I will be stronger after the remake

Tang Ping remained unmoved and coldly replied, "There are 25 seconds left."

"Wait a minute, I'll talk, I'll talk!"

He Fengsheng didn't waste any time until the last few seconds. After a moment's consideration, he decided to betray Zhou Canglan: "His emotions fluctuate greatly. He is easily agitated and angry, which may be related to Gonggong's volatile personality in mythology. When he is emotionally agitated, even his spiritual energy will go out of control. Not only will he be unable to use it accurately, but he will also accidentally hurt his own people. You can target this point and attack his mind. However, Zhou Canglan is also aware of this. He has specially prepared a protective amulet-like magic item to stabilize his mental state. He wears it on the right chest inside his clothes. So don't think you can succeed easily."

The psychic power proved that the other party was not lying. After a moment's thought, Tang Ping came up with a solution.

……

If the battle between Yuan Ji and He Fengsheng belongs to the martial arts genre, then the battle between Gu Linglong and Zhou Canglan belongs to the fantasy genre.

Zhou Canglan raised his hands, and spring water gushed from the ground, condensing into a water shield in front of him.

Gu Linglong pointed her fingers, and the Vermilion Bird Divine Flame shot out, easily piercing through the water shield and hitting Zhou Canglan.

The next moment, Zhou Canglan's body turned into water splashing everywhere. At the same time, a man's arm emerged from a pool of spring water behind Gu Linglong, holding a sharp blade made of water elements, and stabbed fiercely towards Gu Linglong's heel.

The moment she was stabbed, Gu Linglong's calf turned into flames. The interaction of water and fire produced a sizzling sound and created new water vapor, making the already blurred battlefield even more unpredictable.

Gu Linglong snorted coldly, flames erupting from her body and spreading outwards, evaporating all the moisture on the ground and turning it into drifting water vapor. Zhou Canglan attempted to confront her head-on, but found that even with an advantage in attributes, he still couldn't overcome the gap in their cultivation levels. He could only abandon the conventional approach and resort to unorthodox methods, constantly summoning water to seep from the walls, and using water escape techniques to continuously change his form, sometimes transforming into water arrows to shoot at Gu Linglong, and sometimes condensing into a water prison to try and trap her.

Gu Linglong stood still, and all the water arrows that were shot at her were instantly evaporated when they came within three meters. Wherever her gaze swept, that place would be burned to ashes.

As the battle continued, the environment inside the tomb was severely damaged. The murals on the walls were scorched and blurred by the flames, and the floor was covered with traces of water erosion and fire damage. The precious burial objects were also damaged to varying degrees in the aftermath of the battle, but neither of them had time to care about these things. They only wanted to find an opening in their opponent and strike a fatal blow.

Hu Ze, Ma Feiyan, and Yu Shujiang looked at the flashing lights in the fog ahead, anxious but unable to help, not even able to provide any assistance or interference.

Not to mention the blurred vision and difficulty in seeing clearly, the water vapor was extremely hot, and even the slightest contact would result in severe burns. They carefully kept their distance and cast a temperature-regulating spell on themselves, but it was still unbearably hot, like being in a sauna.

Yu Shujiang said, "We can't get involved in a battle of this level. We might as well help my brother."

Hu Ze chimed in, "Both of them can transform into elemental forms, which means they have transcended the realm of mortals. There are no vital points to speak of, so even a sneak attack would be useless."

Ma Feiyan asked curiously, "Can the director see the battle situation clearly?"

"I'm a seasoned psychic, after all; I must have some skills," Hu Ze said proudly.

Who has the upper hand now?

"Of course it's Gu Linglong. Otherwise, I wouldn't dare keep you here to watch the battle. I would have urged you to run away long ago," Hu Ze explained while observing. "On the surface, the enemy is in control and keeps launching attacks, while Gu Linglong can only defend. In reality, Gu Linglong is forcing the opponent to maintain the battle by attacking. Once the attack stops, it will be the moment when the situation reverses. You should know that the Vermilion Bird is not the Black Tortoise. Mobility is also its strength. The fact that Gu Linglong did not use her strengths proves that she is in complete control."

At this moment, Ma Feiyan asked, "How much longer until a winner is decided?"

"I don't know. Let alone a fourth-level psychic, even a third-level psychic is a realm I can't reach. It depends on how long the enemy can hold out. Maintaining a high-intensity offensive will consume a lot of spiritual power. When he runs out of energy, that's when the battle will be decided."

Yu Shujiang noticed Ma Feiyan's worried expression and asked with concern, "What's wrong? Did you find something?"

Ma Feiyan hesitated and said, "I can't really explain it, but I have a feeling that if we continue fighting, something extremely terrifying is about to be born."

