Fairy, don't let your golden finger chase after me!

Chapter 15: The Unlucky Demon Princess!

Looking at the ever-changing maze in front of him, Dong Mo suddenly turned around and grabbed Xiao Bai's delicate hand.

"Xiao Bai, hold my hand tightly, don't let go! The maze's formation has been activated; if we suddenly get separated now, it'll be a real problem!"

"Eh? Ah...yes, young master!"

Xiao Bai was startled by Dong Mo's words, but when she felt the warm touch on her wrist, her cheeks flushed red, and she quickly gripped Dong Mo's hand tightly.

Dong Mo didn't notice the girl's shy reaction. At this moment, he was concentrating on asking Zi Ming Sword for the next course of action via telepathy.

"Purple Nether Sword, what's the next step?"

[Purple Nether Sword: Master! This maze has been reactivated, all the paths have been disrupted! And the spatial structure of the maze has been sealed off...]

To escape, we must find the array plate in this maze! Only with the array plate can we regain control of the maze!

Dong Mo frowned and quickly asked again, "Then can you sense where the array plate is?"

[Purple Nether Sword: Hmm... Hmm! Yes! From the direction where the battle sounds just came from!]

Just as the pop-up window for the Purple Nether Sword appeared, a series of deafening roars of beasts and the booming sounds of violent spell explosions suddenly came from the depths of the maze.

Dong Mo looked up at the area in the distance where explosions were constantly coming from, and veins bulged on his forehead.

"Damn it... I don't want to find out which brainless idiot broke the seal on the array plate. If I catch them, I'll make them pay..."

"Xiao Bai! Let's go!"

After saying that, he grasped Xiao Bai's hand tightly and, following the guidance of the 3D map provided by the system, turned around and hurried towards the direction from which the roars and rumbling sounds came.

.........

Almost at the same time, somewhere deep within the labyrinth.

A purple-haired girl, who accidentally broke the seal on the array plate and was jokingly called a fool by Dong Mo and Zi Mingjian, is frantically fleeing while being chased by the Black Tooth Dragons.

Faced with the three black snakes that suddenly attacked from the front, the girl immediately circulated all her spiritual power and raised her hand to unleash three wind blades, instantly shredding the three black-toothed dragons into pieces.

However, the death of their comrade did not frighten the surrounding beasts. More snakes continued to emerge from the crevices of the rock wall, densely packed like a black tide.

The purple-haired girl continuously released the aura of a demon emperor, her golden beast eyes shining like a full moon in the darkness.

But those beasts from other realms have no intelligence whatsoever, and bloodline suppression has no effect on them.

Upon sensing the Demon Emperor's oppressive aura, the black snakes seemed to be enraged by the girl's presence, flicking their long, narrow, jet-black tongues and charging forward one after another.

"Ugh...Are you all sick?! You beasts!"

"I am a descendant of the Demon Queen, bearing the bloodline of the Demon Emperor!"

The purple-haired girl gritted her teeth and cursed, forming a hand seal. Immediately, a ring of fire exploded outwards from her, blasting away more than a dozen black-toothed dragons.

But the snake tide only paused for a moment before surging up again.

Just then, a deep, muffled hiss suddenly came from deep within the snake swarm.

"roar……"

Upon hearing this terrifying roar, the purple-haired girl's expression instantly changed.

Clearly, the Snake King has awakened!

That thing... raised its head from the depths of the swarm of snakes!

Its jet-black body, as thick as a water vat, slowly rose up in the dark labyrinth.

Two dark green vertical pupils were fixed on her.

Then the snake king opened its mouth wide, revealing rows of black, sharp teeth inside. A foul stench immediately assaulted the purple-haired girl's senses.

As if receiving a command, the surrounding snakes hissed shrilly and surged towards her like a tidal wave.

Upon seeing this, the purple-haired girl turned and ran.

"Damn it! Damn it! Damn it!"

Gu Ziyue felt that ever since she entered the secret realm, she had been incredibly unlucky.

