Reincarnated As a Fox With System

"Damn it~! This is truly a waste of time! I should not have believed in that sneaky ghost!" Tang Li Xue mumbled angrily.

Tang Li Xue was ready to give up and planned to immediately get out from the Yin Burial Ground.

But just as she turned her slender body around, she actually saw the ghost soldier again at the end of the corridor.

In this dark and gloomy environment, any normal person would have already been scared to death if they saw such a horror scene, but Tang Li Xue was clearly not a normal person.

"Hey, you damn bast*rd ghost! How dare you play with me around like this?!" Tang Li Xue scolded the ghost soldier instead.

The ghost soldier did not reply to Tang Li Xue.

Just like before, he pointed his finger in a certain direction before he disappeared again.

Angry veins popped out on Tang Li Xue's forehead.

She really did not want to follow the ghost soldier's guidance anymore, but she had already gone this far, so it would be such a shame if she gave up halfway.

Tang Li Xue sighed helplessly as she finally decided to see where the ghost soldier wanted her to go.

After following the ghost soldier's guidance a few more times, Tang Li Xue reached the beautiful garden with a fish pond in the middle of it.

Tang Li Xue watched the ghost soldier standing at the pavilion beside the fish pond and pointing his finger at one of the pavilion's pillars, then disappearing all of a sudden again as usual.

Tang Li Xue walked to the pavilion and carefully checked the pillar that the ghost soldier had previously pointed at.

Surprisingly, she found a switch that could be turned hidden in that pillar!

Tang Li Xue took a deep breath before she tried to turn the switch until it could not be turned anymore.

CLACK~!

Tang Li Xue heard a faint sound of some mechanism at work, then...

RUMBLE~! RUMBLE~! RUMBLE~!

SPLOOSSH~!

The fish pool actually began to split, showing a stair to the underground!

"This is... a hidden passage?!" Tang Li Xue exclaimed in surprise.

Tang Li Xue did not immediately go down into the hidden passage.

She summoned Xi'er, Little Loki, Yaya, and Lucia out first, then asked about their opinion.

"What do you guys think? Can that ghost soldier really be trusted?" Tang Li Xue asked her team after she told them what had happened.

"It would be too dangerous if we all went down there together. What if there are many traps waiting for us down there? So, let me go down and check it first." Xi'er suggested to Tang Li Xue.

Yaya: "Yaya~! Yayayaya~! (Me too~! I want to go down too~!)"

Little Loki: "Meow! Nyaoow Meow Meew! (Let me do it! I have [Instant Teleportation] and [Void Lurking Boots]!)"

Lucia: "Chirp chirp! Kweek Kweek Kwek~! (I can protect you all! I have great speed and [Silver Dragon Skin Pearl]!)"

Xi'er added again by saying: "My true vessel is not this undead body but the [Sword of Disaster]. I cannot be killed even if this undead body is destroyed."

Tang Li Xue slapped her forehead in annoyance as she shouted in resignation: "All right, that is enough! All of you, shut up! I understand what you all want! Then let's go in together! Just remember to be careful and never let your guard down."

Tang Li Xue really regretted asking them all.

Xi'er was the strongest among them, so she stood at the very front.

Lucia had the fastest speed and high defense, so she would cover Tang Li Xue's rear.

Little Loki and Yaya sat on Tang Li Xue's right and left shoulders as usual, but they were ready to make their move to protect Tang Li Xue from any harm at any time.

Tang Li Xue frustratedly realized that she was actually the only burden on their team.

Xi'er, Tang Li Xue, and Lucia carefully entered the hidden passage by descending the stone stairs between the fish pool that was divided into two.

The stone stairs went down quite deep, maybe around thirty meters below the ground or so, while the hidden passage was dark and narrow.

Luckily, there were torches hanging on the right and left sides of the hidden passage.

Of course, Tang Li Xue and her team could still see clearly even in the dark, so the torches did not mean much to them.

When Xi'er reached the last stone stairs, there was no trap like what they had expected, but there were actually two guards who guarded on the right and left sides of the bronze gates located at the end of the stone stairs.

Before those two guards could react, Xi'er already swiftly swung the pitch-black [Sword of Disaster] in her grasp!

[Black Energy Wave Slash]~!

PUFF~! PUFF~!

The cultivation level of both guards was not low, maybe at the high-rank Core Formation Stage.

