there was no place for him to climb.
It could only be like this!
Ji Shuisheng pulled out his treasured saber and jumped up to stab it into the rock wall. He followed the force and ferried it to the middle position before gently landing on the plum blossom pile and closing the mechanism.
“Come over!”
Ji Shuisheng called Su Qing and Qiu Yongkang over while he walked forward with a torch. After entering another door, he realized that it was a massive pit with a suspension bridge in the air. Iron chains hung the suspension bridge as thick as fingers.
“Follow me, don’t go the wrong way.”
Ji Shuisheng squatted beside the bridge and observed for a while. He was sure this was a killing bridge arranged according to the five elements and eight trigrams. One would fall into a bottomless abyss if one walked the wrong way.
Su Qing realized that Ji Shuisheng was proficient in strange formations, while she knew nothing about them. Hence, she did not force herself and followed behind Ji Shuisheng, paying attention to the position where he landed.
It took the time it took to finish a cup of tea to cross the bridge. The three of them were very careful, and when they were about to reach the end, Qiu Yongkang took a wrong step. The bridge suddenly split open, and Qiu Yongkang fell from the sky. In his panic, he reached for the thick net on both sides of the bridge and triggered a mechanism on the bridge. The entire bridge opened its mouth like a demon, ready to swallow them into the darkness.
As Qiu Yongkang fell, Su Qing grabbed him and threw him across the bridge. She fell down the bridge and caught the net. It was a dangerous situation.
“Su Qing, don’t move.”
Ji Shuisheng shouted and stabbed the treasured knife into the ground. He lowered his body and grabbed Su Qing’s arm. His palms were covered in a cold sweat as he grabbed Su Qing’s hand tightly and pulled her onto the stone platform opposite.
“Thank you,” she said.
Su Qing thanked Ji Shuisheng. He didn’t expect the ancient people’s mechanisms to be so terrifying, and his forehead was covered in a cold sweat.
Who knew what kind of trap she would have triggered again if Ji Shuisheng had not risked his life to save her just now? No matter how powerful she was, she couldn’t dodge in mid-air.
Qiu Yongkang was thrown to the ground by Su Qing. He got up and came to save her. When he saw Ji Shuisheng bringing Su Qing back, he came over and said to her guiltily,
“I’ve implicated you.”
This was the second time Su Qing had saved his life, and he could not repay her.
“Okay.”
Su Qing nodded, and Qiu Yongkang’s face was filled with embarrassment.
Su Qing didn’t look at him anymore. The torch she was holding had fallen off the bridge. She couldn’t see the light from above, so he couldn’t tell how deep the bridge was.
“It doesn’t look like an ancient tomb?”
Su Qing suspected that she had guessed wrong. Ji Shuisheng picked up the torch he had thrown on the ground earlier and observed the situation around him. He thought about the Feng Shui that his foster father had taught him. His eyes became serious, and his chest heaved up and down rapidly.
“What do you guys think that bulge over there looks like?”
Ji Shuisheng pointed at a protruding mound in front of them. It was very long, about three to four meters long, and it meandered forward. Beside the mound was a winding stream. The water was obvious and glowed with a cold light.
“It seems… A Dragon?”
Qiu Yongkang observed and said with uncertainty.
“Yes, it’s a Dragon. I think it’s a Dragon vein.”
Ji Shuisheng looked excited as he did not expect to find the Dragon vein by accident.
“This is the great Xia Kingdom’s Dragon vein?”
Qiu Yongkang couldn’t believe it. If they destroyed the Dragon vein, that Zhao guy wouldn’t be able to become the Emperor anymore. Would they be able to find the Dragon vein so easily?
“I’ll go and see whose Dragon vein they’re protecting.”
Ji Shuisheng couldn’t suppress the excitement in his heart and strode over. Su Qing knew nothing about Dragon veins and thought it was an ancient tomb. With an ancient tomb, there would be money. Dragon veins couldn’t be exchanged for money, so she didn’t know why Ji Shuisheng was excited.
“Slow down; there’s a trap here.”
When Ji Shuisheng was about to walk forward, he realized the ground was filled with protruding tree roots. However, they were not real tree roots but veins formed by stones.
Ji Shuisheng felt that this was not an ordinary road. To prevent the Dragon vein from being destroyed, the Zhao family must have set up traps around the Dragon vein.
There were also protrusions on the rock walls on both sides. They were round bumps. If he did not guess wrongly, sharp swords should be soaked in poison inside. As long as he went over to destroy the Dragon vein, he would trigger thousands of arrows to shoot at him.
“I can’t break this formation.”
Ji Shuisheng searched for a long time but could not find the array door. He did not dare to act rashly, and his thick brows were tightly knitted together.
Su Qing thought of the black powder that the system had given her. If she used the black powder to make explosives, she might be able to blow up the Dragon vein.
Ji Shuisheng said to Qiu Yongkang,
“It’s good to have a shield. We can walk over with a shield.”
“But there’s no shield here.”
Qiu Yongkang shook his head helplessly. If his foster father were still alive, it would be a piece of cake for him to break this trap.
“I’ll try.”
Su Qing suddenly spoke. It wasn’t because she knew much about formations but because she had Xiao Qi.
Just now, she had asked Xiao Qi to check the traps here. Xiao Qi used the system to analyze and find the position of the array’s core. She also gave Su Qing a clear idea of where the traps would be triggered.
According to the map Xiao Qi gave her, Su Qing could reach the center of the array safely. If she destroyed the mechanism, she could blow up the Dragon vein.
“No, it’s too dangerous.”
Ji Shuisheng refused to let Su Qing take the risk no matter what. How could two grown men allow a woman to take the risk?
“Then I’ll draw a map for you, and you can follow it.”
Su Qing saw that Ji Shuisheng was stubborn and didn’t want her to take the risk. She stepped back and drew a map for him on the ground.
In shock, Ji Shuisheng looked at the map that Su Qing had drawn on the ground. He was suddenly enlightened. So the heart of the array was here. Ji Shuisheng raised his head and asked Su Qing excitedly,
“You also know about formations?”
“I know a little.”
Su Qing wasn’t being modest, but she was feeling guilty. She didn’t understand that it was all Xiao Qi’s fault.
“I’m going to destroy the Dragon vein of the Zhao family.”
Ji Shuisheng pulled out his treasured blade and walked toward the Dragon vein..