Due to their late departure, Zhang Wen and his group found themselves completely alone on the jungle path, unable to see anyone ahead or behind. They had no choice but to follow the trail of the martial artists who had left earlier and hurried to catch up.
However, after walking along the road for about half an hour, they were shocked to find a castle hidden in the jungle right in front of them!
The castle was covered in vines, and the occasional glimpse of its mottled, ancient stone walls revealed its age. Its stone gate stood wide open like the gaping mouth of a monster. Standing at the entrance, Si curiously peeked inside.
“See anything?” asked Kay.
“Nothing at all—just an empty, pitch-black corridor,” replied Si, a tall and muscular man from Kentucky with a shrug. Then he turned to Zhang Wen, speaking gruffly, “Hey! Are we going in or not?”
“Of course. Unless you don’t want to get back on the Star Moon,” Zhang Wen replied with a casual smile, stepping forward and entering first. Without a word, Yinel followed closely behind.
“Tch!” Si scowled, then followed Yinel and Kay into the castle.
After passing through the dark corridor Si had mentioned, the group found themselves standing before a massive wooden door that looked like it belonged to an ancient fortress.
Zhang Wen gave the door a gentle push. Surprisingly, the heavy wooden gate opened with a creak as if it were weightless. Inside was a vast, empty hall. There was no one inside, nor any decorations. The entire space was enclosed by solid granite walls, with no windows in sight. Only four ever-burning spirit lamps hung in the corners, casting a hazy yellow glow over the room.
“What is this place?” Yinel asked, feeling uneasy in the dim environment as she instinctively turned to Zhang Wen.
“How should I know? This is the first time I’ve been here too,” Zhang Wen replied, frowning slightly. He quickly stepped into the hall and began tapping the surrounding walls as if searching for something.
“Hey! What are you even looking for? It’s obvious—there’s nothing here!” Si, who always looked for reasons to mock Zhang Wen, couldn’t resist chiming in.
“No, something’s off,” Kay said, frowning. Usually siding with Si, this time he quickly followed into the empty hall.
“What’s so strange?” Si muttered, annoyed. “Didn’t you notice earlier? This castle is barely the size of a palm. This hall is all there is!”
“No, Si, that’s not right,” Kay shook his head firmly and began tapping the walls as well. “Do you know where we are?”
“Of course I do! We’re on Pico Island!” Si said, as if it were obvious, then casually sat down in a corner.
“Exactly! Pico Island. To be precise, we’re in the Infinite Colosseum of Pico Island,” Kay glanced at Zhang Wen, who was carefully tapping the walls on the other side, and smiled knowingly. “You must have seen it—didn’t we pass the boundary line that marks the entrance to the Infinite Colosseum?”
“Oh yeah, I saw it,” Si nodded blankly. From Kay’s words, he vaguely sensed something, but couldn’t quite grasp it yet.
“Then think about it—how could there be an abandoned castle like this in a place like the Infinite Colosseum?”
“Oh!” Realization suddenly dawned on Si, and he jumped to his feet. “There must be clues here that we need!”
“How do you know that?” Though Si had been convinced by Kay, his tone remained defiant when addressing Zhang Wen.
“Of course I know,” Zhang Wen smiled as usual. He had plenty of time to make this stubborn “Kentucky’s Number One Warrior” suffer during their journey on Pico Island.
“Si, you’re really…” Yinel, watching Si smugly think he had given Zhang Wen trouble, was so embarrassed that her face turned red.
Truthfully, Yinel was also quite dissatisfied with Zhang Wen’s domineering behavior. But while it was fine to challenge him, it had to be done the right way! If you kept asking silly questions, wouldn’t you just end up embarrassing yourself?
“Huh? What did I do?” Si, still clueless, asked innocently.
“Si, shut up!” Yinel clenched her fists, her head seemingly vibrating with three dark lines.
“Haha!” Zhang Wen’s annoying laughter at the right moment nearly made Yinel lose her composure completely.
“Si, when we arrived, there wasn’t a soul in this castle,” Kay, helpless, continued explaining to his companion.
“Yeah, so what?”
“…Before us, dozens of martial artists had already entered the forest! This castle is so obvious, there’s no way they wouldn’t have noticed it. Even if most of them thought there was nothing here, there must have been at least a few who thought like us. So why is the castle completely empty now?”
