Fights Break Sphere: I am not Xiao Yan

Chapter 126 Space Secrets
"These places should be where high-level monsters are. We are already on the fifth floor, so there is nothing wrong with being cautious."

Xiao Yan sensed many powerful auras along the way, two of which were even at the Dou Huang level.

As they were both at the sixth level, the Great Elder did not want to easily piss those guys off.

"Not quite like..."

Qing Lin frowned when he heard this, and pointed a few times at the picture, adding the location of the high-level monsters.

"I've been looking at these places and haven't noticed any strange aura. It's like she simply doesn't want to get close to or touch anything."

It seems that...

Xiao Yan also remembered that he had taken detours a few times for inexplicable reasons, as there were clearly no monsters blocking the way ahead.

Is there any secret in the Valley of Ten Thousand Snakes?
At this moment, the Great Elder looked at the surrounding scenery with the scroll in his hand and chose to take a detour again.

Xiao Yan extended his senses and scanned forward, but there was nothing there: "I see there is nothing blocking the road ahead, why don't we just walk over there?"

"Uh…"

The Great Elder was stunned for a moment, then he understood what Xiao Yan meant. He stretched out his hand to show him the abstract picture: "To be honest... there are actually some strange things in this Ten Thousand Snake Valley."

"The paths here are not fixed at all. They change all the time, and sometimes even the levels flip. Even if you record the route in detail and draw a map that is accurate to the ruler, you often cannot return to the original path..."

Route changes?

Xiao Yan's eyes narrowed. If that's the case, then wouldn't they have already experienced changes?

Also, how does this relate to needing to bypass some areas.

"During our long exploration, we discovered that some areas in this place are the culprits for the route changes. Once you enter, you will experience strange flipping and movement."

The elder pointed at the strange marks on the scroll and said, "These markers are the best way to identify the route. Even if we don't know what the route has become, we can still leave here by following the order of the markers."

This...maze?
Xiao Yan subconsciously thought of this thing, but then shook his head. This strange place obviously would not be like this.

Since even the return route requires relying on signs, there must be some strange force involved that forcibly changed the scene here.

'Teacher, have you found anything?'

Xiao Yan thought about something with similar characteristics. If it was a formation, then it was indeed possible, but this characteristic of changing when passing through certain places made him a little confused.

It can’t be…

"It's a mechanical device!"

After Yao Lao released his soul to roughly check the surroundings, he made the same judgment as Xiao Yan.

"If my perception is correct, there is a huge mechanism hidden in this place."

"A" organ?"

Xiao Yan was stunned for a moment. He thought it was some ancient ruins or a mechanical city. Unexpectedly, this place was actually a whole mechanical city?

The fighting spirit contained in this mechanism is extremely huge. Not only can it drive such a huge scene to rotate, but it can also be preserved for such a long time...

I'm afraid even the Dou Huang can't sustain many operations?
"I need more information about the specific situation, so let's go to the next level. It may be closer to the core, and more operating logic will be exposed there."

In his early years, Yao Lao wandered around the mainland and naturally entered many ruins to explore. He had seen powerful mechanisms like this countless times. If he could explore enough parts, he should be able to find a solution.

"Ah."

Xiao Yan was instantly possessed by Yao Lao, and the unique aura of Dou Zong swept across the entire floor in an instant, suppressing many of the secretly prying eyes.

Even from deeper below, many people were looking around in panic, wondering who would be the first to take the step to break through to the seventh level.

“Take us directly to the sixth floor. I want to take a good look at the structure of this place.” Xiao Yan’s body was wrapped in strange fire, illuminating the dim underground space.

"Yes…"

The Great Elder suppressed the discomfort in his heart and said.

No matter how many times she came, she still couldn't stand the strong smell of the strange fire. The fighting spirit in her body seemed to be ignited at any time, boiling uncontrollably.

On the contrary, Qing Lin, who was standing nearby, looked normal. The cold power in his body seemed to be even stronger with the blessing of his eyes and the magic beast inside. He was able to resist the scorching breath of the strange fire at close range.

