After a while, they cut a trail of blood to the base of the metal pillar.
This was the first time that Xiao Tangqiu had observed the Tongtian Pagoda so closely. The pagoda towered into the clouds, far beyond his vision. The metal walls were covered in lines of mysterious script with glimmers of light flowing through them.
He was awed and couldn’t help but think, if there really was a Tower of Babel that could lead to the heavens in this world, then it probably looked like this!
“This is the Light God’s Labyrinth?” Tang Mianmian sighed, “It’s sure grand enough! If we keep climbing, will we be able to go to God’s paradise?”
Xiao Tangqiu sighed, “…Unfortunately, the Light God has fallen.”
Tang Mianmian, “I just say that you must not bet with others casually. If Zhou Yu didn’t have a bet with Zhuge Liang about building 100,000 arrows in ten days, he would not have been killed by Zhuge Liang.”
Xiao Tangqiu, “He didn’t die like that. But it’s really not a good habit to randomly gamble. Small bets harm the emotions and big gambles harm the body.”
Duan Hongzhen, “…At this kind of time, quit joking around!”
He gritted his teeth and shouted at the two of them while fighting off demon monsters, “Hurry up and find the entrance to the labyrinth!”
“Do you think we don’t want to find it? We can’t find it at all!” Tang Mianmian also gritted his teeth, “This Tongtian Pagoda has no entrance!”
Xiao Tangqiu sighed. Just as Tang Mianmian said, although the pagoda was towering and impressive, they really couldn’t find an entrance. They circled and found that the entire tower was a solid wall. No wonder the Abyss Demon knew where the Light God’s Labyrinth was but couldn’t get into it to get the Light God’s Sword. Sword what sword if the entrance couldn’t even be found!
Where was the entrance?
Where was the entrance, really?
Xiao Tangqiu looked everywhere he could think of and worked with Tang Mianmian to find various ways to open the entrance. They even shouted slogans like “open sesame” several times. But no matter what they did, the pagoda stayed a pagoda and the wall stayed a wall.
“Can’t! Still can’t open it!”
After failing again and again, Xiao Tangqiu finally became discouraged.
Tang Mianmian frowned and pondered, “Maybe we need to think about it differently… Is it possible that the entrance is not on the wall? Is it possible that there is an underground passage?”
At this moment, Yu Fuling opened her eyes while sweating profusely, “…I have done my best to investigate the maximum range I can detect, there are no underground passages.”
The situation seemed to have reached a deadlock. At this moment, Sai Lulu suddenly said, “Let me try.”
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There were more and more monsters around and now there was one less combatant. The others could only grit their teeth and support Sai Lulu’s vacancy.
After a while, Sai Lulu suddenly opened her eyes. She spat out a mouthful of blood and fell to the ground. The ancient sheepskin book in her hand rolled out to Xiao Tangqiu’s feet.
Xiao Tangqiu quickly picked it up while resisting a monster only to find that the Book of Prophecy was blank and there was nothing on it.
“How is it?” Tang Mianmian asked impatiently.
Xiao Tangqiu, “…There’s nothing.”
“Sorry…” Sai Lulu was pale and spat out a mouthful of blood and she said, “I don’t know why… I can’t divine anything…”
Yu Fuling quickly rushed to support her, “Lulu! Are you okay?”
Shen Yuan frowned, “Is it because it is related to the Light God, so we can’t perform divination?”
Xiao Tangqiu sighed. Even Sai Lulu couldn’t tell, what else could they do now?
Sai Lulu suddenly wiped the blood from her mouth and said, “I have another way.”
“What way?” Shen Yuan frowned and asked.
Yu Fuling seemed to understand something and yelled in disbelief, “Are you going to use your life to divine? No! You’re crazy!”
“Use life to divine? What do you mean?” Xiao Tangqiu asked reflexively.
Sai Lulu explained quietly, “Using life as a medium to divine, that is, life is used as the price. Once the divination is successful, life expectancy will be collected according to the results, ranging from one year of life to ten years…”
Xiao Tangqiu instantly understood what she meant! Once the divination succeeded, her lifespan would be shortened. Judging from the fact that Sai Lulu couldn’t predict anything earlier, she might lose her life if she succeeded this time!
“Are you crazy? Do you want to die?” Duan Hongzhen frowned and scolded.
“This is the only way left,” Sai Lulu’s gaze was firm, “If we can’t find the entrance to the labyrinth, we won’t be able to crack the labyrinth, let alone get the Light God’s Sword… Are we not here to defeat the Abyss Demon and end it all?”
Xiao Tangqiu frowned and said, “If you die, even if everything ends, you won’t see anything.”
