"Hmm, everyone, look for more mechanisms," Beichen commanded.
I walked over to an Azure Dragon Candlestick and turned it.
After two rotations, an entrance finally opened beside it.
The main hall of the Five Passages God Temple was terribly tricky; my Spiritual Eye was almost useless here.
Actually, I didn't know if there were multiple entrances using a Blinding Method, but I was wary that the cunning Ten Thousand Poison Hall might employ such trickery.
Otherwise, how could the entrance leading to the underground chamber be so easily opened?
Ahmao rolled up his sleeves and got to work, "Alright, Master."
"Okay, Sister Yuan," Yang Xi obediently followed suit.
Before long, eight entrances had been opened throughout the great hall.
Yang Xi asked, "How can we be sure which one is the real entrance?"
"Yeah, Master, these entrances seem very similar to the Five Elements and Eight Trigrams."
Ahmao was visibly excited, "Could it be that you, Master, could just calculate and know which it is?"
I pulled out my phone and turned on the night photography mode.
I snapped a series of shots of the statue and the entrances and sent them to Beichen, "I'm afraid I'm going to disappoint you—I don't understand the Five Elements and Eight Trigrams."
"You're joking, Master, you're the famous Master Chen," Ahmao blindly trusted me.
I showed my phone to Ahmao, shattering his confidence in me, "Sorry, it's just a reputation! I rely on others to figure it out."
As soon as I finished speaking, Beichen replied on WeChat,
"The correct entrance is Ergong Kun, Azure Dragon Candlestick."
Ahmao was stunned, "That was so fast, took less than ten seconds including the time to pick up the phone and open WeChat! Is he even human??"
"He's a professional at deciphering these Eight Trigrams formations, that's Beichen from the shop, you could take him as your master," I suggested. ʀᴇᴀᴅ ʟᴀᴛᴇsᴛ ᴄʜᴀᴘᴛᴇʀs ᴀᴛ novel{f}ire.net
"No no no, Master, you are my only one! I won't betray you!" Ahmao asserted.
Having confirmed the direction, I beckoned the two to follow me down the entrance beside the Azure Dragon Candlestick.
Just as we stepped down the ominously dark staircase, Beichen sent another tip, "Azure Dragon subdues evil; what it suppresses here is probably no ordinary demon."
At that moment, a strange feeling came over me.
Underneath the grand hall, the true stronghold of a demonic faction like Ten Thousand Poison Hall was set beneath the auspicious Azure Dragon.
The beam of the flashlight shone ahead.
The seemingly endless staircase urged us relentlessly downward.
I even began to wonder if we were experiencing a ghostly phenomenon when suddenly a gigantic face spider appeared at our feet.
The face spider, with a radius of at least five meters, was situated in the center of the stone chamber below.
Its surroundings were filled with spider eggs and white webs.
"Hiss~" Ahmao gasped in horror, covering his lips immediately.
Startled, Yang Xi slipped and fell down the stone steps, screaming "Ah!"
The face spider moved with lightning speed, positioning its gaping maw right where Yang Xi fell, its circular, serrated mouthparts ready.
The breath it exhaled was a deep green and foul-smelling.
Reacting quickly, I grabbed Yang Xi by the wrist and pulled him back to safety, "Be careful."
"I...I..." Yang Xi shook, collapsing onto the ground.
A smell of urine wafted by; Yang Xi had wet his pants in fear.
I was at a loss for words.
If Yang Xi had fallen, he would have been crushed in an instant and devoured.
Even if I were to kill the spider afterward, I couldn't bring him back to life. His reaction wasn't surprising, really.
Ahmao yelled in panic, "Master, the spider is coming up!"
The scent of urine attracted the spider, which crawled towards us while spitting webs...