Sword Among Us c1-1268

by Black Swordsman Online

  "It's out!" Wind Assault Tower's Wu Kuo cried out in shock and looked at All-powerful Medicinal Stone in disbelief. A hint of admiration could be seen in his eyes. "Brother Medicinal Stone, you're really awesome. As expected of an elite from Marvelous Handed Sect."

  "You praise me too much."

  All-powerful Medicinal Stone smiled and shrugged before jumping on the altar to examine the four Dharma images. Upon seeing them, he immediately frowned and stopped Wu Kuo, who had taken out the Sky Demon Orders to place them on the Dharma images.

  "Wait!"

  "What's wrong?"

  The grave expression on All-powerful Medicinal Stone's face caused the group from Wind Assault Tower to feel a little surprised.

  All-powerful Medicinal Stone ignored the reactions of Phantasmal Shadow and the others and used his hand to touch the Dharma images for a while before his eyes sparkled. He seemed to be listening to something. Then, he cast his gaze on the Recondite Steel Gate as well as the entrance that were dozens of feet away from them.

  His expression was stern and incredibly grave.

  Silver Wolf, Little North, and the others quickly noticed that there was something off about All-powerful Medicinal Stone, and they all spoke.

  "What's wrong?"

  "Is there something abnormal?"

  Phantasmal Shadow was also staring at All-powerful Medicinal Stone. She knew that he must have noticed something.

  No one in the area noticed Happy's expression. When All-powerful Medicinal Stone's suddenly grew incredibly solemn, a hint of relief and surprised delight appeared on his face.

  After listening for a while, All-powerful Medicinal Stone suddenly said in a grave tone, "Four keys."

  No one said anything, they just looked at each other at a loss.

  They knew that All-powerful Medicinal Stone had to be talking about the four Sky Demon Orders, but his next words made their expressions become stern and much graver.

  "Four keys, and each of them corresponds to four independent mechanisms, but they must be activated at the same time. What a strange mechanism. Since it needs multiple keys to activate Sky Demon Secret Cave, why did they separate them? Why do I feel like they're not mechanisms that need keys to be activated… but more like mechanisms that need keys to activate a trap?"

  Chapter 602 - Four Keys, Four Mechanisms

  In his previous life, Happy did not have much contact with All-powerful Medicinal Stone, which was why he did not know that he had such extraordinary skills with mechanisms aside from his hate for evil and otherworldly thieving skills.

  Even though All-powerful Medicinal Stone had received no prior information about the place, he had actually noticed that there were braziers on the twelve stone pillars with dragon carvings that had slightly weaker flames. Once he activated the first hidden mechanism, he then used another method to notice that there was an even greater trap hidden behind the four Dharma images.

  Happy said nothing, but when he noticed the serious and somber gaze All-powerful Medicinal Stone cast at him, he smiled happily. "Is there any way for you to be sure what sort of mechanisms they are?"

  "It's too hard." All-powerful Medicinal Stone shook his head slowly. "Unless we break the four Dharma images and slowly explore it. But it's clear that the system will not give us that chance. The materials used to make the Dharma images are very sturdy, so they should be made using Recondite Steel."

  After saying that, he swept his gaze over the two pillars and added, "Since this is a complicated trap, it's definitely a closed trap aimed to kill! From this, we can deduce that the control panels for two of the Dharma images should be the Recondite Steel Gate and the entrance. As for the other two… I don't know."

  While he was speaking, Phantasmal Shadow frowned, and a grave expression appeared on her face.

  "There is indeed a Dragon Breaker Stone that looks like a gate at the entrance, but it has never come down before." Her words basically confirmed All-powerful Medicinal Stone's assumption.

  The group's expressions changed.

  Even though they were very confident in their abilities, they were still a little uneasy about being in Sky Demon Sect when it was on complete lockdown! Unknown dangers were usually the most terrifying, and if they had no way out, it would be even worse.

