I Have a Date with a Thousand-year-old Female Corpse
Chapter 255 Why Are You Looking at Me Like That_1

Chapter 255: Chapter 255 Why Are You Looking at Me Like That_1

Intuition told you there was definitely something wrong with this woman!

However, since the Saintess had already left, you had no need to linger here any longer.

After all, Zhao’er’s identity wasn’t of paramount importance to you; you just wanted her by your side.

You paid no attention to Dong Fangxiao either; once this matter was concluded, there would be no further interaction between you, and you couldn’t be bothered to hold a grudge against her.

With the commotion the Saintess had caused, your interest in further exploration was lost; after all, your goal had been reached, and there was no need to stay any longer.

Moreover, this was the resting place of you and Wu Qiyi from a past life. Looking at it from another perspective, this was also your ancestral tomb, and no one would destroy their own ancestral tomb.

Since you found out that the Saintess had come down from a different path, you decided to follow suit.

Your reasoning was simple: the state banned the development of Qian Ling Mausoleum for good reasons, so you decided to seal it off completely.

The Saintess had taken the Black Tortoise Gate, which was still closed. You climbed the stairs along the city wall and reached atop the wall. Just as Dong Fangxiao was preparing the ropes to descend, Nong Xuele suddenly let out an exclamation.

"Ah!"

"What’s the matter?" you and Wu Qiyi asked in unison, turning to look at her.

"Look!"

Following Nong Xuele’s pointing finger, you were astonished to find that the Palace’s Main Hall, which had been destroyed by the monsters summoned by the Saintess, was actually being reconstructed!

No, not reconstructed.

Reconstruction meant building anew, while the Palace’s Main Hall appeared to be rewinding, as if in reverse. The fallen beams and broken tiles were visibly moving back to their original placements, every fragment fitting back together, restored to perfection.

In just a few minutes, the Palace’s Main Hall was restored. At the same time, you noticed a person floating above the hall. She seemed like a fairy banished to the mortal world, her garments fluttering, gazing distantly at you, as if bidding farewell.

"Sister Shangguan, do you want to come up and play with us?" Nong Xuele called out with a smile to Shangguan Wan’er, who was floating above the hall.

Shangguan Wan’er didn’t respond; her figure slowly faded away under your watchful eyes.

Once again, Chang’an City returned to tranquility.

"Let’s go," you said softly to Wu Qiyi.

"Mhm."

She looked at you and nodded slowly.

The passage inside was winding and laden with many traps. Along the way, you even spotted the corpse of a man from Yamato, his body riddled with arrows, his eyes wide open in death.

Dong Fangxiao glanced at him and couldn’t help but let out a cold snort, "This Saintess is truly heartless, not even willing to reclaim the body of her underling."

You also gave the man from Yamato a look and said indifferently, "Anyone who came down here should have been prepared to die."

With that, you glanced at the arrows embedded in the wall and sighed softly, "Fortunately, we didn’t take this path earlier; otherwise, we’d have been in trouble."

You continued on, only to soon come upon five diverging paths.

"Which way now?" Dong Fangxiao turned to look at you.

You extended your hand and pointed to the second path on the left: "This way."

"Are you sure?"

You nodded with a smile and reassured her, "Don’t worry, I left a mark on the Saintess. Any trail she’s left behind, I can see it."

The Sen Luo Eye had boundless ingenious uses; previously, while you shattered the Saintess’s Jade Flute, you took advantage of her momentary emotional turmoil to place a mark upon her. Such a mark would typically last half a day. In the past, it was by using such a method that you were easily able to locate the lair of the Soul Refining Sect.

Dong Fangxiao looked at you with a very strange expression. When you noticed it, you couldn’t help but ask, "Why are you looking at me like that?"

"Suddenly, I find you quite terrifying."

You were slightly taken aback, then you laughed and said, "Why would you say that?"

"You appear to be very ordinary, but you always unexpectedly demonstrate some strange abilities. And the closer one gets to you, the more fearsome you turn out to be. I was just thinking, if we were enemies, I probably wouldn’t have a clue and you would kill me in some corner, right?"

Hearing this, you hurriedly waved your hands, "I’m not as scary as you think, I’m just a very ordinary college student."

"Ordinary? How so?"

Xue Le sized you up and down.

You spread your hands and said, " I have just two hands and two legs, what else is there?"

"Pfft."

Dong Fangxiao snorted coldly and then, holding her gun, walked towards the corridor you had pointed out.

"Hold on."

At that moment, Xue Le suddenly grabbed Dong Fangxiao.

"What’s wrong?" Dong Fangxiao looked at Xue Le.

"Shh, don’t talk, step back a little."

As she spoke, Xue Le took out something that looked very much like a bar of soap from her waist.

What surprised you next was that the "soap" seemed to come to life; it wriggled in Xue Le’s hand like an insect. Upon closer inspection, you realized it wasn’t soap at all, but a white caterpillar curled up tight!

Xue Le held the white caterpillar in her hands, slowly approached the mouth of the corridor and carefully placed the white caterpillar upon the corridor’s wall.

The caterpillar, resembling a silkworm, slowly lifted its head. It circled once on the wall of the corridor and then returned to Xue Le’s hand. By the time it lay in her palm again, the caterpillar had turned a dark green color.

"Phew, that was close!"

Xue Le took out a pill from a small bag and fed it to the white caterpillar, which slowly curled up once more, reverting to look like a bar of soap.

"Xue Le, did you discover something?" Wu Qiyi asked as she looked at Xue Le.

Xue Le nodded, "Looks like we absolutely can’t let our guard down. We almost capsized in the sewer just now."

"What happened?" You frowned and immediately asked.

Xue Le pointed towards the corridor, "The air in this corridor is filled with a potent poison. Once inhaled, a person’s body would turn like Little White’s in three seconds, and then they would die from their body disintegrating."

The three of you exchanged glances, not expecting the Saintess to have left behind such a trick.

"So what do we do now? Are we supposed to go back the way we came?" Dong Fangxiao asked immediately.

"No need for all that trouble, we still have me, right?"

Xue Le took out a small brocade pouch from her bag with a cheerful smile, she poured out some multicolored powder from it onto her palm. Then she walked to the corridor entrance, turned to you, and said, "Senior, I need a gust of wind."

You nodded, and a Wind curse flew out of your pocket. The talisman rapidly shredded and dissolved, turning into a breeze that swept towards Xue Le.

At that moment, Xue Le lifted her right hand high. The breeze stirred the powder in her palm, blowing it into the corridor. Soon, you all saw the air in the corridor glistening, as the wind carried specks of light deeper inside.

A few minutes later, Xue Le clapped her hands and said with a smile, "All done!"