NCCnovel Chapter 116: The Bridge of Nine Deaths and One Life
Chapter 116: The Bridge of Nine Deaths and One Life
Chapter 116 The Bridge of Nine Deaths and One Life
Su Xiaoluo stared intently at a stone slab carved with an image of an ancient woman. She reached out and gently stroked the patterns on it, touching the stone woman in the carving...
Gradually, she seemed to be drawn in by something, her soul seemingly captivated by the painting, and different emotions began to surface in her eyes.
"She entered the illusion on her own?" Mo Fan looked at her with some surprise.
Su Xiaoluo's facial expressions kept changing—anger, sadness, joy… These emotions changed rapidly, but they were by no means feigned.
"She's reading a dreamscape. This gallery is a combination of mind-based and spatial magic. If we can't find the key from the dreamscape of these stone paintings, we'll be trapped here..." Fang Gu said.
Su Xiaoluo stood there blankly, her emotions changing faster and faster. After an unknown amount of time, a ray of light suddenly appeared in front of the Endless Gallery, and it turned out to be the end in less than a hundred meters!
At the same time, Su Xiaoluo's eyes regained their own brilliance, but the reality within the illusion still left her feeling somewhat bewildered, as if in a dream.
"Are you alright?" Zhang Xiaohou asked anxiously.
Su Xiaolu shook her head and said, "Only people from our dilapidated village can get in. Anyone else would easily be trapped inside."
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Soon, everyone left the gallery, and what lay before them was an incredibly spacious front palace. The entire front palace was made of pale white stone and jade, and the floor was so smooth that one could see their own reflection.
There are also pillars nearby that require four or five people to encircle, covered with dense, incomprehensible runes.
Suddenly, Mo Fan started walking in one direction and saw a stone platform with a crystal-clear demon lotus on it. As he approached it, he was greeted by a captivating fragrance.
He quickly called out to Su Xiaoluo and the others, asking them if this scene was depicted in the well water painting.
However, Su Xiaoluo wasn't sure if it existed, so Fang Gu then said, "This is the Immortal Lotus. Only by killing it can we find the bridge to the altar. Otherwise, we'll be trapped here forever."
"There's something like this in the world? Let's break it into pieces and see if it dies!" Zhang Xiaohou said.
Fang Gu gestured for Zhang Xiaohou to try it out. He tore it into many pieces with his hands, but strangely, the demonic lotus slowly restored itself right before everyone's eyes.
Zhang Xiaohou was stunned for a moment, then tried the same trick again, but it still didn't work.
He then used magic, and a whirlwind turned it into powder. Even as powder, the demonic lotus returned to its original state.
"What should we do? We can't just waste time here, can we?" Su Xiaoluo was extremely anxious.
"It's useless. Even if you bombard it with super-level magic, it can still return to its original state," Fang Gu said.
Meanwhile, in a conference room in the clock tower, the image of Lu Jie and his group was clearly reflected in a small bronze mirror.
They were all very excited, thinking that Lu Jie and the others had completely disappeared after jumping in. Unexpectedly, a villager from Huacun brought this bronze mirror, which happened to connect to the image inside.
On the other hand, Mo Fan offered to handle the demonic lotus.
He plucked the demonic lotus from its roots, then walked to a corner and let the little mudfish absorb it.
Sure enough, the little loach absorbed it and emitted a light that even Mo Fan found incredible.
The light almost illuminated the entire front palace, making the pale palace much brighter all at once...
Before long, the Immortal Lotus truly withered, the first petal, the second petal...
After devouring the Eternal Lotus, the little mudfish also advanced, upgrading from the top-tier Nebula Magic Artifact to the even more advanced Galaxy Magic Artifact.
At the same time, Mo Fan also used the energy fed back to him by the little mudfish to successfully break through the nebula barrier of the lightning and fire elements.
Very successful! His lightning and fire dual-elemental skills have successfully broken through to the advanced level!
"High-level!! Hahaha! High-level!! Old Lu, I've broken through to the high-level!!!"
Mo Fan's loud laughter came from the corner.
"Can't you be a little more ambitious? I've been at the advanced level for so long, and you've only just broken through," Lu Jie said nonchalantly, picking his ear.
"Tch, you pervert, can't I even have some fun?"
He had finally broken through to the advanced level, but this bastard had dealt him a blow, and his mood instantly soured.
"Brother Jie, Brother Fan, you've both broken through to the advanced level, while I'm still stuck in the middle level," Zhang Xiaohou said with envy.
"Don't worry, monkey, you'll reach a high level someday too," Lu Jie said, patting him on the shoulder.
Zhang Xiaohou nodded seriously. If he could return alive, he would definitely cultivate even harder!
Afterwards, the group continued walking inside and saw lifelike statues made of white jade, which looked remarkably similar to the woman's fair and smooth skin.
"Which monkey do you like?" Mo Fan nudged Zhang Xiaohou next to him and asked in a low voice.
"Brother Fan, what time is it? I just want to get to the Ancient King as soon as possible. After all, there are still so many people waiting for us..." Zhang Xiaohou said seriously.
"So, which one do you like?" Mo Fan asked with a smile.
"Uh... Brother Fan, I can't let He Yu down."
"Tch, boring."
As everyone continued walking, those lifelike statues eventually disappeared.
"Why is it so dark up ahead?" Zhang Xiaohou, who was walking ahead, suddenly asked.
"No road??" Fang Gu was stunned for a moment.
A ball of flame shot out from Lu Jie and Mo Fan's hands, illuminating the dark place.
They continued walking forward, but suddenly a jade platform appeared ahead, gradually narrowing. Both sides were empty and dark, giving them a feeling of heading into an abyss.
At the same time, a black gale howled, whistling incessantly on both sides of the stone platform cliff, as if anyone who missed a step would be swept into the abyss.
Zhang Xiaohou probed with his mind, then said in horror, "This is a high-quality wind elemental; even my thoughts can't pass through it. I'm afraid even a monarch-level creature would be torn to shreds by this gale!"
The black wind howled fiercely, making it look as if tens of thousands of black scythes were dancing wildly overhead and on both sides. If what Zhang Xiaohou said was true, then apart from the stone platform and cliff, it was all a dead end!
"There really isn't anything ahead... wait, there seems to be a bridge!" Liu Ru said in surprise.
Ahead stood ten arched bridges, not the kind of small bridges over flowing water, but magnificent, soaring arched bridges, their gray-white bodies resembling dragons soaring and disappearing into the deeper darkness.
"A bridge of nine deaths and one life!" Fang Gu said in a deep voice.
(End of this chapter)