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Chapter 262: The longevity statue returns to its place and the trial site opens
Silent all night.

The next morning the sun rose.

Lu Yue crawled into a body bag to avoid his lifespan being affected by the rules.

But this was not a long-term solution after all. After thinking about it overnight, he decided to fulfill his promise and take the human head statue to the ancient temple to complete the assembly of the stone statue of the god of longevity and open the passage into the mountain.

On the one hand, it is to see if the complete statue can lift the curse.

On the other hand, all the places that should be explored in the ruins have been searched by other people in recent days, but the core has not been found.

Not surprisingly, the core was located in that trial place.

The location where the core exists is also the location of the corpse stitcher.

As soon as Lu Yue walked out of the door, he saw a group of extraordinary people swarming in, holding rare treasures in their hands, and clamoring to book the wooden house for tonight.

Unfortunately, plans cannot keep up with changes, and the Peace Hotel is going to close today.

As the last conscientious boss of the ruins, he naturally would not run away with the money, so he could not accept this "money".

So he caressed them one by one.

[Source Energy +1, +1, +1...]

After absorbing all the energy from the natural treasures, return them all.

Lu Yue stated that he was going to the ancient temple today and the Peace Hotel would be closed.

After hearing the news, everyone had different expressions and kept shaking their heads and sighing, but thinking that there might be more opportunities in the trial site, they decided to go and take a look.

Among them, Zhao Wentao and three others stepped forward to say goodbye after hearing the news. They knew very well that their strength was limited. Instead of going to the trial site and getting involved in the muddy water, it would be better to take advantage of the fact that everyone was heading towards the ancient temple. The middle part of the ruins was empty, which would make it easier to find the remaining treasures.

The group headed towards the ancient temple in a mighty procession.

Everything went smoothly all the way.

When we arrived outside the ancient temple, quite a few people had already gathered.

Lu Yue was slightly surprised and roughly estimated that there were nearly a hundred people at the scene.

Moreover, these people are quite powerful, with the lowest being at the fifth level of the Divine Hidden Realm.

Half of them broke through to the sixth level of Shenzang.

According to Lu Yue's understanding during this period, the most perverted thing about the Longevity God Ruins is the rule of reducing lifespan at night. Ordinary extraordinary people have poor psychological quality and will panic when they see that they lose a year of lifespan in one hour. How can they have the mood to absorb spiritual energy and practice?

During the day, he works hard to search for rare treasures in order to prolong his life.

When practicing at night, you have to keep one eye open for fear of being raided by negative people.

A transcendent who is always in a state of fatigue, bad mood, and fear cannot concentrate, which will also affect the efficiency of his practice.

Therefore, a stable environment for practice is very important in the ruins.

It should be said that the magician Goldman Sachs does charge high fees, but they can provide a quiet and undisturbed environment for the extraordinary people.

In this situation, it depends on personal choice. You can choose to be more open-minded, pay a lot of money, buy a place in a safe environment, earn half of your life every day, and practice quietly. After all, strength is the foundation, and only with strength can you make more money.

Or will you refuse to compromise and fight against the unscrupulous merchants?

While Lu Yue was looking at these people, they also looked at Lu Yue, whispering and talking from time to time, and it was obvious that they also knew what happened yesterday.

Lu Yue didn't care and quickly found the magician Gao Sheng in the crowd.

So he stepped forward to say hello, and Goldman Sachs responded with a smile and a nod.

"We are the only two families here now. The other families with the remains of the God of Longevity are quite far away from here, but I think they will be here soon."

Then Goldman Sachs introduced the people in the team behind him to Lu Yue, explaining that they were all his fellow tribesmen and a branch of the magician clan.

This gathering is to help him get the core.

As the saying goes, brothers fight together in war, and fathers and sons fight together in battle.

Compared with outsiders, blood relatives are more trustworthy.

Moreover, when it comes to rewarding people for their merits afterwards, these branches will also have many benefits.

Lu Yue also went forward to greet them one by one enthusiastically. After all, more friends mean more paths, and it's definitely a good idea to expand your circle of friends, which is at least better than having one more enemy.

The other magician branches did not expect that Lu Yue, the master who killed the servant of the God of Longevity, would be so polite to them. They immediately felt flattered. Although it was the first time for both parties to meet, the atmosphere of the conversation was good.

Lu Yue also took this opportunity to inquire about some things about the magician.

As time passed, people from other forces also arrived one after another, including familiar mutual aid societies, corpse drivers, paper-making craftsmen, etc.

These people are not just individuals, they are all organized and disciplined.

It looked just like the training ceremony where each class lined up for a school sports meet.

The first sports meeting in the Shoushen Ruins has begun.

