"So what?" Leng Ruoli said dismissively.
"I'll kill you! You'll pay for my treasure with your life."
As Madam Puppet spoke, her eyes turned blood-red with anger.
With that, she gathered a blast of palm wind and attacked Leng Ruoli.
Leng Ruoli quickly pulled the woman aside to dodge, and Jun Mohan immediately stepped forward, engaging the Madam Puppet again.
The battle was fiercer than before, quickly snapping the stone pillars of the underground room, causing stones to fall from the roof.
"Jun Mohan, this underground palace is about to collapse, we need to run!" Leng Ruoli protected the woman beside her and sprinted towards the exit.
Jun Mohan and Madam Puppet also stopped fighting. As soon as they did, Madam Puppet rushed to the end of the room, sat on a chair, and pressed the armrest. Four ropes lifted the chair upwards, quickly taking him away.
"Holy crap!"
"That demon actually escaped using a mechanism! Jun Mohan, we need to hurry too, or we won't be able to get out."
Seeing Madam Puppet ascend, Leng Ruoli urged Jun Mohan to leave quickly.
Jun Mohan dared not linger and followed closely behind Leng Ruoli as they ran up to the main hall. By then, they could no longer see Madam Puppet's figure.
"Alas, that demon escaped again!" Leng Ruoli said with some frustration.
At this moment, Jun Mohan sniffed the air and calmly said, "No, he hasn't escaped yet. I can still smell his strong scent."
"Then where is he now?" Leng Ruoli asked anxiously. If this Madam Puppet wasn't dealt with, he would continue to harm people. Therefore, they had to eliminate him now.
"He should be somewhere near this hall. Let's search properly," Jun Mohan said, slightly frowning.
With that, Leng Ruoli nodded in agreement.
Subsequently, Jun Mohan, leading Leng Ruoli and the woman, followed the scent to a stone wall.
"Jun Mohan, do you really think that demon is here? This entire stretch of wall is smooth stone. Could there be a secret chamber?" Leng Ruoli voiced her doubts.
"I also suspect there might be a secret chamber, but the mechanism to open it might be difficult to find," Jun Mohan replied faintly.
After speaking, both fell into thought.
Then, Leng Ruoli ran her hand over the wall, but felt no cracks on the stone surface.
The stone wall was so smooth, it was impossible to find any flaw.
While troubled, Leng Ruoli's sharp eyes suddenly noticed that the patterns on the stone wall seemed different, with all the patterns pointing in one direction.
Leng Ruoli slowly followed the patterns with her gaze. These patterns all pointed to a black dot on a stone pillar in the hall.
"Jun Mohan, could that black dot be the mechanism for the secret chamber?" Leng Ruoli slowly asked.
"Let's go and see!" Jun Mohan replied.
Immediately, they walked over and gently pressed the black protrusion on the stone pillar.
With a "click," the stone wall slowly opened, revealing a passage.
Jun Mohan led the way inside, with Leng Ruoli and the woman following closely behind.
After walking through the passage for less than the time it takes to brew a cup of tea, the three emerged from the opening. Outside, it was still a world of ice and snow, the sky was overcast, and strong winds occasionally blew.
Subsequently, Jun Mohan and Leng Ruoli followed the scent and fresh footprints in the snow, tracking them into the forest, and soon spotted Madam Puppet.
Jun Mohan leaped forward, blocking Madam Puppet's path. Madam Puppet looked at Jun Mohan and was slightly stunned, saying, "You are quite clever. To find the switch for that passage and track me here."
"To deal with a cunning demon like you, one needs to have more wit, or we would have been played to death long ago," Jun Mohan said with a cold sneer, looking at Madam Puppet.
"Heh heh! In that case, take this!"
With that, he unleashed a blast of palm wind towards Jun Mohan. Jun Mohan dodged it immediately, drew his soft sword from his body, and leaped into the air. With a raise of his hand, a blinding cold light shot upwards, like a silver dragon dancing, charging directly at Madam Puppet. It struck his chest, causing him to spit out a mouthful of blood.
Afterward, Madam Puppet, forcing himself to stand, flew into the air and gathered all his inner energy, swinging his sleeve like lightning towards Jun Mohan. His sleeve also stretched longer with the increase of inner energy, finally extending to Jun Mohan, making him unable to dodge. He was struck on the arm, causing it to burn with pain.
"Hahaha..."
"Jun Mohan, go to hell!"
Madam Puppet roared loudly.
He channeled inner energy into his other hand and, with lightning speed, extended his sleeve to strike Jun Mohan. Simultaneously, a knife flew out from his sleeve towards Jun Mohan.
Fortunately, Jun Mohan had learned from his previous experience and dodged the long sleeve with extreme speed. His sleeve directly struck a bare tree, creating a large hole in it instantly. Madam Puppet spat out another mouthful of blood, his inner energy severely depleted.
At this moment, Madam Puppet immediately circulated his remaining inner energy and flew into the air, attempting to escape. However, he had not flown far before Jun Mohan stabbed his heart from behind with a sword, killing him on the spot. He then fell from the air, crashing heavily onto the snowy ground. His blood instantly dyed the snow red like a rose. His eyes were wide open, a look of not being able to rest in peace.
Jun Mohan and Leng Ruoli dug a pit on the spot and buried Madam Puppet's corpse.
Afterward, they arranged for the woman to wait outside the entrance of the underground palace. The two returned to Madam Puppet's underground palace and burned all the insects in the deep pit.
Leng Ruoli then took ten more bombs from her system space and detonated Madam Puppet's entire underground palace, causing it to collapse. Later, they also blocked the two entrances to the underground palace, and only then did Jun Mohan and Leng Ruoli leave with peace of mind.
By this time, the sky was gradually darkening. As Jun Mohan and Leng Ruoli descended the mountainside with the woman, they saw Yin Chen, Chu Mingxuan, and Li Luo climbing up the mountain to find them.
"Sister Li, Big Brother, Sister Yan Yu, are you alright?" Lu Li Luo called out sweetly.
"Li Luo, we are all fine," Leng Ruoli replied with a smile.
"My Lords, your subordinate failed to protect you. Please punish me!" Yin Chen knelt on the ground and requested punishment upon seeing Jun Mohan and Leng Ruoli.
"Yin Chen, we intentionally allowed those bandits to capture us last night, and it has nothing to do with you. Please get up quickly," Leng Ruoli sighed and said.