Sai Lulu shook her head, “A long time ago, I used divination on myself…”
Xiao Tangqiu asked, “And then?”
Sai Lulu smiled and whispered, “The Book of Prophecy said… I will definitely live to the end. My strength has always been mediocre in our Reincarnation Team, but I have always escaped death, so this time I will definitely also survive.”
Xiao Tangqiu was not convinced, “There is such a thing in the Book of Prophecy?”
“I will definitely survive. No matter what, I will never take my life lightly,” Sai Lulu smiled lightly. “I still want to go back to the real world. I also want to go to a comic convention with Fuling-jie.”
Yu Fuling spoke haltingly, “Lulu…”
“Have you forgotten? Didn’t we say that we are going to go to wear lolita dresses to a convention together?” Sai Lulu blinked at Yu Fuling, her delicate face filled with confidence, “Don’t worry, I won’t die so easily here!”
Shen Yuan said, “Don’t force it.”
“I won’t. Although I am using this skill for the first time, I know my limits and if it risks my life, I will stop immediately.” Sai Lulu quickly recovered her serious expression and she looked at everyone very solemnly. “Let me just try, alright?”
Shen Yuan was silent for a few seconds, then nodded, “…Don’t force it, if it really doesn’t work, we can still find other ways.”
Sai Lulu nodded.
Soon, everyone formed a circle with their backs to Sai Lulu who stood in the middle. They fought and resisted the surging monsters in order to gain time and space for Sai Lulu’s divination.
Sai Lulu stood in the middle of the group, closed her eyes and started her divination, but this time the divination was obviously different from the last one. After closing her eyes and reciting the spell for a while, she suddenly took out a dagger and struck a deep stroke on her wrist.
Blood flowed from the wound and dripped onto the Book of Prophecy on the ground.
As more and more blood dripped, the Book of Prophecy gradually floated up and slowly floated above the crowd. It was originally only the blood Sai Lulu dripped onto the Book of Prophecy, but after the Book of Prophecy floated up, it began to actively absorb her blood.
Sai Lulu’s face gradually paled, but there were still no words in the Book of Prophecy. Xiao Tangqiu held off the monsters while observing Sai Lulu’s divination from the outside. Seeing that Sai Lulu’s face became paler and paler, he shouted with urgency, “Are you OK?”
Sai Lulu gritted her teeth and shouted, “I’m fine! You guys continue!”
As Sai Lulu lost more and more blood, her appearance began to change. Her black hair began to turn white and her skin gradually became no longer smooth and fair.
Xiao Tangqiu was shocked, “Stop! It’s starting to absorb your lifespan!”
“Can’t stop! I must continue! Don’t interrupt me!” Sai Lulu shouted.
Yu Fuling turned her head and saw Sai Lulu’s gray hair, and immediately shouted, “We can’t continue! Stop it!”
Sai Lulu insisted, “Don’t stop! We will succeed soon! Just a little bit more…”
As soon as she spoke, everyone realized that her voice had also begun to age.
In just a few seconds, Sai Lulu had become an old woman with gray hair and rough skin, but the Book of Prophecy was still a wordless book.
“Lulu! Stop it!”
“Don’t come over! Soon… we can… succeed…”
Yu Fuling didn’t care about Sai Lulu’s attempts to stop them anymore, turned around and ran towards Sai Lulu, but it was too late. When she got to Sai Lulu, Sai Lulu was very old and she caught Sai Lulu with trembling hands.
Sai Lulu’s body had become a shriveled skeleton and her vitality had apparently dried up completely. The Book of Prophecy suddenly fell to the ground and turned into an ordinary book.
“Lulu! Lulu! Sai Lulu!” Yu Fuling called out Sai Lulu’s name, but Sai Lulu couldn’t hear her anymore. She closed her eyes, only her lips were slightly moving.
Yu Fuling trembled and put her ear to Sai Lulu’s lips, but couldn’t hear anything. The next second, something rolled out of Sai Lulu’s withered hands.
At this moment, Sai Lulu’s corpse turned into powder and disappeared into smoke and ashes.
Yu Fuling stretched out her hands weakly, but couldn’t grab onto anything.
She could only pick up the thing that had fallen with both trembling hands.
It was an old brass key.
Everyone fell into a long silence. After a while, Yu Fuling bent down and picked up the Book of Prophecy that had become an ordinary book, and slowly said, “…This should be the key to the entrance to the labyrinth, let’s go in.”
No one spoke, Sai Lulu’s death was too sudden and too peaceful.
They could only offer silence and intensified the killing of monsters as their condolences and tribute to Sai Lulu.
In this way, everyone in the Reincarnation Team stepped on the corpses of the monster and rushed towards the Tongtian Pagoda in silence.
