Chapter 262: Infiltration (1/2)
”Hey! Damned yaksha, this is not a place you should be at!”
In front of an enormous stone door, Jiang Li controlled the yaksha clone to figure out how to open it.
He had already stepped on this place in advance and had never seen guards appear here. There were very few people coming and going normally. His clone had been here for a few days and had only seen a group of yakshas go down.
However, he had just touched it when a voice sounded beside him.
The Fallen Blood Yaksha suddenly took two steps back and looked around warily, but still did not find anything abnormal.
”I'm here, idiot!”
”You trespassed on the forbidden area. If I tell the Head Supervisor, you're finished.”
”Hehehe, give me a hundred eyeballs and I'll pretend I didn't see you.”
It was not until this voice sounded again that Jiang Li discovered that the source of this voice was actually right before his eyes. It was a huge octopus statue on the stone door.
At some point in time, this stone octopus had raised its fat head, and then it opened its eyes that were filled with brains and stared fixedly at Jiang Li.
”What are you?”
There was almost no aura of life on this stone octopus, but it was clearly not just an ornament.
”What am I? Damn fool! You should call me Lord Bara!”
”Before you hatched from the eggshell, I was already a gatekeeper and served Lord Vemacitrin for 200 years!”
The stone octopus was very excited. It was in line with the violent and easily angered personality of the Asura World creatures.
”Oh, so it's the great Lord Bara. In order to express my respect for you, I offer a hundred eyeballs as compensation.”
”In addition, this corpse is also a small token of respect. However, it doesn't seem to be convenient for Lord Bara. I'll come again next time.”
While the stone octopus was angry, the eyes of the Fallen Blood Yaksha were calmly observing. Jiang Li, whose will had descended, quickly analyzed the stone door in front of him and the guarding octopus monster that was wriggling around.
A moment later, he felt a little confident and took out the corpse of the Hundred Tempering Mountain disciple from his storage bag.
This storage bag was actually obtained from this person. Although the space was very small, it was already very rare.
It was unknown what this disciple's identity was when he was alive, but he was probably quite wealthy.
Upon seeing the human corpse, the dozens of eyes on the stone octopus's head widened.
Whiffing the smell, it leaned towards Jiang Li. Clearly, humans were really attractive to it.
However, Jiang Li grabbed the corpse and moved back bit by bit.
When the stone octopus's body subconsciously left the stone door and the eight tentacles slowly moved away from its original location, a black light instantly arrived.
It was a trident that pinned the longest tentacle of the octopus to the wall.
”Wait, what are you doing?!”
”What flame is this? It hurts so much! Quickly extinguish it!”
When the stone octopus came back to its senses and realized that something was wrong, a ball of black and white flames was burning along its tentacles.
Wherever it passed, the tentacles seemed to have really turned to stone and completely lost all sensation.
No matter how much it wanted to touch the bloody runes and send out a warning, it was already impossible.
Although the rune systems of the two worlds were completely different, the principles were still similar.
After Jiang Li obtained the Earth Spirit's Innate Vision, he compared the flow of energy in the ground to comprehend the method of runes. In a strategically advantageous situation, coupled with his outstanding talent, he had already walked very far on the path of runes and had his own understanding in many aspects.
Soon, he discovered that a rune on the upper right corner of the stone door looked abnormal.
The energy circuit of the rune was not connected to the stone door, but two blood threads that led straight to the outside world.
Such a crude method was basically telling him that this was an alarm trap.
The method to trigger the alarm was the octopus tentacle that covered the rune.
Therefore, Jiang Li used the human corpse as bait to lure the octopus away from the tentacle. Then, he used the steel trident and Ghost Lantern Cold Flame to instantly cut off the tentacle.
”What am I doing? I found many eyeballs here and was about to dig them out for Lord Bara to taste.”
He took out the steel trident and stabbed it repeatedly like lightning. In the blink of an eye, it had already stabbed 49 times.
Forty-nine ugly eyes were skewered on the steel trident. He even summoned a ball of flames that wrapped around the trident and slowly roasted it.
At this moment, only the last eyeball remained on the octopus's head as it looked at Jiang Li in fear.
”I thought you guys would really not be afraid.”
”From the looks of it, you are only slightly different creatures. You are not fundamentally different from humans.”
”Open the door. Otherwise, you know what will happen!”
Jiang Li did not kill the other party directly, nor did he cut off its other limbs.
The existence of this stone octopus was both a lock and a key. If he really killed it in a moment of carelessness, it might be even harder to open this door.
As Jiang Li spoke, the sharp steel trident in his hand was less than a hair's length away from the last eye of the stone octopus.
Under such circumstances, there was no way to reject his request.
”Remember to take it slow. Don't do anything irrational. You've already worked for Lord Vemacitrin for 200 years, but he doesn't even remember your name.”
”You don't have to give up your life for him again. Don't you agree, Bara? I'm your friend, aren't I?”
Jiang Li said indifferently as the steel trident did not move at all. His other hand plucked two eyeballs from the trident and stuffed them into the other party's mouth in a friendly manner, letting it eat itself.
Under fear, this octopus called Bara could only tearfully eat its eyes and smile at Jiang Li.
”Yes, yes. We are friends. Lord Yaksha must believe me. Bara will open the door for you now.”
As the remaining seven tentacles moved, the thick stone door slowly opened.
The heavy stone door rubbed against the ground, making some noise. However, this was the Vemacitrin Battle Arena, and the sky was filled with the sounds of killing.
Under the cover of the cheers, the noise was nothing.
Swoosh!
After the stone door opened, the steel trident in Jiang Li's hand moved, forming a large circle in the air.
He cut off the other party's tentacles, leaving only a stone head in Jiang Li's hand.
”Don't kill me! Don't kill me! I've already done as you said! Don't kill me!”
Jiang Li did not care about him and started to walk towards the door while carrying this fellow.
Behind this door was a passageway that spiraled downwards.
After walking in, he could feel a warm and moist air surging up from below.
Even though his nose was already numb to the smell of blood in the Blood Fighting Arena, at this moment, he could smell a dense salty smell.
”Erm… Lord Yaksha, you need a blood token. Otherwise, we will be easily discovered.”
As Jiang Li slowly walked down, he kept this head in front of him and even threw it out to scout the way from time to time.
He used his actions to tell it that if he was discovered, the first one to die would be it. With the personality of the Asura creatures, they would not care about the life and death of an octopus.
After begging for mercy, the stone octopus revealed something that it knew.
”Actually, I haven't come down here in the last 200 years. I only know that it's the most important place in the entire Blood Fighting Arena.”
”Every Asura that comes down must bring a blood token or they will be killed.”