During the Qin Dynasty, he was in charge of the net.

Li Ji believed that there was definitely a way to escape from this circular secret room, but he just hadn't thought of it yet.

He silently activated the Transformation of the Serpent into a Dragon Technique, calmly sensing his surroundings. Suddenly, he perceived that about twenty feet away from this circular secret chamber, there was a spring.

This is probably not a coincidence, but rather something the former kings of Baiyue did on purpose.

Since that's the case, Li Ji decided to try to draw the water from the earth spring and break through this circular secret chamber.

Thinking of this, Li Ji activated the Seed of the Netherworld in his dantian and rapidly activated the Transformation of the Serpent into a Dragon Technique, causing his body to be enveloped in a bright blue light from the Netherworld True Qi.

In an instant, the water in the underground spring really moved!

The water of that spring, which originally flowed from west to east, was now surging upwards like a water dragon.

As soon as the spring water appeared, it spread to several stone chambers in the royal mausoleum.

The circular stone chamber where Li Ji was located was the first to be affected, with a large amount of spring water gushing in from the tiny cracks.

At first it was just a trickle, then it flowed slowly like a stream, and finally it became an unstoppable waterfall.

This circular stone chamber was thus destroyed without being attacked, washed away by the water of the underground spring, revealing stone caves of various sizes.

Before leaving, Li Ji deliberately used the Mingshui True Qi Shield to go into the magma, but did not find Ling Ji's remains, presumably she had already turned into the sea of ​​fire.

Finally, Li Ji glanced at the magma underground with mixed feelings, and then left the stone chamber completely.

He will never forget who was behind all of this.

Even if Yan Lingji and her group of four were combined, they wouldn't be able to escape his grasp given his current strength.

Stepping out of the stone chamber, murky water carrying pebbles poured out, soaking Li Ji to the bone. The azure Netherworld True Qi flowed slowly across his body, instantly drying his clothes.

He was now in a wide passageway, flanked by huge stone carvings of Yue serpents. The serpents' eyes were inlaid with luminous stones that had long since dimmed, emitting a faint, pale green light that barely illuminated the path ahead.

At the end of the passageway, a massive, damaged stone gate can be vaguely seen.

Li Ji could clearly "hear" the echo of water droplets falling in the distance and "smell" a certain sweat lingering in the air.

This is precisely the special ability that the Yue Snake Transformation Dragon Technique bestowed upon him.

The Jiao, the king of the water, has a greatly enhanced ability to perceive water.

He had assumed that Yan Lingji and the others might have already left, since he had been trapped in that circular chamber for a long time, almost a day. He hadn't expected them to still be there.

That's fine, then it saves him the trouble of looking for it again.

Li Ji walked along the passageway, his gaze sweeping over his surroundings.

The murals on the walls depicting royal sacrifices and the Yue snake bear the marks of pressed fingers. Some stone chambers around the passageway have their doors wide open, and some funerary pottery has been smashed on the ground.

It's clear that Yan Lingji and her group have already "plundered" this place.

Just as Li Ji approached the gate at the end of the passageway, a delicate shout came from inside:

"Corpse Demon, keep your corpse puppets under control. Don't waste your energy here. We've got the goods, prepare to leave!"

Li Ji stopped and slipped behind the shadow of a huge stone sculpture, where several figures filed out from the stone gate:

Leading the group was Yan Lingji, dressed in fiery red robes, barefoot on the cold stone slabs, holding a square jade box in her hands.

Following closely behind was the Corpse-Driving Demon, whose wide black robes fluttered in the darkness, and a ghastly green gem was embedded in his bone staff. Li Ji remembered that the bone staff had never had a gem before.

Finally, there were the Hundred Poison King and the Peerless Ghost. The Hundred Poison King was hunched over, with a satisfied smile on his face. Several bulging leather pouches and bamboo tubes hung from his waist, and he was playing with a few brightly colored seeds in his hand.

The towering Wushuang Ghost wore a helmet and held a huge jade coffin in his hands.

Li Ji did not deliberately conceal his presence, so Yan Lingji and her group quickly noticed that there seemed to be someone in the shadow of the stone sculpture.

