58: Chapter 58

On the screen, Song Yiqing was in no hurry to enter. Instead, he formed a hand seal and quickly chanted the incantation for the Sword Control Technique.

From within the peerless sword casket, the qingshuang sword shot out abruptly, instantly decapitating four Desert Ground Sloths.

This sudden explosive attack undoubtedly caused a significant depletion of Song Yiqing's already limited Qi.

The dead Desert Ground Sloths, however, could not provide much Qi replenishment.

It was at this exact moment,

He quickly shouted to Zhang Qilin,

"Go!!"

As for the others, they weren't important to him.

If they couldn't escape the assault of the Desert Ground Sloths, they would just be the tail that gets cut off.

However, Wu Ren and the others were clearly not slow to react.

Almost simultaneously, they dove into the hole along with Lin Tianyi's group of three.

Once the suppressive fire was gone, those Desert Ground Sloths lunged forward instantly.

But the floor mechanism began to close at that very moment.

Crunch!!!

The massive head of a Desert Ground Sloth was sliced off, rolling down the stone steps.

The pitch-black environment brought no sense of security to the group; instead, it added a touch of the eerie.

Especially when Zhang Qilin was the first to switch on his wolf-eye flashlight, revealing a large number of corpses lying haphazardly within the corridor at the end of the stone steps.

The terrifying scene instilled a bizarre sense of tension in everyone present,

Because none of these corpses had heads.

...

In the bullet chat section,

[Holy crap?? They barely escaped that danger and just got down there, so why are there so many corpses?]

[What's the situation? Where did that mechanism master go? Didn't he say it was hard to crack this mechanism?]

[But I see many corpses here that are recent, and some from years ago.]

[Could it be that all these people were mechanism masters??]

[He's really a fake master! Too fake!]

At this point, Mo Kun hurriedly jumped out to explain,

[No, no, no! Everyone, you've misunderstood. What I meant was that the mechanism is hard to crack,]

[But that doesn't mean the mechanism won't open on its own.]

[Do you understand?]

[This isn't a simple mechanism; it's a Mechanism Gate that can be set to open at fixed intervals. Therefore, the depth of the mechanical mysteries contained within is truly difficult to fathom.]

[What? Opens at fixed intervals? Such things existed thousands of years ago?]

[Too ridiculous. You're just a fake Mechanism Gate disciple, a damn liar, wasting our emotions!]

Even as the netizens were hurling insults, She Xuan, as an expert in Feng Shui, spotted a clue at a glance.

"Wait!! If you put it that way, it actually explains why these six stone pillars are positioned like this!!"

"So... this isn't a simple mechanism; it's more like a bait??"

"But why? Why would it be bait? Bizarre, truly bizarre!!"

When She Xuan realized this, his heart trembled slightly.

He then quickly used his network of connections to find a director-level official at the Forbidden Land Exploration Headquarters.

He explained his findings to them.

After hearing it, the other party said they would quickly relay the message to the Taklamakan Desert branch.

However, after She Xuan hung up the phone, the worry and doubt in his heart only grew stronger.

"Why would it be a trap? What secret is hidden beneath the forbidden land?"

...

Inside the Taklamakan Desert Forbidden Zone Exploration Official Command Center,

Zhu Yongfeng was also slightly stunned when he received the message from headquarters.

"What? The area beneath the Six-Pillar Temple is suspected to be a trap?"

"But why? Why would it be a trap?"

He was filled with doubt.

But just then, a staff member suddenly spoke up,

"General! We just captured a distress signal!"

"A distress signal? Where is it coming from?"

Zhu Yongfeng frowned and asked in confusion.

After carefully checking the location, the staff member rubbed his eyes in disbelief.

"This... this is the location of the Six-Pillar Temple!!"

"It's coming from underground!"

"Wait! This distress signal only came out after the floor mechanism door opened!"

"Song Yiqing's act of cracking the mechanism directly destroyed the magnetic field shielding objects inside."

As he spoke to this point, his pupils dilated further.

"This is bad!! General, many, many distress signals that were suppressed and couldn't be transmitted before are all coming out now!!"

"The signals from several official Archaeological Teams that went missing in the past are all here!"

"They... they all died inside the Six-Pillar Temple!!"

"General! This Six-Pillar Temple is a man-eating trap!!"

As the staff member cried out in excitement,

Zhu Yongfeng, sitting in his high-backed chair, had a face so grim it looked like it could squeeze out black ink. He watched the people standing on the stone steps on the live broadcast and subconsciously murmured,

"What secret is hidden underground! Why is it like this!"

While he was wondering, the staff had already begun urgently organizing the information coming from inside, summarizing it and delivering it to Zhu Yongfeng.

It was covered in text,

'Save me!! Save me!!'

'My teammates are all demons!!'

'Trust no one, trust no one!'

'I don't want to die!'

When Zhu Yongfeng saw those shocking words for help, he clenched his hands into fists.

"Forbidden Land!! What the hell are you!!"

...

Meanwhile, on the live stream screen,

Song Yiqing was not frightened by these corpses.

He crouched down to perform a simple inspection, while also digesting the ability he had just acquired.

[Challenge Mission: Crack the Six-Pillar Temple mechanism. Completed. Received S-grade reward: Qi Refining Scripture.]

This was a technique specifically used for cultivating Qi. It could further expand the Eight Extraordinary Meridians in the body, allowing one to hold more Qi and continuously raise their upper limit.

The Taotie Bloodline could also achieve this, but it required constantly devouring the spirits of living creatures. When there were no creatures around, the Qi Refining Scripture would be very useful.

However, the corpses before him had already become nourishment for Song Yiqing to restore his Qi.

He observed the corpses and soon had an answer.

"All of them were decapitated with a single blow. It seems some kind of bizarre creature is hidden here."

He murmured to himself, and at the same time, he looked over at Lin Tianyi and the others.

"Speak up. How much do you know about this place? Since we've all come down together,

If you're still hiding things, it would be a bit unfair."

"You guy!!"

Fatty was immediately dissatisfied and even seemed ready to fight, but Lin Tianyi quickly held him back.

Fighting Song Yiqing would undoubtedly be like an egg hitting a stone; it was meaningless.

Lin Tianyi quickly took a small step forward and spoke,

"According to the information we have, there should be a Gate-Keeping Beast at the entrance of this Jingjue Tomb. It loves to eat human heads,

And it leaves no trace, making it difficult to capture its movements."

"Oh? That mysterious?"

Song Yiqing's brow furrowed slightly, then he waved his hand in a signaling gesture,

"You three, walk in front."

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