Tomb Raider: The Fox's Ways to Seducing the Kirin

Seeing that the boy's brows were furrowed so tightly that they could pinch a fly to death, Zhang Qiling couldn't help but raise his hand to smooth out his frown, and comforted him, "If you can't figure it out, don't think about it for now. You'll know when you go in and take a look."

Cheng Ji racked his brains but couldn't figure it out, so he just followed Zhang Qiling's wishes, nodded, and said to Cheng Dixian who was still kneeling on the ground: "Get up, do you want to go with us or what?"

Cheng Dixian nodded in panic and said, "I'll go with you. Young Master, you have to help me. You can't forget your superb life-saving acupuncture skills!"

Cheng Ji's eyes narrowed when he heard that. It was too unbelievable that he even knew the Thirteen Ghost Needles.

Everything he knows now was given to him by Xiaoqi, so what role did Xiaoqi play in this?

An inexplicable feeling of loneliness permeated the boy's body, and even Zhang Qiling could sense that something was wrong with the boy.

Zhang Qiling stretched out his hand and held the young man in his arms, interrupting his thoughts and saying, "Be obedient and don't think about it."

The young man clutched Zhang Qiling's sleeve tightly, like a drowning man grasping at a lifeline.

Seeing this, Zhang Qiling reached out and gently pried open the boy's hand that was grabbing his sleeve.

The young man who noticed Zhang Qiling's actions thought that he was being abandoned by this last straw, and the sadness in his eyes spread.

Zhang Qiling sighed, held the broken little hand in his own palm, lowered his head and whispered in the boy's ear: "Don't think about it, come back to your senses."

With the comfort of the gods, the boy finally got rid of the suffocating feeling like drowning, and leaned in Zhang Qiling's arms to calm his breath.

After a long while, the young man's buzzing voice came: "Let's go, I'm fine, it's important to hurry."

"Okay." Zhang Qiling responded.

Under the guidance of Cheng Dixian, the two slowly walked deeper into the cave.

Taking advantage of the time when they were hurrying on the road, the young man casually asked, "What about the tribesmen who came with you? Logically, shouldn't they be with you?"

Cheng Di was stunned for a moment, then replied, "I'm not sure either. After I was killed, I woke up as a spirit a hundred years later. This place was sealed by the Queen Mother of the West, and there is a formation underground, so I can't get out."

Cheng Ji raised his eyebrows slightly: "It seems that the Queen Mother of the West has a high level of attainment in star map formations. Not only has the flower sea maze survived for a thousand years, but the formation buried underground is also so powerful. It is truly admirable."

Cheng Dixian didn't know what the young man meant, so he just nodded in agreement without saying anything.

Perhaps it was because the Queen Mother of the West was too confident in the several formations and mechanisms she had set up in front, so that the journey behind Cheng Ji and the others was unusually smooth, almost to the end in one breath, without any interruption.

It was not until they reached the last stone gate that Cheng Ji and Zhang Qiling stopped.

Cheng Dixian, who was walking in front of the two, turned his head in confusion and said, "Why don't you move on? The place behind is what you are looking for."

Cheng Ji held Zhang Qiling's hairpin with both hands and fumbled with it. Hearing this, he asked with some amusement: "How do you know what we are looking for? What, can a soul now be regarded as a worm in the stomach?"

Cheng Dixian was choked by what the young man said, and he defended himself innocently: "Young Master, how can you think so? Those who come in here must want the treasure inside. If I wasn't just a soul, I would also be greedy for such a treasure."

Cheng Ji didn't even glance at Cheng Di who was quibbling. He then played with the god's fingers, as if he wanted to take a closer look. Why could these two fingers have such power? They were only a little longer than those of ordinary people. He really didn't understand.

No matter how Cheng Dixian explained, the boy remained unmoved, until Cheng Dixian gave up and sneered, "You've seen through it a long time ago, you're deliberately teasing me here."

The young man smiled and said, "How could that be? I am a very respectful person. Don't you agree, brother?"

Zhang Qiling recalled the scene a few years ago when the young man confronted Zhang Qishan in Er Yuehong's mansion and the man had almost no chance to fight back.

Yeah, that's respectful.

Zhang Qiling nodded in agreement.

Seeing that his god approved of his character, Cheng Ji patted Zhang Qiling's hand with satisfaction, and then said, "What's wrong? Why are you silent, Miss Yang Wanjin?"

Then she seemed to have just thought of something, and said with an annoyed look: "Oh, how can you call me Miss Yang? It's so rude, Grandma Yang."

"You! Don't go too far." Queen Mother of the West, also known as Yang Wanjin, said angrily while pretending to be Cheng Dixian.

Cheng Ji's eyes turned cold and he said, "I went too far? When you killed my people, why didn't you think that what you did was even more excessive?"

"You brought the two of us here to be the last ingredient of the elixir of immortality in your dream of longevity. Isn't that too much?"

Queen Mother Xi was shocked: "How did you know?"

Cheng Ji looked coldly at the culprit who had disturbed the future generations, and said sarcastically: "Why, the information you investigated in advance is invalid? You even found out that I know the Thirteen Ghost Needles, but you must have heard that I am also a fortune teller, right?"

Cheng Ji did not give Queen Mother Xi a chance to speak, and continued: "It's amazing. Even if your physical body dissipates, you still want to wait here for thousands of years. I have to admire your courage."

Queen Mother of the West looked at the young man with almost crazy eyes: "Three thousand years ago, I designed a plan to lure you here, but you didn't take the bait at all. I only caught a few small fish and shrimps. I used up all my life's knowledge to try to save the dying horse, but the concentration was not enough, and in the end I could only explode and die."

As she spoke, Queen Mother of the West's eyes were filled with greed: "What I see now is exactly as I expected. This blood and this good skin are really the perfect container for my immortality! As long as you step into this stone door, I will succeed. Ah! Why! Why don't you come in!"

The last few words of the Queen Mother of the West were almost screamed out, her tone full of unwillingness and madness.

Cheng Ji laughed and said, "I was wondering how I could not control a soul. It turned out to be you. Indeed, I cannot control animals. Only a disgusting woman like you can bear to eat and sleep with a giant python. If it were someone else, they would rather die than live such a miserable life."

"You've been racking your brains trying to figure out how I discovered this, haven't you? How come, living with animals together has caused your brain to degenerate?"