This time they successfully broke into the Tongtian Pagoda. The moment they approached the Pagoda, a door suddenly appeared on the metal wall with a pitch blackness behind it.
Although no one knew what was in the darkness, everyone rushed into it without hesitation.
Xiao Tangqiu stepped into the darkness and ran for a long time with gritted teeth, but the surroundings remained dark. The metal pillar he saw from the outside was absolutely not this wide, but he also knew that this kind of supernaturally made space could not be explained by logic.
“This is… the Light God’s Labyrinth?” They didn’t know how long they walked in the dark, Tang Mianmian finally couldn’t help but ask, “Where is the labyrinth? Is this not the labyrinth yet?”
Xiao Tangqiu pondered, “Maybe this labyrinth is not the same concept of a labyrinth we usually think of.”
Tang Mianmian murmured, “Regardless… there must be an exit, right?”
Xiao Tangqiu paused, “Maybe we need do something to find the exit.”
As soon as Xiao Tangqiu’s voice fell, a long spiraling stone staircase suddenly appeared in front of them. The stone staircase spiraled straight up with no end in sight. No matter, he brightened up, “This is it!”
“Can we go up the stairs and find the labyrinth exit?” Tang Mianmian murmured.
Xiao Tangqiu, “I don’t know, but I have to give it a try.”
The Reincarnation Team members did not show much grief on the surface since Sai Lulu’s death, having long become “numb” to the death of their teammates. But Xiao Tangqiu could still keenly feel that everyone’s mood was a little low. Even he himself, despite not having spent much time with Sai Lulu, couldn’t help but mourn as a fox does for a rabbit’s death. In this world of life and death, death would fall on his companions, and sooner or later it would also fall on him. Maybe the next one to die would be oneself.
Everyone quickly and silently climbed up the spiraling stone staircase. The end of the spiraling stone staircase couldn’t be seen. It was so despairingly high that it seemed impossible to climb up, but no one said this.
Xiao Tangqiu’s physical fitness was much better than before, but after running for a few hours, he couldn’t help becoming out of breath. Especially when he looked up and saw that there were still unending stone steps in front of him, he felt even worse. His body was exhausted, but his heart was more exhausted.
“Stop and rest for a while.” At this moment, Shen Yuan suddenly broke the silence. He glanced at Xiao Tangqiu and said lightly, “Everyone is tired. Rest for ten minutes before continuing to climb.”
Although it was better to climb all the way to the end in one go, anyone with eyes could see that they couldn’t climb to the end in one go. There was even doubt whether they could climb to the end at all. Everyone nodded and sat cross-legged on the floor.
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Could they really reach the end? Although everyone thought of the same question, no one said it aloud.
After the ten-minute rest time, everyone continued to climb up silently. But at this moment, an abnormality suddenly emerged.
A monster suddenly leaped out from the darkness below and quickly jumped behind everyone, blocking their way of retreat.
Xiao Tangqiu’s eyes widened, “…Ouroboros!”
He never expected that the first to catch up to them was Ouroboros!
This giant black snake coiled around and hovered on the spiraling stone staircase. Its huge body filled the entire staircase and blocked all their escape routes. Even if they wanted to retreat, they couldn’t.
Those who came were not good, and those who were good would not come. It seemed that the giant black snake was the first wave of pursuing soldiers. Duan Hongzhen did not hesitate to call out, “You go first! I’ll stay behind!”
Xue Junli suddenly turned around, “I’ll stay with you!”
Duan Hongzhen scoffed, “I don’t need you! You go too!”
Xue Junli said coldly, “That’s not up to you.”
Yu Fuling yelled, “Duan Hongzhen! Xue Junli!”
Xue Junli decisively said, “The two of us will stay behind, you guys continue!”
Yu Fuling gritted her teeth and struggled with red eyes for a while, and then she strangely calmed down, “Captain, let’s go on!”
Shen Yuan took a deep look at both Duan Hongzhen and Xue Junli, then turned his head and continued to climb up.
Su Manluo also followed in silence.
Xiao Tangqiu looked back at Duan Hongzhen and Xue Junli for the last time before sighing and turning to catch up. Although Duan Hongzhen and Xue Junli were very strong, even Shen Yuan couldn’t deal with Ouroboros. Everyone knew the fate of the two of them after staying behind.
The backs of Duan Hongzhen and Xue Junli gradually disappeared from the view of the remaining five people, but the spiraling stone staircase in front of them was still long and endless.
Xiao Tangqiu got more and more tired. Eventually, he couldn’t hear other sounds anymore, only his own gasps, as if his soul was about to be torn out of his body.
