Nine Star Burden

Chapter 294: Stone Carving Reappears

Translator: Atlas Studios Editor: Atlas Studios

On the fifth underground floor of the Ancient Imperial Mausoleum.

Li Weiyi tiptoed forward and suddenly raised his right fist, after which his seven teammates hurriedly stopped behind him.

His body was pressed against the wall, and he popped half of his head out to look outside.

There was a slightly familiar area on the other side of the corner. Just like the layout of the rooms on the previous floors, it was also surrounded by three walls, and there were also exquisite carvings on the walls.

Li Weiyi looked over and suddenly felt disappointed.

They had long smelled the odor of blood, but they didn’t expect it to be so bloody inside!

Corpses were crisscrossed in the area while blood flowed like a river.

What’s the combination of members of this team that’s enjoying the fruit of their labor and victory?

Why is it still Soul Of The Ancient Warrior + Ancient Archer General? Are they going to shoot arrows from behind the wall again?

Li Weiyi’s body was pressed against the wall, but he could no longer do so because the Ancient Warriors weren’t scattered around at all. At least six Ancient Archers were standing guard.

The Ancient Warriors were feasting.

Indeed, they were eating. They were holding onto all kinds of severed arms while the bloody odor spread outwards. Corpses were all over the ground.

Another small group of Ancient Warriors had just besieged them, and the sounds of flesh being chewed could be heard, making Li Weiyi disgusted.

It wasn’t that he had never killed anyone before. On the contrary, he was also an “executioner.” But facing this, he actually felt nauseous. Hence, one could imagine how hellish the scene was.

“The Soul Of The Ancient Warrior and the Ancient Archer General.” Li Weiyi turned around and said with a sullen expression, “Each of them has brought along more than ten soldiers, for a total of 23 people.”

Upon hearing that, their faces grew sullen. It seemed that they had to beat them to it.

Because they didn’t manage to get Sound of Silence, the Soul Of The Ancient Warrior managed to exhibit their greatest effects.

They had fought with such a team before. Hence, Han Jiangxue didn’t want to give up the special weapon.

She felt that they ought to study their battle tactics carefully.

All of a sudden, the Ancient Archer General abruptly turned his head while his blood-stained ponytail swayed. With an insidious and murderous intent in his eyes, he looked at the end of the corridor.

In that seemingly empty area, the Ancient Archer General seemed to have been led by something...

The Ancient Archer General stood up and tossed the bloodied arm away before reaching out. A black bow and arrow appeared out of thin air.

The Ancient Archer General pulled the bow and arrow, and the blood at the corner of his lips covered his suaveness. He then released his grip.

Whoosh!

No, it wasn’t probing, but attacking!

The Ancient Archer General pulled the bow and shot a few arrows at an incredible speed.

At the instant that the first arrow of the Ancient Archer General was shot out, the Soul Of The Ancient Warrior roared and shocked the group of underlings eating frantically.

They had to admit that the quality of the Ancient Warrior soldiers was indeed high. At least when they had a leader, they would unconditionally obey the orders and respond quickly.

Li Weiyi, still speaking, was slightly stunned, because he heard some unpleasant voices.

At the next moment, the pitch-black Memorial Arrow exploded at the corner, and everyone panicked, feeling as if their hearts were about to jump out of their chests. The feeling was absolutely uncomfortable.

“What... what’s going on?” Xiong Chumo was so frightened that her body began quivering as if she had just suffered a huge emotional blow.

Jiang Xiao closed his eyes, calmed himself down, and hurriedly threw out a shot of Bell.

Ring-ring-ring!

The sweet sound of Bell saved the anxious group of students, but the Memorial Arrows were still being shot one after another.

“Impossible! How did it find out?” Li Weiyi asked with a look of horror.

What a good question!

Jiang Xiao didn’t want to continue pursuing the matter anymore. He yelled, “Shield, shield!”

Li Weiyi hurriedly picked up the black shield and stepped out of the corner.

Jiang Xiao also put his life on the line. He walked out with Li Weiyi and carefully searched for the Soul Of The Ancient Warrior.

Although the output of the group of Archers was menacing, they had to silence the Soul Of The Ancient Warrior first. Otherwise, the consequences would be disastrous.

Han Jiangxue also pushed Bai Yipeng out for the first time. The Shield Warrior from Cainan Province tried his best to support the shield of roses and blocked the arrows.

Wait a minute!

Jiang Xiao had yet to throw out the Sound of Silence, and Han Jiangxue had also yet to throw out her Chain Lightning.

Why?

Because he saw a figure appearing from behind the Ancient Warriors.

Jiang Xiao looked stunned, and he suddenly realized that they were probably being rescued for the second time!

