Click, click, click, snap—
The rough friction between the door and the ground made a series of extremely unpleasant noises, which was even more disgusting considering the materials used for the door and even the building.
Fortunately, it wasn’t me who pushed the door.
Tianyang, who was standing behind the gate, thought so. In fact, it was not him who pushed the gate, but the giant corpse demon.
At this moment, he was already in the Guardian Hall.
The shortcut provided by Night Star was not a peaceful one. The residents of Akagi appeared from time to time, firmly interfering with the boy's progress, and then turned into mud under his knife and the green flames of the giant corpse demon.
When entering the Guardian Hall, Tianyang discovered that the sublimation progress had made another step forward and was now at 69%.
Even though the progress of sublimation began to slow down after reaching level 4, for Tianyang personally, this speed of improvement was already considered fast.
At this rate, he will be able to advance soon.
With Yexing's hint, Tianyang has been doing well so far after arriving at the Guardian Hall.
This hall is composed of several rooms, and the "Key to the Royal Court" is stored in the deepest room, which is the one that the giant corpse demon is opening now.
After bringing out the 'Key to the Royal Court' and storing it in the Guardian's Hall, Ye Xing modified some of the mechanisms in the hall, making it difficult for the illegal citizens to enter.
In fact, the "residents" of Akagi should have tried more than once to go deep into the hall and seize the key.
Therefore, Tianyang saw a lot of corpses on the way here.
Like the corpses on the street, they were all "captured" by the crystalline ground. Before they had time to decompose, they were wrapped in a thin layer of crystals and preserved as "specimens".
The door finally opened completely.
Tianyang asked the giant corpse demon to wait here. The giant corpse demon used dark particles and suffered a lot along the way.
At this point, it is almost falling apart. It seems that the usefulness of 'Qing Lao' is almost exhausted, and the energy in its heart has reached the bottom, making it difficult for the giant corpse to play a role.
Tian Yang simply recovered the heart so that it could be used next time. Once the heart was taken out, the giant corpse demon immediately fell apart and turned into a pool of blood and flesh, with bones emerging from it.
The young man carefully walked around the pool of flesh and blood, connected with the black mist, and sensed the space extending into the door.
The space inside the door was not small. Through the black fog, Tianyang could clearly feel that the structure inside had collapsed. Some pillars on the left had fallen down, and there were gaps of varying sizes on the wall. It looked like this place had been abandoned for a long time.
There were no corpses inside the door, which meant that the "residents" of Akagi had never set foot here. Most of them stayed in the room in front and died in those insidious mechanisms and traps.
Looking back, Ye Xing was very proud when talking about these traps. The character of this former Dusk King was also quite bad.
Not sensing any sign of life inside the door, Tianyang took out a flare and fired one into the door with confidence.
The light is shining brightly.
With the help of the light, the boy saw that it was exactly the same as he felt.
This room, located deep in the Guardian Hall, was much larger than any other room he had passed through. It could no longer be called a room, it was more like a hall.
Or maybe it is the real 'Hall of the Guardian'!
The floor of the hall is still made of the same crystalline matrix. On the left are some pillars made of bones.
Several have collapsed.
There was a tightly closed archway on the wall in that direction. On the door made of flesh and blood, an unknown symbol made of bones appeared. On both sides of the door were two skins peeled off from some unknown creature, hanging on both sides of the archway like flags.
Above the hall, there are three lampstands, made of bones, and surrounded by skulls of creatures whose names cannot be told. Their deep eye holes stare at the surroundings, silently witnessing the rise and fall of this place.
On the right hand side there was a cracked altar, in the center of which stood a strange statue, a non-human creature, wearing a robe like a human, holding a holy staff, and wearing a holy crown, but from under the robe stretched out strange legs.
The statues, the candlesticks, the flags, and everything in the room made Tianyang feel very uncomfortable.
These buildings were clearly built by the Black People, or the Twilight Clan. They are not human, but whether it is the buildings, objects or even the sculpture, they all imitate humans.
No.
The black people are most likely evolved from humans in the opposite world. In this case, they may not be imitating humans, but the memories of being human still remain in their bodies and their brains.
That's why there is such a hall with a strange style.
Tianyang's attention was now focused on the sculpture on the altar. Yexing said that the key to the royal court was the holy staff on the sculpture.
The boy approached the altar and observed the staff.
It is like a short spear or a torch, with a crystal embedded in its surface. The crystal is shaped like an inverted cross, and it seems to be the same as the matrix of the ground.
