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Xu Ming breathed a sigh of relief and was about to walk towards the stairs.

As soon as he turned around, a tin staff came crashing down on him.

Xu Ming almost instinctively rolled to the side, narrowly avoiding the attack of the tin staff.

Bah!

A loud crash echoed throughout the castle tower, and the wooden floor was smashed open by the tin staff, leaving a large hole.

Xu Ming stood up and looked over with lingering fear.

He then realized that a phantom image of a monk had appeared in front of him at some point.

This monk was different from others; his figure was almost solidified, and he was much taller. Xu Ming estimated that he was at least 2 meters tall, making Xu Ming, who was nearly 1.8 meters tall, look like a shorter brother next to him.

Moreover, compared to the other monks whose faces were blurred, his face was clearer, and his expression was ferocious and cold, completely lacking the compassion of a monk.

The monks pulled their staffs from the broken floorboards, grinned maliciously, and charged at Xu Ming again, raising their staffs high.

Xu Ming glanced at his enormous figure, then turned and ran.

The monks, carrying their staffs, followed closely behind him.

Upon reaching a pillar, Xu Ming immediately went around it.

The monks also suffered from the common problem of being huge: they had plenty of strength but lacked agility. He was noticeably slower than Xu Ming in getting around the pillar.

Xu Ming's eyes lit up, and he immediately started playing hide-and-seek with the monks around the pillar.

Before they had even circled twice, the monks suddenly became enraged.

He suddenly roared and slammed his tin staff down on the pillar!

Click!

With a loud crash, a wooden pillar, about the same thickness as Xu Ming's body, was smashed in half.

Xu Ming's eye twitched. He glanced at the monks' staffs, which were about the same length as his, then at the small dagger in his hand, and turned and ran away again.

This time he went straight to the stairs leading to the second floor.

Just as they reached the top of the stairs, a series of rapid clanging sounds of golden rings rang out, followed by a purple magic circle that appeared out of thin air and blocked the top of the stairs.

The magic circle consists of three constantly rotating concentric circles, on which a large number of Sanskrit characters are depicted.

Xu Ming rushed forward, but was immediately blocked by the magic array.

He refused to believe it and grabbed the 'Dragon's Dagger' to stab the magic circle twice.

A burst of purple light erupted from the point where the dagger touched the magic circle. The outermost magic circle flickered twice and then vanished with a snap!

Just as a hint of joy appeared on Xu Ming's face, he suddenly heard heavy footsteps rapidly approaching.

Xu Ming turned his head and saw that the monks had rushed over and were only two or three meters away from him!

A hint of regret flashed in his eyes, and he decisively turned and fled from the stairwell.

The man and the monk then reached a stalemate.

Xu Ming was wary of the monks' terrifying power, while the monks were afraid that Xu Ming would break the magic array and escape to the second floor. Once Xu Ming had escaped far away, the monks would immediately turn back to the stairwell.

However, delaying the inevitable was exactly what Xu Ming wanted.

Once the ten minutes were up, Xu Ming immediately used his mobile phone to send the persistent monk to see Buddha.

As the monks disappeared, the magic array at the top of the stairs shattered.

Xu Ming climbed the creaking stairs to the second floor.

This floor seemed even quieter.

Xu Ming looked around and found that the stairs leading to the third floor were not far away.

Just as he was about to go upstairs, a rustling sound came from upstairs.

Chapter 115 The Castle Keep, Second Floor

Xu Ming turned his head and saw a few strands of black hair peeking out from behind the paper door not far behind him.

These strands of hair seemed to notice Xu Ming's gaze and immediately shrank back.

Xu Ming immediately became alert.

He is currently in his weakest state, and events of 2-star difficulty pose a constant danger to him.

Without a hint of taking any risks, he turned and headed straight for the stairs leading to the third floor.

Shortly after he left, the paper door slowly opened a crack, and then a pale, withered, wrinkled hand suddenly grabbed the door frame...

Xu Ming was about to reach the stairwell.

With a whoosh, the paper door in front of him slammed shut.

Xu Ming immediately jumped back, away from the paper door, holding his phone in one hand and gripping the dagger tightly in the other, watching his surroundings warily.

