The situation inside Mountain Villa of Ten Thousand Beasts was incredibly complicated.
It gave off the feeling of Sky Demon Secret Cave. The entire place was filled with traps in the walls, ceiling, flagstone tiles, near the plants, under the streams, the plants inside the houses, decorations, doors, and even the windows. There were some inconspicuous holes on them that can shoot the most fatal hidden weapons at any moment.
Happy was filled with fear with each step he took.
Also, if a courtyard was filled with more than fifty people, a destructive trap will be triggered, such as copper oil that will shoot out from all corners and will certainly cause copper toxicity, along with poison needles that were packed so densely that no gaps could be found between them.
Hence, even though the mountain villa was incredibly popular, only the area outside was popular. Very few people will enter the mountain villa, because aside from a handful of top-class elites, they will usually not dare to do so, and they also could not enter deep into the place.
One Emperor, Phantasmal Shadow, and Evil Emperor!
It was said that Phantasmal Shadow had paid quite the huge price for it. She sacrificed a lot of top-class fighters from Wind Assault Tower before she managed to enter Virtue Gathering Hall.
Mountain Villa of Ten Thousand Beasts was truly a dangerous place in the game.
However, to Happy, this place was the best training place for him.
At the very least, there will not be a dense wave of enemies who will appear in Mountain Villa of Ten Thousand Beasts, and no one will take the risk of being baptized by countless traps to search for him.
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"I remember that the information on the forums stated that I cannot jump high in the mountain villa, and especially jump over the walls, or I will be attacked by nonstop Hill Breaker Needles. This stupid barbaric merchant, just how much money did he throw in here…?"
He moved through the first courtyard.
Since Hunter Clan had already cleared up the place beforehand, no enemies could be sighted here. He moved through a few traps which had been destroyed, and Happy arrived before an arched door.
Wind blew above his head.
At the moment he moved through the arched door, he suddenly felt a sharp, metallic spike falling down above his head.
Happy said nothing. He turned his head around to cast a glance at the seemingly harmless arched door, which had returned to how it originally looked like, and frowned. He straightened his body and sized up the situation in the second courtyard.
It was said that even the lucky ones who need to go through at least nine courtyards if they wanted to head from the outside of the mountain villa into the innermost side. Those who were unlucky might end up running round in circles in the maze forever.
With each courtyard a person entered, the number of traps that person faced will increase, and the strength of the mountain villa's disciples will also increase by leaps and bounds.
At the moment Happy entered the second courtyard, he was stunned.
It was empty inside.
But if he looked carefully, he will notice that aside from the fact that this place had previously reared a large group of beasts, there were plenty of places that were filled with the tracks and claw marks from beasts, and there were also some animal poop and fur.
'Hunter Clan should have lured the beast tamer in this place outside. I'll just go straight to the third courtyard…' When he saw what was off about the place, Happy surveyed the area for a while, and his gaze landed on the house across the stream, which also happened to be shut tightly.
A group of people's footsteps rose from behind him, and the people from Hunter Clan followed Happy inside.
When the party leader of Hunter Clan saw that Happy had already arrived in front of the house, he could not help but give a reminder to Happy. "Brother! It's best if you don't enter the houses in Mountain Villa of Ten Thousand Beasts."
"Why?" Happy stopped, turned around, and stared at the party leader in surprise.
The latter paused for a moment. "Brother, didn't you hear about a saying circulating about this place? When you run into a house, don't enter it." The people from Hunter Clan nodded, and they looked incredibly solemn.
Happy said nothing, but when the party leader saw that Happy did not believe him, he quickly explained. "There are plenty of traps in Mountain Villa of Ten Thousand Beasts, and it's a real dangerous place. However, if you stay in the courtyard, you'll have plenty of space to move around, and it's actually very easy to avoid them. Normal players will be fine if they just pay attention to the place, but it's different in the houses."
"Please, go on."
When they heard Happy's reply, Hunter Clan exchanged a glance with each other.
'Knew it.
'This person is Chinese, but he doesn't even know about the basic situation in Mountain Villa of Ten Thousand Beasts but is so strong? He's definitely Happy, the comatose player who is recently trending online!'
"Each of the structures in Mountain Villa of Ten Thousand Beasts is meticulously created by master craftsmen and trap masters. Each house is practically a death trap! Even though rumors have it that decent items can be found in the cupboards and c.h.e.s.ts in the houses, those places are very dangerous. The most common difficulty can already easily kill a group of Moksha Realm elites. Once the traps are triggered, you won't even know how you died, and each of them has a different pattern. Even top-class elites won't dare to enter them easily, because they will be risking their lives there! There are quite a lot of people from Dragon Rank and Phoenix Rank who died here over the past half a year."
World of Martial Arts had been in operation for a long time, and he had truly never run into a region like this, which made his heart itch with d.e.s.i.r.e. If he did not go in to see what was going on and was deterred because of a few sentences, he will not be Happy.
"Has anyone ever managed to benefit from the inside?"
"Yes, but very few." The party leader's tone was strange, as if he noticed that Happy did not intend to give up.
Happy smiled. "If yes, then it's good. Tell me, what sort of items did the people who come out get?"
"I can't really say, but there are definitely medicinal pills, valuable treasures from the palace, martial art manuals and equipment."
"I heard that two months ago, someone managed to get a Moksha Realm hidden weapon manual called Snow Shadow Dart, and he sold it for fifty million taels of silver." The Gu poison user behind the party leader chimed up.
Happy was instantly tempted.
