When Lu Ming and the others walked over, they saw that the wolf was stuck in a crack in the ground. Its body was left outside, while its head was wedged inside.
“Woof, woof!! ...”
Seeing this, Big Yellow couldn't help but circle the wolf's body, baring its teeth in a broad grin.
“Cousin, don't laugh! Help me...”
The Gale Wolf had clearly heard Big Yellow's voice and hurriedly cried out.
Hearing the Gale Wolf's plea for help, Lu Ming's mouth twitched.
“You're just stuck in a little crack. You should be able to get out on your own, right?”
After all, the demon beasts inside the secret realm possessed 4th-rank cultivation.
“Fellow Daoist, it's not that I don't want to get out! I really can't channel any of the spiritual energy in my body!”
Hearing the Gale Wolf's words, Lu Ming was taken aback.
Was there something special about this crack that was trapping the Gale Wolf?
Or was this a fortuitous opportunity meant for him, the protagonist?
With this thought, Lu Ming directly ordered, “Get him out.”
After all, Gale Wolves were considered Big Yellow's relatives, and one had even helped them before.
Even though this particular one wasn't from the same pack...
“Slower... slower... my head is about to be pulled off...”
“How about we use spiritual energy to make the crack a bit wider?”
Niu Lansan said with a chuckle.
“No, no... don't ruin my hairstyle! I haven't even found a wife yet!”
The Gale Wolf hurriedly refused.
His head couldn't fall off, and his hair couldn't be messed up.
Subsequently, Niu Lansan and the others smashed with bricks and pried with pickaxes, finally dragging and pulling the Gale Wolf out.
The moment the Gale Wolf emerged, Huang Tianbao, who was watching from the side, couldn't help but exclaim:
“Zhuifeng?”
Zhuifeng, who had just come out, also looked curious:
“Oh, Little Huang, how is it you?”
“Where is Ye Fan?”
Huang Tianbao couldn't help but ask.
The Gale Wolf grinned. “He's recovering from his injuries.”
Hearing the exchange between Huang Tianbao and Zhuifeng, Lu Ming immediately understood.
This Gale Wolf was likely Ye Fan's mount.
He was the one who had left Huang Tianbao by his side.
This was not a simple person.
Lu Ming had suspected before that this person might be a stumbling block on his path of growth.
“How did you get stuck here?”
Huang Tianbao couldn't help but ask curiously.
“Oh... I saw a crack here and got curious, so I took a look. Who knew I'd get stuck?”
Hearing this, Lu Ming's mouth twitched. This wolf was truly a special kind of genius...
Then, he asked again, “Where is Ye Fan recovering?”
Zhuifeng looked at Lu Ming in confusion, then turned to ask Huang Tianbao who this guy was.
“Oh, he's Ye Fan's uncle!”
Huang Tianbao casually brushed him off.
“What? Ye Fan's uncle? Ye Fan actually has an uncle?”
The Gale Wolf couldn't help but exclaim in surprise.
“Yeah! And this is his second uncle!”
Huang Tianbao introduced, pointing at Big Yellow.
Hearing this, Zhuifeng's eyes widened. He circled around Big Yellow.
“My goodness, cousin, how did you become Ye Fan's second uncle? Ye Fan is a human!”
“Woof, woof!!”
Big Yellow couldn't help but roll its eyes and flick its tail, as if saying: How ignorant.
Then, Big Yellow pointed its paw at Lu Ming.
We are brothers across species. He is the eldest uncle, and I am the second uncle. It makes perfect sense, right?
Hearing Big Yellow's explanation, Zhuifeng looked at Lu Ming. Lu Ming didn't waste words and simply nodded.
Immediately, Zhuifeng became excited:
“You're Ye Fan's uncle, and he's Ye Fan's second uncle...”
As he spoke, Zhuifeng pointed at Big Yellow and muttered to himself:
“We're cousins, so if we calculate it like this, doesn't that make me Ye Fan's cousin-uncle...”
Hearing this, the corners of Lu Ming's and Huang Tianbao's mouths twitched.
