"Since we firmly believe that the abyss under our feet is an illusion, then it doesn't matter whether we step on the stepping stones or not."
Meng Chao turned his head around and said to Hailstorm, "In fact, if we step on the stepping stones carefully during the entire journey, it means that we still have fear in our hearts, and we don't completely trust our own judgment.
"I don't think this is the 'courage' that the ancestral spirits want their descendants to have."
As he spoke, he took a heavy step into the second space.
He crossed the space and stepped on the cliff that represented the end.
Hailstorm understood.
She followed behind Meng Chao, stepped on the air, crossed the abyss, and rushed to the end.
In an instant, she felt her vision blur.
It was as if dark clouds were tumbling and waves were surging into the sky.
There was an endless abyss in the darkness.
And there was the howling wind in the abyss.
All of them disappeared.
Behind them was a room that was no more than thirty steps long and wide.
The ground was engraved with dense cuneiform characters, which constituted mysterious and complicated rune arrays.
All the rune formations shone brightly, and they shone like flames.
By the looks of it, they must have walked through the gaps between the rune formations.
She did not know how they managed to walk hundreds of steps from a room that was only twenty to thirty steps long.
Hailstorm paid special attention to her feet.
In the last two steps, there were three rune formations that shone with a scarlet light.
Meng Chao stepped on the air, and he stepped on the empty space between the three rune formations.
And if they continued to step on the "stepping stones", they would definitely step on the three rune formations that exuded a dangerous presence.
If that happened, Hailstorm did not know what would happen.
Fortunately …
Hailstorm sighed in relief and looked at the end of the room. She was surprised and delighted to find that as long as they passed through the dark space, there would be stone pillars shining with a faint light in front of them.
More than ten stone pillars known as "totem pillars" surrounded the altar that was used to worship the ancestral spirits and weapons!
"I finally found it!"
Hailstorm wanted to go forward, but Meng Chao grabbed her.
"Don't you think that the altar is too far from here?"
Meng Chao said. "It's so far away, but there's nothing. It doesn't make sense!"
During the exploration of the First Ruin, the Earthlings had paid the price of blood.
He knew that the seemingly safe place was the most dangerous, and the moment that seemed to be the moment of victory was also the moment that was the most likely to fail or even die. Such a painful truth.
Meng Chao blinked quickly. His spirit energy gathered, and rings of light appeared around his pupils.
He used his supernatural vision and the sharp senses of a Spirit Sensor to carefully scan the space in front of him.
Then, he bit his fingertip and squeezed out a few drops of blood.
Aiming at the center of the space, he shot out a dozen drops of blood.
Swish swish swish swish!
Just as the dozen or so drops of blood formed the outline of a blurry human figure and quickly passed through this seemingly harmless space …
Suddenly, the drop of blood looked as if it had crashed into an invisible net. Thousands of piercing rays of light shone in the air and tore the entire dimension to shreds. At the moment Meng Chao's blood touched the light, it evaporated and disappeared.
Hailstorm sucked in a sharp breath.
If Meng Chao had not stopped her in time and she had rushed through, even if she had the protection of the totem armor, dozens of holes would have appeared on her body. In fact, even her flesh and blood would have evaporated like Meng Chao's blood and been completely destroyed!
"Not every trap has to be placed behind the bronze door," Meng Chao mumbled.
"Not all problems can be solved with courage to move forward. Perhaps this is what the ancestor's spirit wants to tell our descendants."
"They can tell their descendants the truth, but they have to use this method to make their descendants understand it on their own. The Turanians … Our ancestors are really … strange!" Hailstorm said with a bitter smile.
"How can the truth that is taught to them by others be as unforgettable as the truth that they understand on their own?"
Meng Chao paused for a moment. He really wanted to say something else. "Besides, the attitude of the ancestral spirits in the Turanians toward their descendants isn't just strange.
"They used the powerful artificial intelligence in the totem armor to turn their descendants into war machines that are addicted to killing each other. They locked down the possibility for their civilization to continue moving forward, and from the ancestral spirits who could create a glorious civilization, they turned into the orcs of today's clan era!
"This isn't just strange. It's actually filled with great malice!"
Of course, Meng Chao swallowed the second half of his words.
Because he did not know why the ancient Turanians did this.
Why did they develop the Mandala Tree and the totem armor? Why did they make their descendants even more primitive, ignorant, bloodthirsty, and belligerent?
Was it an unintentional mistake, or was there a deeper secret behind it?
If he had the chance, Meng Chao wanted to solve this secret.
He wanted to stop the destruction of the Turan civilization and Dragon City civilization.
As for now, he had to get rid of the third trap first!
