I’ve Led the Villain Astray, How Do I Fix It?

I’ve Led the Villain Astray, How Do I Fix It?

Chapter 392

After waiting outside the street for two whole hours, the three of them still could not come up with a good solution.

In the end, Tianle could not take it anymore. He rushed to the street entrance and started cursing loudly at the brothel monsters. With the rule’s wall between them, he insulted them from top to bottom, including their ancestors from eighteen generations ago and their descendants eighteen generations later—— Well, if those things had ancestors, he would have scolded them all.

Xu Ziyan stared in disbelief as the embroidered shoe and handkerchiefs on the entire street revolted. The swarm of creatures that were provoked by Tianle’s insults all blocked at the entrance. If it were not for the rule’s wall preventing them from coming out, they might have bitten Tianle to death.

Well… Tianle’s verbal skills were indeed sharp that even Xu Zirong had to give him a thumbs up.

Xu Ziyan and Xu Zirong squatted at the street corner, watching Tianle’s feat of provoking a swarm of handkerchiefs and embroidered shoes, but they did not expect to notice something different.

“It seems like there are fewer of them now.” Xu Ziyan gently nudged Zirong.

Xu Zirong slightly narrowed his eyes and frowned, “Indeed, they’ve decreased.”

“Those things won’t disappear without reason. We should look around and see what’s going on.” Xu Ziyan said as he widened his eyes, trying to focus his spiritual consciousness near the rule’s wall. Although the rule’s wall hindered his focus, he could still concentrate on the area around the street entrance and observe clearly.

Xu Ziyan focused his attention on a pink handkerchief. After a while, that pink handkerchief was silently ‘swallowed’ by the huge beauty picture.

That kind of swallow was the real swallow. Unlike how the huge undergarment ripped the other handkerchiefs with its mouth, the entire handkerchief quietly blended into the beauty picture instead.

The beauty picture’s method of devouring was much more sophisticated. There were obviously no creatures around the undergarment, but the beauty picture could secretly grow itself while being surrounded by numerous embroidered shoes and handkerchiefs.

Xu Ziyan rubbed his chin. From the looks of it, the relationship between those monsters might not be very good. At least judging from the behavior of the huge undergarment, it showed no pressure when devouring weaker monsters.

Among the three formidable entities, the undergarment was actually the strongest, followed by the embroidered shoe, while the weakest was the beauty picture. If the relationship between those three was not great, it was understandable that the beauty picture would secretly devour other monsters.

“Hey!” Xu Ziyan came up with a plan that did not seem like a plan. He walked up to the rule’s wall and shouted at the undergarment.

The undergarment was the one that clashed with the rule’s wall the hardest earlier. Judging from the fact that it had been struck by lightning again and again and had not learned its lesson, it seemed that its intelligence was not very high.

“Eat them!” The undergarment yelled manically.

Xu Ziyan dug his ears and said with a smile, “Did you know that your brother is secretly devouring your little brothers?”

Undergarment: …

What is this human talking about?

Seeing the puzzled expression on the undergarment’s face, Xu Ziyan could not help laughing. He had noticed earlier that the beauty picture would take at least ten seconds to digest a piece of handkerchief when stealing food. He deliberately chose that moment to confront them, because the beauty picture had just started devouring another handkerchief, allowing him to catch it in the act.

He pointed to the beauty picture.

The undergarment habitually looked in the direction he was pointing——

——and there it was, only halfway through devouring a handkerchief, with the other half still outside. The beauty picture: …

Damn! I’m caught red-handed!

Next… Well, after that, it had nothing to do with Xu Ziyan and the others. They could just enjoy the show.

Clearly, those creatures from the brothels had intellectual defects that could not be concealed… As the default leader of the brothel gang, Ms. Undergarment had a well-deserved leadership position. In her obviously underutilized brain, being the leader meant that all delicious food and drinks should belong to her. Moreover, only after she evolved to the next stage would she allow the embroidered shoe and the beauty picture to devour other smaller monsters to evolve.

Now, the beauty picture’s act of stealing food from her was like snatching food directly from her mouth, so she was naturally furious.

“Hey, quite lively, isn’t it!” Tianle nudged Xu Ziyan with his shoulder and gave him a handful of roasted sunflower seeds.

Taking the sunflower seeds, Xu Ziyan happily munched on them while enjoying the chaotic battle among the monsters. It was quite entertaining…

About an hour later, there were only a dozen pitiful handkerchiefs left moving on the street. The majority of them had been affected by the battle between the undergarment and the beauty picture.

Although the undergarment was slightly more powerful than the beauty picture in cultivation, after so long of continuous stealing, the latter was clearly prepared. In the end, they both nearly perished together, leaving only the boat-sized embroidered shoe. The shoe was seemingly simple and honest, yet it was cunning enough to swallow them both.

Xu Ziyan: Damn… It’s the live-action version of a palace conspiracy!

Tianle: I just learnt something new!

Xu Zirong: == So boring!

