Zongwu: Aspiring to be the mastermind behind the scenes

Chapter 131: Escape into the ancient tomb, and be strong

"what?"

Not to mention Yang Guo, even Zhao Min was shocked when she heard this: "You... you dare..."

"Why not?"

Jin Jiu interrupted her and said, "Little girl, let me teach you a lesson. No matter how noble your birth is, never look down on anyone. However, even if you learn this lesson, you won't be able to use it in this lifetime. Use it in your next life... Do it!"

Many playboys bully poor people recklessly and bully them to death, as if they don't care at all whether they will fight for their lives before they die.

In fact, they are not afraid.

To be more precise, they don't think so, and they don't even have such awareness.

They have been spoiled since childhood, doing whatever they want, without paying any price for anything, and have never been hurt. This makes them subconsciously believe that there is nothing in the world that can hurt them, let alone people.

Even if they bully others to death, in their subconscious minds, they still believe that the other party will be afraid and dare not attack them.

Although Zhao Min is very smart and understands this principle, there is a huge gap between understanding and doing it.

She was born a princess, loved by her father and doted on by her elder brother.

In fact, in her subconscious mind, she also believed that she would not be hurt.

Before, when Zhao Min had a conversation with Xiang Wentian and realized that the other party knew her identity, she subconsciously felt that the other party would be afraid of the Yuan Kingdom and would not dare to hurt her at all.

Therefore, she almost completely ignored the threat of thousands of soldiers from the Sun and Moon Sect and actually acted directly together with the Sun and Moon Sect.

It was not until this moment that this personal experience made her realize very clearly that her so-called identity and background were nothing in the eyes of some people.

"Ada, Aer, Asan, come and protect me!"

Zhao Min screamed and said to Yang Guo, "Let me go!"

"no!"

Yang Guo flatly refused.

From his perspective, he actually didn't know Zhao Min's identity. It was only when she was hiding that he found that many masters were protecting her and realized that she was an important person, so he abducted her.

Later, when he heard Ah Da shouting "Princess", he realized who he had captured.

I thought it would be of some use, but I didn't expect this result.

But in their situation, no matter what the result is, it is better than before.

For example, in order to protect Zhao Min's safety, Zhao Min's subordinates have to join them in dealing with the Sun and Moon Cult.

This means more helpers and more opportunities!
So, how could he let Zhao Min go at this time?

As he was speaking, many masters from the Sun Moon Sect and all kinds of people came over.

But it was obvious to the naked eye that these people were slacking off.

After all, they all realized Zhao Min's identity.

The Sun and Moon Sect was not afraid, but they were. Naturally, they did not dare to use their real abilities, and even hoped that the other party could escape.

After all, they have already found the location of the ancient tomb, so why should they provoke the Yuan Kingdom at this time?
But fortunately, the soldiers on both sides did not think too much, and tried their best to obey orders, surrounding everyone and attacking them.

Qiu Chuji, Liu Yugu and others, as well as Zhao Min's subordinates A Da, A Er and others, had to join hands at this moment to deal with the enemy's siege.

Zhao Min knew that Yang Guo would not let her go at this time, and glanced at the current situation.

The entire team consisted of several thousand people, and most of them had not even reached the acquired level of cultivation. They were walking on a mountain road, so naturally, these martial arts masters left most people behind.

Therefore, now, there is a team of several thousand people behind them, not to mention those two men in bamboo hats. It is impossible for them to escape from this direction, so they can only move forward.

"Run forward!" Zhao Min said.

Yang Guo glanced at her in surprise. In the short time just now, he had also come to this conclusion. He immediately said, "Everyone, flee forward!"

Upon hearing this, both sides attacked forward.

"Stop them!" Gin ordered.

All the masters from all walks of life rushed to chase and stop them. With their efforts, they finally made the other party run away.

Although there are still people from the Sun and Moon Sect ahead, they are fewer in number and weaker in strength, so it is basically impossible to stop them.

"A bunch of trash!"

Jin Jiu let out a low growl and moved at the same time as Dongfang Bubai. Using his lightness skills, he quickly chased after him like a ghost.

In just a few blinks of an eye, they had caught up with the other group. In addition, the surrounding soldiers hindered their progress.

Suddenly, the crisis reappeared.

Zhao Min quickly ordered, "Escape into the ancient tomb! Eight Heroes of the Divine Archery, use your bows and arrows to stop them!"

Eight of his men immediately stopped, turned around, drew their bows and shot arrows.

Since these eight people have the title of Eight Heroes of Archery, they are naturally very accurate in archery. With the combined strength of the eight of them, even a master cannot easily get close to them at a distance.

