Chapter 263: Underground Space, the Moon Goddess’s Heart!
The Mohist underground fortress was much larger than anticipated.
Lord Yan Chun enthusiastically led his men to search for the Mohist treasure.
The Qin soldiers stayed in place.
After sending Lord Yan Chun away, Li Mo led Fei Yan in another direction.
The Moon Goddess watched their clasped hands, feeling a surge of tightness in her chest once again.
She thought for a moment and then followed.
They managed to kiss even with her around.
If she wasn’t there, wouldn’t they even strip off their clothes?
For some reason, this thought made her feel breathless.
Fei Yan glanced at the Moon Goddess following them and softly asked Li Mo, “Husband, what are we going to find?”
The Moon Goddess followed closely.
She wondered what it could be that Li Mo would forsake the Mohist treasure to find.
The wide passageway was smooth, and torches on both sides illuminated the deep path brightly.
All three were top-notch experts, their footsteps barely audible on the ground.
Li Mo, holding Fei Yan’s hand, asked, “Did the Yin-Yang School lose something many years ago?”
“Lost something?”
Fei Yan thought for a moment, then looked back at the Moon Goddess.
The Moon Goddess frowned slightly, evidently pondering the same question.
Li Mo prompted, “It’s related to the Seven Mansions of the Azure Dragon.”
Hearing this, Fei Yan and the Moon Goddess immediately said in unison, “The Phantom Music Box?”
The Illusion Sound Treasure Box originally did not belong to the Mohist but was a supreme treasure of the Yin-Yang School.
However, this treasure box later went missing.
The Yin-Yang School spent several generations searching for the box but found nothing.
Moon Goddess stared intently at Li Mo’s back.
Suddenly quickening her pace, she pursued him and asked, “The Illusion Sound Treasure Box is our secret, how does the National Adviser know about it?”
After speaking, she shifted her gaze to Fei Yan on Li Mo’s right side.
The implication was unclear.
For an outsider like Li Mo to know about the Illusion Sound Treasure Box, it must have been an insider who told him.
But the strange thing is.
No one knows the whereabouts of the Illusion Sound Treasure Box, so even if Fei Yan told him of its existence, how did he know it was here?
Moon Goddess felt herself increasingly unable to see through this National Adviser.
No wonder on the way to Xianyang, her senior sister mentioned that her astrology was insignificant before him.
“Stop guessing, it wasn’t Fei Yan who told me.”
How could Li Mo not understand the meaning behind Moon Goddess’s words? He suddenly stopped moving: “The item is right here.”
“Here?”
Fei Yan and Moon Goddess looked around.
They were still in a passageway, with roads ahead and behind, and solid stone walls on either side.
It would not be an exaggeration to describe it as completely visible, so how could anything be hidden?
“Look up, what do you see?”
Li Mo pointed upwards.
The two women looked up and saw a strange mural.
“Is that a dragon ascending the sky?”
Moon Goddess observed the brightly colored mural and murmured.
The totem on the mural was painted with bright red pigments, depicting a lifelike giant dragon engulfed in flames.
“Rumor has it that a giant dragon is kept in the depths of the Mohist forbidden area, could it be true?”
Li Mo shook his head at Moon God’s whisper: “It’s all exaggerated, merely scaremongering.”
“The so-called giant dragon of the Mohist is their mechanical beast.”
Moon Goddess looked back at him: “The one you disabled?”
“Correct, that azure dragon was originally hidden underground, and this is its ‘Dragon Throat’.”
Fei Yan’s eyes sparkled as she recalled: “At that time, the azure dragon did indeed emerge from the water; could it have started from here and traveled through underground rivers into the large river outside?”
Suddenly, her eyes lit up: “That means there’s an empty space below us?”
Li Mo did not hesitate to praise her: “My wife is wise.”
Fei Yan responded with a soft smile: “Yet it does not compare to husband’s formidable abilities; the Yin-Yang School searched for so long without finding it, but husband effortlessly knows the treasure’s location.”
Moon Goddess glanced back and forth between the two’s mutual admiration.
Unable to resist, she interjected, “Lord Yan Chun could arrive at any moment; shouldn’t we find the mechanism to get down and retrieve the item first?”
The more harmonious they became, the worse Moon Goddess felt.
This constant show of affection was almost breaking her composure.
“Alright.”
Li Mo nodded: “But there’s no need to search for the mechanism, step back.”
Li Mo gestured for them to retreat.
The two women took a few steps back and had just steadied themselves when they saw Li Mo suddenly exert force on the ground.
With a rumbling sound.
A crack appeared on the ground.
The stone slabs on the surface undulated like waves, then shattered completely.
Finding mechanisms is too troublesome, isn’t it easier to just smash the floor?
Moon Goddess waved away the dust that came towards her.
She cast Li Mo a resentful glance.
Such a brute.
After the dust settled, a large pit appeared in front of them.
Fei Yan and Moon Goddess stepped forward and looked down, exclaiming in unison: “The Illusion Sound Treasure Box?”
At the bottom of the pit, a palm-sized pentagonal wooden box quietly rested on a one-foot-thick stone pillar.
Although they had never seen it before, they recognized it at a glance.
This wooden box was identical to the Illusion Sound Treasure Box depicted in the Yin-Yang School’s paintings.
Moon Goddess looked at Li Mo with intense curiosity.
How did this person know all of this?
Not only did he know of the box’s existence, but he was also aware of its precise hiding place.
The Yin-Yang School searched for generations, and now it can finally see the light of day again.
“Don’t move recklessly, there are traps inside, be careful.”
After a reminder from Li Mo, he jumped down.
The pit was not deep, only about three or four zhang in height.
Fei Yan and Moon Goddess followed closely behind.
Their figures were light and graceful, like celestial beings descending to earth.
Looking at the phantom sound treasure box in front of her, Moon Goddess didn’t think twice and reached out to grab it.
As soon as her hand touched the treasure box, a clicking sound came from the stone pillar below.
This sound was extremely prominent in the silent space.
Before she could understand what the sound was, Moon Goddess’s slender wrist suddenly tightened.
Li Mo shouted in a low voice, “Who told you to touch it?”
“I… I was trying to help you take it.”
Moon Goddess looked at Li Mo, who was gripping her wrist with a gloomy face, and felt a sudden tightness in her heart.
Being shouted at like this, she couldn’t help but feel nervous.
She thought Li Mo believed she was trying to grab the treasure box to take back to the Yin-Yang School, so she tried hard to explain.
“You triggered a trap!”
Li Mo flung her hand away heavily and said coldly.
The force was so strong that it nearly pushed Moon Goddess into a stumble.
As soon as he finished speaking, several large round holes appeared on the ground behind the three of them.
A grinding sound like sharpening knives came from below the round holes.
Over a dozen cylindrical columns rose simultaneously, each one embedded with sharp, large blades.
Like raised combine harvesters, they rotated rapidly.
The metallic scraping sound sent shivers down their spines.
Seeing the cylindrical blade columns approaching them, Moon Goddess bit her lip, holding her aching wrist with an aggrieved look on her face.
“I… I didn’t mean to.”
She was eager to prove herself and forgot Li Mo’s warning before coming down.
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