“Oh!” Only after Kay’s explanation did Si finally grasp the oddity. His mouth dropped open in shock, but before he could cry out, Zhang Wen’s voice came from the other side of the hall.
“I found it.”
The next moment, Si suddenly felt the ground beneath his feet vanish as if it had been pulled out from under him! Meanwhile, the other three clearly saw a staircase leading underground appear exactly where Si had been standing.
“What the—?!”
Although Si was a Saint-ranked expert capable of flight, he had no time to react to the sudden disappearance of the ground beneath him. As a result, the mighty “Kentucky’s Number One Warrior” let out a startled yell and tumbled down the hidden staircase like a bouncing ball.
“Let’s go,” Yinel muttered, her head low as she entered the underground passage. She no longer had the energy to complain.
“Let’s go,” Kay said as well, sweating profusely and closely following Yinel. Zhang Wen was the third to enter. And the moment Zhang Wen stepped in, the entrance behind them sealed shut as if by magic.
Kay, a Saint-ranked expert, reacted swiftly. Almost the moment the entrance closed, he activated his full energy and dashed to the sealed entrance in an instant.
To his shock, however, when he pushed against the entrance, he found that instead of the expected thin stone panel, he was met with a massive, solid rock!
“What’s going on?” Kay ran his hands over the moss-covered rock, his face filled with disbelief. Yinel, equally stunned, stared wide-eyed at the sight. She quickly walked to Zhang Wen’s side, pounded the rock behind them twice, and looked even more shocked. “This should be the castle hall behind us. Why does this rock feel completely solid?”
Zhang Wen peeled a small patch of moss from the rock and frowned.
“This explains why the castle was empty,” he said. “You don’t need to knock anymore. What’s behind this rock isn’t the castle hall anymore. And the stairs we’re standing on now—these aren’t the same ones from the castle either.”
“I don’t understand. What do you mean?” Yinel clenched her fists, puzzled.
“In simple terms, we’ve been teleported. There must have been a device set up by a High-ranked spirit user in that hidden passage we found. As soon as we entered, it sent us here.”
“So you’re saying we’re no longer in the castle?” Yinel quickly caught on.
“Exactly. We could be anywhere on Pico Island now. Or even possibly not on Pico Island at all.”
“Not on Pico Island?!” Yinel was startled by Zhang Wen’s deduction. She anxiously fired off questions. “If we really left Pico Island, what about the airship? How will we get back to the Star Moon?”
“Don’t worry,” Zhang Wen smiled slightly. “We can go back anytime we want. Pico Island is both the entrance and the exit of the Infinite Colosseum.”
“I always wondered how Pico Island, though large, could possibly support an ‘Infinite Colosseum.’ Two High-ranked experts fighting could destroy the entire island. Now I finally understand. This is the truth of the Infinite Colosseum! Pico Island is just an entrance. Everyone who passes through that entrance is teleported into a passage like this one.”
“Is that so? Then why haven’t we seen anyone else here? I remember that just before us, three other teams had already set out. We should have met them by now.”
“We won’t meet them. There might be many such passages. Each group that enters the entrance is randomly teleported to a different area. These passages form a network, which is the true Infinite Colosseum. If I’m not mistaken… this Infinite Colosseum is our actual destination. That woman, Lofray, must have hidden the clue to the airship here.”
“That makes sense. Hmph! Using the Infinite Colosseum as the competition arena? Hmm! It’s actually kind of exciting,” Si, who had somehow returned, nodded enthusiastically, cracking his knuckles.
“Don’t get too excited. We don’t have much time. Also, Lofray probably won’t let us pass easily. The real test has just begun now that we’ve entered the Infinite Colosseum,” Zhang Wen smiled slightly at the three Kentuckians beside him and led them deeper into the passage without hesitation.
After descending for a while, the underground staircase came to an end. In front of the group of four stretched a massive underground corridor. It was tall enough for two people to stand on each other’s shoulders, and wide enough for two spirit-powered vehicles to pass side by side.
The walls on both sides were covered in smooth white tiles, and every few meters, a bright ever-burning spirit lamp hung, lighting the entire passage like daylight.
