Sail Shadows in the Sea of ​​Fog

Chapter 118 Seal?

"What floor are you mopping?" Cheng Lang asked in confusion.

"The Spirit Gathering Tower is only effective because of the Spirit Gathering Array." Yun Ji explained, "This is also the only array pattern that is currently semi-public."

As she spoke, Yun Ji had already squatted down and brushed away the thick dust on the floor with her hand, revealing a golden line.

"We need to reveal all the spirit gathering array patterns."

The magic mirror continued, "Then find the key node and erase it, then we can pass through that door."

“But this also has risks.”

Yun Lan continued, "After the array pattern is erased, the soul fragments accumulated by the spirit gathering array may awaken the undead within it."

Before Cheng Lang could say anything, Yun Lan added, "But considering that our captain has the ability to kill undead, it seems we don't need to worry about this problem."

“It is true”

The magic mirror then said, "So let's get started. We need to find the key energy nodes to erase."

"Mr. Magic Mirror, do you know how to erase and where the nodes are?" Yun Ji asked respectfully.

"Of course," the magic mirror said with an extremely confident tone.

Upon hearing this, Yun Ji didn't waste any words and directly held the feather pendant in her mouth. Then she flapped her wings, creating strong winds that blew away the dust on the ground.

Yun Lan summoned out strands of thorns and let them weave and entwine with each other to form a thorn mat. She then let Cheng Lang whip it and began to circle around on this floor.

With the repeated friction of the thorn mat, the dust adhering to the floor was scraped away, and then blown away by Yun Ji's flapping wings, revealing intricate golden patterns.

The patterns formed by these golden lines that are only two fingers wide are simply indescribable, but looking at any of them will make people feel dizzy and want to vomit.

"Dear Captain, please close your eyes." said the magic mirror.

Hearing this, Cheng Lang closed his eyes in peace, and then heard the magic mirror say, "Please take six steps straight ahead."

Cheng Lang didn't ask any more questions. He closed his eyes and took six steps forward. Then he heard the magic mirror say, "Now take 11 steps to your left."

Cheng Lang did as he was told again. When he stopped again, the magic mirror immediately said, "Please wait a moment, Yafuso, good boy. Close your eyes too, hold the mirror and walk forward 17 steps."

"Okay!" Yafusuo responded crisply, counting 17 steps as she walked.

"Take 4 steps to the left," the magic mirror continued to command, and Yafuso did as she was told, giving the magic mirror enough trust.

"Now put the mirror on the floor and place the crystal ball between the mirror and the floor." The magic mirror gave a new request, and Yafuso did it again.

"Your Highness Yunlan, please close your eyes and take five steps to the right."

"No problem," Yun Lan responded, took five steps, then closed his eyes and drew out the rapier he had just obtained not long ago.

"Finally, it's Miss Yunji's turn. Please take nine steps back." The magic mirror said again, and Yunji also let go of the feather pendant she had just held in her mouth, pulled out a dagger, and took nine steps back.

"Listen to my countdown. Captain, you will need to pour the fruit wine under your feet, and His Highness Yunlan and Miss Yunji will use their respective weapons to attack the floor."

"What about me? What do I need to do?" asked Yafuso.

"You need to hold down the mirror and prevent it from running away, and you must not let the crystal ball underneath run away." said the magic mirror.

"Okay!" Yafuso responded confidently.

"3! 2! 1!"

As the magic mirror counted down, Cheng Lang took out a boat bottle and began pouring fruit wine at his feet. At the same time, Yun Ji and Yun Lan each stabbed the floor with their weapons, while Yafuso simply lay on the mirror, gritting her teeth, puffing out her cheeks, and using all her strength to press down on the mirror.

The three people with their eyes closed did not know that as they took action, or rather, as Yun Ji and Yun Lan's weapons pierced the floor, two glowing cracks first appeared on the ground on this floor.

Then, as Cheng Lang poured fruit wine into the cracks, more and more cracks appeared on this floor, glowing.

At a certain moment, the dense spider-web-like cracks lost their almost completely overflowing brilliance, but the light passed through the crystal ball and entered the mirror.

During this process, the crystal ball seemed to be unable to bear the weight and numerous cracks appeared.