  The air seemed to have frozen up!

  For a moment, even Phantasmal Shadow hesitated. 'Should we activate Sky Demon Secret Cave?'

  "Tower Master Phantasmal Shadow, have you made your decision?" Happy asked nonchalantly. "You are only here because you are curious, but I have a quest that I must complete. If you've decided to stay, then we will activate the mechanism."

  When Phantasmal Shadow heard that, she frowned.

  Mu Clan was large and had already acc.u.mulated a number of Illusion Life and Death Pills, but if something happened to Wind Assault Tower, their foundation would be heavily damaged.

  Phantasmal Shadow said nothing.

  While she was feeling uncertain of whether they should continue and take the risk, light and faint footsteps suddenly came from the direction of the entrance.

  The two parties became incredibly alert. They quickly noted the sounds and frowned while they cast their eyes over!

  Happy did not even turn his head around. With a scowl on his face, he said, "Since you aren't going to give me an answer and since I'm in a hurry, I'll pretend as if you already agreed to it."

  He did not want more people to enter and the information about Sky Demon Secret Cave spreading too fast

  Phantasmal Shadow said nothing and agreed to it when she saw how firm Happy's tone was. A hint of determination lit up in her clear eyes. She nodded at Wu Kuo, and he brought out two Sky Demon Orders.

  Happy jumped on the altar and placed two Sky Demon Orders into All-powerful Medicinal Stone's hands.

  Boom!

  Surging qi blasted out of Happy's body, and his aura instantly rose to Life and Death Realm!

  When the others saw how serious he was in preparation for the challenge to come, they tensed up and did not dare to be negligent. They activated their qi realms in preparation of the trap as well.

  The group from Mu Clan gathered on the altar, while the six from Wind Assault Tower were not too far from them. Wu Kuo handed the Sky Demon Orders to All-powerful Medicinal Stone before he quickly returned to his party to form a circle formation. They stood ready for battle.

  At the entrance, a group of players extended their heads with shifty expressions. They fought over each other to peek at the situation inside the hall, but they did not dare enter.

  When All-powerful Medicinal Stone saw that, he quickly placed the four Sky Demon Orders into the pits in the four Dharma images, where they fit perfectly.

  Thud, thud, thud, thud!

  When the fourth Sky Demon Order was fit into its pit, the clear sound of springs jumping instantly echoed through the front hall…

  While the group of people held their breaths and watched, the first Dharma image suddenly turned around to face east!

  The second Dharma image took a 180 degrees turn and faced north!

  The fourth Dharma image faced west!

  Slap!

  The four Dharma images faced the four cardinal directions, and the moment they faced their respective positions…

  Boom!

  The Dragon Breaker Stone at the entrance came down with a bang, and it was accompanied by the screams of surprise from various players. The stone crashed against the floor heavily, and the floor shook for a while, which allowed everyone to clearly sense the weight of the Dragon Breaker Stone and how sturdy it was.

  "Damn it!"

  The group of players at the entrance were extremely shocked and reacted in different ways. Some of them rushed in, while others avoided it by retreating outside.

  "We're blocked outside?!"

  "Damn it! I'm shut outside!"

  But… it was also a form of luck.

  There were around twenty players who managed to enter the front
hall of Sky Demon Sect. When they saw that they had been locked inside the hall, they panicked. They drew close to the Dragon Breaker Stone and touched it with stark pale faces.

  "Damn it, we can't go out."

  They redirected their gazes then and looked in the direction of the altar. At that moment, they finally had a vague notion that the legendary Sky Demon Secret Cave was about to be opened.

  The group was both fearful and happy.

  They were afraid because they were trapped with Happy and his party. They did not know whether he and the others would attack them.

  And they were delighted because they were fortunate enough to witness the Sky Demon Secret Cave being activated.

  But the next second, as the increasingly clearer and more frequent sounds of springs could be heard, stone doors suddenly rose up from two sides of the hall.

