“Don’t mind them!” Billy thought for a moment and said, “Let’s go in first.”
“Alright!” Amber replied, then she and Opal walked towards the entrance.
The two of them were most familiar with the mechanism diagram, so they took the lead.
As expected, after entering the maze, the oppressive atmosphere inside was several times stronger than outside.
As everyone speculated, without the cultivation of the Divine Realm, just the pressure inside would be enough to cause one to burst and die.
In addition, as Luciano Morin had mentioned, just as everyone reached the first three-way intersection, they found several corpses scattered on two of the paths, obviously dead from the defensive array.
“I’ll give it a try!” Black Tortoise said, then his hands flipped, forming a moderate-sized energy ball that he sent into one of the passages.
As soon as the energy ball flashed into the passage a few meters, a wave of extremely sharp energy sliced out, and the energy ball instantly exploded.
Seeing this scene, Judge and the others couldn’t help but gasp.
This really was a maze that spelled death!
“Let’s continue forward!” Opal said, leading everyone down the third passage.
Not long after walking, they reached another three-way intersection.
Just like before, corpses lay strewn across the ground on two of the roads.
“People die for wealth, and birds die for food!” Bob couldn’t help but sigh.
“These people didn’t have the mechanism diagram in their hands. They knew coming in here was risking their lives, yet so many still came one after another!”
“Human nature is greedy!” Vermilion Bird replied, “After all, if one can successfully enter the ‘Secret Space’, perhaps it would be a different kind of life!”
“That’s true!” Bob nodded.
“I really wonder what’s inside the ‘Secret Space’. Hopefully, it won’t make our trip here in vain!” Stout clicked his tongue.
“At least leave us some high-level spiritual fruits and beast cores to make it worthwhile for us!”
“Stout, all you think about are spiritual fruits and beast cores all day long. Can’t you have a little more ambition?” White Tiger spoke up.
“Hehe, sorry, poverty limits my imagination!” Stout grinned.
Night Orchid and the others chuckled softly.
The group chatted as they walked deeper inside.
This maze was the kind that could kill people without benefit. Every so often, there was a three-way intersection, followed by a pile of corpses.
“Huh?” After walking for a while, Opal and Amber stopped.
“Opal, what’s wrong?” Harleen asked.
“There’s no way forward!” Opal replied.
“What?” Hearing her words, Judge and Soul Chaser exclaimed simultaneously.
What do you mean there’s no way forward?
No way forward means we’ve taken the wrong path?
Won’t that trigger the defensive array? Are we in trouble?
At the same time, spiritual power surged from Billy’s body, immediately forming a defensive barrier around everyone.
“Everyone, activate your full strength and reinforce the barrier!” Opal also reacted quickly.
Phew… At the next moment, everyone quickly released their full power to strengthen the defense.
Serious expressions appeared on their faces one by one. They all knew that the defensive array inside could kill even a late-stage Sacred Realm powerhouse!
Could they withstand it?
However, the worrying situation that everyone anticipated didn’t happen.
After several minutes passed, there was no reaction in the passage.
“What’s going on?” White Tiger asked, “Didn’t they say triggering the defensive array by taking the wrong path? Why hasn’t it appeared?”
“We shouldn’t have taken the wrong path!” Amber furrowed her eyebrows slightly, “Opal and I followed the instructions on the mechanism diagram completely!”
“Unless the mechanism diagram itself is wrong, it’s unlikely that we took the wrong path!”
“So what’s going on?” Everyone frowned slightly.
The fact that the defensive array hadn’t activated yet clearly indicated that they hadn’t taken the wrong path.
But here was a dead end. What was going on?
“Could this maze be some prank by someone with too much time on their hands?” Stout suggested.
“It’s unlikely, right?” Judge replied, “Such a big project, just for the sake of a prank?”
“Opal, Amber, besides marking the maze’s routes on that mechanism diagram, were there any other special features?” Harleen spoke up at this moment.
“Harleen, what do you mean?” Felicia asked.
“I’m just curious!” Harleen responded after a moment of thought.
“If it’s just routes marked, why call it a mechanism diagram?”
“That’s right!” Soul Chaser chimed in.
“There might be some mechanisms set up inside the maze. We can only continue deeper if we find them.”
“Possible!” Azure Dragon and White Tiger nodded.
“Opal, Amber, can you recall anything?” Billy asked Opal and Amber, naturally guessing this possibility.
“Special features?” Amber and Opal fell into brief contemplation.
“Nothing special, I think!” After a while, Amber shook her head slightly.
“I remember it very clearly. Besides the guidance lines of the maze, there were only three sentences on that diagram, nothing else.”
“Three sentences?” Azure Dragon and the others asked simultaneously.
“Yes!” Amber nodded.
“At the bottom right of the mechanism diagram, there’s a line of small text, a total of twelve characters.”
“What are those twelve characters?” Azure Dragon continued to ask.
“Heaven and earth, Five Elements generate and restrain, join yin and yang!” Amber replied.
“I didn’t think those twelve characters were anything special before, but now it’s possible they contain a hidden message related to the mechanism!” Opal said thoughtfully.
“Those twelve characters sound very ordinary. What could be the mystery within?” Judge and Soul Chaser scratched their heads simultaneously.
“Look around, see if there’s anything special in this passage!” Billy thought for a moment, then waved his hand to dispel the barrier.
“Okay!” Everyone responded in unison, then dispersed.
However, in this passage, apart from the walls on both sides and the wall directly ahead, there was nothing else.
They searched the three walls for a long time but found nothing unusual.
“Honey, did you find something?” After another ten minutes, Harleen walked up to Billy and asked.
At this moment, Billy stood in front of the wall ahead, looking up with a thoughtful expression on his face.
“Do you think the middle few stones look a bit different from the others?” Billy asked Harleen.
“Different?” Harleen was slightly puzzled and looked up.
At the same time, upon hearing Billy’s words, others walked over one after another.
“Why didn’t I notice anything different?” Harleen observed while speaking.
“I didn’t see anything either!” Azure Dragon and Judge said simultaneously.