Quite a number of people in the area could not bear to continue watching as the person was covered in mercury and had mercury pouring into his mouth. They turned their faces away.
Bi Xuan might have wanted to save him, but when he thought about the unknown dangers that might be hidden in the mercury moat, he did not take action in the end. He could only watch as his subordinate was swallowed up by the mercury, and only a few mercury bubbles remained.
The old zither player sighed with a myriad of emotions and cast a sympathetic look at Bi Xuan.
"… The dead are already dead. Paragon, let it go."
"I won't let their sacrifices be in vain."
A hint of grief flashed in Bi Xuan's eyes. "It's just a mercury moat, and it wants to stop me? Isn't that just a joke?"
"Paragon, it's for the best if you can turn your grief into fighting spirit, but there are plenty of strange things about the mercury moat. I think there might be something strange about it. We might need to think about how to jump over it."
The old zither player suggested.
Before his voice faded away, Dongfang Bubai snorted coldly.
"If that's the case, you can stay here and think about it. You've accompanied me all the way here, so I'll take my leave first."
Once he finished speaking, he unfurled his sleeves, and the crowd saw three embroidery needles shoot out from his sleeves. They shot into the stone pillars by the side.
The flying needles sank into the stone pillars quietly, and only three red threads were left in Dongfang Bubai's hands.
His expression remained the same. He brought out three more embroidery needles and sent them straight to the dazzling palace across from him.
The people's eyes lit up.
Dongfang Bubai's Needle Tide from Sunflower Manual was different from normal hidden weapon techniques. His qi was gentle, and he could last longer. Besides, the flying needles were light, so he could easily reach a distance that many hidden weapons could not reach. He could connect the hall to the palace across from him.
But …
Some people thought that Dongfang Bubai's method was good, while others had derisive and scornful expressions.
The traps they encountered along the way were ingenious, and they sacrificed many Myth Realm elites' lives. If they could get through safely with just one thread, then the creator of the desert palace would think that it was child's play for them to spend so much effort on the mercury moat.
Thousand-faced Human Fox bowed and stood behind Happy. While he sent a private message to Happy, he watched the flying needles Dongfang Bubai threw through narrowed eyes.
'I knew it!'
An unexpected scene happened.
After the flying needle flew over the mercury moat, it safely arrived at the opposite palace.
However, just as the flying needle was about to strike a pair of Golden Qilins outside the palace, the flying needle strangely passed through without any resistance.
"This …"
"What happened?"
Even though they were very far away, they were still able to tell that the flying needle had not completely sunk into the Golden Qilin. Instead, it had passed through as if nothing had happened.
Dongfang Bubai's expression changed slightly.
He flicked his wrist, and the flying needle that had pierced through the Golden Qilin shot out of the Qilin's body. It returned to Dongfang Bubai's palm, completely unharmed.
Boom!!
The crowd was in an uproar.
The flying needle didn't follow the same path it came from. Instead, it was pulled back from another part of the Golden Qilin.
"It's fake."
"…"
This time, Dongfang Bubai was not the only one who understood what was going on. The other people in the hall also understood what was going on above the mercury moat.
Martial Paragon Bi Xuan took a step forward with a dark expression. Under the people in the dao of heaven's contemplative gazes, he jumped above the mercury moat.
Whoosh!!
Like a gust of wind, he jumped about sixty-five feet into the moat.
Then, with an incredibly profound Swallow Circuit, he flew back to the hall.
At the moment he landed, the people in the hall saw that Bi Xuan's expression had turned incredibly dark.
"How is it?"
"I knew it, it's fake! The palace is fake. It's just a mirage above the mercury moat. Also, I can't see the shore. " In the face of the old zither player's question, Bi Xuan answered through gritted teeth, and he confirmed the people's judgment about the dazzling golden palace.
Once he finished speaking, the people's faces turned pale.
They had been busy for half a day and had gone through countless life and death situations before they managed to survive Great Sky Force Formation, but they did not expect that they would still be in a trap.
"How could this be?"
When the people in the hall heard Bi Xuan say that he could not see the end of the mercury moat, their faces turned ashen, and they seemed to have become much older in an instant.
"I was wondering why the rumors about the desert palace have been circulating for hundreds of years, but no one has ever managed to get even half of the treasures in the desert palace."
"…"
"This desert palace is fake. There's no treasure here at all. It's just a death trap!"
"And to think that we foolishly gave up on everything to come here and take the risk."
It was no wonder why they were dejected and dejected.
The mercury moat that was sixty-five feet long was not enough to make them despair, but the mercury moat that they could not see the end of, along with the strange poison that could kill a person with just one breath …
The group could not help but feel despair, as if they were trapped on a lone island and had nowhere else to go.
Even the elites in the dao of heaven were in low spirits at that moment. Aside from the mysterious elite with the fanged mask, whose expression could not be seen, all of them scowled and looked gloomy.
"Ten Thousand Years."
Happy did not believe that this was a trap that only death awaited them. He frowned and sent a private message to Thousand-faced Human Fox to ask whether he had run into such a situation before.
Thousand-faced Human Fox scowled.