“Damn!” Si couldn’t help but curse in awe. Just digging such a massive underground road dozens of meters below the surface was already hard to imagine. And this was only one of countless such roads in the Infinite Colosseum!
“Let’s go,” Zhang Wen couldn’t help smirking at the stunned expressions of the three Kentuckians. A simple underground passage had already left these three wide-eyed. If they ever visited Earth and saw subway systems in cities like New York or London, they’d probably drop their jaws in disbelief.
Of course, the three Kentuckians had no idea about Zhang Wen’s inner thoughts. As they followed Zhang Wen, they kept looking around in amazement, commenting on how rich Hassan must be and how many imperial coins it must have cost to build such a tunnel.
Walking along the long underground corridor, the four of them lost track of time. Just when they began to think the tunnel might be endless, a door finally appeared ahead.
Impatient and eager, Si rushed forward and pushed hard against the closed door—but it didn’t budge.
“Tch!” Si spat in frustration and began scanning the area for any mechanism to open the door, but found nothing. Finally, out of options, he kicked the door angrily—only to have his force completely reflected back, causing him to tumble over.
“Hahaha!” A loud, mocking laugh echoed through the tunnel.
“You bastards…” Si angrily got up, only to realize that the laughter hadn’t come from his companions. Just a short distance behind Zhang Wen’s group, four martial artists—two men and two women—had appeared!
The four newcomers weren’t very old, but they radiated an arrogance that even surprised Zhang Wen. Judging by their expressions alone, one might mistake them all for High-ranked experts.
Laughing at Si’s clumsy fall, they casually approached Zhang Wen’s group. One young woman, wearing an ultra-short skirt that exposed her thighs and a leather belt around her right leg, giggled and pointed at Si. “Neil, what are these guys doing? Are they trying to perform a comedy act for us?”
“Who knows?” a man named Neil laughed in response, treating Zhang Wen’s group as if they were invisible.
As the four martial artists continued to mock Zhang Wen’s group, Yinel quietly moved to Zhang Wen’s side and whispered, “Zhang Wen, how did they appear behind us? I vaguely remember seeing them before. They should have left earlier than us. I specifically checked earlier—there were no side paths behind us.”
“Don’t worry,” Zhang Wen gently shook his head at Ilnel. “This place has been transformed by a high-level psionicist. The space here is different from normal conditions. Even if they entered the castle before us, it’s not strange for them to appear behind us…”
“Hey! You two, what are you whispering about?” The woman who had mocked Si moments ago quickly spoke again, interrupting Zhang Wen’s explanation to Ilnel. By now, the newly arrived group of four had already stopped their advance, standing less than ten meters away from Zhang Wen’s group.
“Hmph!” Kai let out a cold snort. With a slight movement of his body, he and Si had already stepped in front of Ilnel. As warriors of the Kentucky clan, they absolutely could not tolerate the disrespectful attitude the four martial artists displayed toward Ilnel.
“Oh? The weird-looking ugly guy is being so arrogant,” the woman sneered with a laugh, her gaze turning colder.
The other three martial artists quickly shifted into a slightly crouched posture—their readiness for combat obvious to anyone familiar with imperial martial arts.
Provoked by the four martial artists, Kai and Si’s expressions grew even more serious. Their hands had already reached toward the weapons at their waists.
At that moment, the air in the tunnel seemed to freeze. Just as both sides were on the verge of a violent clash, Zhang Wen couldn’t help but laugh.
“Funny. Are you guys really planning to fight us here?” Zhang Wen smiled slightly, pushing aside the tense Si and Kai as he stepped forward.
“Hehe! Fight? Are you overestimating yourself a bit? There are four of us here. As for your side… if it really comes to a fight, you’re barely two and a half people,” the same woman laughed again, shaking her finger. “That ten-stage newcomer who just reached the expert level barely counts as half a fighter. As for that psionicist girl over there, I could knock her down with just one finger.”
“Hmph! If you’ve got the guts, why don’t you try it?” Kai let out another cold snort.
“Hahaha!” Zhang Wen burst into cheerful laughter.
“What’s so funny?” Another woman from the opposing group glared angrily at Zhang Wen.
“Nothing much. You guys just want to go through that door before us, right? Fine, you can go first.” Zhang Wen calmly waved his hand, making a gesture inviting them to proceed.
