*Growl... Growl...*
As they were about to arrive at another area, Zhang Fei heard the growls of dozens of beasts through his sharp hearing, so he warned the two won straight away. "There are dozens of beasts ahead."
"Hmm?" Xian Xianqin and Yun Xinyue looked at him in surprise. "Are you able to hear their voices from this distance, even though the formation suppresses our senses?"
Zhang Fei answered them by transforming into his half-fox form, surprising both won. Yun Xinyue, who saw his form for the first ti, was imdiately fascinated by it. "Are you a demi-human?"
"Haven't you seen my human form?" Yun Xinyue nodded to Zhang Fei. "We don't have much ti to relax, but I can tell you that this is my second identity as a fox beast, and Princess Xianqin has seen it before."
Xian Xianqin imdiately nodded to the Princess Yun. "I was also shocked when I first learned about his two identities, but Zhang Fei is indeed a human and a beast fox, and his current form is his half-fox form, so he is similar to a demi-human."
"I see." Yun Xinyue then followed them to the next room, but she repeatedly glanced at Zhang Fei's five white fox tails that kept dancing behind his hips, making her itch to hold and caress them. 'Ugh! His demi-human form is really cute, especially his ears and tails.'
Upon entering the dark room, dozens of bloodshot eyes greeted them, and they could hear the beasts' heavy breathing.
"You don't need to waste your energy fighting them." Zhang Fei stopped the two won as they were about to attack the beasts, confusing them. As he released his heavenly fox aura, he shot a light ball toward the room's ceiling, leaving the two won stunned to see the beasts curled up on the ground, their bodies shaking strongly. "The cultivation of these beasts has reached the earth realm, but they are only ordinary beasts, so they are not my opponents."
"Does that an your beast rank is much higher than theirs?" Yun Xinyue inquired.
"My beast rank is indeed far above them." Zhang Fei then swung the moonlit whisper sword horizontally, and a thick sword qi imdiately shot out before splitting all the beasts in front of them in half, causing Yun Xinyue's jaw to drop into a wide O shape.
"Hehe." Xian Xianqin chuckled at her expression. "Zhang Fei could even defeat Zhou Fang, who has cultivation at the 1-Moon Divine Transcend Realm, so you don't need to be shocked to see him kill these earth-rank beasts."
Yun Xinyue nodded to her, but she then pointed to so items that had appeared on top of the beasts' corpses. "What are those items? Since when did the beasts in this maze drop items?"
"I think this is the first ti." Xian Xianqin imdiately ran toward those items, and her eyes lit up when she saw two elental crystals among the other items. "Hey! Zhang Fei! Xinyue! Two of them are elental crystals!"
"Huh?" Yun Xinyue was montarily stunned before moving to her side. "A wind elental crystal and a lightning elental crystal."
"You two can have both." Zhang Fei spoke as he walked behind them, and i promptly inford him about the items. All of them are high-grade, such as useable items, weapons, armor, etc. "I'll keep all these items for now, and we'll share them later."
"No need." Both won imdiately refused Zhang Fei. "We are princesses, and we can get them easily, so you can keep them."
Zhang Fei laughed bitterly upon hearing that, but he then turned to Xian Xianqin, who handed him the wind elental crystal. "My wind elent reached peak rank a long ti ago, so I don't need it anymore. Although this crystal can't help you upgrade your wind elent to advanced rank directly, it can still increase its strength. If you don't need to use it, you can give it to one of your wives who has the wind elent."
"Thank you." Xian Xianqin just smiled, and Zhang Fei imdiately stored all the items in the system inventory. "So which path are we going to choose next? Front? Left? Or right?"
Yun Xinyue imdiately spoke to them. "I have a bad feeling about the right path, so we shouldn't go that way."
Instead, Zhang Fei and Xian Xianqin walked towards the path on their right, but did not enter it imdiately. Yun Xinyue patted her chest in relief.
Zhang Fei imdiately summoned a familiar, sent it inside, and shot a ball of light forward. Instantly, their eyes widened in shock as various types of weapons suddenly appeared and attacked his familiar, and all of those weapons were definitely not ordinary weapons.
Zhang Fei and Xian Xianqin imdiately turned to Yun Xinyue, who placed her hands on her waist and wore a proud face. "Told you, right? My instincts are never wrong, so you guys should listen to and not enter that path."