Finally, as the dense cracks on the floor stopped emitting light, the crystal ball pressed under the mirror shattered into dust with a "bang".

At the same time, the magic mirror also let out a happy sigh, then cleared its throat and said, "Dear Captain, ladies, you may open your eyes now."

Hearing this, Cheng Lang and the others opened their eyes. However, before they could see the changes around them, a sudden roar of a wild beast was heard from downstairs!

"The big cat is awake!"

The magic mirror exclaimed, "The roots coming in from the window are starting to shrink! Shenba is running upstairs!"

"Shenba!" Yun Ji subconsciously wanted to rush down.

"Go in first!"

Cheng Lang said, wrapping his whip around Yun Ji, pulling her back and saying, "I'll go, you take them to the tower."

After saying that, Cheng Lang ran downstairs, while shouting at Shenba to run upstairs.

He naturally had his own plans for replacing Yun Ji. Yun Ji's combat power might be considered high, but it was still far from the level of the sea monster.

He might not be as strong as Yun Ji in combat for the time being, but the whip given to him by Chuan Xin contained a deadly poison. He didn't know whether this poison was useful against ferocious beasts and sea monsters, but it was definitely more deterrent than Yun Ji's methods.

After looking at Cheng Lang who disappeared at the stairs, Yun Ji grabbed Yafuso, who had picked up the mirror again, with her left hand, and grabbed Yun Lan, who was holding the rapier with her right hand, and ran into the door that was no longer dangerous.

At the same time, Cheng Lang had already seen Shenba running up from downstairs, and behind him, he saw the big cat that was running unsteadily and seemed like it might fall at any time, with white foam still on the corners of its mouth.

"hurry up!"

Cheng Lang urged loudly, "Run faster! Don't worry about the big cat behind you!"

Upon hearing this, Shenba, who had originally planned to throw the sickle away, immediately quickened his pace and shrank the sickle and put it on his waist.

"Snapped!"

Cheng Lang also swung the whip at the right time. With the crisp sound, the big cat subconsciously stopped and its shiny black hair became fluffy in an instant.

"Woo-ah!"

The big cat let out a threatening roar, then took another step and rushed over.

"Snapped!"

Cheng Lang swung the whip for the second time, but the reaction speed of this big cat, which was drunk, was far beyond his expectations. It actually pressed the tip of the whip to the ground with one claw!
"Don't just stand there! Go up!"

Cheng Lang had already put away his whip as he spoke, then took it out again and swung it out. As expected, the big cat pinned him to the ground with one strike of its claws. Coming to his senses, Shenba quickly ran up to the top floor and slipped through the small door amid the cries of Yunji, Yafuso, and Yunlan.

At the same time, Yun Lan also ran out and ran behind Cheng Lang who was retreating step by step. She summoned a large patch of thorns on the floor between the two of them and the big cat.

"Come on!"

Cheng Lang seized the opportunity and pulled Yun Lan back. The big cat, which had already stood up and was about to press the whip again, was stunned for a moment, then let out a strange cry, and actually jumped over the thorns on the ground and pounced on him!

"Stab you to death!"

Yun Lan let out a cry, and a large number of sharp thorns grew on her and Cheng Lang's bodies.

The sharp thorn immediately scared the big cat which was still in mid-air. It obviously had not forgotten the lesson of having its paw pricked not long ago. It turned around in the air and landed sideways in the distance.

It was also with the help of this rare opportunity that Cheng Lang pulled Yun Lan and slipped into the small door.

Seeing this, a look of looking at the dead flashed across the big cat's blue pupils for a moment, but then it whimpered as if frightened, and its hair stood up as it looked at the open door and Cheng Lang and others inside in disbelief.

"Ugh—Ouch!"

The big cat then ignored the thorns on the ground and pounced forward, anxiously trying to get its body in amid the splattering blood.

Unfortunately, the doorway was not big enough, and it couldn't even stick its head in.

"Climb up quickly!"

Cheng Lang let out a loud shout, grabbed the frightened Yun Lan, pushed the equally frightened Shen Ba in front of him, and ran up the spiral staircase.