At this moment, Shen Yuan suddenly stopped and turned to look at Xiao Tangqiu, “I’ll carry you on my back.”
Xiao Tangqiu gasped and said, “Don’t joke… I can still climb!”
Shen Yuan said lightly, “I’ll carry you on my back.”
Xiao Tangqiu glanced at Yu Fuling and Su Manluo, and insisted, “Neither of the two girls are tired, how can I be tired as a big man? Don’t kid! Keep climbing!”
Shen Yuan sighed, “Alright, keep climbing!”
There was still an endless spiraling stone staircase ahead. Xiao Tangqiu climbed completely relying on willpower. He almost climbed into confusion and trance, and just as he was about to faint—
The end of the spiral stone staircase finally appeared!
He couldn’t believe his eyes and even thought it was an illusion that appeared before he was about to die.
Tang Mianmian also murmured, “Is this an illusion before death? Or a mirage?”
Su Manluo was very excited, “It’s not an illusion! It’s not a mirage! We finally reached the end of the stone stairs! There must be the exit of the labyrinth!”
Xiao Tangqiu was a little bit incredulous, “Labyrinth exit?”
The exit of the labyrinth? Did they finally find the exit of the labyrinth?
He was in a daze, he didn’t know for a moment whether it was too easy for them to find the exit of the labyrinth.
Shen Yuan’s eyes darkened, “Let’s go up!”
Although they had seen the dawn of hope, everyone’s mood was not relaxed. Even Yu Fuling’s expression was a little dazed. They obviously didn’t dare to believe that after so many sacrifices, they could find the exit so simply.
Xiao Tangqiu gritted his teeth, “Quick! Let’s go up! If we can find the Light God’s Sword, maybe there is still time to go back and save Duan Hongzhen and Xue Junli!”
It had been several hours of climbing since Duan Hongzhen and Xue Junli parted from the team. Comparing their strength to Ouroboros, it seemed impossible for them to have held it off for so long. But since Ouroboros had not caught up, they couldn’t be sure that Duan Hongzhen and Xue Junli were really dead, maybe there was still a glimmer of hope to save them.
Yu Fuling suddenly cheered up, “Yes! We can go back to save Duan Hongzhen and Xue Junli! Hurry up! Let’s find the Light God’s Sword!” The Light God’s Sword could easily defeat even Abyss Demon, let alone Ouroboros!
Everyone regained their spirits and ran towards the end of the staircase.
Xiao Tangqiu was already exhausted, but now he was full of strength and rushed up. Finally, they came to the end of the spiraling stone staircase.
A stone gate appeared at the end of the spiraling stone staircase, and behind the stone gate was a giant hall.
Everyone walked into the hall cautiously and no one dared to speak. The hall was empty except for an ancient stone throne in the center.
The stone throne had obviously experienced the scouring and weathering of thousands of years. When Xiao Tangqiu approached, an ancient aura that seemed to come from tens of thousands of years ago rushed over him. For a moment, he even felt as if he was transported to a time tens of thousands of years ago.
A sword was inserted in the center of the stone throne. This was a stone sword, an ancient stone sword that was old enough to be displayed in a museum. It was so old and worn away by time that not only did it have no killing power, it probably couldn’t even cut tofu.
Xiao Tangqiu was a little disappointed, “…This is the Light God’s Sword?”
He couldn’t accept that after they sacrificed so many teammates, the legendary sword that could subdue the Abyss Demon they found was a beyond-ordinary stone sword.
Not only was it not surrounded by dazzling light, but there was also no sharp blade that could cut iron like mud. Even the blade was too rusted to cut anything. Could such a shabby and unremarkable ancient stone sword really help them defeat the Abyss Demon?
The other’s expressions were also not very good, obviously thinking the same.
Tang Mianmian quickly comforted them and said, “Isn’t it always like this in movies? Most divine magic weapons all look very inconspicuous. What’s the term, reverting forms! Just wait for us to pull the sword out. After that, you will be able to start a massacre immediately! Come! Let’s pull out the Light God’s Sword and then go and beat the shit out of the Abyss Demon!”
Xiao Tangqiu regained his spirit, “Okay! Let’s go draw the sword!”
No matter what, try it first.
Tang Mianmian nodded, “Let’s go up and try one by one. Who will go first?”
Shen Yuan stared closely at the stone sword inserted in the stone throne, his eyes dark, “…I’ll go first.”
Shen Yuan walked towards the stone throne. Everyone was engrossed in watching his movements, but at this moment, Yu Fuling suddenly yelled, “Captain, be careful!”
She charged towards Shen Yuan and blocked behind him. At the same time, a sharp black thorn pierced through the air and into her body.
