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Due to the experience just now, the three of them were no longer in a hurry to move forward to investigate. Not fast or slow, they maintained their original tempo as they probed inside.

The passage to the stone wall seemed to have reached its end as the path before them suddenly opened up.

After a careful examination, he discovered that this was a spacious area similar to the one on the right.

This time, it was the Xiao Er who walked in front, holding onto his sword, he walked in vigilantly.

After confirming that there was nothing abnormal with the surroundings, Xiao Jingyue finally brought Qu Ling in.

However, just as the two of them left the passage, a "dong" sound suddenly came from behind them.

The three of them turned around at the same time to see a stone door that was half an arm thick smashing down from above, tightly sealing the entrance to the tunnel.

Its speed was so fast that even Xiao Jingyue, who was near the stone door, did not have time to react.

Qu Ling was dumbstruck, "Are we, trapped here?"

Without waiting for Xiao Jingyue's reply, a loud rumbling sound came from the front.

At the same time, an unfamiliar male voice that could not be hidden was heard in their ears, "The door is finally open!"

"That's great, get out!"

After saying that, a few light footsteps came from afar.

Xiao Jingyue quietly pulled Qu Ling closer into his embrace, and stared at the direction of the voice.

Xiao Er who was standing in front of the two of them took out his sword and shouted: "Who is it?!"

The footsteps stopped a short distance away from them. One of them asked, "Who are you?!"

Just as the voice fell, a ball of light appeared in front of them. Three to four men appeared in front of Qu Ling and the rest, and the two sides clashed in the empty space.

Xiao Jingyue brought Qu Ling and walked out from behind Xiao Er. After looking at the few men for a while with narrowed eyes, he suddenly asked in a low voice, "Is Eighth Prince here?"

He had only separated from the pedestrians yesterday evening, so he had a clear impression of their appearance and clothes. He recognized almost immediately that they were people of the Eighth Prince.

And the reason why the Xiao Er didn't recognize them was because he hadn't gone to the riverbank with Xiao Jingyue and hadn't seen the Eighth Prince and his followers.

After a moment of silence, a figure walked out from the back. A familiar voice sounded: "General Xiao?"

This man was without a doubt the Eighth Prince.

He was injured and his clothes were torn in several places. He looked to be in a sorry state.

The followers standing behind him were in much the same condition as he was, and were even more seriously injured than he was.

As soon as the pedestrian approached, the strong smell of blood immediately assaulted his nostrils.

Qu Ling somewhat disdainfully covered his nose and mouth, and said softly: "You made it easy for us to find you."

The two parties put away their weapons at the same time. Eighth Prince walked in front of Qu Ling, sized her up, and asked in surprise: "Why are you here?"

If it was because of his' disappearance ', Xiao Jingyue would have no choice but to come and look for him. Why did he bring Qu Ling along too?

Qu Ling, in the face of these princes and princesses, always had a straight forward personality, and immediately asked snappily: "You clearly know of the danger, what are you doing running in here with nothing to do?"

Without waiting for Eighth Prince to answer, Xiao Jingyue shot a glance at him. Xiao Er understood and cupped his hands to Eighth Prince: "This morning, Magistrate Zeng came to the old house to find the general and told us about you entering the downstream cave. I plead for the general to come and find Eighth Prince, that's why he brought us here."

The Eighth Prince was quiet for a moment, then said: "I'm afraid we have fallen into their trap."

Xiao Er was stunned, he did not understand.

Xiao Jingyue's eyes darkened, "Magistrate Zeng?"

Eighth Prince nodded.

A follower explained: "Yesterday evening, Magistrate Zeng led us to this cave which was downstream, and took the initiative to open the iron door, bringing us into the cave, and brought us to the fork in the road, then suddenly disappeared without a trace. When we realized that something was wrong and wanted to go back, we discovered that we were unable to get out."

The other follower continued, "That's why we have to continue forward and see if there are any other ways out."

Needless to say, he already knew what would happen next.

If they had already found a way out, why would they meet them here?

Qu Ling asked: "Then what does Magistrate Zeng want to do by bringing us into this cave?"

Xiao Jingyue replied indifferently: "Maybe it has something to do with the river wall that collapsed."

That Magistrate Zeng has been in the Tong Huai Manor for many years already, and when the Minister of Industry, Chen Lin, came to build the riverbank that year, he was also appointed, so logically speaking, how could Magistrate Zeng not know that Chen Lin had tampered with the construction of the riverbank.

Previously, he could only guess that it was because they didn't want to report the matter to him, but now, they were probably working together to silence him.

Eighth Prince nodded and changed the subject. "Let's not talk about the river bank for now. Let's think about how to get out first."

Qu Ling asked: "How did those commoners get out?"

Those ordinary commoners could still leave, but this group of people all had martial arts skills, so why couldn't they?

Eighth Prince glanced at Qu Ling, turned his body, pointed at the door behind him that was just opened, and said: "From here onwards, there is indeed a 'road of life'."

Before he could finish his sentence, Xiao Jingyue had already understood, but he still asked: "Is it because those people are unconscious?"

Eighth Prince sighed, then said: "General Xiao is clever."

Therefore, at that time, everyone was standing on the same boat, so Eighth Prince had nothing to hide and told them everything that they had seen and heard.

After walking for around half an hour, they would arrive at an extremely spacious cave. The top of the cave was embedded with Night Pearls of all sizes, bed, tables, wooden buckets, and other daily necessities. There was even liquified water flowing on one of the stone walls.

This was not the most surprising thing. The most surprising thing was that the place was filled with unknown red flowers, and on the stamen, there were flashing red bugs lying on them.

As soon as he entered, the bugs lying on the stamens seemed to be awakened and immediately pounced towards him. At the same time, the flowers on the ground moved without the wind, emitting the sweet fragrance of a god's heart.

As Qu Ling listened to the description given by the Eighth Prince, he seriously imagined that scene and actually felt that it was pretty beautiful. He impatiently asked, "And then?"

"I don't know if it's because of the fragrance of the flowers or the insects, but after the time it takes to make a cup of tea, those people won't be able to clear their minds." Eighth Prince still had lingering fear in her heart when she thought of the scene of her subordinates who had lost their minds and started to randomly hum and dance.

At that time, he was walking in the middle of the crowd, and after seeing the two people walking in front of him cause a disturbance, he retreated under the protection of the two people in front of him. Standing at the entrance of the stone wall, he could only watch helplessly as the three people, who were unable to retreat in time, struggled from their screams to singing and dancing in the time it took to make a cup of tea.

The most dangerous part was still behind him.

Amongst the eleven of them, other than himself, there were only seven who were under his command. The other three were sent by the Magistrate Zeng to follow him.

Those three were his men after he broke through the flowers. After those three crazily ran to the exit opposite them, the three men from Magistrate Zeng immediately attacked them. They had no choice but to fight in the stone passage that was not very wide.

Although it was five against three, because the three of them were Death Soldiers, their moves were filled with the fierceness of killing. They did not take his life seriously.

Their side did not get many benefits, and only after suffering a few more injuries, did they manage to kill the three death warriors.

Out of the 11 of them, only four remained.

Under the Eighth Prince's lead, they continued to walk forward.

When the last person stepped into the stone passage, the stone door immediately closed.

At the same time, when Qu Ling and the rest entered, the stone door of the stone passage opened once again.

Seeing this, Qu Ling was surprised.