Free Web Novel"Hm? Are we missing someone?"
Inside the great tomb, within a certain dark side chamber, though called a side chamber, it was a world of its own.
Lake water, flowing in from some unknown underground river, gently streamed, and withered willow trees stood silently on the floating bridges.
Tan Zhuyin looked back, vaguely feeling something was amiss.
Zhu Renji turned his head, his crossed eyes seriously counting, and he loudly reported:
"Saint, sixty-four people!"
"Sixty-four your head, we came down with a total of Forty people!"
Luo Yexian was startled, then slapped him on the back of his head: "It's clearly thirty-two people."
"Eight missing? When?"
Tan Zhuyin's expression changed slightly; he hadn't noticed at all.
This meant that his two Law Body Realm Law Kings, who followed him, hadn't noticed anything either.
"The tomb's owner might be the Cloud Dream Ancestral God. Can we communicate with it through the Ancestral God statue?" Luo Yexian asked.
Tan Zhuyin felt this method was feasible. After a moment of contemplation, he took out the Ancestral God statue from his Pregnant.
After a brief sensing, he said in a deep voice:
"Useless."
Luo Yexian and the other Demon Summoning Sect members also tried, then shook their heads.
This meant that either there was a Formation in this great tomb that rendered the God Summoning Art ineffective, or the Dream God had fallen into a deep sleep again.
The latter was more likely.
If it were the former, there would have been no response earlier.
"Don't look for those people for now; let's find the exit first."
Tan Zhuyin's voice seemed to be 'locked up', drifting far across the empty lake.
The Demon Summoning Sect members continued to advance on the floating bridge.
However, this floating bridge was endlessly long. Gradually, they walked faster and faster, yet the scenery before them remained unchanged.
Impatience gradually rose in Tan Zhuyin's heart. ƒreewebηoveℓ.com
He was about to turn back and have the two Law Body Realm Law Kings take action.
Suddenly, Luo Yexian pointed forward.
"What... what is that?"
Everyone looked, and their expressions immediately changed.
It was a jumble of corpses, exactly eight of them, each one gruesomely dead, their eyes wide and round.
"Shi Yong! How did he die here?"
"How did they die so silently?"
"There's something evil nearby..."
This group of Demon Summoning Sect members were not innocent lambs, but seeing such a bizarre scene, they couldn't help but gasp.
Moreover, this showed that they hadn't gone far at all; they had been going in circles!
Grumble grumble—
Immediately after, the lake water suddenly surged, and countless dark figures emerged from the water. They were hundreds of thousands of Dream Corpses, yet they did not attack, but rather watched the Demon Summoning Sect members coldly.
Hm?
The Demon Summoning Sect members were terrified, yet couldn't help but feel confused.
Two figures, one fat and one thin, suddenly appeared beside Tan Zhuyin. They were the two Law Kings who had accompanied him.
"Only a higher-level existence can make the Dream Corpse restrain its desire for living beings."
.....
"Is this the layout of the underground palace?"
Li Mo looked at the layout of the tomb chamber on the ground.
Tian Miao had just deduced this, and Li Mo drew it on paper according to her deductions.
Tian Miao nodded, her face somewhat pale, a trickle of blood at the corner of her mouth. She smiled weakly:
"Impressive, isn't it?"
"....."
Li Mo hadn't expected Tian Miao to ask such a question at this moment, so he could only give her a thumbs-up, meaning it was awesome.
Then he took out a Heaven And Earth Treasure for blood replenishment. Who knew what they would encounter in the tomb; having more strength was always good.
"Somewhat familiar..."
Ying Bing mused, holding the Frost Sky Sword in its sheath with her delicate hand, pointing at the diagram.
A moment later, she turned back and said seriously:
"I know how to go now."
Xiao Li leaned back slightly: "Ice Cube, are you sure? This isn't Li Mo's tomb..."
"?"
