Chapter 606: Breaking the Stone Forest
Duan Gujin hurriedly stopped ascending and only after he descended from the air did he realize there was a Forbidden Space Power above his head.
"So that's how it is. It seems we can only make our way forward step by step!"
Thinking this in his heart, his eyes flickered with the thought that they might have possibly fallen into an Illusion Array.
He released his Divine Sense, attempting to inspect the surroundings.
But in the next moment, his expression subtly changed.
"Indeed! It must be that the Illusion Array activated automatically after we entered! My Divine Sense Inspection is completely futile here!"
"We all need to be extremely careful; we are probably in the midst of an Illusion Array right now!"
Duan Gujin said.
"Illusion Array? Then tell us, how can we escape from this Illusion Array?"
Miao Yu quickly asked.
"We need to figure out what this Illusion Array is all about! May I ask how should I address you?"
Duan Gujin rapidly inquired of the female demon.
"My name is Lili! You can call me Lili!"
The female demon said shyly.
Duan Gujin looked at Lili with a bizarre expression; for some reason, he felt a sudden shock in his heart, as if he had been targeted by the female demon. She constantly gave him a sense of danger. He felt like prey being watched by a tiger, and a cold sweat immediately broke out on his back.
"Let me check it out!"
Duan Gujin felt he needed to keep his distance from that tigress to avoid being devoured by her if he was not careful.
He hurriedly took out a Pointing Compass from his storage ring to help him with orientation.
However, after a while, he discovered that the Pointing Compass was inoperative here.
"It seems we truly are in an Illusion Array now!"
Duan Gujin sighed and said.
"So, what do we do?"
Lili immediately became anxious, asking.
"What have you experienced here before? Have you encountered any weird things here?"
Duan Gujin quickly asked.
"No! After I entered, I just walked in the direction I thought was right. I don't know why it would be like this?"
Lili said.
Upon hearing this, Duan Gujin had a face full of disbelief; he suspected that Lili, whose cultivation had already reached the Fifth Level of Martial Emperor, was simply a complete directionless person, judging from her facial expression, she did not seem to be lying.
His eyes flashed, and he asked, "Lili, what did you experience in the fourth and fifth levels?"
"What I experienced, does it have anything to do with this level?"
Lili asked, puzzled.
"There should be some connection. Think about it, there are many levels here, and it's unlikely that the creator of the Space-Time Treasure Hall will test us on the same content again. That's why I want to know what kind of challenges you faced during the fourth and fifth levels?"
Duan Gujin replied with a glance.
He didn't want Lili to know that he hadn't gone through the fourth and fifth levels himself and was directly transferred to the sixth level.
"In the fourth level, I encountered a sandstorm. Although the sand and dust storms were powerful, they were not impossible for me to overcome—I just powered through! And the fifth level was a mudflat! Similarly, that could not stop me either; I powered through!"
Lili said.
"You are so amazing!"
Duan Gujin praised Lili and immediately connected the fourth and fifth levels.
"It seems that this Space-Time Treasure Hall is testing the powers of the Five Elements and Wind, Rain, Thunder, Lightning!"
"Let's just wander around here!"
Duan Gujin thought to himself that since he had come, he might as well stay. He had previously used his Divine Sense Inspection to check the stone forest ahead and had not been blocked. He now suspected that the stone formations might activate the Arrays only after he entered them.
"Should we make some marks here?"
Before embarking on this adventure, Miao Yu had prepared many things, including various Crystal Stones for identification.
The identification Crystal Stones are Crystal Stones with sensing arrays inside, which work in conjunction with an identification Compass.
By placing identification Crystal Stones on the ground, one can sense their approximate location and distance through the identification Compass.
However, these identification Crystal Stones and Compasses have a very fatal flaw: they cannot be more than one kilometer apart.
Once the distance exceeds one kilometer, the identification Compass will no longer be able to sense the identification Crystal Stones.
Such identification Compasses and Crystal Stones can only be used in underground mazes and are not very practical; they can only be used to determine if one has truly gotten lost underground.
"Yes!"
The reason why Duan Gujin wanted Miao Yu to set up identification Crystal Stones here was to ascertain what exactly was going on with this stone forest.
After Miao Yu had set up the identification Crystal Stones, Duan Gujin stepped forward to examine a stone pillar.
He saw that the stone pillar was three meters tall, and the top was as sharp as the tip of a needle.
The difficulty of standing stable on top of such a sharp-pointed stone pillar was imaginable.
Duan Gujin took a deep breath; he infused his Primordial Power into his palms and struck out at one of the stone pillars ahead.
With a loud boom, the stone pillar collapsed.
Seeing this, Duan Gujin breathed a sigh of relief as he contemplated whether he could get through by simply striking down the stone pillars in front of him.
However, within less than ten breaths' time, something startling happened. He saw that the nearby pillars were all moving.
The pillars moved from different positions at a visible speed. After a moment, they looked around and found that the surrounding pillars had completely changed, looking nothing like what they had seen before.
"So that's how it is!"
Miao Yu and Lili realized that the moving pillars meant they were definitely trapped in the stone forest.
"No wonder I got lost before!"
Lili instantly understood that as she moved forward, the pillars must have been stealthily changing locations, making it seem as if she had traveled a long distance.
In fact, she had just been walking in circles.
Duan Gujin drank a drop of Ten-thousand-year-old Divine Milk and began to recuperate.
After his Primordial Power and Spiritual Power had mostly recovered, he set up a sensing array right there.
"The location of these pillars is very unstable! I can only get through this stone forest after I set up a sensing array here to fix their positions!"
He quickly examined the ground and found that the soil was very loose.
He had intended to set up a sensing array there, but he thought it might be ruined if the pillars directly destroyed it.
He had an idea.
Duan Gujin had previously scavenged a lot of discarded ores from the Heartless Demon Saint, which he had put into his storage ring without sorting due to the lack of time.
Now, he selected some harder ores from the discarded ones and set up a sensing array inside them.
The ore resembled a Round Ball, and even if a pillar pushed it aside, the sensing array Duan Gujin set up within the ore would still emit sensing forces around it.