After thinking about it for a while, Meng Chao shot more than one hundred drops of blood into the space in front of him ten times.
Just as he expected, every time his blood shot out, thousands of beams containing destructive energy appeared in the seemingly calm space and instantly evaporated the blood.
By the looks of it, the beams were instantly activated by sensing a living being's information.
He could no longer use the method of holding his breath, locking down his heartbeat, and lowering his body temperature to deceive them.
It was also impossible for him to use his courage to charge forward.
However, when the beams shone ten times, they left behind clear afterimages on Meng Chao's retina.
Meng Chao overlapped all the afterimages together and noticed that the spots and angles of the beams were fixed.
Besides, there were some gaps between the beams that were rather large, and some were rather small. The gaps that could allow a human to pass through were connected together in a zigzag fashion.
It was like a …
'It's a maze!'
Meng Chao's eyes lit up. 'There are thousands of destructive beams that form a maze. As long as I remember the locations and angles of the destructive beams, I can find the safe passage between the mazes!'
Once he realized this, the rest was easy.
It was not difficult for Meng Chao to clear the maze of destructive beams.
One of the reasons was because his intelligence was slightly higher than that of the high-grade orcs from the era of the ancient races.
Even if the traps left behind by the ancestral spirits wanted to make things difficult for the descendants, they did not want to kill all the descendants who entered the temple to take the test.
Aside from not being able to see under normal circumstances and testing one's memory, there were only three or four forks in the maze, so it was not too difficult to clear.
More importantly, the maze was originally prepared for the glorious warriors of the Blood Hoof Clan.
The members of the Bloodhoof Clan, even the taurens and boar-men who were relatively small, were much taller than the earthlings and holy light humans, let alone the hippopotamus warriors, rhinoceros warriors, and mammoth warriors.
Since even the elephant warriors could pass through the maze, the gaps between the destructive beams could not be too small.
Meng Chao and the hailstorm did not have to go through many twists and turns before they successfully passed through the maze and arrived under the altar.
The two of them looked at each other and finally sighed in relief.
"There shouldn't be any more tests, right?"
The hailstorm sized up the altar and the totem pole. "I remember that Casafa brought me here before. At that time, when I took off my mask, I appeared here."
"There shouldn't be any more, right?"
Meng Chao said uncertainly. "If passing through three layers of traps isn't enough, then the ancestral spirits of the Blood Hoof Clan are too much!"
Before his voice faded away, they heard a faint and crisp sound from behind the altar.
It was difficult to describe the sound. They could only say that it was the sound of a huge chunk of ice or crystal shattering, and the shards falling all over the ground.
Then, they heard heavy and slow footsteps.
It was as if the footsteps were made of steel. Bang! Bang! Bang!
It was as if the footsteps were stepping on their chests and slowly squeezing their hearts.
Aside from that, there were also two heavy objects rubbing against the ground and the sharp sound of their eardrums being ravaged.
"No way."
Meng Chao's eyes widened. "There really are more?"
Well, to be precise, there were only three traps in the Blood Hoof Temple.
At that moment, what appeared in front of Meng Chao and the hailstorm was a huge monster.
When the sound of the steel boots hitting the ground gradually turned from slow to rapid, the monster seemed to have just woken up from hibernation. It jumped from the altar to the totem pole, then jumped high from the totem pole and landed in front of Meng Chao and the hailstorm.
The dark flames on the altar outlined the monster's hideous outline.
He was taller than Meng Chao and weighed at least half a ton. He was protected by a super heavy armor that looked like a black iron castle, and there was not a single gap left between them.
However, a large number of flesh sprouts and tumors were squeezed out from the gaps of the armor.
The deep sunken abdomen meant that all the organs inside were gone.
It was as if the person wearing this super heavy armor did not need organs, which were things that could not be used to kill.
The overly narrow waist and overly wide shoulders formed a somewhat deformed inverted triangle.
The arms that extended from the top two corners of the inverted triangle swelled up into two huge pillars that reached the ground due to the augmentation of the gauntlets.
At the ends of the pillars were two huge war hammers that were bigger than Meng Chao's head. They were carved with cuneiform, and the patterns were stained with blood.
Because the arms were too thick and the war hammer was too big, the monster swayed like a gorilla when it walked. It didn't even need to use its legs. It could easily cross a distance of more than ten steps with the support of its arms.
It was clear that even the deformed and ugly high-grade orcs rarely looked so unique.
Its sunken abdomen and thick arms went against the common sense of life science.
Meng Chao and the hailstorm looked at each other. They frowned at the same time and said a name that represented madness and destruction.
"Origin Warriors!"
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