Chapter 346: Chapter 192: Inner World, Hunter or Prey?
With Lu Cang’s experience from possessing so many Divine Talents,
he was intimately familiar with their power.
It would be hard for them to know they had been so accurately pinpointed.
"I’ll go first."
After speaking, Lu Cang approached the Restriction.
"Lu Luwei, you can see inside, right?"
Lu Luwei nodded. "Yes, I can."
His Perception penetrated it. The Restriction had already been broken.
Lu Cang took the initiative to guide Lu Luwei’s Perception, first looking at the Dark Church and the Light Church.
Next, he looked at the Ice Church.
As for the Lucky and Peace Churches, they didn’t have much in them to begin with... so he only gave them a cursory glance.
Sure enough, the Three Great Churches—Light, Dark, and Ice—had all changed their Restrictions.
Moreover, the difficulty of breaking the Restrictions on all three Churches had been raised to Level 7.
They had also been reinforced with several extra layers.
The Lucky Church, on the other hand, had simply done away with all its Restrictions. Its main gate stood wide open, revealing an empty expanse.
It projected a strong "do your worst" attitude.
As for the Peace Church.
Its Restriction hadn’t been changed at all, and it had no defenses against Perception. Even Lu Luwei’s Perception could sweep right through.
There were only those five books inside.
’What a pity...’
Lu Cang turned back to the group and said, "I’ve already broken this city’s Restriction. Let’s sneak in from the side."
Lu Cang said, standing some distance from the city wall.
"Huh?"
"It’s broken already?"
Chi Cheng stared at the enormous, iridescent barrier. This was Ruijia’s National Defense Array.
Even he would have needed at least one extremely powerful strike to deal with it.
’To think Lu Cang had broken it so easily?’
Chi Cheng had heard that Lu Cang was incredibly good at breaking Restrictions, but it hadn’t left much of an impression on him.
After all, he hadn’t been present for the major Restrictions Lu Cang had broken before.
Besides, Chi Cheng himself couldn’t gauge how difficult a Restriction was to break.
But now, this Array before him looked incredibly tough.
’For Lu Cang to break it just like that... he really is the real deal.’
They slipped into the city.
The streets were filled with patrolling soldiers.
’The entire Sel City has already entered a state of high alert. It seems they really do know what happened in Ailuotis. Such timely security.’
Lu Cang and Leng Qingying both glanced toward the Three Great Churches in unison.
Leng Qingying actually gulped, a movement that didn’t escape Lu Cang’s notice.
’Don’t start drooling just yet...’
’We have real business to attend to.’
They moved stealthily along the city’s edge.
Thanks to their powerful Perception, they didn’t run into any patrols.
After undoing the Restriction sealing the Imperial Palace, Lu Cang and the others quickly scaled the massive wall from a remote corner and entered the palace grounds.
Sel City was built on a mountain, and its Imperial Palace consisted of various halls scattered at different elevations across the peaks.
"It’s right below."
Lu Cang’s Perception extended downward.
Directly below, beneath layers upon layers of rock, he saw an extremely dim secret room.
’No wonder.’
’This Rose of Shedding Skin really likes building its secret rooms underground.’
’Just like how the Death Church loves to carve caves into mountainsides.’
Inside the secret room was an entrance to a passage that looked like a Dungeon.
And the two tracking threads were pointing into that very passage.
’So they don’t intend to flee Sel City.’
’Instead, they chose to enter a Dungeon?’
’But why would a Dungeon appear beneath Ruijia?’
’This is just full of surprises.’
Lu Cang’s Perception roamed between the mountain and the Imperial Palace. After a careful search, he finally discovered a peculiar passage.
The passage began in an inconspicuous building.
The passage was extremely thin and narrow, so small that likely only a cat could pass through. Like a pipe, it twisted and turned through the massive body of the mountain.
At first, you wouldn’t even think it was a path.
But considering the Skin Takers could alter their own flesh and bone, even stuffing themselves into the skins of small animals, it all made sense.
Lu Cang said, "I’ve detected their secret room deep underground. Inside, there’s a passage that seems to lead to a Dungeon."
"I suspect they’ve hidden inside that Dungeon..."
Chi Cheng: "Huh?"
"There can be Dungeons inside a city?"
Lu Cang shook his head slightly. "I can’t be sure yet."
"Still, we should go take a look for ourselves."
Lu Cang placed a single hand on the ground, aimed at the mountain below.
’Whoever wants to take that cramped, narrow passage can go right ahead.’
RUMBLE...
As his Magic flared, earth and stone parted. Soil shifted away in all directions as Lu Cang and the others began to sink rapidly.
The others exchanged a look but followed him down.
Hunting down their quarry was the top priority.
As for the treasures in those Churches, they could take care of that on the side after the main business was done.
They could still tell what their priorities were.
Passing through the mix of earth and rock, they arrived in a narrow, dark space deep underground.
This secret room deep underground was, once again, a scene of carnage.
You could tell they had held a feast here—a nauseating one.
Aside from the flesh, skin, and entrails, there were also... the bodies of cats and rabbits.
The animals’ skins had been peeled off as well.
"These Skin Takers are utterly inhuman!" Lu Luwei said, clearly furious at the sight.
Lu Cang glanced sideways at her.
’Lu Luwei, how come you weren’t this angry when you saw the human skins?’
’Aren’t your priorities a little skewed?’
Kumironi also frowned deeply at the sight.
Although he had witnessed the Skin Takers’ atrocities through Lu Luwei’s Perception back in Ailuotis, he hadn’t been there in person.
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