Unfortunately, they were facing Xi'er, who was currently at mid-rank Nascent Soul Stage, so their high-rank Core Formation Stage cultivation level was completely powerless against her.

Xi'er easily slaughtered both of them instantly in one attack.

Xi'er was afraid that the other guards would notice it from the smell of blood, so she cast a flamethrower spell to burn all the corpses and blood without leaving any trace behind.

After reading many martial arts and spells manuals they obtained from the battle in the Capital City before, Xi'er had become more proficient in various martial arts and spells.

Moreover, all of her martial arts and spells were much more powerful than others, thanks to her mysterious black energy, which was a combination of Death Energy, Undead Energy, Yin Energy, Darkness Energy, and so on.

After Tang Li Xue and the others caught up with Xi'er and stepped down from the stone stairs, they could no longer see any trace of the guards slaughtered by Xi'er.

Xi'er and Tang Li Xue did not immediately enter the bronze gates.

Both of them pushed the bronze gate a bit and peeked inside.

Just like what they had expected, there was a huge hall behind the bronze gates, and a lot of people were wandering back and forth to transport something.

All of these people were wearing black uniforms, so they should be the workers from the Hall of Rebirth.

"What the heck are they doing down here?!" Tang Li Xue whispered softly to Xi'er in a suspicious tone.

Xi'er shook her head and replied: "I do not know, but they should not do any good things since they do it so sneakily like this."

Tang Li Xue really regretted that she currently could not use her [Mystic Whisper] yet.

If she could use her [Mystic Whisper], she could easily kidnap some people and interrogate them using it.

Xi'er took out a Yuan Coin from her spatial ring and flicked it lightly into the gap of bronze gates.

Clink~!

The Yuan Coin fell right behind the bronze gates.

It did not take long for one of the people in the black uniforms to notice the Yuan Coin, and he approached the bronze gates to pick up the Yuan Coin.

But Xi'er's hand suddenly came out from the gap between the bronze gates and pulled that person toward her.

Her movement was so quick and smooth that no one seemed to notice that person suddenly disappeared.

Xi'er killed that person in one move and stripped his black uniform, then wore it before she burned that person's dead body to nothingness with her flame spell.

Meanwhile, Tang Li Xue only needed to activate her [Thousand Myriad Faces] and disguised as the person that was just killed by Xi'er.

After that, Tang Li Xue decided to apologize to Lucia and Yaya first before she took both of them back into her System's Pet Space.

Lucia was the only one without any skill to turn herself invisible and undetectable, while Yaya's [Traceless Wind Cover] was ineffective against Nascent Soul Stage masters.

It would be dangerous if they blatantly followed Tang Li Xue to enter the secret hall since Tang Li Xue was quite sure that there should be a few Nascent Soul Stage masters guarding inside there.

Little Loki was different though. It had [Void Lurking Boots], and [Void Lurking Boots]'s advanced stealth skill was many times better than even Tang Li Xue's [Ethereal Form].

It should not be a problem for Little Loki to hide itself from Nascent Soul Stage masters.

What Tang Li Xue always worried about from Little Loki was that it would intentionally separate from her and run around to look for food on its own.

Little Loki activated [Void Lurking Boots]'s advanced stealth skill while sitting leisurely on the top of Tang Li Xue's head.

After Little Loki turned invisible and undetectable, Tang Li Xue and Xi'er pushed open the bronze gate and entered the secret hall.

A few patrolling guards immediately stared at the two of them for a few moments, but they quickly stopped paying any attention to Tang Li Xue and Xi'er.

Maybe it was because those patrolling guards were already familiar with the person Tang Li Xue was currently disguised as, so even though Tang Li Xue brought in a new face like Xi'er, those guards did not bother to ask anything about it.

Tang Li Xue deliberately put on a pale expression as if he was currently sick, so no one would suspect anything if she suddenly became so quiet today.

It would be really bad if this person's acquaintances greeted her later and asked her about this and that.

'Sister Xue, they are actually transporting the corpses of the fallen soldiers!' Xi'er informed Tang Li Xue with telepathy after she investigated the items carried by these people in black uniforms with her Divine Sense.

Tang Li Xue frowned deeply in suspicion.

Then Tang Li Xue and Xi'er also took the wooden chest and pretended to help transport the wooden chest to another place like the other people.