Chapter 45: CH 45

Chapter 45: Ancient Formation

The next day, the three of them went to the river, ready to go under to hunt for the monster. 

An Long whistled and countless Gu’s and poisonous snakes filled the riverbank. They set up a defensive formation, aggressively proclaiming this to be territory occupied by the Myriad Gu Sect, prohibiting other sects from picking up leaks or making trouble. It also prevented the people from the nearby village from mistakenly charging in and getting hurt. Several young disciples of the Red Dragon Sect, who were responsible for guarding and explaining to passersby, saw the Gu’s and shivered from fright. They hung on together but persisted in staying put.

“Water Repelling Bead, Fishskin Armor, emergency medicine, Moonlight Lamps, Fire Thunderballs and a few stalks of Aerated Grass for emergency…” Song Qingshi carefully checked the list and checked their equipment for everyone. “I’m not missing anything, right?” Many of the secret realms had treasures hidden underwater. So, every cultivator carried with them the basic equipment for going underwater. There was no need to specially purchase anything.

“No, we’ve got everything.” Since Yue Wuhuan had the lowest cultivation base and the Blood King Vine was suitable as bait, he was tasked with leading the water monster to Song Qingshi and An Long who would be nearby, hiding their aura and presence.

Song Qingshi was afraid that he would be nervous and said comfortingly, “Don’t worry, it’s very simple. I’ll be right next to you. I won’t let you get even the slightest bit hurt.” 

An Long finished arranging the Gu formation. When he heard this, he couldn’t help ridiculing him, “Just remember not to release the Underworld Fire underwater and put down the monster and us two along with it. The painful lessons from that year… Still remains fresh in my memory.”

At that time, the two of them had been adventuring in a secret realm when they encountered a shoal of man-eating demon fish. Song Qingshi immediately released the Underworld Ghost Fire to defend against the enemy but forgot that the poison of the Underworld Ghost Fire would spread in the water. Without discerning friend from foe, both the fishes and An Long suffered serious damage. The severe injuries caused An Long to be bedridden inside the Medicine King’s Valley for a full three months…

This was the biggest embarrassment he has ever suffered since he started cultivating and now Yue Wuhuan knew about it too.

Damn Alaskan Malamute!

Song Qing blushed with shame and quickly explained, “I didn’t have any experience at that time, but I would never do something like that now.”

Yue Wuhuan held back a smile. “I believe Master.”

The three of them changed into the Fishskin Armor and carried with them the Water Repelling Bead. After a short swim, they found the underwater cave. There were traces of man-made carvings outside the cave. It felt like some cultivator had transformed a natural underwater cave to be used to hide in or to build a hidden world.

On the rock wall outside the cave, there was a sharp sword mark going several feet deep into the rock wall. 

Song Qingshi didn’t know much about swordsmanship but even he could see that this sword mark was extraordinary. Yue Wuhuan was even more excited seeing it.

Could it be that this really was a trace left by Sword Master Mo Yuan?

Everyone grew even more expectant. Song Qingshi and An Long hid their auras and waited on either side of the cave. Yue Wuhuan by himself slowly swam near. He studied it for a while then extended several tendrils of the Blood King Vines beside him directly into the darkness. They beat fiercely against the rock wall, looking for the location of the water monster inch by inch.

The sleeping water monster was awakened by the Blood King Vine and it slowly poked its head out. It found that a Foundation Building cultivator had disturbed his dreams. It instantly grew furious and several tentacles carrying with them whirlpools of water stretched out to pull him into the cave. . 
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Yue Wuhuan smiled.  He was even more certain that he wanted to hunt this rarely seen prey for his Master. He fastened two of the Blood King Vines on the rocks outside the cave, controlling the speed at which his body was being pulled into the cave. He then took the other Blood King Vines to follow along the tentacles into the cave, directly piercing into the body of the water monster, digging out the water spirit orbs.

This action greatly angered the water monster. It finally ventured out of the cave. Brandishing its entire body, it struck towards Yue Wuhuan.

