Madam, please ascend.

Chapter 198 Happy Hell
According to the records in the "Secret Book of Hehuan", the Tiancan Sect sent several waves of people to the Suiyu Valley to investigate.

The Shattered Jade Valley is located three hundred miles away from the Paradise Gate. It is the burial place of Yu Wuxia, the first leader of the Hehuan Sect.

Originally, this place was supposed to be secretly guarded by Hehuan Sect disciples, as it was the sect's forbidden area. Later, the Hehuan Sect was tragically wiped out, and no one was left to perform this duty.

However, the underground palace was hidden very deeply, so it had not been discovered over the years. Even the Bliss Sect and the Burial Sword Valley, which had successively occupied the Hehuan Sect and designated the Suiyu Valley as their territory, were unaware of it.

If the "Secret Book of Hehuan" had not been accidentally obtained by the Tiancan Sect, this secret would probably have been hidden for hundreds or even thousands of years.

Since Shattered Jade Valley now belongs to the Buried Sword Valley, the Tiancan Sect's actions this time were kept as low-key as possible.

Five shadows, accompanied by a large number of elite disciples, set out together, avoiding many eyes and quietly arriving at the entrance to the underground palace of Shattered Jade Valley.

As dusk drifted over the mountain ridge, a stone tablet engraved with the image of a miniature mirage slowly emerged from the Broken Jade Valley.

Just as described in the secret book, the stone tablet only appears at a specific moment, and in order to open the underground palace, a sacrifice of human blood is required.

There are also requirements for this blood. It must be obtained from a cultivator with a very yin body.

At this time, Yun Yi and Zhuque hid in the dark, observing the movements of Tiancan Sect from afar.

Yun Yi said, "Looking at the amount of blood, the Tiancan Sect really put a lot of thought into it."

Zhuque teased, "You deliberately leaked the news to Tiancan Sect, is it because you don't want to do such a cruel thing?"

"That's part of the reason, but more importantly, I don't want to do something that's thankless."

"According to what you said before, the underground palace is full of traps, but there are no treasures at all." Zhuque couldn't help laughing and said, "Won't the Tiancan Sect suffer a great loss?"

Yun Yi looked at the shadow guarding the door and said thoughtfully, "The more severe their losses are, the more they will be tempted to go to Qingming Cliff to find out what's going on after they obtain the Acacia Incense."

Zhuque agrees: "Human desires are like a quagmire; it's easy to step into it, but hard to turn back."

The Tiancan Sect had not yet fully understood the depth of the underground palace, so they left a backup plan, letting the two with the strongest cultivation, Qianji and Guimian, guard the entrance, while the other three shadows led their disciples inside to explore.

Not long after, a rumbling sound suddenly came from the Shattered Jade Valley. Fortunately, Qianji, the leader, had made some arrangements in advance and covered the entire mountain with a soundproof barrier, so that the noise was not heard and attracted the attention of the Buried Sword Valley.

Suzaku: "What's inside the underground palace?"

Yun Yi: "They are all vicious traps that take people's lives. After all, this is the mausoleum of the first generation of the clan leader. We can't arrange it to look like a welcoming ceremony."

"Don't keep me in suspense. Tell me the details quickly."

"The first level is called the 'Red Dust Corridor of Inquiry'. It's made of countless withered bones. 'Happy Hell' is painted on both sides of the corridor. Once you step inside, you'll be trapped in a deep hallucination."

Yun Yi spoke slowly, and everyone just found this place in the underground palace.

The corridor in front is paved with skulls. When you step on them, the eye sockets of the skulls will ignite with ghostly flames, which is very evil.

The elder of Tiancan Sect cast a spell to illuminate this place, and the murals on both sides of the corridor suddenly became vivid.

A one-eyed disciple could not help but move closer, and suddenly lost consciousness after seeing the "Hell of Joy" described in the mural.