"Your instincts are sharper than a beast, Princess Yun." Xian Xianqin nodded in agreent as she followed Zhang Fei to the center of the room, where they examined the two remaining paths. "So which one?" Experience new tales on My Virtual Library Empire
"Hmm?" Yun Xinyue thought for a mont before she pointed the path ahead. "That path should be safe, so we should go that way."
"Let's go, then." Zhang Fei imdiately led them through the path ahead, but they did not lower their guard in the slightest, and their hands tightly gripped the handles of their weapons.
Shortly after they left, a black shadow peeked out from the left path, but it imdiately disappeared again.
"How much ti did you two need to complete this maze challenge last ti?" Zhang Fei asked the two won.
Xian Xianqin told him directly. "Last ti, it took us two weeks to complete it, but we have to wait for the last group to pass before the next challenge appears."
"At that ti, my group was the last to pass, and it took us a month to exit this challenge." Yun Xinyue responded with a bitter smile.
"Two to four weeks, huh?" Zhang Fei muttered to himself before asking again. "How do we find the key to open the exit? How many keys do we need?"
"Three." Both won answered in unison. "Actually, if we deliberately search for those keys, we will never find them; instead, they will appear on their own when we are near them. However, powerful beasts guard so keys, and in the past, we had to face a beast with cultivation at 1-Moon Divine Transcend. So keys require us to solve tricky riddles, while deadly traps surround others."
"Those beasts or traps are not the most difficult thing, especially since we can fight and get through them with many people." Zhang Fei turned to Yun Xinyue directly. "Back then, Big Brother Aotian was transported to a room where one of the keys was located, but he had to fight over it with five other participants, so a fight between them was inevitable. Furthermore, the narrow space made it difficult for them to avoid each other, and he ended up getting pretty badly injured in the process of getting the key."
Zhang Fei nodded understandingly, but he suddenly frowned and used his tree control ability straight away, especially since many tree branches appeared from the two walls beside them. He imdiately swung his sword at those three branches and cut them into pieces, leaving the two won dumbfounded by his instant reflex.
"Even these tree walls have traps, huh?" Zhang Fei then turned to the two won. "Why are you two stunned?"
Yun Xinyue imdiately put on a serious look. "Tell , Zhang Fei. How can you move so fast? I know your instincts are sharp because you are a beast, but your reflex speed is much faster than any beast I have ever t. Even my parents, whose cultivation has reached the 5-Moon Divine Expansion Realm, couldn't match you."
"Haha." Zhang Fei laughed and took out the hamr that Gang Zhishou had lent him. As soon as he dropped it, the ground dipped down, causing the two won's eyes to widen. "Why don't you two try lifting it?"
Yun Xinyue imdiately grabbed the handle of the hamr and tried to lift it, but it didn't budge an inch, so she used all her strength. Even after her face beca extrely red, she still couldn't move it, let alone lift it.
After Yun Xinyue failed, Xian Xianqin also tried to lift the hamr, but her results were also the sa as Princess Yun's. "How heavy is this hamr actually? Why is it so heavy?"
Zhang Fei smiled, raised the hamr, and threw it into the air a few tis. The two were left completely speechless upon witnessing this, particularly as they were unable to move the hamr, yet he was able to throw it with such ease. "Old Gang lent this hamr to to train my body because I am a blacksmith, and its weight is two thousand pounds."
"Two... two thousand pounds." Both won stuttered after hearing that.
"Yeah." Zhang Fei then put the hamr back into storage. "That's why you two don't need to be surprised by my reflex. Most blacksmiths have quick reflexes; many of them have even faster reflexes than . Actually, you two can also improve your speed and reflexes with the sa training, but you must start with a much lighter weight and increase it gradually."
Yun Xinyue shook her head in response. "My physique isn't that strong, so I won't be able to train with such a heavy load."
Unlike her, Xian Xianqin was eager to train using such a rigorous thod, especially since she had sparred with several of Zhang Fei's wives, all of whom were much faster than her. Despite the vast difference in their cultivation, she had difficulty defending against their attacks. "After we return from the tower, you have to help train that way, okay?"
"All right, I'll help you, but I hope you won't give up too quickly." Zhang Fei then led them on their way, and they arrived at another room soti later. However, there was no path in the room, and they also found no riddles or anything inside. "It seems this is a dead end, so we have no other choice but to return to the previous room before taking the left path."
Xian Xianqin and Yun Xinyue nodded in agreent to him, but the floor beneath them suddenly disappeared before they turned to leave. Zhang Fei imdiately hugged their waists and threw the hellfire chains toward one of the tree branches on the previous path, which brought them out of the hole beneath them and landed at the side of the hole.
