Chapter 1839
by 林方方Chapter 1839 Si Xiaonan??
For the next two and a half days, they searched for the entrance to the time labyrinth, but even after digging through three feet of ice, there was no sign of getting close to the entrance.
The nearly endless ice and whiteness made these outer gods collectively dispirited, hanging their heads low, appearing completely uninterested in the entire world.
“Sigh…” The deity who often spoke with Lin Qiye shook his head and began sighing.
After spending these two days together, Lin Qiye had managed to learn his identity. His name was Kubera, the surviving god of wealth from the ancient Indian temple of gods. Although his power couldn’t compare to top-tier deities like Indra, he was still a proper god-level being.
But no matter how Lin Qiye looked at him, he couldn’t see anything godlike about this guy… Neither his demeanor nor his aura matched most of the deities Lin Qiye had met before.
Not to mention, a few days ago when Lin Qiye stormed Mount Olympus, gods like Zeus and Apollo were at least formidable figures who could command their divine mountains. Regardless of their actual strength, their presence was absolutely commanding… Looking at Kubera now, he was like a human who had overindulged in pleasure, without any trace of so-called “divine majesty.”
Not just Kubera, the other lesser gods and even major deities were the same. The divinity in them was the thinnest Lin Qiye had ever seen, as if something had drained them dry.
“Continue spreading out to search, go farther this time,” the voice from the black sedan chair sounded again.
“…Yes.”
Although everyone was extremely unwilling, they had no choice but to obey the Holy Lord’s command. They routinely dispersed in various directions, disappearing in the blink of an eye.
During these past two days, they had searched separately countless times, but each time without results. Even Lin Qiye was losing patience.
“Let me point you in the right direction…” Lin Qiye whispered.
After confirming he was far enough from the black sedan chair, he casually broke off a slender piece of ice crystal from the ice layer, lightly flicked it on the ground, and the ice crystal quickly spun like a pointer!
With a flash of golden light, the ice crystal gradually stopped spinning, its sharp tip pointing toward a certain direction in the southwest.
Lin Qiye glanced in that direction, and a summoning formation appeared beside him. The thunder beast Lai Fu landed lightly on the ice, meowed once at Lin Qiye, then transformed into a bolt of lightning speeding toward the southwest!
Lai Fu made no attempt to conceal himself. The lightning flash streaked across the sky, followed by a crisp thunder that echoed across the ice. All the scattered searchers were startled and quickly turned to look.
“What was that?!” The voice from the black sedan chair suddenly rang out. “Chase it!”
Although they didn’t know what that thing was, everyone rushed forward as if injected with adrenaline. After all, this was their only discovery in days, and if it had something to do with the time labyrinth, they could return sooner.
Everyone followed the dissipating lightning trail for a long time but still let the creature escape.
Lai Fu was a thunder beast after all, and his speed wasn’t something these lesser gods and weakened deities could match. After chasing for a long time and still losing sight of it, they incurred the Holy Lord’s angry scolding from the black sedan chair:
“Bunch of useless trash! The clue was right in front of your faces and you couldn’t catch it! What use are you?!”
“Holy Lord… it’s not our fault, that thing was just too fast!”
“Yes, and where would a lightning divine beast come from in the Antarctic ice field anyway?”
“…”
While everyone was talking, Lin Qiye casually kicked a piece of ice beside him. The ice fragment spun on the surface for a moment before finally stopping in another direction.
“What’s the use of talking about this now?” the Holy Lord snorted coldly. “Our only breakthrough has slipped past us… unless it comes back again?”
Whoosh–!!
Before the Holy Lord finished speaking, that streak of lightning suddenly shot out from the other side of the sky, disappearing instantly toward the southwest horizon!
Looking at the gradually dissipating lightning arc, everyone froze in place, then the Holy Lord’s thunderous voice sounded again: “What are you standing there for?! Chase it!!”
Lin Qiye watched these figures hurriedly chasing after the thunder beast, the corner of his mouth twitching slightly. He doubted how these people, with their level of intelligence, were selected to come to Antarctica…
However, to crack the time labyrinth, extensive trial and practice were needed. The more people entering it, the better it was for Lin Qiye. If he had to explore alone, who knows how much time would be wasted. This was why he was willing to guide these people.
After all, his goal was to rescue Nyx and the others, which didn’t conflict with these people’s objectives. They were clearly here to find something.
Under Lin Qiye’s multiple “guidances,” the group continuously corrected their course. As daylight gradually dimmed, they arrived at a vast ice field.
In this season, Antarctica had extremely short daylight hours. Although it was only around 2 PM, the sky was already dark, with the boundless ice field extending into the dark horizon, illuminated only by hazy starlight.
“Gone again… what exactly is that thing?” Kubera sighed helplessly after failing to find any trace of the thunder beast.
Lin Qiye scanned the surroundings without speaking.
He had already sent the thunder beast back to the hospital. If all went as expected, he wouldn’t need to intervene anymore… After all, according to the miracle calculation, the entrance to the time labyrinth was nearby.
“Look over there!!” a voice suddenly called out from the crowd.
Everyone looked in the direction indicated and saw a swirling portal emitting a faint glow on the ice surface not far away. Under the hazy starlight, it looked as beautiful and dreamlike as a mirage.
“Is that the entrance to the time labyrinth?!”
“Why didn’t we notice it there before? Does it only appear after dark??”
“We found it! We finally found it!!”
Excited voices rose from the crowd as they immediately walked toward the swirling portal. But the black sedan chair remained eerily quiet. The Holy Lord, who had been so fixated on the time labyrinth throughout the journey, now made no sound, as if contemplating something.
Lin Qiye didn’t follow them toward the swirling portal but stood alone, frowning as he stared in the direction they were heading.
By now, the group had reached the swirling portal and was about to pass through it when the voice from the black sedan chair suddenly rang out!
“Something’s wrong!! Get away from there!”
Hearing this, everyone froze, but before they could react, the silently rotating mysterious vortex suddenly surged. A terrifying wave of divine power mixed with light instantly engulfed most of their figures!
Boom–!!
An earth-shattering explosion echoed across the ice field!
“Damn it… it’s a trap!” The smoke-covered black sedan chair flew out from the flames. The gaze from within looked toward a certain spot on the ice field under the starlight, where a massive wolf shadow stood as immovable as a mountain.
Above the wolf shadow, a young woman wearing a mask coldly looked down at them.
“The leader of [Hidden Gods], the Goddess of Trickery, Si Xiaonan… so it was you!!” the Holy Lord roared in anger.