As the daughter of the Demon Emperor Jin Yun of the Southern Wilderness, she awakened the ancient demon emperor's bloodline at birth. From childhood to adulthood, she had always been the darling of the heavens, and exploring secret realms was something she was already very familiar with.

Most importantly, I have made ample preparations for this treasure hunt.

After consulting countless ancient books within the clan, they finally found a map of this ancient secret realm of the demon race.

Gu Ziyue thought that with such thorough preparations, her treasure hunt would be as easy and enjoyable as ever.

But what was the result? From the moment she stepped into the secret realm, she was constantly suffering setbacks!

The place that was originally marked as a trial site on the map was now completely empty.

Conversely, the area that should have been a safe passage was inexplicably filled with a bunch of extremely difficult kendo trials.

Until I saw the character "Xiao" engraved in ancient seal script a thousand years ago in the corner of the secret stone wall.

Gu Ziyue suddenly realized that Xiao Hongchen had caused trouble in her own secret realm.

Xiao Hongchen, the Sword Saint of Asking Snow, was a human sword saint from a thousand years ago.

Relying on his self-created set of Nine Swords of Asking Snow, he was virtually invincible in the cultivation world a thousand years ago.

However, besides his swordsmanship, this guy has an even more famous skill: tomb raiding!

Yes, that's right...

Xiao Hongchen, the Sword Saint of Asking Snow, is a seasoned tomb raider.

His favorite thing to do was to use the spatial magic artifact he crafted to excavate the ancestral secret realms of various forces and loot all the good things inside.

And this guy doesn't stop after stealing things. If he encounters a family or sect's ancestral secret realm, he'll change all the trial levels inside and replace them with those ridiculously difficult tests he sets up himself. It's absolutely disgusting...

Xiao Hongchen's actions naturally made him many enemies.

But this guy was exceptionally strong, and the powerful figures of the time really couldn't do anything about him.

Finally, after much effort, they managed to get several elders to surround and kill him, but that guy ran away faster than a mouse, turning around and running off to another secret realm to wreak havoc on the next one.

Xiao Hongchen thus acquired another title.

That is—asking Xue Jiansheng!

Later generations of cultivators, whenever they saw Xiao Hongchen's mark in the secret realm, felt a chill in their hearts.

This means that this place was already occupied by a certain sword saint a thousand years ago, leaving not even a few mouthfuls of soup.

However, Gu Ziyue was not too flustered when she discovered that her secret realm had already been taken by the Sword Saint Wenxue.

Because she knew that what she was looking for this time, the man surnamed Xiao definitely couldn't take away.

Then, she gritted her teeth and endured the trials and mini-games left by Xiao Hongchen all the way. In the end, she finally arrived at the Myriad Maze marked on the map after a great deal of effort.

Then she wandered around the maze like a headless fly.

Finally, in a corner of the maze, they saw the array plate that Xiao Hongchen had sealed.

Feeling the familiar magical energy fluctuations that had tormented her all the way from the maze array, the frustration, anger, and madness she had endured from that despicable saint suddenly erupted in Gu Ziyue's chest like a volcano.

Then, blinded by anger, she gritted her teeth, raised her fist, and smashed it against the seal with fury, wanting only to vent her anger.

"Click—"

Then, the seal, weathered by a thousand years, teetered on the brink of collapse like a candle in the wind…

She gently shattered it. Immediately afterwards, the various mechanisms and formations within the maze reactivated.

All the mechanisms were activated, and the surrounding walls began to move wildly according to the formation's mechanism.

While dodging various traps and fleeing in panic, Gu Ziyue accidentally crushed a dark egg, which awakened the sleeping Black Tooth Dragons around her.

And then, the scene at the beginning happened...

Faced with the siege of the Black-Toothed Dragons behind her, Gu Ziyue had only one thought in her mind.

That is……

If I ever have the chance to cultivate the power of time and travel back a thousand years, I will definitely find the Sword Saint Xiao Hongchen, whose strength was not as outrageous back then, and give him a good beating!