Chapter 518: Sealed Room
After that, the three chatted for a while but nothing substantial was said.
Just when they were running out of topics, a loud gasp echoed in the trapping room.
"What’s going on?" The man asked.
"The trapping formation is about to break." Jiang Yue said with a solemn look in his eyes.
"How do you know?"
"The edges have begun to blur." Jiang Yue answered and pointed to the farthest corners of the room.
"You are right." The man said and hastily stood up.
At the same time, Jiang Yue and Yu Nianzhen stood up.
"We should gather." Yu Nianzhen suggested and led Jiang Yue towards the centre of the room.
Soon after, other people began to do the same and everyone gathered in the middle of the room.
"The formation will break in less than an incense stick of time. We should get ready to fight." Someone said.
"Can anyone see outside? Where is the soul refiner fellow Daoist?"
"I am a soul refiner." Jiang Yue said and quickly continued.
"Unfortunately, I can’t see outside the trapping formation."
"That’s too bad. It seems we have to wait until the formation breaks before we find out what is going on."
"It seems to be the only way."
For an incense stick of time, everyone waited impatiently.
When the formation finally broke, several people immediately launched deadly attacks.
Unfortunately, there were no enemies or demonic beasts in the surroundings.
"What’s going on? Where is the Zhao family?"
"I don’t see anyone. Can anyone feel or sense something?"
"Why do I feel we are underground?"
"Underground..." Jiang Yue muttered and looked around.
For some reason, the place they were at reminded him of the underground shelter they discovered on the sealed battlefield.
However, the current place wasn’t a passage but a sealed room.
The room was made of blue stones and had no door or windows.
"Zhao family..." Someone shouted angrily.
Unfortunately, there was no Zhao family in the sealed room.
In fact, there were only those who were previously trapped in the formation.
"How did they bring us here?"
"There is a storage bag over there." Someone shouted and everyone turned to see.
Soon, someone grabbed the storage bag and discovered storage artefacts.
"My storage belt is inside." The person said and hurriedly took out his storage belt.
A moment later, everyone rushed to grab the storage bag.
"Is my storage ring there?"
"How about mine?"
"How should I know? I have never seen your storage ring."
"Give me the storage bag. I want to quickly search for my storage bracelet."
In this way, the room descended into chaos as everyone tried to grab the storage bag.
Eventually, an old man controlled the situation and a modicum of order returned to the place.
A while later, everyone retrieved their storage artefacts but no one was happy.
"Damn the Zhao family! How dare they rob me."
"I have also been robbed."
"We have all been robbed."
"Find a way to get out of here."
"When I get out of here, the Zhao family will die."
[You reacted quickly. Good job.] Yu Nianzhen transmitted and Jiang Yue chuckled.
When the trapping formation broke and they appeared in the room, Jiang Yue felt something was not right.
Knowing that, he secretly dropped the storage bag while everyone was distracted by their situation.
"Let’s find a way out." Jiang Yue said and Yu Nianzhen nodded.
"Do you mind if I come with you?" A voice asked.
When Yu Nianzhen and Jiang Yue turned about, they discovered it was the person they were chatting with in the trapping formation.
"I forgot to introduce myself." The man said and bowed before he introduced himself.
"I am Wang Peng." He said but revealed nothing about his nationality.
However, Yu Nianzhen and Jiang Yue weren’t curious about this so they didn’t ask.
"We are just going to examine the walls. Why does fellow Daoist Wang want to come with us?" Jiang Yue questioned.
"There is no reason." Wang Peng said and shrugged.
He just felt that they got along well so he didn’t mind working with them to find a way out.
"Fellow Daoist Wang can do whatever he wants." Jiang Yue said and pulled Yu Nianzhen to walk towards the nearest wall.
Seeing this, Wang Peng quickly followed and the three soon stood in front of a wall.
"Let’s investigate carefully. There should be a way out of this room." Yu Nianzhen said and the other two nodded.
Unfortunately, the first wall was extremely ordinary.