Zhang Fei released both won from his embrace and crouched down, trying to gauge the depth of the hole, but the formation restricted his senses. "What do you two think? Should we go back, or should we enter this hole?"
"I thought the previous road wasn't good, but I'm also worried about this hole because we can't see inside it, so we don't know whether there is danger in it or not." Yun Xinyue was the first to answer.
On the other hand, Xian Xianqin was more curious about the hole than the previous path. "There are no other paths in this room, and this hole is the only one available. Moreover, the previous path is not necessarily a dead end, so I think we should enter it rather than waste our ti turning around."
"Yeah." Zhang Fei imdiately stood up and hugged them once again. "Moreover, we are cultivators, and danger is a part of our lives. If we continue to avoid the dangers that co our way, then we will never be able to develop ourselves."
"Wait a minute, I-Ahhh!"
Zhang Fei didn't give Yin Xinyue a chance to finish her words and carried the two won into the hole, so she imdiately hugged him while closing her eyes.
Zhang Fei imdiately pulled the hellfire chain back before storing it, and he used his body modification ability to transform his five tails into sothing like a parachute, so they wouldn't fall too hard.
Xian Xianqin looked up at Zhang Fei's five fox tails in a daze, especially since she had never seen such a thing before. 'How many secrets does he actually have? How could he transform his tails into such a strange shape?'
After landing at the bottom of the hole, Zhang Fei released the two won and reverted his tails back to their original form. They then looked around and found a path to the west, but Xian Xianqin and Yun Xinyue imdiately hugged him again when they saw so many skeletons below them.
"Ugh! Told you! This place is too scary! Let's go! We have to get out of this place quickly, or we'll die like them." Yun Xinyue complained as her body trembled violently.
Xian Xianqin, who was typically fearless, experienced fear upon seeing those skeletons. Moreover, she could sll the thick sll of blood, causing her to think that those skeletons were new. "There's sothing wrong here, so we have to leave this place quickly."
"Have you two never encountered a place like this before?" Zhang Fei posed this question as he led them toward the door to the west.
Yun Xinyue shakes her head vigorously. "No! My group and I have never encountered a place like this before, and it's too scary."
"I've never encountered one either."
*Boom*
Zhang Fei imdiately stopped when a huge rock blocked their way out, causing Yun Xinyue to beco even more frightened to the point she didn't dare open her eyes.
[Master, the system has detected the presence of a creature in this room, but it is unable to scan it due to its invisible form.]
Zhang Fei nodded in understanding and moved the two won behind him, but Yun Xinyue continued to hug his arm and bury her face in his shoulder.
anwhile, Xian Xianqin held her green sword without uttering a word, perceiving Zhang Fei's grave expression, which confird her suspicion that there was sothing sinister within.
Zhang Fei's fox ears kept twitching as he tried to listen to the creature's movents, but it didn't make any sound at all, so he imdiately brought the two won into an invisible state.
'What should we do now? Have you detected anything?' Zhang Fei nodded slightly in response to Xian Xianqin's questions, and his eyes continued to move to search for the creature's whereabouts.
'I detected the presence of a creature, but I can't see its form or hear its voice. We shouldn't move, or we'll be in danger if it's stronger than us.' Both won nodded in understanding, but Zhang Fei could feel the trembling from Yun Xinyue's body intensifying, so he used his light qi to calm her down. 'Hey, we are with you now, so you don't need to be scared like this.'
i suddenly inford Zhang Fei of sothing else. [Master, their numbers are increasing, and I think they are the souls of these skeletons. However, they are not ordinary souls but vengeful souls, and they seem to be much stronger than the three of you.]
i's information raised many questions in Zhang Fei's mind. 'Why are they in this place? Does this tower's founder kill them and imprison their souls?'
[Unfortunately, I don't have the answer to that, Master. Anyway, you can use your devouring art or demon absorbing ability to absorb their souls, and you can use them for your soul power to break through to the perfection stage of the soul core level.]
*Shriek... Shriek...*
Along with the sound of those high-pitched shriek sounds, the temperature in the room dropped at a rapid pace, causing the room to beco completely cold. Xian Xianqin and Yun Xinyue imdiately used their qi to envelop their bodies, preventing the cold from affecting them.
Zhang Fei did nothing and kept looking forward as he began to see the appearance of those souls, but their appearance was much more frightening than the human souls he had encountered in the Sky Jade Realm a few months ago. 'They really are vengeful souls, huh?'
- To Be Continued -
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