Chapter 361: Chaos-sealed Maze |
It seemed that, with the passage of time, this piece of broken stone had lost its original power.
Li Fan paused for a moment, then held his breath and approached slowly.
Until he reached the broken stone, he didn’t feel any change in himself.
However, Li Fan’s vigilance remained high.
This maze was filled with various bizarre phenomena, so one must not take it lightly.
Without touching the broken stone, he observed it carefully from a distance.
The stone was half-buried in the soil, roughly forming a square about the length and width of a person’s outstretched arms.
There were obvious signs of breakage on its edges.
It seemed to have been deliberately cut from a larger stone.
“The area centered around this circular pit, with its disoriented directions and even the bizarre phenomenon of human mutation, could it be related to this character?”
“If indeed a single character triggers many anomalies…”
“What does this ‘Chaos Stone’ have to do with the Heavenly Doctor?”
After pondering for a moment, Li Fan decided not to bother with it for now, but to check around for any signs of an “exit”.
Unfortunately, apart from the sticky, unidentifiable substances covering the bottom of the circular pit,
there was only this chaotic stone.
“The aberrant monsters now only act on instinct, they shouldn’t be trying to deceive me.”
After some thought, Li Fan returned to the side of the broken stone, activated his spiritual power, and lifted it from the ground.
It wasn’t as heavy as some heavenly treasures, weighing the same as ordinary stones.
And after pulling it out, there was no expected exit beneath the stone.
No abnormal situation occurred.
“Strange…”
Li Fan put down the Chaos Stone and rubbed his chin.
With little time left, Li Fan didn’t search for other possibilities.
Instead, he stared closely at the stone in front of him, pondering where the exit might be hidden.
With not much time to waste, after a moment, Li Fan pointed his finger and shot out a black light towards it.
As he stepped back, he observed the changes that occurred when the Annihilation Sword collided with the Chaos Stone.
The black sword light flew to the front of the stone in an instant.
Just before the collision, the black light suddenly distorted.
Under Li Fan’s gaze, three extremely familiar energies emerged from the black light.
Madness, darkness, swirling rotation…
It was exactly the three powers that make up the Annihilation Sword of the Five Elements: Heavenly Calamity, Ink Death, and the power of the Five Elements.
Under the influence of the Chaos Stone, the black light gradually faded away.
Then, these energies that should have been under Li Fan’s control began to fight against each other.
At the same time, a wave of unknown fluctuations suddenly burst from the Chaos Stone.
Sweeping towards the outside of the circular pit.
Li Fan was caught off guard and couldn’t dodge it in time, so he was pierced through.
His expression changed suddenly, thinking he had been ambushed.
However, to his surprise, the wave turned out to be all sound and fury, signifying nothing.
He only felt a tingling sensation as if ants were crawling all over his body, but after the spiritual energy circulated once, it was quickly suppressed.
Li Fan was stunned, staring at the Chaos Stone, lost in thought.
“The chaos dissipates, leaving only its form and no essence.”
“Nevertheless, it still affects my Annihilation Sword of the Five Elements.”
Li Fan glanced at the place where the three energies had been entangled.
In the recent wave, they had already annihilated each other in mutual combat.
The last Black Death Symbol he wore had already dimmed to the point of being almost invisible.
It seemed like it would completely collapse in the next second.
If it were someone else in such a desperate situation, they would have already been in a panic and unable to think clearly.
However, with “Truth” as his foundation, Li Fan was not in the least panicked.
Without needing to consider his own danger, Li Fan’s thoughts quickly turned, continuing to contemplate.
After trying many different methods, when the Black Death Symbol completely collapsed.
The ubiquitous white mist around him, freed from restraint, began to devour Li Fan’s lifespan.
Just a few breaths later, Li Fan’s physiological age on the Truth Panel jumped from 51 to 52.
Although most of the 51 years had already passed, the terrifying speed at which the life-devouring mist consumed lifespan could still be seen.
As life rapidly passed before his eyes, instead of making Li Fan panic, it made his mind even cooler.
When Li Fan’s lifespan reached one hundred,
a moment of enlightenment struck, and his eyes suddenly lit up.
He leaped to the front of the broken stone and, using his hand as a brush, meticulously copied the traces of the character “Chaos” on the stone.
Writing stroke by stroke.
The brush strokes flowed swiftly, forming in an instant.
A faint golden light flashed and disappeared.
The chaotic character on the rubble seemed to regain some of its luster.
What amazed Li Fan was that the moment the chaotic character reappeared,
the spiritual energy within him was instantly depleted.
If it weren’t for the Nine Laws Golden Elixir sensing the danger and instantly transforming, the power of the Five Elements turned into a continuous supply of spiritual energy to replenish his exhausted body,
he might have been drained directly.
Even so, Li Fan felt his vision darken and nearly fell to the ground.
Fortunately, after absorbing all of Li Fan’s spiritual energy, the Chaos Stone also underwent a mysterious change.
The characters seemed to come to life, naturally emanating a terrifying aura.
The entire stone became ethereal.
It emitted a dream-like glow.
Even the age-devouring mist was forced back by the radiance emitted from the Chaos Stone, forming a vacuum zone around it.
Seeing this, Li Fan quickly hid inside to avoid excessive loss of lifespan.
Perhaps because the Chaos Stone activated this time by absorbing the spiritual energy within Li Fan’s body,
Li Fan did not sense its effect on himself after approaching the rubble.
However, he continuously heard creaking sounds from his surroundings. The sticky substances underground seemed to have come to life, beginning a bizarre twisting motion.
And Li Fan keenly noticed that the motionless mutated corpses standing in the circular pit were trembling slightly, as if they were about to come alive in the next second.
As the instigator of all this, Li Fan couldn’t help but feel his hair stand on end.
“This is not a place to stay for long.”
Observing the flickering light and the shifting reality of the Chaos Stone, Li Fan vaguely felt a sensation in his heart.
It was as if it were a gateway, one he could enter at any time.
His spiritual sense did not detect any danger ahead, but rather the only vitality was inside.
Without further hesitation, Li Fan flew towards it.
As Li Fan had expected, the stone seemed to be nonexistent.
Li Fan passed straight through it.
His vision blurred, endless white mist filled his eyes.
Finally, Li Fan left behind that treacherous maze and returned to the normal barrier of white mist.
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