After the mentally collapsing students were consoled, Master Mo Pan continued to introduce the props in the exhibition room.

He pointed to a crown woven from vines and adorned with brightly blooming flowers, and said:

"Crown of the Forest, a Mountain God class item. Its functions are superhuman strength, endurance, self-healing, and refinement."

Hmm, the functions overlap greatly with the Mountain God Scepter. Self-healing and superhuman strength seem to be skills of Wood Demons. I always thought the Mountain God Scepter was quite special. It seems the functions of Mountain God level items all overlap with Wood Demons.

--Mountain Gods are evolved from Earth Monsters. Wood Demons evolve into Beast Kings.

As Zhang Yuanqing thought this, Hong Ji Ge asked:

"Why are the functions of Mountain God items so similar to Wood Demons? They are clearly two different classes."

No matter when, having a Fire Master around is always a good thing! Zhang Yuanqing muttered to himself, looking at Master Mo Xin waiting for her reply.

The meticulous and gentle Mo Xin pondered for a few seconds and explained:

"Among the Lawful classes, Scouts, Wood Demons, Water Ghosts, Fire Masters, and Earth Monsters respectively symbolize Metal, Wood, Water, Fire, and Earth. According to the Five Elements theory, all things in heaven and earth are composed of these five elements. Their source is chaos; chaos gives birth to Yin and Yang, and Yin and Yang divide into the Five Elements. Spirit Realm scholars speculate that these five major classes are closely related, and under certain conditions, the five major classes will unleash unimaginable power."

"When the Five Elements Alliance was first established, a project was initiated to study the five major classes. I saw relevant papers from a few years ago in my family's archives," said Zhao Fei, a scholar from a scholarly family, recalling:

"That paper was from six years ago, and there were no follow-ups."

Xiahou Aotian interjected, "So, the research was considered successful?"

While the three scholars were discussing, Zhang Yuanqing inexplicably thought of the Rogue Disc, oh no, the Yin-Yang Wheel, and the item attributes of this prop.

"An outstanding craftsman discerned the secrets of the five Lawful classes of Metal, Wood, Water, Fire, and Earth. He used the top materials of the five major classes as the foundation, and the spirit of scholars as the core, to create a powerful and discerning prop called the Yin-Yang Wheel."

Furthermore, considering that the Yin-Yang Wheel is an important prop of the Songhai branch, it is not difficult to speculate that a group of technicians (scholars) established research into the five major classes under official leadership.

The Yin-Yang Wheel was born at that time, but later, because it encountered someone impure, it fell into disgrace, and it has been a long and complicated story ever since.

"What about this?"

Hong Ji Ge listened for a long time without understanding, so he pointed to a golden rope, forcefully interrupting the scholars' discussion.

"Oh, that's the Immortal Binding Rope, a top-quality prop with self-awareness. It prefers to bind girls, don't mind it, let's continue!" Master Mo Xin forcefully changed the subject.

What do you mean by it likes to bind girls? Please explain! Zhang Yuanqing immediately became interested and was about to inquire when suddenly, he sensed the thoughts of Princess Yin Yao coming from the Sea of Consciousness imprint: "The stone gate is open!"

Princess is awesome!

He immediately calmed his emotions and divided half of his soul to enter the main Yin corpse (Princess Yin Yao).

Instantly, his perception seemed to turn into a computer screen, one half showing the exhibition room and the other showing the dark lake bottom.

The Queen Star opened the stone door, behind which was a downward stone staircase. She had a heavy backpack on her neck and held a jade plate in her hand.

After Zhang Yuanqing examined himself, he put the jade plate into the cloth bag and went down the stone steps.

The Princess's Sleeping Talisman only lasts for five minutes. He must come out within five minutes, otherwise he will be handed over to the human race, and the academy teachers and Tiger King will block the door.

Time is limited, but exploring an unknown secret realm must not be careless. He took out the Cloud Piercing Purple Gold Hammer and turned it into a round shield, using the smooth, mirror-like shield surface for self-reflection.

In the mirror, his Face Palace was shrouded in a bloody glow, and his Fortune Palace shone brightly.

It appeared, the typical "success leads to high-class escorts, failure leads back to the Spirit Realm" face. Zhang Yuanqing gritted his teeth.

