With Heaven-Defying Talent, I Actually Became Lu Xueqi

Chapter 108 : Yan Hong’s Hostility

At this moment, that shadowy figure could not help but murmur: “What a pity, to gain Shock Points, the protagonists and supporting characters of the original story must be astonished. Otherwise, this seat would have long since become invincible beneath the heavens.”

Afterward, the entire cave fell into silence.

As Lu Xueqi advanced deeper into the passage with the others, she faintly sensed something amiss.

She felt as if she had already been walking this tunnel for a long time, yet still had not seen the end—nor the exit.

It seemed as though she was treading along a path with no end.

Lu Xueqi suddenly stopped in her tracks, her gaze sweeping across the mottled moss on the stone walls.

Those wrinkled patterns were exactly the same as what they had seen earlier.

“We have walked this road before,” she spoke, breaking the silence.

Qi Hao and the others, upon hearing this, looked at each other, cold sweat seeping from their foreheads.

They also came to their senses—indeed, they had been walking for so long, yet this passage seemed like a bottomless abyss, with no end in sight.

Zhang Xiaofan tightened his grip on the Firestick in his hand and finally spoke: “Senior Sister Lu, I think we are trapped in a labyrinth.”

He opened his palm, where a crooked, messy route map had been drawn.

“From the third time we passed that corner, I noticed something was wrong.”

Hearing this, Lu Xueqi instantly released her spiritual sense, spreading it outward like a spiderweb along both sides of the passage. But when her divine sense touched a certain critical point, it was as if it collided with an invisible barrier and rebounded immediately.

Her pupils shrank: “The passage has indeed been tampered with. My spiritual sense cannot extend beyond a hundred meters.”

Fa Xiang and the others, hearing this, each displayed their sect’s secret arts to probe. After some effort, all of their expressions turned grim.

“What kind of person set up this formation? Could it be someone from the Ten Thousand Poison Sect?” He rolled the beads between his fingers, speaking with some uncertainty.

Yet he was not entirely convinced, since according to the information Tianyin Temple had previously received, although the Ten Thousand Poison Sect was formidable in poison arts, they were not particularly skilled in formations.

“Not sure. But what we should do now is find an exit quickly. I don’t want to be trapped here,” Li Xun said irritably.

He still had many matters to attend to outside—how could he possibly remain trapped here for long?

Seeing this, Lu Xueqi turned to the others and asked: “Have any of you sensed anything unusual?”

Fa Xiang shook his head directly, indicating he had not noticed anything.

Lu Xueqi then cast her gaze toward Zhang Xiaofan, who at that moment was deep in thought, and asked: “Junior Brother Zhang, have you sensed anything unusual?”

Zhang Xiaofan was recalling the scene from his previous life when he had come to the Blood Refining Hall. He was extremely familiar with this stretch of road.

After reflecting for a while, he suddenly seemed to realize something and said: “I think I know where the problem lies.”

Without waiting for the others to respond, he quickly headed in a certain direction. Lu Xueqi immediately followed closely.

After some time, they arrived at a relatively spacious area and suddenly came to a halt.

Zhang Xiaofan suddenly turned to Lu Xueqi and asked: “Senior Sister Lu, do you notice the anomaly here?”

Lu Xueqi’s memory was astonishing.

With just one glance around, she immediately spotted the issue.

Wasn’t this the very fork in the road where they had first entered the passage?

Seeing this, Lu Xueqi said: “I know what’s going on. This is the same fork in the passage we entered earlier.”

After she finished speaking, Zhang Xiaofan could not help but nod.

He had not expected Lu Xueqi to identify the problem so quickly.

After all, he himself had only discovered it thanks to his familiarity with Kong Sang Mountain from his previous life.

At this moment, Fa Xiang and the others looked utterly bewildered.

They had no idea what kind of riddle Lu Xueqi and Zhang Xiaofan were playing at.

In their eyes, this was nothing more than an ordinary passage.

They had neither discovered the location of any fork in the road, nor seen the stone stele that had previously been placed at the junction.

“Junior Sister Lu, what is going on here?” Fa Xiang finally asked directly.

Hearing this, Lu Xueqi said: “Senior Brother Fa Xiang, this should be the entrance to the fork we saw earlier. The other path and the stone stele must have been concealed by someone using a special method.”

As soon as she finished speaking, Lu Xueqi did not hesitate. She drew her longsword and slashed fiercely in one direction.

Under the gaze of the crowd, her sword actually pierced straight through the wall before them—yet not a single sound rang out.

This immediately shocked everyone present.

“Empty?” Li Xun exclaimed in astonishment.

Lu Xueqi nodded slightly and said: “This formation should be able to alter our vision and block our divine sense, but it cannot truly change the surrounding terrain. That is why my sword just now cut through empty space.”

Hearing this, Fa Xiang extended his palm toward the place where Lu Xueqi had struck. To everyone’s astonishment, his right hand passed cleanly through the wall.

“It really is so!” Fa Xiang then took a step forward, and his entire figure vanished in an instant.

Seeing this, Lu Xueqi also stepped forward without delay, disappearing into the passage.

Li Xun, too, hurried after her.

Soon after, the rest of the group followed through the wall, only to find themselves once again at the entrance of the tunnel.

Turning back, the passage behind them appeared perfectly calm and ordinary, without the slightest trace of strangeness.

Fa Xiang grew concerned and said to Lu Xueqi:

“Junior Sister Lu, although we have now exited, if we wish to enter Kong Sang Mountain and eradicate the remnants of the Demonic Sect, we must pass through this passage again. If we cannot find the formation’s core, we will remain trapped within it.”

Hearing this, Lu Xueqi did not reply immediately. Instead, she scanned the surroundings.

When her gaze landed upon the stone stele, her eyes suddenly lit up.

“I believe I have found the location of the formation.”

Qi Hao, Fa Xiang, and the others were taken aback at her words.

Just moments earlier, they had been worried about locating the formation’s core, yet they had not expected Lu Xueqi to discover it so quickly.

They could not help but look toward her with anticipation.

But within the group, the only other woman—Yan Hong—was filled with disbelief.

Earlier, when she had first seen Lu Xueqi, she had indeed been struck by her beauty.

But afterward, when she noticed her senior brother’s gaze constantly drifting toward Lu Xueqi, intense jealousy flared in her heart. Until now, her Senior Brother Li Xun’s attention had always been on her.

Why was it that, with Lu Xueqi’s arrival, her senior brother suddenly ignored her?

She placed all the blame squarely on Lu Xueqi.

Now, seeing Lu Xueqi claim to have found the core of the formation so quickly, she naturally refused to believe it.

“Hmph, anyone can boast. Some people are only relying on a fox-like face to make their presence known here!”