  They rose one after another, and they made the people from Mu Clan and Wind Assault Tower even tenser!

  "Why isn't it open yet?"

  "Look! Something is coming out!"

  "What the heck?!"

  On the other side, the players who had rushed in recklessly moved to the center of the front hall as the mechanism was activated, and they became the first to notice the situation inside the stone doors.

  Once they rose up, ghastly green light, which definitely came from someone's eyes, shone inside them. Some of the rather timid players could not help but scream and rush to the altar.

  Whoosh!

  The first black shadow charged out of one stone door.

  Happy and the others were keen and attentive. They quickly saw that the thing that created afterimages in the air was a fierce creature, but its body shone with a faint metallic glow, showing that it was not a creature with life. It was a beast puppet.

  Based on its speed, it was much faster than the puppet guards in the royal mausoleum!

  More than ten beast puppets which looked like leopards rushed out from each of the stone doors. There were hundreds of them from the twenty-four stone doors, and they instantly turned the originally spacious hall a little cramped.

  Aside from Happy, everyone's faces turned pale.

  Terrified screams rose from the center of the hall.

  Chapter 603 - Fire Wolf, Sever

  "Damn it."

  "Why are there so many of them? They are all Moksha Realm beast puppets."

  The people from Wind Assault Tower all had rather unpleasant expressions. As they expected, the mechanism was a trap, and it was not of average difficulty either.

  In the blink of an eye, the players who had entered to watch the fun became the first batch of prey for the large group of beast puppets.

  Happy and the others watched indifferently as the twenty or so people were surrounded by the beast puppets and were either torn to shreds in the air or were overrun by the hoard. Some were even slammed down to the ground by the beast puppets who had jumped high above them.

  The twenty or so people instantly suffered the consequence of following a group of people into a place where they did not know what was going to happen. It was a disaster caused by curiosity.

  "They're all Moksha Realm beast puppets… They won't be easy to deal with."

  Silver Wolf remembered that when he was in the royal mausoleum, it took awhile to win against the puppet generals, and they were just at the peak of Life and Death Realm.

  Right then though, they had run into beast puppets who were much more agile and made of sturdier material. And by the looks of it, there were more than a hundred of them. Their group of six would be exhausted just by trying to fight against them.

  Wind Chimes already had her Six-stringed Demonic Zither in hand, and she calmly threw a sound blade at the closest beast puppet. When it crashed into the puppet's body, there was no effect whatsoever, and her expression instantly changed.

  "Their defense is nearly at Inaction Realm."

  Phantasmal Shadow said nothing. She had been paying attention to Happy and his party's reaction. When she saw that even Silver Wolf and Wind Chimes found that the puppets were bothersome, she quirked her eyebrows and g.r.o.a.n.e.d inwardly.

  There was no way she could not tell just how powerful the beast puppets were. However, it was true that she did not expect that there would be such traps. The most dangerous scenario she had imagined had just been a few Inaction Realm elites appearing, but there was Happy, Silver Wolf, and the others around. Along with the people from Wind Assault Tower, it would not be hard for them to get through that. But who could have guessed that they would instead be faced with beast puppets that were even harder to deal with than a group of Inaction Realm martial artists.

  Happy said nothing. He had remained silent for a long time while ignoring the group of unfamiliar players who were in extreme misery. He just kept staring at the Recondite Steel Gate to the right with burning eyes.

  As if in answer to his call, the stone doors stopped coughing up beast puppets, and the Recondite Steel Gate rose up slowly with dull but loud bangs.

  Phantasmal Shadow and her party quickly noticed that and were delighted. "The entrance to Sky Demon Secret Cave has opened!"

  But right when they said those words, they noticed a solemn expression appear on Happy's face, even though it had been calm and indifferent before. They quickly stopped talking and cast their eyes in the direction of the Recondite Steel Gate once more.

  Thud!

