Chapter 711
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Chapter 711: The Awakening of the Statue
Feeling the tremors of the earth, the expressions of Lin Qiye and the two others in the cramped room suddenly changed.
After hesitating for a moment, Lin Qiye first set down the pixel gun in his hand, extending his mental power to carefully sense everything around him.
After passing through the torii wall, they had directly arrived in this room. The torii likely possessed the power to shift space, meaning they were no longer in the outer area of the city ruins but had come to a completely unfamiliar place.
This was likely the core area of the ruins.
As his mental power expanded, Lin Qiye’s brows furrowed tighter. With his current level of mental power, his sensing range was nearly ten kilometers, but even with full coverage, he could only perceive an endless series of small rooms, with nothing else detected.
This sensation reminded Lin Qiye of the time in the training camp when the spatial cube folded the dormitory building, but the difference was that in the training camp, the rooms were disordered, creating an endless illusion, while here, the rooms were truly infinite…
There were no doors, no windows, like an infinitely large Go board, where the squares represented endless rooms, and the black lines were neatly arranged corridors.
Strangely, within some of the walls, there were bizarre stone statues, each with different appearances and actions. When Lin Qiye’s mental power touched the surface of these statues, it was blocked from entering even a fraction.
Lin Qiye was somewhat puzzled by the existence of these statues but did not dwell on it, merely considering them as some kind of mysterious symbol or ritual.
Unable to find a way out, Lin Qiye returned to the wall they had come through, reaching out to touch the wall’s surface, which was incredibly hard and impenetrable, preventing him from returning to the torii wall.
Lin Qiye’s brows were tightly locked. He quickly walked up to Wei Dong, aiming the pixel gun at his forehead, and coldly spoke:
“What is this place? How do we get out?”
With the gun pressed against his forehead, Wei Dong helplessly closed his eyes and said, “I don’t know either. Each torii on that wall connects to different places. I didn’t enter through that torii before; this is my first time here. Believe it or not, it’s up to you.”
Just as Lin Qiye was about to say something, a crack suddenly appeared in the wall behind Yu Gongqinghui.
Crack—!
Yu Gongqinghui was taken aback and turned to look, as strands of pitch-black hair extended from the crack in the wall, like a swarm of fierce, thin snakes, rushing toward him!
The speed of these strands was astonishing, so fast that even Lin Qiye did not notice their appearance in advance. The moment these strands shot toward Yu Gongqinghui like lightning, the latter’s hand, which had been resting on the hilt of his knife at his waist, suddenly exerted force!
Clang—!
A deep blue blade light sliced through the air like a crescent moon, firmly blocking the dense strands of hair. The strands frantically struck against the blade, creating dazzling sparks.
The power contained within these strands was immense. Yu Gongqinghui felt his arms go numb, and he was uncontrollably sent flying backward. Immediately after, multiple strands of black hair surged out from the crack, stabbing toward Yu Gongqinghui from all directions.
Yu Gongqinghui’s pupils suddenly constricted!
Instinctively, he wanted to activate the “Rain Collapse” and directly shatter all the strands, but this was the ruins. Once he activated the power of the Hozuki knife, it would fly out of his hand and into the depths of the ruins. In a split second, he suppressed his fear and did not hastily strike out with that knife.
This was not because he was unafraid of death, but because he knew someone would help him block this attack.
A black figure instantly flickered in front of him!
“Night Flicker.”
Lin Qiye, dressed in a black knitted trench coat, stepped into the night, his eyes shimmering with starlight. He gazed at the overwhelming strands of hair rushing toward him, pressing his hands in the air, and two magic circles rapidly unfolded.
In the next moment, two straight blades fell into his hands.
“Drunken flowers fill the hall for three thousand guests, a single sword cold as frost across fourteen states.” Lin Qiye murmured, and the dual blades in his hands began to tremble violently!
The straight blades lightly sliced through the sea of hair, and the surging sword light rolled out like a torrent, instantly cutting all the strands in front of him into fragments, which fell to the ground in disarray, twisting like maggots.
Seeing this scene, Wei Dong suddenly froze in place.
Everything had happened too quickly; he only saw Lin Qiye flicker to Yu Gongqinghui’s side, swiftly draw two straight blades, and then effortlessly slice through the endless strands of hair.
During this process, he hadn’t even drawn the Hozuki knife at his waist.
What was going on?
Aren’t you a Hozuki knife master? How come you can be so fierce without even drawing the Hozuki knife?!
Wei Dong looked at Lin Qiye, who stood amidst the scattered hair, his gaze naturally falling on the two straight blades in his hands, his brows slightly furrowing.
He suddenly felt that these blades seemed somewhat familiar…
“Stone statue?”
Lin Qiye gripped the dual blades, his gaze fixed on the wall from which the strands extended. Amidst the rubble, a pitch-black female ghost statue was rapidly melting, restoring its original form, and the sea of ghostly hair came from her head.
Lin Qiye seemed to realize something and abruptly turned to look around.
Crack crack—!
The sound of walls breaking echoed from all around, with cracks of varying sizes spreading across some of the walls. On some surfaces, a hand, half a head, or long fingernails had already broken through, and the rising roars echoed throughout the space, sending chills down the spine, as if countless demons were about to break through the walls.
The stone statues embedded in the walls all began to come to life!
Within Lin Qiye’s sensing range, the number of these statues breaking out from the walls was at least sixty or seventy!
Lin Qiye’s expression darkened instantly. He had no time to ponder the reason for the sudden awakening of these statues, as the black-haired female ghost had completely crawled out from the wall. With a slight shake of her head, the hair cascading over her face revealed a pale visage devoid of features, save for a mouth filled with jagged fangs.
She crawled like a beast, opened her mouth, and let out a sharp scream directed at Lin Qiye!
Thousands of black strands surged forth once more.
Lin Qiye, holding the dual blades, felt a furnace-like heat and sacred flame ignite in his eyes. The overwhelming pressure of a Seraph surged from him, completely suppressing the evil aura of the black-haired female ghost, causing the wave of hair to suddenly halt.
“Wildfire cannot be extinguished; spring winds will blow again.”
Lin Qiye murmured, forcefully swinging one of the straight blades, the sharp edge erupting with a blinding flame, shooting like a meteor toward the black-haired female ghost’s head!
