jdhmnovel Chapter 669 Taste
Chapter 669 Taste
After the two descended into the secret passage, Yi Moxu extended his hand to Ye Qing'an: "This secret passage is full of traps and hidden weapons. Hold my hand and follow me."
Ye Qing'an looked up at Yi Moxu, and without any hesitation, simply raised her hand and took Yi Moxu's hand.
Yi Moxu's lips curled up slightly as he walked ahead.
Ye Qing'an's gaze lingered on the two clasped hands for a moment before she looked away. She felt a little thirsty and couldn't help but lick her lips lightly, trying to change the subject and hide her pounding heart.
"This secret passage must be a maze with many branching paths, right? You didn't bring a map, can you remember it?"
"The map of this secret passage is in my mind. I know exactly where the mechanisms and hidden weapons are."
"Is it that amazing?"
Ye Qing'an casually agreed, but her gaze couldn't help but fall on her two hands, and she remained silent for a moment.
As far as she could remember, she and Yi Moxu seemed to have known each other for some time.
Moreover, now that they are officially husband and wife, they have probably already done more intimate things.
But it felt like the first time we'd ever held hands like this.
Ye Qing'an pursed her lips. In her heart, holding hands was a very intimate thing.
Two people might be able to kiss and sleep in the same bed, like people in a brothel.
However, it's difficult to hold hands for such a long time without truly trusting each other.
"I designed this secret passage myself. I drew the blueprints myself and revised them carefully several times, so I naturally remember them a little more clearly."
Ye Qing'an nodded: "You seem to have accomplished quite a bit these past few years?"
Yi Moxu smiled and said, "Yes, I have indeed done a lot of things, so they all say I'm crazy. But I guess I'm just... too eager for revenge?"
"Perhaps it's because practicing the Fire Separation Technique is just too painful. I need to do something to distract myself. Otherwise, it's easy to give up."
Upon hearing Yi Moxu's words, Ye Qing'an couldn't help but pause slightly. Cultivating the Fire Separation Technique was too painful.
She had heard of the terrifying aspects of cultivating the Fire Separation Technique, but having never experienced it firsthand, she found it difficult to truly empathize.
Ye Qing'an pursed her lips and clenched her fists even tighter.
Yi Moxu walked ahead, but the corners of his mouth were turning up higher and higher.
After walking for a while, Ye Qing'an suddenly stopped.
"what happened?"
Yi Moxu turned to look at Ye Qing'an and noticed that Ye Qing'an's expression seemed a little bad.
Ye Qing'an shook her head: "Go back."
"Ok?"
But before Yi Moxu could ask any further questions, Ye Qing'an had already turned around quickly and started walking back the way she came.
As he walked, he quickly gathered spiritual energy in his hands.
A flash of white light appeared, and one ice wall after another quickly rose up behind the two of them, completely blocking all the gaps and preventing anything from penetrating.
Yi Moxu frowned. Was Ye Qing'an's reaction because she sensed something unusual in the secret passage?
Yi Moxu secretly activated the Fire Separation Technique to sense the surrounding situation, but he did not sense anything.
Are these secret passages interconnected?
Hearing Ye Qing'an ask this, Yi Moxu's eyes became even more puzzled, but he nodded: "Most of them are interconnected, but some are dead ends designed to lure people in and then trap them."
Ye Qing'an nodded, and then stopped after casting countless ice walls in front of him as well.
"Let's go, let the illusion speak."
Yi Moxu and Ye Qing'an returned to the Cloud Dreamland together, only to notice that Ye Qing'an's expression was rather unpleasant.
"What's wrong? What did you find in that secret passage?"
Ye Qing'an turned to look at Yi Moxu: "Do you remember what Gu Duo said when we went to see him yesterday?"
"What did Gu Duo say?" Yi Moxu frowned, puzzled.
"Gu Duo smelled the scent on us and asked if we had been to the underground palace, because he felt that the scent on us was exactly the same as the scent of the underground palace."
"He described it to me as having a very sinister smell, a sinister smell of smoke, and a bloody smell."
"At the time, I didn't quite understand. It was probably because we had stayed in that illusion for too long and were no longer sensitive to the smell."
"Later, when Gu Duo mentioned it, I carefully inquired about the smell on my body, but I didn't notice anything unusual."
"But just now..."
Ye Qing'an's expression turned slightly cold: "Just now, I smelled this scent in the secret passage."
Upon hearing Ye Qing'an's words, Yi Moxu's expression changed slightly: "You smelled this scent in the secret passage?"
"Yes."
"Only after smelling this aroma did I realize that Gu Duo's description of the aroma was very apt."
"The evil aura makes people feel very cold, as if that smell will seep into your bones through every pore of your body."
Ye Qing'an raised her head: "Could it be that Liu Enze is hiding in that secret passage?"
Yi Moxu pursed his lips and took a few steps in place: "It's not impossible, after all, Liu Enze has always been an unpredictable person."
"It's probably because he has very keen senses and is good at understanding people's hearts. He often puts himself in their shoes and thinks about how they would think and act if they encountered such a thing. Then, based on his guesses, he takes precautions and responds accordingly."
Ye Qing'an bit her lip: "Wouldn't Liu Enze think about how we would guess his whereabouts if he were us? If he would, we would definitely think that he would return to the capital to recuperate."
"Therefore, he deliberately had Ye Zirui request to go to the Siyou Kingdom's camp to give us the illusion that he was indeed going back to Wangjing to recuperate, but then he hid in this secret passage."
Ye Qing'an circled back and forth: "We locked him in that secret passage before, and he transformed into black smoke and quietly escaped through the crack in the stone door."
"After he escaped, he must have left through those secret passages."
"He is a wisp of smoke, so he won't trigger those mechanisms and hidden weapons, but he can quickly find all the entrances and exits of the secret passage, and can enter and exit quietly without alerting us."
"Therefore, he chose to quietly hide in the secret passage to recuperate after being injured."
Yi Moxu remained silent for a long time before speaking: "If that's the case, then Liu Enze is indeed quite terrifying."
"He understands this principle very well: the most dangerous place is often the safest place."
Ye Qing'an took a deep breath: "When we arrived there, Liu Enze hadn't even noticed us yet, but I smelled his scent first. I think he must have transformed into a human form in the secret passage..."