Now coming towards us is the team of corpse drivers.

Look at them, they are wrapped in black robes, wearing bamboo hats, straw sandals, and copper bells on their waists. They all have deathly faces, and are followed by rows of copper-armored corpses. They are gloomy and murderous, as if they were copied and pasted. The whole team embodies the spirit of unity.

Their slogan is active participation, iron will and striving for the first place.

The next to come was the Corpse Carrier Family.

There was no sign of vitality and energy on them, and a unique decrepitude was displayed on their faces. They were all hunched over, carrying corpses that showed their individuality. There were ghost brides, ghost children, ghost old men, ghost corpses...

Challenging the spine to withstand pressure is the starting point for every corpse carrier. Breaking through oneself and striving to be the best is the goal of every corpse carrier. The bent spine of yesterday will surely become the glory of today.

Come on! Corpse carriers, you will become the synonym of success.

"........."

The scene of the sports meet suddenly popped up in Lu Yue’s mind.

Then he quickly shook his head and shook it off.

Soon, the ancient temple was crowded with people. Major organizations, bloodline families, and individual teams showed up one after another, and the number of people was close to three hundred.

At this moment, Lu Yue suddenly felt a pair of eyes staring at him. He turned around and saw a young man with a gong hanging around his waist staring at him silently.

Seeing that he was discovered, the young man with the bronze gong withdrew his gaze.

Lu Yue thought that he was just like everyone else, admiring his performance yesterday, and didn't take it to heart.

As the leaders of the major forces gathered together, the magician Gao Sheng contacted the others and said, "Now that everyone is here, we should start assembling without delay."

A group of leaders including Lu Yue entered the ancient temple.

Come to the stone platform.

They began to assemble in an orderly manner. The heir of the magician took out half of the body, the heir of the corpse carrier took out the left arm, the heir of the paper-folding craftsman took out the right arm, and the president of the mutual aid association took out his left foot...

Finally, it was Lu Yue's turn. When he was about to take the final step, a hurried voice came from the statue: "Open... Open..."

Lu Yue's heart moved.

Is this urging him to assemble it as quickly as possible and then lift the curse on himself?

Without further ado, Lu Yue decisively put down the last piece of the longevity statue, but at that moment, the voice in his mind suddenly changed.

"Don't... open it... don't..."

Lu Yue: “…”

Damn it, how come you can't get to the point when you talk? ! ! !

Lu Yue was just about to take off the stone statue's head when a loud bang was heard.

Outside, someone shouted, "The mountain... the mountain has cracked!"

At this moment, the outside world seemed to collapse and the earth turned over.

A huge crack appeared in the mountain amid the continuous explosions, and the terrifying air waves generated surged out like a raging tide, stirring the surrounding air wildly.

The interior of the mountain was dark, like an endless abyss. However, at this moment, the extraordinary people from various major forces outside all showed yearning expressions.

Because they felt an unprecedented rich spiritual energy.

With the nourishment of this spiritual energy, some people broke through to the sixth level of the Shenzang realm in one fell swoop.

At this time, something strange happened.

"Look, why is it so dark?!!!"

"It's not the darkness, it's the darkness in that passage that's coming outside."

Everyone was horrified to find that as the mountain passage opened, the darkness inside seemed to come to life and rushed madly to the outside, as if breaking free from some ancient seal, and finally being able to walk out of the mountain.

The darkness swept across the area at an astonishing speed, so fast that everyone was enveloped before they could react, and it spread in all directions at a speed visible to the naked eye, shrouding the entire center of the ruins in deathly silence and darkness.

"One year has been deducted from my life span."

"Mine too. It was still daytime just now."

An unknown fear invaded everyone's heart like ice.

Lu Yue and others heard the noise outside and filed out of the ancient temple.

Looking at the deep passage formed by the fracture of the mountain, several people also found that one year of life was deducted from their wrists, and solemn expressions appeared on their faces.

"As I expected, once this stone statue is put together and the trial ground is opened, changes will occur. Now the rules of the ruins seem to have changed. There is no daytime anymore."

"At present, the entire ruins have been searched, but the core has not been found. Facts have proved that this stone statue of the God of Longevity is not the core. The core must be in the trial ground. There is no way to open this passage."

"Whether it's good or bad, it's already happened. There's no point in dwelling on it. We might as well go in and find the core as soon as possible to decide who owns the fragments of the ruins."

As the recognizers of the fragments of the stone statue of the god of longevity and with extraordinary strength, they all took a broad-minded view. If there was no danger in the ruins, they would not be ruins.

At this moment, there was another loud bang.

The roof of the ancient temple was broken by a powerful force, and debris flew everywhere. Everyone only saw a human-shaped stone statue ejected and rushed straight into the darkness.

