Abundant Martial Arts Virtue
Chapter 413 - 367: The Trust of the Undead

Chapter 413: Chapter 367: The Trust of the Undead

Corridor.

This was indeed a long corridor, its destination unknown.

The earth dog wagged its tail and sniffed around.

"Strange... I always feel like the secret is right here, and we don’t need to keep walking along the corridor," it said, puzzled.

"Is that so? Why do you feel this way?" Wu Xiaode asked.

"I can smell the scent of secrets, born into the world as a special form of knowledge, akin to the highest circulating medium in knowledge and information, like gold," the earth dog explained.

Wu Xiaode pondered for a few moments, took out the disk Zhao Congnan had given him, and held it in his hand.

Drip!

A faint sound.

The walls of the corridor flipped over, revealing a narrow passage.

This passage seemed to have sustained some damage and could not open fully, leaving only a slight gap.

Wu Xiaode didn’t need to try; he knew he couldn’t fit through.

The earth dog tried.

It could pass through.

"I smell the scent of secrets. Just follow this path, and we’ll find some valuable information," it said.

Wu Xiaode spoke, "We’ll split up; you go after the secret, and I’ll see where this corridor leads."

He sprinkled some Demon Mist on the earth dog.

"Alright, I’ll contact you through the Book of the Dead if I find anything!"

The earth dog responded and crawled into the narrow passage, soon disappearing from sight.

Wu Xiaode stood up, released a thick layer of Demon Mist, and continued along the corridor.

Along the way, he had a strange feeling.

—For some reason, he always felt like he might encounter someone or something familiar.

"Ridiculous... Since when do I have the ability to foresee?"

Wu Xiaode murmured quietly and sped up.

At one moment.

He suddenly stood still in place.

Although there was clearly no one around and nothing in existence, his heart conjured an illusion.

It seemed as if someone was lurking in the shadows—

And someone was eagerly trying to tell him something.

This feeling...

Wu Xiaode calmed down and thought quietly.

Firstly, being spied upon was a very difficult task given that he was covered by high-level Demon Mist.

Could it be that using Zhao Congnan’s identity had activated something?

Wu Xiaode thought for a few moments and felt unable to find an answer. He wanted to move forward but felt that if he did, he might miss something.

He pondered for a few moments and finally decided to check it out, softly commanding:

"Let me see!"

As soon as the words fell, his Tao Power surged instantly.

All Wu Xiaode saw was his eyes flickering with a faint, dim glow as he looked around.

"’See all’."

"Your eyes can penetrate all barriers of the world, taking you to and letting you see everything that belongs to the Netherworld."

In an instant, the world changed.

He saw a skeleton in a red dress trapped deep within the wall.

With a flash, Wu Xiaode had passed through the thick wall and arrived inside the space within the wall.

—This was the power of "See all"!

As long as it belonged to the Netherworld, he could directly reach its location.

"...Have you always been here?" he asked softly.

The skeleton in the red dress, sitting cross-legged with its chin propped on its hands, seemed to be deep in thought.

Not until a few moments after Wu Xiaode’s words did a spirit of a woman rise from the skeleton, holding a painted fan that covered her face, using only her eyes to carefully examine him.

"I am the master of this city. Yesterday, a pair of thieves came here. They were too powerful, and I had to end it myself, hiding my body and soul here to avoid being captured and interrogated about the secrets of the Human Emperor," the woman said.

Wu Xiaode bowed respectfully, his voice extremely slow and soft: "Your bravery is truly admirable. May I know what unfulfilled wish prompted you to call me here?"

As he finished talking, the Wall of Wishes quietly appeared.

The woman stepped forward, placed her hand on the Wall of Wishes, and said:

"Beneath the City Lord Mansion, in a hidden room, there is a great library housing eight hundred thousand types of human martial arts inheritance. The most important among them is the Taoist book that unlocks the secrets of the Human Emperor."

"I hope you will protect it and not let it fall into the hands of those two thieves."

"This is my final wish—"

"Will you help me?"

"Okay," Wu Xiaode briefly replied.

No wonder this Human Emperor’s mission was limited to three hours.

If he didn’t quickly explore the secrets here and find that Human Emperor’s Taoist Book—

It would surely be taken by the enemy.

"Do you know that agreeing to my request means you must follow through, or else you’ll endure a corresponding Curse?" the woman said softly.

Wu Xiaode bowed and replied, "This is something I will definitely do, with absolutely no intention of refusing."

"The only information I can tell you is that the two enemies are not allied," the woman said.

"Is that all the information?" Wu Xiaode asked.

"There’s also the Book Storage Order from the library, although it’s not very useful, it can help you find the Human Emperor’s Taoist Book first," the woman pointed to her skeletal remains.

Wu Xiaode looked down and saw a token in the skeleton’s hand.

As he looked over, the skeleton’s fingers loosened, and the token fell to the ground.

Wu Xiaode picked up the token.

Several lines of ice crystal letters immediately appeared:

"You have obtained the City Lord’s Book Storage Order."

"Functions:"

"1. Search for books;"

"2. Change borrowing permissions;"

"3. Add annotations to books."

—With this, he could directly find the Human Emperor’s Taoist Book!

"Leave the next steps to me," Wu Xiaode said.

The woman nodded her head, her entire form merging back into the skeleton in the red dress, disappearing without a trace.

However, the Wall of Wishes shook slightly, rapidly revealing a line of small letters:

"The opponent has transferred all their power to you, your ’multiple’ Tao Powers have now transformed into your exclusive Dark Element Tao Power."

"This Tao Power has been stored in the Wall of Sighs."

