26: Chapter 26: Only Honest People Will Honestly Run Dungeons

Since running a dungeon alone is difficult, why not just assemble a team of two?

After Su Yi explained the situation he had seen to Ling Yao and Xiao Tian in detail, he stated his hypothesis:

"There must be traps behind that stone door. Usually, we should rely on wits, not brute force!"

After hearing Su Yi's explanation, Ling Yao and Xiao Tian looked at Su Yi as if he were an idiot.

"What, is there a problem with what I said?" Su Yi asked, feeling puzzled.

Ling Yao sneered twice and did not answer Su Yi, as if speaking a few more words would cause his stupidity to be contagious.

Meanwhile, Xiao Tian looked at Su Yi with a simple and honest expression, and asked earnestly: "Senior Brother Su, is that corridor really that dangerous?"

"You don't believe me? Then why don't you go down and see for yourself!" Su Yi immediately shouted, thinking the two of them felt he was trying to trick them like fools.

Heaven is my witness, everything he said was the truth. How could someone like Su ever be the type to hog all the loot for himself?

Xiao Tian realized Su Yi had misunderstood his meaning, so he quickly said: "No, Senior Brother Su, I meant that if the corridor below is dangerous, why don't we just avoid it?"

Su Yi's brain didn't turn fast enough for a moment, and he wondered: "What do you mean? Avoid the corridor? Are we just going to watch the Opportunity within our reach slip away?"

Seeing that he couldn't explain it clearly, Xiao Tian had to stand up to demonstrate.

He walked to the mountain wall beside the deep pool, let out a soft shout, turned his palm into a blade to strike three times, and then immediately smashed his fist into the mountain.

Boom!

The mountain shook, and a medium-sized hole was smashed directly open.

Xiao Tian pointed at the cave and smiled honestly at the stunned Su Yi: "Since the corridor is so dangerous, why don't we just open another passage from above?"

Damn! Holy crap! A Genius!

Why didn't I think of that?

Su Yi stared with wide eyes at Xiao Tian, who was digging a cave with his bare hands, and suddenly it all became clear.

His mindset was still stuck in the game, forgetting that he had already undergone Transmigration!

From a player's perspective, since you've entered a dungeon, you have to follow the dungeon's flow and clear the levels step by step to finish it.

But this isn't a game anymore; this is reality!

If there's a shortcut and you don't take it, but instead honestly go through the trouble of clearing levels, aren't you just sick in the head?

Since the corridor is dangerous, why not just chisel another path from above and go straight behind the stone door?

Ling Yao, standing on the side, unceremoniously added: "I never thought that someone with such a sharp tongue would actually be such an honest person!"

"Who are you calling an honest person?" Su Yi subconsciously wanted to retort, but it was clear that he had indeed been a bit foolish this time.

Embarrassed and annoyed, Su Yi looked at Xiao Tian and threatened loudly: "Kid, if you can't dig a path in half an hour, don't even think about having any braised pork knuckle when we get back!"

Hearing Su Yi's threat, Xiao Tian was not angry but happy.

"The pork knuckle has a portion for me too? Senior Brother Su might be a bit slow, but isn't his heart too kind?"

Completely using the threat as motivation, Xiao Tian poured his monstrous strength and True Qi into the mountain wall like crazy.

While digging the cave, he would occasionally jump down to the entrance of the deep pool to ensure that the cave he was digging would lead exactly behind the stone door.

Ling Yao, on the other hand, was leisurely airing her little feet while watching the blood-pumping efforts of Xiao Tian, and said proudly: "Hmph, I wouldn't deign to do such dirty, tiring work!"

Su Yi also leaned lazily against a large tree and gave Ling Yao an instruction: "Go finish the Essence Spirit quest, otherwise there won't be any pork knuckle for you tonight!"

"Detestable guy! How can he be so lazy!" Ling Yao thought to herself while airing her feet.

Forced by the threat of the pork knuckle, she had no choice but to take out her long sword from her Storage Pouch and vent her dissatisfaction by treating the Essence Spirit in the now-dried-up deep pool as Su Yi.

With a koi fish on one side and a laborer on the other, Su Yi, who should have been using his wits in the perilous corridor, was currently basking in the sun.

