Master of Strange Dao

Chapter 1726: Chapter 465: Cat-Headed Labyrinth, Pot World (5k)_2

Hearing this, Peeling finally let out a breath of relief. Yu Ziqing’s traveling speed was really something; even though he’d set off several days late, he’d still managed to arrive on the same day.

He rolled his arm a bit, circulated his Qi-Blood, and dissolved that little bit of hidden injury.

Even he felt that Yu Ziqing’s Escape Skill was way too violent; other people probably wouldn’t be able to take it at all.

Yu Ziqing glanced toward the east, took out a flying sword, sent a message to the Old Dragon King, then he and Peeling dived into the sea first.

Going deep to the seabed, they easily found that undersea mountain that looked like a cat’s head; the two peaks were like upright cat ears, extremely similar.

At the foot of the mountain they could still see a crack, like a cat’s mouth slightly open.

Peeling led the way, entering from the "cat’s mouth." At the deepest part of the cave, there were two pitch‑black tunnel mouths. Peeling didn’t hesitate and directly took Yu Ziqing into the lower tunnel.

"The upper tunnel is a side path. If you go all the way in, you get thrown straight into the Void."

Yu Ziqing gave Peeling a side‑eye. From those words, it was obvious Peeling had stepped in that pit himself before.

It was only because he was strong enough; if his strength were a bit weaker and he got tossed into the Void, ninety‑nine percent he’d be done for.

Yu Ziqing sent another message to the Old Dragon King, telling him which of the two paths to take, then left an imprint at the entrance of the lower passage that the Old Dragon King would definitely understand.

The two entered the passage, and the dim cave once again returned to silence.

The dust stirred up when they entered slowly began to settle and drift down again.

The water gently swirled, and much of that dust drifted down toward the spot where Yu Ziqing had left his imprint.

When the dust had settled and everything was quiet again, Yu Ziqing’s imprint was covered over and became no different from the surroundings.

But this scene was seen by no one, known by no one.

Yu Ziqing and Peeling entered the cave. Inside, tunnels branched out in all directions; there were many forks. For most of the forks, Peeling could tell him exactly what would happen if you chose the wrong way.

The more Yu Ziqing listened, the more uneasy he felt. Just how dark was Peeling’s luck supposed to be?

At least eighty percent of the fork choices, he’d picked wrong before. He’d really just relied on his strong body and brute‑forced his way through.

Doing something together with a guy whose luck is this rotten—was that maybe a bit too dangerous?

Right now Yu Ziqing really wanted to tell Peeling, why don’t you head back, I’ll go by myself.

Every time they passed a fork, Yu Ziqing would crush a Jade Scroll, telling the Old Dragon King whether to choose left or right, up or down, and would thoughtfully leave an imprint as insurance.

After all, if you’re calling someone in as muscle, you can’t have them fail to even find the place.

They made their way through the labyrinth of forks, and when they entered the final passage, both of them sensed that there were two people standing guard ahead.

Yu Ziqing took out a Storage Bag, gestured to Peeling, and had him go into the Storage Bag.

Yu Ziqing himself retreated back one fork. With a thought, the space around him began to compress, and everything around him started to grow larger in his eyes.

He kept compressing the space around his body, shrinking himself to half a palm in size. With a shake of his body, a wisp of Gui Water Qi appeared; he blended his aura into the seawater and hugged the stone wall, moving forward along the ridges and corners on the rock.

Those ridges and corners normally were nowhere near enough to hide a person; you’d spot someone there at a glance.

But right now, to Yu Ziqing, it was like a stone forest.

He slipped through them, and out of the corner of his eye he saw those two people—it was two of the ones he had seen earlier when using his Moonlight Divine Skills.

Their strength was average, at most Seventh Tier. With Yu Ziqing’s current power, he could blow their heads apart in an instant.

But if these two died, it would definitely alert the snake.

Yu Ziqing still remembered one of his purposes for coming this time.

He’d already swept the East Qian coastline twice; the people had been taken away, and Peeling would definitely leave with them.

Since he was doing this, he might as well do it thoroughly. If these people had really taken quite a few others away, then he’d rescue those people too.

That way Peeling wouldn’t have any lingering regrets, and in the future he could stay in South Dui just like he did in East Qian, nice and at ease.

With Peeling around, pacifying and handling the people in South Dui would go a lot smoother.

Yu Ziqing quietly bypassed the two. They were actually quite vigilant; whenever they sensed the water current shift, one of them would go out to check, and only after confirming no one was out there would he come back and continue standing guard.

Yu Ziqing passed over their heads, using the ridges on the stone wall to quietly slip past this tunnel entrance and into the interior.

The instant he crossed the tunnel mouth, the space behind suddenly opened wide.

The gravity here had become extremely Strange; Yu Ziqing stood on the side wall and felt as though he were standing on level ground.

Looking forward, he saw people below repairing the damaged Sacrificial altar, and on the stone wall above, which also seemed like flat ground, there was another Sacrificial altar with people repairing that one as well.

The two Sacrificial altars, one up and one down, both seemed to be sitting on the ground.

Yu Ziqing let his eyelids droop, only using his peripheral vision to sweep over them. After confirming they were still in the preparation stage, he continued moving along the side wall.

This place had been desolate and abandoned for who knows how long. The entire enormous space belonged to the domain of the Sacrificial altar, but most of it was already ruined.

All that remained here was the core structure, basically just a framework.

Following along, Yu Ziqing saw a Stele. A corner was missing; it should be the one that matched the piece Peeling had given him.

Looking at the trenches and rows of pits being prepared on the ground, Yu Ziqing’s face turned as dark as still water. With one glance he could tell what they were getting ready to do.