71: The real and fake divine children team up! I'll act, you just stay confused!

Myriad Dao Merchant Guild Headquarters.

Tonight, this place was the absolute center of the entire Xuan Yuan Continent.

The auction was about to begin.

void immortal gold! Heaven Swallowing Demonic Art! jade pool mirror fragments!

These three treasures, enough to make even a Great Emperor turn green with envy, had attracted the attention of all the top powers.

At this moment, the Myriad Dao Merchant Guild was relaxed on the outside but tight on the inside, its defenses reaching the highest level in its history.

However, for the two who had mastered the power of space, all of this was as good as non-existent.

Two ghost-like figures passed silently through layers of Guardian Grand Arrays and easily infiltrated the core area of the merchant guild.

"This way."

Su Chen walked in front, like an experienced old tour guide, familiar with the way.

He even had the leisure to yawn loudly as if no one were there when a patrol of Saint Realm guards brushed past him.

This arrogant move scared Ye Linghan so much that she almost couldn't suppress her killing intent.

She followed behind Su Chen, the surprise in her eerie phoenix eyes growing stronger and stronger.

[How can he be so familiar with the terrain here?]

[He's even more skilled than if he were returning to his own home!]

[Could that ridiculous 'dog hole' theory be true?]

The curiosity in her heart had already climbed to its peak.

Soon, the two arrived at the end of a secluded corridor piled with clutter.

At the end was an ordinary bluestone wall.

"We're here."

Su Chen stopped and pointed at the wall, speaking lazily.

"This is the... 'VIP Express Lane' leading to the treasury that I mentioned."

Ye Linghan swept her Divine Thought back and forth a hundred times, but found nothing unusual.

It was just an ordinary wall, without even a hint of spiritual energy fluctuation.

She frowned. "Are you sure?"

"Believe it or not."

Su Chen shrugged with an indifferent expression that said, "If you can do it, go ahead; if not, don't nag."

He walked to the wall and began to feel around on the smooth surface.

Finally, he found an imperceptible indentation in a dust-covered brick crevice in the corner of the wall.

[It's right here!]

[In the original work, the Son of Destiny, Qin Feng, opened the back door left by the Heaven Swallowing Great Emperor right here! A perfect replica!]

Su Chen was overjoyed. He turned his head and gave Ye Linghan a smug smile that said, "Watch carefully, learn well, your brother will teach you what skill is."

Then, under Ye Linghan's playful gaze, he pressed his finger down without hesitation.

The "rumbling" sound of the stone door opening that he had expected did not occur.

Only a dull, soulless "click" was heard.

Like pressing a piece of iron that had been rusted for tens of thousands of years.

And then, there was no then.

The wall was still that ordinary wall.

The air was deathly silent.

Su Chen: "???"

The smug smile on his face froze instantly.

His whole body stiffened on the spot, as if a freezing technique had been cast on him.

[Holy crap?!]

[What's the situation?! Where's the mechanism?! Where's the door?! Didn't we say the back door leads straight to VIP?!]

[Author, you're screwing me! Did you update the version and not send me the patch?! Or did that grandson Qin Feng come early and weld this shut?!]

A drop of cold sweat slid down from Su Chen's temple.

He didn't give up and used all his strength to frantically press that indentation.

"Click... click... click..."

The sound seemed to be ruthlessly mocking his naivety.

The result was the same.

Standing behind him, Ye Linghan was stunned for a second.

Then, she broke into a smile more brilliant and joyful than any before.

"Hehehe..."

She could no longer hold it in. Her crisp laughter echoed in the silent corridor, her body trembling with laughter, her voice full of undisguised schadenfreude.

"What's wrong? My 'professional' master thief?"

Her voice had a hint of sarcasm, trailing off with a long tone.

"Your 'VIP Lane' seems to be... blocked?"

"Ahem, ahem..."

Su Chen coughed heavily twice, trying to use this forced coughing to hide the embarrassment on his face that was almost overflowing from the screen.

His face still maintained a calm and composed look of "everything is under control," but in his heart, he had already thrown the original author along with his keyboard into the Ancient Divine Volcano to be repeatedly forged.

[Damn author! Did you give me the trial version?!]

[Where's the VIP Lane?! Where's the promised exclusive back door?!]

[I even thought of the lines and imagined the BGM, and you give me a 'Server Connection Failed'?!]

Su Chen felt a chill rising from the back of his neck, pinned down by Ye Linghan's playful gaze.

While frantically complaining in his heart, he pretended to knock here and feel there on the cold wall, muttering under his breath.

"Don't be in a hurry."

"This kind of ancient mechanism is quite tsundere, tainted with the creator's temperament. It needs a special 'opening ceremony' to awaken its sleeping Soul."

He was talking nonsense with a straight face, even going so far as to bow to the wall with great solemnity.

