“Most likely, yes!” Opal nodded.
“I’ll try to move those eight stones first!”
At this moment, Amber said, then raised her hand again towards one of the stones closest to the previous ninth stone and exerted force towards the direction of the empty space.
As expected, after a sound, that stone could indeed move.
Amber also tried to pull the stone out of the wall, but to no avail. They could only shift it; it couldn’t leave the wall.
“Amazing!” Black Tortoise couldn’t help but exclaim.
The next steps were relatively simple.
In the grid, there was one empty space, and they had to move the other eight stones to their corresponding positions.
For Billy and the others, this was naturally not difficult.
After about ten minutes, all eight stones were placed in their positions according to the positions of the Eight Diagrams.
Immediately, a loud noise rang out, and the eight stones simultaneously exploded, piercing through the wall covered by the grid.
“We did it?” Stout shouted.
Joy flashed across the faces of the others.
“I’ll go over first to check, you all wait for my signal!”
After saying this, Billy leaped from the hole after a short run.
Although flying was prohibited in this maze, the hole was only about ten meters above the ground.
For those above the Divine Realm, this height posed no difficulty at all; a simple leap could cross it.
After landing on the opposite corridor, Billy looked around and found nothing unusual; it was the same as before.
A few minutes later, the others jumped over one after another.
“The designer of this level is really sadistic, making it so difficult!” Stout grumbled.
“If it weren’t for the Boss’s extraordinary intelligence, we’d probably have to return the same way we came!”
“Stout, your flattery skills are improving!” Judge retorted.
Night Orchid and Frostblade chuckled.
Then, led by Opal and Amber, the group continued forward.
The next stretch of the road was similar to before, with a fork in the road every so often.
However, they didn’t see any corpses anymore.
Obviously, up to this point, no one had successfully passed the previous challenge.
This was understandable; without the sentence on the mechanism diagram, it would be difficult for anyone to associate the eight stones with the Eight Diagrams.
After about a quarter of an hour, the group was once again blocked by a wall.
This time, it was a wall of various colors.
It was called colorful because the thirty stones on the entire wall, each about three meters in length and width, were not the original gray color of stones but painted in bright colors.
There were roughly five colors of stones: black, red, white, blue, and yellow, arranged in an alternating pattern.
In addition, all the stones had one common feature: a hole about a meter in diameter and depth in the center position.
At the same time, the group also noticed that at the bottom of the wall, there were more than thirty stone pillars.
The diameter and height were also about a meter, corresponding in color to the five stones on the wall.
“This level seems too simple!” Stout remarked upon seeing the pillars on the ground and the holes in the middle of the stones on the wall.
“I guess we just need to put these pillars into the corresponding holes in the wall!”
“It can’t be that simple, can it?” Judge instinctively responded.
“Let’s just try it! If it doesn’t work, we’ll figure something else out!” Soul Chaser suggested.
After saying that, he activated his energy and lifted one of the yellow pillars with a gust of wind.
Then, with a lift of his hand, he sent the pillar into the hole of a yellow stone on the wall.
Watching his actions, Billy didn’t stop him. Although he guessed it wouldn’t be so simple, he couldn’t think of an alternative at the moment.
“Let’s try together!” Azure Dragon said, leading Vermilion Bird, White Tiger, and others to join in.
After about half an hour of bustling, seven or eight people placed all thirty pillars onto the wall. Then, they looked up at the wall, eagerly waiting for something to happen.
However, after several minutes passed, there was still no movement.
Obviously, the method was incorrect!
“Well, it’s not that simple after all!” Soul Chaser shrugged.
Then, the group, feeling helpless, began to pull out the thirty pillars one by one and placed them back in the corridor.
“To pass this level, undoubtedly, we need to put these pillars into the corresponding holes,” Stout continued with a somewhat thoughtful expression.
“Otherwise, we can try every possibility!”
“What’s wrong? Did I say something wrong?” Stout earnestly asked Vermilion Bird beside him.
“You’re not wrong!” Vermilion Bird replied, “Theoretically, yes!”
“Just, with thirty pillars into thirty different holes, do you know how many possibilities there are?”
“I haven’t calculated it!” Stout shook his head, “I guess there should be hundreds!”
Vermilion Bird coughed.
“I haven’t learned math!” Stout replied seriously.
“Consider that I didn’t ask!” Vermilion Bird’s mouth twitched, then added, “To try out all possibilities is equivalent to finding the factorial of thirty. I don’t know the result.”
“I only know that even if the twenty of us work tirelessly here without eating or sleeping, it might still take us tens of thousands of years to try them all!”
Stout’s mouth twitched, “Consider that I didn’t say that…”
“Casey, try putting a green pillar into the white hole!” Billy said to Casey.
“Okay!” Casey replied and lifted a green pillar, sending it into one of the white stone holes.
The next moment, there was a loud noise, and the green pillar instantly exploded into debris flying everywhere.
“What’s going on?!” Everyone was stunned.
Why did it explode out of nowhere?
“Try putting a black pillar into the yellow hole next!” Billy suggested thoughtfully.
“Okay!” Casey acted again.
Just like before, as soon as the pillar entered the hole, there was a loud noise, and the pillar was also shattered into powder.
“Honey, do you notice anything?” Harleen asked.
Casey and the others turned to look at Billy.