socalfunplaces Chapter 87, Entering the Maze
Chapter 87, Entering the Maze
Ye Muxuan looked at the vast plain before him, hundreds of thousands of kilometers in diameter. Many continents nurtured in the cosmic secret realms defied logic; this plain could easily house dozens of normal life-bearing planets. Yet, this place lay at the bottom of Yunxuan Lake, and even with probes, everything appeared normal.
But Ye Muxuan is not normal!
His sensory abilities allowed him to clearly detect the presence of two powerful treasures within a 100,000-kilometer radius ahead!
It wasn't the precious treasure we had speculated about before.
About 10,000 kilometers ahead lies the treasure we sensed earlier, but now that we're closer, it feels rather strange. And more than 80,000 kilometers away, there's an even more terrifying aura of a treasure. But whether we look with our eyes or use detectors, all we see ahead is a barren, normal lakebed plain, with slightly undulating terrain, a mixture of rocks and soil, no different from some of the valleys and basins we've passed through before. There's not a trace of life, not even plants or algae.
This is a lakebed plain with a diameter of hundreds of thousands of kilometers, desolate and silent.
"Shall we go in?" King Mingze asked Ye Muxuan.
"Let's go in and give it a try." Ye Muxuan nodded. It's unacceptable to come to a treasure trove and not go in. At worst, we can always back out. If Prince Mingze could escape unscathed, he should be able to too.
If neither of them can break the maze and obtain the treasure, then he will call for help and ask Senior Brother Tianyu or Senior Sister Huanli to come over. Even if the value of the most ordinary treasure is calculated and split in half with Senior Brother or Senior Sister, he can still obtain trillions of Chaos Units.
This is the maximum value a king can command.
……
"Master, I can feel that mark!"
"Very well, whoever he is, kill him."
"Yes, Master!"
In a certain starry sky, a gigantic Sirius immortal star looked at the communication device in front of him, a cunning glint flashing in his deep blue eyes.
More than three thousand years have passed. Now that the servant has found its target, it should not be difficult to kill it with its strength. If all else fails, it can also call upon the strong members of its own faction.
Then I can explore this secret place with peace of mind. I hope I won't be disappointed.
His gaze swept across the distant, cold starry river, and a fierce and treacherous glint flashed in the Immortal Wolf's deep blue eyes before he stepped into the river.
This is its true nature!
……
With Mingze Wang in front and Ye Muxuan behind, they slowly walked towards the location of the maze. Before leaving, Ye Muxuan casually put down a small detector.
Prince Mingze noticed, but remained silent.
As soon as Ye Muxuan stepped into the maze, his vision blurred, and then Mingze Wang, who had been walking a thousand meters ahead of him, disappeared.
Ye Muxuan instructed Jiufeng to stay outside and oversee the intelligence of the small detector. The footage showed that after they entered a certain boundary line, they all disappeared.
Everything in the picture appears normal; it's a desolate lakebed plain.
Ye Muxuan placed his right hand on the hilt of the Muying Blade. With his level of spatial law understanding, he couldn't see through the spatial sealing ability here. After thinking for a moment, he brought out the dust fragments hidden in his world ring.
The divine body, over 500 meters long, along with a tail over 200 meters long and a blood-red horn over 100 meters long, appeared in Ye Muxuan's senses as soon as the dust shattered and left the world ring.
"Master!" The enormous divine body stood beside Ye Muxuan without disappearing. Suichen lowered its head, its blood-red horns pointing in Ye Muxuan's direction, showing respect.
"Can you sense the anomaly in this space?" Ye Muxuan kept his hand on the hilt of his sword. After all, the power of the world was not as powerful as the power of immortality, so he still brought out the Shattered Dust.
"Master." Upon hearing this, Sui Chen sensed the anomaly in the space with a slight effort. Although his understanding of spatial laws wasn't particularly profound, he still possessed considerable affinity for them. "The space here is sealed off. Even if I burned my immortal divine body, I couldn't break the spatial seal."
"Is the divine kingdom teleportation okay?" Under normal circumstances, it's still possible to open a divine kingdom passage after a spatial blockade. However, usually it's the opponent who sets the spatial blockade. Rashly attempting divine kingdom teleportation would expose the divine kingdom's location, destroy it, and even if one survives, they'd have no hope of advancing to the Venerable level for life. But this spatial blockade formed by the illusion array isn't man-made, so there's no worry about exposing the divine kingdom's location.
"The teleportation to the Divine Kingdom is fine," Sui Chen replied confidently.
"That's fine then." With a wave of his hand, Ye Muxuan put the Broken Dust into his World Ring. Now that he was sure that the Divine Kingdom teleportation was working properly for both the Broken Dust and his own Cloud-Piercing Vine, everything was fine.
Ye Muxuan valued his first soul servant highly. Once its understanding of the laws caught up, it would reach the King-level limit, or even become invincible, much more easily than a normal human immortal. Over the years, while adventuring in the Luo Yin Continent, he often fought alongside it. After all, his weakness was the inability to burn his divine body, and Shattered Dust compensated for this deficiency. Moreover, its over 500-meter-long divine body possessed a much greater total divine power than an ordinary immortal.
However, now that it's inside the maze, its strength is even weaker than his own, so it's naturally more convenient for him to act alone. Besides, he doesn't want to expose the existence of Shattered Dust in front of King Mingze.
A trump card is only intimidating when it's not revealed; once it's revealed, it's an open card.
Not seeing the Prince of Mingze in front of him, Ye Muxuan stopped waiting and headed towards the location of the treasure he had sensed thousands of miles away.
Inside the maze, towering boulders of varying thicknesses and heights stood, unlike the lakes, soil, and boulders seen from the outside. The lakes remained, but the terrain was far from flat; everywhere were stone pillars hundreds or even thousands of meters in diameter, some only tens of meters high, others reaching tens of thousands of meters. Walking through the middle, Ye Muxuan felt incredibly small.
It must be due to the spatial blockade that one can only fly up to fifty meters high here, not even reaching the top of the shortest stone pillars. Moreover, because there are so many stone pillars, even flying is extremely slow, so Ye Muxuan could only land on the ground and follow his senses to head towards the source of the treasure's aura.
The journey was winding and complex, sometimes requiring us to turn back—because a stone pillar thousands of meters in diameter stood in the way like a wall. Throughout this ordeal, we never encountered King Mingze, but fortunately, the location of the treasure's aura remained unchanged.
One day, two days...
One month...
Three months later, Ye Muxuan finally approached the location of the treasure's aura in the desolate and lonely maze-like array.
Ye Muxuan looked at the stone pillar in front of him. It was much larger than any stone pillar he had ever seen before, and also much shorter. Or rather, this "stone pillar," which was only a little over forty meters high but had a diameter of over ten kilometers, was more like a giant rock platform.
Ye Muxuan took a step forward and landed on the giant stone platform.