Chapter 263: Nine Different Pathways! (1/2)
Cheng Yu retrieved the four keys and got ready to search for the treasury. As for Tian Xue and Tian Xing, he continued to let them hide inside the Mountain River Diagram as it was a lot safer. Passing through the long hallway at the right side, Cheng Yu arrived before a stone door. Looking at the notch on it, he took out the blue-heart key and inserted it into the notch.
The stone door gradually lifted up, and a middle sized side palace appeared before Cheng Yu. With his past experience, Cheng Yu didn’t immediately enter immediately as he surveyed his surroundings first. The side palace was very spacious and empty, and Cheng Yu couldn’t feel any life from it. Cheng Yu realized that other than the door he came from, there were still nine stone doors inside this side palace. However, the stone doors were all shut tightly and there weren’t any keyholes for him to open the stone doors. Ultimately, Cheng Yu’s gaze fell on the altar. Since he couldn’t find any mechanism in other places, then the opening mechanism should be hidden within the altar.
Cheng Yu walked towards the altar and stood before it. On the altar, there was literally nothing on it other than lots of different patterns. The patterns were all big in size and looked complex. The whole alter occupied a length of two square meters and the patterns occupied about ¾ of the altar. There were four dots outside the patterns. These four dots formed the north, south, east, and west respectively. Every direction would join the center notch. With just a look, Cheng Yu was able to tell that notch was where the blue-heart key was supposed to go.
Cheng Yu inserted the blue-heart key into the keyhole. All of a sudden, the patterns on the altar lit up and produced blue radiances. The door Cheng Yu came in from closed and the other nine passages gradually opened up. When the nine different stone doors opened, the inside was lit up in dim blue rays. Cheng Yu knew that these were blue spiritual lamp lights. These lamps were similar to the lamps that were lit on the walls of this side chamber.
Cheng Yu took out blue-heart key and leaped down from the altar. He arrived before one of the stone doors. Cheng Yu looked in and realized it wasn’t a hidden chamber, but was a passage. Cheng Yu didn’t go in, but went to look at the other eight other passages first. The nine stone doors didn’t have any differences and were all passages. Furthermore, judging from the appearances, the passages seemed to be very deep to the point that Cheng Yu couldn’t see the end. Looking at the nine dimly lit passages, Cheng Yu hesitated. In his opinion, among these nine passages, only one would lead him to the real treasury. As for the other eight, they were all fake. If it was fake, Cheng Yu wouldn’t pay any attention to them, but what Cheng Yu worried about was that all eight others would lead him to danger. If it was so, Cheng Yu needed to be more prudent about his choice.
Cheng Yu paced back and forth in front of the nine passages and was unable to come to a decision. Suddenly, Tian Xue sent out a message telling him that they wished to exit from the Mountain River Diagram. Cheng Yu didn’t think much of it and sent them out.
“Senior Brother, why aren’t you going in?” Cheng Yu didn’t limit them on seeing what was happening before him. Therefore, when they were inside the Mountain River Diagram, they were able to see what Cheng Yu was doing. But when they saw Cheng Yu pacing back and forth in front of the nine passages, they were puzzled. With the harvest he had gotten from Thousands Flower Palace, Tian Xing’s courage had grown by a lot. Without even considering the danger lying ahead, he only thought of the treasures waiting for him. So, he had gotten somewhat anxious.
“If I’m not wrong, among these nine doors, only one is correct. As for the other eight, it would be filled with dangers. Therefore, I am not sure which is the correct one,” Cheng Yu looked at the nine mysterious passages while commenting.
“Senior Brother, you are getting more and more timid. With your strength, you can clearly sweep past all dangers in this Death Forest. What is there to be afraid of? Besides, if we are to enter the wrong passage, can’t we just return? What’s there for you to be so confused?” Tian Xing voiced out his disapprovement. In his opinion, the strongest within Death Forest would at most be a Golden Core late stage expert. Although Death Forest was quite strange and the living beings here were able to showcase a strength that was higher than their realm, wasn’t Cheng Yu the same as them?
Although he was only in the Golden Core initial stage, his strength was absolutely not any less than a Golden Core late stage. Even if he were to come across any Golden Core late stage demonic beasts, Tian Xing believed Cheng Yu would still be able to defeat it. This was the confidence he had in Cheng Yu. Knowing Cheng Yu for so long, Tian Xing was able to tell how powerful Cheng Yu was. No matter how strong their opponents were, Cheng Yu was still able to suppress them. Just like when Cheng Yu was fighting against a dozen Golden Core experts, Cheng Yu was still undefeatable. Therefore, Cheng Yu had been imprinted as an unrivalled person within Tian Xing’s heart.
“What if these eight passages are all dead-ends?” Cheng Yu said ill-manneredly.
“Er…this…” Tian Xing immediately calmed down. He truly had not thought about this before. Recalling the days they were trapped inside Thousand Flower Palace, Tian Xing no longer dared to instigate Cheng Yu to pick one of the passages randomly. Now that they were with Cheng Yu, it could be said that the three of them were tied together in a single rope. If Cheng Yu were to die, they would also follow him.
“I feel that Tian Xing’s hypothesis might not necessarily be wrong. The chances of the other eight passages being a dead-end is very small,” At this moment, Tian Xue, who had been observing the nine passages, voiced out her opinion.
“Oh? Elaborate?” Cheng Yu commented.
“Although I am not sure what this palace is for, I feel that the mechanisms they set up wasn’t meant to force someone to death. In contrast, it’s more like a test,” Tian Xue said.