If her cultivation level was a little stronger, she might be immune to the burning of low-level flames.

……

"There are thirty-five nodes on the fifth floor, and the sixth floor has become forty-eight?"

Yao Lao held his forehead in annoyance. The mechanism before him was different from those he had encountered before.

Those ruins once seemed to be just some simple mechanisms, just to intercept intruders, or the tomb owner simply pursued a sense of ritual.

But now this thing covers a wide area, and we can only find some peripheral structures, and we have no idea where to start.

"The entire sixth floor has been searched."

Xiao Yan stroked his chin and said, "But from what she said before, this space seems to be deeper?"

"Yes. If the rumor is true, then activating the peripheral nodes in a certain order will open up the deepest line." Yao Lao suddenly had a headache. "The workload required to solve this puzzle is not much different from finding the bloodline of the Sky-Swallowing Python."

It was obvious that they couldn't spend so much time here to confront the agency.

Just the permutations and combinations of nodes in these two layers are enough to make them vomit blood.

'Even this thing can only be tried by force.'

Yao Lao shook his head, obviously intending to give up the exploration.

"My Lord... We have already gone through the entire underground space. Let's quickly catch a snake spirit and retreat."

The great elder glanced around nervously: "It is recorded in the clan that a Douhuang strongman once disappeared inexplicably in this place."

"It doesn't matter. No matter how big the problem is, I can protect you and get you away."

Xiao Yan rubbed his forehead and thought deeply.

Obviously, the Douhuang should have been sucked into the secret space of the mechanism.

Maybe it was because his companion touched an extra node, causing the passage to be cut off, trapping him completely inside.

'Why is it like an escape room game?'

Xiao Yan couldn't help complaining, and suddenly remembered that there was a strange core in his ring. He took out the complex polyhedron and injected Dou Qi into it. Those complicated edges and corners began to penetrate each other again, moving and twisting rapidly like a Rubik's Cube, as if it was running and unsealed.

'These mechanisms should be related to space itself, so they can operate freely without any obstruction between each other.'

Xiao Yan took out a few pages of scrap paper given to him by Jia Xingtian.

These pages were obviously extracted from the first half of a whole book. The introduction to mechanical techniques recorded on them was just the basics of the basics, and no useful information could be obtained at all.

On the contrary, the mechanical drawings at the back are more valuable for research.

"But now these mechanism diagrams are useless in unlocking this huge mechanism... I can't even find any similarities between the two."

If I have to say something, it's just that "the core of the mechanism lies in change" as stated on the paper.

"I can only study this thing."

After roughly memorizing the information on those few pages of scraps of paper, Xiao Yan attached his soul perception to the running polyhedron. As soon as he touched it, he felt as if his spirit was being twisted and stretched as if it was sucked into a machine.

Just like dough squeezed into the gaps between parts, his soul power was crushed by the core of the mechanism and filled everywhere.

"hiss……"

Xiao Yan couldn't help but take a breath of cold air. Although this feeling was not as painful as being burned by the strange fire, it was also painful.

The part of soul power that was swallowed was spit out again along with the twisting of edges and corners. Obviously, it was just a simple spatial shift and did not show any strange abilities.

'Teacher, can you sense what's going on inside?'

Xiao Yan took out a few bottles of nourishing spirit powder to restore his soul, but he didn't expect that he would use these things before he could sell them.

"These angular spatial changes will cut off perception. I'd better try using the power of space."

Yao Lao pondered for a few seconds, and finally chose to use brute force.

As his palm bent, the space around the core suddenly collapsed. The rapidly rotating edges and cross-sections suddenly froze, and slowly stopped under the obstruction of the twisted and changing space.

With the space distortion opening up, Xiao Yan was able to smoothly probe in and sense the internal details.

However, just as he opened the inner side further, a ball of khaki light leaked out from it. It was unknown how long it had been sealed in this core, but this ball of light actually showed signs of decay.

There are a few worm-eaten holes on the surface of the light ball, and the injected fighting spirit will quickly dissipate when flowing through these holes. Because of this, once the fighting spirit input stops, the core will slowly stop running.