"This shouldn't be the case."
"What shouldn't be the case?" A thought appeared in Happy's head.
Then, he heard Thousand-faced Human Fox explain, "Logically speaking, no tomb should be this ridiculously dangerous!
"The first death trap is the black sandstorm that only appears once every fifty years. This is no longer a test that a normal person can pass. The second trap is a chain of death traps that only appear once every ten steps. It can even kill an entire army. The third trap is the Yellow Sand Overflowing, and there are ancient beasts. The fourth trap is the Great Sky Force Formation. Each trap is harder to handle than the last. If it weren't for the fact that we have plenty of elites in the dao of heaven, it would be practically impossible for us to enter this place."
"Are you saying …"
Happy gradually understood the meaning behind Thousand-faced Human Fox's words, but he was not completely certain.
Thousand-faced Human Fox's expression was grave.
"Logically speaking, the difficulty of the final stage, Great Sky Force Formation, is already enough to make all the heroes in the world fail. There's no need for the person who created the desert palace to continue creating even greater traps. This is already one hundred times more dangerous than the most dangerous tomb I ran into."
Happy nodded in his heart when he heard this.
Great Sky Force Formation alone had already killed a large group of elites at the peak of Myth Realm. If it were not for the fact that seven elites in the dao of heaven had attacked at the same time, Great Sky Force Formation could definitely kill any group that only had two or three elites in the dao of heaven.
The more Thousand-faced Human Fox spoke, the graver his tone became.
"Right now, we're facing a mercury moat of a size that is rarely seen in the world. In fact, you can even say that it is one of a kind. But the sky is also filled with poison and the illusion of a mirage. By the looks of it, this is a death trap that cannot be solved."
"This doesn't make sense. No one who creates a mausoleum will create a situation that will definitely lead to death, but this situation already has the scent of death in it. It's impossible for the person who created this mausoleum to hide all his treasures in a death situation. There's no meaning in doing this, unless …" When he said this, Thousand-faced Human Fox's expression suddenly turned incredibly dark.
Happy's eyelids twitched.
He quickly asked, "What did you guess?"
Thousand-faced Human Fox's expression alternated between shades of red and white for a while before he turned his head around in anguish and said in a hoarse voice, "The person who created the desert palace is continuously creating death traps that are more difficult to deal with. The only goal for doing this is to hide a certain secret. Perhaps he doesn't want anyone to find his things. In other words, the rumors about the desert palace might be a mistake. There are no treasures in the desert palace."
"…"
When he heard this, Happy could not help but suck in a sharp breath. He widened his eyes a little. "Are you saying that the goal of the desert palace isn't to hide the treasures, but to hide something?"
"During ancient times, there were a few items that caused great chaos in the world. The world of martial artists was bathed in blood, and the people in the cities had no way of living. There's a high possibility that the person who created the desert palace wanted to suppress these items at the bottom of the desert palace so that they would never appear in the world again!" When he said this, many of the questions in Thousand-faced Human Fox's heart were answered, and he spoke faster. "This can explain why the palace was built in the desert and chose a place where the black sandstorm swept through fifty years ago. Also, why are there endless traps in the palace?" When he reached the end of his sentence, Thousand-faced Human Fox could not help but smile wanly.
"I've been hunting geese all my life, but I didn't expect that there would come a time when I, Thousand-faced Human Fox, would have my eyes pecked by geese …"
He was one of the four Divine Thieves in the Chinese server, but he had fallen into a desperate situation like the desert palace.
"There's no chance at all?"
Happy felt uneasy because of Thousand-faced Human Fox's explanation, but he remained calm on the surface. He did not show any hint of restlessness or uneasiness.
He had thought about how difficult the quest in the forbidden land was, but he did not believe that it would be a quest where he would definitely die.
As long as there was a chance, he would not give up!
When even Thousand-faced Human Fox could not be relied on, he could only take action himself and search for a way out as well as a way to get out of the situation. Completely relying on an NPC follower to get out of the situation was in itself a bug in the game, and it was also unrealistic.
"The goal of the person who created the desert palace is definitely to trap everyone here until they die." Thousand-faced Human Fox shook his head slowly.
"The black sandstorm only appears once every fifty years. Once it is activated, it will definitely be buried by the yellow sand within twenty-four hours. It's quite impossible to clear a trap that is even more dangerous than Great Sky Force Formation in such a short amount of time. Besides, I have a feeling that this isn't the most dangerous thing. When we see the creature sealed in the desert palace, that will be the most dangerous thing."
The more Thousand-faced Human Fox spoke, the more dejected he looked.
When he saw this, Happy frowned a little and spoke again with a smile.
"Since what is buried in the desert palace isn't a treasure, but a ferocious item that has stirred up a bloodbath in ancient times, if you don't see the true face of this ferocious item before you die, with your personality, Thousand-faced Human Fox, you will definitely not be able to die in peace. Do you want your descendants to discover that you didn't even know what was imprisoned in the desert palace when they see your remains and died for no reason?"
"…"
Thousand-faced Human Fox's eyes lit up, and a burning look shone in his eyes.
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