Reincarnated As a Fox With System

Chapter 1183: Exploring the Ancient Palace Ruins!

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Right at this time, Tang Li Xue’s perfect copy and Lu Xingchen had already started to explore the ancient palace ruins together.

Tang Li Xue’s perfect copy and Lu Xingchen vigilantly inspected the ancient palace ruins, but fortunately, they no longer met any danger or enemies.

It seemed there was only the Demonized General who guarded the ancient palace ruins, so after Shuang’er defeated the Demonized General, there was no more danger or enemies inside the ancient palace ruins.

Tang Li Xue’s perfect copy and Lu Xingchen found a lot of [Soul Containing Ores] in several carts at the ancient palace’s yard.

They happily divided up the [Soul Containing Ores], with Tang Li Xue’s perfect copy taking 90%, while Lu Xingchen only took 10%.

After all, they would not be able to explore these ancient palace ruins if not for Shuang’er, who defeated the Demonized General.

Lu Xingchen even insisted that Tang Li Xue’s perfect copy take all of the [Soul Containing Ores] because he barely did anything before, but Tang Li Xue’s perfect copy mentioned that she could only survive because of Lu Xingchen’s sacrifice to act as her shield.

After arguing for a while, both of them decided to share the [Soul Containing Ores] by 90/10 in the end.

"Oh~! Not bad! I almost thought we would return empty-handed today." Tang Li Xue said and smiled delightfully as she stored the [Soul Containing Ores] into her space pouch.

Lu Xingchen chuckled helplessly as he took his share of [Soul Containing Ores] given by Tang Li Xue’s perfect copy and stored them in his spatial ring.

Tang Li Xue’s perfect copy and Lu Xingchen continued to explore every crook and cranny of the ancient palace ruins carefully, but they only managed to find some scraps, which made Tang Li Xue’s perfect copy really disappointed.

But after thinking it carefully for a while, it actually made sense.

The people from this fallen ancient kingdom had a desperate war that brought their kingdom into destruction, so how could they afford to save their resources and money?!

They should have already spent all of their resources to strengthen their army, and all of their money or spirit stones were used to buy medicines, armors, weapons, and so on.

Just when Tang Li Xue’s perfect copy and Lu Xingchen were ready to give up and explore other areas, Tang Li Xue’s perfect copy suddenly had a thought: ’Wait a minute... Little Loki points us to go here, so it should be impossible to be nothing here, right?’

Tang Li Xue’s perfect copy trusted Little Loki’s treasure-sensing ability very much because Little Loki looked very eager to go into the ancient palace ruins before.

Even though the large amount of [Soul Containing Ores] was quite precious, but Tang Li Xue’s perfect copy was quite sure that those things should not be what Little Loki wants.

Because they should be able to find more [Soul Containing Ores] in the mining area, but Little Loki did not tell them to go there.

’Maybe there are still some precious treasures here, but they are hidden.’ Tang Li Xue’s perfect copy concluded in her mind.

Something like a hidden secret room was not that rare after all, since Tang Li Xue and her team already encountered it at the Yin Burial Ground before.

At that time, Tang Li Xue and her team could only find the secret passage leading to the underground, thanks to the ghost soldier.

But now, there was no ghost soldier who would help them to find the secret room, so Tang Li Xue’s perfect copy had to rely on herself to find it.

’No, this Lu Xingchen is a very lucky guy, so maybe he could find the hidden secret room by relying on his luck, just like how he managed to find the cave secret realm before.’ Tang Li Xue’s perfect copy thought while glancing at Lu Xingchen.

"It seems there is nothing of value left here. Should we go look at other places?" Lu Xingchen asked Tang Li Xue’s perfect copy.

"Senior Brother Xing, my... kitten actually has a divine ability to detect treasures. Since it points here, it means there should be some hidden precious treasures that we have not found yet." Tang Li Xue’s perfect copy explained honestly to Lu Xingchen.

Lu Xingchen showed an astonished expression before he chuckled and said: "Junior Sister Li is truly lucky to have a... companion with such a rare divine ability."

Lu Xingchen almost blurted out a ’spirit pet’, but he quickly changed it to ’companion’ after he remembered that Tang Li Xue was not a human, but a fox.

"Maybe we should look around more carefully again. Who knows if we can find a hidden secret room or passage, right? What do you think, Senior Brother Xing?" Tang Li Xue’s perfect copy implicitly suggested to Lu Xingchen.