"Such vague talk is too much of a worrywart. Could it be that you're overthinking it...? It feels like I'm saying something suicidal," Yu Shujiang thought for a moment, her face turning grim. "In those horror movies, the director clearly gives warning signs of danger, but a bunch of idiots ignore them and use 'overthinking' as an excuse to lead the group into danger. That's exactly what I was doing just now, wasn't it?"

Hu Ze said with a solemn expression, "A psionicist's intuition cannot be taken lightly; it must be taken seriously. It's better to be proven false than to ignore it."

Seeing that both of them valued her feelings, Ma Feiyan became somewhat insecure and said nervously, "That's true, but it seems there's nothing we can do. Our way back is blocked, and we're entangled with a powerful enemy. If we give up now, I doubt either side will listen."

Yu Shujiang suggested, "Let's find my brother, tell him the situation, and see what he can do."

Ma Feiyan didn't think Tang Ping was smart enough to solve all the problems, but she really couldn't think of a better way. Telling everyone to think together was undoubtedly the best solution at the moment.

At this moment, Hu Ze glanced at the battlefield and exclaimed in astonishment, "The enemy has summoned a snake woman! Wait, the two of them have merged!"

"what!"

……

On the battlefield, Zhou Canglan was unable to break through after a long attack and found that his spiritual power was being greatly depleted, while his opponent remained unhurried. He realized that if this continued, he would probably be worn down to death.

"As expected of the strongest in the country, despite the disadvantage in attributes and the consumption of so much spiritual power, I am still no match for you, and I couldn't even force you to use your full strength."

"It's too late for you to surrender now."

Gu Linglong flicked her hand and summoned a swarm of fire butterflies that swarmed out, evaporating the opponent's body. Then she controlled the fire butterflies to fly to various corners and dry them off.

"If you think you've already won, you're underestimating people too much. Suzaku is famous, but he's nothing more than a hairy beast who's never even been the protagonist of a story!"

Zhou Canglan reappeared, extinguishing the surrounding fire butterflies. At the same time, a woman appeared beside him, her body covered by a layer of water to protect her from the high temperature.

Disdainful of verbal sparring, Gu Linglong manipulated the fire butterflies to pounce on the two of them.

This time, Zhou Canglan stopped dodging and instead summoned a torrent to hold back the flow of water, buying time for his companions.

Liu Lingling entered a state of spiritual resonance, and soon scales appeared on her body, her limbs retracted, and her human body transformed into a snake shape.

Gu Linglong instinctively sensed danger, pointed her fingers forward, and a large amount of spiritual power gathered, condensing into two fire lines that spiraled and intertwined at her fingertips, eventually transforming into a thin ray that shot out.

"Samadhi True Fire!"

Zhou Canglan's expression changed drastically, and he dared not delay any longer. He transformed his body into water element and wrapped Liu Lingling, who was in a half-human, half-snake state, in his arms.

In an instant, the Samadhi True Fire struck its target, generating a violent shockwave of spiritual energy. The residual force spread out along with the blinding light, causing the entire mausoleum to tremble precariously, making people worry that it might collapse.

When the light faded, Zhou Canglan and Liu Lingling were no longer there, but Gu Linglong did not let her guard down and carefully looked around.

Sure enough, muddy water began to gush out of the ground, emitting a stench that made people dizzy, and the fire butterflies couldn't burn it off in time.

Muddy water gathered in the center of the hall, constantly churning and twisting. In the blink of an eye, a huge mud snake appeared from it. Its body was enormous, tens of meters long, and it emitted a foul stench. It had nine heads, three of which were charred. Of the remaining six, two had the faces of Zhou Canglan and Liu Lingling, respectively, staring at Gu Linglong with resentment.

"Xiang Liu?"

For the first time, Gu Linglong showed a serious expression.

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"They actually combined to create Xiang Liu."

Hu Ze's expression turned ugly.

Yu Shujiang asked, puzzled, "What is Xiangliu?"

Hu Ze was an expert in this area and replied without hesitation: "There are two nine-headed serpents in the Chinese mythology system, one is called Jiuying and the other is called Xiangliu. Both are extremely ferocious creatures."

According to the description in the Classic of Mountains and Seas, Xiangliu was a minister of Gonggong. He had nine heads and was so big that he could eat on nine mountain peaks at the same time. The venom he spat out would form a foul-smelling swamp with a bitter taste. The stench alone could kill any passing birds and beasts. He was eventually killed by Yu the Great.

"After Yu the Great finished controlling the flood, he went to control the poisonous swamp caused by Xiangliu. As a result, the swamp collapsed three times after being filled in. He had no choice but to open up and clean up the swamp into a clean pool and build palaces and pavilions for the Heavenly Emperors by the pool. Finally, he managed to suppress the flood."

Yu Shujiang pondered, "Since Xiangliu is Gonggong's subordinate, its strength should be weaker than Gonggong's."

