The horses reared up hard, and Wei Liang held on tight as the ground itself seemed to shake beneath them.
"Something's wrong," Garrow shouted, pulling his own horse under control fast. "That's not normal ground."
Xu's voice came sharp inside Wei Liang's head. "I feel it too. Old qi, buried deep, waking up under us."
The path ahead cracked open, a narrow gap splitting the earth, and Wei Liang jumped down fast, pulling Feng Yao clear before the ground beneath his horse gave way completely.
"What is that," Feng Yao gasped, staring at the widening c***k.
"I don't know," Wei Liang admitted, backing away carefully.
From deep inside the c***k, a faint green light pulsed, slow and steady, like something breathing.
"That's not a trap someone built," Liu Che said, studying it carefully from a