  The floor of the front hall of Sky Demon Sect trembled slightly, and dust rose into the air.

  "What the heck is this?"

  Everyone's gazes were attracted in that direction.

  At that moment, another dull thud rose and rang through the hall. The floor trembled slightly as if something heavy had drawn even nearer.

  Happy frowned. He could sense that everyone's emotions had become solemn and tense as the sounds drew closer, so he immediately said, "Careful. The people over there will not last for much longer. Prepare for battle."

  However, there was no one who would delight in their misery at that moment.

  The deaths of those people meant that the beast puppets' attention would turn to the altar.

  The mysterious heavy footsteps were also heading toward their direction from the large Recondite Steel Gate, and soon, half of a huge beast puppet's head came out of the Recondite Steel Gate in a terrifying manner. Its large mouth was filled with fire while it stared in their direction with great hostility. The temperature in the entire hall instantly rose by a lot.

  The only thing worth rejoicing was that the huge beast puppet did not seem to be able to come out. It stopped at the Recondite Steel Gate, guarding Sky Demon Secret Cave.

  Silence fell among the two groups.

  "Big Brother Medicinal Stone, Momo, Silver Wolf go and search for the weak joints in those beast puppets. Little North, you're in charge of providing assistance."

  After saying that, Happy expressionlessly went to face the countless beast puppets who came charging at them with an aggressive presence. He resolutely activated Golden Bell Cocoon and pounced onto the beast puppets.

  Phantasmal Shadow and her party were stunned speechless.

  Happy moved like a small boat in a raging sea. He swayed about while countless waves struck at him. He avoided the lightning fast claws and fangs and miraculously remained unharmed.

  Phantasmal Shadow's group stared at Happy's back for a long time while he left into the distance. Even when he was completely submerged in the rising and falling beast puppet sea, they could not look away.

  "I finally understand why Zhou Yu lost to him and why even One Emperor believes that he is the most worthy opponent."

  Wu Kuo was beside Phantasmal Shadow to protect her while they rushed at the beast puppet closest to them. They just sent them flying away, since that was all they could do. If they focused their full strength to handle one beast puppet, they would inevitably be taken advantage of by other beast puppets. Aside from Happy, there was no one in the cave who could get rid of any beast pup
pets within a short period of time.

  That included Silver Wolf and the others. They were all gathered together, and with extraordinary defense, they worked as one to f.o.r.c.i.b.l.y disassemble a few beast puppets.

  "Damn it, why is it getting hotter?"

  Soon after they began their attack, they felt that the temperature around them seemed to be continuously rising, and breathing became difficult. Whenever they attacked, they gasped for breath.

  Silver Wolf was in the best condition. The others found the heat increasingly more difficult to bear and started to have a very hard time fighting against the beast puppets.

  All-powerful Medicinal Stone quickly struck the joints of the beast puppets nearby while he shouted loudly, "The third trap is the beast puppets from the stone doors, and the fourth trap should be that big guy!

  "It can't move, but it's the biggest trap here! Its purpose is to evaporate all of the air in the hall! Damn it! Once enough time passes, we'll run out of oxygen in the hall and die!"

  It was as if a basin of cold water had been poured over their heads, and everyone was shocked. It was only at that moment that they remembered the flames in the giant wolf's mouth!

  They were in a sealed hall, and fire in it could kill all invaders! If they didn't leave soon, the beast puppets could just stop and watch without any need to attack as they all choked to death by themselves.

  While everyone worried about that, sparks came from the direction of the Recondite Steel Gate, along with the sounds of many beast puppets being sent flying away.

  All-powerful Medicinal Stone's lightness skill was the best among the group. He moved back, jumped up, and looked into the distance, and he was just in time to see Happy sending a group of beast puppets tumbling on the ground because of the shock from his Golden Bell Cocoon. There were quite a number of damaged components scattered around the area.

  By himself, Happy had already arrived near the huge Fire Wolf's head.