Chapter 72 - Walking In Circles
Chapter 72: Walking In Circles
Translator: EndlessFantasy Translation Editor: EndlessFantasy Translation
“Chen Feng, there’s a fork in the road ahead. What should we do?”
Pu Yunmo asked loudly as he looked at the three paths ahead.
Chen Feng had somehow become the publicly acknowledged leader of the team. Everyone would seek his opinion before making a decision.
They probably started treating him that way due to his status.
After all, after Pu Yunmo gave the [Pavilion Branch Lord Token] to Chen Feng, Chen Feng gained an extremely high status in the [Pavilion of Heavenly Secrets]. He could be considered a faux high-ranking official.
Nevertheless, Pu Yunmo and Sakurai Longzi gradually changed their minds after interacting with Chen Feng. They were convinced by Chen Feng’s leadership abilities.
Speaking of which, Chen Feng had already saved both of them twice.
Chen Feng had saved Sakurai Longzi’s life at the Red House Gynecology Hospital.
In the Arcane Realm of Ice, Chen Feng had killed the guards of the Pu family and saved both of their lives.
Earlier in the fog, Chen Feng had stopped the impulsive Pu Yunmo. Otherwise, he would have become a corpse at the bottom of the ocean.
“Let’s take the middle road.”
Chen Feng used his intuition to choose a path.
He believed that he could choose the correct path. After all, his first talent was the SSS-rank talent [Lucky Halo].
Many of the Awakened Ones parted ways here.
They could only choose one of the three roads based on their intuition.
Chen Feng looked around and realized that of the thousands of Awakened Ones that had entered the fog at the beginning, there were less than 300 of them left right now.
Just then, they entered a different fork.
“There are three different roads. I’m afraid only those who have chosen the right path can survive…” Chen Feng guessed.
Normally, two-thirds of the people here would be eliminated based on the road that they selected over here.
However, there were many people that chose the middle fork this time around.
“Let’s follow Chen Feng! The Great God Chen Feng will definitely bring us out of here!”
“I believe in the Great God Chen Feng. He managed to open the bronze door and defeat the Yatengu. We won’t go wrong if we follow him!”
That was what most of the Awakened Ones thought. Therefore, they chose to follow him.
Hence, there were at least 170 Awakened Ones who chose the road in the middle.
It was a vast expanse of land ahead of them.
There were only…around ninety people that chose the other two paths.
Chen Feng frowned slightly. The current situation had clearly exceeded his imaginations, but if he thought about it carefully, it was reasonable for these people to make such a decision.
It would definitely be the safest choice for them to follow Chen Feng.
For instance, at least half of them would have died when they were fighting the [Yatengu] if not for Chen Feng.
What should they do if they encountered such danger again?
“Chen Feng, there are too many people taking this path…Should we…go on a different path?”
Sakurai Longzi asked softly.
At most times, it was not a good thing to have more people, especially in a mystic realm as such.
Although there were many Awakened Ones taking the middle path, they did not cooperate well with each other. Once they encountered danger, they would dissipate like a pile of loose sand. They were incapable of unleashing their combat power.
Once an opportunity arose, there would be an internal fight between the Awakened Ones.
These Awakened Ones now relied on Chen Feng’s abilities for survival.
However, they would not remember Chen Feng’s kindness when a reward was placed in front of them.
“Let’s go with this path.” Chen Feng shook his head.
He felt a strong sense of danger from the other two paths.
Although the path in the middle made Chen Feng feel uneasy, his intuition told him that there was a huge opportunity hidden further along this path.
He would definitely not regret taking this path.
Most importantly, when Chen Feng stepped onto this path, the [Hibiscus Seed] in his backpack seemed to tremble.
This mysterious connection helped Chen Feng make up his mind.
He had to figure out the use of the [Hibiscus Seed] and the Godly Tree mentioned by the Yatengu!
The limestone road extended into the distance. There were dense thorny forests on both sides of the road.
The black trunks of the trees were mottled, and there were crow nests on some of the branches.
The sky was still dark. Although there were over a hundred people gathered here, they could still sense the eeriness of the atmosphere.
“What the hell is this place…”
Pu Yunmo kept complaining along the way.
Blake, who was beside him, had an unpleasant expression on his face as well.
He was way too cowardly. His face turned pale whereas his limbs went limp just from walking down this harmless path.
The only way for him to overcome his fear was to turn into a black bear.
Once Blake transformed into a black bear, he would lose all rationality and do everything based on his combat instincts.
They did not know where this path led, but someone suddenly yelled out after they walked along the stone path for more than half an hour.
“Look at that crow’s nest!”
Everyone looked in the direction of his finger and turned to the right.
A bare three with black thorns stood like a monster that bore its fangs and brandished its claws.
There was a black crow’s nest between its third and fourth branches.
Sakurai Longzi stopped in her tracks. After observing it carefully, she said thoughtfully, “It looks rather familiar.”
“What’s the big deal about this? Haven’t there been many crow’s nests along the way?”
Pu Yunmo didn’t care at all. He did not even stop walking.
However, Chen Feng’s next words made Pu Yunmo stop in his tracks.
“We’ve seen this crow’s nest before.”
“We have?”
An interesting expression immediately formed on Pu Yunmo’s face. He turned to look at Chen Feng and asked with a dumbfounded expression, “What do you mean?”
“We’ve seen this crow’s nest before. It was just…twenty minutes ago,” Chen Feng said in an even tone.
“So… we’re back where we were twenty minutes ago?”
Pu Yunmo said in shock.
“If that’s really the case, then it seems like we’re walking in circles!”
Just then, something happened.
Many of the other Awakened Ones in the crowd noticed this problem as well.
Some of them even activated their C-Rank talent [Image Recording] to show everyone what had happened five minutes ago.
This was an extremely useless talent. It could be used to record everything that one’s eyes saw. It was like a surveillance camera that could be played back when needed.
Scenes appeared in the air and played rapidly.
“Stop!”
The image suddenly stopped. There was a black tree branch on the screen.
This was the scene from twenty minutes ago.
Everyone compared this image to the black, thorny tree beside them. The branches…The height of the tree…The shape of the bird’s nest…The surroundings…The angle…
Unpleasant expressions formed on their faces as they compared the image and the tree.
This was because they realized that the nest beside them was exactly the same as the one that they had passed by twenty minutes ago!
They had returned to the same spot after walking along the limestone road for twenty minutes!
“Are we going to keep circling around here?” someone asked.
“No, that’s impossible! We were walking toward the palace, so we can’t possibly go astray.”
“Furthermore, we walked straight all along without taking any turns. There were no bends in the path!”
They looked ahead. The palace where the deities lived in [Gaotian Plains] was not far away.
They kept heading toward the palace along the way. The limestone road extended in its direction as well.
As the group of Awakened Ones argued, Pu Yunmo walked over to Chen Feng’s side.
He spoke to them in a voice that only the few of them could hear. “Chen Feng, what do you think?”
Chen Feng pondered upon it for a moment before saying, “We have indeed been heading towards the palace…”
“But what if…”
“Someone is changing the location of the palace?”