Chapter 436: Chapter 270: Deep into the Desert, Evil Spirits and Guanyin (Seeking Subscriptions)
Seeing the Hero Duan in front of him, Fan Gao decided to take a gamble.
After revealing the information, he might be implicated and die, or even suffer a terrible death. But there was also a possibility that Hero Duan, true to his word, would not only rid him of the poison in his body but might even help him reclaim justice and live a normal life again.
Was there even a choice?
Living in such a meager way now was no different from being dead.
All he wanted was to take back what belonged to himself.
Thus, Fan Gao thoroughly revealed all the information he had gathered to Duan Yun.
This information wasn’t acquired by Fan Gao alone.
In his words, there were four of them here initially tasked with investigating information about Jade Guanyin. He was the only one left alive.
This piece of information could be said to contain three and a half lives.
They fought for the Rolling Curtain Door, some died, some crippled, and now he was left with half a life, thrown here like a dog.
This was also the reason he made up his mind to gamble.
Jade Guanyin was terrifying, and so was Young Hero Duan.
He was not a top expert in the Martial World, not sure about the depths of their powers. But this place was Jade Guanyin’s territory, and her mystery and terror were deeply embedded in people’s hearts. This Young Hero Duan seemed unlikely to win.
But it wasn’t impossible.
According to Fan Gao, at that time, only he and Bi Suo were left from their group of four.
Due to their shared hardships, they gradually became good brothers.
They were planning to give up if things got too tough, perhaps return to one of their hometowns to build a house and live a simple life.
When they first joined the Martial World, people like them aimed to make a name and dominate.
But as time passed, they realized that this Martial World was not suitable for them.
They were just ordinary people.
At that time, the Rolling Curtain Door sent them one last message, demanding that they find a way to infiltrate Yellow Jade Island; that way, they could take some money and rest.
But during that mission, his good brother Bi Suo died there, and he was poisoned with a strange toxin.
He tried to contact the Rolling Curtain Door, but they rejected him outright; he trembled, like an old dog about to freeze to death.
Fan Gao remembered clearly, it hadn’t snowed that day, yet he felt an extreme chill.
The poison he contracted made him fear cold, painful as if a thousand ants were crawling on him; the cold he felt then was due to despair.
Duan Yun and his companions sympathized with his plight and did not interrupt his off-topic words.
People’s focal points are different.
Their focus was on finding the entrance, saving people, and then acting for Heaven to eliminate Jade Guanyin’s entire lineage, while Fan Gao’s focus was on his pain, his loss.
Perhaps because he hadn’t expressed his pent-up emotions to anyone in a long time, this time, Fan Gao spoke a lot.
It was only later that he realized and started discussing the important point.
After the first two fellow disciples died, he and his brother Bi Suo sorted out the clues and indeed, deep within the desert, they found a clue to enter Yellow Jade Island.
The information they had gathered before showed that Yellow Jade Island was actually beyond a large and chaotic Devil City.
Devil City is named so because being there is like being in hell, where every step is difficult.
In Devil City, where sandstorms constantly fill the sky and the sound of stones hitting sand echoes eerily, like ghosts howling and wolves wailing, sinister and terrifying, one could easily lose their way.
Moreover, Jade Guanyin has many traps set up in it, and it’s rumored that she even keeps man-eating demons there; hence, the area is practically forbidden, even skilled martial artists would die inside.
It can be said that Yellow Jade Island, where Jade Guanyin resides, is a fortress extremely difficult to penetrate, and this is one of the reasons why many who wish to kill her feel helpless.
Of course, more enemies of Jade Guanyin lack the resolve of Duan Yun.
They initially came fiercely wanting revenge but faltered when they realized the distance and dangers, especially when they discovered it was Jade Guanyin’s territory, and eventually gave up.
Unlike Duan Yun who declares to kill Jade Guanyin and follows through without internal conflicts or compromises.
And the unexpected clue that Fan Gao got was a monastery.
"A monastery?" Feng Ling’er frowned.
"Jade Guanyin fancies herself as Guanyin, so there are many Guanyin statues in the Devil City. On the outer northern side of the city, there is a Guanyin Monastery. That monastery seems abandoned because it’s also part of Devil City. The wind there howls, sounding like it is full of malevolent spirits.
We had a companion once who had particularly sensitive ears. He listened and immediately felt that there was a space underground beneath that monastery. Bi Suo and I trusted him completely, because once while drinking, we learned from his drunken words that he used to be a tomb raider.
He often used his ears to check tombs, but eventually, when he could no longer continue in that profession, he joined the Rolling Curtain Door."
"Later, Bi Suo and I followed this lead to investigate, discovering a deserted well behind the monastery. We initially went just trying our luck, but found a horizontal tunnel below the well."
"We crawled through and found that the tunnel was surrounded by veins of yellow jade stone, transparent and shimmering like mirrors, quite beautiful. Even though it was underground, it wasn’t dark.
Afterward, Bi Suo and I emerged from the tunnel and then saw an oasis. The oasis was surrounded by clean water, like a fairyland, and we could even hear the ethereal singing, as if a fairy was bathing and humming.
However, we both knew that this was probably one of the most terrifying places in the human world, always feeling as if the singing was from demons, luring people to consume them."