These words were spoken.
The death warriors holding Yun Xiaojing released their grip.
Fortunately, Yun Xiaojing had learned some martial arts and landed steadily.
He immediately looked around.
But the surroundings suddenly fell silent, without any sound.
Zhan Xiaoli's small face was filled with shock. He had clearly heard the voice, yet it still hadn't allowed him to hear their inner thoughts.
Could it be that this person was very far away, not nearby?
Yun Xiaojing felt his hair stand on end.
Having traveled extensively with his mother, he had seen almost the entire martial world, but he had never encountered such strange death warriors or places!
Yun Xiaojing, who was usually fearless, suddenly felt a little scared.
The three little ones also stopped speaking easily.
Suddenly.
The masked man opened the door and pushed Yun Xiaojing inside.
Yun Xiaojing didn't resist. With a shove, he walked straight in.
The three little ones met again.
They hugged each other first.
Then Zhan Xiaoli spoke in a low voice, "This place is very strange."
"Yes, very, very strange. We need to be careful," Gu Xiaofeng wrinkled his nose and took a deep breath.
The medicinal scent was making him feel increasingly dangerous.
Yun Xiaojing hugged his arms, his eyes darting around. He also lowered his voice, speaking very, very softly, "Those people don't feel like death warriors; they're like living dead people."
"Living dead people?" Zhan Xiaoli's eyes lit up. He suddenly understood where that strange feeling came from.
This explanation helped him understand why he couldn't hear what those people were thinking.
Gu Xiaofeng, however, furrowed his small brows, looking somewhat lost.
Yun Xiaojing noticed Gu Xiaofeng's unusual behavior. "Are you scared? Don't worry, I believe Mother will find us! Mother is very powerful, no, very, very, very powerful!"
"Daddy is also quite good," Zhan Xiaoli quickly added.
Yun Xiaojing raised an eyebrow. He was a little skeptical but gave Zhan Xiaoli face and didn't question it. He was just worried that Gu Xiaofeng was so quiet because he was truly scared. "You really don't need to worry. Mother will definitely save us! She's on her way. Perhaps, like me, she's just temporarily lost in this ghostly place!"
Gu Xiaofeng seemed to have sealed himself in a unique world, automatically ignoring Yun Xiaojing and Zhan Xiaoli's words.
He just stared blankly at the sliver of light visible at the door.
He was thinking very seriously.
Yun Xiaojing didn't notice at first, but later realized.
After exchanging a look with Zhan Xiaoli, they both fell silent.
Yun Xiaojing, always carefree, had felt scared moments ago. Now, drowsiness crept in, and he didn't care anymore. He lay down on the pile of straw and slept soundly.
Seeing Yun Xiaojing sleeping so soundly, Zhan Xiaoli couldn't resist either. He yawned and lay down next to Yun Xiaojing, also falling asleep.
Only Gu Xiaofeng remained, his eyes still fixed on the door.
After a long time, when he finally figured things out and came back to his senses, he turned to see that both of them were asleep.
He also yawned, walked over to them, and lay down to sleep with them.
The room also fell silent, with only the sound of their breathing.
The entire secret residence was also quiet.
But from a dark corner, a surprised whisper emerged.
"Aren't these three children afraid?"
"Strange."
"As expected of the Night King's sons."
But this whisper only lasted for three sentences.
Then, the entire secret residence fell into silence.
Outside the door, several masked men still stood guard.
They remained motionless, like door gods.
After about an hour.
Yun Xiaojing turned over. Sleeping on the straw was too uncomfortable.
He couldn't sleep anymore.
He rolled over and woke up.
He rubbed his eyes and, seeing that he was still in this dreadful place, frowned.
Zhan Xiaoli and Gu Xiaofeng also woke up.
Gu Xiaofeng spoke first. "Xiaojing is right. The people outside are no different from the dead. They've been poisoned with gu."
He didn't know why he immediately thought of gu poison.
Anyway, as he thought, smelling that faint, eerie aroma, the word "gu poison" popped into his mind.
His master had told him before that there was a type of poison in the world called gu poison. Gu poison was very mysterious, and even his master had never encountered it. He wasn't quite sure what it was like.
"Gu poison?" Yun Xiaojing and Zhan Xiaoli said in unison.
"Yes!" Gu Xiaofeng nodded vigorously. "They can't speak, but they can hear their master's commands. They don't feel pain, and they don't have their own thoughts, much like the dead. So... if we want to escape, we must find a way."
Yun Xiaojing narrowed his eyes.
Zhan Xiaoli's expression also turned serious.
Then, they said in unison, "We must leave as soon as possible!"
Zhan Xiaoli spoke first. "Father and Mother haven't found us yet, so they might have encountered some trouble. We can't let them use us to threaten Mother and Father, so we have to find a way to leave quickly ourselves."
"Right!" Yun Xiaojing nodded vigorously.
Then his eyes darted around, appraising the surroundings.
Finally, he suddenly looked towards the base of the wall.
He whispered to Zhan Xiaoli, "The person who built this place seems to understand mechanisms. I arrived very early last night but was trapped by a mechanism for so long. I suspect there's also a mechanism in this room, so we must be careful!"
As he spoke, he bit his little finger until it bled.
When the blood appeared, his eyes were red, with tears welling up. "It hurts so much."
He was a little afraid of pain!
But to save his two elder brothers, he was determined!
"What are you doing?" Gu Xiaofeng asked in surprise.
Yun Xiaojing, with red eyes, said a little aggrievedly, "You'll know in a moment."
It hurt so much!
...
Sunlight spilled onto the land.
It illuminated the scene below the cliff with extreme clarity.
And at this moment, Yun Shu and the others were at the bottom of this cliff.
Last night, Zhan Tianye had dispelled the Eight Trigram formation at the edge of the cliff, and then a path appeared before them, leading from the top to the bottom.
Yun Shu watched Zhan Tianye, who was disengaging the Eight Trigram formation, with a slight sense of wonder and a newfound respect.
She hadn't expected Zhan Tianye to understand Eight Trigram formations.
On their way down, they saw the incomplete remains of several dark-night warriors.
They also saw the corpses of large pythons nearby.
Others didn't know what had happened, but Yun Shu, Jing Heng, and Ruan Xi were very clear.
Ruan Xi, with a blade of grass in his mouth, pointed at the high perimeter wall not far away. "This place is incredibly bizarre. Tsk tsk, who would have thought that outside the capital there's such a place, a hidden world within a small forest, with Eight Trigram formations everywhere."
Zhan Tianye's eyes, filled with coldness, swept over Ruan Xi.
Then he looked at Yun Shu, his gaze softening. "Are there any other methods that can make this King stand up immediately? Just two hours would be enough."