Chapter 191 The Fifth Princess

After getting far enough away, Wei Ba asked Fang Yue and Jing Yan to wait for a while.

Once Wei Ba had left, Fang Yue asked Jing Yan for details about his imprisonment and other specifics.

With Ming present earlier, it wasn't convenient to ask too much, but it was fine now.

It turned out that Jing Yan had indeed been unconscious after being imprisoned and sent to the auction. When he woke up, he was already at Nian Manor. He only learned about the auction from Ming's recounting of the events.

"Ye-ge, the city is rampant with youkai, Qing Chen is also missing, and Captain Wu and An Donger are still clueless. To be honest, I have a bad feeling."

"Don't worry, those youkai won't be arrogant for long. This is under the Emperor's feet, the place with the most powerhouses in all of Qing Country. The people above will definitely handle it. As for Qing Chen and the others, I will definitely find a way to save them all!"

"...En."

To be honest, Jing Yan was somewhat skeptical of Fang Yue's ability to accomplish so much. The capital was too big, with various forces intertwined. Fang Yue was alone and weak, and there was only so much he could do.

While the two were talking, Wei Ba returned.

"The Fifth Princess responded to my signal. It seems she happens to be free and in this area."

That was great news.

"Let's go, we'll go to the meeting place agreed upon with the Fifth Princess."

The meeting place agreed upon by Wei Ba and the Fifth Princess was a temple.

Probably just a few hours ago, this temple was still very prosperous and grand.

But now, with the Black Moon organization unleashing youkai, the temple had been severely damaged, and the ground was covered in corpses, looking like a hellish sea of blood.

"Let's go, there's a secret passage below that leads to many places in the capital, but the password is a special sequence combination. The Fifth Princess is wary of me and only gave me one password sequence, which only opens a specific secret room. We will meet her there."

Wei Ba explained and then led the two towards the main hall of the temple.

Reaching the Buddha statue, she circulated her inner energy and gently tapped a few times on the back of the decapitated Buddha.

Fang Yue carefully sensed that the force of her inner energy on the back of the Buddha statue was different each time, varying in intensity, and the order was fixed. It seemed that only this specific combination could open the secret passage, otherwise, the password would be incorrect.

Creak...

After Wei Ba entered the password, she waited for a while before the entrance to the secret passage opened from the ground.

"The secret passage is underground? Then if I violently break open the ground, can I find the secret passage?" Fang Yue pondered.

This was an idea that often popped into his head after watching many TV series.

Of course, it was reasoning backward from the result, then thinking about whether violently destroying things could reveal the secret passage.

But Wei Ba's words shattered his idea.

"It's not that simple. After I entered the specific sequence combination, we waited a while for the secret passage to open, right? In fact, that's because the underground secret passage is changing combinations, undergoing changes similar to tectonic shifts. I don't know about other places, but the Fifth Princess has done a lot of work under this temple. This combination change makes the area under the temple just ordinary solid mud. Only with the correct password will the secret passage move up from below.

"Of course, if Ye-ge wants to keep digging down, prepared to go thousands of meters underground, then it's possible to discover the existence of the secret passage."

Fang Yue's lips twitched upon hearing this.

It seemed that the mechanisms in the game were much more complex than in TV dramas.

But that was also true. The game was a high-martial world, youkai that didn't play by the rules could appear, and there were things like formations. All of them were beyond comparison to the martial arts worlds in TV dramas. The secret passages would naturally be designed to be much more complex.

Suppressing the messy thoughts in his heart, he followed the secret passage down.

They descended for about a thousand meters underground, then the downward slope stopped and turned into a stable passage.

Walking further, Fang Yue discovered that there was indeed only one path all the way, with stone walls on both sides and no forks.

If Wei Ba hadn't mentioned it, Fang Yue would have thought that this secret passage was just a straight line.

But now, he could only say that this secret passage was very complex and required a specific password to open branching paths.

Seeing this scale and this level of complexity, Fang Yue suspected that the Fifth Princess had developed and built this secret passage herself.

As Fang Yue thought of this, light appeared ahead.

The three of them entered and found that it was a closed secret room with no exit except for the entrance.

Looking around, the secret room had nothing except a table, a few chairs, and a human soul lamp for lighting.

Just as Fang Yue was about to ask where the Fifth Princess was, one of the walls of the secret room suddenly creaked open, revealing a passage.

And in the passage, a voluptuous woman was walking towards them.

The passage was dark, making it difficult to see the woman's appearance, but from the outline, it seemed that she was holding something that was dripping, dripping liquid.

When the woman walked into the light, the three of them were immediately stunned.

It wasn't because the woman's appearance was so stunning, but because she was holding a human head, a bloody human head.

"Ice Saint Maiden, the timing of your contact was perfect. I just finished dealing with the problem here and received your contact signal, so I came straight over."

The Fifth Princess, wearing a long dress, slammed the human head onto the table with a bang.

The human head rolled, leaving a trail of blood on the table.

The wide, unseeing eyes looked somewhat frightening.

But everyone present had come out of life-and-death battles, so this small scene was nothing.

Wei Ba frowned slightly and pointed at the head, asking, "He is..."

"Of course, it's my Fourth Imperial Brother. Didn't I say that the signal you sent was perfectly timed? I had just cut down Fourth Imperial Brother with my sword when I received your contact signal."

Fourth Imperial Brother... Wasn't that the Fourth Prince of Qing Country?!

Fang Yue and the others were shocked.

The Fourth Prince was dead, already dead at the hands of the Fifth Princess?

How could she dare...

Fang Yue knew about the Nine Dragons Seizing the Throne, that the nine princes and princesses were all in competition with each other, but he didn't expect it to be so intense.

Killing someone directly, could the current Emperor continue to sit idly by? Allowing his children to fight each other in a bloody struggle?

Fang Yue felt a sense of morbidity and distortion. This Qing Country, this capital, was not as beautiful as he had imagined. There was a deeper darkness within.

"Surprised? Fourth Imperial Brother is just the first step. Only by stepping on his corpse can I continue to climb. The next target is Third Imperial Brother."

A crazy light flickered in the Fifth Princess's eyes. Her bloodstained right hand smeared her face, appearing both bewitching and morbid under the human soul lamp.

Fang Yue pondered for a moment and asked, "Fifth Princess, while eliminating competitors is regrettable, have you considered the Emperor's reaction?"

"Father? He won't care."