"Turning is just a matter of separating the overlapping spaces, going around them in a parallel way, and then returning to their original state."

Yao Lao roughly explained his discovery: "It seems that this mechanical art is the same as the alchemy art. There is a very difficult threshold to cross when advancing to a higher level."

Just like an eighth-grade alchemist needs a spiritual soul, if this mechanical technology does not have sufficient research and understanding of space, it will be stuck on those basic structures and make no progress.

"In that case, let's just use the power of space to clear the way!"

Xiao Yan directly put away the core and walked towards the node.

Learning mechanical engineering temporarily? How is that possible?
Even if Xiao Yan's talent in this thing is comparable to that of alchemy, it would take at least several years to reach the high-level threshold. By that time, even the flowers would be cold.

As he stepped into one of the nodes, the entire space in Yao Lao's perception suddenly changed.

Xiao Yan only felt that his own consciousness was like a piece of paper being folded and overlapped, and then changed direction and separated and pieced together. A strange feeling of dizziness and confusion flashed by.

'It feels like some of my senses are reversed, and I need to collect my soul and reorganize it to quickly recover.'

After shaking his head to recover, Xiao Yan found the location he had just entered.

He first stepped a few feet to the left to determine the direction, then reached out and pressed the space to make it collapse, only to see a twisted portal suddenly appear somewhere on the side.

It was like a thin iron door that was dented, revealing the space hidden underneath. The corners of the space that were raised were flashing with fluorescent light, as if trying to repair itself, but it could not resist Yao Lao's powerful force at all.

"This space is only the first layer. If we continue to peel down three or four layers along the corners, we should be able to find the hidden interior space."

As soon as he entered this space, Yao Lao's perception of the outside world was blocked. His soul power wandered in it and soon he found a gap that was emitting a faint spatial halo.

"laugh……"

Xiao Yan couldn't help but smile as he pried open the edge of the space and stepped into it.

This kind of violent demolition feels refreshing~
"Oh!"

There was a sudden noise in the hidden enclosed space. The space membrane sealing the entrance was kicked open by someone. The rippling space ripples swept through the interior, dimming the fluorescent lights used for lighting.

"It should be right here."

Xiao Yan looked around the space, which was less than a hundred feet long and wide. It was square, with gray-white stones paving the ground and building walls. On the wall opposite the entrance, there was a layer of energy light curtain.

A huge amount of gold coins and various treasures filled the corners, and stone boxes of obviously higher value and sealed medicines and pills were neatly placed.

'This is a tomb, just like the previous one.'

Xiao Yan thought of the tomb chamber he had seen before, which seemed to have the same layout.

"...It's impossible that all these engineers have the same aesthetic taste, right?"

In the middle of the space is a withered skeleton sitting cross-legged on a stone platform, covered by an ochre-yellow light from the outside, and the energy fluctuations emitted are already quite weak.

And on the side of the stone platform was a strange corpse, which looked like a snake man, but from the ribs downwards its structure had completely turned into a snake-like structure, and there were some cracks on the bones.

"This guy must have tried to merge with his companion soul out of desperation, but unfortunately failed."

Yao Laofei took out his ring and took the magic core of the withered bone. "This kind of magic core that is fused with half of the Doujing has not been studied before."

This kind of strange collection is rare, so you should get it quickly.

"So this guy is the owner of the tomb?"

Xiao Yan walked to the stone platform and looked at the strange bones. Suddenly, he found that the aura on them was not complete. "No... This was disassembled first, and then moved here and reassembled!"

Someone else built this series of tombs, and the skeleton in front of us seems more like a burial object.

Turning his head to look at the energy light curtain that was obviously out of place, Xiao Yan raised his hand and punched that side. The space between the two collapsed inch by inch, cutting off the flow of energy on the light curtain and opening up a portal.

Just as the crack appeared in the light curtain, a pressure that seemed to come from the ancient times overflowed, crushing Xiao Yan's soul perception and filling the stone chamber.

"This... is another seventh-level monster?"

Xiao Yan's eyes moved slightly as he looked at the skeleton entrenched in it.

(End of this chapter)