After the paper door closed, there was no further movement, and the surroundings were completely silent.

Xu Ming waited a moment, then slowly pried open the paper door in front of him with the tip of his dagger.

The scene behind the door gave him a shock.

The staircase leading to the 3rd floor is gone!

The room behind the paper door was an ordinary guest room, with moldy tatami mats, worn and faded cushions, and peeling paint on the armrests... The decorations were old and gave off a musty smell.

How is this going?

Xu Ming opened the doors to the surrounding rooms again and looked around, his doubts deepening.

He remembered the room on the left, where a huge family crest hung on the wall, and in front of it was a sword rack with two Japanese swords, one long and one short, and next to it was a samurai armor supported by a rack.

But now it has become a blue pine-patterned twelve-layered kimono held up by a long coat hanger.

In the pitch-black room, the twelve-layered kimono hanging up looked like a headless woman with outstretched arms, motionless.

Not only this room, but all the other rooms have been changed as well.

No, I should say the second floor is like a Rubik's Cube, with each room rearranged and combined.

Only the two huge observation decks overlooking the first floor and the connecting bridges on both sides remained unchanged.

Xu Ming cautiously retreated to the observation deck in the central courtyard and began to carefully observe the entire second floor once again.

He discovered that the staircase leading to the third floor, which was originally located on the north side of the castle tower, had been moved to the west side, while the staircase on the first floor, which was only a few rooms away, had been moved to the east side.

The entire layout of the second floor was completely disrupted.

What's more troublesome is that Xu Ming feels he might have missed something crucial.

If he doesn't grasp this key point, he might run to the stairwell only to find all the rooms on the second floor rearranged again, and then he'll be doing something useless.

As Xu Ming was pondering his next move, a strange sound came from behind him.

rustle!

The sound was like countless feet crawling rapidly on the ground, and it was coming from right above his head.

Xu Ming subconsciously looked up.

A monster was right above his head!

She was an astonishing five meters tall.

The upper body is the image of a woman wearing a white twelve-layered kimono, with pale arms extending from the wide sleeves of the kimono, gripping the ceiling like spiders.

Her hair was very long, the black strands like seaweed, hanging from the ceiling to the floor. If you looked closely, the hair even looked like earthworms wriggling.

Her hair almost completely covered her face, with only a blood-red eye peeking out through the gaps, staring at Xu Ming below with resentment.

Her lower half was a large, white sac made of what appeared to be either silk or spider silk. Even more terrifying, this sac made of fine white threads was beating like a heart.

"Silk!!"

She let out a strange roar at Xu Ming, then leaped down from the ceiling and pounced on him.

Dangerous!

Xu Ming almost instinctively rolled forward, dodging her attack.

boom!

The monster crashed heavily onto the floor, instantly smashing a large hole in the rotten wooden floor.

Xu Ming quickly stood up, picked up his phone, and snapped a picture of her.

Click!

A dazzling flash illuminated the entire interior of the castle tower.

The monster let out a scream, covered its eyes, and charged around like a blind, mad bull.

click!

Without realizing it, she crashed through the railing of the atrium observation deck and fell from the second floor, landing heavily on the first-floor floor.

Xu Ming quickly went to the railing and looked down.

Upon seeing the scene below, he quickly frowned.

The monster was badly injured; several of its arms were twisted at strange angles, and the threads in its lower body had shrunk considerably. Its whole body was convulsing, and it looked like it was about to die.

But she did not die.

Xu Ming estimated the height from the second floor to the first floor and ultimately gave up the idea of ​​jumping down to finish off the enemy.

He decided to take the safest approach—delaying the inevitable.

According to his estimation, with the current power of the spirit-capturing phone, it would only take one or two more shots to send her to Buddhahood.

Xu Ming acted decisively.

He first moved away from the courtyard and ran into the nearest room, then closed the paper door behind him.

His figure quickly disappeared behind the paper doors.

Two or three minutes later, accompanied by an angry roar, a huge black shadow jumped up from the first floor.

The monster, resembling a hybrid of human and spider, stood on the corridor bridge in the atrium, letting out angry roars and its resentful gaze sweeping across all the rooms on the second floor.