Chapter 104: Underground Labyrinth

  A deafening roar shook the earth, and Zhangshan felt the ground beneath his feet tremble slightly. A massive burst of light erupted from the city wall, and the defensive magic array on top of the city was knocked down by this blow.

  After three breaths, another sword light formed and blasted on the city wall again. After a loud noise, cracks began to appear on the city wall.

  The third sword light struck immediately, the law array on the city wall collapsed with a loud noise, and the sword light directly chopped onto the city wall. Amidst the smoke and dust, the city wall suddenly collapsed.

  The disciples of the Xuantian Sect let out a deafening cheer and then shouted as they charged towards the city.

  "The city has fallen, Little Sister. You must follow the disciples of Ben Feng immediately and take action. Don't fall behind, pay attention to your own safety." Zhang Shan said as he stood up.

  "Alright, I'll go and meet up with An Shixiong and the others. You be careful yourself."

  Ling Yuwei reminded him of something and then parted ways with Zhang Shan, unfolding his body technique to rush forward quickly.

  The demons in the city were now frantically shouting, rushing towards the collapsed city wall gap, colliding with the disciples of the Xun Tian Sect, and engaging in a fierce battle to the death.

  Zhang Shan put on the Thousand Changes mask, activated the transformation technique, and changed into a thirty-year-old martial artist with an ordinary appearance. He then concealed his aura to the extreme and blended in among the sect's disciples, following behind the large group of people as they rushed into the city.

  Although there were many demon thieves, with a total of 300,000 to 500,000 people in the city, most of them were martial artists at the Qi Wu boundary. Those above Ling Wu could be counted on one hand, and even the weakest disciples of the Xuan Tian Sect were above Ling Wu fivefold. As a result, the battle was basically a one-sided affair.

  But even tens of thousands of chickens would take time to kill, the Tian Tian Sect's disciples formed their own small teams and pursued them with all their might. The city was filled with a bloody atmosphere that pierced through the clouds.

  In this chaotic situation, Zhang Shan harvested the lives of the magic thieves who passed by him, and quickly rushed towards a grand hall in the city.

  According to the jade slips obtained from Ji Qianli, this grand hall is actually the entrance to the underground labyrinth.

  When he rushed into the grand hall, the guards inside had already been ordered to go and support the battle in front of the city, leaving only a few scattered personnel on duty.

  Zhang Shan's sudden rush made them all startled, and after a slight hesitation, they surrounded him.

  These few demon thieves only had the cultivation of Lingwu three or four levels, Zhang Shan didn't want to delay time, his long sword swung out, and the Yin Yang Chaotic Sword Style was unleashed. Under the sword energy that crisscrossed the sky, these few demon thieves only let out a short, pained cry before being cut in half.

  Outside, the faint sound of Wutian Sect disciples shouting and killing could be heard, it seemed that some disciples had already killed their way here.

  Zhang Shan's eyes scanned the area, and in the middle of the great hall was a two-zhang square opening, with a stone staircase extending downward.

  He picked up a piece of the corpse and threw it towards the entrance, finding that he didn't receive any attack, then without hesitation, his figure flashed and landed on the stone steps, sweeping downwards.

  The stairs stretched down endlessly, a pitch-black expanse, but it had no effect on him.

  He concentrated his spirit to twelve points, walking forward while emitting sword energy that struck the walls on all sides, and found that he hadn't triggered any mechanism.

  "If there's an organization, it should also be cleaned up by the demon thief."

  With that thought in mind, he quickened his pace, and as he descended the stone stairs, he estimated that he had already gone hundreds of feet underground when a large hall with a diameter of over 100 meters appeared before him.

  The hall is square in shape, with two passageways on each side, leading to unknown destinations.

  Zhang Shan followed the records in the Jade Simplified and entered a passage on the right side.

  The passageway was about ten zhang long, and at the end of it stood three gates that were over one zhang high, emitting a dark luster, seemingly cast from black iron.

