You're Lying!

Looking out, the endless fields of Ghost Tongue Flower are a nightmare to behold.

When a single entity capable of killing everyone present appears in swarms, even before it has truly revealed its monstrous side, it is enough to terrify people and throw them into a state of mental confusion.

Not to mention, the ghost tongue seemed to be making some unusual movements at this moment.

Master Li drew his sword and walked at the front. He had just witnessed the death of the bespectacled man, and even the disappearance of his longtime friend Uncle Zhang. Although it was said to be a disappearance, it was basically confirmed that he was dead.

He believed that Uncle Zhang was not yet capable of fighting against a ghost that leaped through the timeline.

His heart was actually in turmoil. No one is truly without feelings, not even a seasoned tomb raider.

Master Li carefully followed the lurking bone vines under his feet, walking towards the swaying ghost tongue. Just as he was about to reach it, Yu Xing suddenly stopped him. "Wait a minute."

When Master Li turned around, he saw that San had followed him without him noticing, and he hadn't heard a sound from him at all.

Yu Xing smiled slightly. He could tell that Master Li wasn't in a good mood, so he gently pushed him back. "Master Li, let me do it. You go to the back."

Master Li raised an eyebrow. When had he ever been protected by a junior?

Okay, most of the time.

The younger generation these days is amazing. Several geniuses have emerged from these tomb-raiding families, and each of them is a pillar of the future.

What did you find?

Hearing Master Li's question, Yu Xing glanced at Carlos, who immediately understood and pulled Master Li back to the safe platform. "Let San handle this. To be honest, this guy is no ordinary painter."

Master Li suddenly realized a lot from Carlos's words. This kid was quite cunning; had he deliberately concealed his identity since the time in Coffin Village?

That's overthinking it, but since no one explained it to Master Li couldn't help but overthink it.

Consequently, the way he looked at Carlos changed. San was a fake newbie, but Carlos seemed to know San so well; he was probably someone who had been scheming from the very beginning.

Yu Xing wanted Master Li to stand further away because Yi Qing had just floated above him and said, "If this brother takes another step forward, he'll be face to face with his old friend's head. Do you think he might accidentally step on the bone vine in his shock?"

Uncle Zhang's head?

Yu Xing revealed an expression of unsurprised expectation. Unica was a ghost, and Uncle Zhang really had little hope of surviving, because judging from their every move, Uncle Zhang trusted Unica a lot, even treating her like his own sister.

If it were Unica, Uncle Zhang would most likely be killed without any warning.

He sighed, extended his Tang sword beneath the ghost's tongue, and decisively flicked it away.

Before the ghost tongue could react, it was severed at the root. Even more amazing, Yu Xing strength to drag the flower base and cleverly lift it to the open space where Master Li, Carlos, and Lin Zhan were standing, without touching the bone vine even slightly.

The white flower withered instantly, visibly changing from a pure and noble white to a dirty, dry, brownish-yellow, tattered and broken, like a withered claw.

It landed on the ground silently.

"Good!"

"So strong."

Master Li and Lin couldn't help but sigh in admiration. This knife skill was probably already at a level of perfection; this was the first time San had displayed his knife prowess in front of them.

"No wonder you didn't want to Sheqing Dreamscape anymore, so you have another sword." Yi Qingyou quipped, floating down to examine the blade of the Dyed Snow Tang Sword. "It is indeed very sharp, a good sword, but this sword is too fierce and lacks spiritual energy."

Yu Xing sheathed her sword and glanced at him sideways. "The Sheqing Dreamscape is just too full of spiritual energy, which is why it has a lunatic like you."

He spoke softly, and neither Master Li nor the others could hear him clearly.

Yi Qing shook his fan and laughed, "No, I came first, then this dagger."

Yu Xing was too lazy to argue with Yi Qing about which came first, the chicken or the egg. His gaze lingered below the ghost tongue, where half a head was wrapped in bone vines, a bloody mess, while the other half had sunk into the soil, becoming nourishment for the ghost tongue.

Even though only half a head remains, its wide-open eyes and gaping mouth make it easy to recognize.

Yu Xing glanced at Master Li: "It's Uncle Zhang."

Master Li's face turned pale, and a wave of grief washed over him.

"I guessed it." He closed his eyes, as if trying to swallow all his emotions. "Just now, this ghostly tongue started to emerge from its mute state and begin to speak like us because it absorbed... absorbed Old Zhang, and got nourishment, right?"