Following Ye Xing's instructions, Tian Yang came to the back of the altar and reached out to feel around. He found a brick floating close to the ground. Tian Yang gently pressed inside, and the brick sank, but another brick on top bulged.
Embedded in that brick was another holy staff, or key to the royal court.
It is difficult to tell the authenticity of the two keys just by looking at their surface. Ye Xingcai placed the real key casually on the statue, which is an extremely clever psychological trap.
After going through so many hardships before, no one would think that the real key was just placed on the sculpture when they came to this last room.
So when they found the other key hidden in the altar, they would definitely think that this was the real key to the royal court.
But I can take both.
Tianyang took out the holy staff from the bricks and stones. Perhaps Yexing’s traps were only aimed at its own kind, and it was not familiar with human thinking patterns.
Moreover, if two are taken away at the same time, it will trigger the last and most terrifying trap in this hall.
After Tianyang took the fake key away, he came to the sculpture, quickly picked up the royal court key, and then put the fake one back.
It only takes a fraction of a second.
If the key left the sculpture for more than three seconds, it would trigger the deadly trap. Now, of course, nothing happened.
Looking at the dagger-sized key, Tian Yang wanted to open the door and throw it directly into his collection room. But at this moment, silver light shot out from near the altar, quickly forming a prison of light.
Tianyang was stunned. Night Star had not mentioned this light prison. The boy observed carefully and found that there were silver crystals floating in the light prison. These things turned out to be star marrow crystals!
They act as nodes, emitting starlight and building this prison.
But this light prison has no effect on Tianyang at all.
Humans will not be harmed by the light emitted by star crystals, only the dark people will hate this light.
Black people...
Tianyang suddenly realized that this light prison was probably designed for Yexing.
This last room had not been visited by the Twilight Clan; in fact, they had been there before.
But they did not take away the key to the royal court, but still left it here, probably to lure Yexing into the trap.
If Yexing left the so-called blockade and came back to get the key, he would probably be captured by this light prison.
With Ye Xing's current condition and ability, it is probably impossible to break through this prison built of star crystals.
This is a trap designed by the Dusk Clan for Night Star!
Unfortunately, they didn't expect that the one who fell into the trap today was a human.
Tianyang removed the fog ghost armor, revealing his true appearance, showing his star essence, and in one step he arrived outside the light prison.
Then he activated the Mist Ghost Amulet again and transformed himself into 'Ghost Face' again. Under the mask, the young man smiled indifferently and was about to leave.
Suddenly my heart skipped a beat.
He looked down.
The dark crystalline matrix on the ground now began to glow red, and even the walls of flesh and blood surrounding the hall had a faint red light shining through them.
It seems that the trap of the Dusk Clan is not just a light prison. Tianyang also feels that there are malicious, dark and deep auras appearing in Chicheng.
Something that was originally dormant was awakened.
Tianyang smiled bitterly. This seemed to make sense. If Yexing was captured, the Dusk Clan would definitely take action.
Although the auras he sensed now were not clear, there were quite a few of them, and each one was very unusual.
He should be a high-ranking member of the Dusk Clan.
I'm afraid the Dusk King has also been alarmed.
This is not good.
There are so many of them. Unless I call out Yama, I can't defeat them alone...
It seems that we can only withdraw temporarily.
It would not be appropriate to call out Yan Mo rashly now, and the members of Wuying are active in the city. If they are discovered by them, the secret that I am also a "Death God" might be exposed.
In addition, the fortress's army could arrive at any time, and there were too many variables, so it was not advisable to take risks.
After quick consideration and making a decision, Tianyang returned along the same route without any further hesitation.
When the boy left the Guardian Hall, in a hall in the city, a little fire suddenly lit up in the darkness.
The firelight illuminated the hall and the sarcophagi scattered around an altar.
Different patterns were carved on the lids of those sarcophagi.
There are large trees with lush branches and leaves, raging flames, sharp lightning, and strange-looking evil beasts... ... .
In the sarcophagus, auras began to emerge. Suddenly, a coffin lid flew out quietly, hit a pillar not far away, and fell to the ground with a bang.
Black mud gushed out of the sarcophagus, and a hand suddenly stretched out from the dark mud. The hand had only four fingers, and the finger bones were exposed to the air.
With a hissing sound, thin and long streams of scarlet flames spurted out from the fingertips, rising into the sky and reaching the dome...