Chapter 58: The Great Corridor (1/2)

The door was created from an entire immense piece of black rock. Heavy and sturdy, even if Su Xing used all his strength, he was incapable of opening it even a fraction. This door mechanism seemed to have also stumped many people. Spread all across the door were intersecting slash marks, having been hacked and chopped at by countless people venting their anger. Even so, this door was as before, high and mighty, motionless.

The Thief Star Shi Qian was also frustrated to death by this door. Using her light movements body techniques, breaking away from those Mechanical Beasts was not very troublesome. The problem was that she could not feel out its underlying principles. With no alternative, she could only draw away those Mechanical Beasts so that she could have enough time to slowly solve this door mechanism. However, seeing the Knowledge Star, the Resourceful Star, right now, Shi Yuan just placed all her hopes on Wu Yong.

Su Xing exerted all his strength to try to push it a bit, but exerting all his strength moved nothing. Su Xing then searched once more across the door. Besides the scratches hacked and chopped out of it, the stone door made from basalt had no other marks. Seeing him search so carefully, Shi Yuan dampened his enthusiasm: “This Young Lady is indeed a specialized robber. The things that should have been inspected have already been inspected. The door has concealed a secret compartment inside, but opening this secret compartment needs to be done from the exterior. In other words, this door is hiding a mechanism to open the door.”

Su Xing nodded his head. Since the Thief Star said as such, this mechanism was clearly not that easy to find

Looking at this door filled with cracks, Su Xing surmised that the mechanism to open the door perhaps had something to do with these cracks.

“Sister Xinjie, have you figured it out?” Shi Yuan blinked her eyes as she watched.

“Can’t you see Young Master is thinking?” The Knowledge Star smiled but did not speak.

Su Xing turned his head and saw Wu Xinjie seemed to have a card up her sleeve. Smiling, he said: “Xinjie, if you have solved this mechanism, don’t keep up the suspense.”

“Knowledge Star, you solved it this quickly??”

“Is that true?”

Lin Yingmei and An Suwen showed their surprise.

Seeing Shi Yuan being so impatient, Wu Xinjie did not keep the others in suspense. Shrugging her shoulders: “This mechanism is right before us. To claim that you’re The Best Thief Under Heaven and not perceive even this minor thing!”

Shi Yuan stuck out her lip. She had stared at this door everyday to the point she was about to become blind, and she still could not make out the reason why.

Wu Xinjie stood in front of the door, amassing Star Energy at her fingertips. Then, she made strokes in the empty space opposite the door, and those ugly cracks on the door suddenly had several of the hack marks flash several strokes of white light.

“Ah???”

The rest showed amazed expressions.

An “Open”1 character appeared on the door. It was right after this appeared that the stone door slowly opened with a rumbling boom.

Shi Yuan slapped her head with an “ah”: “Sister Xinjie is indeed sharp, seeing through this mechanism with just a glance.” The Thief Star greatly admired her endlessly. It seemed that among the slash marks on the door, putting together a few would form an “Open” character, and along with Star Energy, these crammed cracks would immediately trigger the mechanism behind the door. Afterwards, this stone door opened.

How could she not think of this!

“The Mo Clan mechanism is too clever. If the Knowledge Star wasn’t here, who could solve this.” Shi Yuan slapped her stomach, glad.

“My Young Master is definitely far smarter than Xinjie.” Wu Xinjie stuck out her tongue.

Shi Yuan just took it as she being modest, saying: “Sister is truly considerate of her own young master.”

“Certain arts have their specialists. I, too, did not think of this.” Su Xing shook his head.

Entering the ruins’ interior, the Thief Star activated a Daoist Light Talisman. This ruin was constructed downwards, so everyone descended along the flight of stairs with the Thief Star at the front. The Flea on a Drum’s excellent perception of traps and the like could avert the greatest level of encountering danger.

They were more scared than hurt as they walked for approximately several incense sticks when everyone then saw a pitch-black cave mouth, a tunnel entrance that passed an unfathomable chill. Unable to see even her fingers, the Thief Star threw out a Daoist Light Talisman. Its script fell into the darkness, engulfed without so much as giving a response. Apparently, this cave mouth had been granted an odd forbiddance that made light talismans useless here. Luckily, the Thief Star had prepared torches.

After lighting a few bundles, An Suwen suddenly glanced upon an inscription on the wall.

“The Great Corridor!” 2

“Inside is the Great Corridor?” Shi Qian cried out in surprise.

“This place unexpectedly has the Great Corridor. Looks like the Mo Attack Treasure Box really is hidden here.” Shi Yuan rubbed her palms in expectation.

Su Xing and his group felt suspicious about her shock and even some of her excited expressions. “What’s the matter? Is this Great Corridor very famous?” Su Xing asked Wu Xinjie.

The Knowledge Star thought for a moment. “It seems I’ve heard of this before, the Ten Great Mechanisms?”

“Sister Xinjie is truly versatile and able, even knowing this. Not going and being a perfect robber is truly a waste.” Shi Yuan smiled lightly. In order to learn this Mechanical Art, she worked her heart out researching the Divine Machine Clan for quite some time. The Ten Great Mechanisms were the Divine Machine Clan’s most formidable peak.

Among them was the “Great Corridor.”