At the entrance to the torture room, the Golden Scaled Snake repeated its old trick, drilling into a crack in the ground and opening a mechanism from the inside.
Lu Bei, dressed in Qing Shui Gate attire, strode in with an air of entitlement. To the uninformed, he might as well be a disciple of Qing Shui Gate.
Seeing the unattended corpses on the ground, he felt a sense of relief. Ignoring whether the imprisoned monster cultivator had left, he picked up a longsword and proceeded towards the back palace.
Without finding the teleportation array or the exit, Lu Bei found himself in a fix. Arriving at the corpses ambushed by Golden Scaled Snake, he activated the mechanism and entered into an illuminated stone tunnel lit by a night light pearl.
His instinct told him that this path is likely leading to the exit, but more probably, it leads to Qing Shui Gate's den.
This den was different from the previous traps, he had found a way to the enemy's rear!
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