The eight men aimed directly at Jinjiu and fired arrows like rain, but Dongfang Bubai on the other side easily bypassed them and continued to kill.

"Give me a sword!" Liu Yuru suddenly said.

Everyone was stunned and immediately understood what she meant.

"Ada, give her your sword!" Zhao Min said.

Ada did as she was told. Liu Yuru took the sword, turned around and stopped Dongfang Bubai.

Only then could the others calmly enter the ancient tomb while being surrounded by a group of miscellaneous soldiers.

The entrance to the ancient tomb is not wide. With so many masters, only two of them need to block the entrance with weapons to deal with the pursuers calmly.

After killing a group of the miscellaneous soldiers who chased them into the ancient tomb, the others were so scared that they dared not enter.

In just this short period of time, the Eight Heroes of the Divine Arrow were wiped out by Gin.

Seeing this, Liu Yuru immediately turned around and ran away.

Dongfang Bubai did not chase after him and let him enter the ancient tomb.

At this time, other people arrived from behind.

Jin Jiu sneered, "Now that they've escaped into the ancient tomb, we're in trouble. If they get the weapons inside, I don't know how long they can resist with this ancient tomb."

Everyone looked grim, especially the big thief Guishou, the water bandit Youlong and other people from all walks of life.

They didn't dare to offend the Yuan Kingdom just now, so they let the other party escape during the fight.

As a result, these people who escaped turned around and hid in the ancient tomb, and now they have become trouble. This is naturally not a good thing for them.

The great hero Chen Dang smiled and said, "We can't afford internal strife right now. We should first resolve this matter and recover the weapons, armor, and gold. Everyone, do you have any ideas?"

As expected of someone who could be considered a hero at this border, they were incredibly thick-skinned. They brushed the matter aside with ease, as if they hadn't been the ones to deliberately let him go.

Jinjiu took a look at the entrance to the ancient tomb and snorted coldly: "This time, they have the advantage."

Behind the entrance was a corridor that was only wide enough for three or five people to walk side by side, so their advantage of having more people could not be utilized at all.

At this moment, Liu Yuru and A Da were guarding the entrance behind the corridor. Given the terrain, their force was no match for ten thousand men.

Inside the ancient tomb.

Zhao Min said, "Hey, isn't it time for you to let me go?"

"impossible."

Yang Guo refused again.

Zhao Min was furious: "We are now cooperating against the enemy, is this your attitude?" "Haha!" Yang Guo sneered: "We can only cooperate if you are in my hands. If I let you go... I'm afraid you will immediately bring your men down to surrender!"

"Those people just wanted to kill me, how could I surrender?"

"Who can guarantee that?"

No matter what, Yang Guo would never let Zhao Min go at this time.

He simply ignored her and looked at everyone and said, "We should explore the terrain here and try to find another exit. If we can't find one, we can use it to fight once we are familiar with the terrain.

Everyone thought it made sense, and after discussion, they left a few people behind to take charge and start exploring randomly.

After the corridor is the front chamber of the ancient tomb, which is where they are now. The last crossroads lead to the side tomb chambers on the left and right. Going straight is a wide space, which is the main tomb chamber.

It really looks like an ordinary ancient tomb.

But this is only the first layer.

In the main tomb chamber, there is a road leading to the second floor. After walking up a flight of stairs, you arrive at the second underground floor. The road is winding and there are tomb doors on both sides. It looks very complicated.

"With just this one road, we can hold out for a long time, but I don't know if we have any food stored."

"There should be. The Tomb Clan used to live here."

Everyone pushed open the tomb doors and searched one by one, but most of the tombs were empty, without even a trace of life, let alone food.

Not to mention weapons, armor, gold and silver.

"Isn't it rumored that this place is full of weapons, armor, gold, silver and food?" Yue Songtao said somewhat disappointedly.

Qiu Chuji said, "It's just a rumor. We don't even know if it's true or not."

Continuing to explore, we saw several tombs with signs of life, but they were also decorated in a very simple way.

"I guess this is where the Tomb Clan members live."

"Found food!"

The Tomb Sect never leaves the tomb all year round, so they tend to store a lot of food, and they are all foods that are easy to store.

Although there are many of them, if they save some money, they can still last for about ten days.

In addition, several long swords of good quality were found, so Qiu Chuji, Yue Songtao and others finally had weapons.

When they found the last stone chamber, they saw five coffins placed inside. In front of two of the coffins, there were traces of candlelight memorial services.

Qiu Chuji said, "This is probably a senior from the Ancient Tomb Sect. We must not move without authorization."

Everyone nodded, but felt a little disappointed.

It seems that the many stone chambers in the second layer were probably the warehouses where weapons, armor, food, gold, silver and other items were stored.