After a while, they cut a trail of blood to the base of the metal pillar.
This was the first time that Xiao Tangqiu had observed the Tongtian Pagoda so closely. The pagoda towered into the clouds, far beyond his vision. The metal walls were covered in lines of mysterious script with glimmers of light flowing through them.
He was awed and couldn’t help but think, if there really was a Tower of Babel that could lead to the heavens in this world, then it probably looked like this!
“This is the Light God’s Labyrinth?” Tang Mianmian sighed, “It’s sure grand enough! If we keep climbing, will we be able to go to God’s paradise?”
Xiao Tangqiu sighed, “…Unfortunately, the Light God has fallen.”
Tang Mianmian, “I just say that you must not bet with others casually. If Zhou Yu didn’t have a bet with Zhuge Liang about building 100,000 arrows in ten days, he would not have been killed by Zhuge Liang.”
Xiao Tangqiu, “He didn’t die like that. But it’s really not a good habit to randomly gamble. Small bets harm the emotions and big gambles harm the body.”
Duan Hongzhen, “…At this kind of time, quit joking around!”
He gritted his teeth and shouted at the two of them while fighting off demon monsters, “Hurry up and find the entrance to the labyrinth!”
“Do you think we don’t want to find it? We can’t find it at all!” Tang Mianmian also gritted his teeth, “This Tongtian Pagoda has no entrance!”
Xiao Tangqiu sighed. Just as Tang Mianmian said, although the pagoda was towering and impressive, they really couldn’t find an entrance. They circled and found that the entire tower was a solid wall. No wonder the Abyss Demon knew where the Light God’s Labyrinth was but couldn’t get into it to get the Light God’s Sword. Sword what sword if the entrance couldn’t even be found!
Where was the entrance?
Where was the entrance, really?
Xiao Tangqiu looked everywhere he could think of and worked with Tang Mianmian to find various ways to open the entrance. They even shouted slogans like “open sesame” several times. But no matter what they did, the pagoda stayed a pagoda and the wall stayed a wall.
“Can’t! Still can’t open it!”
After failing again and again, Xiao Tangqiu finally became discouraged.
Tang Mianmian frowned and pondered, “Maybe we need to think about it differently… Is it possible that the entrance is not on the wall? Is it possible that there is an underground passage?”
At this moment, Yu Fuling opened her eyes while sweating profusely, “…I have done my best to investigate the maximum range I can detect, there are no underground passages.”
The situation seemed to have reached a deadlock. At this moment, Sai Lulu suddenly said, “Let me try.”
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There were more and more monsters around and now there was one less combatant. The others could only grit their teeth and support Sai Lulu’s vacancy.
After a while, Sai Lulu suddenly opened her eyes. She spat out a mouthful of blood and fell to the ground. The ancient sheepskin book in her hand rolled out to Xiao Tangqiu’s feet.
Xiao Tangqiu quickly picked it up while resisting a monster only to find that the Book of Prophecy was blank and there was nothing on it.
“How is it?” Tang Mianmian asked impatiently.
Xiao Tangqiu, “…There’s nothing.”
“Sorry…” Sai Lulu was pale and spat out a mouthful of blood and she said, “I don’t know why… I can’t divine anything…”
Yu Fuling quickly rushed to support her, “Lulu! Are you okay?”
Shen Yuan frowned, “Is it because it is related to the Light God, so we can’t perform divination?”
Xiao Tangqiu sighed. Even Sai Lulu couldn’t tell, what else could they do now?
Sai Lulu suddenly wiped the blood from her mouth and said, “I have another way.”
“What way?” Shen Yuan frowned and asked.
Yu Fuling seemed to understand something and yelled in disbelief, “Are you going to use your life to divine? No! You’re crazy!”
“Use life to divine? What do you mean?” Xiao Tangqiu asked reflexively.
Sai Lulu explained quietly, “Using life as a medium to divine, that is, life is used as the price. Once the divination is successful, life expectancy will be collected according to the results, ranging from one year of life to ten years…”
Xiao Tangqiu instantly understood what she meant! Once the divination succeeded, her lifespan would be shortened. Judging from the fact that Sai Lulu couldn’t predict anything earlier, she might lose her life if she succeeded this time!
“Are you crazy? Do you want to die?” Duan Hongzhen frowned and scolded.
“This is the only way left,” Sai Lulu’s gaze was firm, “If we can’t find the entrance to the labyrinth, we won’t be able to crack the labyrinth, let alone get the Light God’s Sword… Are we not here to defeat the Abyss Demon and end it all?”
Xiao Tangqiu frowned and said, “If you die, even if everything ends, you won’t see anything.”