"When you collect three such types of Tao Power, your ’Sealing Hand’ will undergo an upgrade."

—Tao Power had already combined with the Death Skill, forming a potent force that could turn anything into dead matter.

Wu Xiaode glanced through these prompt runes and then lost interest.

He bowed to the skeleton in the red dress:

"Once I retrieve the Human Emperor’s Taoist Book, I will come back to lay you to rest."

Having finished speaking, he flashed his figure, passed through the wall, and returned to the corridor.

The situation had become very clear.

—Fortunately, he had awakened a Netherworld Tao Power, and so as long as there were spirits around, nothing that happened here could be hidden from him.

Ahead.

As he turned the corner, the space in front of him suddenly opened up.

He saw a vast underground library.

Huge bookshelves packed densely together stretched as far as the eye could see, each one overflowing with books.

Two people were floating in mid-air, browsing through the books one by one.

A man and a woman.

The man, dressed in a gorgeous crimson robe and handsome in appearance, flipped through the book in his hand and said, "This isn’t mine."

He carelessly tossed the book onto the ground.

The woman, cloaked in black robes and indiscernible in face, seemed to have various wriggling things under her cloak.

"This isn’t mine either," the woman said.

She too tossed the book she was holding onto the ground.

"Shall we each take another one to look at?" the man asked.

"Of course," the woman replied.

"It’s infuriating that the prohibition here is too strong, probably set by the Human Emperor himself—I can only flip through one book at a time, otherwise I would have found the target already," the man said angrily.

The woman sneered and said, "You were originally here to kill, yet now you have to search for a book, who is to blame?"

The man casually stroked his golden short hair and spoke with a teasing tone:

"My good-for-nothing brother, unable to even grasp the laws of time, dreamt of rising in rank within the Council—here I am, cleaning up his mess."

While speaking, a sense of Destruction emanated from him.

"You go kill, I’ll keep looking for the book," the woman said.

"That won’t do, killing is too simple—right now, with a treasure like the Human Emperor’s Taoist Book at hand, finding the treasure is more important, isn’t it, Divine Girl?" the man said with a laugh.

The woman shook her head and without further words, stretched her hand to take out another book from the shelf.

Seeing this, the man immediately grabbed another book from the shelf and started to browse.

"Not this one."

The two sighed as they put down the books and began to browse through another one.

Wu Xiaode was in the Demon Mist, holding his breath and silently listening to the two talking.

That man—

Looked a lot like Abner.

So, the fact that he had left the duel had already come to the attention of the Destruction Council?

...It must be the Abner family that was closely monitoring this matter.

If Abner managed to kill him, closing off the puppet’s retreat route and letting the puppets in the Floating City of the Destruction Council be annihilated by the Destruction Will—

Abner would undoubtedly achieve glory, rising to become the most powerful person in the Council!

This brother of his must have come to kill him.

It wouldn’t do...

The auras of these two people were terrifying; he needed to think of a way to deal with them.

Wu Xiaode quietly pulled out the Book Storage Order.

This token had three functions.

Search could be used to find the Human Emperor’s Taoist Book.

Changing the borrowing privileges could prevent the two from borrowing books.

—But that would be dangerous; they would certainly realize that there was someone else tampering here.

The remaining function was to add annotations to the books.

This seemed like something he could use.

Wu Xiaode quickly thought it over and slowly walked over to the shelf where the two were looking.

The two were searching through the books very quickly.

One would throw a book away, and the other would immediately follow by throwing away their book, and then both would start browsing a new book together.

—While browsing, they occasionally glanced at each other, seemingly afraid that the other would find the Human Emperor’s Taoist Book first.

This provided an opportunity.

Wu Xiaode glanced past the woman and looked toward Abner’s brother.

...The one who wanted to kill him was this man.

He thought for a moment, gently pressed the Book Storage Order, and aimed it at a specific book on the shelf.

The Silent Demon Mist flowed into the pages, ensuring no fluctuations leaked out.

Shortly after.

Wu Xiaode completed his action and quietly retreated back to the corridor.

After a few moments.

The blond man in the crimson robe flipped to that particular book.

Upon opening the page, he saw big characters boldly imprinted on the page:

"Human Emperor’s Taoist Book."

"To practice this supreme skill, one must read this volume!"

"—Special reminder: The Tao Power of this inheritance is for the use of one person only."

Found it!

The blond man in the crimson robe was overjoyed but maintained his usual expression trying to deceive the woman.

Wu Xiaode watched his act so authentically portrayed, the corners of his mouth couldn’t help but twitch slightly as he shook his head.

The next instant.

Following the usual frequency of turning pages, the woman cloaked in robes threw her book on the ground, and reached for a new one to flip through.

But the blond man hesitated for a moment.

—This was the Human Emperor’s Taoist Book!

Did he really want to throw it on the ground?

In that moment of hesitation, the woman immediately rushed over and demanded, "Found it?"

"No!"

"Really? Show me the book!"

"—Hmph."

The blond man snorted coldly, tucked the book into his robe, and swiftly retreated.

How could he possibly hand over this Taoist Book to her?

Hadn’t he seen it written on the page: "The Tao Power of this inheritance is for the use of one person only"?

"It seems you’ve found it—you’ve broken our agreement," the woman’s voice turned icy cold.

"Get lost, and if you talk too much, I’ll kill you," the blond man said."

The woman fell silent.

The blond man no longer spoke either.

Suddenly—

The woman’s cloak dispersed, revealing her true form—a strikingly beautiful woman covered in snakes.

She commanded in a deep voice: "Descend."

Almost simultaneously, the blond man also shouted: "Unleash the End!"