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A flicker of doubt flashed in Liu Yuren's eyes, but it was keenly captured by Huxin.
She forcefully broke free from Liu Yuren's grasp; a partner who does not trust her is better off without.
"Girl." Seeing Huxin suddenly escape from him, Liu Yuren tried to raise his hand to stop her, but Huxin unexpectedly struck at him, putting Liu Yuren in a situation where he was attacked from both sides.
However, Huxin was merely feigning an attack. In the next moment, her body moved as agilely as a fish, slipping into the open Secret Prison.
The slender figure entered the Secret Prison and slammed the door shut behind her.
Liu Yuren understood her intentions, but with her not by his side, he felt uneasy.
Inside the Secret Prison, Huxin quickly got busy. Liu Yuren was handling over a hundred Secret Guards alone, which was more than enough for a short period. Given Liu Yuren's abilities, he could manage for a day if needed, but that would be too exhausting for him.
When Liu Yuren reached the ninth move, the door of the Secret Prison suddenly opened. Huxin emerged from within, holding a bundle of tied bamboo tubes.
As she pulled one of the bamboo tubes open, the smell of gunpowder quickly filled the entire Secret Prison.
Sparks flew from the fuse above the bamboo tube as Huxin tossed it at the feet of the dense Hidden Guards. With a loud bang, she immediately threw out the second and third bamboo tubes. Accompanied by explosions on the ground and walls, Huxin and Liu Yuren fought their way through this heavily trapped and dangerous Secret Prison.
With only a few explosives left in hand, they were getting closer to the exit.
At that moment, a fierce roar echoed ahead. Huxin focused her gaze and saw Liu Yong, who had been released at some point.
With bloodshot eyes, Liu Yong tore apart the Hidden Guard in front of him into two pieces, blood mist dispersing like tearing apart a piece of shredded squid. Fortunately, Huxin had witnessed such scenes in modern times; otherwise, anyone else would have likely vomited all over.
Liu Yuren was also someone who had fought on battlefields for years and was more than familiar with scenes far bloodier than this.
Liu Yong tore through the Secret Guard one after another, as if he wanted to vent all the resentment built up over decades, wishing to shred every single Secret Guard into pieces.
As Liu Yong's Secret Prison room was opened, the rooms of Mingjing Wangye, the Vampire Brothers, and others were also opened one by one. The ones opening the rooms were several masked figures dressed in black. These masked individuals were all petite and slender, resembling women in stature.
Huxin had little explosives left. Although Liu Yong and the Vampire Brothers had taken care of many Hidden Guard, these people were still enemies, and they were the next ones to deal with.
They had to leave as soon as possible.
"Are there any other exits here?" Huxin threw a bamboo tube filled with explosives and asked Liu Yuren in a low voice.
"Follow me," Liu Yuren communicated to Huxin using Mind Transmission, gripping Huxin's hand tightly. It was then that Huxin noticed that under the wide sleeve of his coat, Liu Yuren's right hand was covered with scars of various sizes, which extended to his wrist and arm as he raised his arm.
The winding, hideous scars did not look like ordinary cuts from blades nor burns; they seemed to be from a type of hidden weapon that could injure someone invisibly in an instant, leaving countless scars behind. They resembled the power of the Rainstorm Pear Blossom Needle but were even more dangerous and insidious.
The Secret Prison did not have a back door, only a small opening resembling a dog hole, barely large enough for one person to squeeze through.
Behind them, Mingjing Wangye and the Vampire Brothers were already running toward them, seemingly unwilling to continue entangled with the Hidden Guard, wanting to conserve their strength for a bigger fight outside. At the exit of the Secret Prison, only Liu Yong and Liu Dog remained, tearing through the Secret Guard like they were ripping apart squid. The others were smartly moving closer to Huxin and Liu Yuren.
"You go first," Liu Yuren signaled to Huxin, who then slipped away through the opening.
After getting through, Huxin handed the last bamboo tube of explosives to Liu Yuren, who understood immediately.
Once his body passed through, he quickly pulled the fuse and threw the bamboo tube at the entrance.
The two figures, one tall and one short, then took a big step forward and jumped into the seemingly bottomless abyss ahead in free fall.
Before Huxin dove in, Liu Yuren had used lip reading to tell her that ahead was a bottomless cold pool, which he had only seen from a distance once and had never attempted to explore, so he did not know how deep it was.
As the two jumped into the cold pool, the entrance behind them was temporarily sealed off by explosives.
Even if Mingjing Wangye and the others could later clear the entrance, Huxin and Liu Yuren would have long since disappeared without a trace. Moreover, with such a commotion at the Secret Prison, Xuan Yuan Old King could not possibly be unaware; it would be others who would be in chaos then.
What Huxin was curious about now was who those petite masked women in black were that had opened the door to the Secret Prison, and how they managed to unlock it with the Secret Prison key, which only Xuan Yuan Old King possessed—Xuan Yuan Ling did not even have one.
If Nalan Mingqing had bribed someone close to Old Prince Xuanyuan, or if he had taken control of Old Prince Xuanyuan, that would be terrifying! What else could Nalan Mingqing possibly do?
With over a hundred Hidden Guard under his control and even the key to the Secret Prison easily within reach, what other capabilities did he possess that were beyond imagination?
The cold pool was bottomless and frigid. The moment Huxin jumped in, she felt an intense sensation of cold seeping into every drop of her blood, as if she had instantly turned into an ice block. Even the most ordinary stretching movements became extravagant gestures in this freezing abyss.
She and Liu Yuren simply let the current carry their bodies downward; both of them were frozen stiff and unable to move.
Huxin exerted great effort to turn her head and glance at Liu Yuren, who was also turning to look at her. She could see that his expression was not relaxed either. The silver mask on his right cheek shimmered with a silver light reflected from the icy water of the pool. At that moment, his right cheek seemed to possess extraordinary energy, no longer just an ordinary mask but integrated with his entire face.
Their bodies continued to descend, and the feeling of freezing intensified as they went deeper. At this point, it was impossible for Huxin to turn her head again; her body was completely frozen. Only the faint warmth from Liu Yuren's palm gripping her wrist reminded her that they were still alive.
This cold pool was bottomless, and Huxin sensed that if they continued to fall even three more meters, she and Liu Yuren would lose that last trace of warmth.
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