Sai Lulu shook her head, “A long time ago, I used divination on myself…”
Xiao Tangqiu asked, “And then?”
Sai Lulu smiled and whispered, “The Book of Prophecy said… I will definitely live to the end. My strength has always been mediocre in our Reincarnation Team, but I have always escaped death, so this time I will definitely also survive.”
Xiao Tangqiu was not convinced, “There is such a thing in the Book of Prophecy?”
“I will definitely survive. No matter what, I will never take my life lightly,” Sai Lulu smiled lightly. “I still want to go back to the real world. I also want to go to a comic convention with Fuling-jie.”
Yu Fuling spoke haltingly, “Lulu…”
“Have you forgotten? Didn’t we say that we are going to go to wear lolita dresses to a convention together?” Sai Lulu blinked at Yu Fuling, her delicate face filled with confidence, “Don’t worry, I won’t die so easily here!”
Shen Yuan said, “Don’t force it.”
“I won’t. Although I am using this skill for the first time, I know my limits and if it risks my life, I will stop immediately.” Sai Lulu quickly recovered her serious expression and she looked at everyone very solemnly. “Let me just try, alright?”
Shen Yuan was silent for a few seconds, then nodded, “…Don’t force it, if it really doesn’t work, we can still find other ways.”
Sai Lulu nodded.
Soon, everyone formed a circle with their backs to Sai Lulu who stood in the middle. They fought and resisted the surging monsters in order to gain time and space for Sai Lulu’s divination.
Sai Lulu stood in the middle of the group, closed her eyes and started her divination, but this time the divination was obviously different from the last one. After closing her eyes and reciting the spell for a while, she suddenly took out a dagger and struck a deep stroke on her wrist.
Blood flowed from the wound and dripped onto the Book of Prophecy on the ground.
As more and more blood dripped, the Book of Prophecy gradually floated up and slowly floated above the crowd. It was originally only the blood Sai Lulu dripped onto the Book of Prophecy, but after the Book of Prophecy floated up, it began to actively absorb her blood.
Sai Lulu’s face gradually paled, but there were still no words in the Book of Prophecy. Xiao Tangqiu held off the monsters while observing Sai Lulu’s divination from the outside. Seeing that Sai Lulu’s face became paler and paler, he shouted with urgency, “Are you OK?”
Sai Lulu gritted her teeth and shouted, “I’m fine! You guys continue!”
As Sai Lulu lost more and more blood, her appearance began to change. Her black hair began to turn white and her skin gradually became no longer smooth and fair.
Xiao Tangqiu was shocked, “Stop! It’s starting to absorb your lifespan!”
“Can’t stop! I must continue! Don’t interrupt me!” Sai Lulu shouted.
Yu Fuling turned her head and saw Sai Lulu’s gray hair, and immediately shouted, “We can’t continue! Stop it!”
Sai Lulu insisted, “Don’t stop! We will succeed soon! Just a little bit more…”
As soon as she spoke, everyone realized that her voice had also begun to age.
In just a few seconds, Sai Lulu had become an old woman with gray hair and rough skin, but the Book of Prophecy was still a wordless book.
“Lulu! Stop it!”
“Don’t come over! Soon… we can… succeed…”
Yu Fuling didn’t care about Sai Lulu’s attempts to stop them anymore, turned around and ran towards Sai Lulu, but it was too late. When she got to Sai Lulu, Sai Lulu was very old and she caught Sai Lulu with trembling hands.
Sai Lulu’s body had become a shriveled skeleton and her vitality had apparently dried up completely. The Book of Prophecy suddenly fell to the ground and turned into an ordinary book.
“Lulu! Lulu! Sai Lulu!” Yu Fuling called out Sai Lulu’s name, but Sai Lulu couldn’t hear her anymore. She closed her eyes, only her lips were slightly moving.
Yu Fuling trembled and put her ear to Sai Lulu’s lips, but couldn’t hear anything. The next second, something rolled out of Sai Lulu’s withered hands.
At this moment, Sai Lulu’s corpse turned into powder and disappeared into smoke and ashes.
Yu Fuling stretched out her hands weakly, but couldn’t grab onto anything.
She could only pick up the thing that had fallen with both trembling hands.
It was an old brass key.
Everyone fell into a long silence. After a while, Yu Fuling bent down and picked up the Book of Prophecy that had become an ordinary book, and slowly said, “…This should be the key to the entrance to the labyrinth, let’s go in.”
No one spoke, Sai Lulu’s death was too sudden and too peaceful.
They could only offer silence and intensified the killing of monsters as their condolences and tribute to Sai Lulu.
In this way, everyone in the Reincarnation Team stepped on the corpses of the monster and rushed towards the Tongtian Pagoda in silence.