"Perhaps," Yu Xing shrugged. "We need to leave here as soon as possible; these ghost tongues won't remain silent for much longer."

Master Li nodded.

He sighed, "First, we need to find a way to leave."

To leave, it seems we first need to deal with this large flower field.

Lin: "These flowers shouldn't be fireproof."

Can I burn it all?

This suggestion was rejected by Master Li. Putting aside the possibility that the distant flowers might sense the danger of the flames and prematurely release pink poisonous mist, there's also the bone vine... the bone vine is attracted to heat.

If this fire is lit, it will be disastrous. The Bone Vine members will all go mad, and this group of them will definitely die faster than Ghost Tongue.

Master Li did want San to try and dislodge the Ghost Tongues one by one, but he quickly cursed himself, "I've really lost my mind."

This won't work, that won't work, too many approaches have been rejected, and the scales in Master Li's mind gradually tipped towards another possibility.

Carlos said, "I don't know where this vast flower field ends; I'm more inclined to think it's a smokescreen."

"That's right, as expected of Magician, you're indeed very perceptive in this area." Master Li had just realized this too. Drawing on his experience, he ignored Uncle Zhang's head and gritted his teeth, "The real path should be hidden under some mechanism. Through the mechanism, we can reach another tomb chamber. Of course, if we choose the wrong mechanism... we'll probably end up like those glasses."

He died a tragic death.

"I want to know... if there were no feng shui master like Lin, and you were all alone, how would you determine which mechanism is real and which is fake?" Yu Xing asked, standing among the flowers.

"Ha, you can't learn the skills of tomb raiders." Master Li took out a few candles and walked to the stone wall beside him. "Let's find the mechanism first. Once we find it, I'll show you how the earliest tomb raiders lived while robbing tombs."

The platform's ground is uneven, bearing many traces of erosion over time, and even the once clear mechanical markings have become blurred.

This undoubtedly creates even greater problems for future generations.

Yu Xing walked back to the platform. If there were any mechanisms, they must be on the platform; otherwise, it would be too troublesome for the demon daoist cultivators to come and go each time.

His fingerless gloved hand gently stroked the stone wall, feeling the direction of the texture.

He noticed faint water patterns on the stone wall, indicating that this place must have been a body of water a long, long time ago, but it had dried up when the demon daoist built his tomb.

Yi Qing circled here and there, his transparent figure floating on the ghost tongue without making any contact, as if he had become a truly intangible ghost. You must know that the Sheqing Ghost is a corpse transformed, so it should have a physical form, but its powerful strength made it defy the laws of science.

He seemed too relaxed, Yu Xing sneered and immediately retracted the Sheqing Dreamscape into its Persona Mask.

Yi Qing's pupils contracted, and before she could object, her figure vanished in an instant.

About a minute later, he took out the dagger again. Yi Qing hesitated for more than ten seconds before coming out, circling around Yu Xing who was not looking at him. "Do you have a problem with me?"

Yu Xing turned to look at her teammates, noticing they were spaced some distance apart, before replying, "They have quite a few opinions."

"I haven't even had a problem with you yet, and you're already making things difficult for me." Yi Qing complained, though there was a hint of feigned indignation. "Who made me trapped in this little dagger for so long?"

Yu Xing said nonchalantly, "Oh? Is it boring inside?"

Yiqing couldn't stand the word "boredom": "Of course, all I can do every day is look at the mist and bamboo, and the unchanging furnishings in my little building."

"I thought," Yu Xing said, ruling out the possibility of a trap in the area in front of her, and walked to another spot, her casual tone suddenly carrying a hint of danger, "The system will keep you company."

Yi Qing closed her fan and chuckled, "Who told you that the system is so busy every day that it would come to chat with a little contracted ghost like me?"

"Now you're calling yourself a little contracted ghost." Yu Xing finally turned her head to stare at him. "You revealed your own flaw. If the system hadn't informed you of my itinerary, how would you have known that Uncle Zhang and Master Li were old friends as soon as you came out? What, does the business of the Sheqing Ghost include fortune telling?"

Yi Qing: "..."

"Oops, we've been exposed~"

"So, don't try to play the victim with me. You clearly have someone to keep you company." Yu Xing turned back and touched a line on the stone wall. "If you're going to spy on me, then spy properly. If you annoy me, I'd rather not use the Sheqing Dreamscape. You said it yourself, I have other knives."

