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#231 - Scary ringtones

These martial arts experts naturally wanted to curry favor with Zou Cifeng.

But unfortunately, Zou Cifeng was the only one present; that mysterious expert didn't even show his shadow.

This also made everyone afraid to blindly flatter him, lest they pat the horse on its leg.

Zou Cifeng saw the expectant gazes of the crowd and could only cough dryly:

"That person's strength has already reached the Second Rank!"

"His cultivation is a whole realm above this old man."

To highlight the enemy's strength and cover up one's own incompetence.

Zou Cifeng naturally knew this trick.

Of course, he didn't believe that the mysterious expert's strength would be stronger than his, but the other party's lightness skill was indeed outrageously high.

By now, Zou Cifeng no longer wanted to continue chasing.

If he directly admitted that his lightness skill was inferior to the other party's, it would be better to simply lie and claim that the other party's realm of cultivation was higher.

That way, even if he lost the contest, no one would think that Zou Cifeng was incompetent.

Hearing Zou Cifeng's words, the group of martial artists all revealed expressions of shock:

"In this world, are there still Second Rank martial artists walking about?"

"What exactly does such a terrifying figure want to do by coming to our Dongzhou?"

"Such a heavyweight figure's aim is definitely not small!"

"If Old Zou hadn't probed this person's level in advance, I'm afraid we wouldn't have realized the seriousness of the situation!"

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After learning of the other party's Second Rank strength, the martial artists couldn't help but feel a great shock in their hearts.

Whether there are still First Rank martial artists alive in the world today, people do not know.

And the few Second Rank martial artists are all indifferent to worldly affairs.

They either live deep within the imperial palace, hide in the deep mountains and old forests, or seclude themselves in the world's top sects.

They will not easily show their faces unless they encounter major events that shake the world.

It can be said that with no Second Rank martial artists appearing, Third Rank is already the strongest combat power in the world.

Now that a Second Rank top expert has actually appeared in Dongzhou, it is no wonder that everyone is amazed.

Immediately, after the crowd exchanged glances, they spoke one after another:

"So the other party is a Second Rank senior, it seems that it is only natural that we can't catch up to him."

"A Second Rank senior would naturally not covet my sect's secrets; it was all a misunderstanding before."

"Such a senior is highly respected and even less likely to be a pervert who peeped at my intimacy with my junior sister; I misunderstood the senior!"

"For a Second Rank senior to be able to fly over my sect's head is an honor for my sect. My previous pursuit of the senior was only to invite the senior to sit in the sect; I had no other intentions!"

But now, after learning from Zou Cifeng, the number one expert in Dongzhou, that the other party was actually a terrifying Second Rank expert.

In an instant, everyone changed their tune and dared not mention the previous conflict again.

Zou Cifeng looked at this group of frightened guys, full of contempt.

He wasn't worried about being easily exposed.

That mysterious expert's lightness skill was so high that even he, as a Third Rank expert, found it difficult to catch up.

For the rest of them to catch up with him was like dreaming!

Besides, the right to speak in Dongzhou was in Zou Cifeng's hands. He could explain it however he wanted.

At this moment.

Suddenly, someone exclaimed:

"Look! Why is there such a big hole in this river bend?"

"Looking at the traces of the soil around this big hole, it looks like it just appeared."

"Huh? There are even stone steps inside!"

This shout immediately attracted everyone's attention.

Looking at this dark pit, and then at the old stone steps and brick walls inside, everyone seemed to have an idea in their hearts.

Their eyes once again gathered on the martial artists of the Six Doors.

The Six Doors martial artists also immediately launched an analysis:

"The traces of strong winds blowing here are very obvious, and looking at those gravel and fist marks, it is clear that an expert had recently attacked here, probably in order to find the building under this riverbed."

"Judging from these buildings, this place looks very much like a tomb, and it is full of the tomb style of the Great Xia period."

"This tomb should have been deliberately hidden when it was built during the Great Xia period, but who knew that things would change, and the river changed its course, causing the top of this tomb to become a river bend, and the tomb was buried underwater, unknown to anyone."

When everyone heard this, they couldn't help but be shocked.

Great Xia?

That was the dynasty before the previous dynasty!

Before the current Great Qian Dynasty was the Great Yu Dynasty, and before the Great Yu Dynasty was the Great Xia.

It has been at least two or three hundred years since then.

This is an ancient tomb!

The Six Doors martial artist continued to analyze:

"This spring drought is serious, and the river has dried up, perhaps this is what led to the discovery of this ancient tomb, and the tomb robber is most likely that Second Rank senior."

"Look at the dust on these stone steps. There are traces of being swept by the wind not long ago, but not a single footprint was left. Only a senior with superb lightness skill can do this."

When everyone heard this, their eyes couldn't help but light up.

That Second Rank senior had previously obtained a natural treasure under Orange Cliff.

And now he has come here to rob a tomb, could it be that there are treasures in this tomb as well?

They were sure that the Second Rank senior must have very high standards!

Didn't you see that he didn't even bother to take the weapons and elixirs on the two rotting corpses under Orange Cliff?

If the treasures in this tomb were taken away by the Second Rank senior, wouldn't some of the remaining small treasures be a fortune for everyone?

In an instant, everyone had the same thought in their minds:

Go in and take a look!

The martial artists did not hesitate and entered the pit entrance one after another.

Soon.

"Ding-ling-ling!"

A burst of muffled ringing suddenly sounded from the ancient tomb.

Obviously, the martial artists who rushed in were relying on force to forcibly break the copper bell net that blocked the passage.

But this time, it immediately caused all the copper bells in the entire passage to ring.

The sound kept colliding back and forth on the undulating walls, clearly drilling into everyone's ears.