This time they successfully broke into the Tongtian Pagoda. The moment they approached the Pagoda, a door suddenly appeared on the metal wall with a pitch blackness behind it.
Although no one knew what was in the darkness, everyone rushed into it without hesitation.
Xiao Tangqiu stepped into the darkness and ran for a long time with gritted teeth, but the surroundings remained dark. The metal pillar he saw from the outside was absolutely not this wide, but he also knew that this kind of supernaturally made space could not be explained by logic.
“This is… the Light God’s Labyrinth?” They didn’t know how long they walked in the dark, Tang Mianmian finally couldn’t help but ask, “Where is the labyrinth? Is this not the labyrinth yet?”
Xiao Tangqiu pondered, “Maybe this labyrinth is not the same concept of a labyrinth we usually think of.”
Tang Mianmian murmured, “Regardless… there must be an exit, right?”
Xiao Tangqiu paused, “Maybe we need do something to find the exit.”
As soon as Xiao Tangqiu’s voice fell, a long spiraling stone staircase suddenly appeared in front of them. The stone staircase spiraled straight up with no end in sight. No matter, he brightened up, “This is it!”
“Can we go up the stairs and find the labyrinth exit?” Tang Mianmian murmured.
Xiao Tangqiu, “I don’t know, but I have to give it a try.”
The Reincarnation Team members did not show much grief on the surface since Sai Lulu’s death, having long become “numb” to the death of their teammates. But Xiao Tangqiu could still keenly feel that everyone’s mood was a little low. Even he himself, despite not having spent much time with Sai Lulu, couldn’t help but mourn as a fox does for a rabbit’s death. In this world of life and death, death would fall on his companions, and sooner or later it would also fall on him. Maybe the next one to die would be oneself.
Everyone quickly and silently climbed up the spiraling stone staircase. The end of the spiraling stone staircase couldn’t be seen. It was so despairingly high that it seemed impossible to climb up, but no one said this.
Xiao Tangqiu’s physical fitness was much better than before, but after running for a few hours, he couldn’t help becoming out of breath. Especially when he looked up and saw that there were still unending stone steps in front of him, he felt even worse. His body was exhausted, but his heart was more exhausted.
“Stop and rest for a while.” At this moment, Shen Yuan suddenly broke the silence. He glanced at Xiao Tangqiu and said lightly, “Everyone is tired. Rest for ten minutes before continuing to climb.”
Although it was better to climb all the way to the end in one go, anyone with eyes could see that they couldn’t climb to the end in one go. There was even doubt whether they could climb to the end at all. Everyone nodded and sat cross-legged on the floor.
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Could they really reach the end? Although everyone thought of the same question, no one said it aloud.
After the ten-minute rest time, everyone continued to climb up silently. But at this moment, an abnormality suddenly emerged.
A monster suddenly leaped out from the darkness below and quickly jumped behind everyone, blocking their way of retreat.
Xiao Tangqiu’s eyes widened, “…Ouroboros!”
He never expected that the first to catch up to them was Ouroboros!
This giant black snake coiled around and hovered on the spiraling stone staircase. Its huge body filled the entire staircase and blocked all their escape routes. Even if they wanted to retreat, they couldn’t.
Those who came were not good, and those who were good would not come. It seemed that the giant black snake was the first wave of pursuing soldiers. Duan Hongzhen did not hesitate to call out, “You go first! I’ll stay behind!”
Xue Junli suddenly turned around, “I’ll stay with you!”
Duan Hongzhen scoffed, “I don’t need you! You go too!”
Xue Junli said coldly, “That’s not up to you.”
Yu Fuling yelled, “Duan Hongzhen! Xue Junli!”
Xue Junli decisively said, “The two of us will stay behind, you guys continue!”
Yu Fuling gritted her teeth and struggled with red eyes for a while, and then she strangely calmed down, “Captain, let’s go on!”
Shen Yuan took a deep look at both Duan Hongzhen and Xue Junli, then turned his head and continued to climb up.
Su Manluo also followed in silence.
Xiao Tangqiu looked back at Duan Hongzhen and Xue Junli for the last time before sighing and turning to catch up. Although Duan Hongzhen and Xue Junli were very strong, even Shen Yuan couldn’t deal with Ouroboros. Everyone knew the fate of the two of them after staying behind.
The backs of Duan Hongzhen and Xue Junli gradually disappeared from the view of the remaining five people, but the spiraling stone staircase in front of them was still long and endless.
Xiao Tangqiu got more and more tired. Eventually, he couldn’t hear other sounds anymore, only his own gasps, as if his soul was about to be torn out of his body.