"No problem!" Lu Xingchen nodded in agreement.

This time, Tang Li Xue’s perfect copy even decided to use [Fiery Bright Eyes], so she could see through the wall and floor.

Tang Li Xue’s perfect copy scanned all the crooks and crannies in the ancient palace ruins carefully with her [Fiery Bright Eyes], so she would not miss any clues.

After more than an hour or so, Lu Xingchen finally could not hold on anymore and complained a bit: "It seems there is really nothing here."

"Hehe, not really~! I have already found some clues about the hidden secret passage." Tang Li Xue’s perfect copy spoke in a confident tone and smiled brightly at Lu Xingchen, which dazzled Lu Xingchen and stunned him for a few moments.

Tang Li Xue’s perfect copy brought Lu Xingchen to the half-collapsed room and explained: "This room should be the emperor’s room. I managed to find some mechanisms that might be able to open the secret hidden passage, but unfortunately, the mechanisms had already long broken."

Even the emperor’s room already looked like a collapsed old building, so it was not strange that the hidden mechanisms could no longer work to open the secret hidden passage.

"Then what should we do? You do not really think that I can fix the broken mechanisms, right?" Lu Xingchen asked in a helpless tone.

"Of course not~!" Tang Li Xue’s perfect copy chuckled in amusement as she stretched her fair, smooth hand forward.

Then she mobilized her [Energy Manipulation] to condense a slender white sword.

She also infused the white sword with her Golden Sun Flame, [Sharp Edge Power], [Spirit Shock], and Profound Law of Earth, which made the slender white sword even more powerful.

Tang Li Xue’s perfect copy gave the slender white sword to Lu Xingchen and stated her idea: "Since we cannot open the secret hidden passage with the broken mechanisms, we can only break it open forcefully."

"I am afraid the secret hidden passage will collapse completely if I do it, so it seems we can only rely on your sword skill to open the way for us." Tang Li Xue’s perfect copy chuckled playfully, but she was not kidding at all.

The secret hidden passage had surely not been maintained anymore for who knows how long, so if Tang Li Xue’s perfect copy bombarded it with her [Starfall], [Moon Shattering Blast], and so on, there was an extremely high chance that the entire secret hidden passage would really collapse and become completely inaccessible.

"Junior Sister Li, you really know how to dump the heavy work on me!" Lu Xingchen replied, but he still received the sword from Tang Li Xue’s perfect copy and began to work.

Tang Li Xue’s perfect copy pushed away all the rubble and showed the spot where Lu Xingchen had to cut and excavate.

CLANG—! CLANG—! CLANG—! CLANG—! CLANG—!

Lu Xingchen slashed the slender white sword rapidly!

The extremely sharp and destructive sword energy slashes cut the solid floor made from the special hard stone like a block of tofu, then Lu Xingchen stored the smaller stone pieces that he had already cut in his spatial ring and dumped them somewhere else.

While Lu Xingchen was working hard like a construction laborer, Tang Li Xue’s perfect copy was just sitting at the corner of the ruins, lazing around, and giving some encouragement to the working Lu Xingchen from time to time.

Tang Li Xue’s perfect copy thought she had already done her part to find the location of the hidden secret passage with her [Fiery Bright Eyes], so it should be Lu Xingchen’s turn to work right now.

The secret passage was actually hidden quite far under the ground.

Even Lu Xingchen needed to work hard for almost an hour to dig the path to reach the secret passage.

There were actually spiral stone ladders that could lead to the secret passage, but they had already collapsed completely.

In short, it would not be that easy to explore this secret hidden passage because many sections of the secret hidden passage were buried or blocked by the collapsed buildings or ruins above it.

In the end, Tang Li Xue’s perfect copy and Lu Xingchen decided to do it just like before.

Tang Li Xue’s perfect copy will use her [Fiery Bright Eyes] to see through any obstacles and find the correct path, while Lu Xingchen would work to dig open the path, so they could pass.

Their progress was quite slow, but at least they did not meet with any danger or enemies on their way.

They entered deeper and deeper into the dark, hidden passage.

If Tang Li Xue’s perfect copy did not have the full level [Night Vision] skill, she might not be able to see anything here.

Lu Xingchen also could not see anything with his eyes in this completely dark environment, but he relied on his Divine Sense to ’see’ everything.

After working for a few hours, they finally reached a huge room that should be as big as a stadium!