When I saw the witchcraft patterns above the cave gradually dimming, I was a little surprised as well.
I hadn't expected dripping blood onto the Golden Lampstand Tree to actually work...
"Hahaha! It worked after all.
It had to be you Jiang Family people!
Ningzi, come here..."
I turned and ran toward the Black Emperor.
But what had the Black Emperor meant by that—"It had to be us Jiang Family people"?
What did that mean? Could it be that my Jiang Family also had some connection to King Ba's Mausoleum?
But this wasn't the time to ask about that. We needed to find a way out and leave this place.
"Black Emperor, the witchcraft patterns overhead are fading. Can we get out now?"
"We can. As long as those cursed witchcraft patterns disappear, we can leave."
Hearing the Black Emperor say that, I finally relaxed.
As the glow of the witchcraft patterns gradually faded, the temperature here also dropped rapidly...
Not only that, one section of the stone wall before us began to turn into mist.
As the mist spread and slowly vanished, the passage entrance that had disappeared emerged once more.
"The passage has appeared!"
The Black Emperor nodded.
"Yeah. Don't go over yet. Wait until those things leave..."
"Those things?"
I was confused.
The Black Emperor nodded.
"The insects guarding the tomb..."
As soon as the Black Emperor said that, my heart tightened again. There were tomb-guarding insects here too?
The Black Emperor and I waited where we were. As the mist at the passage entrance gradually dissipated,
I truly saw, within the black fog at the entrance, densely packed unknown black beetles the size of fingernails, like cockroaches.
As the black fog vanished, the beetles swiftly burrowed into the cracks in the surrounding stone walls.
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