The disaster of blood and light meant that if he forcibly delved deep into the secret realm, there was a 90% or higher probability that he would die inside. Well, it was Yin Yao Princess who would die inside.

The steps were about two meters wide, and the stone walls on both sides were jagged and uneven.

Zhang Yuanqing, draped in the Yin-Yang robe, manipulated the water to form a vortex around his body for self-defense.

The water here was very calm, with almost no undercurrents. The air at the bottom of the water was mixed with a heavy, stale smell, like stagnant water that had been closed off for many years. He walked along the steps for two or three minutes and suddenly stopped.

At the edge of the steps ahead, two highly decomposed corpses leaned against the stone wall, their heads hanging down. Their clothes were tattered, and their hair was dry, sparse.

From the bodies of the two corpses, Zhang Yuanqing saw a heavy Yin energy and resentment.

He was considering whether to use Star Shifting to bypass them when suddenly, the head of the Yin corpse on the left turned ninety degrees and looked at Zhang Yuanqing.

It was an extremely terrifying face, swollen, rotten, with maggots crawling in the eye sockets and nasal cavities, and black lips.

Immediately afterward, the other Yin corpse also turned its head, its eyes filled with wriggling maggots, staring grimly.

The next moment, the two Yin corpses darted over, carrying a surging undercurrent.

No wonder the air at the bottom of the water smelled so bad. Zhang Yuanqing took a step back and kicked the abdomen of the Yin corpse that rushed over first. His first feeling was that it was heavy and stiff. The bodies of the two Yin corpses were not as rotten as their faces.

The Yin corpse's abdomen was kicked, and it inevitably floated into the air.

Zhang Yuanqing ignored it, reached out and grabbed the neck of the other Yin corpse, and quickly drew on its forehead with his other hand.

The power of Taiyin quickly outlined a talisman filled with Daoist charm, imprinted on the Yin corpse's forehead.

Instantly, the Yin energy in this ferocious and violent Yin corpse was cut off, and it lost all ability to act.

At this time, the Yin corpse that had been kicked away came back. Zhang Yuanqing followed suit, solving it with a town house talisman.

4th level Yin corpses, it's a good thing I'm a Star Official. If it were other Saints, it wouldn't be so easy to solve them. Are these two guarding each other? It seems I'm getting close to the treasure.

Zhang Yuanqing carried the two Yin corpses and continued forward. Before long, the descending steps came to an end, and ahead was a passage.

He exhaled a mouthful of Taiyin power and summoned the Ghost Bride. Unable to speak, he used the unique communication method of the Night Wanderer and said:

"Wife, possess the Yin corpse and pass through the passage."

The Ghost Bride bowed slightly, stuck to the back of the Yin corpse, and merged into it.

Zhang Yuanqing stood to the side, watching the Yin corpse walk towards the passage. After only a few steps, a sword light flashed, and the Yin corpse's head rolled down.

Zhang Yuanqing immediately raised his head and looked at the top of the passage.

Through the light penetrating the darkness, he saw a miniature sword, two fingers long, hanging from the uneven ceiling.

The headless Yin corpse continued forward. Ten seconds later, another sword light slashed down, cutting off its left hand at the shoulder.

The headless Yin corpse continued forward. After encountering a full four strikes, it finally reached the end of the passage.

"Husband, there are steps going up here. Should I go up and check?" the Ghost Bride's voice came from afar.

"No need, just wait there." Zhang Yuanqing replied, looked up at the miniature sword. This should be an item.

He hesitated for a moment and didn't take the small sword, fearing it might trigger a bad reaction. After confirming that the Ghost Bride was safe, he transformed into a dreamlike starlight in the water, passed through the passage, and arrived beside the Ghost Bride. In front of him was a passage going up.

It's been almost five minutes since entering, there are still ten minutes left, hurry up… He walked quickly up the steps.

From time to time, he took out the Purple Gold Shield to check his facial features.

After walking up for two or three minutes, Zhang Yuanqing saw the surface of the water.

Yes, further up would be breaking out of the water. Above should be the mountainside of Beast King Island's main peak.

"The secret realm behind the stone gate is inside the mountainside, but the Hundred Flowers Association didn't directly split the mountain, indicating that you can't get in through normal channels. You can only reach the mountainside through the stone gate." He thought to himself, commanding the Yin corpse with missing limbs beside him.

"Wife, go up and take a look."