“What? Why should we let you go first? We were clearly here first!” Si argued loudly.
“Hey! Did you forget what agreement we had?” Zhang Wen smiled as he glanced at the Kentucky warrior.
“Tch!” Si and Kai clenched their fists tightly and reluctantly stepped aside.
Zhang Wen’s gesture was obviously seen by the opposing side as a sign of weakness. “Hehe! A wise choice. You’ve saved your little lives,” the two male martial artists sneered as they, together with their haughty female companions, walked past Zhang Wen and the Kentuckys. The arrogant laughter of the four almost made the two never-back-down Kentuckys grind their teeth in rage. Ilnel also tightly clenched her fists, her slender fingers turning pale from the grip.
“Don’t get upset. The real show is just beginning,” Zhang Wen couldn’t help but lift the corner of his mouth again when he saw the dark expressions on the faces of the Kentucky trio.
Meanwhile, the two men and two women who had been so arrogant had already arrived at the door where Si had suffered a minor setback earlier. After another round of fruitless searching, the four martial artists whispered among themselves for a while.
“Vara, it’s your turn,” soon, three of them smiled and stepped back, leaving only the woman wearing an ultra-short skirt standing in front of the door.
“Don’t worry about it,” Zhang Wen gently shook his head at Yinier. “This place has been altered by a high-level psychic mage. The space here is different from normal. It’s not strange if they appear behind us even though they entered the castle earlier…”
“Hey! What are you two whispering about?” The woman who had mocked Si earlier interrupted Zhang Wen’s explanation to Yinier. By then, the newly arrived group of four had stopped just less than ten meters away from Zhang Wen’s group.
“Hmph!” Kai snorted coldly, his body slightly shifting as he and Si moved to shield Yinier. As warriors of the Kentucky clan, Kai and Si couldn’t tolerate the attitude of the four martial artists towards Yinier.
“Oh? The ugly man with a weird look is quite arrogant,” the woman who had spoken earlier laughed again, her eyes now carrying a hint of coldness. The other three martial artists opposite them quickly assumed a slightly crouched stance—anyone familiar with the empire’s martial arts would know they were ready to attack at any moment!
The provocative actions of these four martial artists made Kai and Si even more serious, their hands even reaching for the weapons at their waists.
The air in the tunnel seemed to freeze at that moment. However, just as both sides were on the verge of a fierce battle, Zhang Wen couldn’t help but laugh.
“Interesting. Are you guys planning to have a decisive battle with us here?” Zhang Wen smiled slightly, pushing aside the tense Si and Kai, and stepped forward.
“Hey! Decisive battle? I think you’re overestimating yourself. We have four people here. At best, you guys are two and a half in a real fight,” the same woman who had spoken earlier laughed, waving her finger. “You, a newcomer who just reached the tenth level of strength, barely count as half. As for the psychic mage lady over there, I can take her down with one finger.”
“Hmph! If you have the guts, come and try!” Kai snorted coldly.
“Haha!” Zhang Wen laughed heartily.
“What’s so funny?” another woman from the opposite group shouted angrily at Zhang Wen.
“Nothing. You just want to pass through that door before us, right? Go ahead,” Zhang Wen calmly waved his hand, even gesturing for them to pass.
“What? Why should we let you pass? We were here first!” Si argued loudly.
“Hey! Did you forget our agreement?” Zhang Wen glanced at the Kentucky warrior with a smile.
“Tch!” Si and Kai clenched their fists, gritting their teeth as they stepped aside.
Zhang Wen’s actions were clearly seen as a sign of weakness by the other side. “Hehe! A wise choice, saving your little lives,” the two male martial artists sneered, walking past Zhang Wen and the Kentucky trio with their heads held high. The arrogant laughter of the four made the two never-yielding Kentucky warriors almost bite through their teeth in anger. Yinier also clenched her fists tightly, her slender fingers turning white.
“Don’t worry, the good show is yet to come,” Zhang Wen couldn’t help but smile again as he saw the gloomy expressions of the Kentucky trio.
As they spoke, the two men and two women with their heads held high had already reached the door where Si had suffered a small setback earlier. After a similarly fruitless search, the four martial artists whispered among themselves.
