Reincarnation Paradise: Master is lucky

Chapter 366 Going deep into the ruins
boom!
With a loud bang, the shaking of the temple gradually subsided, and the ruins buried deep underground reappeared under the drive of the mechanism.

Chi Yao held on to the stone pillars to steady himself. It seemed as if he could feel the roars from deep in the temple through the stone pillars with his fingertips. When the dust cleared, he could finally see the entire ruins that had been buried deep underground for thousands of years - this was a pyramid that was nearly a hundred meters high. It was made of gray-brown square boulders. The surface of the boulders was covered with mottled marks and bright green moss, and under the bright sunlight, it vaguely presented a strange emerald texture.

Click——click——

Along with the gear-like meshing sound of the mechanism, the temple where Chi Yao and others were located also underwent a major change. Only the platform with a radius of ten meters centered on the base of the mechanism where the crystal skull was placed remained intact. The rest of the temple ground continued to break apart, and the rubble covering the surface of the temple all slid into the boundless darkness below, revealing the endless stone steps spiraling downward below the platform.

As the entrance opened, Chi Yao felt the damp and musty smell mixed with a bone-chilling chill coming from the darkness below the stone steps, causing the skin on his exposed arms to shiver instantly.

Chi Yao turned his head and looked at the risen base of the mechanism. The eyes of the crystal skull on the base had lit up and two beams of light were pointing directly downward like searchlights, which meant that everyone's target was inside the boundless darkness of the pyramid.

Brother Wu San and Xiao Mi Hu were so cold that they shivered several times. Brother Wu San rubbed his arms to try to keep warm and spoke.

"Oh my god, is this an ice cellar down there? It's so cold, the chill alone is making me shiver."

"Ah, A-choo! A-choo! Ah--A-choo! It's so cold!" Little Mihu sneezed several times and rubbed his red nose tip.

Old Bal's body lit up with the patterns of blood vines, and he emitted bursts of heat, and began to speak.

"Such pure cold air, it seems that this is the source of the 'cold disaster'. We should move forward as soon as possible without delay. The sooner we solve it, the safer we will be."

"Let's explore the way first."

Chi Yao said as he took a few steps forward and stood at the entrance of the stairs. He stretched out his right hand and opened it. The warm sunlight seemed to come alive and gathered in Chi Yao's palm to form a bright ball of light. Supported by the wind element, the ball of light slowly fell into the abyss under the stone steps.

As the ball of light fell, the light it emitted illuminated the spiraling stone steps and everything around it. Everyone saw that the stone walls inside the pyramid were carved with intricate patterns that shimmered under the illumination of the ball of light.

After the light ball fell for more than 30 meters, it seemed to suddenly hit something and exploded. The golden ripples illuminated the scene below. It was a circular square. There was a statue every few meters on the square. They were human-shaped statues kneeling on the ground and praying towards the center. There were tens of thousands of these statues, placed at intervals to form circles, and they prayed together towards the building in the center, just like the scene of a sacrificial ceremony.

The building in the center of the square looks like a pyramid that was cut in half, with the middle break shaped like an altar. In the center of the altar stands a dark blue sarcophagus with symmetrical snake-shaped reliefs carved on it.

On both sides of the sarcophagus stands a statue with a snake head and a human body. The two statues face each other, holding curved snake-headed staffs crossed above the sarcophagus, as if guarding the sarcophagus.

Under the influence of the unknown barrier, the light from the exploding ball of light lasted less than two seconds before being obscured by darkness again. However, the scene below had obviously been reflected in the minds of Chi Yao and others.

Brother Wusan swallowed his saliva, looked at everyone's serious expressions, and couldn't help but liven up the atmosphere.

"Oh my god, this looks too weird. Why does it feel like we are here to rob a tomb?"

"Tomb robbing? There won't be any rice dumplings or mummies underneath, right?" The confused boy's thoughts were immediately led astray by Brother Wusan.

"After all, it's a pyramid, there might really be mummies inside." Brother Wusan touched his chin and speculated.

The words of Brother Wu San and Xiao Mi Hu broke the silent atmosphere of the crowd. Ignoring the two people who were discussing tomb robbery, Chi Yao looked at Old Bal and spoke.

"Are there any records of similar beings with snake heads and human bodies in the Yasenman tribe?"

Old Bal frowned and thought for a while, then shook his head helplessly.

"In my memory, no. We, the Yasenmen, have lost too much history, even civilization and technology."

Chi Yao nodded, took back the crystal skull as a guide, and led everyone down the stairs.

"Fuck! Are these stairs solid?"

Brother Wu San was walking in the front as the main tank. The moment he stepped onto the stairs, the steps under his feet trembled and made a crisp sound. Brother Wu San was so scared that he immediately retracted his steps, fearing that the stairs would fall down.

Old Bal squinted his eyes, squatted down, stretched out his hand to grope the gray-white steps, and spoke in a firm tone.

"This step is made of bone. I can vouch for it based on my decades of hunting experience."

Brother Wusan was shocked by what Old Bal said.

"Bone?! Are you saying that all these steps are made of bones?! There must be more than thousands of steps we saw just now? How many living creatures' bones would that require?!"

Chi Yao also squatted down, touched the steps to feel their smooth texture, and expressed his guess.

"It may not be the bones of many creatures. Remember the snake relief on the sarcophagus? Perhaps, the steps spiraling downwards are made from the skeleton of a giant snake."

Everyone immediately recalled the scene of the light ball falling before. If they thought carefully, the gray-white steps that spiraled down did look like the symmetrically coiled ribs of a snake.

Xiao Mihu blinked and sighed.

"If it was a snake, how big would it be?"

Brother Wusan suppressed his inner anxiety, stepped one foot onto the stairs again, stepped hard a few times to make sure the stairs were stable and would not fall, and then breathed a sigh of relief.

"Fortunately, this staircase is fairly stable. Let's keep going."

Everyone continued to walk down the snake-bone steps in silence. In the boundless darkness, only the crystal skull in Chi Yao's hand emitted a clear light that illuminated the way ahead. Even the blood vine pattern on Old Bal's body looked dim under the suppression of this environment.

The snake bone steps are close to the inner wall of the pyramid. Chi Yao can see murals carved on the inner wall, which seem to explain the history of this relic.

Soon, everyone walked to the place where the light ball exploded before. Here, the reason for the light ball explosion also appeared in front of everyone. It was a translucent barrier that wrapped the entire square. From a distance, it looked like the air was distorted by high temperature. The barrier was some distance away from the snake bone steps. The previous light ball was thrown out obliquely and naturally hit the barrier.

The crowd continued to move forward, and after a period of silence, they successfully arrived at the square at the bottom of the snake-bone steps. What blocked their way next was the twisted translucent barrier.

Brother Wusan complained while looking at the barrier.

"This thing looks dangerous, so we shouldn't touch it, right?"

Chi Yao took a few steps forward, raised the crystal skull in his hand and injected mana into it.

"Since the crystal skull is the key, there is no reason why the door cannot be opened."

When Chi Yao approached the barrier, the crystal skull in his hand emitted a faint light again and shot directly at the barrier, opening a 3mX3m door on the barrier. Everyone quickly passed through the door. After everyone passed through the door, Chi Yao interrupted the injection of mana, and the door on the barrier was squeezed and quickly disappeared.

First update.

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