Chapter 523: Third Room
[Azhen, I bet that male cultivator is about to encounter a tragedy.] Jiang Yue transmitted.
Hearing this, Yu Nianzhen smiled and looked a little interested.
[How do you think he will die?] He asked.
[Although that female cultivator looks delicate, she is definitely not easy to mess with. I have a feeling the male cultivator will be hammered to death.]
"Hammered?" Yu Nianzhen chuckled and then continued.
"Why a hammer?"
"Just feeling." Jiang Yue shrugged and continued to watch the show.
"Are you deaf? Hurry up and give me your puppet." The male cultivator insisted.
However, the female cultivator only sneered before releasing her weapon.
Her weapon was a mallet.
The mallet had a one-metre-long handle and a half-metre-long head.
At a glance, it was a heavy weapon but the woman had no trouble swinging it.
"See." Jiang Yue said and looked at his lover with a proud look in his eyes.
’A mallet is a little different from a hammer.’ Yu Nianzhen thought but didn’t dare to say it.
"My XiaoYue is the most discerning." The swordsman praised and Jiang Yue smiled.
"I will give you a chance to defend yourself." The female cultivator said and the male froze in place.
He didn’t expect such a delicate woman to use a hammer.
However, after he thought about it, he unfroze.
’What if she uses a hammer? A female cultivator is just a woman.’ He thought and sneered.
A moment later, he released an axe and faced the woman.
"Give me your puppet and I will let you keep your life." The man said but the woman didn’t appreciate the offer.
She snorted and spoke.
"Nonsense." She said and directly swung her mallet.
"It’s over." Jaing Yue muttered and Yu Nianzhen nodded.
Soon after, the male cultivator was smashed into a blood puddle and his companions couldn’t help but tremble in fear.
"Is there anyone else who wants my puppet?" She asked and looked at several people with a beautiful smile on her lips.
"Fellow Daoist, you have misunderstood us." Someone said and another quickly nodded.
"We were in the same group with that fellow Daoist but our thoughts are not the same. How can we ask a fellow Daoist to give us the puppet they worked so hard on?"
"That’s good to hear." The female cultivator said and retreated a little further from everyone else.
After that, no one dared to rob.
When the deadline passed, everyone subconsciously looked at the people who failed to complete the task.
"What do you think will happen?" Jiang Yue asked.
However, before Yu Nianzhen could answer, three eagles flew into the room.
"Eagle puppets..." Jiang Yue muttered and excitedly looked at the puppets.
"Puppets are not easy to deal with." Yu Nianzhen stated and recalled his first encounter with a puppet.
The first time he fought a puppet was in the Thousand Herbs Garden.
At that time, he was only in the origin forging realm and barely survived the encounter.
Compared to the puppet back then, the eagle puppets were several thousand times more powerful and sophisticated.
Unless the three cultivators were very powerful, they would most definitely be killed by the puppets.
"Fellow Daoists, let’s work together to defeat the puppets." One of the besieged cultivators shouted.
However, no one heeded his call.
After all, they were strangers.
Why should everyone put themselves in danger for people they didn’t know?
Most importantly, the current situation was a direct consequence of other people’s laziness.
"I am willing to give my flame seeds in exchange for your help." One of the besieged sweetened the deal.
Hearing this, several people were tempted and Jiang Yue turned to Yu Nianzhen.
"Are you tempted?" He asked but Yu Nianzhen shook his head in denial.
Seeing this, Jiang Yue chuckled.
Although he was greedy for flame seeds, he wasn’t stupid.
He didn’t dare to intervene in a suspicious situation that had nothing to do.
[Rather than get involved, let’s prepare for the next room.] Yu Nianzhen transmitted and Jiang Yue nodded in agreement.
Unfortunately, not everyone was as cool-headed.
While Yu Nianzhen and Jiang Yue decided to stay out of the conflict, two people rushed to help the besieged cultivators.
’Crazy.’ Jiang Yue thought but didn’t say anything.
However, just because he didn’t say anything didn’t mean that others wouldn’t.
"Fools." The female cultivator exclaimed.
