With deafening crashes, the bone walls collapsed, revealing a network of new paths to everyone present.
Destruction is always much easier than construction. Especially since no one was overseeing this inheritance.
"A report from the front. The fifth route has been fully scouted. The target was not found."
"Clan Leader, I entered the sixth route and discovered a hall of white bones. Inside, there was a skeleton and a giant bone book."
"Reporting. There is also a hall in the seventh route, similarly arranged. It contains a seated skeleton and a bone book."
"Reporting! The eighth route has been discovered!"
"Keep exploring!" The matriarch of the Bai clan wore a dark expression. Before her lay a pile of giant bone books. A full seven of them, stacked together.
"The designer really nailed human nature," Iron Knife Ku remarked with emotion. "When a Gu Master finds a skeleton and a bone book, they instinctively misunderstand, thinking they've inherited the entire legacy. But in truth, the Gray Bone Prodigy set up many identically structured halls. The real treasure is still hidden on one of the branches."
The clan leader's brow furrowed even tighter.
The situation was getting complicated. She wasn't worried that Fang Yuan and Bai Ning Bing would turn back—she had already stationed plenty of people at the entrance just in case.
What worried her now was that the two might escape through one of the branch tunnels. She could control the entrance, but she couldn't control the countless exits.
But just then, a Gu Master ran over, wild joy on his face. "Found it! On the eighth route, we discovered a hall of white bones. The skeleton inside had been crushed into powder on the floor, and the Gu worm in its skull was taken."
"This must be their route!" Iron Knife Ku was immediately invigorated.
"Lead the way!" The clan leader set off at once.
Moments later, the group hurried into the hall.
"Two secret passages?" an elder asked in surprise.
"Which one did those two demonic scoundrels take?"
"Doesn't matter. Split up. If you catch up to them, be sure to protect the young master!"
The stone stairs leading to the Flesh Secret Pavilion were unlike anything else, drawing the attention of the clan leader, Iron Knife Ku, and most of the elders.
"The Flesh Secret Pavilion?" Soon, everyone reached the top of the stairs.
Boom!
The door was violently blasted apart, and the crowd surged inside.
Yet the pavilion was completely empty.
Hee hee hee... Ha ha ha... Ho ho ho...
Countless mouths on the walls erupted into a cacophony of laughter.
"What the hell are these things?!"
"Laughing Flesh Gu. They're used specifically to store treasures. These mouths are like little drawers."
"That mouth is wide open. They must have crawled in."
The clan leader swept her gaze across the room, then locked her cold eyes on the only secret passage in the pavilion. "You, you, and you, stay here. Everyone else, come with me!"
Moments earlier, in this very pavilion.
Bai Sheng had just woken up, feeling a sharp pain in his abdomen.
"If you don't want to die, stand up!" A cold voice rang out beside him.
This voice was the one Bai Sheng remembered most vividly. It was the owner of this voice who had deceived the entire clan and kidnapped him. Claiming to be the young clan leader of the Gu Yue clan was probably a lie too!
Liar! Villain! Devil!
But despite cursing him in his heart, Bai Sheng obediently got up from the floor.
He found himself in an extremely bizarre place. The fleshy walls were covered with mouths, their laughter echoing around him.
"Flesh Laughing Gu?" he blurted out, recalling descriptions from books.
"Kid, you're young, but you're quite knowledgeable," Fang Yuan said with a smile. According to rumors from his past life, the Bai siblings were exceptionally talented, especially the brother, Bai Sheng, who was unusually clever and possessed something close to a photographic memory. The fact that he could recognize such an obscure Gu confirmed that the rumors weren't baseless.
"You two!" Bai Sheng gritted his teeth, glaring at Fang Yuan and Bai Ning Bing with undisguised hatred.
"Brother!" Bai Hua, woken by a kick from Fang Yuan, ran crying to Bai Sheng's side.
Bai Sheng quickly shielded his sister.
"Truly a touching bond between siblings," Bai Ning Bing remarked with a cold laugh.
"You venomous woman! For all your beauty, your heart is as vicious as a scorpion's!" Bai Sheng shouted without an ounce of fear.
Bai Ning Bing's smile vanished instantly. Bai Sheng's words deeply stung her. 'Woman', 'beautiful'—these were words she never wanted to hear.
Slap! Slap! Slap!
She stepped forward, grabbed Bai Sheng, and delivered three fierce slaps.
She possessed the strength of a crocodile, and though she held back most of her power, Bai Sheng's cheeks immediately turned red and swollen.
"Poisonous woman, evil woman! Kill me if you've got the guts!" Bai Sheng continued to hurl insults.
Slap! Slap! Slap!
Bai Ning Bing slapped him three more times.