Even after investigating it for a long time, the three found nothing peculiar.
"Shall we head to the next wall?" Wang Peng asked and the other two agreed.
In this way, the three checked all the walls and floor but found nothing.
They even checked the ceiling but the outcome was the same.
"Did we miss something?" Jiang Yue couldn’t help but frown.
"Let’s look again." Yu Nianzhen suggested and three restarted the process.
Unfortunately, no matter how they checked, everything was as before.
There were no raised stones that could be pressed to reveal an exit or chipped stones that could hide a mechanism.
"We were able to come in so there must be an opening somewhere." Wang Peng said in a frustrated voice.
However, Jiang Yue shook his head and spoke.
"Not necessarily." He said.
"What does fellow Daoist Yu mean?"
"We could have entered through a teleportation formation."
"This..." Wang Peng couldn’t help but frown.
"What’s the purpose of a room that has no exit?"
"Why don’t we attack the walls?" Someone suggested.
Hearing that, everyone gathered together and simultaneously attacked one of the walls.
Unfortunately, the ’ordinary’ blue stones were unaffected by the attacks.
"These stones are not ordinary. I want to dig them out." Someone said and rushed towards one of the walls.
Seeing this, several people also rushed to dig.
"What are these people thinking?" Jiang Yue couldn’t help but be shocked.
"How do they plan to dig the stones?" Wang Peng was also surprised.
"Leave them be." Yu Nianzhen said.
"For now, let’s focus on finding a way out."
"ZhenZhen, do you have an idea?" Jiang Yue asked.
"Not yet." Yu Nianzhen said and shook his head before he continued.
"However, I don’t believe the Zhao family are so idle that they took the risk of trapping people for no reason at all."
"I also don’t believe it." Jiang Yue said with a solemn look in his eyes.
"I have a feeling that even if we don’t do anything, something will happen soon."
"That is what I am afraid of." Yu Nianzhen said.
He was confident that he and Jiang Yue could handle whatever trouble they were about to encounter.
However, he didn’t want to be caught unaware.
For this reason, Yu Nianzhen wanted to investigate as much as possible.
In this way, he and Jiang Yue could escape the predicament without revealing their true identity.
"Maybe we have to wait for a specific time of day or certain conditions to be met before we can find a way out." Wang Peng suddenly suggested.
Hearing this, Yu Nianzhen and Jiang Yue looked at the person.
"Fellow Daoist Wang, why do you say that?" Jiang Yue asked.
"A few thousand years ago, my clan brother was trapped in such a place. This place may be similar to that."
[XiaoYue, what about the treasure compass? Has it reacted?] Yu Nianzhen suddenly asked.
[No.]
"In that case, let’s wait and see if something will change over the next several hours." Jiang Yue said and the other two agreed.
After that, they found a corner and sat down.
However, they didn’t meditate and relax.
Instead, they kept their eyes and senses on the surroundings.
In this way, they would notice any changes as soon as they occurred.
However, as they soon found out, they didn’t need to pay so much attention.
When the change occurred, everyone noticed.
In fact, it was absolutely impossible to miss the change.
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"Grandpa, this is the fourth group we have sent down. Do you think any of them will come back?" Zhao Chen suddenly asked.
"A few of them look powerful and may be able to come back. If none comes back, we will find more people to send down." Zhao Mingdu said nonchalantly.
"The most powerful person in the previous group survived up to the second room. I don’t know if this group will do better or worse." Zhao Chen wondered and sighed with a solemn look in his eyes.
"It doesn’t matter if they survive or die. All the treasures belong to our Zhao family."
"Grandpa is right." Zhao Chen said and didn’t dare to say more.
Three years ago, several clansmen of the Zhao family discovered a ruin.
Originally, all the clansmen wanted to enter the ruin but eventually chose to err on the side of caution.
As luck would have it, their caution paid off.
Although the Zhao clansmen who entered died in the ruins, their bodies miraculously appeared outside the ruins.
