Cultivating immortality relies on spatial abilities; defying fate to become the protagonist.

Chapter 67 Dungeon

Gu Shihan stared at the transparent panel, unsure of what to think. A perfectly lucky person had fallen into demonic possession. Had she done the right thing or the wrong thing?
"Hanhan, don't worry about it. Gu Yufei wasn't a righteous person to begin with. Since she could be easily led astray, it proves that Heaven doesn't value her that much. Perhaps the next chosen one will be you!"

Gu Shihan was so frightened that she quickly covered Xingbai's mouth, looked at the sky, and said, "Xingbai, I just want to cultivate properly and not be cannon fodder. I dare not think about anything else. Let's go to the underground city."

The location of the underground city is not hard to find; it's just a hundred miles away in the Stone Forest.

No one knows who leaked the news, but when Gu Shihan arrived, she saw a large crowd gathered outside the stone forest.

Gu Yufei was among them, surrounded by several male cultivators, indicating that she had adjusted her mindset.

Soon the sun set, and the stone forest became gloomy. At this moment, the passage to the underground city opened, and everyone cheered and rushed in.

Gu Shihan followed silently behind, stepping into the inner city. The city was brightly lit, and the teahouses and taverns were bustling with activity.

People come and go, and there are free markets on both sides of the road. As for whether the goods are genuine or fake, it all depends on one's own eyes.

The dungeon seemed to have no welcome for spirit beasts; Xingbai and Yutong were forced into the space the moment Gu Shihan stepped through the city gate.

Gu Shihan was unfamiliar with the underground city and had doubts about the existence of one in the Tianyuan Secret Realm. She dared not wander around aimlessly in the city and simply followed behind the others.

She found a guest room to stay in, just like the others who came in. At midnight, all the lights were turned off by a gust of wind.

The same was true of the lights in her room; when she took out the luminous pearl, it became dim and lifeless.

Something seemed amiss, so she dared not sleep or meditate, and could only lean against the table by the window and close her eyes to rest.

"Ah... Help! There's a ghost!" A piercing scream shattered the silence of the night.

Gu Shihan woke up with a start. She hadn't fallen asleep, so how could she have fallen asleep?
Gu Shihan opened her eyes and realized that her body was ice-cold. It felt as if something was stroking her face, cold and a little creepy.

The daze vanished instantly, and he realized that he wasn't at the inn at all, but lying in a desert, with a black, furry "hand" touching his face.

Gu Shihan broke out in a cold sweat, jumped high into the air, and the black, furry hand vanished instantly.

Several cultivators lay sprawled on the ground; they were all people who had entered the underground city with him.

Where is this underground city? There are no teahouses, taverns, or inns here. All that exists are these cultivators who have entered. The underground city has vanished.

Everyone scrambled to their feet, their faces filled with lingering fear. "Where...where am I? Am I still in the dungeon?"

"It shouldn't be over anymore! Look around, there's no sign of a city at all! It's clearly a desert!"

"Hey, my sword! My sword has turned into bones?!" A male cultivator threw his sword away in horror.

"Brother Lan, you say what you're holding is a sword? It's clearly just a skeleton!"

"I...I bought this sword in the dungeon for 5,000 spirit stones, how...how did it turn into bones? Has anyone else bought anything? Show it to us!" the cultivator surnamed Lan said.

"Ah! The jade flute I bought is just a piece of bone!"

"Mine are dry tree branches!"

"Mine is withered grass!"

"Mine is a skeleton! It's fucking terrifying, there really is a ghost!"

Everyone quickly gathered together, including Gu Shihan. However, one person was not there; that was Gu Yufei. No one knew what she had gone off to do. The night wind howled, making it exceptionally cold, and even the cultivators felt the chill.

Even the group of cultivators couldn't help but feel apprehensive and trembling. They finally made it to dawn before leaving together.

Gu Shihan was following behind several cultivators when suddenly, one of them shouted, "Look! What's that? A monster?"

Everyone instinctively looked in the direction the voice was pointing, and saw several skulls hanging on a moving dry tree branch, with green flames flashing in their dark eyes, which was quite frightening.

Some people were so frightened that they ran away. The skull spun rapidly, and green flames shot out, landing directly on the fleeing person. In less than ten breaths, the person became a skeleton.

The monk, now a skeleton, had his head, along with the green flames, hang from a withered tree branch.

"There's...there's an extra skull! Are all those skulls transformed from cultivators' heads?" someone asked in a trembling voice.

No one dared to move. Then a voice said, "Lie down! Don't run! That's Yin Spirit Fire, it can chase after living souls."

Gu Shihan obediently lay down, watching as the green flames turned another cultivator into a skeleton, the skull hanging on a withered tree branch.

Everyone lay on the ground, trying to minimize their presence, watching the withered branches slowly move in one direction.

Gu Shihan and the others breathed a sigh of relief. In less than a quarter of an hour, the people who had tried to escape were all dead. It was terrifying to think about.

As they watched the withered tree branches gradually disappear into the distance, they got up and ran wildly in the opposite direction.

Gu Shihan didn't linger and quickly followed. Soon, everyone arrived in front of a palace, with the words "Underground Palace" written on the palace's porch.

"Could this be the real underground city?" someone muttered.

"Maybe, but how do we get into the palace? There's a legend that you have to find a teleportation array to enter. Everyone, hurry up and look for it!"

Gu Shihan looked around and spotted the teleportation array buried under the sand, but she didn't intend to come out.

Standing out in a place like this isn't a good thing; those who are lucky will be remembered by everyone, especially with Gu Yufei secretly in the background.

Gu Shihan's eyes darted around, and a plan flashed into her mind. She subtly pushed a male cultivator towards that spot, sweeping away the sand and gravel on the ground.

"Hey, look! Isn't that the array pattern of a teleportation array? Fellow Daoist, get up quickly. You really did a great fall!" Gu Shihan said with a smile.

"It really is a teleportation array! That's great!" The man stood up, stepped into the center of the teleportation array, and disappeared.

Gu Shihan and two other people who were close by stepped inside, and after a moment of dizziness, they fainted.

The others were also thrown into the main hall like dumplings being dropped into a pot by the teleportation array, and they all fainted.

Gu Shihan was the first to regain consciousness. Xingbai's voice came through, "Hanhan, there are a lot of good things inside. I've looked at them. You take those boxes; they contain things I need. We can take the rest when everyone wakes up."

"Okay! Can you come out now?" Gu Shihan waved her hand and put away the things Xingbai had specified.

"No! Hanhan, you should faint too, otherwise everyone will suspect you took something good!"

Gu Shihan thought about it and realized that was indeed the case. She pretended to be unconscious and lay down to the side.

(End of this chapter)