Yin Yang Lantern Man

Chapter 100: Walking the Lantern Road for the First Time
This huge monster is a human.

Before her death, Chen Ning'an sensed the breath of the lantern man. This might be the final destination for these people.

Inside the underground palace, many people were instigated by the human realm to rebel and there was commotion. Xiao Sun took this opportunity to shout with his arms:
"Now Ye An's people are approaching the Territory Lord. Once they meet up with the Territory Lord, none of us will be able to escape and we will all die!"

"Raise your hands if you are willing to survive with us in the human realm!"

Sparsely, one, two, three... ten, twenty...

Even if someone doesn't want to raise their hand, they have to do it in order to fit in.

No one knows whether the mysterious man who can kill monsters will kill them.

For many people, being a guide is the ceiling, and even if they have other ideas, they have to keep them hidden.

Chen Ning'an didn't raise his hand, he hid behind a building.

The guide was more powerful than he thought, a little bit supernatural, and he needed to seize every opportunity to become stronger.

The mysterious man took the lead in pushing open the door of the underground palace, and all the lantern men followed him to defeat Ye An's conspiracy.

Many of the lantern bearers had unnatural expressions on their faces; they did not want to enter the underground palace.

But some of the members of the human realm were in the front, and some were in the back, surrounding them.

It is clear that they are planning something, and the future of these lantern bearers is hard to say.

They walked a long way before Chen Ningan started to move on his own...

This underground palace is very large, and the walls are covered with murals.

It can be seen that giants lived with humans. Suddenly one day, a meteorite fell from the sky.

Then, everything changed...

In the mural, the giant's back is bulging high, his face is in extreme pain, and he is surrounded by little people kneeling and praying.

Then, the giant in the mural went mad, his back cracked, and a tentacle flower grew out.

As time goes on, the content of the murals becomes more abstract, and those mad giants are eventually killed by humans.

Mural painting... so much for that.

The underground palace ends here, and further ahead are forked caves.

If it were just that, it would be fine, but these caves are tied up with thick locks, making it impossible to get close.

"Hiss, this thing is a bit scary."

Xiao Sun felt something was wrong no matter how he looked at it. He came to the mysterious man and whispered, "They are all locked up. The territory master should not be here."

"We don't have to find the territory master."

The mysterious man walked forward and reached out to touch the chain that locked the cave.

All the caves were sealed, but if you looked closely, you could see that the chain in front of the mysterious man was newer than the others.

As his robed hands slid, the chains disappeared one by one.

The cave was revealed.

"Let them catch up."

The mysterious man walked in first, and as for the so-called "they", they were naturally those lantern-carrying men.

He had a blank expression on his face and was the first to break in alone.

After everyone had left, Chen Ning'an was about to set out to catch up, but at this moment he saw another group of people approaching.

It's Ye An's.

Zhang Qi was at the front, and next to him was a man with a very long torso, about two meters tall.

Behind them was a group of Ye'an people, including Captain Chang who he had ignored.

These night people have a special way to enter this world without carrying a lantern, perhaps it is the ability of a guide.

They came to the end of the underground palace, where a series of locked entrances came into view.

Zhang Qiduo glanced at the hole where the chain was torn and said, "Someone has been in here before. It should be from the human realm."

"It could be that person."

Every time Zhou Mingyu took a step, his upper body swayed violently because he was too tall.

And it always feels like it's a little longer than before.

"Should we follow?" Xiang Hua asked in a low voice, and heard from the guide that everything was fine.

"Let me see."

Zhang Qi took out a piece of leather from his arms, and Chen Ningan saw a palm print on the leather.

It was the same as the one on his shoulder, black and cold, and there was a chill in it.

He waved the skin towards the open hole, but there was nothing there. However, when he moved closer to the other hole, he could clearly see that the skin was frozen hard and no longer as soft as before.

"Let's go this way."

Zhang Qi stretched out his hand, grabbed the chain and twisted it gently, and it broke. The inside of the cave was pitch black and nothing could be seen clearly.

They came in one after another, but stumped Chen Ningan.

Should I follow the people from Renjing or the people from Yean?
Judging from what happened just now, Ye An’s choice was right, but when he stood at the entrance of the cave, he did not feel the coldness in his shoulder getting worse.

The same thing happened in the human realm. He moved along the cave entrance, and the feeling each locked position gave him was basically the same.

"We still have to use our old skills."

He simply sat down and used the hole in front of him to tell fortunes.

The first hole is Qian, the second hole is Dui, and there are eight holes in total, which is the Kun hexagram.

Kun is hanging upwards, and Dong is sunken inside, which is the Dui hexagram, which is the Di Ze Lin hexagram.

Plus time...

There is no time here, so Chen Ningan looks at the main hexagram.

Kun earth is outside and Dui metal is inside. From this hexagram, we can see the second hole, which is auspicious because Kun earth is giving birth to the body.

