The towering Divine Statue, reaching a height of a hundred ters.
Gu Shen stood beneath the statue, choosing to trust his inner intuition, refraining from rash actions.
Yet the black gemstone was strikingly conspicuous, embedded on the forehead of the Divine Throne, flickering with a strange light that irresistibly drew one’s gaze, almost the sole source of light in the depths of this Dark Hall.
Mu Wanqiu stared for a mont and said, "This gemstone... seems like it can be taken down?"
She had just spoken when she shook her head, quickly dismissing her previous thought, muttering to herself, "This Netherworld Palace is full of mysteries; perhaps this gemstone hides so kind of chanism... it’s best not to touch it carelessly."
The previous slash at the labyrinth provided a lesson.
"When I pushed the door earlier, I felt behind this giant wall... as if there was a path."
Mu Wanqiu suddenly recalled sothing and said earnestly, "There was wind blowing from behind the wall."
"Behind the giant wall, is there another exit?"
Hearing this, Gu Shen was slightly startled before noticing that indeed, there was an eerie wind, continuously seeping through the crevices of the giant wall.
Yet that area was so dark, vast, and deep.
Thus, easily overlooked.
The entire underground Netherworld Palace used [door] as a link point, but this place was an exception.
This Divine Statue was an actual [door] that could be pushed open.
Then, what exactly lay behind it?
Gu Shen slowly took two steps forward.
The pendant remained calm... the invincible causal instrunt seed to have lost its "sensing" power here.
He had to prepare himself for ominous possibilities.
The wind blew relentlessly in the darkness, eerie and cold.
Gu Shen ignited the Blazing Fire Fla, barely illuminating a small area, followed closely by Mu Wanqiu, who tried to light a fire, but ordinary flas could not sustain combustion and extinguished imdiately upon ignition.
As the Judge raised the Blazing Fire Fla, the surroundings of the two gradually beca clear and bright.
Two giant walls, nearly a hundred ters tall, enclosed them in an endless "corridor," and at this mont, igniting the light only made the atmosphere more suffocating and oppressive.
"There are writings here."
Mu Wanqiu made a surprised sound.
The Judge held the fla, illuminating one side of the black wall.
On the wall were carved ancient texts that couldn’t be understood... the history of this wall seed very ancient, these carved ancient characters had endured countless years of eerie winds, vaguely showing a sense of dry, cracked decay.
Upon seeing these ancient writings, Mu Wanqiu’s eyes showed disappointnt.
She knew the more such texts erged, the higher the research value of this underground relic.
She also knew, despite the high value of these writings, they were aningless to her as she couldn’t understand a single word.
"Wait a mont..."
The next mont.
Mu Wanqiu’s voice turned surprised, "Below these ancient writings... there are annotations?!"
The wall was large, with considerable spaces between each carved ancient character... and astonishingly, beneath these spaces, soone had written related annotations.
Gu Shen ca up behind Mu Wanqiu to look at the wall, falling into silence.
Historically, the greatest characteristic of ancient texts... was their interpretation through understanding rather than direct transmission.
However... if soone recorded an event in ancient script, and understood it, they could indeed convert it into text and write it down.
"Did a second person really co to this eerie place?"
Mu Wanqiu stared blankly at the annotations on the wall, reaching out her fingertips to touch them, these annotation texts were clearly added later.
She couldn’t understand.
Who could possess the ability to co here, comprehend these texts... and have the leisure to leave annotations on the wall?
...
...
"To clarify beforehand, I am not the one who emptied this place."
This was the opening segnt at the initial position on the wall.
Also the first sentence left by the "mysterious translator" to those who ca after.
Gu Shen and Mu Wanqiu exchanged a glance and fell into silence.
Upon discovering the "annotations," both unconsciously assud the act of emptying the hall was the work of this translator.
Reading this sentence felt rather unsettling.
"When I arrived, it was already like this... I suspect when you arrive, there won’t be much more."
The second sentence was blunt honesty.
However, Gu Shen felt it sowhat odd.
He noticed a choice of words.
"You all..."
How did this mysterious translator know that those arriving wouldn’t be alone?
Mu Wanqiu noticed this as well.
"This wording isn’t too problematic..." she pondered seriously, "perhaps when this person annotated the wall... they assud the text would be seen by many in the future."
Gu Shen nodded.
He continued to read forward.
"Before the main text begins, please note."
"The following text may carry spiritual resonance... while reading, visual images might appear, do not resist, slowly embrace them."
"Lastly..."
"I am not the creator of the ancient script, I am rely a translator responsible for its transportation."
...
...
Thick smoke rolled high in the sky.
Dim fire fluttered, daylight fell.
A haze covered the gray do, a sky-blocking ship was broken into two, one end plunged into the earth while the other, like a fractured sword tip, pointed at the heavens, countless ruptured electronic arcs connected between the two ends, crackling noisily.
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