The greatest advantage of a Spirit Servant is that, as long as they don't encounter Taiyin, Sun, or lightning, no amount of danger can harm them.

The Ghost Bride immediately controlled the Yin corpse and went up the steps to break through the surface of the water.

In just two or three seconds, Zhang Yuanqing sensed the Ghost Bride above and conveyed intense mental fluctuations:

"Hu, husband."

Her mental fluctuations were very abnormal, a state of boiling with various emotions.

What did she see? Zhang Yuanqing suppressed his curiosity and communicated with his Spirit Servant: "Is there any danger?"

"No."

Receiving the reply, Zhang Yuanqing immediately went up and broke through the surface of the water.

His eyes suddenly widened, and a magnificent scene came into view.

This was an incredibly wide stone cave. The black ceiling was filled with countless gemstones and pearls, shining with brilliant light, as dazzling as the Milky Way, as vast as the night sky, illuminating the cave in a bright glow.

Below the stone cave was a huge, detached palace, with glazed tiles and a majestic aura, standing on a platform of white jade stone.

That white jade platform was a full hundred meters high, trapezoidal, narrow at the top and wide at the bottom. White jade steps extended from the front of the palace to the bottom. In the center of the white jade steps was a carved cloud-patterned imperial platform stone, very similar to the stone steps of the Forbidden City in Beijing.

On both sides of a vast underground palace and the white jade steps stood figures of terracotta warriors clad in armor, holding spears or long swords.

They stood motionless. Near the white jade platform, there were also densely packed terracotta warriors, arranged in formations, standing silently, like a disciplined army. A simple visual estimate put the number of terracotta warriors at over a thousand.

The phrase "Emperor Qin's terracotta army" subconsciously appeared in Zhang Yuanqing's mind. At this moment, he was standing on the edge of the stone cave at the water pool, about thirty meters away from the terracotta army. Between them lay a flat expanse of white jade stone bricks.

"How is this a bit like Emperor Qin's tomb?"

Zhang Yuanqing retracted his gaze and murmured softly, ascended the steps, and stepped onto the stone bricks.

The moment he stepped into the space of the stone cave, the terracotta army in the distance suddenly turned their heads in unison, their stiff and wooden faces facing Zhang Yuanqing.

Zhang Yuanqing's scalp tingled. He quickly put on [Sliding Shoes], put on the Lucky Necklace, Beast King Bracelet, and Gale Rider Gloves, and gripped the Purple Gold Shield tightly.

"Whoosh whoosh"

A strong wind rose in the stone cave. He rode the wind and flew towards the hundred-meter-high white jade platform.

He wasn't planning to clash head-on with the terracotta army.

More than a thousand terracotta warriors uniformly raised their heads, their faces stiffly staring at the invader in the sky.

They neatly took out the crossbows hanging at their waists, raised them, and pulled the triggers.

Hundreds of bowstring sounds merged into one, echoing through the cave.

Arrows shot up into the air like a swarm of bees.

Zhang Yuanqing waved his left hand, the strong wind transforming into two wind blades that slashed at the arrows, while simultaneously curling his body in the air, holding up the round shield.

The Gale Rider Gloves could only unleash a maximum of two wind blades at a time. The arrows were too fast, and he only had time to unleash one.

Clang clang clang!

The crossbow bolts rained down on the round shield, causing spiderweb-like cracks to appear on this indestructible shield.

What the hell?!

Zhang Yuanqing's arm holding the shield felt sore and numb. The Purple Gold Shield showed signs of damage in the first wave of arrows.

That's right, after all, the Qin Feng Academy is a Dominator-level dungeon. Even if the core difficulty of the hidden task is the key, the dangers inside are not something a Saint can resist.

Zhang Yuanqing didn't hesitate and used Star Evasion to return to the ground.

As soon as he landed, he saw a charging army, with a row of infantry holding spears in the lead.

Dodging the stabbing of two spears, the Purple Gold Shield in his hand melted and solidified into a small pumpkin.

Peng! Peng! Peng!

Wearing the Beast King Bracelet, which granted him superior balance, agility, and strength, and relying on relatively superb fighting skills, he dodged and weaved through the army, smashing terracotta warriors one after another.

But after being stabbed twice in the abdomen, he gave up resisting. It was impossible for him to pass through an army of thousands without being hit even once.