"You know the system is monitoring you?" Yi Qing had no sense of being exposed at all. In other words, if Yu Xing could really make the system helpless, it would be a rare and interesting thing for him, and he wouldn't be embarrassed at all.

Yu Xing: "Nonsense. Besides, I asked for your consent before sealing off the sacrificial offerings, so don't expect me to feel guilty and let you swagger around."

"Tsk." Yi Qing narrowed her deep blue eyes, a dangerous aura emanating from her. "Yu Xing, are you really not afraid of me? Have I been too kind to you, making you think I'm a kind ghost?"

The aura spread outwards, and the three people who were initially investigating nearby shivered, looking around in surprise and doubt, thinking that another ghost was about to attack.

"Even if you whip me every day, I'll still have the same attitude." Yu Xing wasn't fooled at all. He knew Yi Qing couldn't hurt him; at most, he could only vent his frustration verbally.

Yu Xing didn't want Yi Qing to have his fill of banter either. He said unhappily, "Either help me, or keep quiet and don't bother me."

"You're only polite when you need help, and this is your attitude when you don't." Yi Qing snorted coldly, her imposing manner subsiding, but she still smiled. "I'll forgive you this time, since you knew I was monitoring you but didn't confront me about it."

There's nothing to question; Yu Xing could easily imagine Yi Qing's attitude towards the system.

If it weren't for this, would he have let Yiqing watch over him?

"Found it!"

Just as the two were chatting seemingly aimlessly but actually probingly, a shout came from Master Li's side.

Yu Xing abandoned the stone wall in front of her and moved closer to it. "Found it?"

Carlos pointed at Master Li: "Master Li found it."

Master Li was holding a candle, and wax dripped continuously onto Master Li hand.

The scalding liquid touched his skin, but Master Li didn't even flinch, as if his hands were no longer afraid of such a temperature.

He held the candle out in front of the stone wall; the flame flickered incessantly, somewhat like the Yu Xing had seen in the room with the wall of human heads.

Is this proof that yin energy is approaching?

Master Li. Li noticed that the three "young people" seemed a bit confused, so he cleared his throat and said, "This is a method passed down from the past. If there's a dark room, the candle flame will flicker."

Lin, who studies geography, interjected. "Because of different air pressure?"

"No, it's the concentration of yin and ghostly energy that's different," Master Li said. "The ghostly energy in the main tomb chamber and the side tomb chambers will definitely be different. We use this method to test whether the next location belongs to another dimension. Generally, if we can find this place, it means we've found the right path."

"Can a candle emit ghostly energy?" Yu Xing frowned.

Lin's explanation about air pressure is understandable, but if it really is yin energy or ghostly energy, why can a candle illuminate it? Wouldn't a lighter be more convenient?

"That's right, candles are spiritual and can keenly detect ghostly energy, so we should light more candles, that way..." Before Master Li could finish speaking, Yu Xing had already placed a Tang sword against Master Li's neck.

Lin was stunned and was about to stop him when Carlos was also stunned but quickly recovered, grabbed him. "This isn't Master Li!"

"Candles do possess spiritual power, but they are also a medium for attracting ghosts," Yu Xing said, holding the Sheqing Dreamscape in her other hand and cutting the burning candle. "Candles don't have the ability to detect ghosts; on the contrary, they can stabilize them. That's why you need to light a candle to stabilize yourself since you've only been here a short time."

"Is that right? Master Li from another timeline."

Lin's pupils contracted. "Master Li has been replaced?"

Carlos discreetly sized up Lin, making sure he hadn't been switched, before explaining, "That's right, he was switched. He's trying to get us to light more candles. Ha, you know, San and I had a very strong impression of candles back in Coffin Village. Trying to make something out of candles... you've really picked the wrong person."

In Coffin Village, the living dead each carry a candle. At night, they need candles to maintain their "normal" appearance. Once they are separated from their candles, they will reveal their true forms and become ghost villagers wielding long knives and axes.

Can candles detect ghosts?

That's ridiculous. Even a ghost would know it's impossible.

Master Li never expected that his words would expose him. His candle was extinguished by Yu Xing, and a gloomy atmosphere immediately enveloped him, his skin faintly turning bluish-gray.

"Well done, the younger generation these days is getting more and more impressive." He grinned, his mouth wide open. Yu Xing was facing him directly and happened to see Uncle Zhang's dark eyes through Master Li's mouth.