An Long watched with gusto. He was especially hopeful that both the water monster and the evildoer would suffer loses. Unfortunately, Song Qingshi was watching closely. He didn’t dare go against what they’d planned. He could only regretfully reveal himself. He stretched out his hand and grabbed the water monster, using brute force to tear an opening in its body. A few water-type Gu’s crawled inside through the wound, feasting on this delicious and nourishing meal. 

The water monster was in extreme pain. It turned to attack An Long.

Song Qingshi stood in front of Yue Wuhuan, shielding him. He used the alchemical fire to burn off those entangled tentacles. He then signaled for him to step back. Hunting was too dangerous. It was enough to leave it to the Nascent Soul cultivators.

Yue Wuhuan hadn’t spoken yet when the water monster saw Song Qingshi and something strange happened.

It was stunned for a moment and then its eyes turned red, as though it had encountered an enemy it wouldn’t be willing to live with under the same sky. It paid no attention to Yue Wuhuan’s stealing of its water spirit orbs. It also didn’t care about the pain of being bitten by An Long’s Gu’s. It frantically rushed towards Song Qingshi, hellbent on taking him down at all costs. 

Song Qingshi was dumbfounded. He had burned off two tentacles but hadn’t had time to do anything else. Why had it fixed it’s attention on him and was  now chasing him down to kill?

An Long, surprised, did a whistling motion. He mouthed the words, “Qingshi, did you kill its parents or snatch away its wife?”

Song Qingshi understood his question and shook his head frantically. He once again brandished the alchemical fire in his hand to meet the enemy.

This abnormality in the water monster’s behavior was a good thing for their hunting. 

In the first place, it wasn’t the kind of monster that was good at frontal combat. Instead, it was only good at arranging traps and hiding and lying low. When it was completely exposed, it became meat on the chopping board. Even if fighting underwater created somewhat of a hindrance, it wasn’t difficult for the two Nascent Soul cultivators to join hands to crush it.

More and more Gu’s crawled into its body and more and more tentacles were burned by this strange fire that had no fear of water. But as before, it relentlessly chased after Song Qingshi, determined to swallow this human into its belly.

Song Qingshi beat it at its own game. He let it swallow himself whole and then ignited the alchemical fire all over his body, turning himself into the hottest fireball, burning directly through its stomach. Afterwards, he took the water spirit orbs. The water monster was unceasingly rolling in pain, its tentacles turning over in confusion, stirring up mighty waves. The monster couldn’t control itself in its hatred. It unexpectedly turned its body into a stream of water, wrapping up the three people. Then the monster core blew up and the impact pushed them into the depths of the underwater cave.

Song Qingshi quickly opened a barrier to prevent Yue Wuhuan from being injured by the impact of the explosion. He then observed their surroundings. 

Inside the cave, darkness overflowed. There was a light in the distance and they swam towards it. They found that there was a different world inside. It seemed to be the inside of the nearby Mt. Yue. Rays of light came in through the cracks in the rock wall, crisscrossing and illuminating this small world. Everywhere was green moss and grass, vines intertwined, creating an unexpectedly strange beauty. It truly was a hidden place.


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Song Qingshi climbed ashore and shook off the water droplets. He rejoiced, “Fortunately, I was quick and managed to dig out ten water spirit orbs.”

Yue Wuhuan followed ashore and said with a smile, “I also managed to grab three of them.”

Song Qingshi was delighted. “We will go down and look later to see if there are still any intact water spirit orb after it exploded. By the way, we can also collect the remains to refine it into medicine.” 

An Long jumped out, splashing water all over Song Qingshi’s face. He looked around eagerly, “Where are my snakes?”

Song Qingshi suggested, “Let’s find the people first?”

They still didn’t know where the Red Dragon Sect Master and the other cultivators who had fallen in were and it felt like there was a faint danger here.