Behind them, the big cat that couldn't get in also stretched out its long claws, extended its sharp claws, and reached into the doorway, scratching frantically.

As the sharp and huge claws swung, they even rubbed against the stone steps, splashing out a string of sparks!

Under this real threat of death, Cheng Lang and others subconsciously climbed up the spiral stairs.

However, before they reached the top, they saw a corpse.

An exceptionally complete mummy!

The mummy was wearing a set of cracked leather armor and carrying a wooden box with straps on his back, which was exactly the same as the one found under the bed in the princess's room.

In addition, he also had a rapier and a dagger, three flintlock rifles fixed side by side on cross-body straps, and a crown held in his arms.

"This seems to be the crown worn by the girl in the painting in the princess's room, and it is also the crown worn by the big cat carved on the floor." Yafuso said first.

"Zang Baotu spontaneously combusted"

At this moment, Yunlan also spoke, and a puff of green smoke came out of a leather pocket on her waist.

"It seems that the treasure map was left by this person."

As Yun Ji spoke, she winked at Shenba beside her. The crybaby understood what she meant and happily pulled the wooden box off the back of the mummy and put it on her shoulder, then took off the small crown.

If the previous action was considered normal, everyone noticed that when Shenba took off the crown, the big cat outside the door was almost crazy, and its roar was filled with despair.

"Captain, what should we do?"

Shenba glanced behind him and said pitifully, "Why do I feel so sorry for that big cat? How about we..."

"You cry later"

Cheng Lang patted his forehead and said after a moment of thought, "Leave the crown here for now. Let's go up and see what else we can find."

"I knew the captain was a good man!"

Shenba and Yafusuo said in unison, while Cheng Lang, Yunji and Yunlan patted their foreheads in unison.

"Don't waste time, let's go up and take a look first."

Feeling a little embarrassed, Yun Ji said this and was the first to run up the spiral staircase.

Finally, looking back at the big cat's outstretched claws, Cheng Lang quickened his pace and ran behind the others.

After walking around the spiral staircase five or six times, until Yafusuo began to feel dizzy, a faint light finally appeared above her head.

Seeing this, everyone immediately became excited, quickened their pace and continued to run along the spiral staircase.

Finally, after running two or three more laps, a small window appeared on the outer wall, and the dazzling sunlight came in from outside this window.

Leaning against the window and looking out, everyone could clearly see the dense and lush vegetation outside, and even the two stone men sitting on the ground not far away.

After looking at each other, everyone continued to climb up and finally came to a bell tower with air leaks on all sides.

Inside the bell tower hangs a large bell covered with rust and moss.

This huge bell, which is almost as tall as a person, is engraved with dense, complex and meaningless patterns, but there is no hammer inside the bell.

Looking at the windows around, there is naturally no glass in these windows. Not only that, they also look like they are wrapped in a cluster of lush tree crowns.

Bending over and looking down through the half-obstructed window, Cheng Lang and others were surprised to find that the bell tower itself seemed to be wrapped by a tree!
Looking around, there were actually six or seven such trees! And from this angle, you could almost vaguely see that there seemed to be similar buildings hidden in the crowns of those trees!
What is this? Cheng Lang and the others looked at each other in confusion.

"Dear Captain"

But at this moment, the magic mirror said, "I just knocked on the door of the crystal ball."

"The crystal ball is broken," Yafuso reminded in a low voice.

"Miss Yafuso is right."

The magic mirror said respectfully, "Considering that the poor undead soul lost his home due to an accident, I kindly took him in. In return for my kindness, he will explain what happened here."

"What happened here?" Cheng Lang and others asked in unison.

“I’m afraid I’ll have to explain this later.”

The magic mirror said, "Dear Captain, please go downstairs immediately and return the crown to the poor little kitten.

In addition, I'm afraid we'll need to clear the surrounding trees to remove the seal and return this castle to the surface."

"Seal? Are these big trees a seal?" Yun Lan asked cautiously, "Are we not releasing any terrible monsters? After all, there's the Spirit Gathering Tower underneath."

"Your Highness Yunlan, please rest assured."

The magic mirror sighed, "There are no monsters down there, only, no, there's only a poor little kitten left."

(End of this chapter)