Ying Bing's delicate hand, holding the sword sheath, couldn't help but tighten. She recalled that map full of Li Mo's name...
But as everyone knew, Ice Cube was best at pretending nothing was wrong, with a cold expression as if she didn't quite understand what you were saying.
"What I mean is, the layout of this underground palace resembles a game of chess."
"You've played it before."
"Hm?"
Li Mo squinted, examining it, but he probably wouldn't recognize this chess game even if it recognized him.
At that time, he was only focused on showing off.
Seeing the confusion in Xiao Li's eyes, Ying Bing said softly:
"The changes within this underground palace follow that chess game."
"When we stepped into the underground palace, we entered the game. Within the chess game, some places are 'killing moves.' If one enters without understanding, the situation will become increasingly dangerous until it becomes a 'dead end.'"
"A chess game?"
Tian Miao leaned in for a look, her face began to pale again, and she quickly averted her gaze.
Her expression was blank:
"This kind of chess game... can someone actually solve it? This..."
"If the chess game wasn't solved, how would the entrance have appeared?" Li Mo reminded her.
"That's true. I wonder who possesses such chess skill..."
Tian Miao said, then looked at Ying Bing with admiration again:
"As expected of you, to be able to tell this is a chess game."
"Because she was the one who broke the game."
"....."
The three searched the underground palace for a while longer and finally found the palace gate. Beside the gate were two bronze beasts, their bases engraved with numbers from 'one' to 'nineteen'.
How was the first step played again?
Click—
Ying Bing twisted the left bronze beast to nine and the right one to thirteen.
Rumble rumble—
The sound of the earth shaking came, as if the entire underground palace was trembling, like a giant Rubik's Cube being twisted by immense power.
Then the correct side chamber moved towards them.
Li Mo was thoughtful.
In other words, this maze-like underground palace was a layer of security.
To ensure that only the person who broke the chess game could reach the main tomb chamber?
"A single tomb possesses such a miraculous and ingenious design."
"I wonder how powerful ❀ Nоvеlігht ❀ (Don’t copy, read here) the Demon Summoning Sect was back then..."
Tian Miao mused: "At that time, they were probably still called the Huanshen Sect."
She was very curious about what kind of existence the tomb owner was.
Because when she was deducing earlier, she only saw a blur and a blank.
With a loud bang, the gate opened.
Li Mo, holding the starry pestle, walked at the very front.
.....
After an unknown period of travel, they arrived at a place that resembled a Pill Refining Room, but it was many times larger than Qingyuan Sect's Dan Ding Peak.
This place was also guarded by Dream Corpses, and they were clearly different from the ones they had encountered before.
Their aura was deeper, they wore long robes, and some even had white hair on their heads, with lustrous skin textures. freёwebnovel.com
From a distance, they almost looked indistinguishable from living people.
They spoke like attendants:
"One bottle of Medicinal Pill per person per month."
After speaking, it lowered its head again, not specifying what kind of Medicinal Pill it was.
That probably meant people could choose for themselves.
Looking at it this way, people who came here, as long as they weren't too greedy, could remain safe and even benefit.
However, due to the passage of time, many Medicinal Pills had long lost their efficacy.
"Three-Yuan Spirit Gathering Pill, this item has long been extinct, to be able to see it here, and its spiritual essence is extremely well preserved."
Tian Miao was very satisfied with the Medicinal Pill she had chosen.
"What is this I have?"
There weren't many Medicinal Pills left with efficacy, so Li Mo just picked up a bottle casually.
Tian Miao glanced at it: "You Tan Pill, taking it can help you get a good night's sleep."
"Here."
Ying Bing poured out the Medicinal Pills from the porcelain bottle in her hand. There were four in total, and she gave three to Li Mo.
"This is..." Li Mo felt its aura was somewhat similar to Golden Crow Blood, but he didn't know its specific effects.
Tian Miao's expression was strange: "Good stuff."
"What's it for?"
"Aphrodisiac."