These terracotta warriors had immense strength and their spears had amazing piercing power. Even a Yin corpse of Yin Yao Princess's level nearly had her defenses broken after being hit by two spears.

Zhang Yuanqing transformed into starlight and dissipated, bypassing the terracotta army and arriving at the edge of the stone steps leading to the high platform. He swept his hand, and there were a total of twenty terracotta soldiers on the steps, wearing the same armor, holding the same bronze swords, with crossbows hanging on their waists.

Zhang Yuanqing then realized that the armor worn by the terracotta soldiers on the steps wasn't made of clay, but was actually real.

At the end of the stone steps was a high archway, with a crystal plaque vaguely displaying the three words "Palace of Longevity."

At this moment, the terracotta soldiers standing on both sides of the stone steps turned their heads in unison, looking down at the enemy below the steps.

The two terracotta soldiers at the very bottom, only ten steps away from Zhang Yuanqing, the one on the left wearing Qin Dynasty style armor and holding a sharp bronze sword.

It stared at Zhang Yuanqing and transmitted a mental wave: "Who dares to trespass in the Mausoleum of the First Emperor!"

With that, it and the terracotta soldier on the right, which looked exactly the same, leaped up at the same time.

Jump slash! Zhang Yuanqing slid through the two terracotta soldiers, quickly turned around, and swung the small pumpkin.

Peng! Peng!

The two terracotta soldiers shattered, turning into black clods of earth.

The armor is just a decoration, without defensive ability? Zhang Yuanqing perked up, but he was too happy too soon. Those scattered fragments trembled violently, and quickly reassembled like magnets.

The two terracotta soldiers were restored to their original state.

"Re, restored?!" Zhang Yuanqing was shocked.

He immediately transformed into starlight and dissipated, reappearing in the middle of the white jade steps in one breath, surpassing the terracotta soldiers.

He intended to use Star Evasion to directly reach the palace.

Just then, among the terracotta soldiers left behind, one of them took off an arrow and pulled the trigger.

The bowstring vibrated and the arrow shot out.

Zhang Yuanqing dodged to the side, but saw the arrow change trajectory and fly obliquely towards him.

"Ding!"

A mark? An item of the Enchanting Succubus?! Helpless, he waved the small pumpkin to knock the arrow apart, the backlash instantly numbing his tiger's mouth.

Are the terracotta soldiers on the steps equipped with magic items?

The thought flashed through his mind, and then he saw the twenty terracotta soldiers above and below him simultaneously taking off their military crossbows and aiming at him.

Even further below, the army of terracotta soldiers had already charged onto the steps.

The sound of bowstrings was like the wind howling.

Amidst the crisscrossing arrows, Zhang Yuanqing disappeared. He entered Night Wandering.

Night Wandering could shield the Enchanting Succubus's mark.

After becoming invisible, he immediately sprinted towards the end of the stone steps. Suddenly, he heard the sound of bowstrings vibrating behind him.

The next second, two sharp arrows pierced through his back, and the bronze arrowheads protruded from his chest.

How is this possible? Zhang Yuanqing was incredulous.

Suddenly, he saw a yellow bronze round mirror hanging on the plaque of the "Palace of Longevity" in front of him, reflecting his figure in the mirror. He immediately understood.

This bronze mirror was an item, an item that could see through Night Wandering.

The First Emperor had all kinds of bizarre items. He took a deep breath, entered Night Wandering again, dodged the arrow, and looked down.

Densely packed terracotta soldiers were charging along the white jade steps, led by that special terracotta soldier.

In front of him were three terracotta soldiers. They were either lifting their military crossbows to aim or wielding bronze swords to pounce, using the bronze mirror to see through his position.

He couldn't deal with these terracotta soldiers alone. There might be even more dangerous bosses in the Palace of Longevity. Forcing his way in would be a death sentence. Zhang Yuanqing sighed in his heart and pressed his hands upward.

A strong wind rose from the ground, pushing him high into the air, flying him out of the steps.

Retreat!

Zhang Yuanqing controlled the strong wind, combined with Star Evasion, to quickly escape.

Refining Room.

With a "click," the pearl formed from Siren tears shattered. Zhang Yuanqing held a small carving knife and sighed. Refining was delicate work. It was too difficult to multitask. This was the fifth Siren tear he had damaged.

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