“Vara, it’s up to you,” soon, the other three stepped back with a smile, leaving only the woman in the miniskirt standing in front of the door.
“Heh!” With a smug laugh, a starry purple aura suddenly lit up around Vara.
The full power of a tenth-level expert stirred up several strong whirlwinds in the tunnel. Then, Vara pulled out a three-inch-long dagger from the strap on her inner thigh.
The moment the silver dagger entered Vara’s right hand, a blinding white light suddenly flashed on it! In the next instant, Vara’s purple lightning energy surged into the dagger. The light on the dagger grew brighter and brighter, and at its peak, Vara didn’t hesitate to deliver a full-force strike at the tightly shut door in front of her. At the same time, she looked back at Zhang Wen’s group with a mocking gaze.
The sight of the gloomy Si and Kai made Vara couldn’t help but smile smugly. She had even thought about how to mock the “cowards” behind her after breaking through the door.
Although there was no enmity between them, who told Vara that she just didn’t like you?
“Hmph!” At this moment, Kai couldn’t help but let out a dissatisfied snort. He could probably guess that Zhang Wen had some plan in letting Vara’s group go first. But in Kai’s view, no matter what Zhang Wen’s plan was, he was probably going to miscalculate now!
A full-force strike from a tenth-level expert plus a high-level crystal energy weapon! Kai had never heard of any door in the world that could withstand such an attack!
If the four opposite them broke through that door, what would happen next? Thinking of this, Kai’s face darkened even more.
Clang! Boom!
The dagger in Vara’s hand finally struck the tightly shut stone door. But what happened next made everyone watching Vara open their mouths in shock!
Vara’s full-force strike actually failed to break through the seemingly not-so-sturdy stone door! Moreover, not only did she fail to break through the door, but the door seemed to have bounced all her power back at her!
All of Vara’s power was exerted on herself, resulting in a deafening explosion as she was sent flying backward, then rolled on the ground for a long distance!
And because they were close, Vara’s three companions were also caught in the violent air currents stirred up by this strike. Although they weren’t as miserable as Vara, they were still blown around by the strong wind, looking disheveled.
“You… how did you know this would happen?” Kai looked at Zhang Wen as if he had seen a ghost.
“No way! No way! That was a full-force strike from a tenth-level expert! How could it not even break through a door? I studied it earlier, the door is just made of ordinary granite!” Si grabbed his head in frustration. What he had just seen was beyond his understanding.
“Want to know why?” Zhang Wen curled his lips, deliberately keeping them in suspense.
“I want to know,” Si nodded his head like a rattle-drum.
“Teacher Zhang Wen, stop keeping us in suspense!” The beautiful Yinier’s eyes were also filled with curiosity.
“I told you before, everything here is different from what you imagine. Take that door, for example. You can see it, touch it, but in reality, it doesn’t exist.”
“Doesn’t… exist?!”
“Exactly. That’s not a real door. Like the passage we saw in the castle on Pico Island, that door is also an illusion created by a super-level psychic mage. As for the function of this illusion… as you just saw, it’s to bounce back all the attacks directed at it.”
“Are you kidding?! If that’s the case, aren’t we going to be buried here, never able to get out?” Si cried out in terror.
“Hehehehe! Kentucky man, you’re quite smart!” Just as Si cried out, a completely unfamiliar voice suddenly rang out in the tunnel.
The battle energy gathered by a ten-stage expert erupted in the tunnel, creating several powerful whirlwinds. Then, Vara pulled out a dagger more than three inches long from the belt strapped to the inside of her thigh.
“Don’t worry about it,” Zhang Wen gently shook his head at Yinier. “This place has been altered by a high-level thought master. The space here is different from normal. It’s not strange if they appear behind us even though they entered the castle earlier than us…”
“Hey! What are you two whispering about?” The woman who had mocked Si earlier spoke up again, interrupting Zhang Wen’s explanation to Yinier. By then, the newly arrived group of four had already stopped less than ten meters away from Zhang Wen and his companions.
“Hmph!” Kai snorted coldly, his body slightly shifting as he and Si moved to stand in front of Yinier. As warriors of the Kentucky clan, Kai and Si couldn’t tolerate the attitude of the four martial artists towards Yinier.
