The Ancient Rare Phoenix: Colourful Flames - Chapter 48
Next day, they left toward the ancient ruins.
After flying on the Purpled Snow Dove for a day and a half, they finally reached the ancient ruin and dived down slowly.
The ancient ruins looked like an abandoned underground city. Every part of the structure was engraved with many unknown writings and symbols. At the entrance, there was a enormous bone head of a wolf which was actually the gate.
There were already few people around the gate. However, no one among them wanted to enter and were waiting. Some even had some stalls, but were clearly lacking enthusiasm doing any business.
Soon Hou, Lily and Long Anqi approached the gate, those people slightly looked at them before shaking their heads.
Hou glared at those people, and seeing no one bothering them, he directly headed to enter through the gate.
Before he could enter, he paused after thinking something, he looked back at Long Anqi and slyly said.
” Anqi, Just stay here outside with Purpled Snow Dove and wait for us to return, as it is not safe for you to travel with us. ”
Long Anqi also thought same and nodded her head.
Lily slightly glanced at Hou, whose expression clearly wasn’t showing any trace of concern at Long Anqi, she sighed and passed 100 gold to Long Anqi then signaled the Purpled Snow Dove to protect her.
Hou turned back his head while inwardly laughing out and feeling satisfied about not sharing any cultivation resources with her, then entered through the gate. Lily too followed behind him.
Long Anqi looked around, then headed along with the Purpled Snow Dove towards the very far corner of the entrance to hide behind a bush.
After a while, a massive dragon dropped down and a few people stepped down. There were 6 mid-aged man, 1 old man and 4 youths. Zhao Ruge and his guard were among them.
Seeing them, some of the surrounding people started to warily observed them.
A mid-aged man went towards them and started whispering something at the old man, who listened for a while, then pondered, however, he shook his head and started to head toward the entrance. Rest of the people who came with him also followed behind him. Soon, they too entered.
Hou and Lily were looking around the ruins, seeing only the abandoned broken buildings, Hou was totally disappointed and thought Ying Yue’s intel was fake, he wanted to return back. However, Lily wanted to go to the center of the ruins to check.
After a while, they came to the center and saw an huge bone head, but it was the head of a tiger. At its jaw, there was a entrance like outside.
When they entered through the gate, formation arrays slightly flickered around the boney head.
Feeling the formation array Qi surrounding them, Lily grabbed onto Hou, who was just about to escape, however, a sudden beam of light blinded them and they were teleported.
Hou opened his eyes and looked around the surroundings, he and Lily were both astonished and flabbergasted seeing a totally different sight. They were standing on the top of the mountain and could see everywhere, they saw a dense forest filled full of spiritual plants and trees, Heavenly Qi around the surrounding was also dense and better quality than outside. Most shocking part was the whole sky was actually burning in red flames.
After a while, they spotted a small lake faraway, then decided to head down there.
Just behind the mountain they were standing, there was a teen girl in a white cloak and a young man in a blue cloak sitting under the tree, while a few paces behind them was a mid-aged woman in a red cloak and 2 mid-aged man both in a black cloak standing and guarding them.
The teen girl worriedly looked at the young man and asked.
” Big brother Lei, Do you think that Xiang Chu will really come here? ”
Shi Lei just looked up and said.
” Shuang, once that bastard Chu hears about these ancient ruins, he’ll definitely come because he is the most eager one to break through. Only that way he will get a recognition from his master, then he won’t have any obstacle marrying Ouyang Lanyu. ”
” And this is my only chance to stop him, there is no way, I, Shi Lei, will let anyone marry my Ouyang Lanyu. ”
Cheng Shuang looked Shi Lei and just sighed, before resolutely deciding and seriously said.
” Brother Lei, If he really comes, then I’ll help you and make him stay here forever. ”
Shi Lei closely gazed at her and nodded his head.
At the other corner of the forest, The old man and rest of the people with him also arrived. The old man looked at one of the youths and seriously said.
” Chu, I hope you’ll successfully grab this opportunity, if not, then you can forget about Ouyang Lanyu. ”
Xiang Chu respectably bowed and nodded his head, then he started to part with a mid-aged man from them.
Zhao Ruge and his guard Meng too left toward the other direction.
Other 2 youths along their guard also headed toward a different direction.
Finally there was only the old man and 2 other mid-aged man left at the spot. The old man looked at the direction where Shi Lei and Cheng Shuang were sitting and sighed.
He turned toward the other 2 mid-aged man and said.
” Go take care of them, however, leave them alive. ”
Just above the burning sky, a pair eyes were watching everything and softly said.
” So finally, the trial has begun. ”