“By the way, where is Ye Fan?”
Lu Ming asked once more.
“I don't know! I'm lost...”
Hearing Zhuifeng say this, Lu Ming could only helplessly drop the matter.
“Why is Ye Fan injured?”
Huang Tianbao asked.
Even though Ye Fan wasn't exactly a great guy, his strength was still quite decent! How could he be injured so easily?
“Him? As soon as he entered the secret realm, he was hunted down by those righteous cultivators... %@*... ￥...”
Subsequently, Zhuifeng recounted everything Ye Fan had experienced since entering the secret realm to Lu Ming and the others.
When Lu Ming heard that the Haoran Sect actually claimed Ye Fan was the culprit who killed their disciples, he was momentarily dazed.
He exchanged looks with Huang Tianbao and the others. What on earth had happened?
Weren't those people killed by them? How did it become his doing?
Because of this, Lu Ming became even more convinced that this Ye Fan was a stepping stone on his path of growth.
They weren't connected in the slightest, yet the guy could still take the blame for him. If that wasn't a stepping stone, what was?
Since Zhuifeng was lost and couldn't find Ye Fan, Lu Ming had no choice but to study the crack in the ground that had trapped Zhuifeng.
“Great Sect Master, it's done...”
While Lu Ming and the others were talking, Niu Lansan and his men had already widened the crack into a massive opening.
“Mhm...”
Lu Ming nodded. He reached his hand into the opening and found that after his hand went inside,
his spiritual energy was not affected.
This indicated that widening the crack had broken whatever restriction was active here.
“Come, let's go down and take a look...”
With that, Lu Ming jumped straight in.
Subsequently, Huang Tianbao followed closely behind.
Seeing that everyone had gone down, Zhuifeng decided to follow as well.
He was just a lost wolf; staying up here wasn't safe anyway.
It was better to stick with his cousins.
After reaching the bottom, Lu Ming looked up at the light above and felt that it was quite deep.
Lu Ming took out an illumination crystal and found that the entire space was extremely quiet and vast...
The light from the crystal could only illuminate their immediate surroundings; the distant darkness remained deep and eerie.
“Let's go... we'll head deeper inside to take a look...”
“Eldest Senior Brother, why have we walked for so long and found nothing?”
The group walked for a long time but found absolutely nothing.
Huang Tianbao couldn't help but ask.
“Let's look a bit more. If there's still nothing, we'll head back,”
Lu Ming said.
He couldn't help but mutter in his heart: Is there really no fortuitous opportunity here?
“There's a light ahead,”
Zhuifeng said just then.
Looking up, there was indeed a faint glimmer of light.
“Let's go check it out...”
By the time Lu Ming and his group arrived,
they found that they had reached the very end of this space.
In front of the uneven stone wall stood a long stone table.
An oil lamp sat on the stone table, emitting a weak glow.
By the light, they could see a golden box resting on the stone table as well.
The moment they saw the box, Lu Ming and Huang Tianbao exchanged looks.
The same thought mirrored in their eyes: There must be a treasure inside, right?
“Great Sect Master, let me go!”
Diao San stepped forward at this moment.
Usually, where there were treasures, there was danger. It was better for him to handle such risky tasks.
Lu Ming shook his head. “Let me do it.”
It wasn't that Lu Ming didn't know it was dangerous. It was just that opportunities like this were typically reserved for the protagonist.
If anyone else went, they would just end up as cannon fodder.
He didn't want Diao San to lose his life for nothing.
Lu Ming immediately held his breath and focused, taking cautious steps toward the stone table.
Huang Tianbao and the others also drew their weapons, staying on high alert.
“Rumble...”
“Whoosh...”
Lu Ming retrieved a spirit sword from his storage bag.
He planned to poke it with the spirit sword first.
In case there was danger, he would have time to react.
As a protagonist who actually used his brain, he knew better than to just grab things with his hands.
“Boom...”
Just as the spirit sword in Lu Ming's hand was about to touch the box,
a bone-chilling blast of yin energy suddenly swept toward him!
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