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"": "Shangguan Xingyue bowed slightly and said softly, "I accept my punishment. That Immortal Creature came out from beneath the Alchemy Furnace and sprang up. I couldn't react in time, nor did I have any means to stop it."
Dai Zhixiong said nothing.
He turned and sprinted outside!
Only after a moment did Shangguan Xingyue raise her head and look at the opening above.
"A Corpse Core."
She murmured the words.
Dai Zhixiong had shouted so loudly earlier that she had heard him.
"Impressive work, Junior Brother."
The corners of her mouth lifted slightly, and the admiration in her eyes deepened.
That opening was a qi vent.
Shangguan Xingyue had noticed from the start that the qi vent passed straight through the Alchemy Furnace.
This spot was the very heart of the Underground Palace.
With the Alchemy Furnace here, it was constantly steeped in life force, producing twice the results with half the effort.
But Shangguan Xingyue had never imagined that another secret lay beneath the Alchemy Furnace—there was actually another chamber below it.
Was that the Underground Palace's true main burial chamber?
And the qi vent was the core of the enclosure configuration. Going out through it would lead directly out of the Underground Palace and up to the surface!
If a sufficiently powerful master could pinpoint its location from the enclosure configuration, he could dig straight down to the main burial chamber.
However, all manner of defensive traps were usually hidden in the soil.
Those traps all avoided the qi vent.
Thus, the Gray Immortal would escape very quickly. Dai Zhixiong would need at least a full day to pursue it!
After all, the Underground Palace was too deep, and the Mausoleum too tall. By the time he left the Underground Palace and emerged