THE XIAO'CHEN JOURNEY

3.TRAPPED IN THE DUNGEON

The fight between Qian Tong and Wang Chun still continued to run through the air at a height of 100 meters from the ground. Unlike the previous one, this time Qian Tong seemed overwhelmed against Wang Chun who attacked blindly.

Judging from Wang Chun's physical state that began to change, from the color of her skin and eyes that were reddened.

Qian Tong could guess that person had consumed a forbidden pill that could increase the strength of its user by several folds, perhaps even Wang Chun's ability was now already one level above Qian Tong.

Although the forbidden pill that Wang Chun consumed was able to make a huge impact in increasing his cultivation level. This pill also had a side effect that could blow up Wang Chun's body if the user were to constantly fight.

'This guy is really gil4, if left constantly his body can explode. Rather than all that, it is unknown as to when this person survived so I could not help in terms of saving the two children. Now the safety of my daughter is in your hands, Xiao Chen.'

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Meanwhile, in the place of the students of the scarlet academy, they seem to compactly help each other with their friends who have difficulty facing opponents. So thanks to their compact action, half of the initial number of black crow members began to fall.

Feeling that their opponent was too compact, to the point of not being able to break through the defense of the group of youths. Half of the members of the black crow began to change the formation to break the concentration of the 15 talented youths.

Realize that a group of black crow members were about to split their cohesiveness. The 15 youths immediately dispersed and created a 15-star formation, to then attack using full force towards the remaining group of black crows. Making all the members of the black crow trapped inside the 15-star formation immediately lie unconscious. This happened because the 15 youths gathered their mana to the same place and then used it to mentally attack the opponent in the midst of the formation and make it fall.

Finally after 30 minutes of fighting, the entire black crow was defeated by 15 young men without serious injuries.

They were all back to help Qian Tong's wife who appeared to be fighting against an additional group of black crow members.

But when she was about to be helped, she instead told the 15 scarlet academy youths to go help Qian Yu and Xiao Chen.

"Happy those two kids, I can handle this !"

The order of the woman was directly followed to 15 young men, they darted after the opponent who had taken Qian Yu and Xiao Chen hostage. Qian Tong's wife's strength was not too far below her husband's, so facing a group of black crow members was an easy game for her.

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Meanwhile in a small fortress in the middle of the forest. Qian Yu and Xiao Chen were brought into the fortress by a silver crow masked man.

Unlike Qian Yu who panicked and asked to be released. Xiao Chen remained calm and silent, despite the dangerous circumstances for the two.

Inside the small fortress was still a group of black crows left, they immediately closed the gate of the fort to prevent the attack.

Soon the person who was carrying Qian Yu and Xiao Chen, entered an underground holding room called a dungeon.

Arriving at the dungeon, Xiao Chen could see 5 pieces of iron bars. Inside the bars are dozens of children from the age of 7-10 years in it, possibly they have been kidnapped and will be sold.

The children of the abductees were seen looking at Qian Yu and Xiao Chen blankly. Naturally they behave like that, because at a young age they have been exposed to mental pressure due to too long living in a dark and humid place.

Xiao Chen turned to the right.'In view of their thin dry body posture. It seems like they have been stuck in this place for a long time.'

Then Xiao Chen and Qian Yu were thrown into an empty cage. There were only the two of them there, so the man who had brought them decided to tie both hands and feet of Xiao Chen as well

Qian Yu used the tree roots just in case.

"Master, we are currently under attack ! The front of the fortress has been successfully penetrated, now the defense members are blocking the movement of the opponent !!"

"What ! Don't let them go deeper. Prepare all the weapons, I'll intervene myself !"

The silver crow masked man left the dungeon to withstand the attacks of 15 young men who pounded their defenses.

Seeing that opportunity, Qian Yu used to take out mana so that the ties on her hands and feet could be released.

But what was the power of a little girl who had not practiced cultivation at all, the mana power belonging to Qian Yu was still too weak to let go of the tree roots that bound her hands.

Feeling desperate because all his plans had failed, Qian Yu cried out in utter disdain while calling her father and mother.