That was the first generation of stone statues of the god of longevity that they had just pieced together.

Lu Yue's face turned dark.

He was still waiting for the other party to piece the pieces together and lift the curse on him.

The other party left without saying a word.

At this time, after some communication at the scene, the descendants of the major bloodline families and the leaders of the organizations led their own teams and rushed into the deep passage formed by the cracks in the mountain.

At this point, Lu Yue and Zhang Chao followed closely behind.

The originally pitch-black passage seemed to have been diluted a lot due to the previous large amount of unknown darkness that had poured out. With the strength of the extraordinary people present being at least at the fifth level of the Divine Hidden Realm, it was no problem for them to see clearly within a dozen meters around them.

Before they had walked far, the view in front of them suddenly became wider.

It's like an ultimate map that has been unlocked.

The plain ahead is vast and boundless, with no end in sight.

At this moment, Lu Yue once again felt a pair of eyes staring at him.

He looked around and quickly locked onto his target.

It was the young man with the gong hanging around his waist, staring at him not far away.

So he found the magician Goldman in the crowd.

Ask who the young man with the gong on his waist is.

"He seems to be from the same lineage as the night watchmen," Goldman explained.

Night watchman?
Lu Yue heard this and was thoughtful.

In ancient times, night watchmen were usually active at night, holding gongs to exorcise evil spirits. They were also from a family with extraordinary bloodlines.

However, other bloodline families entered the ruins fragments in groups, summoning a large number of relatives in order to assist their descendants in competing for the core.

This night watchman was alone.

It doesn't look like it's heading for the core.

If not for the core, then what?
Lu Yue looked puzzled, but everyone here had their own secrets, and there was no need for him to inquire about other people's secrets. It wouldn't hurt to take a look, and he couldn't kill the other person just because of such a small matter.

After the night watchman noticed that Lu Yue had discovered him, he quickly disappeared into the darkness. At this time, the people gathered at the scene also began to gradually disperse, and the major organizations and bloodline families led their respective teams to go out and explore.

The core must exist in the trial ground.

Whoever finds the core first will become the ultimate winner.

Therefore, these teams all chose to explore on their own tacitly.

Magician Goldman Sachs also said goodbye to Lu Yue and chose a direction to leave.

"Brother Lu Yue, where are we going?" Zhang Chao asked.

"That direction."

Lu Yue pointed to the west.

Zhang Chao scratched his head and asked, "Why?"

Lu Yue said calmly: "A man's intuition."

Zhang Chao: “???????”

Lu Yue looked towards the west with a deep gaze. He just saw that the stone statue seemed to be running in that direction. Currently, everyone had just entered the trial site and had no idea about anything. He decided to go find the other party first and try his luck.

See if you can break the curse of the God of Longevity.

So the two of them left the main group and headed west.

As they went deeper and deeper, the noise from other teams around them gradually dissipated, as if being swallowed up by this dim world.

Along the way, the surrounding scene was like a ruin after the end of the world, with potholes everywhere, and the remaining traces of battle told of the fierce battles in the past.

Moreover, this trial site exudes an indescribable depressing atmosphere, just like a person stepping into a mass grave in the dead of night.

I always feel like there are countless pairs of eyes watching me in the dark.

Lu Yue and Zhang Chao walked in this dead silent trial ground for two hours. Two years of his life span was deducted, but he still did not find any trace of the longevity statue. Just when he was wondering if he had gone in the wrong direction, Zhang Chao suddenly pointed forward and said, "Brother Lu Yue, look over there."

In the distance, a black shadow several dozen meters high suddenly came into view.

It looks like an ancient building, but also like some unknown existence.

It stands out in this monotonous land.

Curiosity drove Lu Yue and Zhang Chao to quicken their pace, but what was puzzling was that no matter how they ran, the black shadow always maintained a constant distance.

"I understand!"

Zhang Chao slapped his forehead, a look of sudden enlightenment flashed in his eyes, and then he said excitedly: "On the surface, that thing is not far away, but in fact it is not a space. You can't get close to it by taking this surface road."

"But this is not hitting me right in the face!!!"

After saying that, Zhang Chao stopped confidently, looked around, as if looking for some clues. After a moment, a satisfied smile broke out on his face.

"Brother Lu Yue, hold on to my clothes, let's take a shortcut."

Lu Yue grabbed the corner of Zhang Chao's clothes as he was told. Zhang Chao moved slightly, and seemed to be walking in the opposite direction of the black shadow. However, in the next moment, the two figures disappeared mysteriously.

When Lu Yue opened his eyes again, they were already standing in front of the shadow.

The dark shadow is not a building.

It turned out to be a towering peach tree.

(End of this chapter)