Chapter 2266: Hypnosis; The Feng Family Secret Chamber

As Gu Zhiqi plucked the strings, a stream of zither sound flowed out from them.

Hearing the sound, Tang Yichen shivered instinctively, looked at Gu Zhiqi, and said, "Gu Xiaoxi, isn’t this a bit too loud?"

Gu Zhiqi raised a brow, glanced at Tang Yichen and said, "They have to hear it to be hypnotized. If it isn’t loud, how are they supposed to fall under?"

Tang Yichen: "..."

Fair enough.

Once the sound test and tuning were done, Gu Zhiqi stopped talking.

Her slender, graceful fingers plucked at the strings, the mellow notes slowly flowing from them, like a small creek running through a secluded mountain ravine, ethereal and misty.

Very quickly, the zither sound rose higher and carried farther, drifting up and away.

At first, Tang Yichen was a bit uneasy and paced back and forth on the spot, but after a short while, the music left him feeling a little drowsy.

Tang Yichen shook his head to rouse himself, and at the same time worried that since he could hold out, the others might also manage to stay awake.

What Tang Yichen didn’t know was that Gu Zhiqi had already toned it down for him.

The hypnotic effect he was hearing was only a thousandth of what everyone else heard.

That night, not just the Feng Family members, but even the people living near the Feng estate were all hypnotized.

Nine Stars City was packed with all kinds of cultivators, and there were indeed people who Entered the Path through sound.

By coincidence, that night there happened to be a Sound Cultivator passing by outside the Feng estate...

Originally, they were gaining some insight from Gu Zhiqi’s zither music, but in the end they were forcibly hypnotized as well and fell into deep sleep...

The Formation in the Feng Family study was not difficult to undo, but it really was noisy.

Even Gu Zhiqi’s music couldn’t cover the sound of it being broken, but luckily, everyone in the Feng Family had already been hypnotized by her.

In less than half an hour, the commotion in the study faded, and a few seconds later, Su Yunling walked out of the room. "It’s done."

Hearing that, Gu Zhiqi put away the zither and stood up.

She walked with Tang Yichen over to Su Yunling, and said to him, "We have two hours."

After being hypnotized, those below Eighth-Rank would likely sleep for five or six hours, but Ancient martial artists at Eighth-Rank and above would wake up in two hours.

Su Yunling nodded. "Two hours should be enough."

With that, the three of them entered the study together.

Once the Formation was broken, an extra hidden door appeared in the study, and Su Yunling led Gu Zhiqi and Tang Yichen through it.

The hidden door led underground; after walking down a stretch of dark, damp stairs, the three arrived at an underground maze.

This design...

It was unmistakably in the Angel style. It seemed the Feng Family really did have ties to the Tongtian Sect.

The maze branched in all directions and concealed quite a few Mechanisms, but to Su Yunling, these Mechanisms were nothing.

In less than ten minutes, the three of them passed through the maze and arrived before a stone door.

There was a Mechanical Lock on the stone door. Su Yunling took a look, then turned to Gu Zhiqi. "I’m afraid this one is yours."

Gu Zhiqi walked over and glanced at it, finding that it was a Mechanical Lock engraved with a talisman array.

This technique...

Gu Zhiqi’s brows knit slightly. The talismans on it looked like ones she herself had carved; even if not, they should be from the same lineage. She didn’t remember ever carving such a Mechanical Lock, so who had made this lock?

With a few doubts in her heart, Gu Zhiqi traced a breaking Formation in the air and sent it into the Mechanical Lock.

With a crisp snap, the lock opened, and immediately a rumble came from the stone door. Gu Zhiqi instinctively took a couple of steps back.

The stone door slowly slid aside to both sides, the tremendous noise making the whole ground tremble, and quite a bit of sand and stone came loose and fell.

Seeing this, Su Yunling stepped to Gu Zhiqi’s side, pulled her into his arms, and shielded her from the falling debris.