A Scroll of Infinite Glory

Chapter 111 A Companion with a Combat Power of Level 5

The person introduced by the intelligence broker was to meet Guan Luoyang and Bai Tong on a winding mountain road about seven or eight kilometers away from the airport.

Bai Tong stood by the roadside with his arms crossed, his expression unreadable, while Guan Luoyang walked to the grassy area to gaze at the nearby mountain scenery.

A gray-blue convertible sports car sped up, and a beautiful woman took off her sunglasses and opened the car door.

Guan Luoyang looked back.

She wore a sports vest and a red jacket on top, and jeans and semi-transparent flat sandals on the bottom. She was quite tall, at least a head taller than Bai Tong.

"Is this a friend introduced by J?"

The woman flicked her wrist, revealing a card in her palm, bearing a mark agreed upon online.

"My name is Lu Chunhua, Lu as in Lu You."

As she displayed the card, her gaze swept over the two people opposite her.

Guan Luoyang stood a little further away, but he looked like an adult, while the white-haired boy in front of him, who had an indifferent expression, also seemed to have an unusually mature demeanor.

It's hard to tell which one is Mr. Tongbai.

Bai Tong also showed off the mark in his hand and got straight to the point, saying, "You said online that you know something about that underground palace and can provide us with assistance in that regard, but you wouldn't say what the reward would be. Now that we've met, can we talk about this?"

"certainly."

Lu Chunhua leaned back against her car and said with a smile, "It's more sincere to discuss the compensation in person. By the way, Mr. Tongbai's rating is three stars. A fighter's detection methods should be quite extensive, and he should be able to tell that I'm just an ordinary person without any special abilities?"

Bai Tong remained noncommittal: "If you're truly an ordinary person, it will only diminish the value of your collaboration."

"But wouldn't that also make you two trust me more? An ordinary person can naturally ask for less."

In her speech, Lu Chunhua frankly placed herself in a weaker position, saying, "As for the value of the cooperation, it was already made clear from the very beginning of our online conversation that my value lies in my understanding of ancient culture and my knowledge."

She carefully revealed a little information: "That underground palace was probably built during the transition from the Sui to the Tang Dynasty by a great figure who came from the Central Plains and went to sea. The mechanisms and traps inside would be very difficult to solve by brute force alone."

"As far as I know, the group that Mr. Tongbai inquired about had already ventured into the underground palace half a month ago, making three trips in and out, suffering heavy losses, before they found another group to conspire with. I dare not say that I can break through all the traps, but at least I can help you find a way out of the maze and greatly reduce your time losses."

Bai Tong fell silent, as if deep in thought, and did not speak for a full thirty seconds.

Lu Chunhua waited quietly, without a trace of impatience or unease on her face.

Guan Luoyang was admiring the scenery and listening in when he suddenly heard a voice say, "Why don't you come over and talk to her?"

"what?"

"Don't say 'Huh?' That's telepathy; she can't hear you."

This time, there was a hint of annoyance in his voice.

Guan Luoyang understood and found it somewhat amusing.

Online, Bai Tong typed rapidly and spoke sharply, maintaining a certain level of control whether chatting with the information broker "J" or with Lu Chunhua.

But when it comes to face-to-face interaction in real life, it seems like I suddenly become awkward at socializing.

"Originally, we were worried that the man would die inside and we wouldn't be able to kill him ourselves. But after listening to you, this underground palace is both dangerous and not dangerous enough to kill him. So why should we go in? We might as well wait outside and attack when their remnants come out."

Guan Luoyang walked over and picked up the conversation, "Anyway, our goal is just to kill him. It seems easier to do it outside, so wouldn't that make cooperation unnecessary?"

This woman keeps beating around the bush and refuses to directly state her demands, so it's reasonable to downplay her value in the collaboration and try to get her to reveal more information.

Lu Chunhua shifted her gaze from Bai Tong to Guan Luoyang, and smiled, "For a group of notorious bandits to fight so fiercely and repeatedly despite their defeats, one can only imagine how precious the treasure hidden deep within that underground palace must be. If we just wait outside, and he actually manages to obtain that treasure, his strength will probably increase by leaps and bounds."

Guan Luoyang further inquired, "Is your target that treasure?"

"no."

Lu Chunhua immediately rejected the idea, a hint of hesitation flashing across her face. In the end, she said, "My goal is the feng shui of the deepest part of that underground palace. I want to use that precious place to try to cure my illness."

After making things clear, she seemed to breathe a sigh of relief. "If you want to kill those people, that's fine. If you want to take all the other treasures in the underground palace, that's fine too. I just hope we can cooperate to reach the deepest part and let me stay there for a while."

Guan Luoyang's eyes flickered, and he added, "Didn't you mention the same cooperation request to those people? If your knowledge is truly as useful as you claim, they would be even more eager for your help, wouldn't they?"

"I've already said it, haven't I? They're notorious for their ruthlessness."

Lu Chunhua spoke slowly and deliberately, "And from J, we can learn that what happened after Mr. Tongbai purchased intelligence several times was at least much more ethical than what those people did."