As if to prove her observation, two new eagle puppets flew into the room.
"As expected." Jiang Yue said and shook his head.
What followed was a tragedy.
In no time, the five eagles mercilessly attacked and killed the five cultivators.
After it was over, the bodies and eagles disappeared.
At the same time, like the previous room, one door appeared.
"We were more than fifty when we first entered this place. Only four of us are left now." Wang Peng stated with a solemn look in his eyes.
"I wonder how many people can get the inheritance..." The female cultivator suddenly said and everyone looked at her.
"What?" The female shrugged and quickly continued.
"Don’t tell me that none of you has thought about it? The likelihood we can all get to the inheritance place is almost zero."
"Considering that, does the fellow Daoist not want to cooperate in the next round?" Jiang Yue asked with a sly smile on his lips.
"Not at all. We should definitely cooperate." The woman said and Jiang Yue chuckled.
With that, the four people walked through the door and entered the next room.
Like the second room, there were writings on all the walls.
However, there were no puppet parts in sight.
"What’s going on? Where are the parts?" Wang Peng asked and everyone turned to Jiang Yue.
"Let me translate." Jiang Yue said and began to study the walls.
Half a month later, he burned the information on four jade slips and distributed them amongst themselves.
"The parts will appear according to your comprehension." Jiang Yue said with a gloomy look on his face.
"What a bloody mess." Wang Peng cursed.
In the previous room, they could work hard to piece together the parts even without a profound understanding of puppet mechanics.
Unfortunately, such a method was impossible in the third room.
If they wanted to get the necessary parts, they needed a more than basic understanding of puppet mechanics.
"The Zhao family deserves to die." The female cultivator growled and no one argued with her.
Despite their excellent comprehension abilities, even Yu Nianzhen and Jiang Yue struggled to assemble the puppet shell.
Now that they needed to seriously comprehend an unfamiliar dao, they couldn’t help but feel a little overwhelmed.
"We only have one hundred years to assemble the puppet’s core."
"Damned it." The female cultivator cursed.
Although one hundred years seemed like a lot, they were not.
For reincarnation realm cultivators, one hundred years was not enough time to advance a level, let alone comprehend an unfamiliar dao.
"We will all fail." Wang Peng sighed, looking very discouraged.
After all, none of them were puppet mechanics.
Even if they started now, one hundred years was not enough time to learn the knowledge required to create a puppet core.
[Azhen, we can use a time formation.] Jiang Yue transmitted and looked at his lover inquisitively.
[You want to help them?] Yu Nianzhen asked.
[I don’t know.] Jiang Yue answered with a conflicted look on his face.
On one hand, he, Yu Nianzhen and Wang Peng had gotten along well since they met.
However, their relationship was superficial.
[Help them.] Yu Nianzhen said.
[Help them? Why?]
[You and I are strong enough to deal with whatever troubles they may cause.] Yu Nianzhen said and Jiang Yue chuckled.
Indeed, he and Yu Nianzhen didn’t need to worry much about others.
Since they encountered Wang Peng and the female cultivator, this meeting could also be regarded as fate.
After figuring it out, Jiang Yue looked at the two people.
"ZhenZhen and I will give you time. After that, whether you can complete the task will depend on your efforts." Jiang Yue said.
"Fellow Daoist Jiang, what do you mean?" Wang Peng asked.
"I happen to have a grain of the sand of time. With it, I will arrange a time formation."
"Time formation..." The female cultivator muttered and looked at Jiang Yue with a suspicious look in her eyes.
At the reincarnation realm, most cultivators could arrange simple formations.
However, the time formation was extremely complicated.
Unless one was an accomplished formation master, there was no way to arrange a time formation.
"You..." Wang Peng started and took turns to look at Jiang Yue and Yu Nianzhen.
Seeing this, Jiang Yue smiled but said nothing.
In the end, Wang Peng didn’t vocalise his suspicions.
Instead, he nodded and pretended not to know their identities.
’He is a smart person.’ Jiang Yue thought as he walked towards the middle of the room.
"How much time will we have in the formation?" The female cultivator asked.
"One thousand years." Jiang Yue revealed.
