"What's that sound? Artifacts can talk?" Zhang Yuanqing bolted forward, his teammates close behind!

They arrived in front of the display case and discovered that the speaker was a clay mask, complete with a beard, wrinkles, and the image of a kind old man!

Only the empty eyes were a bit eerie!

"You can talk? Were you the one speaking just now?" Zhang Yuanqing asked, staring at the clay mask.

"If I couldn't speak, were you just hallucinating?" The clay mask replied with a chuckle, its mouth opening and closing.

"Understands sarcasm, huh? A bit high in intelligence." Zhang Yuanqing thought to himself. He had been wondering why there were no clues in Exhibition Hall No. 2. The purpose of the instance was to train.

Although the mortality rate was high, it wouldn't be without any hints. Based on his understanding of instances, the clue had arrived.

Zhang Yuanqing also chuckled and said, "I'm curious where your vocal cords are. Hmm, what kind of artifact are you?"

"I can only answer one question at a time. Do you want to know about my vocal cords or my identity?" the clay mask replied.

"Your identity!"

"I am the mask of a great being. I was born in ancient times, when humans had just mastered the art of firing pottery. However, I developed intelligence many years later!" The clay mask sighed. "My first master was Yu of the Youxiong Clan, who was in charge of sacrifices and praying for rain!"

Never heard of the Youxiong Clan... Zhang Yuanqing, a high-achieving student from Songhai University, carefully reviewed his knowledge reserves but couldn't recall which figure the Youxiong Clan was!

Huang Taiji narrowed his eyes and said in a stern tone, "The Youxiong Clan is the Yellow Emperor."

Hmm, isn't the Yellow Emperor from the Gongsun Clan or the Xuanyuan Clan? Even if you said Ji Clan, I would understand! What the hell is the Youxiong Clan? Zhang Yuanqing mentally retorted while feeling a sense of awe!

This artifact's origin is not simple!

The clay mask lay quietly in the display case, not speaking unless asked.

Xiao Yuan tentatively asked, "What happened to your master?"

The clay mask then spoke, "After the Battle of Zhuolu, my master died in battle. I circulated among various tribes, placed on altars and used to communicate with the heavens and earth until the great upheaval in ancient times when Buzhou Mountain collapsed. My power was sealed, and I became a mere mortal object."

Zhang Yuanqing's eyes lit up. "Tell me more about that great upheaval in ancient times!"

The clay mask chuckled. "A wild cultivator like you, who doesn't even have a god position, shouldn't inquire about secrets at the emperor level!"

Alysea, half-understanding, asked, "Emperor level? What kind of classification is that? I've never heard of it!"

The clay mask answered every question, slowly saying, "The Three Sovereigns created the world, namely the Heavenly Sovereign, the Earthly Sovereign, and the Wa Sovereign. After the Three Sovereigns, the Five Emperors controlled the universe and ruled the nine provinces. Below the Five Emperors were the four directional deities!"

"The mountains, rivers, lakes, and marshes all had deities. They were all appointed by the Five Emperors to manage the nine provinces on their behalf."

"Below the deities were the goblins, demons, ghosts, and monsters, as well as wild cultivators. All of you here are wild cultivators!"

There was a sense of superiority, this guy looks like a kind old man, but his speaking style and tone are a little annoying.

Zhang Yuanqing solemnly savored these words, feeling that they revealed a huge amount of information!

What the clay man said was most likely the history of ancient cultivators in ancient times.

He remembered the Palace Master saying that the Wa Sovereign was a real historical figure from the mythological stories that had been verified and was a The Way of the Extraordinary administrator.

If what the clay man said was true, then the Three Sovereigns and Five Emperors were also ancient cultivators!

The Five Emperors should represent metal, wood, water, fire, and earth, which in mythological stories are the Yan Emperor, the White Emperor, the Red Emperor, the Yellow Emperor, and the Black Emperor.

"What about the Three Sovereigns?" Zhang Yuanqing asked.

"What kind of figures are the Heavenly Sovereign and the Earthly Sovereign? What authority do they wield?"

"I don't know," the clay mask answered succinctly.

"Are the Heavenly Sovereign and the Earthly Sovereign legends or real?" Zhang Yuanqing asked again.

"Don't know," the clay mask gave the same answer.

The Heavenly Sovereign and the Earthly Sovereign are very mysterious, and it's even uncertain whether they exist. Zhang Yuanqing began to associate and analyze the possibility of the Heavenly Sovereign and the Earthly Sovereign existing, and their possible professions!

These could all be deduced based on the existing professions of The Way of the Extraordinary. Seeing that Zhang Yuanqing didn't speak, Xiao Yuan took the initiative to ask about the instance-related questions: "Where is the key to the bronze door?"

"It's in the four artifacts in the southeast, northwest!" the clay mask replied!

Zhang Yuanqing and the others immediately raised their heads and looked around, scanning the four artifacts in the southeast, northwest one by one.

"How can we get the key?" Zhang Yuanqing continued his spirit of milking the sheep, asking questions as soon as he encountered problems.

The clay mask smiled. "Subdue the artifacts."

"How to subdue them?" Huang Taiji's eyes narrowed.

The clay mask's beard twitched, and it laughed. "See that Guanyin statue? Take the jade bottle from it. The key to opening the bronze door is inside."

Zhang Yuanqing and his teammates exchanged glances and said, "I'll do it. Let the Yin corpse try."

Taking the key must be accompanied by danger!

