Chapter 113: Underground Passage
The room continued to tremble loudly as the structure changed and soon, a staircase leading to the underground appeared in the center of the room.
“Elder Jing, can you sense what’s under there?” Yang Wei asked as he stepped closer to the staircase.
Elder Jing tried to use her spiritual sense but unlike previously where she managed to detect a hidden mechanism, her spiritual sense was unable to penetrate past the door.
“No, it seemed like whatever is underground is the reason why I couldn’t use my spiritual sense earlier when we were outside,” Elder Jing shook her head as she deduced the profound feelings she got were hidden underground.
Yang Wei nodded his head in agreement as that was the only solution to explain the mystery in this mini-house.
After all, magical beasts are known as ferocious creatures that would do anything to fill their hunger up yet a seemingly ordinary mini-house was enough to divert their natural instinct in launching toward their prey.
“Alright, retrieve your swords out since we can only go in blindly again,” Elder Jing said as she retrieved her weapon out from the spatial ring.
Afterward, she slowly walked down the stairs without waiting for Yang Wei as she opened the door.
The door was silent and didn’t make any creaking sound like the one in the front which caused Elder Jing to raise her eyebrow in surprise.
“There’s no dust in the door despite the mini-house being abandoned. This is weird,” Elder Jing mumbled softly as she lit up a fire using some of her true qi to brighten up the passage.
Meanwhile, Yang Wei caught up to Elder Jing as he stepped inside with her, and without any surprises, the door behind them closed tightly.
“Of course the door would automatically shut down once we entered inside,” Elder Jing sneered as she already expected some unknown scenario to appear soon.
The mysterious realm has been nothing but trouble for her from the start to finish and Elder Jing began to wonder if Yang Wei was her bane.
‘My luck has been going downhill ever since I met with Yang Wei. Maybe I should do some checks with a fortune teller once we leave the mysterious realm.’ Elder Jing exclaimed inwardly and proceeded to walk forward.
Sometime later, Elder Jing reached the end of the passage as there’s another door in front of them.
“Another door?” Yang Wei said stutteringly.
He was surprised that there are many doors in an underground passage instead of some hidden traps.
Meanwhile, Elder Jing held a solemn expression because the door is locked and she has tried to force it open with brute force.
Alas, the door seemed to absorb all of her damage as it made no impact on it. At the same time, Elder Jing discovered a keyhole where you’re supposed to have a key to open this door.
‘Don’t tell me- that we wasted all this time, just to end up having to go back empty-handed.’ Elder Jing cursed inwardly as she didn’t expect the outcome to turn out like this.
While Elder Jing became distracted while trying to come up with a solution on what to do next, Yang Wei was busily glaring at the keyhole with a solemn expression.
“The keyhole seemed to be different from a regular keyhole,” Yang Wei mumbled softly as he walked forward to investigate the keyhole further.
Afterward, he held a disbelief expression because the keyhole seemed to match with Xiao Wei, his battle spirit in size.
“E-Elder Jing, don’t you think this keyhole seems to match with my battle spirit?” Yang Wei asked Elder Jing, hoping to confirm if his guess was correct and wasn’t him going crazy.
Elder Jing was dumbfounded before staring at the keyhole with a narrowed gaze.
Since she was too disappointed previously, she didn’t really focus on the keyhole until Yang Wei asked her.
Once Elder Jing realized that the keyhole does seem to match with Yang Wei’s battle spirit, she gasped in surprise.
Elder Jing started using her hand to cover her mouth as she never expected such a coincidence to exist where a cultivator’s battle spirit can match a door keyhole.
‘U-Unbelievable… How is this possible?’ Elder Jing exclaimed inwardly.
Elder Jing tilted her head to glance at Yang Wei with a disbelief expression.
“Yang Wei… seriously, are you a descendant of some powerful cultivator?” Elder Jing asked him despite knowing full well of his background.
However, his background seemed to be falsified since his achievement so far doesn’t connect with his humble and lowly mortal background at all.
Yang Wei shuddered briefly as he shook his head, “Elder Jing must be joking with me. If I was really a descendant from a powerful cultivator then I wouldn’t have to struggle at the beginning of my youth to earn enough money to enter the sect.”
And he continued, “Not to mention, my parents aren’t cultivators otherwise, they wouldn’t have fallen ill and died.”
Yang Wei smiled bitterly upon mentioning his parent’s death and Elder Jing patted his shoulders lightly before apologizing for making him recall the tragedy.
“Let’s not mention the past anymore and focus on what’s in front of us, Yang Wei,” Elder Jing said softly as she consoled him.
Yang Wei nodded as he made Xiao Wei appear out from his spiritual core.
Xiao Wei was happy to be summoned again as it swirled around the air excitedly with his miniature sword form.
Yang Wei chuckled softly at his battle spirit before ordering him to try and unlock the door.
“Xiao Wei, see if you can unlock the door for Elder Jing and me,” Yang Wei shouted as he pointed at the door.
Xiao Wei obeyed Yang Wei’s word as he quickly inserted himself into the keyhole before doing some twisting action.
Click!
Within a few seconds, a clicking sound could be heard and Xiao Wei had successfully unlocked the door with ease.
“Haha, to think that your battle spirit could actually be a key in unlocking this abandoned mini-house…” Elder Jing laughed awkwardly as she placed her hand in the doorknob.
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