At first, the martial artists didn't feel anything wrong with these bell sounds, they just vaguely felt that these bell sounds were getting louder and louder.

But soon, something was wrong.

A martial artist suddenly noticed with surprise that the companion in front of him had placed his hand on his head and was twisting it forcefully.

"Crack!"

Accompanied by the crisp sound of bones breaking, the companion's head rotated one hundred and eighty degrees, his face directly facing the martial artist behind him.

A person's head twisted to such an angle should, by all rights, be quite dead.

But who would have thought that this companion would actually grin, revealing a strange smile to the martial artist behind him?

Especially the companion's tongue, stretching longer and longer, extending two meters like a scarlet snake, sweeping towards the martial artist behind him.

"Demon… demon!"

The martial artist cried out in alarm and drew his saber swiftly.

He not only severed the long tongue but also directly slashed his companion down with a single blow.

Having done all this, the martial artist felt as if he was surrounded by sharp, chuckling laughter.

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He turned his head to look and saw that the martial artists who had originally run down the tunnel together had all become blue-faced and fanged, turning into hideous and terrifying demons.

These demons were all staring at the martial artist, their eyes chillingly bloodthirsty!

"Ah!!!"

The martial artist screamed in terror, constantly waving his saber and desperately hacking at these demons.

And the demons also began to attack, sharp claws stabbing towards the martial artist.

Soon.

The martial artist, severely injured, fell into a pool of blood.

In the last moment of his life fading away, he felt his whole person become clear-headed.

At this moment, what met his eyes were not those terrifying demons at all?

All that existed were martial artists, driven mad and insane, slaughtering each other!

On the verge of death, he finally understood that everyone had fallen into an illusion…

The disturbance within the ancient tomb quickly alarmed the martial artists outside.

Many martial artists who had not yet had time to enter the ancient tomb stood in surprise at the edge of the pit, hearing the bell sounds and the screams and fighting sounds coming from inside.

"Could it be that they have discovered the treasure?"

"Are they fighting each other in order to snatch the treasure?"

"Just how precious is the treasure that would cause these people to risk their lives in battle?"

More martial artists, filled with such curiosity, hurriedly entered the ancient tomb.

If there really were good treasures, then they would definitely not want to miss out.

Thus.

The bell sounds within the ancient tomb became more and more intense, and the sounds of fighting also rose and fell in succession.

It wasn't until several batches of martial artists had entered that everyone gradually realized something was amiss.

Zou Cifeng spoke in a deep voice:

"Something's not right!"

"No one is allowed to enter this ancient tomb anymore!"

Zou Cifeng did not enter the tomb immediately.

Firstly, he relied on his status and was unwilling to directly compete with a group of juniors.

Secondly, he only needed to guard the outside, and if any rare treasures were really brought out from the ancient tomb, he could then pressure them to sell it to him.

With his status as the number one expert in Dongzhou, few people would dare refuse his deal.

But who would have expected that the situation in the tomb would become more and more abnormal.

Now, only people are seen entering, but no one is seen leaving, obviously, something must have happened.

"People from the Six Fan School, come over here!"

"Seal this place off first and then see what exactly is going on."

"The rest of you are not allowed to approach, anyone who doesn't listen can try!"

Zou Cifeng stood outside the pit and loudly instructed.

No one dared to disobey his wishes and could only hurriedly comply.

The martial artists of the Six Fan School observed outside for a long time, but they were never able to figure out the trick.

This caused these Six Fan School martial artists to hurriedly send people back to the Six Fan School to consult the archives and look through various secret histories.

At this time, the bell sounds and fighting sounds within the ancient tomb gradually subsided.

In the end, everything returned to silence.

Seeing this, Zou Cifeng sent a brave martial artist to personally go down and investigate.

When the martial artist went down into the ancient tomb, he only saw a ground full of corpses, and the crisscrossing iron chains and copper bells in the tunnel.

This martial artist was also clever, after seeing all this, he returned to report.

This report finally triggered the memory of an elderly martial artist from the Six Fan School.

This elderly martial artist quickly retrieved a long-sealed scroll of martial arts secrets from the Six Fan School.

While flipping through the secret scroll, he explained to everyone:

"There are thousands of strange martial arts in this world, and there are always some talented geniuses who can blaze their own trails and cultivate unique skills."

"For example, the Star Demon Sea of the Western Regions Demonic Cult, their sect's martial arts are good at disturbing people's minds through various methods, especially their Immortal Demon Dance, Demon Soul Maze Map, and other martial arts, which can make people lose their minds and be killed without knowing it."

"And in the ancient Great Xia martial world, there was also a strange person. His name was Yue Xuefeng, his origins are no longer traceable, only that his hometown should be Dongzhou."

"At that time, the martial world all called him 'Demon Sound', because this person could combine martial arts and sound, so as to achieve the effect of killing people invisibly. This person was both righteous and evil, righteous when he acted chivalrously, and evil when he killed innocent people indiscriminately. He once stirred up a storm of blood in the martial world, causing turmoil. He was also regarded as one of the strongest martial artists in the world at that time."

"Just when everyone thought that he was going to compete for the title of number one in the world, he suddenly disappeared, his life or death unknown. This person has two unique weapons, one is the Heavenly Demon Zither, and the other is the Emerald Immortal Flute."

"In addition to this, it is said that he can kill people even with ordinary musical instruments, which is simply mysterious and incomparable."

"If I'm not mistaken, this ancient tomb is likely the tomb of that Demon Sound Yue Xuefeng, and the copper bell is likely the trap he set up."

Upon hearing this, everyone couldn't help but be greatly shocked.

Who could have imagined that an ancient expert who had been buried for hundreds of years could still kill so many people today.

But some people also exclaimed:

"Could it be that the second-grade senior with superb lightness skills came to seek this Yue Xuefeng's tomb?"