"Senior Heaven Swallowing Great Emperor, your loyal fan has come to see you. Please open the door, and I'll burn high-quality incense for you another day!"

Ye Linghan stood behind him with her arms crossed, watching his performance with interest and a playful look in her phoenix eyes.

That look seemed to say, "Keep making things up, let's see what kind of flowers you can spin."

Just when Su Chen was so anxious that he was about to perform a "strategic retreat via Great Void Technique" on the spot.

Suddenly.

"Buzz—"

An extremely faint yet profoundly mysterious demonic sound, as if coming from the Nine Nethers, came without warning from the other side of the wall, carrying a hint of ancient and noble aura.

The moment this demonic sound rang out, the playfulness on Ye Linghan's face suddenly froze, and a flash of surprise and suspicion crossed her eerie phoenix eyes!

Immediately following that, the ordinary bluestone wall rippled violently like a calm lake surface with a stone thrown into it!

Countless ancient demonic patterns, black as ink and shaped like dragons and snakes, flashed across the wall!

"Click."

A crisp sound of a mechanical lock engaging.

That wall actually... silently split open from the middle, revealing a deep passage leading into endless darkness!

Su Chen: "!!!"

Ye Linghan: "!!!"

The two stiffened on the spot at the same time, staring at each other.

Su Chen's face was a mixture of confusion and wild joy.

[Holy crap?! It really opened?!]

[Could it be that my prayer worked? Or is this mechanism voice-activated, and my phrase 'Heaven Swallowing Great Emperor' triggered the keyword?]

As for Ye Linghan, her face was full of shock and horror.

She stared fixedly at the deep passage, then looked at Su Chen beside her, who had a "basic operation, everyone sit down" expression, and a storm more violent than ever before surged in her heart!

[He... he actually really knew!]

[He didn't lie to me! There really is a secret passage here that even the Myriad Dao Merchant Guild itself doesn't know about!]

[Moreover, the way to open this passage actually requires a certain 'true word' containing ancient demonic Law to trigger?! His seemingly nonsensical god-worshipping actions just now weren't acting at all; he was... reciting an incantation?!]

Ye Linghan felt her understanding was once again completely overturned.

Meanwhile, at the other end of the passage, in a shadowy corner where even light couldn't reach.

Liu Ruyan was pressing a slender jade finger against her delicate red lips, barely holding back her laughter.

She looked at the two "Su Chens" in the Water Mirror, their faces full of shock, her enchanting eyes filled with triumphant laughter.

Just now, she had used a secret method of the Nine Nether Demonic Cult to simulate that "Heaven Swallowing Demonic Sound" to open the passage.

[Hehehe... these two little fools.]

[One thinks he's awesome, and the other thinks the first one is awesome.]

[But they don't know it was Big Sister who opened the door for them from behind.]

[Go on, go on, make an even bigger scene for Big Sister. This play... is getting more and more interesting.]

"Alright, the door is open. What are you standing there for?"

Su Chen was the first to react. He cleared his throat, held his head high, and put on the air of a leader toward the still-shocked Ye Linghan, as if saying, "Follow me, and there'll be meat to eat."

"Hurry up, don't delay my time to go back and sleep."

After saying that, he took the lead and walked into the dark passage without hesitation.

Ye Linghan took a deep breath, suppressed the shock in her heart, and followed closely behind.

She was now more and more curious about this "Little Liar," and more and more... wanted to cut him open completely to see.

The two walked one after the other in the deep passage.

The passage was long, with slippery liquid dripping from the walls from time to time, and the air was filled with a decaying scent sealed for ages.

An invisible force was suppressing their Divine Thought, making them unable to detect the end of the passage.

Just as the two were about to reach the exit of the passage and could vaguely see the faint light ahead.

Suddenly!

Su Chen, who was walking in front, suddenly stopped!

His whole body tensed up instantly, like a rabbit encountering a tiger in the snow, his hair standing on end!

He stared fixedly at the end of the darkness where the faint light was, his usually lazy peach blossom eyes revealing an incomparably grave expression.

Because he first felt the temperature at the passage entrance drop by more than a dozen degrees, as if moving from midsummer to midwinter in an instant.

Then, an extremely faint but incomparably familiar scent, like the clear and cold fragrance of winter plums blooming on a snowy mountain peak, drifted into his nose.

Finally, a cold, holy, yet undisguisedly resolute and murderous aura, like an unsheathed divine sword, locked onto them!

That aura was lurking at the exit of the passage!

Like a frost dragon waiting to strike, its huge mouth open, quietly waiting for its prey to throw itself into the net!

[Crap!]

[This damn plum blossom fragrance! This damn low-temperature Domain!]

[It's that "silly, white, sweet"!]

[Why is she here?!]

[Could it be... she's also here to steal things?! Is the Yaochi Saintess so poor she has to do this job?]

Who the hell wrote this script?!

Come out right now and take a beating!