Chapter 73: Choosing Hell's path
Chapter 73: Choosing Hell's path
Inside the forbidden place, four figures were currently walking toward the center of the place. There was a small hill at that place.
“What shall we do now?” Manager Li asked.
“Manager Li, please follow my steps closely. Nothing will happen to us.” Joey said.
Long Ai was guiding him in his mind. This place was filled with arrays and hidden traps. One wrong misstep, then it would be done for them. But, these levels of magical arrays were child’s play to Ai.
They had walked through safely for almost half an hour until they heard a roar of a beast around them.
Then, suddenly a lvl 7 leopard jumped toward them. At that time, both Manager Li and Wu Tong attacked the beast.
“Stop! It is an illusion.” Joey shouted, but it was too late. An array activated, and both of them were pulled inside a void and vanished from there.
“Uncle Li!”
“Brother Tong!” They shouted.
“Joey, are they fine?” Chun Hua asked worriedly.
“I don’t know. Hmm, let’s go on. They may be alive somewhere.” Joey replied.
Then they kept walking toward the small hill. Soon they reached it. On the bottom of the hill, there was a large cave. Interesting the hole, they saw that it was long. They kept entering. There were many crystals of different colors embedded on the wall of the cave.
“Spirit stones!” Chun Hua exclaimed.
She took out a knife and tried to cut it out from the walls of the cave. Joey caught her hand.
“Sister Chun, for now, let’s keep going on. We may even find some spirit stone mine.” Then kept going inside and saw that the cave was divided into two routes. Also, both of them had wooden doors, each with a name tag on them. ‘Hell’s Path’ was written on the left door, while on the right one was ‘Heaven’s path.’
“Brother Joey, which one shall we go to?” She asked. She started to believe in his judgment after they had avoided all the arrays and reached here.
Joey remained silent. But he was talking to Long Ai in his mind.
“Sister Ai, which door shall I choose?” Joey asked.
“Take the ‘Hell’s path,’ let’s see, how difficult will this route be?” Ai replied, “Go inside .”
Joey then looked at Chun Hua and said, “Sister Chun, let’s enter the left door.”
Then they finally entered the left door. After that, they were suddenly transported inside a big room. They saw around one thousand terracotta armies holding spears inside the wide room.
“Welcome to the 1st test of ‘Hell’s path.’ Destroy all the terracotta puppet armies, and you can go inside the next room. Begin.” A female voice spoke to them.
Then a red flash appeared on all the terracotta puppets’ eyes, and they started moving their bodies.
At first, ten terracotta puppets approached them and thrust their spear at them. They dodged easily.
“Oh, they all had the strength of a lvl 1 nascent-soul realm. I am also in lvl 1 nascent-soul realm. Alright, I will go first.”
Then she summoned the giant Condor. It was an early level 4 beast.
The Condor cried toward the ten terracotta puppets. It shot them with many wind elemental knives toward them, cutting all the poppets.
“Alright, use your strongest strike and kill all of them.” Chun Hua ordered.
Then the Condor flew up in the air and waved its two wings, sending many of its feathers cutting all the puppets.
“The 1st test is completed. This is your reward.” The female voice spoke again.
A yellow football-size Spirit stone came out from the ground.
Joey picked it up and threw it at Chun Hua. She caught it and asked,” Brother Joey, if you like this, then you can keep it.”
“Elder Sister, you defeat all of the puppets. So, it’s naturally yours.” Joey replied with a smile.
Then a door suddenly opened on one side of the room.
“Brother Chun, let’s go inside.”
“Wait a minute.” He replied. Then, he sat down and cut one of the bodies of the terracotta puppet.
There was a bone with a strange inscription in the heart of the puppet. Then he put it inside his space ring.
“Sister Chun, let’s go inside.” He held her hand, and they went together inside the next room.
“This is the room of wisdom. The second test is to read all the books inside this room within a day. The next day, you need to give perfect answers to my three questions. If you fail, then you will be terminated. It starts now.” The female voice spoke again and remained quiet.
As she said, there were one hundred books inside the room. They were arranged in three sections; philosophy of life, laws of nature, and lastly, the introduction of magic arrays.
“How can we read all these books today?” Chun Hua asked angrily.
“Sister Chun Hua, don’t worry, I can do that.” Joey smiled at her.
Joey started reading the books from the magical arrays. He just looked once at a page and flipped it from one page to another.
Within two minutes, he completely memorized the whole book that. He continued reading all the books in this section and finished reading them all in just an hour. Similarly, he completed reading all the books in 3hrs.
Then, he sat in a lotus position, closed his eyes, and started comprehending all the contents of the hundred books in his mind. After an hour, he stood up and said, “Can I take the 2nd test now?”
“Yes, initiating the 2nd test,3 2 1”
“The first question is, who is the greatest enemy of a person in his whole life?”
“The second question is, what is time law?”
“The last question is, what is a magical array?”
“You need to answer them within an hour.” The female voice kept quiet again.
Joey didn’t reply immediately. He closed his eyes again and started thinking deeply.
Then, he opened his eyes slowly and replied,” My answer to the first question is, for every person in his whole life, he himself is his greatest enemy”