"That might be true in mythology, but it's hard to say when it comes to psychics. In a confined space, larger creatures have an advantage. Moreover, after the man and woman merged, their spiritual power returned to its peak. Gu Linglong has been fighting continuously for a long time. Don't forget that she opened up a passage and purified the souls of Qin soldiers before. No one knows how much spiritual power she has left. If she continues to fight, she may not be able to outlast the other side."

At this point, Hu Ze suddenly remembered something and quickly used his spiritual magic to cast three layers of protective divine light over the three of them.

"Director, what is this?"

“Besides the plague-avoiding spell, the filth-avoiding spell, and the snake-banning spell, the venom that Xiang Liu spits out will release poison gas. Gu Linglong may not care because of her high cultivation level, but we will be doomed if we get in contact with it. I can’t guarantee whether these three layers of protection can stop it. Let’s leave quickly and get as far away as possible.”

The three dared not watch any longer and quickly ran towards Tang Ping and the others.

At the same time, Zhou Canglan controlled Xiang Liu's enormous body to rush towards Gu Linglong. Wherever it passed, the ground was pressed into deep trenches by its massive body, and water flowed everywhere.

Gu Linglong no longer stood still. Her body transformed into a fiery Vermilion Bird to dodge Xiang Liu's attack. Then, with a flap of her wings, she swept out countless tiny sparks containing powerful energy.

"Why aren't you continuing to use the Samadhi True Fire? Is it because you don't have enough spiritual power to use it?"

Zhou Canglan grinned maliciously, manipulating the water flow to condense it into countless sharp water arrows, which shot towards Gu Linglong from all directions, colliding with the Starfire Rain and causing a violent explosion.

Liu Lingling wasn't idle either. She used her snake demon powers to make many small snakes made of a mixture of mud and venom crawl out of the ground. Then, these small snakes gathered together to form a giant python, which lunged at Gu Linglong.

If she were on the ground, Gu Linglong could simply increase her height to render her enemies helpless. However, she was in an enclosed space. Even though the hall was nearly twenty meters high and spacious enough, she was still restricted and found herself in a predicament of being attacked from both sides. But she was not afraid. While dodging the attacks, she released flames to block the water arrows and looked for the enemy's weaknesses.

After the poisonous water evaporated, it turned into a pale green mist, which was obviously highly poisonous. Fortunately, Gu Linglong had already transformed into a fire elemental form, freed from the constraints of a human body, and did not even need to breathe, so she was unaffected.

Suddenly, Gu Linglong found an opportunity, flapping her wings to release a vortex of flames, trapping her opponent while spewing out a thick pillar of fire from her mouth.

Xiang Liu hurriedly twisted his body to dodge, but due to his enormous size and the constraints imposed by the vortex of flames, he was unable to move freely and was immediately hit by the pillar of flames, with part of his body instantly vaporized.

At the same moment, one of the snake heads silently circled behind Gu Linglong and swallowed her whole!

Seeing this, Zhou Canglan let out a smug smile: "Haha, so what if you're a fourth-rank cultivator? You're still nothing..."

Before the words were finished, the snake head that had swallowed Gu Linglong suddenly swelled up, its body covered in bulges and turned completely red. A moment later, it burst open with a "bang," and the Flaming Vermilion Bird reappeared.

He swallowed back what he was about to say, and Zhou Canglan's expression turned somewhat grim. However, after observing his opponent, he smiled and said, "In order to force your way out, you consumed a lot of spiritual energy, and even your size has shrunk. I still have three heads left. Can you hold on?"

Two of the snake heads were attached to Zhou Canglan and Liu Lingling's original bodies and could not be used for adventure. The other three snake heads were burned off by the Samadhi True Fire during the transformation process.

Gu Linglong retorted forcefully, "As long as I kill you before that, it's fine. You do have many heads, but you only have one torso."

Zhou Canglan sensed the other person's gaze fixed on his wounds and instinctively felt danger. He quickly instructed Zhou Lingling to control the giant venomous mud python to wrap around his body as armor.

"Thank you for reminding me. If I kill you, the strongest in the country, I will be the number one person in the Chinese psionic world."

The two sides clashed again, and the battle became increasingly fierce. The Temple of Offering was in a worse state due to the aftermath of the battle. The murals on the walls were destroyed beyond recognition by the flames and water, the ground was uneven, and cracks appeared on the walls, with sand falling down as if it were about to collapse at any moment. However, neither side dared to hold back and only wanted to kill the other side as soon as possible.

On the other side, Tang Ping, who had just extracted important information from He Fengsheng, joined Hu Ze and the other two who had retreated. In addition to learning about the battle situation, they were also informed of Ma Feiyan's ominous premonition.

“My spiritual level doesn’t have precognitive abilities, so I can’t be sure. I just have a vague feeling that I should run away immediately,” Ma Feiyan added.