Guan Luoyang glanced at Bai Tong, and seeing him nod slightly, he extended his hand and said, "Alright then, I hope we can cooperate smoothly."

Lu Chunhua shook hands with him: "It's been a pleasure working with you."

Guan Luoyang said, "We're leaving now. You can find a place to park your car and see if there's anything else we need to prepare."

Lu Chunhua turned around and got into the car briskly, drove it out of the road area, stopped it on the grass, changed into a pair of tall military boots, and got out of the car with a large bag on her back.

"My things are all in my bag."

The backpack, which was half a person's height, looked heavy, but she could lift it with one hand. From her appearance, you really couldn't tell that she was sick.

"I've used a drone to scout the entrance to the underground palace a few times. Cars definitely can't drive there, but if we approach on foot, we have to be careful not to be discovered too early by those people guarding outside the palace, lest we alert them."

"No need for that."

White Copper threw out the flying carpet, and four feathered arrows appeared in his hand. He chanted a few incoherent incantations and threw them out. The four arrows flew out and hovered vertically above the four corners of the carpet.

The arrow shafts and fletchings are both black, dark and cold, except for the arrowheads, which seem to be carved from purple jade. The arrowheads gently press against the flying carpet, emitting a hazy glow.

"Go up there. Those who stay behind will ignore us and this flying carpet."

The three of them stepped onto the flying carpet one after another.

Lu Chunhua subtly stomped her foot, causing the carpet to dent slightly, revealing its incredible resilience. As she released her pressure, the carpet returned to its flat state. Her gaze then fell upon the four feathered arrows.

"Phantom Purple Crystal?"

Bai Tong, who was piloting the flying carpet from the winding mountain road into the forest, was somewhat surprised upon hearing this: "You recognize this material?"

"I've read some related books. During the Song Dynasty, the Illusionary Purple Crystal first appeared in the world. It was refined into the shape of a flying sword by several extraordinary people. It roamed freely in Zhong Shidao's army, defeated the valiant generals of the Western Xia army, and recovered the Hehuang region."

Lu Chunhua, intending to cultivate an image of extensive knowledge, looked at the hazy purple light and spoke a few more words: "Later, when Zhang and Zhong returned to the capital in triumph, a demon attempted to assassinate Emperor Zhezong, causing him to fall off his horse in shock. There was also the rebellion of Prince Duan, and so on. The Purple Flower Flying Sword traversed through these events, leaving a significant mark on the ancient books."

"Amethyst appears to be a natural mineral, but historically, no one has ever discovered a similar vein anywhere. All amethysts have appeared in the world accompanied by extraordinary individuals. Therefore, some people suspect that this crystal actually requires special secret methods to be extracted from certain common minerals."

Intrigued, Guan Luoyang asked, "What historical figures have possessed the Purple Crystal and what have they done?"

If he wasn't mistaken, most of those people were probably reincarnators.

Lu Chunhua didn't know what he was thinking, but assumed he was interested in ancient historical secrets, so she picked out some of them to talk about.

A moment later, a narrow crack could be faintly seen in the distant mountains and forests.

It looked like the marks left by a collapse between the mountains, with narrow passages that could only allow one person to pass at a time. Looking down from above, there were many horizontal and slanted branches below, and the bottom was not clearly visible.

Lu Chunhua lowered her voice as she recounted the story, a hint of unconscious tension in her voice, and looked over there: "That crack is the entrance to the underground palace, where many guards are hidden."

Bai Tong took two steps forward, standing on the edge of the flying carpet. His hands changed hand seals, and his two sword fingers swept across his eyes, with a faint purple-blue halo appearing in his eyes.

Under those eyes, the obstruction of numerous debris in the crevice was ignored, and human-shaped silhouettes emerged, walking and smoking within it.

"Let you go down and stand on your feet first."

Bai Tong took a soft breath, made a grasping motion with his left hand, and a longbow appeared in his hand. He then nocked three feathered arrows with his right hand.

These three arrows looked like ordinary iron arrowheads, but under his spiritual power, fine wisps of light seemed to flow around their dark shafts.

collapse! ! !

With a twang of the bowstring, three arrows were released simultaneously, rendering the weeds and vines useless as they instantly disappeared into the bottom of the crevice.

The spiritual power hidden within the arrow shafts was activated, and the three feathered arrows exploded silently, scattering wood chips and iron filings like small arrows piercing through the air.

The human figures seen through the spiritual eye swayed and fell one after another, none of them having time to scream.

The bottom of the rift became even quieter, completely silent from beginning to end, until the flying carpet landed and the three of them stepped into it.

Stepping on the fallen leaves and loose soil accumulated over countless years, stepping over corpses, and venturing deep into the mountain, about sixty meters in, the area ahead opened up slightly, with rubble everywhere, and sunlight streaming down like pillars from the sky.

Inside the cracked mountain wall, there is a half-open, dark green bronze door.

(End of this chapter)