  According to the jade slip's introduction, these mysterious iron gates are as thick as five feet. Even if a martial artist below the Spiritual Martial Realm uses a spiritual weapon, it would still take considerable effort to break through.

  However, there is a Bagua disc on the side of each door. Zhang Shan turned the Bagua disc to a certain degree according to the introduction on the Jade Slip, and then the Xuan Tie Gate emitted a slight buzzing sound and rose upwards.

  Zhang Shan walked in, and on the inside of the door was another identical Bagua disk. Zhang Shan turned it again, and the Xuan Tie Gate fell shut behind him once more.

  In front of him was another ten-zhang-long passageway, and at the end of it were three more black iron gates. Zhang Shan turned the eight-trigram disc on the side of the gate once again.

  After walking through three passages in a row, Zhang Shan furrowed his brow: "Ling'er, this maze passage has neither treasure nor attacking mechanisms, what's the point of setting it up?"

  "I think it's not that there's no mechanism, but rather the host didn't open the iron gate correctly, so it wasn't triggered." Ling'er judged.

  "Is that so? It seems to make sense too."

  Zhang Shan thought to himself, "Ji Qianli must have been here before and recorded the directions and steps to open the doors clearly. If the method of opening the door is wrong, it may trigger an attack mechanism."

  He sped up his pace, opening one after another of the mysterious iron gates, advancing deeper into the labyrinth.

  At the same time, the disciples of the Xuantian Sect also discovered this grand hall and this entrance.

  Five Chiefs led the sect disciples, at this time they had basically killed the demon thieves to the point of being scattered and broken. The leaders of the demon thieves were either dead or escaped.

  After receiving the report from his disciples, the five of them hastily rushed to that grand hall.

  After interrogating the captured demon thief, it was roughly understood that there is a maze below, but after years of exploration by the demon thief, the maze is full of deadly traps and has no treasure at all.

  After analyzing it for five people, they felt that the function of this maze was to prevent outsiders from entering. Therefore, the person who created such a maze must have been guarding something.

  They decided to split up and explore this underground labyrinth.

  Ling Wei also followed the team led by Ben Feng's chief heir An Li Xing.

  They didn't know the steps to open the Mystic Iron Gate, so they decided to take a violent approach.

  That half-zhang thick Xuan Tie gate was shattered under the full force of An Li's fifth-level Zhen Wu Realm, and soon the formation inside the passage was triggered, generating various illusory beasts that charged towards the team members.

  At first, they were all first-class spiritual beasts, and it didn't take much effort to kill them. As they continued to advance deeper, the level of the spiritual beasts became higher and higher, and the team members began to suffer casualties.

  The troops of other peaks were also bogged down in a fierce battle.

  Zhang Shan naturally did not know about the battle situation behind him. At this time, he was rushing all the way and arrived at a large hall without any surprises or dangers.

  The grand hall was empty and cavernous, with a massive star chart etched into the arched ceiling.

  It's only at night, when you lift your head and gaze up at the night sky, that you see the starry sky depicted in the star chart.

  In the center of the grand hall, a five-sided jade platform was built, and a faint glow emanated from the jade platform.

  "Ling'er, what was said in the jade scroll, this jade platform is a transmission array, thousands of miles away and finally arrived here, sent his subordinates to transmit over, but none of them came back, so he didn't dare try it himself. Do you think where that place will be?"

  Zhang Shan cautiously walked towards the Jade Platform, circled around it, and then asked about the Stele Spirit.

  "This is hard to say, it might be a treasure cave or perhaps just a transmission to somewhere on the mainland. This is an automatic transmission array, as long as someone steps on it they will be transmitted away. Does the host want to give it a try?"

  Zhang Shan fell silent for a moment: "Wealth and honor are sought in danger, since we've come all the way here, we can't just return empty-handed, we must give it a try."

  As he spoke, the Qinghong Sword appeared in his hand, and he took a deep breath before slowly stepping onto the transmission platform.

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