After walking for a while, the six of them came to a pool of blood-red water ahead, which seemed to be the thirteenth level of the Blood Pool Hell.
In a vast pool of blood, red bubbles gurgled and bubbled, and the gleaming white bones, corroded and exposed, were faintly visible. Falling into the blood pool would surely mean being instantly corroded into a pile of bones. The only way to pass through this secret chamber was by air.
Lacking materials to build a bridge, Xiao Lou thought for a moment and looked at Lu Jiuchuan, saying, "This Blood Pool Hell is quite spacious. Brother Jiu can ride the Vermilion Bird and fly over... By the way, how many people can the Vermilion Bird carry at once?"
Lu Jiuchuan reluctantly took out the Vermilion Bird Card: "The Vermilion Bird has recognized me as its master and will only carry me in flight. No one else can ride on its back."
Xiao Lou then asked, "But it doesn't care whether you bring other people or not, right?"
Lu Jiuchuan paused for a moment: "No, that won't happen."
Xiao Lou was overjoyed and looked at Yu Hanjiang: " Hanjiang, where's the white silk you have?"
Yu Hanjiang took out the white silk card, and Xiao Lou handed it to Lu Jiuchuan, explaining, "Brother Jiu, the white silk on this card can be stretched or retracted, and it can tie up a person. Please ride the Vermilion Bird and use the white silk to hoist us over separately."
Lu Jiuchuan: "..."
So this time it's a high-altitude cable car?
Lu Jiuchuan discovered that Xiao Lou and his friends had all sorts of cards!
He smiled and nodded: "No problem."
Suzaku was summoned again. Lu Jiuchuan flipped over and jumped onto Suzaku's back. He tied Xiao Lou's waist with a white silk card in his hand. As Suzaku took off, Xiao Lou was also hoisted into the air.
He gripped the white silk tightly, not daring to look down at the pool of blood bubbling with blood.
The Vermilion Bird flew very fast, and in the blink of an eye, Xiao Lou landed on the other side of the blood pool.
Lu Jiuchuan put him down and continued to pick up other teammates with White Silk.
The next one to be hoisted over was Lao Mo, and the last one was Yu Hanjiang.
Lu Jiuchuan retrieved the Vermilion Bird Card and laughed, "My Vermilion Bird is getting emotional, so I'll use it as a temporary crane for you guys."
Everyone: "..."
It's really unfair to Zhuque.
The fourteenth level is the Hell of Unjust Death, where those who are cast into it will never be able to be reborn.
This level of hell has no traps or mechanisms, but the atmosphere is extremely oppressive. Once inside the secret chamber, everyone feels as if the air has been sucked out, and heart-wrenching screams echo around them.
The six people covered their ears and quickly passed through, entering the fifteenth level of the Lingchi Hell.
The Hell of Lingchi (death by a thousand cuts) is somewhat similar to the Hell of Knives, except that the pit in the Hell of Knives is filled with sharp long knives, and Old Mo can pass through by paving the pit with marble. In the Hell of Lingchi, however, countless blade-like throwing knives and hidden weapons shuttle back and forth in the air.
There was nowhere to hide from the densely packed flying knives. Once inside the secret room, they would fly in from all directions, slicing through a person's skin. The pain was absolutely comparable to being slowly sliced to death.
Fortunately, the throwing knife is very light and relatively easy to deal with.
Xiao Lou flipped a card from the card holder – hair dryer.
The hair dryer is an A-rank card I got a long time ago. It can create a strong wind that blows things away within its range.
The thin blade-shaped concealed weapon could be blown away by a strong wind.
Xiao Lou started up the hair dryer and shouted to his teammates, "Everyone get ready, let's get through as quickly as possible!"
He picked up the Hairdryer and blew it sharply to the left and right, instantly creating a gust of wind in the middle. The flying knives in the air were quickly blown to both sides, actually cutting open a safe passage without any flying knives!
Lu Jiuchuan doesn't even want to comment on Xiao Lou's card anymore — using a hair dryer to clear a path instead of drying hair is just too amazing.
The group quickly followed Yu Hanjiang through the secret chamber.
According to the concept of the eighteen hells, there are three more secret chambers: Volcano Hell, Stone Mill Hell, and Knife Mark Hell.
The entire room of Volcano Hell was engulfed in flames. Before even entering the chamber, everyone was nearly singed by the onrushing fire, and they quickly took a step back.
The room was engulfed in flames, and protective measures were necessary to pass through them.
For these grown men to charge directly into the fire would be suicide. Tang Ci's heat-resistant armor was the best choice, but unfortunately, its abilities had gone into cooldown while trying to get through the sweltering inferno...
If there were rain or water-based cards that could extinguish fires, that would be great, but unfortunately they don't have any.
Xiao Lou came up with a solution.
CEO Shao's [ Rich and Willful ] card can be copied. If CEO Shao copies a Tang Ci armor, and then they teleport back to Volcano Hell, wouldn't they be able to pass the level wearing the armor?
Of course, if you want to see Shao Qingge, you can't go back the way you came. Using Peach Blossom Spring Teleportation is a good option.