“Oh? The ugly man with a strange appearance is quite arrogant,” the woman who had spoken earlier laughed again, her eyes now carrying a hint of coldness. The other three martial artists opposite them quickly assumed a slightly crouched stance—anyone familiar with the empire’s martial arts would know they were ready to attack at any moment!
The provocative actions of these four martial artists made Kai and Si even more serious, their hands even reaching for the weapons at their waists.
The air in the tunnel seemed to freeze at that moment. However, just as both sides were eager and ready to erupt into a major battle, Zhang Wen couldn’t help but laugh.
“Interesting. Are you guys planning to have a decisive battle with us here?” Zhang Wen smiled slightly, pushing aside the tense Si and Kai, and stepped forward.
“Hey! Decisive battle? I think you’re overestimating yourself. There are four of us here. On your side… at best, it’s two and a half,” the woman who had spoken earlier laughed again, waving her finger. “You, a newcomer who just entered the tenth level of strength, barely count as half. As for the thought master lady over there, I can take her down with one finger.”
“Hmph! If you have the ability, come and try!” Kai snorted coldly.
“Haha!” Zhang Wen laughed heartily.
“What’s so funny?” Another woman from the opposite group glared at Zhang Wen and shouted angrily.
“Nothing. You just want to pass through that door before us, right? Go ahead,” Zhang Wen calmly waved his hand, even gesturing for them to pass.
“What? Why should we let you pass? We were here first!” Si argued loudly.
“Hey! Did you forget our agreement?” Zhang Wen glanced at the Kentucky tough guy with a smile.
“Tch!” Si and Kai clenched their fists, gritting their teeth as they stepped aside.
Zhang Wen’s actions were clearly seen as a sign of weakness by the other side. “Hehe! A wise choice, saving your little lives,” the two male martial artists sneered, walking past Zhang Wen and the Kentucky trio with their heads held high. The arrogant laughter of the four made the two never-yielding Kentucky warriors almost grind their teeth in anger. Yinier also clenched her fists tightly, her slender fingers turning white.
“Don’t worry, the good show is yet to come,” Zhang Wen couldn’t help but smile again as he saw the gloomy expressions on the Kentucky trio.
As they spoke, the two men and two women with their heads held high had already reached the door where Si had suffered a minor setback earlier. After a similarly fruitless search, the four martial artists whispered among themselves for a while.
“Vara, it’s up to you,” soon, three of them stepped back with a smile, leaving only the woman in the miniskirt standing in front of the door.
“Heh!” With a smug sneer, Vara’s surroundings suddenly lit up with purple energy like stars.
The full power of a tenth-level expert gathered in the tunnel, creating several strong whirlwinds. Immediately after, Vara pulled out a three-inch-long dagger from the belt strapped to her thigh.
The moment the silver dagger entered Vara’s right hand, it suddenly flashed with a blinding white light! In the next instant, Vara’s purple electric energy surged into the dagger. The light on the dagger grew brighter and brighter, and at its peak, Vara didn’t hesitate to swing the dagger with all her might at the tightly shut door. At the same time, she looked back at Zhang Wen and his group with a mocking gaze.
The gloomy faces of Si and Kai came into view, and Vara couldn’t help but smile smugly. She had even thought about how to mock the “cowards” behind her after breaking through the door.
Although there was no enmity between the two sides, who could blame Vara for disliking them?
“Hmph!” At that moment, Kai couldn’t help but let out a dissatisfied snort. He could probably guess that Zhang Wen had some plan in letting Vara and her group go first. But in Kai’s view, no matter what Zhang Wen’s plan was, it was likely to fail now!
A full-force attack from a tenth-level expert plus a high-level crystal energy weapon! Kai had never heard of any door in the world that could withstand such an attack!
If the four opposite them broke through that door, what would happen next? Thinking of this, Kai’s face darkened even more.
Clang! Boom!
The dagger in Vara’s hand finally struck the tightly shut stone door. But what happened next left everyone watching Vara with their mouths agape!
Vara’s full-force attack had failed to break through the seemingly not-so-strong stone door! Not only that, but the door seemed to have bounced all of Vara’s power back at her!
All of Vara’s power was applied to herself, resulting in a deafening explosion as Vara was sent flying backward, rolling on the ground for a long distance!
