Chapter 848 - 936: Puppet, Inner Mysteries

This sudden scene made the entire great hall fall silent for a moment. Terror surged onto everyone’s faces as the True Qi in their bodies erupted without reservation. Numerous figures rapidly retreated, trying to get as far away from the stone chair as possible.

No one had expected that skeleton, which clearly had already lost all function, to suddenly erupt with such terrifying energy.

Chen Mo was farther away, and he was firmly protected by Zuoqiu Yiren, so he wasn’t really injured, though his ears were buzzing a bit and his scalp couldn’t help tingling.

"Sister Yiren, what on earth is going on?" Chen Mo sent a Transmission to Zuoqiu Yiren.

"This skeleton should have been refined into a Puppet. Just now when it burst out with that strong light, I saw some sort of energy pouring into this skeleton from within the light curtain." Zuoqiu Yiren guessed. "This might be the Guardian behind that light curtain."

Chen Mo’s brows lifted. "Sister Yiren, then can you handle this Puppet’s strength?"

"If the seal in my body were lifted and I could use my original power, I should be able to. As I am now, I can barely suppress it a bit." Zuoqiu Yiren said.

Hearing this, Chen Mo’s expression changed. Just a single Puppet already had such strength.

How strong must the one who refined this Puppet be?

Guardian?

Thinking of the previous simulated content, Chen Mo began to boldly speculate: "Double burial chamber, double burial chamber... this second chamber, could it actually belong to the person who refined this Puppet..."

Looked at this way, Yu Yuanshan and that Li Meng should know something.

Yu Yuanshan and Li Meng were somewhat surprised by this "revived" Puppet.

But the excitement in their hearts grew even stronger.

The stronger this Puppet was...

Didn’t that all the more prove that this tomb belonged to that person?

If so, then that thing was definitely here.

"Daoist Li, that transmission light curtain is guarded by this Puppet. Unless we use our true strength, otherwise, alone, no one will be a match for that Puppet. Therefore, this old man suggests we join hands first and tangle up the Puppet, and let Yu Ping and your disciple go in." Yu Yuanshan considered for a moment and sent a Transmission.

"I was thinking the same."

If they wanted to go in, they would definitely be blocked by the Puppet, but if they didn’t go in, they wouldn’t be able to obtain the treasures inside.

And with Su Mengyan and the others’ strength, they definitely couldn’t suppress the Puppet, so only they could suppress it and let the people below them enter.

"What about her?" Li Meng was referring to Zuoqiu Yiren.

"That’s simple. At that time we just leave her outside as well."

"Alright."

With that, Yu Yuanshan and Li Meng began to act.

Their figures moved, and the two turned into blurred afterimages, splitting to the left and right as they shot like lightning toward the end of the great hall, toward the skeleton sitting on the stone chair. Vast True Qi surged out of their bodies like a volcano, condensing into a gigantic golden bowl that descended to cover the skeleton and the stone chair together.

"Boom, boom..."

The golden bowl shook violently, its rim slowly being pried up bit by bit. A powerful force was struggling inside the bowl, trying to overturn it.

"Get in, quickly."

Yu Yuanshan and Li Meng almost simultaneously sent a Transmission to Zhao Yping and Su Mengyan.

The two had long been prepared. Upon hearing the Transmission, a sharp aura swept out from within their bodies, turning into an invisible beam that shot toward the light curtain.

The light curtain rippled, like a stone thrown into a calm lake.

Their figures vanished from the great hall in an instant.

"Let’s go." Zuoqiu Yiren wrapped Chen Mo in True Qi and turned into a sharp arrow, shooting toward the light curtain.

However, Yu Yuanshan and Li Meng had already prepared for this.

As Zuoqiu Yiren charged forward, the two simultaneously condensed a whip of light from their True Qi and sent it wrapping toward Zuoqiu Yiren and Chen Mo.

"You go in first."

Zuoqiu Yiren condensed a Longsword from True Qi. She ignored the light whip wrapping toward herself and instead swung her sword, sending out a sword glow that chopped apart the light whip heading for Chen Mo.

Chen Mo took the opportunity to rush into the light curtain.

Seeing this, Yu Yuanshan and Li Meng’s brows furrowed.

At that moment, due to their distraction—

A loud explosion rang out.

The gigantic golden bowl covering the ground was blasted into the air on the spot. The skeleton that had originally been seated on the stone chair also stood up, its whole body crackling with bone-snapping sounds.

The eye sockets, which had originally been hollow, now flickered with red light. A bony hand brushed over the black ring on its hand, and a silver war hammer appeared in the skeleton’s grasp.

"Creak..."

It looked at Yu Yuanshan and Li Meng, who had trapped it, raised the hammer in its hand, and two hammer shadows appeared in midair, pressing down toward the two of them.

Those hammer shadows seemed capable of traversing space; in the blink of an eye, they were already before the two.

This ferocious momentum made Yu Yuanshan and Li Meng’s hearts sink. The former clenched his palm into a fist, while the latter took out that round fan painted with an Erotic Painting. The True Qi in their bodies condensed in that instant onto the fist and the fan, then they struck out.

"Bang!"

The hammer shadows were overwhelmingly heavy and incomparably hard. Even with their strength, the two of them failed to shatter the hammer shadows and were instead shaken back more than ten steps, looking somewhat bedraggled.

Zuoqiu Yiren saw this and wanted to seize the chance to slip into the light curtain again.

But she drew simultaneous interference from the Puppet, Yu Yuanshan, and Li Meng, all three blocking her.

Zuoqiu Yiren was temporarily held outside and could not get in.

Ma Tie, seeing that they had no time to bother with him, wanted to try and see if he could get in.

Unexpectedly, the three didn’t make a move against him; it was the Puppet that blocked him. But Zuoqiu Yiren helped by stopping the Puppet, allowing Ma Tie to enter the light curtain smoothly.

"What are you doing?" Li Meng sent a Transmission to Zuoqiu Yiren. She didn’t understand what Zuoqiu Yiren’s behavior meant.

From Zuoqiu Yiren’s perspective, the fact that Yu Yuanshan and Li Meng could放心 let Zhao Yping and Su Mengyan go in alone meant they believed in their strength.

Therefore, for Chen Mo’s safety, the more people who entered, the better.

That way, if Zhao Yping or Su Mengyan wanted to make a move against Chen Mo, they would at least have scruples.

...

The instant he entered the light curtain, Chen Mo felt a blinding light fill his vision. Following right behind that was a brutal tearing force. Chen Mo’s head spun, as if he had fallen into a vortex.

Fortunately, that tearing sensation didn’t last long. Chen Mo soon felt a huge force surge up, and then his body was directly flung out.

Bang!

Chen Mo’s body crashed heavily onto the ground, almost eating a mouthful of dirt. But his physical body was strong and sturdy, thick-skinned and tough, so he was fine. With a roll, he got to his feet.

"Where is this?"

Before his eyes lay like a brand-new world. Looking around, Chen Mo saw that the original great hall had vanished without a trace, replaced by a quiet and ancient forest. Towering trees stood tall, branches and leaves dense, blocking out the sky and sun.