“Master, this seems wrong,” Yue Wuhuan’s face suddenly turned serious and the Blood King Vine stretched out and tore off the vines on the rock wall. Carved lines appeared behind the rock wall. They were covered with ancient texts and extended throughout the entire cave. He quickly said, “There is an ancient formation here. We should leave immediately…” 

Ancient formations with grand layouts such as these were all difficult to deal with.

The missing people had most likely fallen within it.

Yue Wuhuan didn’t manage to finish because the formation had already begun emitting a faint dark light.

Song Qingshi was helpless, “It’s too late, it was the water monster’s intention to send us here.” 

An Long laughed and spread out his hands. “Then let’s prepare to break this formation. Want to have a bet? How about whoever comes out first is the winner. Winner kisses the loser?”

“No!” Song Qingshi hurriedly pulled over Yue Wuhuan, who had the lowest cultivation base. He glared at this Alaskan Malamute, who probably wanted to take advantage of the beautiful little angel. He rectified his bad thoughts, “No gambling!”

Yue Wuhuan’s expression was grave. Maybe he has never seen such a situation and was a little worried?

The ancient formations can be roughly classified into different types — kill formations, trap formations, heart-questioning formations, trial formations, etc…There were even some formations with interesting qualities that allowed for puzzles that he couldn’t solve to be deployed within it, allowing people who would come later to solve them. Some formations have a killing intent; some formations trap the people within until they break through the formation or die and some formations served as powerful guidance and opportunities for the younger generation. 

Song Qingshi comforted, “Don’t be afraid, it does not appear to be a kill formation. You have us here, we’ll be fine.”

The light of the formation gradually enveloped everyone, bringing a feeling of top-heavy dizziness.

…

When Song Qingshi woke up, he found himself sitting on a carved mahogany bed. Inside the room was a mirror and dressing table. Looks like this is a lady’s chamber? He stood up and walked a few steps, feeling that something wasn’t quite right with his body. On his head, there seemed to be something that kept swaying. It was really uncomfortable. 

With a faint guess in his heart, he hurried to the mirror and took a look. It scared him so much, he almost fainted.

What the hell was with this weak beauty in the mirror wearing a white skirt embroidered with beads, draped in white fox fur, with delicate makeup, and sporting a head full of ornaments with pearls and jade?! Why did it look like him?

Song Qing touched his face nervously, and the beauty in the mirror also touched his face.

This couldn’t possibly be… him? 

He was obviously such a manly person. Why did the formation make him wear this broken thing?!

Song Qingshi had never been so panicked in his life. He touched his body to confirm that he was still a man and then looked around in alarm. Not only was he afraid of An Long coming in and seeing this ridiculous appearance and mocking him for the next five hundred years but he was even more afraid that Yue Wuhuan would come charging in and the little angel would see this embarrassing appearance. He might as well dig a pit and bury himself in the ground or maybe his Nascent Soul would self-detonate and that would be the end of it…

He changed his clothes frantically. He first took off the white fox fur coat with the lotus and carp decor and then he hurriedly removed his head ornament. However, he had never studied women’s hair accessories. There were several that snagged in his hair and caused a lot of pain. He endured the pain and pulled them off, taking a good number of strands along with them. However, even after all that, he felt that there were still other accessories behind his head.

Why are there so many hair ornaments for girls? Why are they so troublesome? 

Song Qingshi anxiously did his best… He finally managed to take off all the jewelry and was about to find water to wash his face when he heard rapid footsteps approaching the door. It seemed like the person was about to rush in.

What to do? Is it An Long or Wuhuan? They can’t see me like this!

Song Qingshi quickly shout loudly, “Wait! Don’t come in!”

The door was still pushed open… 

Song Qingshi was too panicked to think and dove straight under the bed.

The author has something to say:

Qingshi’s heart rendering cry: “No! I definitely don’t want to! Please let me go!” (Dragged by the ruthless author to change clothes)

Wuhuan casually said, “To me, women’s clothing is no big deal. It’s fine as long as it’s beautiful.” (Qingshi, you should take a look at how enlightened other people are.)

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