flstandardbreds Chapter 155 The Secret of the Jade Pendant
Chapter 155 The Secret of the Jade Pendant
None of them were stubborn, and they all knew Shi Beiqing's identity and knew she wouldn't be wrong, so they set up camp and rested there for the night.
For safety reasons, they set up a large tent where both men and women could look after each other.
Once it was completely dark, Shi Beiqing gave the order, and they all went into the tent.
"Alright, everyone get some rest. No matter what noise you hear tonight, don't go out, or you'll face the consequences!"
“By the way,” she added, “don’t meddle in other people’s business. People with weak minds will be tempted by the evil things outside. If you don’t want to be targeted and resented by those things, don’t save people casually.”
After she finished speaking, the people in the tent started discussing it. Some were nervous, while others were calm. Overall, they all secretly told themselves to stay calm and resist the temptation later.
After Shi Beiqing finished speaking, she ignored them and told Yun Zhao to rest on the blanket that had been laid out.
Even though we're on the same team, there are times when we need to help each other.
Yun Zhao was to the left of Shi Beiqing. To her left was a woman who hadn't said much; she was supposedly resting, but in reality, she was cultivating.
"Xiaoyun, you should cultivate as much as possible during your time in the Abyss of Demons. Although the demonic energy here is violent, it is much denser than the demonic energy outside."
"Furthermore, absorbing more of the demonic energy here will benefit your meridians."
Shi Beiqing patiently explained the benefits to her.
Yun Zhao nodded in agreement and pretended to cultivate, but he didn't actually cultivate; he was just going through the motions.
She couldn't help but wonder why Shi Beiqing cared for and loved her so much when they were not related.
Yun Zhao asked Shi Beiqing, and Shi Beiqing said that they hit it off immediately, which is why he was so kind to her.
She did not send a letter.
It's always good to be cautious and wary of others.
In the middle of the night, Yun Zhao heard sobbing sounds coming from outside the tent, like a woman crying. She opened her eyes when she heard movement beside her.
The woman cultivating beside her seemed to be drawn to something outside, and walked forward with a fixed gaze.
Yun Zhao frowned, his fingers twitched slightly, and a pebble hit the woman's calf. The woman cried out in pain, her leg bent, and she knelt on one knee.
At the same time, she regained her senses and realized that she was still two steps away from the tent, which terrified her.
The crying started again. She didn't have time to thank the person who woke her up. She hurried back to her original spot and calmed herself down to resist the temptations outside.
Several more people were drawn by the various noises outside. Some regained their senses at the last moment, while others went out and became the monster's meal. Yun Zhao did not open his eyes again, nor did he care anymore.
Finally, dawn broke, and as the first rays of sunlight appeared, the noise outside disappeared.
Shi Beiqing opened her eyes. "Alright, let's pack up and continue our journey."
Shi Tianyu's cultivation level was low, and he was quite tired after resisting for a whole night. He thought Yun Zhao was even more exhausted than him, so he thought of helping her up.
Unexpectedly, Yun Zhao stood up on his own and even helped someone else.
Shi Beiqing withdrew her hand that was about to help Yun Zhao up, and looked at her younger brother, "Do you need me to help you up?"
Shi Tianyu: "..."
"Need not!"
He said harshly.
They packed their things and went outside, only to find that the people who had gone out the night before had turned into skeletons. The skeletons had no expression, but they could still see fear in them.
Shi Tianyu's legs were still weak, and he was unsteady on his feet. He stumbled and almost bumped into the white-faced man.
He shuddered. "Sis, this place is terrifying. Let's hurry and move on!"
He wasn't afraid of the skeletons, but of the unknown dangers. Even powerful beings dared not leave their tents at night, and he couldn't even imagine how terrifying those unknown ghostly things were.
Shi Beiqing glanced at him sideways, "It gets more and more terrifying the further we go."
Shi Tianyu: "..."
The deeper you go into the abyss of darkness, the darker it becomes. In the innermost part, no light shines in all year round, which breeds many demons.
The woman who was saved by Yun Zhao last night quietly thanked him on the way.
"You're welcome," Yun Zhao said softly, "Consider this a thank you for the provisions."
Once, when Yun Zhao was not hungry, she did not take out her food to eat. The woman saw this and gave her a meal.
"How can this be compared?" The woman blushed and waved her hand. "A life-saving grace cannot be repaid with a meal."
She wanted to repay the debt of gratitude, but Yun Zhao refused repeatedly before the woman finally gave up.
However, after a while, the two of them talked a lot.
The woman was talkative. From her, Yun Zhao learned that she had been seduced last night because of the woman's crying.
"It sounded just like my sister's crying. I couldn't help myself and momentarily lost my composure, and that's how I caught it."
The woman said somewhat embarrassedly.
“My sister cries in that same tone. She’s a crybaby; she cries at least once a day. My parents can’t handle her when she cries; only I can comfort her and she’ll stop crying…”
Speaking of her younger sister, the woman's face broke into a helpless yet indulgent smile.
"Then why did you come here? It's so dangerous here, what if..."
The following words were considered unlucky, so Yun Zhao didn't say them aloud.
The woman smiled, but there was a hint of bitterness in her smile. "My sister is sick, and the medicine she needs can only be found in the Demon God Palace. With my qualifications, it's impossible for me to enter the Demon God Palace."
"Let's try here. Maybe there's hope. As long as I find the passage, I can make a request to the Demon God Palace, and my sister will be saved."
The woman looked on with anticipation.
Yun Zhao listened to her quietly, and finally, she said softly, "Yes, you will get what you want."
The passage has become sentient and wanders around. Furthermore, no one knows what the passage is, which greatly increases the difficulty of finding it.
Fortunately, the jade pendant you receive will emit a white light when it encounters a passage, which can be used as a way to find it.
However, almost all of these people's jade pendants had already glowed, and they couldn't even see a trace of the passage.
During the day they had to search for passages, at night they had to defend against monsters, and they also had to be wary of all kinds of dangerous monsters in the bottomless abyss. In less than a month, everyone was already suffering terribly.
However, they will be returning in another two weeks, so they can hold on a little longer.
Yun Zhao was also getting impatient. Although this place didn't affect her much, so many people had been searching for a month without finding the passage or even seeing a shadow of it. She began to doubt whether there was a passage at all.
She would study her jade pendant whenever she had free time. It was made of ordinary jade and had a teleportation array engraved on it. How could it sense the existence of the passage?
Yun Zhao had a premonition that as long as he could figure it out, he would definitely be able to find the passage.
"Xiaoyun, what are you doing? Why did you stop looking? Are you tired?"
Shi Beiqing saw Yun Zhao sitting on a rock, holding a jade pendant and lost in thought, so she went over to find her.
“No,” Yun Zhao said, coming back to her senses. “Sister Bei Qing, I’m wondering why this jade tablet can sense the existence of the passage.”
Shi Beiqing asked in surprise, "Why did you think of researching this? This is a secret of the Demon God Palace, and I'm afraid you won't be able to figure it out in a short time."