Underground.
Dressed in blue, Qi Kaicheng strode briskly through the tunnel, with Cao Jinxing and Bai Yunxiu close behind.
The tunnel was built much like Fang La's Underground Palace, likewise consisting of numerous octagonal rooms with eight doors apiece. The difference was that even the floor tiles were arranged according to the nine palaces and eight trigrams. Every step had to be correct, or traps would be triggered.
Qi Kaicheng moved swiftly, his figure flashing past, but however fast he went, he could not escape Cao Jinxing's keen eyes and clear perception.
Cao Jinxing held out the cloak as he led the way, with Bai Yunxiu close behind him, concealing her gu insects as she prepared a sneak attack.
The farther she went, the more impressed she became. These tunnels were numerous and complex, and Qi Kaicheng was a Tang Sect disciple skilled in lightness arts, making him difficult to track. Yet Cao Jinxing had not missed a single step!
Before long.
The final door opened, revealing a corridor. At its end lay a vast limestone cavern, its walls embedded with luminous pearls that gave off an emerald glow.
In the middle of the cavern stood a bronze pillar so thick that it would take two people to encircle it, covered in all manner of mechanism buttons.
Second Manor Lord Wu Guihai and Fourth Manor Lord Wan Lichang had already arrived and were standing before a great bronze door behind the pillar.
This was the Central Control Room for all of Wansong Manor, as well as the location of the Treasure Vault passed down through generations of the Yuan Family.
"Second Brother, Fourth Brother."
Qi Kaicheng approached.
Cao Jinxing and Bai Yunxiu stopped, keeping quietly tucked away at the mouth of the corridor.
Cao Jinxing nodded to Bai Yunxiu.
Bai