"Arrest them all!" Ying Caihong looked at Hu Bayi and the others, ordering Yoko and the others to go forward and make the arrests.
"Yes, Master!" These people had long since been brainwashed by her, and her words were imperial decrees. At the single command, everyone rushed forward, and instantly, the people in the arena were locked in a chaotic battle.
Xiao Hen simply watched from the side, not joining the fight. A rift had already appeared between him and Ying Caihong, and if they were going to fight over the Flower of the Other Shore later, he would inevitably offend Hu Bayi's team as well. It did not matter, however; as long as he could obtain the Flower of the Other Shore, these were minor matters.
Xiao Hen leaned against the stone wall at the side, quietly watching the development of the plot in the arena.
After a bout of fighting, Yoko and the others fell into a disadvantage. The strength of Hu Bayi and Wang Kaixuan was obviously too great, and Yoko and the others were no match for them. Seeing this situation, Ying Caihong immediately pulled out a handgun, pressed it against Shirley Yang's head, and walked over. "Stop, all of you, or I'll kill her."
"Shirley..." Hu Bayi and the others immediately stopped, looking at Shirley Yang with worry.
"Let her go!" Wang Kaixuan shouted loudly.
Hu Bayi looked at Ying Caihong. "Don't hurt her, put down the gun."
Yoko kicked Hu Bayi down, returned to Ying Caihong's side, and kept her eyes on Hu Bayi and the others while holding Shirley Yang captive.
Ying Caihong smiled benignly. "Lead me to the goddess's coffin in the underground palace, and your girlfriend will be guaranteed safe."
Shirley Yang: "I am not his girlfriend."
Hu Bayi: "She is my girlfriend."
Wang Kaixuan was stunned. "What? What kind of nonsense is this?"
Shirley Yang: "Sleeping together does not mean we are in a boyfriend-girlfriend relationship."
Hu Bayi glanced at her. "Of course sleeping together makes you a girlfriend."
Wang Kaixuan was bewildered. "Hey, hey, what kind of mess is this? When did you two hook up? Didn't you sleep in the same bed as me every day?"
"This sort of thing gets done whenever you snatch a moment..." Big Gold Tooth muttered.
Wang Kaixuan was completely confused. "No, no, I don't, I don't get it. When did you sleep together?"
"The day of washing our hands in the golden basin," Hu Bayi said.
"That day?" Wang Kaixuan felt a toothache. "I slept with a toilet bowl in my arms all night that day, and you two were doing it right under my nose?"
Wang Kaixuan smacked his lips. "I must say, you got drunk and took advantage of a young lady. You really are... a beast."
"Master Hu is human too..." Big Gold Tooth said in a low voice from the side.
"He didn't take advantage of me." Shirley Yang raised her head. "I was the one who slept with him."
Big Gold Tooth was startled. "Oh my, my dear mother, you really are a heroine among women!"
Wang Kaixuan was also stunned. "You, you really have no shame at all."
Listening to the few of them chattering and muttering, Ying Caihong could finally take no more. Raising her gun, she fired with a bang. "Shut your traps, all of you. You bunch of idiots, whether you are boyfriend and girlfriend or not, whether you've slept together or not, I don't care at all. The heavenly secret is coming, hurry up, hurry up, and find the goddess's coffin for me right now! Otherwise, you'll all die, every last one of you!"
Seeing Ying Caihong's frantic and exasperated appearance, Hu Bayi knew he could no longer provoke her, and quickly said, "Alright, I promise you."
Only then did Ying Caihong ease her agitated emotions.
Hu Bayi continued, "Big Sister, my luopan is destroyed, and the xunlong jue cannot be used. I need my girlfriend's help."
"Hurry it up, you must find the goddess's coffin for me, you must." Ying Caihong pointed her gun at Hu Bayi and the others.
"I led everyone through the previous two trials, so you should trust me. Rest assured," Hu Bayi said in a deep voice.
"Although the luopan is destroyed, the human body can also replace the luopan to conduct gold-splitting cave-detecting. This is called the yin-yang union!"
"There are eight divine statues here, and they are not placed at random..."
"Seeking the dragon and splitting gold means looking at the entwined mountains, where every layer of entwinement is a barrier."
"The mutual reinforcement of yin and yang opens the spiritual connection, and seeking the dragon fears no loss of the dragon's trace."
Xiao Hen paid no attention to the preening Hu Bayi and Shirley Yang. The so-called yin-yang union was entirely a bluff to fool Ying Caihong; the real tunnel leading to the goddess's coffin in the underground palace was right inside the mouth of a divine statue, just like the tomb tunnel that led here.