No one objected. Zhang Yuanqing took out Little Red Riding Hood and shook out a Level 4 Yin corpse, manipulating it to go to the Guanyin statue!

The Yin corpse stopped in front of the four-meter-high giant sculpture, leaping up and clinging to the hand holding the jade bottle, using the force again to stand steadily in the palm. The jade bottle was as big as a bucket, but the mouth of the bottle could accommodate an adult's arm!

"Open it," Zhang Yuanqing controlled the Yin corpse to look down at the inside of the bottle mouth, which was pitch black.

Even the night wanderer's vision could not see through the darkness!

He simply bent down and put his arm deep into the bottle mouth, groping inside. The next second, the Yin corpse was sucked into the jade bottle!

Zhang Yuanqing's consciousness was bounced back, and his body's head jerked back as if he had been hit with a stick!

Xiao Yuan anxiously supported him. Before he could ask, he heard a rumbling vibration. The Guanyin statue shook violently, the base and body colliding with the floor and walls. The rumbling sound was extremely intense.

Then, black spring water spewed out of the bottle mouth, with a crashing sound.

The black spring water spread along the floor tiles!

"Black spring water," Zhang Yuanqing was greatly alarmed. "This is the black water that kills Qingzhu that he saw in the stargazing."

But what really changed his expression was that he recognized that the black spring water was weak water. The dog farm zoo also had the same weak water, which could drown everything!

The stargazing picture was blurred, and he didn't recognize it, but now that he saw the real black spring water, he knew it was weak water!

Qingzhu thought of the tense expression Zhang Yuanqing had when he told him before and asked, "What is this water? What are the dangers?"

The clay mask replied, "No danger, no danger!"

Everyone breathed a sigh of relief, looking down at the weak water.

"No!" Zhang Yuanqing stared sharply at the clay mask in the display case and said coldly, "This is weak water, weak water that can drown everything. You're lying to us. How much of what you said earlier was true and how much was false?"

The moment the clay mask said there was no danger, Zhang Yuanqing realized that he had been deceived. This thing could not be trusted!

Maybe the key was not in the net bottle at all. The clay mask tricked him into touching the jade bottle to trigger the mechanism to kill them!

Huang Taiji, Qingzhu, and Alysea all changed their expressions!

It was difficult for Xiao Yuan's bee queen image to have expressions!

"Crash"

The jade bottle, like a water pump, sprayed out large amounts of black spring water. White foam rolled as the weak water quickly spread across half of the exhibition hall!

Soon, it spread to Zhang Yuanqing and others' feet!

The five people retreated in a panic. Alysea cast a wind blade and cut off a piece of clothing, throwing it towards the thin layer of weak water covering the tiles!

The corner of the clothing sank instantly and then disappeared, not knowing where it went!

Maybe it entered the jade bottle, or maybe it was dissolved, it didn't matter. This had already confirmed that The Way of the Extraordinary was right, they were fooled by the clay mask, thus triggering the death mechanism!

The clay mask in the water chuckled and said, "My answers are true for the first half of the sentence and false for the second half! Say the truth and tell a lie!"

Say the truth and tell a lie? This is its characteristic.

Zhang Yuanqing retreated while thinking, racing against the weak water!

"Then what to do, what to do" Qingzhu was the most flustered!

Alysea calmly said, "Don't panic, I will use air to lift you up!"

"It's useless!" Zhang Yuanqing explained to the foreign girl, "Weak water drowns everything, including flying creatures. When the weak water spreads throughout the exhibition hall, we will surely die, unless there is Lin wood. Only Lin wood can float on the water, but this thing is a rare material. The entire The Way of the Extraordinary is probably very rare, let alone a killing instance."

The black weak water continued to spread, forcing Zhang Yuanqing and others to retreat repeatedly. Soon, they reached the end, behind them was that huge blank mural!

Looking at the surging weak water, Huang Taiji raised his foot and stomped heavily. The tiles in front of everyone shattered, and a thin concrete barrier rose, trying to block the spread of the weak water!

The concrete just rose and melted like ice, sinking into the weak water. The hope in everyone's eyes was shattered, even the power of the Yellow Earth could not stop the weak water!

"Damn it," Qingzhu gritted his teeth: "I'm going to smash that broken mask!"

Xiao Yuan suddenly said, "Yuan Shi, collect them!"

Zhang Yuanqing instantly understood his lover's meaning and decisively took out Little Red Riding Hood to activate the storage ability!

The weak water steadily surged forward, without any change!

"No, the level of the weak water is too high, not something a Saint's item can contain!" Zhang Yuanqing shook his head regretfully!

"Then what to do" Alysea was a little anxious, she had never seen such a thing and couldn't think of a solution for a while!

"It's at our feet, it's at our feet," Qingzhu exclaimed!

Zhang Yuanqing looked around, his mind racing, and suddenly had an idea and shouted, "Climb onto the display cases, quick."

Without him saying more, everyone climbed onto the display cases nimbly, one person per case.

The next second, the black weak water submerged the place where they were standing and flooded the entire exhibition hall!

The five people breathed a sigh of relief on different display cases. Weak water drowns everything, but the display cases were still there, indicating that staying on the display cases was the right thing to do!

But everyone's relaxation did not last long, because weak water was still gushing out of the bottle mouth, and the water level in the exhibition hall was getting higher and higher, gradually reaching the knees of ordinary people!

At this rate, the weak water will eventually reach the display cases, and they will still not escape death!