Chapter 36: If Xue Li Yang Doesn’t Take A Master, There Are More Possibilities
The group saw Ye Yi Xin trapped in quicksand and immediately panicked. Sa Di Peng and the others were looking for rope and preparing entrenching tools.
Hu Ba Yi also hurriedly unbuckled his belt, wanting to tie Ye Yi Xin’s arm and drag her out.
At this moment, Su Mo quickly walked over and directly went to Ye Yi Xin’s side, grabbing her shoulder.
Strangely enough, the sand had already swallowed most of Ye Yi Xin’s body, but when Su Mo walked over, it did not collapse.
Su Mo grabbed Ye Yi Xin’s shoulder and lifted her out with one hand.
“It’s not quicksand; there’s just space under the sand. Little Ye happened to step on it and fell in!”
It turned out that Ye Yi Xin had just walked over this spot and stepped on a place where there was a broken stone slab underneath. The stone slab suddenly gave way under the weight, sucking her in instantly like quicksand.
In her panic, Xue Li Yang also mistook it for quicksand. Plus, the small space where Ye Yi Xin was sinking created a suction force, making it impossible to pull her out for the moment.
Su Mo possessed the Great Yin Meditation Technique and could see through the trick at a glance, so he stood on a more stable spot nearby and pulled Ye Yi Xin out in one go.
The group had a false alarm, and their admiration for Su Mo deepened another layer.
Wang Pang Zi couldn’t help but say:
“Master, how did you see at a glance that this wasn’t quicksand?”
Su Mo smiled faintly:
“Quicksand can’t be just this small; it’s a whole area’s flowing collapse. If Ye Yi Xin had really stepped into quicksand, Xue Li Yang would have sunk too!”
Ye Yi Xin, having just calmed her nerves, nodded after hearing Su Mo’s words:
“Yeah, the spot I stepped on seemed to have a hole underneath; it really didn’t feel like quicksand!”
Hu Ba Yi walked to the spot where Ye Yi Xin had sunk, examined it carefully, then took out an entrenching tool and dug a couple of times. Sure enough, there were several broken stone slabs underneath.
“There are signs of an explosion!”
He looked at the fracture surface of the stone slab and said:
“The breaks on the stone slab look like precise directional blasting, and it wasn’t ordinary explosives!”
Hu Ba Yi had military experience and was very familiar with the effects of military explosives. He could tell at a glance that these stone slabs had been shattered by military explosives.
Clearly, some team with access to military explosives had blasted here, leaving space underneath, which was why Ye Yi Xin fell in.
Wang Pang Zi then picked up the entrenching tool and cleared the sand out together with Hu Ba Yi. Sure enough, a cave entrance was revealed underneath.
This was a stone tomb from the Wei and Jin periods. The gaps between the stones had been sealed with hemp fish glue, but most of the corpses in the coffins inside were gone. Only one coffin still contained a broken female corpse, but only the skull remained.
“It looks like this place was tomb-robbed just three to five days ago!”
Hu Ba Yi looked at the ravaged tomb and frowned:
“This group used Russian military explosives, and their methods are as crude and ruthless as those foreign explorers!”
Xue Li Yang and Professor Chen nodded upon hearing this.
Because this area bordered Su Country, foreign explorers often entered the territory under various pretexts or sneaked in secretly to plunder ancient tombs for profit.
Their methods were extremely barbaric; wherever they went, they left nothing behind, completely destroying the ancient sites and cultural relics.
Professor Chen said with heartache:
“This Wei and Jin period tomb has extremely high cultural relic value. What a pity…”
Hao Ai Guo also frowned involuntarily:
“Since these people tomb-robbed just three to five days ago, but we saw no traces when we arrived, it means they’ve likely gone deep into the Black Desert, heading for the Jing Jue Ancient Kingdom. If we encounter them, we’re in trouble!”
Everyone couldn’t help but feel a bit worried upon hearing this.
These foreigners had military explosives and surely fine weapons, while Su Mo’s archaeological team only had guns with Hu Ba Yi and Wang Pang Zi. Professor Chen and the others were just a bunch of old and young bookworms.
If they ran into them, they definitely wouldn’t be a match.
Wang Pang Zi sneered at this moment:
“What’s there to fear? Back in the day at Niya Oasis, Fat Master here with just one gun made a gang of bandits piss themselves and run. If we really meet these bastards, Old Hu and I can make them regret it, not to mention we have Commander Yang and my master on our side!”
Hearing him say this, the group felt slightly reassured.
Regardless, everyone had seen Su Mo’s abilities.
He could even tame a terrifying and bizarre creature like the ant queen; those Su Country explorers were naturally no big deal.
Su Mo smiled faintly without speaking.
He knew this Su Country expedition team was also heading for the Jing Jue Ancient Kingdom, but he didn’t know if they had already died on Zaghrama Mountain like in the original story.
Back at the camp, Su Mo thought for a moment and called Wang Pang Zi and Hu Ba Yi over.
“Since you’ve taken me as your master, I’ll teach you the cultivation methods too!”
Su Mo’s Devour and Transform Method was something Wang Pang Zi and Hu Ba Yi naturally couldn’t learn, but the cultivation breathing techniques to acquire vital energy they could.
Though the speed would definitely be hundreds of times slower than Su Mo’s, as long as they diligently practiced daily meditation and breathing, they could accumulate some vital energy.
Since Hu Ba Yi and Wang Pang Zi had already become his disciples, he had to teach them some Human Immortal Martial Way skills; he couldn’t just let them learn external and internal martial arts like Five Animal Frolics or Tai Chi without any real cultivation abilities.
Hearing that Su Mo was going to impart more skills, Wang Pang Zi and Hu Ba Yi were both delighted and quickly sat beside Su Mo, listening carefully to his explanation.
These two weren’t dumb; Su Mo explained once, and they both memorized it. They soon began meditating and breathing according to the method Su Mo taught.
Su Mo turned and glanced over, seeing Xue Li Yang silently watching him, looking very curious, but holding back since he was teaching Hu Ba Yi and Wang Pang Zi, so she didn’t come over.
Su Mo thought for a moment, then smiled slightly at Xue Li Yang and beckoned her.
Xue Li Yang pursed her lips in a slight smile and walked over:
“Master Su, you’re teaching your disciples; I shouldn’t eavesdrop!”
Su Mo smiled faintly:
“It’s nothing remarkable; you learn it too. It’ll definitely benefit you!”
Xue Li Yang laughed:
“We agreed: even if you teach me, I won’t become your disciple!”
At this point, she glanced at Su Mo, her face quietly blushing for some reason.
Under the silvery moonlight, the sudden flush on her face looked as gorgeous as a blooming flower, stirring Su Mo’s heart slightly.
If a woman blushes upon seeing you, what that means—how could Su Mo, with two lifetimes of experience, not understand!
Su Mo suddenly realized why Xue Li Yang insisted on not becoming his disciple!
If she became his disciple, she’d be Su Mo’s apprentice, same sect as the Mountain Mover with the master-disciple restrictions, leaving no room for more possibilities later!
Thinking of this, Su Mo looked at Xue Li Yang and met her raised beautiful eyes.
Xue Li Yang’s cheeks suddenly flushed even more deeply, like a flower blooming vibrantly under the moonlight.
