Chapter 72 - Under the Volcano (2/2)

These totem carvings moved as the lava flowed and they were formed in an oddly strange way, hiding away the secrets of the totem carvings, making them impossible to be deciphered.

As the volcanic columns moved, roars could be heard in tandem with the vigorous surging of the lava flowing in the lakes. Suddenly, countless huge lava giants and lava monsters ascended from the lava lakes and they walked on the lakes imperiously!

These lava creatures had totem carvings densely covering the entire surface of their bodies. Some of them had lasers shooting out from their eyes, some spat fireballs as they opened their mouths, and some had flaming tails that emitted extreme heatwaves!

Other than that, Zhong Yue even saw the walls around the volcano remold themselves to have various types of alluring carvings which appeared to be totem carvings!

Xin Huo had literally transformed this place into a world of totem carvings replete with all sorts of slaughtering arrays. If one wished to enter the center of the volcano, they would have to survive these slaughtering arrays first!

And if not careful enough, that particular person will definitely have a bad ending.

"This is just the first layer, but seems like someone has found a safe passage to the entrance."

Xin Huo looked at the outside through Zhong Yue's vision and he showed a surprised expression while saying, "I've left behind a total of nine layers of array formations and each of these array formations contained 108 arrays. It is really surprising to me as someone managed to see through my formation and enter the second layer of array formation."

The seneschal led everyone into the arrays with extreme caution and as they passed through one after another array, they could see a path that was amassed with bones. The seneschal then explained, "In the past years, we finally managed to decipher the first layer of array formation at the cost of the lives of countless magnate monsters and this path that we are walking on is made with their bodies! Various totem carvings were carved onto the bones of these magnate monsters and their purpose is to counterbalance the power of the totem carvings on the volcanic columns. With that, only then we finally managed to enter the second layer of array formation."

Hu Wensheng and the other monster Qi Practitioners had not experience situations like that in their lives, making them stick tightly behind the seneschal in fear that they would make an unforgivable mistake. The four Qi Practitioners' faces were extremely pale and they dared not even breathe heavily.

The seneschal looked at Zhong Yue and when he saw Zhong Yue remained calm while he walked rhythmically, the seneschal could not help but to praise Zhong Yue in his mind, He has lived up the names of his almighty and honorable dragon race, he must be very experienced and it is normal that the first layer of array formation would not scare him off.

Little did he know that the main reason Zhong Yue remained so calm was that of the creator of these array formations now residing in his psyche ocean. Entering these array formations was as easy as entering his own house.

As they entered the second layer of array formation, the surroundings became even harsher as the lakes were now floating all over in the air while totem carvings could be seen filling the air. The totem carvings now came in various sizes and they appeared to be disorganized, The only path through these arrays was just a path made of mystic ice.

The mystic ice path had frozen up the lava around it and formed a safe passage that could lead them out safely.

"This mystic ice road was brought in from the arctic lands. During the ancient times, the pinnacle figures of our monster race used a few tens of years to carve out all sorts of totem carvings into the mystic ice in order to consolidate its frigidity so as to prevent it from being melted away by the lava," explained the seneschal.

In Zhong Yue's psyche ocean, Xing Huo's little tail dangled down as he appeared to be less complacent and grumbled, "I never thought that there was actually someone smart among the monsters who actually knew how to neutralize my array formations."

In the third layer of array formation, innumerable soul weapons were interlinked together, forming a long bridge that was made of thousands upon thousands of soul weapons that passed through the third layer of array formation!

On the fourth layer, huge totem pillars made of thunderstruck wood were plunged into the lava lakes in order to resist the heat waves, allowing them to get through the lava lakes safely.

The fifth layer was filled with fiery crows with sharp beaks and large wingspans of over ten feet. These crows were extremely dangerous as they were strong and aggressive. Judging by the scene of slews of huge skeletons strewn across the lava, Zhong Yue could imagine the heavy losses suffered by the monsters in order to break through this layer.

"Many of them died here…."

The seneschal lamented and said, "Among them were Linghu Zhaixing, the strongest among the entire monster race, the one who almost transcended to become a monster god. That skeleton over there belonged to him."

Zhong Yue looked at the direction pointed at by the seneschal and saw a huge nine tailed fox's skeleton standing in solitude in the lava.

"Many strong ones have sacrificed themselves just to decipher this layer of array formation. This path could be considered as a path built atop the corpses of many," lamented the seneschal while leading Zhong Yue and the others onto the ropeway attached in between the skeletons.

This ropeway was chained onto the skeletons and it allowed people to safely enter the array formation.

Xing Huo's little tail that was raised up in hubris dropped down again as he was visibly peeved. This little flame's confidence was struck as the first five layers of his array formations were already deciphered.

"The sixth array formation crumbled on its own."

As they progressed to the sixth layer, all they saw were just ruins where the stone pillars shattered into pieces and lava flowed meanderingly. The seneschal laughed and said, "We assumed that the ancient god did some minor mistake in his calculations and after all these years, the hitherto minor problems devolved into major problems, thus, making this layer of array formation crumbled on its own."

The little flame's tail flopped onto the ground completely and he appeared to be very distressed from the way things had transpired.

Zhong Yue tried to console him by saying, "The monsters used countless years and sacrificed a huge number of their people just to breakthrough six layers of your array formation, it is fine if you made some mistakes."

Xing Huo went down into a fetal position in his psyche ocean and sobbed dejectedly, "You don't have to comfort me, I just want to be left alone…."

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