It’s a strange invasion, is it okay for me to fight back?

Chapter 665 Igniting the Altar
Because the operation was going more and more smoothly, Pei Xianjue felt refreshed and invigorated even in the fog.

She moved with lightning speed, leading the team to find one stone statue after another, reducing the rest time from ten minutes to five minutes, and finally arriving at the twelfth stone statue.

Huangfu Miaomiao ran excitedly to the stone statue and exclaimed, "Xiaoyu, we're so amazing! We're such a perfect team, a golden duo! Hahaha!"

Pei Xianjue's lips curled up slightly, quite satisfied with the result. "Let's quickly see what the last clue is."

Huangfu Miaomiao reached into the basin and rummaged through the ashes, loudly proclaiming, "Now, the Chaos Mist has returned with a vengeance. Only by rekindling the altar and restoring its radiance to the earth can this primordial chaos reveal its true form!"

Pei Xianjue listened carefully and pondered, "It seems that if we continue deeper, we will reach the Altar of Radiance, and after lighting the altar, we will officially trigger the Boss battle."

Pei Xianjue took a deep breath, turned around to look at her teammates behind her, and asked seriously, "Are you all ready?"

"Ready!" the team members responded in unison.

Pei Xianjue's gaze then fell on the faces of the four Light-type team members. "Your Light attribute will be the key to this battle. When the Boss battle is triggered, everyone will do their best to assist you, including me. I believe that as long as we work together, victory will surely belong to us."

"Victory!" Lin Pengpeng shouted excitedly.

The crowd echoed, "Victory!"

Pei Xianjue smiled slightly, turned her head to look ahead, and said, "Let's go, let's defeat the Boss together and clear away the fog."

The twelfth stone statue gazes compassionately in one direction, where the Altar of Radiance is located, and also the area with the densest fog in the entire labyrinth. Even with the Holy Light spell clearing the way, visibility is less than five meters.

The road is difficult to travel.

After dying repeatedly from weakness, the mountain lice figured out a unique way to avoid the fog: digging tunnels. However, they are not good at digging, so they can only move around in the shallow soil.

This results in some surfaces that look normal but are actually hollow underneath, making it feel like stepping into a groundhog's passageway when you step on them.

After tripping over several times, Huangfu Miaomiao couldn't help but complain: "These mountain lice have no sense of boundaries. They run into other people's mazes to claim territory. How presumptuous of them!"

As Pei Xianjue walked forward, she said in a low voice, "I hope these piles of garbage created by the mountain lice won't hinder our search for the altar."

Huangfu Miaomiao frowned and muttered, "It shouldn't be..."

Pei Xianjue was somewhat worried about this, but she didn't think it would happen. The name "Radiant Altar" sounded very grand to her, suggesting it must be a magnificent building. The tower made of mountain lice, on the other hand, only occupied an area of ​​one or two square meters and was only two or three meters high. It shouldn't be able to cover up the altar.

Just as I was thinking this, my right foot suddenly sank in! I stepped into a pit again!
Pei Xianjue reacted quickly and regained her balance, almost tripping and falling to her knees in front of everyone!
They must be furious inside, but they're too proud to show it.

Just as she was about to pull her right foot out of the pit, she bumped into something hard, making a faint metallic clanging sound.

Pei Xianjue was slightly taken aback. He looked down and saw a section of iron chain buried in the soil.

Iron chains?

Based on her previous experience, Pei Xianjue knew that nothing in the maze would be meaningless; whether it was a stone statue or an iron chain, it must have its own value.

The chain was so thick that Pei Xianjue couldn't lift it with one hand; he had to use both hands to lift it.

Both ends of the chain were shrouded in thick fog. She asked her team members to try pulling it together, but after pulling only a few meters, the chain became taut, as if both ends were fixed to something and could not be pulled.

Pei Xianjue looked at Huangfu Miaomiao, hoping to get some hints.

But Huangfu Miaomiao looked completely bewildered. Since that was the case, she could only choose a direction randomly.

With that thought in mind, Pei Xianjue chose the right side of the chain, wanting to see what lay at the end.

This place must be very close to the Altar of Radiance, so everyone slowed down and proceeded more cautiously.

After walking along the iron chain for several dozen meters, I found a straight stone pillar.

Steep steps were carved into the stone pillar, and iron chains were wrapped around it, leading to the top of the pillar along with the spiraling stone steps.

Because of the fog, no one could determine the height of the stone pillar.

Huangfu Miaomiao looked at it with her all-knowing eye and said it was quite high and there was no danger up there.

Pei Xianjue went up first, followed only by Huangfu Miaomiao, Wang Xunmei, and the Morning Light Swordsman, while the rest of the team stayed below.

The steps were too narrow; you had to turn sideways and grip the chain tightly to avoid slipping and falling.

After climbing more than ten meters of steps, Pei Xianjue could no longer see her teammates on the ground. She felt as if she were walking in a void, with fog above and fog below. If Huangfu Miaomiao hadn't been following closely behind her, this sense of drifting would have been very unsettling.

The stone pillar is about seven stories high, with a spacious platform at the top.

In the very center of the platform sat a dried-up skeleton, and nothing else.

Pei Xianjue slowly walked onto the platform and found that her view had become much clearer.

The fog above was very thin and light; after only looking around, she could see a giant beast floating in it.

Pei Xianjue even slowed her breathing, fearing she might wake the slumbering labyrinth boss.

It's huge.

Like a castle in the sky!
Its appearance is somewhat similar to the Soul Eater monsters we've seen before, but while the Soul Eater monsters' tentacles are like rags, this dungeon boss's tentacles are like thorny brambles. Pei Xianjue couldn't imagine what would happen if he were whipped by those thorns; would his human flesh and blood instantly turn into mincemeat?
"Miaomiao..." Pei Xianjue whispered Huangfu Miaomiao.

When Huangfu Miaomiao came up, she was also stunned by the scene. After a long while, she came to her senses and nodded to Pei Xianjue.

“It’s definitely it, Primordial Chaos Chaos.” Huangfu Miaomiao paused, then said softly, “Strange, there’s no red mist around here. Logically, at this distance, the system should release red mist to warn us. Maybe the maze boss is dormant? I don’t understand either…”

“This doesn’t match the clues the statue gave us,” Pei Xianjue frowned. “I thought Chaos would only reveal its true form after the altar was lit, but isn’t it right here? Could this not be its true form?”

"Regardless of whether it is true or not, let's follow the clues and light the altar first," Huangfu Miaomiao suggested.

“But this doesn’t look like an altar,” Wang Xunmei couldn’t help but ask. “What part needs to be lit to be considered an altar?”

The stone statues we encountered earlier all had a brazier embedded in them, which looked like it could be lit, but this place was bare, with nothing but a skeleton.

Huangfu Miaomiao stepped forward to examine the skeleton, then turned to Pei Xianjue and said, "I think we should burn this skeleton. Look at its bones, don't they look like the bones in the brazier before?"

As Huangfu Miaomiao spoke, she reached out and touched the skeleton again, becoming even more certain: "Yes, that's right, it should be burned. It is one of the twelve prophets. Look, it is missing a few ribs. Doesn't it look like the bones that were burned in the brazier before?"

Pei Xianjue approached with a frown, "Then let's give it a try."

She opened her palm, and a cluster of flames shot up.