Chapter 224: Yiyi and Jiujiu, Two Treasures in a Prison Cell
Clang—clang—
The grinding of the crude gears produced an unsettling sound, as if the elevator would fall apart at any second and send the two people plummeting down.
The surroundings were all rock walls. Inside the elevator at this moment, one couldn’t see their own hands.
Ye Anping could only estimate how far down he had descended through the feeling of weightlessness beneath his feet. When it was time to get out, they wouldn’t be able to escape using this contraption. They would have to break a hole in the mountain wall and then fly away on their swords, braving the chaotic spirit脉 and wind and snow outside.
However, after losing their sight, their other senses had unconsciously become more sensitive.
Although he didn’t press his ear against Feng Yu Die’s chest, he could hear her heart beating extremely fast, as if she were scared or something.
After a pause, he frowned and asked,
“Can you talk now? What’s wrong?”
“It’s nothing, just…” Feng Yu Die’s right hand, intertwined with Ye Anping’s, tightened its grip. “I’m a little scared. It’s too dark, and we’re inside a mountain cave…”
Upon hearing this, Ye Anping suddenly remembered what Xiao Tian had said about the Grand Void True Person the night before he sent Feng Yu Die to Yun Jiujiu’s place. He sighed softly and said,
“It will be bright soon.”
“Mhm…”
Feng Yu Die pursed her lips, closed her eyes, and tilted her ears to listen to the sound of gears meshing from the walls on both sides, counting silently in her heart.
Clang—clang—
Clang—
… …
When she counted to the four hundred and twenty-seventh time, the sound of meshing gears stopped. Feng Yu Die slowly opened her eyes and found herself and Ye Anping in a huge stone room. Only a few braziers in the four corners provided lighting. There were five other identical elevator platforms around them, leading to who knew where.
“Shh—”
Ye Anping uttered a sentence, then holding her, he stepped out of the stone room’s doorway and onto a circular passage.
Doors of varying sizes were neatly arranged on both sides of the passage. After the two walked about a hundred chi along the right wall, a tall, thin man with a sword on his back appeared at the end of the passage.
The man seemed to be preparing to take the elevator and walked towards them.
Ye Anping glanced at him briefly, not daring to release his spiritual sense to probe. Upon seeing the hilt of the long sword behind the thin man, he inferred that this was likely a Core Formation Stage cultivator. He quickly pulled Feng Yu Die to the side, stopped, and turned to face the man. As the man passed them, Ye Anping hurriedly nodded and bowed,
“Greetings, Senior.”
“Hmm?”
The man nodded upon hearing this and walked past. But just as Ye Anping was about to continue forward, the man suddenly turned back.
“Wait.”
“Senior, do you have any instructions?”
“You’re with He Longyu’s people, aren’t you?”
“Yes, I am Ye An. This is my cultivation partner. Senior He just asked us to intercept the pursuers, so she was injured, hence…”
The man raised an eyebrow, looking somewhat surprised, and asked,
“Oh? How did you escape?”
“Well, thanks to Senior Zhou’s sacrifice, we were fortunate enough to escape that person’s sword.”
“So that’s how it is…”
The man raised his eyebrows, nodded, then narrowed his eyes and examined Feng Yu Die in Ye Anping’s arms. After a brief probe with his spiritual sense, finding no issues, he casually handed over a bottle of low-grade pills and said,
“You take her to rest first. We’re still short of staff for the condensed formation. You’ll go there later. He Longyu is already there. If you don’t know what to do, let him teach you.”
“Yes.”
Ye Anping lowered his head and agreed, feeling relieved. He then continued walking into the passage with Feng Yu Die in his arms.
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At the same time, at the lowest level of Snow Dragon Cave.
In the stone room built of dark bricks, the firewood in the brazier crackled and popped, the flickering light casting a strange aura throughout the room.
Yun Yiyi leaned against a corner of the stone wall, now wrapped in bedding that Yu Shui Ting had helped her pack.
Drip—
A water droplet fell from the ceiling, landing precisely on her eyelid.
Yun Yiyi blinked her eyes slightly, then slowly opened them. She scanned her surroundings groggily, only to suddenly feel a sharp pain in the back of her head.
After a moment of recovery, she remembered that she had seemingly been knocked unconscious by the person who killed her husband.
The thought of Ye Anping being killed by those people instantly ignited her anger, and her teeth began to grind with a “kaka” sound.
However, she quickly suppressed her rage and calmly observed her surroundings.
“Where is this…”
—”Underground.”
“Ah?!”
A voice came from beside her, startling Yun Yiyi greatly. She tried to turn her head, but her body was bound and she couldn’t move. With a twist, she fell directly from her leaning position against the wall and ended up on the ground like a caterpillar.
“Heh~”
Seeing her like this, Yun Jiujiu let out a disdainful laugh and turned her head away, ignoring her.
Yun Yiyi struggled for a while. After rolling around, she finally saw that there was another person in the stone room, and this person had curly golden hair.
She stared at Yun Jiujiu in silence for a while and asked,
“Miss, are you an inner disciple?”
Swish—
The chains on Yun Jiujiu’s body made a light clinking sound. She turned her head to look at Yun Yiyi, her eyes filled with disbelief, and asked,
“Miss? Hammer Girl! I’m Yun Jiujiu!!”
?
“Ah?”
“What ‘ah’? F*** your mother Yun Yiyi, are you really not recognizing me or just pretending? In this situation, you still have the nerve to joke with me?”
Yun Yiyi pouted, then rolled her eyes and looked her up and down.
“I really didn’t recognize you. Why are you still wearing a skirt?”
“I… I… Why can’t I wear a skirt? Yun Yiyi!! I’m also a girl…”
“Hammer Girl?”
“Hiss—F*** you.”
Swish—
Yun Jiujiu tried to stand up to hit her, but the chains on her body were like a collar, preventing her from moving even a step. After a pause, she simply shouted outside the room,
“Hey! Where are you?! Quick, break these chains for me, I want to beat her!!”
“Still so spirited…” Yun Yiyi looked speechless. She rolled around again, and with the help of a stool in the stone room, she finally managed to get up from the ground.
She looked around, trying to find something to remove the blanket from herself. However, there was nothing in the room except for stones and the brazier.
After thinking for a moment, Yun Yiyi said,
“Help me get the blanket off, I can’t move.”
“Heh~ Did you not see what’s wrapped around my arms and legs? I’ll risk my life to get the blanket off for you. The person who tied you up was quite thoughtful, making you a whole blanket. I’m freezing to death.”
Yun Yiyi hobbled over to Yun Jiujiu. However, she lost her balance and directly bumped into Yun Jiujiu’s chest.
Bang—
“Ouch—” Yun Yiyi gasped in pain. “Your chest is harder than the fine iron in the Sword Pavilion.”
Yun Jiujiu glared at Yun Yiyi, then quickly lowered her head, biting down on a corner of the blanket wrapped around Yun Yiyi, and shouted, “Scram!!”
“Scram for what? Hurry and help me get the blanket off.”
“I told you to scram!! Do you understand spinning around?”
Yun Yiyi struggled and said, “I can’t move.”
“Put some effort into it! You weakling… I’m holding it for you.”
“Stop, stop, stop… Ow, ow, ow—you’re biting my flesh!!”
“Ptooey—!”
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