With a slight recollection, Xiao Hen remembered that in the movie plot, it seemed to be when Wang Kaixuan and Big Gold Tooth were wrestling that they triggered the mechanism that opened this tunnel.
Xiao Hen stepped forward and arrived before Wang Kaixuan and Big Gold Tooth.
"Th-this brother, hello, hello..." Seeing Xiao Hen approach, Big Gold Tooth immediately stopped his wrestling match with Wang Kaixuan and nodded with a smiling face toward Xiao Hen.
Wang Kaixuan also carefully observed Xiao Hen. Among Ying Caihong's faction, Xiao Hen was the one he could see through the least.
Ignoring the two of them, Xiao Hen looked around and finally found a divine statue on the wall behind them.
"It should be this one." Xiao Hen walked up and pressed his hand against the tongue of the divine statue. How heavy was Xiao Hen's strength?
Under this press, a creaking sound rang out, revealing a pitch-black tunnel. The tongue of this divine statue was indeed the trigger for the mechanism tunnel.
"There's a tunnel here?" Big Gold Tooth was startled and shouted loudly.
Actually, there was no need for him to shout; upon hearing the creaking sound, everyone's gaze was drawn to this tunnel.
Hu Bayi shouted loudly, "It's this tunnel! This is the passage leading to the underground palace of the goddess's coffin."
Passing through the tunnel, everyone arrived in a deep, dark-blue space.
Looking up, they could see the ripples of water swaying against the ceiling above their heads.
"Are we at the bottom of a lake?"
"What does this mural say?"
"Heaven and earth split apart, the first shaman received divine revelation and obtained a treasure that fell from the sky. It could cross the two realms of yin and yang and bring the dead back to life. More than a thousand years ago, the treasure fell into the hands of Princess Augu, who named it the Flower of the Other Shore. Whenever night and day intersected, the Flower of the Other Shore would bloom, and the gate of life and death would open." Shirley Yang explained as she viewed the mural.
Hu Bayi turned his head to look at Ying Caihong. "The Flower of the Other Shore can connect life and death. Is that why you came here?"
"Mankind is about to perish; this is our last hope. As long as I possess the Flower of the Other Shore, I can use it to save all living beings," Ying Caihong said. "Only I can save you, only I. Once I get the Flower of the Other Shore, I will be able to save the people of the world from death."
"Who wants a psycho like you to save us!" Wang Kaixuan cursed angrily.
"Insolent!" Ying Caihong and the others pointed their guns at Hu Bayi and his group.
"Don't, don't, don't..." Big Gold Tooth anxiously urged. "Don't do anything rash, don't be impulsive."
"Move, hurry up, find the goddess's coffin for me right away!" Ying Caihong said fiercely.
"Fine, fine, fine, we're moving, we're moving!" Hu Bayi and the others responded and pressed forward.
The fog ahead grew thicker and thicker. Xiao Hen lagged at the very back of the team; a significant rift had already formed between him and Ying Caihong's faction, and Ying Caihong, Yoko, and the others were all guarding against him. If not for the weapon he carried and his impressive martial prowess, Ying Caihong might have already made a move to kill him.
Unfortunately, she did not know that the strength he had displayed earlier was all suppressed. If he were to unleash his full power, he could slaughter every single member of Ying Caihong's team within a minute.
Almost there, almost there, we'll reach the coffin area right ahead.
Xiao Hen squatted down to carefully examine the strange symbolic marks on the suspension bridge. It was an ancient mark whose meaning was unknown.
The group pressed on through the thick fog, the suspension bridge swaying unsteadily.
Passing through the dense fog, they arrived in a strange hall. Bronze lanterns hung inside this hall, and all around it were various primitive decorations. Walking down the steps, a circular bronze device appeared ahead, and lying within the circular bronze device was the corpse of a woman wearing a mask. Resting on the chest and abdomen of the female corpse was a black-and-red stone disk.
"That black stone in her hand is the Flower of the Other Shore."
"The mural says the Flower of the Other Shore fell from the sky, so it must be a meteorite."
"A meteorite... does it really possess the power to traverse yin, yang, life, and death?"
Xiao Hen's gaze stared intently at the goddess's coffin, fixing upon the Flower of the Other Shore in the hand of the goddess's corpse. This was his main quest for coming to this world!
A smile appeared at the corner of Xiao Hen's mouth. Finally, he had finally seen the Flower of the Other Shore.
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