53 Chapter 52: A weird encounter! (1/2)
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After walking for a while more, Duan Li frowned and stopped. This was because he had arrived at a juncture of multiple forks in the road up ahead.
”Hmm.. there are six paths to take.. which one should I choose..” he began to contemplate as he cupped his chin.
”Ahh nevermind, I'll just pick the leftmost route.” Duan Li then quickly strolled forward and not too long after that, he found himself to be at a dead end.
”Is this it for this path?” just as he was about to turn back and pick another route, the cub began to barked out.
Arrff! Arrff!
”Eh? What's wrong? Why are you pointing towards the wall?” noticing the look on the cub as if it insisted for Duan Li to do something onto the wall, a thought struck at his mind as he came onto a realization. There might be something behind the wall!
”A secret chamber?”
Duan Li looked around to see if there were any levers or secret button to open up the blocked path. However, he didn't manage to find any of the sorts.
Frowning, he processed what the Guardian had just said to him before.
”Well, he did say not to destroy the maze... But some modification to it shouldn't hurt..” he smiled sheepishly to himself as he scratched the back of his head.
He had an idea of what to do in this kinds of situation.
With a glint in his eyes, he threw a normal punch forward.
BAM!
Peng!
Duan Li's punch caused the wall to vibrate slightly and then dissipated as if it was being absorbed by a mysterious force.
”This wall is too thick! How suspicious...”
BAM!
BAM!
BAM!
He punched at the wall several more times but the result was still the same. At the sight of this, Duan Li became more confident that there really was something on the other side!
”Such a strong barrier... Perhaps the only way is really through brute force...”
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Duan Li retreated five steps back as he positioned himself into a stance. ”Since normal punches won't do it, then perhaps my fist art could open it!”
'Nine Fists Shattering Meteor!'
Pzzztt!
This time, Duan Li charged his fist for a while as he spooled his spiritual Qi. Right now, his fist were glowing bright blue!
Hupp!
With a powerful momentum, Duan Li punched out. All sorts of phenemona happened as he launched this fist. The air split and vacuum was crushed opened. Spontaneous combustion of air created not two, but six coiling fire dragons around his arm as they bolted right along his fist.
BBAAMM!!
crack!
Due to the sheer force of the fist, which Duan Li didn't hold back anything from, the wall cracked a bit before the mysterious dissipating force started to absorb and mended the cracks together again.
Noticing this, Duan Li punched out rapidly with the fist art.
”I must continue to damage it until it couldn't hold on anymore!”
BBAMM!
BBAMM!!
BBAMM!
...
After several rounds of pummeling, the barrier could finally no longer dissipate the reckoning force from Duan Li's continuous ramming fist art, and crumbled.
BOOM!
A shower of dust followed suit with the crumbled wall. Due to excitement that had taken over his body, he couldn't wait for the dust to settle down. Thus, he launched a normal fist forward to clear the dust away.
BAM!
Peng!
”Eh? Is there another barrier again?” said Duan Li as he heard that sound. However, when he squinted his eyes, he found out that, that was not the case!
Beyond the crumbled walls in the secret chamber, was a gigantic platform. In the middle of it, stood a single sword that has a golden hilt. This sword seemed to be otherwordly and radiated out an extremely peculiar aura!
Taking his steps slowly with caution, Duan Li entered the secret chamber and climbed atop of the platform. Using his mental calculation, he was able to roughly estimate that the area of this platform was about 40,000 metres².
Not only that, this platform seemed to be extremely ancient. As if it was created when the Eternal maze itself was first born!
Crack!
Crash!
”Eh? What was that sound?” Duan Li turned his head towards the origin of the sound as his eyes widened.
One of the seemingly rows of grand statues that surrounded the platform had crumbled down.
Looking towards the angle of the statue and the sword, Duan Li was able to guess what had just transpired here.
Due to his fist that he deployed before in his excitement, the fist had landed onto the sword in the middle but ricochet off from it and hit that statue.
From then, it must have been cracked continuously over time until its integrity could no longer hold itself and crashed down.
Duan Li's brows twitched continuously at the sight of this.