101: Mysterious Palace

On the other side, Chen Tianming naturally wouldn't let the Female Lead, who had tried to kill him earlier, off easily.

After some focused attention, Grace lay sprawled on the office desk, her golden hair disheveled, her eyes unfocused, only trembling instinctively.

Just then, Chen Tianming's phone suddenly rang. After answering and listening for a moment, he understood what had happened.

He thought for a moment and said, "Dispose of the bodies. There shouldn't be anything else here."

Hanging up the phone, Chen Tianming stood up, lit a cigarette, and took a deep drag.

Suddenly, as if noticing something, he casually picked up Grace's limp wrist and glanced at the object on it, which resembled an electronic watch...

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Meanwhile, on the other side.

In the basement, Qi Lin paced back and forth, restless.

His heart had started aching rhythmically just moments ago!

At the same time, he felt an emptiness in his heart, as if something important had been lost.

But he searched high and low and didn't find anything he had lost.

He could only attribute it to his excessive worry.

Just then, his wrist suddenly let out a series of beeps!

He quickly looked down and saw that the life signals of his three teammates had all disappeared simultaneously!

Qi Lin immediately froze, staring blankly at his wrist!

As core members of the War God Temple, they all wore watches on their wrists that could detect heartbeats and connect to each other.

This allowed for real-time, long-distance monitoring to check the status of their teammates.

Now, with the life signals of all three who were acting together gone, it could only mean one thing!

"Something happened!" Qi Lin's face instantly turned pale.

Although removing the watch would also cause the life signal to disappear.

However, as members of the War God Temple, how could they not know this?

The simultaneous disappearance of all three signals itself indicated the seriousness of the problem!

"The mission failed!" Qi Lin's mind raced. Amidst his anger, cold sweat instantly streamed down his face, as if he had returned to the fear of being suppressed by Chen Tianming.

"What should I do? What should I do?"

Just then, he suddenly thought of something and looked at the pendant on his chest.

"Right, right, I still have the family's secret treasure!" Qi Lin seemed to find his backbone and immediately calmed down a lot.

"As long as I have that, I can still make a comeback!"

"Although it's not time for the next activation, I can't worry about that now!"

Qi Lin seemed to have made up his mind, gritted his teeth, then put on a mask and hat, and quickly walked out of the basement.

However, as soon as he stepped outside, two graceful figures emerged from behind the wall, blocking his path.

It was A Qi and Seventeen!

Chen Tianming, who had long known Qi Lin's hiding place, how could he not have considered that the other party might try to escape?

Qi Lin stopped, and his expression instantly turned cold!

"You are Chen Tianming's people?"

"How did you know I was here?"

A Qi and Seventeen were both dead soldiers trained by the Chen family, so they naturally wouldn't waste words with him.

Without another word, each holding a short knife, they transformed into afterimages and charged towards Qi Lin!

"Damn it!" Qi Lin secretly gritted his teeth.

The moment they attacked, he could feel that both of them were at the Ming Jin (Initial Stage).

Although they had just advanced and their realm was unstable, the opponents had the advantage of numbers and weapons!

Once entangled, it would be very difficult to leave quickly.

"I must break through as soon as possible!"

Watching the two women charge at him, he roared!

A layer of white mist enveloped his hands as he reached for the two women's weapons!

Qi Lin had lent his own blood-colored dagger to Grace, so he could only fight empty-handed now.

However, he possessed the Qilin bloodline, and his physical quality was far superior to that of ordinary martial artists. Ordinary swords and blades simply couldn't break his defense.

It was precisely because of this that he intended to take them by surprise, relying on his advantage to seize their weapons first!

However, when his hands touched the two women's short knives, his eyes suddenly widened!

The seemingly unremarkable gray-white blades actually pierced directly through his internal energy!

"How is this possible?" Qi Lin quickly let go and retreated backward.

"What kind of weapons are these?"

In his memory, apart from his own blood-colored dagger,

No other weapon could so easily pierce his internal energy!

"Could they also be made from extraterrestrial meteorites?"

"But they don't look like it!"

"These two knives look like they were mass-produced in a factory!"

In fact, Qi Lin's guess was correct.

However, these were not weapons from this timeline, but C-grade alloy short knives from the future!

Chen Tianming had obtained many such alloy weapons from previous draws.

A Qi and Seventeen naturally received a set before the operation!

"Damn it!"

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Ten minutes later...

Qi Lin appeared in the small forest, covered in injuries, with a large wound slashed across his chest!

Blood was slowly seeping out at this moment.

"Fortunately, I managed to shake off these two guys, even with serious injuries... Now I have to hurry to the Qi family!"

Qi Lin coughed up a mouthful of blood.

Wiping the corner of his mouth, he rushed towards the Qi family ruins.

Soon, he saw the old Qi family residence, covered in vines and weeds.

After the Wang family destroyed the Qi family, this place had been abandoned.

Because they were afraid of offending the Wang family, even though the Qi family's location was good, no developer dared to take it over for so many years.

As for the Wang family, they treated this place as a symbol of their dominance and did not develop it. Therefore, over time, the Qi family ruins became desolate.

Qi Lin, taking advantage of the dim light, quietly entered the old Qi family residence. Following his memory, he pushed aside a dusty bookshelf, pulled open a hidden door, and entered the underground passage.

After entering the secret passage, the pendant on his chest seemed to sense something and began to glow with white light.

The underground space seemed very large. Qi Lin changed direction and walked forward according to the brightest direction of the pendant.

Soon, he arrived in front of a wall resembling a cliff.

There was no other path to take ahead.

Qi Lin took off the pendant and dripped fresh blood onto it.

He then placed the pendant on the wall.

He saw that the arm holding the pendant passed through the wall as if passing through water!

Then, Qi Lin himself walked in!

When he opened his eyes, Qi Lin found himself in a huge underground palace!

Huge rock pillars stood all around, with patterns and various statues everywhere, though most were damaged. One pillar even had a massive black crack.

It seemed as if a huge earthquake had occurred here!

And in the center of the palace, a crystal coffin lay quietly. Around the coffin, milky white stones were piled up like mountains, emitting a rich spiritual energy in all directions!