Chapter 00177: There's a Mechanism
# There's a Mechanism
Chapter 177
Novel: AFK Game: Portal to Another World
Chapter 177 There's a Mechanism
If one were to speak of the Jianghu, its scope would be far too broad.
This world was the Jianghu; the imperial court was the Jianghu.
Even a small sect with just a dozen or so people could be considered the Jianghu.
Where there are people, there is conflict; it has nothing to do with scale.
If Yang Yiyi were to stay, Li Chengxi would treat it as playing a Wuxia sect simulator.
He happened to be quite interested in this type of game; he had played an old game of this genre called Hegemony of the World before, but they had become hard to find since.
If Yang Yiyi chose to leave, he would just continue playing a character-development RPG.
Li Chengxi's goal was for Yang Yiyi to be able to defeat everyone, not to be defeated by everyone.
The process was not important.
Applaud if you understand.
No matter what she chose, Li Chengxi did not mind, so the final decision had to be made by Yang Yiyi herself.
The funeral arrangements for the Master and Martial Uncle had already been handled, but among the disciples, only the Eldest Senior Martial Sister had come to ask about it out of concern.
Besides her, no one else had shown up.
Yang Yiyi was dumbfounded, and the disciples were also dumbfounded.
How could this happen? All of a sudden, the Master was gone, and the Martial Uncle was gone.
What would the Green Robe Sect do in the future, and where would they themselves go...
These were all problems.
It could be said that the entire sect, from top to bottom, had fallen into a state of deep confusion.
However, time waits for no one to think things over slowly.
The death of two people was like a trivial matter; the sun still set below the horizon, following its unchanging ancient path.
This Green Robe Sect was not famous and had no status, but one of its facilities was quite good.
Because it was located on Green Cloud Mountain, an active volcano, there was a hot spring right behind the sect gate, adjacent to the rock wall.
The sect members could bathe as they pleased, which was a huge advantage.
After all, if one wanted to bathe these days, they either had to jump directly into a river or fetch and heat water themselves, which was laborious, fuel-consuming, and very troublesome.
"Feeling a little better?"
"I... I don't have an answer yet."
"I still think you should come back to Liu Prefecture with us. If you want to learn martial arts, I can introduce you to a fierce general from the army to teach you."
Yang Yiyi was soaking in the hot spring with Li Yingluo and Zheng Yinping.
Besides comforting Yang Yiyi, the two were also a little worried that someone in the Green Robe Sect might act against her.
After all, it was because of her that the Master and Martial Uncle were gone, yet the culprit had become the Sect Master.
Anyone would find that absurd.
The two felt that the Second Senior Martial Sister, Ma Wenjuan, seemed very utilitarian.
Although the Eldest Senior Martial Sister, He Ling, appeared to be very close to Yang Yiyi, there was no guarantee what she was thinking in her heart.
Therefore, the two of them stayed by Yang Yiyi's side, not leaving her for a moment, afraid that something might happen to her.
"I never thought of taking Master's life, I just wanted an explanation..."
Yang Yiyi leaned back in frustration, submerging her entire body in the water.
A string of bubbles gurgled to the surface.
"It's good to eradicate an old issue, saves trouble in the future."
Zheng Yinping, however, held a different opinion.
She thought it was for the best that they died; it was what they deserved.
Saves me the trouble, she thought.
This was a classic case of someone speaking lightly of a burden they did not have to bear.
After all, Yang Yiyi had lived here for ten years.
No matter how strict her Master and Martial Uncle were, she never felt they were in the wrong.
"How can so many things in life go your way?"
"Eh... Brother Li? You're still here?"
The three people soaking in the water quickly covered their vital parts.
When they entered the hot spring, they had placed their clothes on a nearby rock.
Naturally, the Jade Tablet was on top of them.
Usually, Li Chengxi would have been asleep by this time, so Yang Yiyi had not been on guard against him.
"Don't bother covering up. I have no interest in peeping."
