Chapter 91 : Chapter 91
Chapter 91 : Tomb of the Poison Venerable
The time Hyeokryeon Yeom’s party arrived in Guizhou.
North Sea Ice Palace, Palace Lord’s Hall.
“Palace Lord, a letter has arrived from Seol-bi.”
“Oh, really? Bring it quickly.”
Finally, the second letter had arrived.
The first letter was Han Seol-bi’s report on the meeting stating that she had arrived in Shaanxi and met Hyeokryeon Yeom’s party.
Since quite a lot of time had passed since then, the North Sea Ice Palace Lord, Seol Baek-ho, was insanely curious about his daughter’s travelogue that would be left in Han Seol-bi’s letter.
“Here it is.”
Seol Baek-ho unfolded the letter delivered through the General Manager, Seol Su-hyeok.
-To the Palace Lord, Hello, Palace Lord. It’s Han Seol-bi.
I am doing well. Do you know where this is right now?
It is surprisingly Hunan! From Shaanxi to Hunan. I think many things really happened.
The Young Palace Head is doing well. She helped Mount Hua,
She also stole a ship of the Yangtze River Waterway Keep in the Yangtze River,
In Hubei, she drank at Yellow Crane Tower and passed out! Before arriving in Hunan, we even experienced falling from a cliff!
Ah, the reason we fell is because of the Blood Cult. This story is too long so I have to leave it for later…….
Ah, I might not be able to send it to you.
I got caught by the Small Snow Squad Captain. If I cannot send letters in the future, you can probably think that I got caught by the Young Palace Head too.
Still, since I wrote down the things that happened on the way to Hunan in detail, it would be good if you think,
She is staying safe, while looking at at least this!
-From Han Seol-bi of the Cold Blood Han Family.
“…….”
Seol Baek-ho’s complexion turned pale after reading the entire letter.
“M, my neck…….”
“P, Palace Lord, what is the matter!”
Seol Su-hyeok quickly caught the falling letter and began to read it.
“Haha.”
Seol Su-hyeok, who read the entire letter in an instant, also had his complexion turn pale.
How could she think to send something like this as a letter?
‘All the key points are missing, the key points!’
She did not tell a single thing about how they helped Mount Hua in Shaanxi or what happened with the Mount Hua Sect, one of the Nine Sects One Gang.
Why they stole the Yangtze River Waterway Keep’s ship, and whether they perhaps encountered the Water King.
What happened after she drank at Yellow Crane Tower and passed out!
On top of that, the Blood Cult.
Why would the Blood Cult, which was said to have been annihilated a hundred years ago, appear here?
The finishing touch was that the surveillance role sent to monitor was caught monitoring, so she would not be able to send letters in the future.
“I apologize, it is all my fault!”
Seol Su-hyeok took the initiative and knelt.
“M, my neck!”
“Uh-uh, Palace Lord!”
“Why is it so noisy?”
As the Palace Lord made a groaning sound,
The Ice Queen, Hong Ye-hwa, entered the Palace Lord’s Hall.
Soon, Hong Ye-hwa also picked up the letter falling on the floor and began to read.
“Ho-oh, he was using such insidious tricks without me knowing?”
“N, now is not the time for that, wife. Doesn’t it say our daughter got drunk and passed out!”
“……Darling, don’t you see it written Blood Cult here?”
It seemed that the daughter getting drunk and passing out was a more serious problem to the Ice Palace Lord than the words that the Blood Cult had reappeared.
“Now that we can’t even receive letters, what do we do about this curiosity?”
“This won’t do, I must prepare to leave the Palace.”
“Where!”
Hong Ye-hwa glared at Seol Baek-ho.
“Trust the live-in son-in-law a little sometimes.”
“Groan.”
As it seemed Hong Ye-hwa, who saw Hyeokryeon Yeom for a shorter time than Seol Baek-ho, trusted Hyeokryeon Yeom, Seol Baek-ho also resigned and nodded his head.
“Let’s wait, if he is a quick-witted son-in-law, he will send a letter.”
By the way,
Hong Ye-hwa realized that the current location was Hunan and muttered.
“To go to Namman, they will now cross over to Yunnan through Guizhou…….”
Based on what Hong Ye-hwa knew, she seemed to have heard a story that the Poison Palace was installing something in Guizhou.
“Well, it should be fine.”
Since that would all be experience too.
Moreover, Hong Ye-hwa tended to trust her son-in-law very much.
***
“Is someone talking about me?”
My ears were a bit itchy.
No, it might be because of this humid space.
When we broke the stone wall Tae Un-seo discovered and entered, a cave appeared.
Seol Ye-rin seemed to hope for a miraculous cave encounter after hearing the story from Han Seol-bi that I obtained the Fighting Venerable’s martial arts in a cave under a cliff.
‘I wish there was a miraculous encounter here too, but.’
Usually, caves that lead underground like this were more often traps than miraculous encounters.
“Be careful, do not touch anything. Carelessness is forbidden.”
“Yes!”
A situation where caution was needed even more because a dozen or so people were moving together.
Fwoosh!
It was always my flame that lit up the dark cave.
I relied on the Flame Butterfly and checked how this cave was made while moving forward.
“It does not seem to be a naturally formed cave.”