Ma Yiming asked, "Could it be because you're worried this place will collapse, so you feel it's dangerous and want to leave quickly?"

Ma Feiyan thought for a moment and shook her head, saying, "It shouldn't be. Although I can't pinpoint the source of the danger, I'm certain that it comes from a powerful individual who hasn't yet revealed themselves, rather than from the environment or the enemy in front of us."

Tang Ping frowned slightly. He naturally wouldn't treat Ma Feiyan's premonition of danger as a delusion. After all, even Yu Shujiang knew that only people who dragged the main characters down in horror movies would do such a thing.

He asked He Fengsheng, "When we triggered the mechanism earlier, you were the one who sensed it in advance and warned us, so you should have the ability to foresee danger, right? Do you sense anything now?"

He Fengsheng already knew that Tang Ping had the ability to detect lies, so he dared not deceive her and could only say, "My spiritual power can only be triggered when the time of death is relatively close. I have not received any warning. Either there is still plenty of time, or this girl is so frightened that she has a hallucination. After all, that level of battle is still too exciting for a first-level spiritual power user."

His words clearly indicated a preference for the latter.

Yu Shujiang glanced at him and said, "People like you are the kind of characters in horror movies who are sent to their deaths to highlight the strength of the enemy."

"what?"

Tang Ping was too lazy to mock He Fengsheng. Her brain was working at high speed, and various clues from the past quickly surfaced in her mind. Irrelevant ones were quickly eliminated, and relevant ones were compared and filtered, leaving three in the end:

Ma Yiming's extra psionic abilities;

The most useful thing for Ma Feiyan is the Corpse-type Spiritual Rank;

The Mausoleum of the First Qin Emperor.

Connecting the three clues, the answer is obvious.

His expression also turned serious, and he asked Hu Ze, "Director, we must evacuate immediately. Can we use a return-to-life magic spell here?"

Hu Ze said, "No, the Illusionary Realm and the real world actually correspond to each other geographically. Although the entrance to Qin Shi Huang's Mausoleum is on the ground, the previous passageway clearly went down. I don't know how deep we are now, but we are underground. The corresponding place in the real world would also be underground, unless there is another Qin Shi Huang Mausoleum over there."

Yu Shujiang asked curiously, "Will we be buried underground if we are forcibly teleported there?"

Hu Ze explained, "There is no such thing as forced teleportation. As long as there are high-density objects on the other side, and they happen to overlap with your teleported location, the return teleportation spell will definitely fail. So there is no possibility of you being stuck in a wall or having a part of your body embedded in an object after you teleport there."

Tang Ping nodded and immediately handed the Water Spirit Orb to Yu Shujiang, saying, "Use your spiritual energy to turn this into your natal magic weapon, then imagine it in ice form as a tunnel boring machine. It doesn't need a power source; just imitate the shell and dig the hole out."

"What dog chicken?"

Yu Shujiang's eyes revealed a clear ignorance.

“Tunnel boring machines are such famous engineering machines… Forget it, I’ll read more science and technology news in the future and not limit my knowledge to games and anime.” Tang Ping sighed and could only try a simpler method: “Imagine a giant drill bit that forcibly digs out, while the people working with you are responsible for stabilizing the cave to ensure it doesn’t collapse in a short time.”

“Oh, I understand drills.” Yu Shujiang took the Water Spirit Orb.

Then, Tang Ping turned to look at He Fengsheng, who immediately felt something was wrong and was also puzzled as to why his spiritual energy had not been triggered.

He immediately understood the reason.

"Break his limbs."

Upon receiving the order, Yuan Ji did not inquire about the reason, but swung the Azure Dragon Halberd and broke He Fengsheng's hands and arms with four sharp cracks.

"Wait, wait a minute—"

He Fengsheng screamed repeatedly.

Tang Ping ignored him and said to Ma Yiming, "You carry him out. If there is any unusual movement, don't hesitate to kill him."

Ma Yiming said with a bitter face, "I've never killed anyone. Can I use my spiritual magic to knock him out?"

"Okay, but be a bit heavy-handed, so he doesn't develop resistance and wake up halfway through."

Having endured the initial excruciating pain, He Fengsheng gasped, "Was it necessary?"

Tang Ping said, "It's just in case. It's not uncommon for prisoners to suddenly rebel or use words to seduce the protagonist and cause unnecessary trouble. If you look on the bright side, at least it proves that we didn't intend to kill them to cover it up."

He Fengsheng also thought of this point and was indeed relieved. Breaking limbs is not a serious injury that is difficult to treat for a psionicist. He couldn't help but smile bitterly and said, "You are too cautious. You have already given me leverage. How could I dare to rebel?"

The other party was telling the truth, but Tang Ping was not reassured by that.