The embroidered shoe remained silent from the start. After devouring the undergarment and the beauty picture, it moved its heavy body and slowly walked into a brothel. It seemed that it had no interest in Xu Ziyan and his group.

At first, Xu Ziyan was somewhat surprised, but on second thought, he felt that it was perfectly reasonable.

The embroidered shoe had never shown any hostility towards them from the very beginning, so he could not simply label it as aggressive just because it was heavy and had no sense of heaviness in its walk. ╮(╯_╰)╭

“What should we do? Shall we go?” Tianle looked nervously at the now empty street. He could not shake the feeling that the embroidered shoe was not simple at all, considering that it had swallowed the other two creatures. If they went in, what if they could never come back out again?

“Let’s go, I think the embroidered shoe don’t seem to be interested in us.” Xu Ziyan thought for a moment and continued, “Besides, the current situation is much better than before. Even if the embroidered shoe comes out, we still have the strength to fight. If we don’t leave now, when will we?”

“Oh.” Tianle nodded, “Let’s go. Anyway, the three of us are together. If we’re unlucky, we’ll be unlucky together. But I still can’t help feeling that the embroidered shoe is not that simple. Do you think it might have some evil plot?”

(Embroidered shoe returning to its room: Fighting and killing all day is so irritating. A calm mind leads to a healthy body. You can tell from my heavy weight. If I have time, I might as well sleep more…

Xu Ziyan glanced at the nonsense talker speechlessly about his negative thoughts. Now that the central secret room was in front of them, they had such a good opportunity, so why give up?

Realizing that as well, Tianle stopped spouting more nonsense and directly strode into the street of the brothel.

Surprisingly, perhaps because the embroidered shoe had no hostility towards them, the entire street became very quiet. There were occasional fragments of handkerchiefs floating in the air, but it was hard to believe that just half an hour ago, the street was filled with various monsters.

Tianle took a few steps tentatively at first, but when he found that no monsters rushed out to stop them, he decisively accelerated his pace.

Xu Ziyan and Xu Zirong were not far away from him. Noticing that he was speeding up, they quickly followed closely behind.

They passed through the entire brothel street so smoothly that Xu Ziyan found it somewhat unbelievable.

However, since they succeeded, they did not plan to analyze the minds of those monsters psychologically. As long as they passed through, it was a good thing. When they came out of the central secret room later, they would not be on that street anymore, so any monsters that emerged afterward would have nothing to do with them. ╮(╯▽╰)╭

The central secret room was a seven-story building. Aside from the entrance of the first-floor door, there were no windows on all the other walls, making it appear completely sealed.

The three of them walked to the entrance and looked at each other. Tianle did not waste time saying anything foolish about whether to enter or not and just gave the door a push… Huh? It did not budge?

“The door is locked?” Tianle exclaimed in surprise.

Xu Zirong sneered, “Is that strange? Would you leave the door wide open for future generations to come and take treasures if you built a secret treasure chamber?”

Tianle argued stubbornly, “But according to the statement on the stele, as long as we reach this central secret room, we can get the treasure!”

Xu Zirong raised an eyebrow, “That’s why I’m going to ask you.”

“Why are you asking me for?” Tianle asked strangely.

Xu Zirong smiled, “Doesn’t your master know everything? Didn’t he tell you how to open the door of the central secret room?”

Tianle: …, Damn, so he was waiting for me here!

He scratched his head, trying hard to recall the information that his master had told him back then, but he shook his head, “My master really didn’t say anything about this. It seems like there were no records about this. But think about it, if the person who recorded this back then didn’t mention anything, it must’ve been relatively easy to open.”

Xu Ziyan ignored the bickering between Xu Zirong and Tianle, and was carefully inspecting the large door.

The door was made of crimson red metal, firmly embedded in the wall without a single gap. Xu Ziyan looked around and found a very light-colored nine-grid grid on the right side of the door.

The center of the nine-grid pattern was blank, and the other positions were marked with the eight characters for metal, wood, water, fire, earth, wind, thunder, and ice.

Those eight characters represent eight spiritual root attributes, Xu Ziyan thought for a while, and pressed on thunder, wood and wind.

Rumble——

There was a huge roar from inside the central secret room. Judging from the sound, it seemed that there was some massive mechanism moving inside the building.

Xu Ziyan secretly heaved a sigh of relief, it seemed that his guess was right. Since the central secret room was open to everyone, it was very likely that there were various treasures stored within.

For most cultivators, if they obtained treasures that did not match their spiritual roots, they would need to go through various trades in the market to exchange for the right ones. During that process, they would have to worry about being robbed or attacked for their treasures. Instead of going through such troubles, it was more convenient to select treasures that matched their attributes right from the beginning.

Xu Ziyan thought very clearly. Since the stele was open for others to see, and the existence of the central secret room was also known to everyone, it would naturally be easier for the cultivators to pick after filtering the treasures.

Just as what he had done, taking out the three types of attribute-related treasures would save a lot of time and make it easier for them to continue their exploration.

The opening of the central secret room would alarm everyone in the central city, which meant that everyone in the central city would know that someone had arrived at the central secret room.