At this moment, Shen Yuan suddenly stopped and turned to look at Xiao Tangqiu, “I’ll carry you on my back.”
Xiao Tangqiu gasped and said, “Don’t joke… I can still climb!”
Shen Yuan said lightly, “I’ll carry you on my back.”
Xiao Tangqiu glanced at Yu Fuling and Su Manluo, and insisted, “Neither of the two girls are tired, how can I be tired as a big man? Don’t kid! Keep climbing!”
Shen Yuan sighed, “Alright, keep climbing!”
There was still an endless spiraling stone staircase ahead. Xiao Tangqiu climbed completely relying on willpower. He almost climbed into confusion and trance, and just as he was about to faint—
The end of the spiral stone staircase finally appeared!
He couldn’t believe his eyes and even thought it was an illusion that appeared before he was about to die.
Tang Mianmian also murmured, “Is this an illusion before death? Or a mirage?”
Su Manluo was very excited, “It’s not an illusion! It’s not a mirage! We finally reached the end of the stone stairs! There must be the exit of the labyrinth!”
Xiao Tangqiu was a little bit incredulous, “Labyrinth exit?”
The exit of the labyrinth? Did they finally find the exit of the labyrinth?
He was in a daze, he didn’t know for a moment whether it was too easy for them to find the exit of the labyrinth.
Shen Yuan’s eyes darkened, “Let’s go up!”
Although they had seen the dawn of hope, everyone’s mood was not relaxed. Even Yu Fuling’s expression was a little dazed. They obviously didn’t dare to believe that after so many sacrifices, they could find the exit so simply.
Xiao Tangqiu gritted his teeth, “Quick! Let’s go up! If we can find the Light God’s Sword, maybe there is still time to go back and save Duan Hongzhen and Xue Junli!”
It had been several hours of climbing since Duan Hongzhen and Xue Junli parted from the team. Comparing their strength to Ouroboros, it seemed impossible for them to have held it off for so long. But since Ouroboros had not caught up, they couldn’t be sure that Duan Hongzhen and Xue Junli were really dead, maybe there was still a glimmer of hope to save them.
Yu Fuling suddenly cheered up, “Yes! We can go back to save Duan Hongzhen and Xue Junli! Hurry up! Let’s find the Light God’s Sword!” The Light God’s Sword could easily defeat even Abyss Demon, let alone Ouroboros!
Everyone regained their spirits and ran towards the end of the staircase.
Xiao Tangqiu was already exhausted, but now he was full of strength and rushed up. Finally, they came to the end of the spiraling stone staircase.
A stone gate appeared at the end of the spiraling stone staircase, and behind the stone gate was a giant hall.
Everyone walked into the hall cautiously and no one dared to speak. The hall was empty except for an ancient stone throne in the center.
The stone throne had obviously experienced the scouring and weathering of thousands of years. When Xiao Tangqiu approached, an ancient aura that seemed to come from tens of thousands of years ago rushed over him. For a moment, he even felt as if he was transported to a time tens of thousands of years ago.
A sword was inserted in the center of the stone throne. This was a stone sword, an ancient stone sword that was old enough to be displayed in a museum. It was so old and worn away by time that not only did it have no killing power, it probably couldn’t even cut tofu.
Xiao Tangqiu was a little disappointed, “…This is the Light God’s Sword?”
He couldn’t accept that after they sacrificed so many teammates, the legendary sword that could subdue the Abyss Demon they found was a beyond-ordinary stone sword.
Not only was it not surrounded by dazzling light, but there was also no sharp blade that could cut iron like mud. Even the blade was too rusted to cut anything. Could such a shabby and unremarkable ancient stone sword really help them defeat the Abyss Demon?
The other’s expressions were also not very good, obviously thinking the same.
Tang Mianmian quickly comforted them and said, “Isn’t it always like this in movies? Most divine magic weapons all look very inconspicuous. What’s the term, reverting forms! Just wait for us to pull the sword out. After that, you will be able to start a massacre immediately! Come! Let’s pull out the Light God’s Sword and then go and beat the shit out of the Abyss Demon!”
Xiao Tangqiu regained his spirit, “Okay! Let’s go draw the sword!”
No matter what, try it first.
Tang Mianmian nodded, “Let’s go up and try one by one. Who will go first?”
Shen Yuan stared closely at the stone sword inserted in the stone throne, his eyes dark, “…I’ll go first.”
Shen Yuan walked towards the stone throne. Everyone was engrossed in watching his movements, but at this moment, Yu Fuling suddenly yelled, “Captain, be careful!”
She charged towards Shen Yuan and blocked behind him. At the same time, a sharp black thorn pierced through the air and into her body.