"Who?!" Yan Lingji shouted, her gaze shooting towards the shadows.

"I don't think your memories are that bad."

Li Ji slowly emerged from the shadows, a faint blue glint in his eyes. Water droplets condensed on the stone walls around him, accompanied by a dripping sound.

"It's you... No way, how could you possibly have come out of that hellhole alive?" Yan Lingji's peach blossom eyes widened to their maximum, and she looked at Li Ji as if she had seen a ghost.

That place is the most dangerous part of the entire royal mausoleum. The inscriptions on the mausoleum walls state that no one has ever walked out of it.

However, it was actually Yan Lingji who misunderstood the meaning of the inscription on the stone wall.

In fact, after many members of the Mingshui royal family died under the lava, even the Mingshui people gradually misunderstood the late king's intentions, and no more members of the Mingshui royal family went there, treating it only as a death cell. This is why Yan Lingji misunderstood.

"Perhaps I should thank you, Yan Lingji, for it was you who gave me a new life."

In return, I will let you experience the same feeling.

After saying that, a dark blue light flashed in Li Ji's eyes, and a large water-shaped hand instantly condensed, grabbing fiercely towards Yan Lingji.

The flames around Yan Lingji had just ignited when they were extinguished by a large water-shaped hand. Then, she was grabbed by the water-shaped hand and unable to move.

All of this happened so fast that the three corpse-driving demons standing nearby could hardly believe their eyes.

Given that Yan Lingji possesses the special bloodline of the Fire Sacrifice Clan and has mastered the top-tier secret techniques of the Baiyue people, how could she be so easily subdued by this person?

"No, no, this... could it be a royal secret technique?" The Hundred Poison King looked at Li Ji's casual manipulation of the water flow and seemed to have thought of something. His whole body trembled slightly.

Of the four, the Poison King was the oldest and most knowledgeable.

Others might not know, but he was very clear that this kind of water-based secret technique was a characteristic of the Mingshui royal family, and those with such power were undoubtedly direct descendants.

The Mingshui tribe was a small but powerful tribe among the Baiyue people, which once suppressed hundreds of Baiyue tribes so much that they could not raise their heads.

However, as far as he knew, the Mingshui tribe had been wiped out nearly a hundred years ago due to an unknown disaster, and for decades no one had ever heard of any Mingshui people appearing.

However, the person in front of him seemed to have indeed mastered the secret techniques of the Mingshui royal family. He had never heard of any outsider being able to learn royal family secret techniques, and this person's attire was clearly that of someone from the Central Plains.

Could it be that this person is actually a descendant of the Mingshui royal family?

The King of Poisons thought of an impossible possibility, his eyes widened, and he stared intently at Li Ji.

"This...this..." The King of Poisons was too excited to speak and didn't know what to do for a moment.

However, the Corpse-Driving Demon and the Peerless Ghost beside him knew nothing of this. They could not recognize that this was a secret technique of the Mingshui royal family, but they knew that this person seemed to have greatly increased his power, and the power of his every move was far greater than before, which made the Corpse-Driving Demon extremely wary.

Meanwhile, the water-shaped giant hand grabbed Yan Lingji and slowly brought her to Li Ji's side.

Yan Lingji was soaked to the bone, revealing her curvaceous figure. However, her panic lasted only a moment before she chuckled and said under Li Ji's gaze:

"It seems the young man is doing well under that lava, but I wonder where Ling Ji went."

Since she hadn't seen Ling Ji fall with Li Ji, Yan Ling Ji naturally assumed that Ling Ji had thrown her into the lava to buy time with her death.

That Lingji was also poor at judging people, leaking information about the Baiyue people and even disguising herself as the Queen Mother to lure her out. But it's for the best; this is the fate of a traitor.

However, Yan Lingji's words struck a nerve with Li Ji.

He never intended to throw Ling Ji into the lava, but it was only because of Ling Ji's death that he had time to cultivate the secret technique. The emotional entanglements involved made Li Ji unwilling to think about them anymore.

Li Ji grabbed Yan Lingji's chin tightly and said slowly, "You can rest assured, your fate will only be worse than hers."