819: 237_3 819: 237_3 “So, so many skeletons!”
As soon as Linghu Gudu entered through the main door, he was completely astonished.
In front of him was an immensely huge hall, and at the back of the hall were some steps; these weren’t important, though.
What was important was that at the center of the hall, it was filled with a layer of skeletal remains.
Instantly, everyone turned their heads and looked toward Cao Zhen.
Cao Zhen looked at the skeletons in front of him and his face showed an awkward expression, “This…
actually, there are skeletons here, but not all these skeletons will necessarily come to life.
After all, the walls surrounding us could be those particular smooth stone walls that should prevent the emergence of any skeletons or resentful spirits.”
As he spoke, to prove his point, he even raised his hand and smacked it in the direction of a side wall.
In the completely still hall, where there wasn’t a hint of wind, a gust of chilling wind suddenly blew and within the void, a huge palm silhouette appeared and heavily struck the wall.
Immediately, the entire wall trembled and pieces of plaster fell off, dust billowed, and the hard, smooth-as-jade stone wall behind the plaster was revealed.
Cao Zhen breathed out a sigh of relief, looked at the others, and said, “I told you, although there are skeletons here, these skeletons wouldn’t necessarily…”
Before he could finish his sentence, a series of crackling sounds already echoed from the hall.
In the center of the hall, one by one, skeletons slowly rose to their feet, and between their bones, a crisp ringing sounded.
Cao Zhen felt that the persona he had so painstakingly built up, the persona of a reincarnated being with great ability, was on the verge of collapsing instantly.
It was as if these skeletons were deliberately opposing him; he had claimed there were no skeletons, yet this place was filled with so many of them.
He had said all these skeletons were dead, but in the blink of an eye, they were starting to stand up.
It must be deliberate, these skeletons opposing him.
“Strange, it’s not even fully dark yet, why would these skeletons be coming to life already!”
Linghu Gudu quickly retreated and pushed toward the main door.
If there were so many skeletons here, then it was better to leave and find a cave to hide in first.
This place was too odd.
There were absolutely no skeletons outside at the current time.
However, when he pushed, the main door through which they had entered so easily before, now wouldn’t budge an inch.
They couldn’t go back!
“What kind of place is this, the door won’t open anymore.”
Cao Zhen glanced at Linghu Gudu but didn’t try to help him open the main door.
Instead, he swiftly flew towards the exit, shouting as he flew, “Let’s go, let’s leave this hall first.”
If they continued to stay here, once all those skeletons woke up, they would certainly attack them, and by then they would all have to run.
If they had to run anyway, it was better to make a move first.
Seeing Cao Zhen’s actions, Linghu Gudu also stopped trying.
While the skeletons had not yet fully risen, he quickly flew past them, following Cao Zhen, and landed on the steps, his face showing a look of shock.
“What’s happening?
I feel a force dragging me down, constantly pulling me down and preventing me from flying,” Linghu Gudu looked ahead at Cao Zhen and the others who were running and called out loudly, “Is it the same for you?”
“The same, we also can’t fly.”
Yan Yourong followed behind Cao Zhen, running forward, and answered Linghu Gudu, but her face did not show much surprise.
It was just the inability to fly, after all.
Before, when she followed her master in the Heaven Illusion Sword Monarch’s minor world, it wasn’t just flying she couldn’t do—there was a long time when she couldn’t even access spiritual energy or operate mana, just like an ordinary person.
Now, she merely couldn’t fly, but she still had her cultivation base, could still use her cultivation techniques, cast her mana, and exercise her divine skills.
Cao Zhen, on the other hand, didn’t speak but continued to run towards the front.
He found that all these staircases were spiraling forward, similar to the ones built on a high mountain, though much gentler than those on mountains.
He now could be sure that the place he had entered was completely different from the maze where Eclipse Demon and others had gone into.
But, he wondered, what was special about the place where Eclipse Demon and the others had gone into with so many branching paths, while the place he was in now had… what?
And so, Cao Zhen kept running.
Even though they couldn’t fly, his strength was unaffected by it, and he didn’t feel tired from running at high speed; only a visual fatigue settled in, seeing the same scenery over and over, only spiraling staircases, with no end in sight.
Two hours, four hours, time flowed unconsciously.
The more Cao Zhen ran, the more he felt that something was not right.
He might be unable to fly, but it wasn’t like he had no mana.
This tower appeared massive, but even so, with his cultivation base, he should have traversed this tower by now after such a long time.
He shouldn’t still be running endlessly through it.
“Wait a second…”
Linghu Gudu also seemed to have realized something was amiss and suddenly shouted, halting everyone, “Something’s not right.
We’ve been running all this time, first of all, those skeletons haven’t chased after us.
It’s been so long, it should already be dark outside, and the skeletons and resentful spirits should have already awakened.
After their awakening, they should be coming after us from behind.
With our level of cultivation, we would definitely be able to hear them if they gave chase.
But now, I haven’t heard a thing.