“Yes, it seems someone artificially made this cave.”
I agreed with the Divine Physician’s words.
If someone had artificially made this cave.
“Aah.”
“I told you not to touch it!”
Rumble.
As Han Seol-bi touched the wall because her feet got tangled by mistake.
The wall began to push as if a mechanism was moving.
And.
Thud-
“The floor is!”
“It’s freezing.”
Crack-!
An ice sheet was created on the floor that had holes drilled in it.
Slip- Crash.
A few people slipped and fell on the suddenly created ice, but they did not fall down below.
“Trap…….”
“It seems this cave itself was made with mechanism formations.”
“Then do you mean it is a trap?”
“The possibility is high.”
“What do we do? Should we turn back and go out?”
At Seol Ye-rin’s words, the Divine Physician looked back.
“It seems it is already too late.”
The passage the group entered through had already disappeared and was gone.
“They made it very well.”
Though I don't know who made it.
‘With what intention did they make it?’
The fact that they made traps means they intend to lure someone here and put them in.
‘Unfortunately, it seems the events in Guizhou happened after I died.’
It was quite frustrating that there was no information I knew.
If I had just known who lived in Guizhou back then, we wouldn't have gone through this trouble.
‘And it’s not like someone could be living inside a mechanism like this.’
“First of all, since the way back is blocked, it means we eventually have to go inside. What shall we do?”
The decision-making authority of our party still lay with the Young Palace Head.
“What does the Small Snow Squad Captain think?”
Only at times like this, she calls me Small Snow Squad Captain.
“I am curious about what might be inside. If they made traps, a bait must surely exist. That bait might be a miraculous encounter or it might not.”
That is something we won’t know until we go to the end.
The biggest worry is,
‘That they could bury us alive.’
Probably such a thing won’t happen.
It has to be so because this isn’t a trap to lure us in and kill us.
And considering the width inside the cave, the number of people that can enter is at least thirty.
‘It looks like they intend to send in the main manpower of a sect or clan all at once.’
“Then shall we try going in further?”
“Wait a moment.”
Come to think of it, the best reconnaissance team existed for me.
‘Elder Sword Venerable, Elder Demon Queen.’
-Mm? Did you call?
-What is the matter?
The Sword Venerable and Demon Queen, who were resting in the Flame Extreme Sword and Cold Snow Secret Realm, popped out.
‘I am truly sorry, but could you please check once what is down here?’
The Sword Venerable and Demon Queen readily accepted my proposal.
***
The Snow Wind Sword Venerable, Baek Un-han, began to examine the inside of the cave with interested eyes.
-It certainly seems many mechanisms are installed.
-Arrows inside the walls too, and even rolling strange rocks.
-They made it well.
-Huh? There are a lot of venomous snakes too?
-Poison?
The Sword Venerable and Demon Queen went down a bit further into the cave.
It was a possible task because they were spirit bodies that could freely roam through walls and the ground.
-Uh? Master, it seems there is a person.
-A person? Here? Can a human live here?
As they went down further, an empty clearing teeming with poisonous insects revealed itself.
A person living in a place like this; interest was piqued so they tried to approach.
Thump-
-It seems we hit the distance limit.
-I can see the person though.
Scritch, scratch.
In the Sword Venerable and Demon Queen’s gaze, a man sitting alone in a space full of poisonous insects writing something was seen.
Crunch. Munch-munch..
The sight of him picking up the poisonous insects next to him and chewing them with his mouth looked very natural.
-That... is a poisonous insect, right?
-Seem so.
-He is amazing.
-Is it a myriad of poison immunity?
-Mostly it seems there are many traps caused by poison…….
-If it is a person who can endure this much poison…….
The Sword Venerable and Demon Queen thought of one existence at the same time.
-Is he a descendant?
-Could be a disciple.
-But why is he trapped in a place like this?
-It is doubtful if being trapped is even correct.
The man was showing absolutely no will to escape.
That meant he had been doing this lifestyle for a few months, or a few years.
-His skin is snow white.
-It seems he hasn't seen sunlight for quite a long time.
-Means he is not from Namman.
-Is there anything else to find out?
-Let’s look around other places.
Since they knew someone was below, it seemed good to find out the way to go down as much as possible.
The Sword Venerable and Demon Queen who were wandering around like that hesitated.
-Uh? Master, look here.
-Mm? Another presence is felt on that outside over there?
-Must be the guys managing the mechanisms! Let’s go see!
-Yes.
The Sword Venerable and Demon Queen who were moving straight through the walls.
Thump-
Realized they were blocked by the distance limit again.
They came to know that this cave made of traps was quite deep and wide.
-Uh?!
At that moment, the Demon Queen discovered something and burst out an exclamation.
[Tomb of the Poison Venerable]
-It seems it’s really the Poison Venerable’s tomb?!
-Keul-keul, my guess was right. Let’s go back to tell him quickly.
-Yes.
Whoosh-
The Sword Venerable and Demon Queen, who returned to the Flame Extreme Sword and Cold Snow Secret Realm in an instant, told me everything they had seen just a moment ago.
“…Whether coincidence or inevitable.”
I had come to enter the tomb of one of the Ten Venerables under the Heavens again.