Moreover, Vara’s three companions, being closer, were also caught in the violent air currents stirred up by the attack. Although they weren’t as miserable as Vara, they were still blown around by the strong winds, looking quite disheveled.
“You… how did you know this would happen?” Kai looked at Zhang Wen as if he had seen a ghost.
“No way! That’s impossible! That was a full-force attack from a tenth-level expert! How could it not even break through a door? I studied it earlier, and the door is just made of ordinary granite!” Si grabbed his head in frustration. What he had just seen was beyond his comprehension.
“Want to know why?” Zhang Wen smiled, deliberately keeping them in suspense.
“Yes,” Si nodded his head like a rattle drum.
“Teacher Zhang Wen, stop keeping us in suspense!” The beautiful Yinier’s eyes were also filled with curiosity.
“I told you before, everything here is very different from what you imagine. Take that door, for example. You can see it, touch it, but in reality, it doesn’t exist.”
“Doesn’t… exist?!”
“Exactly. That’s not a real door. Just like the passage we saw in the castle on Pico Island, that door is also an illusion created by a super-level thought master. As for the purpose of this illusion… as you just saw, it’s to bounce back all attacks applied to the door.”
“Are you kidding?! If that’s the case, aren’t we going to be buried here, never able to get out?” Si cried out in horror.
“Hehehehe! Kentucky man, you’re quite smart!” Just as Si cried out, a completely unfamiliar voice suddenly echoed in the tunnel.
Seeing Si and Kai’s dark expressions, Vara couldn’t help but smile proudly. She had already thought about how she would mock those “cowards” behind her after piercing through the door.
Although there was no previous enmity or recent grudge between the two sides, who could blame Vara for simply not liking the look of them?
“Hmph!” At this moment, Kai couldn’t help but let out a dissatisfied snort. He could roughly guess that Zhang Wen letting Vara’s group go first was part of some plan. But in Kai’s opinion, no matter what plan Zhang Wen had, he was probably about to fail now!
A ten-stage expert plus a high-level crystal energy weapon delivering a full-power strike! Kai had never heard of any door in the world that could withstand an attack of this magnitude!
If those four on the other side broke through the door, what would happen next? Thinking about this, Kai’s face darkened even further.
Bang! Boom!
Vara’s dagger finally struck the tightly closed stone door. But what happened next shocked every single person watching Vara!
Vara’s full-power strike failed to break through the stone door that seemed not particularly sturdy! Moreover, not only did she fail to break the stone door, it seemed as if the door reflected all of Vara’s power back at her!
All of Vara’s power was redirected onto herself. As a result, with a deafening explosion, Vara was sent flying backward, rolling a long distance on the ground!
Moreover, because of their proximity, Vara’s three companions were also caught in the violent blast wave from this strike. Although they didn’t suffer as badly as Vara, they were still thrown about by the fierce wind, looking extremely disheveled and defeated.
“You… how did you know this would happen?” When Kai looked at Zhang Wen again, his eyes were full of disbelief.
“It doesn’t make sense! It doesn’t make sense at all! That was a full-power strike from a ten-stage expert! How could it not even penetrate a simple door? I examined it earlier; the material of that door was just ordinary granite!” Si grabbed his head in frustration. What he had just witnessed exceeded his understanding.
“Want to know why?” Zhang Wen lifted the corner of his mouth, deliberately teasing them with suspense.
“We want to know.” Si nodded his head vigorously at this moment.
“Teacher Zhang Wen, please don’t keep us in suspense anymore!” The beautiful Ilnel’s eyes were also filled with curiosity.
“As I said earlier, everything here is very different from what you imagine. Take that door, for example. You can see it, you can touch it, but in reality, it doesn’t exist.”
“N… doesn’t exist?!”
“Exactly. That’s not actually a real door. Just like the passage we saw in the castle on Pico Island, that door is also an illusion created by a master psionicist. As for the function of this illusion… as you just saw, it reflects all attacks applied to the door back at the attacker.”
“What are you talking about?! If that’s the case, then we’ll be trapped here forever and never be able to get out?!” Si shouted in terror.
“Hehehehe! Kentucky guy, you’re pretty smart!” Just as Si shouted out, a completely unfamiliar voice suddenly echoed in the tunnel.
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