He can use Li Qingzhao's "Mistakenly Entering the Lotus Flower Depths" marking skill to leave a teleportation mark in Volcano Hell. After CEO Shao copies the card, the six of them can instantly teleport back to Volcano Hell.
Thinking of this, Xiao Lou used Telepathic Connection to ask Ye Qi: "Xiao Ye, how's the progress on your end?"
Ye Qi replied, " Professor Xiao, I was just looking for you, and we're back to square one!"
Xiao Lou was stunned when he heard this: "Have you already walked through the door of humanity?"
"Yes, after completing the path, we returned to the Six Paths of Reincarnation chamber and found the mark we left at the door." He paused, then continued, "After returning to the starting point after completing the Heavenly Path, Senior Gui told us to try the Human Path next, but the door to the Human Path was..."
Strangely enough, once inside, there was a long, winding passage with murals painted on the walls on both sides.
"The entire path was just a very long, very long road without any traps or mechanisms, which made us almost think we had encountered a ghost wall again. However, the murals on both sides of the wall kept changing, as if they were telling a story."
When Ye Qi and the others first stepped through the Humanity Gate, they were mentally prepared to encounter all sorts of complex mechanisms. However, to their surprise, there were no mechanisms at all; it was all murals.
They looked at the murals the whole way, and their minds were a little dazed.
This road seems to have no end...
Gui Yuanzhang suddenly said, "Humanity? It's like we've lived a whole life."
The teammates then realized—
Although the murals in this passage are messy, they all tell the story of the same person.
From childhood to old age, isn't that the end of a person's life?
Ye Qi explained to Xiao Lou, "According to the senior's speculation, the story of the murals in the human realm is very likely related to the owner of this ancient tomb. We can't understand those paintings very well, but fortunately, Sister Huaying has an excellent memory, and she has memorized most of the murals on the wall."
Xiao Lou grew increasingly confused as he listened: "So, you've returned to the Six Paths of Reincarnation chamber once again?"
Ye Qi nodded: "Yeah, I was just about to discuss this with you. Should we try another door next? By the way, Professor Xiao, are you still in the Hell Path?"
Xiao Lou said, "Wait a minute, I need to ask CEO Shao for help. . I need to open the Peach Blossom Spring Teleportation so everyone can get used to it."
Ye Qi immediately relayed Xiao Lou's words to his teammates: " Professor Xiao is going to activate teleportation, everyone accept."
Xiao Lou summoned Li Qingzhao, who placed a teleportation marker at the location of Volcano Hell. Li Qingzhao's teleportation was delayed, only usable after 5 minutes, which was just enough time for them to return to Peach Blossom Spring.
He started Peach Blossom Spring Teleportation, and soon his teammates gathered in Peach Blossom Spring.
Time was of the essence, so Xiao Lou quickly said, " CEO Shao, use Rich and Willful to replicate Mr. Tang's mechanical armor. Senior Gui, I have some questions I'd like to confirm with you. After you walked through the Heavenly Path and the Human Path, you returned to the starting point, to the secret room of the Six Paths of Reincarnation, right?"
Gui Yuanzhang nodded: "That's right, we leave a mark every time we enter a door."
Xiao Lou took out the floor plan that Lao Mo had drawn on the handkerchief. He spoke quickly but very clearly: "After we entered the maze through the stone gate, we walked for a while and found a fork in the road. Then we split into two groups. We went east and you went west. Immediately afterwards, we each found two secret chambers with mechanisms and obtained the compass and the two sides of the yin-yang mirror. After that, we encountered a spiral staircase and thought it was a ghost wall, but it was just an illusion."
Gui Yuanzhang nodded: "Yes, after passing the spiral staircase, we each entered a secret room with six paths of reincarnation."
Old Mo finally realized: "So, after you completed the Heavenly Path, you returned to the Six Paths of Reincarnation; after you completed the Human Path, you returned to the Six Paths of Reincarnation again. This means that this maze... is actually petal-shaped?"
If we consider the initial stone gate as a root, branching into two branches, and the two secret chambers providing the compass and yin-yang mirror as two leaves, then the six paths of reincarnation secret chambers that the two teams encounter further forward are just two flowers.
The central stamen is the " six paths of reincarnation " chamber, and each petal is a world beyond six doors. No matter which door you go through, you will circle around in a large arc and return to the center of the stamen.
A maze with petal-like structures; none of the six petals are the exit.
Xiao Lou's expression was unusually serious. He said, "It seems that after we've traversed the Eighteen Hells, there's a high probability that we'll return to the center of the petal—which is the Six Paths of Reincarnation secret chamber where we initially started?"
Old Mo said, "If this speculation is confirmed, then the exit of the maze is very likely not inside the Six Doors."
When everyone first enters the Six Paths of Reincarnation secret room, and solves the spell and Herbal Hut mechanism, they see six doors appearing on the six walls. They subconsciously feel that the exit is inside one of the doors, which is why they try different routes.
In reality, the six paths of reincarnation is a "flower-shaped" maze.
No matter which door you go through, you'll always end up going in a big circle back to where you started.
Therefore, the exit is not actually at the fork in the road.
But at the origin!