To go to the eighth hole, you have to pay something.

But Chen Ning'an went to find the territory master.

He stopped at the second hole for a moment and finally came to the eighth hole.

The huge chain locked everything, and he couldn't move it even with his arms.

"Just now I replenished my strength and it's about 7,000 kilograms. How can you not pull it?"

He looked carefully and found that there were extremely fine lines on the chains, which looked like blood vessels or cracks in glass.

He drew out a fire talisman and covered it with it, then stood aside after lighting it.

The iron chain quickly burned red and softened, and he took the opportunity to kick it in half.

His shoulders were cold.

This place must have been chosen correctly.

The entrance to the cave was dug out of mud, and there were densely packed bumps on the ground, making it impossible to tell what caused them. He walked inside, somewhat doubting whether the Lord of the Realm was really in there.

If so, why are these holes sealed?

If not, what is in here? Suddenly, Chen Ningan heard a thin and dense sound.

His shoulders were getting colder and colder. Could it be that the leader of the territory had appeared?
He quickened his pace and clenched the talisman in the book, ready to throw it out at any time.

The fire talisman, wind talisman and thunder talisman carved with wood powder struck by lightning would be so powerful that even he could not predict it once it was thrown out.

As he walked, half of his body almost froze completely.

But gradually, Chen Ning'an found that the feel of the ground was a little familiar.

It's bumpy and getting steeper.

It was still a little slippery, and as he moved forward, something similar to moss and mucus appeared on the ground.

"Chen Ning'an."

Suddenly, Ye Dingwan's voice sounded behind him.

Is she here too? Did she come in by accident or has she been following me?

Chen Ning'an turned around and flicked his fingertips.

A drawn leather talisman was pointed directly at the source of the sound.

fire!
"Hulua," the talisman burned fiercely on the ground of the cave, but there was nothing.

He missed it, and the call just now seemed to be an illusion.

"Chen Ning'an."

Ye Dingwan's voice rang again: "What's wrong with you?"

This time, it was still behind him, which was the direction he was going.

"Ghosts and monsters, they are very brave."

He turned his head again and his pupils shrank sharply.

In front of him, it was really Ye Dingwan, who was looking at him in confusion: "Why are you here? Come with me, let's leave this dangerous place first."

She took Chen Ning'an's hand and turned back to the cave. Chen Ning'an did not move. He wanted to see what this thing was going to do.

The first time I came, I didn't have enough means to bully him, but now things are different.

The route we took became increasingly steeper and slippery.

It seemed like he was going back, but when he took out the compass, he saw that he was going deeper into the cave.

In the Di Ze Lin hexagram, Dui Ze represents a young girl, so this hexagram is accurate.

"Coming."

The expression on Ye Dingwan's face became more and more strange, and slowly Chen Ningan felt a bit of chill on his shoulder.

He couldn't walk anymore and wanted to stop here.

It was exactly the same feeling he had had when he first held the lantern.

In other words, the front is...

Chen Ningan pulled out his butcher knife and said, "Sorry, I don't want to play with you now."

With a swipe of the knife, Ye Dingwan's figure disappeared like a bubble.

Only after she left did Chen Ning'an see what was in front of him.

It's an ice sculpture.

Each ice sculpture has a different expression, all human expressions.

Some were happy, some were terrified, and the cold air filled the cave, making people's fingers stiff.

Chen Ning'an slowly raised his head and saw an icicle pillar above his head, approaching him.

If you stop, you will be caught up by the icicles.

Cold corpse realm?
He ignored it and just ran forward. The light from the lantern gradually flickered and revealed a house.

really!

At the end of the cave, there was actually a house built with wood and tiles.

He saw the door and a familiar groove in the wall.

There was a box there before and he took it away.

He entered here when he first carried the lantern.

He didn't know how long he had been walking. With his eyes closed, he actually passed through the two areas of cold corpses and cold bones, and also passed through the chain at the entrance of the cave.

meet again.

He looked at the house in front of him and reached out to push the door open.

Last time he ended the lantern-lighting activity without seeing anything, but this time was different. Chen Ning'an took in everything in front of him.

Old wooden house, beams, tables, chairs and benches.

All covered with dust.

There are desks with unfinished ink paintings on them.

There is only one woman above, and the rest of the scenery is blank. Only the clothes of the two women are blank, with just a simple outline.

No matter how Chen Ning'an looked at it, he felt it looked familiar.

Isn't this the woman who left the mark on his shoulder?

She... is a painting?

Is she the territory master?

Chen Ning'an stretched out his finger and gently touched the album. There was still a large blank space on the paper.

But suddenly, the woman in the painting turned her head and stared at him.

The man and the painting looked at each other. At that moment, Chen Ning'an clearly felt the coldness in his shoulder getting worse.

"You are finally here."

(End of this chapter)