96 Chapter 96 (2/2)

”I guess they won't let us take those books out of there, guess that was expected.”

Matt mentioned his theory to the others while going towards the door in front.

”Hope everyone is ready, there are probably be more monsters inside and I bet they will be stronger than the previous ones.”

Everyone got ready while Zhang Dong grabbed the handle and swung the door open, soon enough everyone stepped through the door. They were greeted with a flash of bright light and a scenery change. The first thing that Matt noticed after taking a step in that the ground was strangely squishy.

'Ugh... what is this?'

He grimaced as he looked at the scenery, the ground and walls looked like they were made from pink flesh. They were in some kind of corridor once again but it looked to be alive.

”Are we in some kind of beast's belly?”

One of the cultivators asked while poking the flesh wall, it was warm to the touch and when you sliced it blood would gush out. There were no spasming or trembling that would accompany attacks to someone's insides, so maybe they weren't inside some creature just some badly created scenery.

'The person that made these trials sure has some strange fetishes...'

Matt thought to himself, but as he wanted to move on Kwok Xun started grasping his stomach.

”What is this feeling ...s-so hungry... ”

He was looking at the fleshy walls in the surroundings with reddish eyes and drool coming out of his mouth, this prompted Matt to look at his status screen.

[ Kwok Xun [Core Formation middle stage] ( Starvation ) ]

'Yeah... figures, seven deadly sins...'

Luckily they had the monk with them, he was surprisingly good against curses and debuffing effects like they were encountering in this place. Soon a golden shield surrounded them once more, letting Xun sigh out after the horrid longing to eat the fleshy walls subsided.

”I think these trials are going to amplify the humanly desires... how many of those talismans do you have on you...?... you never told us your name...”

Matt asked while looking at the monk that was chanting.

”You may call me Bankei. Forgive me, but I only have a handful left and I don't have any more materials to make more.”

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He said respectfully while holding the barrier up, Matt rubbed his chin he seemed to be unaffected by the mental game like debuffs probably due to his previously acquired skill that protected his mind.

”Brother Bankei, how long can you keep this golden barrier up?”

”I can sustain it for twelve hours, longer if I have something to replenish my spiritual energies.”

Zhang Dong nodded while looking to the side at the other cultivators.

'Think that should be enough... it's not a very hard skill to learn and I already upgraded my Impartation of Knowledge to a high degree.'

The answer to the problems was quite easy, he had the skill and he could easily pass it on to others. So he didn't wait much, before moving over to his first 'victim'.

”I'm going to pass on a secret art to you now, it will protect you from the strange afflictions that these trials are putting us under.”

He was a bit ashamed that he didn't think about it sooner if they were placed in a boss room from the get-go it could have turned out quite badly. Kwok Xun was the first person that was left with a migraine, grasping his forehead after Zhang Dong poked it with his finger.

”T-this is... truly astonishing... my gratitude!”

He bowed to Zhang Dong before going down into the lotus position to cultivate this skill. Soon everyone besides the Bankei was down on the ground, trying to cultivate the Tranquil Mind technique, there should be no problems with the debuffs later on after they were done.

'I sure hope that this place doesn't have a timer on it or something...'

Time passed and the cultivators finished at a varying degree, the youngsters like Huo Qiang and Feng Liena were the fastest, showing that their high cultivation stage at their current age wasn't just for show. The slowest was Feng Maling which caused the tanned Feng Matriarch to blush a bit in shame.

The effects of 'starvation' was now gone even though Bankei pulled back his barrier, they could move. The monk didn't need Zhang Dong's cultivation technique as his sect had a lot of skills that shielded them from demonic influences. Matt passed it on to him anyway, he would feel bad if the guy was the only one not profiting while having to hold that barrier up for so long.

The team moved forward, going through the fleshy corridors as the second trial 'officially' begun.