Jiu Zhang Ji: The Daily Life of the Reborn Daughter

Chapter 234: The Saint in front of me, with gray hair and chicken skin, looks haggard

Having said that, such an altar buried underground should be quiet. If it were noisy and bustling, it might be even more eerie.

Qiao Lili and Yu Jingyan checked their belongings again and decided to go to the altar to check it out. Yu Jingyan walked in front and Qiao Lili followed behind, tiptoeing towards the altar.

The two of them listened attentively and looked in all directions, concentrating all their energy and spirit, not daring to relax at all.

There was no sound at all, except silence, so quiet that even the light emitted by the night pearl seemed to have made a tiny sound, the sound of the light penetrating the air, and the sound of the light falling on the stone wall.

"Plop," when a bug fell to the ground, it made a sound like the sound of a drum. After the bug fell to the ground, it crawled quickly towards the altar.

Qiao Lili threw a handful of medicine powder at the bug behind Yu Jingyan, and the bug became motionless.

"Poisonous insect." Qiao Lili mouthed to Yu Jingyan.

Yu Jingyan raised his foot to step on it to death, but Qiao Lili quickly reached out to stop him. Because her mother was killed by a poisonous insect, she knew almost all the poisonous insects from Feng Wuzui. Although she didn't know how to raise them, she had learned how to deal with them.

This is a sentinel Gu. If it crawls back, it means someone is coming. If it is killed, the person who raises the Gu insect can also feel it. The powder used by Qiao Lili is to make it sleep. When it falls asleep, the person who raises the Gu insect will think it is safe.

Qiao Lili took out the bottle Feng Wuzui gave her, which was specially used to store poisonous insects, and put the poisonous insects in it. She looked at the motionless insects in the bottle with a faint smile on her face. She would give it back to Grandpa Feng, and he would definitely like it. This time when they came to find the Saint, they were fully prepared to deal with the poisonous insects.

Since there was a poisonous insect, why was there only one? Then she encountered three sentinel poisonous insects and two message poisonous insects, all of which were captured by Qiao Lili.

It has taken nearly half an hour to get here from the fork in the road. Of course, they walked slowly. If they flew at full speed, it would take less than a quarter of an hour. Qiao Lili and Yu Jingyan were both calculating the time and distance in their minds.

The secret passage has obviously become wider and higher. Does that mean that the so-called altar is approaching?

The two became more cautious.

After walking for about a quarter of an hour, the road ahead suddenly became clear. Qiao Lili and Yu Jingyan hurriedly pressed their bodies against the secret passage, using the blind spots of the night-shining pearl's light to hide their figures. When they saw that no one had discovered them, they slowly stuck their heads out to check.

This is really breathtaking. It is amazing how grand this underground altar is. To be able to carve out such a long secret passage in a mountain full of stones and to build such a large altar, how much manpower and material resources, and how much time would it take to complete it?

One can also marvel at the exquisiteness of the altar, with its carved beams and painted buildings, brackets and flying eaves. The entire outer wall of the altar is carved with exquisite patterns, and it shines brightly under the illumination of huge luminous pearls.

This era needs people who use a chisel in one hand and a hammer in the other to chisel out things one by one. Sometimes they can chisel off a piece of stone with one stroke, and sometimes they just make a mark on the stone. They have to continue chiseling on the mark countless times before they can chisel off a small piece of stone.

Not to mention how long this secret passage is, the altar is a circular building with a diameter of about 300 feet and a height of about three stories. Even if it was built on the ground, it would take two years of work. Moreover, it was all chiseled.

In other words, this altar was chiseled out one piece at a time with a chisel in strict accordance with the blueprint. It was formed in one piece, without any glue, nails, or mortise and tenon joints. Whether it is the tall columns, the curled eaves, or the exquisite stained glass windows, they are all chiseled out. Even the tiles on the roof and the auspicious beasts on the ridge are chiseled out in one piece.

While it is astonishing, one also sheds a tear for the hard-working craftsmen who chiseled out this magnificent building one chisel at a time, with little clothes to wear and no food to eat. The day the building was completed was the day they would die.

Yu Jingyan could see the sadness welling up in Qiao Lili's eyes. At first he was a little confused, but later he understood that his little A'li had a compassionate heart.

At this time, four women holding knives came around from both sides of the altar. After meeting each other, they continued to move forward. The two men observed for another quarter of an hour. The four women met again and there was no change. It seemed that there were only two teams of four people patrolling now.

Judging from the aura of these four people, their martial arts skills are mediocre. They may be able to knock down three or five strong men, but they are not good enough in front of Qiao Lili and Yu Jingyan. Qiao Lili and Yu Jingyan made a few gestures, which they had agreed on before, so that they could express their ideas without speaking.

The two men pointed their toes and rose up, shooting towards the two sides of the altar. Not long after, they silently carried the two female disciples respectively and rushed towards the fork in the road.

After quickly interrogating the two people, he found out that the kung fu of these female disciples was just like that. The saint was the best at using Gu, but she was injured and vomited blood because of divination against the will of heaven some time ago, and her ability to control the Gu worms has deteriorated.

God help me too.

After knocking out four people, the two no longer hid their whereabouts. Since they were all good-for-nothings with no fighting ability, there was no difference between thirty-eight people and eight or three people. It took the two of them a quarter of an hour to fly from the secret passage to the altar. They divided the responsibilities, Qiao Lili went to find the saint girl, and Yu Jingyan went to deal with the thirty-five female disciples.

Most of these people were in their beds, so I knocked them out with a knife and then carried them to a larger hall, which should be where they were having a meeting or some group activity.

Normally, this job should be done by Qiao Lili, but Yu Jingyan is not as good as Qiao Lili in dealing with the poisonous insects. Although Doctor Feng gave him medicine that the poisonous insects fear, Qiao Lili was still afraid that he would be infected, so she took over the job of dealing with the saint.

Qiao Lili first found the secret room where the poisonous insects were raised. The entire secret room was filled with rows of jars and pots. Qiao Lili didn't even look at them and immediately sealed them with the medicine given by Doctor Feng. She was afraid that she would have a nightmare after seeing them, so she decided to let Grandpa Feng, who was more ambitious, collect them.

After dealing with the poisonous insects and making sure they would not cause trouble, she went to find the Saint. This simple, central and luxurious room belonged to the Saint.

The saint's room was on the third floor of the altar. The entire floor was a large room. When Qiao Lili went up, the saint was still meditating. The saint in Qiao Lili's mind should be charming and enchanting, or seductive and alluring, or a beautiful woman whose age could not be determined. However, the saint in front of her had white hair and chicken skin, and looked haggard. In her several lifetimes, she had never seen a living person so old.

When the saint heard someone coming in but there was no sound of reporting, she slowly opened her eyes. Her eyes were cloudy and lifeless. They were more like two rotten egg yolks than eyeballs. They were very scary. She seemed to have carefully examined them. On her face, which was like old tree bark, the wrinkles gathered together a little. Qiao Lili understood it as a smile.

She opened her mouth, and she had no teeth in it. The sound she made was dry and hoarse and difficult to distinguish, but Qiao Lili still heard it clearly.

She said, "Hehehe, you're finally here." She stared at Qiao Lili's forehead and asked, "What did you use to cover up your mark?"