Making Xiao Chen feel irate to hear it."Shut up, not only will your cry make my eardrum almost break but it will also draw the attention of the other person back."

Immediately Qian Yu's cry stopped. Then his attention was diverted to Xiao Chen who seemed to be trying to sever the tree roots using a dagger that he had stolen from the masked man before.

"Would you look so calm, since when did you get that dagger ?"

"Since you started crying asking to be released,"

Although Xiao Chen's words were impressed like insults. In fact, while being held in an inverted position towards the dungeon, Xiao Chen used Qian Yu's cry as a distraction so that he could pick up the dagger stored beside the waist of the previous man.

Xiao Chen only silently responded to Qian Yu's praise. After the ties on his legs and hands had broken loose, Xiao Chen stood up and threw the dagger earlier at Qian Yu.

"What ?! You think by giving me this dagger I can escape ? Since you're loose, why don't you help me untie this,"

Xiao Chen crouched down in front of the iron bars, "We don't have enough time, the masked man earlier was extremely strong. Maybe the previous seniors couldn't last long, before that happens we've got to get out,"

"But I can't do it alone,"

"Why don't you use the time you have left to try, instead of whining ? There's still kids to save,"

Qian Yu then grabbed the dagger lying behind with great difficulty, after the dagger was successfully obtained it was confused by the way out of this dungeon.

"How do we get out ? Even though we've escaped the bond, we can't escape from this prison,"

Xiao Chen noticed the state of the iron bars before him, then found something interesting on the surface of the ground."It turns out that these bars aren't made until they penetrate the ground, we can dig up the ground a little bit and get out in between,"

After successfully freeing himself, Qian Yu walked over to Xiao Chen.

"Then what should I do ?"

"Yell out, tell the others to dig the ground between the bars."

"What if that person hears my screams ? Are you sure this plan will work ??"

"The person was probably fighting, it's impossible to get here any time soon. Regarding this plan must have worked, because the soil here is very soft and easy to dig."

Qian Yu nodded and then said loudly so that her voice could be heard by the other children.

"All of you ! Did you hear my words ?! Dig the ground between the bars, roughly until your body can pass through. Our time is limited, so make the most of this opportunity !!"

Immediately the caged children followed Qian Yu's lead, they clutched royong digging the ground between the iron bars.

After a while of digging, Xiao Chen and Qian Yu finally managed to break free, as did all the other children.

"Then what should we do ?"Qian Yu asked.

Xiao Chen paused for a moment to think."It's likely that the masked man before is still fighting out there, so we can't get out of the way. Does anyone know where this dungeon is headed ?"

A 9-year-old, thin and black man, held up one hand."I used to be a slave here, I found out that this dungeon has two exits. First the front road, second the back road to the forest."

Xiao Chen nodded, "Let us,"

The young man previously nodded then ran towards the back road of the dungeon, from behind Xiao Chen and Qian Yu following with the other children.

After walking for about 5 minutes, they were faced with a large door. Soon the young man in black earlier ruffled the barrel that was close to the door before him.

The astonished Xiao Chen immediately approached the young man and patted him on the shoulder."What are you doing ?"

"Among these barrel there is a key. That's the key we can use to open this door,"

Xiao Chen who heard immediately told the others to help, because it would be a long time if working alone considering the number of barrel that there is almost reached 100 pieces.

Soon all the children were checking all the barrel, their hopes were dashed when all the barrel had been checked but the key was said to remain unaccounted for.

"It looks like the key's been moved, I'm sorry about everything.."The young man in black was sorry.

Xiao Chen patted the young man on the shoulder, then looked at him seriously.

"We've come this far because of you. I'm sure you can, try to remember. There must be another key."

The young man thought hard, then his eyes widened when he remembered something."In the room at the corner, there is a body box. It used to be a dungeon guard, most likely inside the box was stored a key."

Xiao Chen nodded, "I see, stay here and take care of the others while I look for the key."

Soon Xiao Chen ran towards the previous bend which was estimated to be 10 meters away from the dungeon's back door. While Qian Yu and the other children were waiting for Xiao Chen with anxious feelings.

'Xiao Chen, please hurry up."