Tomb raiding: Today is another day I don't want to go home.

Chapter 77 Within the Gate of Death

Yan Lang crouched down and checked the pulse of the Yan family member lying on the ground. He was still breathing. As his hand moved down, he touched the man's chest and abdomen.

Yan Lang gasped almost imperceptibly. Yan Xing's ribs were broken, but fortunately, his internal organs were not damaged. It seemed that Yan Huai had held back.

After taking a pill from his pocket and giving it to Yan Xing, Yan Lang stood up, interrupting the "friendly interaction" between Yan Yang and his clan leader not far away.

"Clan leader, I apologize for my earlier offense, but you still need to break the formation we set up."

Yan Huai felt a headache coming on. How could he possibly break any formations in his current state?

"Then you should put the onion juice away first!"

"Absolutely not!" Yan Lang refused without even thinking. What a joke! If they accepted the onion juice, how could his group possibly return unscathed?

"Chieftain, please break the formation before the onion juice dries up." Otherwise... hehe! We'll have to set up other formations to deal with you.

Yan Huai didn't miss the fleeting glint of mischievousness in Yan Lang's eyes. His heart skipped a beat. Even though he hadn't sensed any malice from these people from the beginning, judging from the onion juice, if he didn't break out of the formation in time, even if he wasn't allergic, he would be tripped up by something that would definitely be difficult to deal with. If this went on for too long, it would not only delay his travel plans but also attract the attention and suspicion of the Wang family, which was the last thing he wanted to see.

As the commotion caused by the onion juice subsided, Yan Huai's gaze swept around the pale blue barrier, which was several hundred meters in diameter. Combining this with the wind blades and the phantom of the azure dragon that he had just dodged, he guessed that this should be the Wind-Raising Array that the Yan family members had modified themselves.

The difference between this and the original Wind-Raising Array is that the wind within the array is no longer driven by the array's internal core, but rather controlled by the spiritual power of the seven members of the Yan family. As for the array's protector, it should be the illusory image of the Azure Dragon that Yan Huai cannot touch.

To break this formation, the first step is to choose a gate. As the name suggests, Yan Huai needs to enter a specific gate that symbolizes good or bad fortune. The auspicious gates are Life, Open, Injury, and Rest, while the inauspicious gates are Death, Block, Shock, and Scenery. The Wind Formation is associated with wind, and the Xun trigram represents wind in the Eight Trigrams.

According to the method of breaking the Xun Formation, Yan Huai needs to enter the inauspicious gate once and the auspicious gate three times. In other words, he has to follow the order of death, opening, injury, and rest, and enter and exit the barrier he is in from the corresponding direction. Only in this way can he be considered to have completed the first step of breaking the formation.

The Death Gate corresponds to the southwest direction.

Yan Huai glanced at the few Yan family members on the ground below, then drifted away into the southwest...

But as Yan Huai tentatively tried to pass through the barrier in front of him, he felt as if his body had broken through a curtain of water. However, the scene inside was completely different from the beautiful description that had suddenly popped up earlier.

The space inside the Death Gate was so vast that even Yan Huai, who was maintaining his dragon form, seemed tiny. Countless rusty and thick iron chains crisscrossed inside, with fresh bloodstains sticking to them, like a rose embroidered on a yellowed rag that was completely out of place, devoid of any beauty and even repulsive.

But this place... feels so familiar...

"System, can they see what's going on inside?" Yan Huai felt a tremor in his chest as he cautiously floated inside, asking in his mind.

"Unseen..." The environment within the Gate of Death is where Yan Huai was closest to death, so it cannot be seen in this world. The other gates are the same, only they represent different meanings.

The system silently swallowed the subsequent remarks that resembled leaks, and its reply remained concise. However, compared to the things that Yan Huai would find out sooner or later, the information it had been hiding about Zhang Qiling from Yan Huai was completely transparent.

Yan Huai was unaware of the system's malfunction. The closer he got to the depths of the Death Gate, the less he could think or react, as if his consciousness was being controlled. The fear emanating from the depths of his soul almost made him forget his own existence...

"Roar!"

A piercing scream suddenly came from above. Yan Huai froze, his mind tense to the limit. His golden vertical pupils had turned crimson. He hesitated, then looked up and saw a scene that made his blood freeze instantly—

The seven iron chains that had pierced through the body were quickly pulled away, and the blood flowing from the hole rolled down the dragon's body, then gently hit Yan Huai's forehead. It was hot, but it cooled down after a while.

Yan Huai's eyes gradually became vacant, and his chest felt as if something was blocking it, making him feel suffocated. The sounds that came out of his mouth were hoarse murmurs, so they became almost inaudible: "Father..."

Yan Huai carefully climbed the iron chain and passed through the gap, slowly approaching the Azure Dragon hanging between the iron chains above, whose eyes were already closed. He trembled and used his body to gently lift it up, then lowered his head and rubbed it against its neck, again and again, his tone stubbornly trying to wake up a tired relative.

"Father?"

"Father......"

The sleeping dragon's eyelids fluttered. It lifted its eyelids slightly, and after a long while, its gaze finally settled: "Ah Huai..."