This sentence made the three girls' blood pressure shoot up.
Yang Yiyi looked down at herself:
"Is Brother Li not interested in us?"
"To be honest, if I were there in person, I would definitely feast my eyes. Believe it or not, I could jump into the water and get all of you pregnant?"
"..."
"Have some self-awareness. With three great beauties in front of me, who could control themselves? What I mean is, the situation I see from my side is different from what you're imagining. I can't see anything clearly, it's pretty much the same whether you're wearing clothes or not."
Despite saying this, Li Chengxi on the other side of the screen still clicked open the artwork for the three of them, smacking his lips as he looked at the holy light and thick fog on it.
Damn, this is too censored.
Even my paper-thin wives from mobile games show more than this artwork.
People are like that.
When you wear a lot, they focus on the parts that are showing.
When you wear little, they instead pay attention to the parts that are covered.
This is called the theory of relativity.
But to be fair, Li Yingluo truly lived up to her title as a young lady of a great house.
It was not very obvious when she was dressed, but looking at her now, it was indeed astonishing.
Zheng Yinping was only slightly smaller than Li Yingluo; in fact, the 'slightly' could even be considered a margin of error.
She did not look that large normally, so she must have been using a chest binding.
As for Yang Yiyi, she was the well-proportioned type, neither too big nor too small, exceptionally harmonious.
From this, one could see why Li Chengxi was still awake in the middle of the night.
He was waiting for the bathhouse scene...
"Brother Li, you're always so..."
"Precise with your words?"
"..."
"Don't mind these details. If I wanted to peep, I wouldn't have spoken up. I have other business."
The Jade Tablet shook itself out from the clothes and floated towards the mountain wall.
"That iron thumb ring is still there, right? Bring it over. There's a mechanism on the mountain wall. It should be a secret chamber that only the Sect Master can enter."
This was an unexpected gain.
Li Chengxi had now gotten used to pressing the Alt key to highlight interactive objects in a new scene.
While he was admiring the beauties' artwork, he casually pressed the key and noticed something unusual about the mountain wall.
Although she was unwilling to be the Sect Master, the Sect Master Token could not just be thrown away carelessly.
That iron thumb ring was in Yang Yiyi's clothes.
While the Jade Tablet was floating towards the mountain wall, the three quickly grabbed their clothes and wrapped them around their bodies.
They did not care if they were wearing them correctly; the priority was to cover up first.
Then, the three of them, wrapped up as if in bath towels, walked barefoot over the smooth rocks washed by the hot spring, following the Jade Tablet to the stone wall.
"Go forward, yes, a little lower. There's a groove under a protruding rock. Insert the iron thumb ring into it, you'll probably have to turn it."
Yang Yiyi felt an inconspicuous depression and, following Li Chengxi's instructions, inserted the iron thumb ring and turned it left and right.
The rock wall immediately made a hollow thud, and a crack actually opened up on the smooth stone.
Prying hard at the crack and pulling outward, they discovered that it was actually a stone door that could be opened.
"Use this."
The Jade Tablet tossed out an emergency lamp.
Yang Yiyi had used one back in Peach Blossom Valley, so she skillfully flipped the switch.
Behind the door, they could now see a stone chamber of about ten square meters.
The so-called furniture consisted only of a stone bed carved from the rock and a low table beside it.
Yang Yiyi walked in front, holding the emergency lamp.
The secret chamber was not large, and the not-particularly-strong light could easily illuminate the entire space.
At this time, they could see a clear meridian chart carved on one of the walls, with the mind-art incantation annotated below it.
"The Green Robe Sect is really something else, building a secret chamber right next to the bathhouse. Hey, do you think the Sect Master who founded the Green Robe Sect back then planned to hide in here and peep at the female disciples bathing?"
The three of them immediately retorted in their minds:
Seeing something as important as a secret chamber and a cultivation technique stone carving, your first thought is whether it was used for peeping?