The embrace of the Black Night Owl was too perfunctory.

However, Arena slowly dissipated in his arms.

Perhaps her final struggle was just to allow her soul to persist a little longer, so she could stay in the Black Night Owl's arms for a few more moments.

I gently put down my twin blades and whispered to myself, "Why is this?"

Butcher Wang glanced at me, "If you could figure it out, you wouldn't be a stupid dog."

In the short moment that we were talking, Arena's figure disappeared into the Black Night Owl's arms.

Arena turned into phosphorescent light, scattering into the air, but the Black Night Owl still stood there with his arms wrapped around as if holding her.

Arena didn't choose revenge, but she "avenged" herself on the Black Night Owl in another way.

In the Black Night Owl's future years, he would remember that there was once a devoted woman who dissipated in his arms.

I was about to go up and say something when I suddenly felt the ground shake beneath my feet, and I almost fell.

When I looked down, several cracks had opened in the ground, and a large amount of clear water surged up from underground, instantly submerging my calves.

I said anxiously, "Black Night Owl, what's going on?"

The Black Night Owl said, "Someone has opened the deepest level of the tomb."

"This place will soon be flooded, we have to follow the water upwards, quickly!"

While the Black Night Owl and I were talking, the water surging up from the ground had already reached my chest, and at the same time, the roof of the tomb began to collapse rapidly under the pressure of the flood, and streams of water began to pour down.

The rising flood filled most of the tomb in an instant.

The top of the tomb finally couldn't withstand the pressure of the flood and collapsed, and large and small stones, along with the stone pillars binding the corpses, fell from the air.

We dodged the stones while floating to the surface.

When I poked my head out of the water, the first thing I saw were the Miao Jiang tribesmen, torches in hand, surrounding Yan Yu Tower.

Although Yan Yu Tower had collapsed, the city walls were still intact, and the Miao Jiang tribesmen were using the walls and slopes to encircle Ghost Wind Valley from all sides.

Old Liu saw me at a glance and immediately shouted, "Lord, get out of the water quickly!"

Before I could get close to the shore, Zhu Zining led the remaining masters of the Reincarnation Division to the surface, separating us.

Zhu Zining smiled, "Little Li Po, if you go up, the Two Worlds Division will poison the water. How can I let you go so easily?"

"Only when we are entangled together are we safest, right?"

As I watched Zhu Zining, a strange flute sound suddenly came from the hillside, and then I saw thousands of colorful poisonous snakes swimming down the mountain and into the water.

The Black Night Owl roared, "Who is releasing the snakes?"

The shamans standing on the shore couldn't help but look at each other. They hadn't received any orders, and no one dared to release their Gu poison easily, but these poisonous snakes were clearly being manipulated.

At this moment, someone exclaimed, "Look, King Snakes!"

When I followed the sound and looked over, I saw three tree-trunk-thick, strangely shaped giant snakes pushing their way through their own kind and swimming into the water.

The Black Night Owl looked at one of the shamans, and the latter immediately knelt on the ground, "Great Lord, those are the snakes I raised, but I didn't..."

Before the man could finish speaking, more than a dozen more King Snakes appeared on the hillside.

All the King Snakes raised by the Gu masters had lost control.

Zhu Zining!

When I looked at Zhu Zining, she smiled and said, "Don't look at me, I don't have the ability to control snakes, and the Nine-Headed Snake Jade is not in my hands either."

"It's Zi Yan controlling the snakes, or do you want to send someone to look for her?"

My thoughts raced, and I immediately looked at the Black Night Owl, "Old Hei, what exactly is suppressed beneath the tomb?"

The reason I asked this was because of what Zhu Zining had just said.

She said that her purpose was to hold me back, so that the Miao Jiang tribesmen would be wary of hurting the hostages.

The Reincarnation Division's current manpower alone couldn't hold us back.

Zhu Ziyan controlling the poisonous snakes to enter the water was also to keep us in the water.

However, Zhu Zining directly exposed Zhu Ziyan's secret of controlling snakes, which meant that they didn't need to confront us in the water for a long time.

Was Zhu Zining waiting for something from the bottom of the tomb to be born?

Did she still have the confidence to control it?

The Black Night Owl responded, "I don't know either!"

"I was just ordered to guard the tomb here. The Emperor didn't tell me what was inside the tomb."

The Black Night Owl was afraid that I wouldn't believe him, so he added, "Back then, the Emperor felt that he had eliminated the traitors around him. That's why he dispersed the Eight Guards and Three Palaces."

"We don't know any of the secrets the Emperor left behind."

That's right!

No wonder I always felt that there were some inexplicable parts to the reason why the Emperor had not been able to return.

Why was it that the Emperor, holding the Three Palaces and Eight Guards in his hands, was still lost in reincarnation, with no one to greet him?

So, the game between the Emperor and the Yi Tian Chess Master had already begun.

It seemed that the Emperor's failure to return was likely due to falling for a traitor's trick, which led to him being lost in reincarnation.