Watching Ling Yao vent her anger on the Essence Spirit in the deep pool and Xiao Tian working hard to chisel the cave with his bare hands.

I'm afraid even the cunning Senior who left this Opportunity behind wouldn't have expected that the levels he had painstakingly designed would be easily cracked by two Body Cultivators who only had pork knuckles on their minds.

Xiao Tian's speed at chiseling the cave was very fast. With the newly learned Savage Bull Strength and the support of his Qi Refining fourth-level Realm, the mountain was as fragile as tofu.

Soon, a tunnel that slanted directly behind the stone door was punched out by Xiao Tian with his bare hands.

Xiao Tian, who crawled out of the tunnel, walked to Su Yi's side with an expression as if he had caused a huge disaster, and said nervously: "Senior Brother Su, it's open, but it doesn't seem to be a Secret Realm inside; it's a tomb!"

Thinking it was a Secret Realm, it turned out to be a grave, which scared the honest kid Xiao Tian into backing out immediately.

He had only joined the Sect two days ago, and he had already dug up the grave of some ancestor—wasn't that a huge disaster?

"What tomb? This is an Opportunity left for us by a Senior of the immortal path!" Su Yi said with righteous indignation.

"But I even saw the coffin lid!"

"That's because the Senior wanted to see which descendant would be able to obtain his Opportunity!"

For a moment, the honest Xiao Tian was left half-convinced by Su Yi's sophistry.

Could it be that this Senior really left this Opportunity here to make it convenient for his descendants?

Su Yi swaggered as he led the two of them into the tunnel. When they reached the end of the tunnel and looked down from above the grave, Su Yi immediately laughed.

This cunning Senior hadn't expected someone to dig a grave-robbing hole from above, leaving the entire tomb, which had been built from a natural cave, completely exposed.

The entire tomb was divided into three parts: the front chamber, the middle chamber, and the rear chamber.

The front chamber held four Puppets used to guard the tomb.

The middle chamber contained a hot spring, and the water flowed toward the front chamber, likely acting as a mechanism to trigger the Puppets.

Around the spring were the possessions the cunning Senior had owned during his lifetime.

The rear chamber held a giant coffin, and nothing else.

The three rooms were separated by two huge, towering stone slabs. At that moment, the three of them were standing on top of the stone slab, looking down at everything below.

Seeing the four Puppets, Su Yi could conclude that the master of this Opportunity definitely had a cultivation level above the Foundation Establishment Stage.

Because Puppet arts could only be practiced by those above the Foundation Establishment Stage.

Carving arrays and crafting Puppets all required mastery of attribute changes to be achieved.

In "immortal path," players could also unlock sub-professions after reaching level 10.

Puppet Master was one of them; others included Spirit Talisman Master, Spirit Planter, Alchemist, and so on...

It seems like we've hit the jackpot this time. This cunning Senior had placed all his defenses in the corridor and the front chamber, never expecting that the three of them would enter the tomb from above.

"Shouldn't we leave? I just feel like this isn't right!" Xiao Tian pulled on Su Yi's sleeve and said in a low voice.

Su Yi waved his hand at Xiao Tian, signaling that the other could leave first; it would be just right to have one less person to share the loot with.

Xiao Tian, who could never overcome his moral condemnation, took one look at the tomb and chose to turn and leave.

Watching Xiao Tian's retreating figure, Su Yi shook his head.

It's no wonder that before Transmigration, Xiao Tian, who was the Heavenly Emperor, was penniless.

Even when an Opportunity was placed right in front of him, he couldn't make use of it!

Now, only Su Yi and the uninhibited Ling Yao remained.

Ling Yao looked at the coffin with disgust and said: "Why does it say 'Opening the coffin will cause the death of your entire family' on that coffin lid! How unlucky!"

Su Yi looked up, and sure enough, that sentence was carved onto the coffin lid.

It seems the cunning Senior knew that for any descendant who could make it to the front of the coffin, there was nothing he could do.

He could only play these word games to fiercely curse anyone who pried open his coffin lid!

Su Yi immediately became happy:

"Yo, it seems this Senior knew the Opportunity was meant for me, and knew that I'm an orphan!"