At the same time, the crowd who had been complaining about being tired had already stood up from the ground again.
Among them, some disciples saw the seriously injured being carried away by those fierce senior brothers. Instantly, they perked up.
Presumably, this chore was a test from the Third Elder. If they did well, they might be promoted to inner - chamber disciples faster.
Thinking of this, those who had been wailing just now all picked up their buckets and headed towards the water vats again.
At the same time, Tang Youyou suddenly collapsed to the ground. Seeing this, Hua Ze beside her immediately pretended to be on the verge of collapse. The two of them fell to the ground together, attracting the attention of an inner - chamber disciple.
Seeing them fall, the disciple said with annoyance, "Such weaklings! They can't even start and they're already out. Carry them to the Elder and let the Elder take a look at them."
The remaining inner - chamber disciples nodded and replied in unison, "Yes."
For a moment, Tang Youyou and Hua Ze felt their bodies swaying. Being lifted into the air made them more vigilant about their surroundings.
After walking for about half an hour, the inner - chamber disciples tossed them to the ground like trash.
"Just for these two, we had to walk such a long way. It's so annoying," one of them said.
Another disciple beside him gently patted his shoulder and comforted him, "Come on. They're here now. Whether they live or die, we don't know yet."
"You're right. It's really not worth getting angry for someone on the verge of death."
Their conversation abruptly ended. Soon after, there was the sound of a door closing and locking. At this moment, Tang Youyou opened her bright blue eyes that seemed to contain the starry sky in the darkness.
She took a look at the surrounding environment and lit a flare in her hand. Immediately, the candles on the side walls of the secret chamber were lit, and the chamber was instantly illuminated.
The depressing secret chamber was filled with the smell of blood. Tang Youyou, by the light of the candles, looked towards the inner chamber.
There were four large vats on the side wall. But instead of water, they were filled with blood. These were blood vats.
There were also some scattered pieces of flesh in the blood vats. Undoubtedly, the remains in them were those of the missing disciples.
She just couldn't understand why someone would kill these unarmed disciples, especially in such an extreme way, soaking their corpses in the poisonous vats.
Some of the disciples in the poisonous vats were still alive. It was obvious that they were being used to test poisons with their lives!
This person couldn't just be described as cruel. He was sinister and a bit perverted.
On the other side, there were some scattered disciples. They were on their last breaths, and their lives were barely hanging on by the old man.
This person's face was purple and swollen, looking extremely terrifying.
He looked like a body with the so - called "giant - corpse appearance".
This was something Tang Youyou had read about in a book before. When a dead body was soaked in water, it would become swollen all over, and the whole body would be twice as large as normal.
At first glance, it was like a giant soaked in water.
She endured the nausea welling up in her heart. Looking at the greenish - blue body full of bulges, she felt another wave of disgust.
"My God, how did this person become like this!" Hua Ze was seeing such a thing for the first time.
Tang Youyou calmly looked at the corpse in front of her and slowly explained, "Four to five days after death, when a body comes into contact with water, it will become swollen all over and then become two to three times its original size."
As soon as she finished speaking, the body suddenly "exploded" with a "bang"!
The sticky yellow liquid splashed all over the place and emitted an indescribable stench.
Hua Ze, who was standing beside her, couldn't stand the smell anymore. He turned around and vomited into an empty blood vat.
After retching for a long time, there came a strange laugh from the other side. Tang Youyou looked up in the direction of the sound and saw a man tied to a cross.
The man was disheveled, his face covered in blood, and there were nails all over his body. It seemed that he was nailed to the cross rather than tied.
He looked extremely painful, but the young man on the cross could still laugh.
"You're finally back?"
Hearing this, Hua Ze nodded and walked over there. Looking at the boy on the cross, he shook his head.
"It seems that this old man is not only perverted but also extremely cruel!"
The boy said, "You bet. If it weren't for my special bones, I really wouldn't have been able to hold on."
As he said this, the boy began to shrink his body and gradually fell off the cross. He had actually changed the structure of his own bones. No one had expected that someone could really do the skill of bone - shrinking.
Tang Youyou quietly watched the two of them. It seemed that they had known each other for a long time.
The boy walked towards Tang Youyou. Hua Ze introduced him, "This is a very skilled doctor I met on the way here. His name is Tang Youyou."
The boy reached out his long, good - looking but a bit dark hand. "Hua Ling."
Tang Youyou nodded but had no intention of shaking hands with him.
Hua Ling said, "You came here just to study?"
He asked Tang Youyou.
Tang Youyou shook her head. Looking into their eyes, she softly said, "I'm going to wipe out the Chi Yun Peak."
This shocked both of them.
"W - wipe out the whole sect? Are you crazy?"
Hearing this, Tang Youyou looked at Hua Ze, who stammered because of the shock.
"Why did you come here?"
Hua Ling answered first, "To retrieve something."
After learning this, Tang Youyou didn't ask any more questions. She knew that these two had no ill intentions. She just wanted to know if their goals conflicted with hers, and it turned out they didn't.
There was a hint of mockery in her cold eyes, which made the two of them feel an indescribable sense of fear.
"In that case, I'll help you find your thing, and you help me do one thing."
Hua Ling frowned and asked doubtfully, "What thing?"
"Kill the Third Elder."
Hearing this, the two of them exclaimed in unison, "What! Are you crazy!"
As soon as the words were out, there came the sound of footsteps in the distance. She turned to look at Hua Ling, signaling him to get back on the cross. Then she forcefully shot a pill into Hua Ze's mouth.
She liked to solve problems in such a rough way. Hua Ze instantly lost consciousness and collapsed on the ground, just like Tang Youyou at this moment, like a dead body.
However, he could clearly sense the surrounding environment. Except that he couldn't move or open his eyes, he could clearly hear the surrounding sounds.