Is this the second time that my team is being rescued!?! Is there something wrong with the fifth underground floor!?! Or is this a coincidence? Did the soldiers really appear at such a timely juncture?

With a cold and sullen expression, Han Jiangxue yelled, “Go!”

She really wanted to throw out Chain Lightning and kill all the monsters!

However, she couldn’t.

Everyone was watching them. Her behavior represented not only herself but also her teammates. She didn’t want to implicate them.

Han Jiangxue took the lead and ran back.

Since the commander had led by example, the group had no choice but to follow even though they had other intentions in mind. The eight of them dashed into the long corridor, and behind them was a group of Ancient Warriors chasing them.

The situation made everyone unsure whether the people behind were rescuing them or driving the Ancient Warriors toward them.

What to do? Turn around and fight? Help the so-called rescuer?

While thinking, Han Jiangxue cooperated with Qi Yan and threw out Barren Wind. In the blink of an eye, everyone had already run out of the stone corridor.

They returned to the jurisdiction of the soldiers in camouflage, and Jiang Xiao panicked a little, for fear that he would be forcibly rescued by the soldiers again. That would end up being their third count of aid.

While Jiang Xiao was running and feeling worried, he seemed to hear the sounds of knocking.

Why... does this sound so familiar?

I seem to have heard it somewhere?

“Ding... ding... ding...” Behind the stone wall where the rest could not see, the cloaked man was holding onto a stone chisel in one hand and placing it against a person’s body while hammering it with his other hand.

The man nailed to the wall was ripped apart and dripping with blood. It was a soldier in a camouflage uniform!

At this moment, he was stoned and nailed to the wall while his body quivered, causing him to fall speechless. That was enough to show how much pain he was in.

The scene was actually exactly the same as the fourth picture carved on the stone wall by the cloaked man.

“At the last moment, I still hoped that my prediction was wrong,” the cloaked man said in a voice filled with vicissitude while looking at the struggling soldier in front of him.

“You shouldn’t have come to ruin my competition. The day will definitely come that you open your mouth.” The cloaked man seemed to have noticed something. He stopped, turned around, and walked out. While walking, he lightly tapped the bloodstained stone chisel in his left hand.

What did “You shouldn’t have come to ruin my competition” mean?

The cloaked man was really haughty to call the National High School League his.

“Ding. Ding. Ding. Ding. Ding.” The sounds of the stone hammer hitting the chisel were rather rapid, resembling their rushing heartbeats at the moment.

All of a sudden, Han Jiangxue stopped. Due to inertia, her body even slid forward by half a meter.

Everyone stopped one after another with shock written all over their faces as they all saw the cloaked man appear out of nowhere.

Compared to the situation they saw previously, the one now was even more horrifying because the stone chisel in his hand was stained with red blood.

Isn’t this the mysterious stone carving man they encountered in the stone corridor previously?

Why is he here?

Why is he covered in blood...

Everyone was terrified, and the Ancient Warriors did not get held up for too long by the rescuers. Hence, they were still chasing after them.

“Go! Go!” Jiang Xiao shouted loudly, “Go back the same way that we came from!”

Jiang Xiao didn’t use Sound of Silence yet, but he tensely stared at the mysterious cloaked man in front of him.

He knew that once he used Sound of Silence, it would mean his removal from the competition.

As long as he dared to take the initiative to attack the Star Warrior officer, he might be barred from the national competition this year. In contrast, Jiangbin High School might be barred from participating in the provincial or national competitions for the next few years.

Hence, Jiang Xiao held onto the shot of Sound of Silence while making everyone run away.

The cloaked man walked towards him, one step at a time...

Jiang Xiao’s Adam’s Apple moved, and he thought, If you really come, I’ll attack.

Wait, the direction is wrong.

Jiang Xiao suddenly discovered that the cloaked man was walking in the direction of the stone corridor entrance where he had just escaped from.

“There are two left.” The cloaked man stood alone at the entrance of the stone corridor and reached out. At the next moment, the bones of the Ancient Warriors grew rapidly.

The face of the rescuer fighting with the Ancient Warriors in the stone corridor suddenly grew sullen. He realized that the situation was terrible, but his body was drowned out by the bones.

As Jiang Xiao stepped back, the cloaked man suddenly turned his head to face him.

Due to the angle, Jiang Xiao didn’t know what was happening in the corridor. He ignored it, turned around, and ran away.

The cloaked man’s expression was slightly complicated as if there was a trace of guilt. He slowly turned his head and watched as the contestants quickly vanished...

Patter.

A drop of blood dripped from his blood-stained stubble, after which another picture was carved on the wall of the stone corridor.