His body froze, his broken left eye socket facing the slender jade fingers of the woman in the mural, and a drop of rouge tear fell from the painting into the empty eye socket.

The next moment, a mass of fresh flesh and blood suddenly squirmed and grew from the disciple's eye socket, eventually turning into a brand new eyeball, which actually completed the remaining part of his body.

The disciple said excitedly: "My eyes... my eyes have grown!"

The other disciples had no time to pay attention to him, as the damaged parts of their bodies began to undergo strange changes. Flesh blossomed from the shoulders of those with broken arms, and blood oozed from the broken bones of those with lame legs. Soon, the damaged parts of their bodies were restored, making them whole again.

Ever since they joined the Tiancan Sect, they have long been accustomed to the many inconveniences brought about by their physical disabilities. Now that they have recovered what they had lost, they are naturally extremely happy and almost lose their minds.

Only those who had achieved high levels of cultivation remained unmoved and were not affected by the strange phenomenon at all. They seemed to be saying something, but unfortunately it could not be heard by the disciples at all.

The disciples, who were excited to the point of being almost crazy, walked into the corridor, stepping on the dry bones.

We just entered the underground palace and found a treasure to complete the incomplete parts. Maybe there are more benefits inside!

Infinite greed continues to grow, driving them to move forward.

However, the good times didn't last long. The further they advanced, the more they felt a strange itch rising from the damaged parts of their bodies. The newly grown organs, arms, and bones began to shrink.

They were like flowers that had lost their nutrients and began to wither.

"No, no, my eyes!" The one-eyed disciple was the first to fall into madness, digging hard at his eye sockets that had become empty again.

He was so angry that an idea suddenly came to his mind, which was to use blood to nourish the newly grown organs.

Yes, this is how the underground palace was opened, and the blood will surely restore my eyes to life!

The one-eyed disciple looked at his fellow disciples around him, a fierce look flashed in his eyes, and he killed them with a single blow, cut off their heads, and washed their faces with blood.

Sure enough, the lost eyeball came back to life again!

The disciples on the corridor gradually realized this and began to kill each other recklessly, turning this place into a living hell.

From the outside, it looked as if many bony hands emerged from the dry bones on the corridor floor, grabbing the disciples' legs and preventing them from leaving. Yet, the disciples seemed oblivious, busy killing each other and feeding on their blood.

The cultivation method practiced by the Tiancan Sect is inherently evil, and the ordinary disciples of the sect have extreme personalities. After being stimulated by hallucinations, they find it difficult to extricate themselves.

Sangmen was planning to stop the disciples, but was stopped by Xueying.

Xueying didn't care about the lives of those disciples at all. He said coldly, "Let's wait and see what happens. We can use them to explore the way."

Before long, all the disciples who first stepped into the Red Dust Heart-Searching Corridor had died, and their corpses covered the ground, just paving a new path on those skulls.

Seeing this, Guimian ordered the remaining disciples to step over the corpses, not to touch the dry bones below, and not to look at the murals on both sides.

Outside the underground palace, Zhuque naturally couldn't see what was happening inside, so he could only pull Yun Yi and ask, "What kind of illusion is there?"

Yun Yi said helplessly, "For the disciples of Tiancan Sect, the greatest joy is to grow back a stump, to regain what was lost."

"Where is the murderous intent?"

"Gained and lost again."

After hearing this, Suzaku shook his head and sighed, "What a vicious illusion!"

Yun Yi: "I suspect the Red Dust Heart-Searching Corridor was originally designed for the disciples of the Hehuan Sect. The Hehuan Sect excels at dual cultivation, so if one's mind is perfect, they will naturally be unaffected. However, if one's mind is imperfect, they will see their dream dual cultivation partner in hallucinations and become trapped in it."

Zhuque: "I didn't expect this mechanism to be even more effective against the Tiancan Sect. Lost and found, only to lose again. It would be strange if I didn't go crazy."

(End of this chapter)