But now it's all empty.

"I think they either used up all of it, or directly gave it to the Ming and Song dynasties." Qiu Chuji said, "Those rumors are just rumors. The Sun Moon Divine Sect's efforts have been in vain this time."

Everyone nodded and walked back.

He ran into Zhao Min's subordinates who had stayed on the first floor. "My Lady! The enemy is attacking!"

"What?!" Zhao Min was shocked. "That tunnel is so strong that one man can block ten thousand. With you guarding it, how could they break in?"

The subordinate said, "For some reason, the Sun and Moon Cult members have brought a large number of hoes and shovels. Thousands of them have come together and dug up the entire tunnel!"

"The Sun and Moon Cult members are carrying hoes and shovels?"

Everyone was surprised and found it unbelievable. When they reached the first floor, they heard the sound of digging.

Seeing them coming out, Liu Yuru asked, "How's the investigation going?"

Yang Guo told the result.

Liu Yuru sighed, "If we really had armor, with our strength, we could just put on the armor and let them attack us, and we would definitely be able to break out of the encirclement. But without armor... Alas!

Although the terrain is complex, with what the Sun Moon Divine Sect is doing now, I'm afraid the so-called terrain is of no use at all."

Everyone thought so.

The Sun and Moon Sect is willing to dig up the mountain, so they are naturally not afraid of the terrain.

Yang Guo asked, "What's the situation outside?"

Liu Yuru said, "I just ventured out to take a look. Every one of the Sun and Moon Cult members was armed with hoes and shovels. A thousand of them were digging, a thousand were shoveling, and another thousand were rotating beside them. Their speed was astonishing."

These people have all practiced martial arts. Even though most of them are only at the third level of foundation building, they are strong and powerful, so they can naturally dig very quickly.

Not to mention the acquired ones, even those innate masters have given up, and the digging speed...even the excavators are ashamed of themselves!
Everyone was an expert, and their ability to locate locations by sound was needless to say. They could clearly hear the sound of digging getting closer and closer.

This is really bad.

For a moment, everyone fell silent.

In this silence, the sound of digging became louder, and each hoe strike seemed to be digging into their hearts.

Suddenly, Zhao Min asked, "Who do you think those two men in bamboo hats are?"

Ning Zhongze said, "The only one who can command Xiang Wentian and Shangguan Yun is Dongfang Bubai."

Zhao Min said, "Otherwise, if it really is Dongfang Bubai, his name tells us he's an extremely proud man, so why would he hide his identity? Is he afraid of offending Quanzhen? Haha!"

Everyone thought it was true. Given the current behavior of the Sun Moon Sect, if they wanted revenge later, they would definitely target the Sect Leader Dongfang Bubai.

If that's the case, why does he hide his identity?
Zhao Min continued, "Based on the Sun Moon Cult's previous actions, I thought they were going to cut ties with the Ming and Song dynasties and defect to the Yuan. But that person didn't hesitate to kill me, clearly not caring about offending the Yuan either."

In this way, the Sun Moon Sect would offend the Quanzhen faction in both the Ming and Song dynasties, as well as our Yuan Dynasty. Such a move would involve two thousand troops, and the Ming court would surely not tolerate it.

"You paid such a huge price, and all you got are those weapons and armor? And they're just rumors?"

Yang Guo asked, "What do you mean by that?"

Zhao Min said, "They're acting this way, either because they're not part of the Sun Moon Cult at all and therefore don't care about this sort of thing. If that's the case, I'll definitely find the real culprit.

Another possibility is... their goal isn't the weapons and armor. Perhaps there are other secrets hidden within this ancient tomb that they're determined to obtain, no matter the cost!"

Yue Songtao said, "We've thoroughly explored this ancient tomb, but it's completely empty. How could there be anything else?"

Zhao Min said, "And those coffins!"

Qiu Chuji snorted coldly and said, "How could you, a seductress from the Yuan Kingdom, actually come up with such an idea? That coffin is the burial place of the ancestors of the Ancient Tomb Sect. How could you move it without permission?"

Zhao Min said, "There are five coffins, but only two show signs of candlelight commemoration!"

Everyone was stunned.

Looking back, it is indeed true.

"Could it be... Could it be that..."

"Go back and check it out!"

In this desperate situation, no matter what the outcome is, it is their only hope.

Everyone turned around and ran to the second floor. They soon reached the stone chamber at the end. When they looked, they saw that there were only two coffins with traces of memorial service in front of them.

Then he opened the other three coffins, but they were all empty.

"Huh? Down here..."

Yue Buqun knocked on the bottom of a coffin, and a banging sound was heard.

“…It’s empty!”

(End of this chapter)