Xiao Qi cautiously peered into the tower, seeing only Lin Zhao lying on the ground. She didn't see the ghost that had attacked her.

Where had the ghost gone?

Xiao Qi instinctively looked towards the top of the gate.

The gate of the Xiao Long Pagoda (Small Dragon Pagoda) had already opened slightly.

But no matter how Xiao Qi looked at it, the crack in the door didn't seem to have been forced open by her Wuji Staff. Instead, the more she looked, the more it seemed that someone had deliberately opened the door from the inside.

"Don't approach a door left ajar" was an old saying in the Kong Dao (Empty Path).

A half-open door either meant that someone had already set a trap inside, waiting for someone to come to their death, or that a ghost was lying on top of the door, waiting to pull people in.

The former situation was easier to deal with. But if she encountered a ghost lying on the door frame, clinging to the crack and waiting for someone to enter, then things would be terrible.

When a person pushes the door, the ghost would pull the door outwards from above.

If the person pushing the door hadn't touched it, or had just touched it when it opened, they would instinctively look up. By the time they saw the face above the door, the hand grabbing their hair would already be reaching down.

All the stories that the seniors of the Kong Dao had told Xiao Qi suddenly flashed through her mind.

The more she thought about it, the more afraid she became, and the more she thought there was someone on top of the door. She didn't dare to take another step forward.

Lin Zhao, lying in the room, was still in critical condition. If she didn't save Lin Zhao, Xiao Qi wouldn't dare to return to me. For a moment, she didn't know what to do.

Just as Xiao Qi was in a dilemma, she suddenly heard someone behind her say, "Didn't your master teach you to be decisive in your actions?"

Xiao Qi's body instantly stiffened, because she already felt someone's hand on her shoulder.

The person said again, "You are far inferior to Li Po and the girl in the tower. They know what it means to seek life in death, but you only know how to wait for death."

Before Xiao Qi could react, she was lifted from behind and thrown towards the gate of the Xiao Long Pagoda.

Xiao Qi smashed the gate to pieces on the spot and fell beside Lin Zhao.

The ghost guarding the gate sneered and disappeared. Strangely, the snake-shaped mechanism, which had been unable to start, suddenly activated on its own at this moment. Two cast-iron pythons, as if they had come to life, shattered the bricks and stones on their bodies and writhed towards the ground.

Xiao Qi was so frightened that she shook Lin Zhao vigorously, "Sister Lin, wake up, wake up! The snakes are moving, we can't get out."

"Don't shake me! My back hurts!" Lin Zhao propped herself up from the ground and said calmly, "If we can't get out, so be it. It's good to have a place to be buried."

Xiao Qi burst into tears, "Sister Lin, aren't you afraid? Hurry up and think of a way, how do we get out?"

Lin Zhao looked curiously at the iron snakes swimming around the bottom of the tower, "These snakes are interesting!"

Xiao Qi's tears were about to fly out, "Sister Lin, are you scared silly? How can you still be in the mood to look at snakes?"

Lin Zhao was really annoyed by the question, "If Li Po was here, he would stuff a sock in your mouth, do you believe it?"

"For those in the martial world, death on the road means burial on the road, death in a ditch means a marker in the ditch. Who doesn't have this day? Since we can't escape, then let's enjoy the peace before death. That feeling is actually like floating in the sky. You don't feel pain, and you don't feel fear. It's as comfortable as it can be."

These words of Lin Zhao were all nonsense that Ye Yang and I had casually said!

Neither Ye Yang nor I have ever died, so how would we know what it feels like before death? I did see a few glimpses of what I had done in my life. Later, perhaps even God felt that I had reviewed my life too many times, and wouldn't even let me see it anymore.

Lin Zhao was actually afraid in her heart, but she had to comfort the even more frightened Xiao Qi.

Lin Zhao felt around her body, "I'm out of candy. Do you have anything to eat?"

"Is smoke okay?" Xiao Qi finally calmed down, took out a pack of cigarettes from her body, lit two at the same time, and handed one to Lin Zhao.

Lin Zhao took a puff and coughed up blood, "It's so strong, I really don't know why that guy Li Po would rather go without food than smoke?"

Lin Zhao took another puff and finally got used to it. The two swimming iron snakes circled around on the ground a few times. Slowly crawled towards Lin Zhao.

Lin Zhao held the cigarette in one hand and gently blocked Xiao Qi with the other, "If you're scared, hide behind me!"

Lin Zhao knew that the moment of life and death was coming.

A chilling light had already flashed in the eyes of the two pythons, and the target of that cold light was herself.

But Lin Zhao didn't even have the strength to pull her legs back at this time, she could only watch the snake crawl towards her feet.

She had heard that when pythons swallow people, they usually start from the head downwards, because in that way, the person's limbs can go down smoothly, without getting stuck in the python's mouth. If they swallow a person from the feet, they might be blocked by the person's legs, and then they would have to find a way to break the prey's bones.

The two pythons were coming for her two feet, were they going to tear her apart and swallow her down?