Moksha Realm hidden weapon manuals were something that even NPCs at the peak of Inaction Realm seldom dropped. Happy had killed countless of them in the other world, but he never managed to get even a single manual. Those things were indeed hot-selling items.
Their grades can even compare to Inaction Realm martial art manuals…
Coincidentally, Happy will soon reach Moksha Realm, and he will need martial art manuals at Moksha Realm in the near future.
At that moment, instead of wasting time to gather information about Moksha Realm martial art manuals, it would be better to spend more time in training, and while he trained, he can also search for first-class martial art manuals in the mountain villa.
He believed that if he can get a Moksha Realm martial art manual in the mountain villa, no matter how bad his luck was, that Moksha Realm martial art manual should not be any weaker than Universe's Lightning Destruction Art.
"I'm going in! Please, go on ahead with whatever you're doing," Happy suddenly said.
The people from Hunter Clan saw an incredibly great wave of confidence and determination in Happy's eyes and words.
The party leader could not continue trying to convince Happy against his idea. "If that's the case, we'll wish that you can come out of it safely."
Happy said nothing. He just nodded and turned around to walk into the house not far away.
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It was a t
wo-story, old, and yellow building. It looked quite somber and stern, and by the sides of the shut door on the stairs were two stone lions that were slightly tilted. They looked alive, dignified, and fierce when they opened their mountains, and they were just like divine beasts protecting the building.
"Will he be alright?"
"Who knows?" the party leader answered the Gu poison user quietly.
The group looked back and forth the house in front of them.
Many of the people in the area were elites in traps, but they still did not have a lot of knowledge regarding the most dangerous part in Mountain Villa of Ten Thousand Beasts. Since they had the chance to understand the traps in this place now, they will naturally not let that chance slide. They stayed in the area and did not move while they observed all the places that might have traps appear from them.
That included the doors, windows, stairs, and stone statues outside the door.
Their gazes were heated.
At that moment, Happy stepped on the steps, and the sound of springs rose!
The door opened. The stone lions by the side of the stairs coughed up a flying needle as thin as a hair simultaneously.
At the same time, three longspears shot out abruptly and horizontally from within the house.
None of this slowed Happy down in the slightest.
He suddenly sped up, and the fine needles all landed on the pillars across them.
When he faced the longspears that came flying at him horizontally, Happy did not even bother blinking. He just moved through the gaps between the longspears.
The entire process of the traps being launched to Happy dodging the traps was over in an instant.
His movements were not as exaggerated as other normal players when they avoided the traps!
"Be careful of the area above!" The group of trap masters reminded Happy simultaneously.
Before their voices even faded away, a large wave of arrows suddenly shot down from a dark area under a bright plate at the first floor of the house.
Happy did not retreat, but instead advanced forward. He shot into the house ahead of the arrows.
Thud! Thud!
Nearly one hundred arrows packed closely together pierced into the entrance and steps. In a flash, the party leader saw Happy quickly slap away a chilling, white light that shot out of the house. Then, the door fell shut with a thud, and whatever was inside was completely blocked from their sight.
"How fast!"
The group of trap masters looked at the three longspears stabbing the area outside the house, the fine needles on the two pillars, and the arrows that filled the steps, and they felt chills go up their spines.
Three layers… no, four. There were four layers of continuous traps, and they could instantly kill a Moksha Realm elite, but they did not manage to even cause a Life and Death Realm player take one step back!
Chapter 933 - Delightful Surprise in a Predicament!
Happy had just opened the door, and four traps were triggered in succession, and the group from Hunter Clan, who stayed outside, considered themselves lucky for not challenging the place.
The traps came from four different directions.
The left, right, from above, and right ahead of Happy.
Even top-class elites will have a hard time instantaneously blocking hidden weapons that came from everywhere or even dodging them accurately while keeping their composure.
This caused them to consider themselves lucky for not having the thought of exploring the houses in Mountain Villa of Ten Thousand Beasts in the past.
Opening the door itself was already incredibly difficult and dangerous, and following that line of logic, there was not even a need to imagine just how dangerous it will be inside!
The group of people stared at the house, which had become silent once more, with storms raging in their hearts. They did not want to leave even after a long time had passed.
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'What an ingenious trap.'
Happy also had his fighting spirit lit by how well the house decided to "take care" of him when he was still outside, but at the moment he went inside the house, he quickly sensed that there was an abnormal and dangerous scent filling the house. It was rather fragrant, and it was one that will cause people to feel dazed.
This scent will also make a person feel at ease, and their movements will also slow down.
'This is bad! It's poison!'
When he noticed that the scent in the house was off, Happy wanted to bring out his antidote, but very soon, a feeling as if he was being dragged came suddenly from the floor.
His feet slipped.
The patterns on the floor suddenly looked as if they had become alive, and like a huge, gaping mouth, it closed up on him with a loud whoosh and bound Happy.
'Wild silk?'
Happy was caught off guard, and he instantly fell into the trap. The threads instantly tightened around him, and he was bound so tightly that he was like a dumpling before he was hung in the air.
Thud! Thud! Thud!
Right when the trap formed by the wild silk was triggered, it immediately activated the traps from four directions in the hall. The sound of springs were heard, and black holes opened up before arrows shot out from them.
Dozens of arrows went flying at him from all directions when Happy was lifted into the air, was bound, and could not break free.
In an instant, a situation guaranteeing certain death was formed!
'Loyalty to Protect the Country!'
Due to the shock triggered by this life and death situation, Happy finally forced himself to snap out of the control from the strange fragrance in the house. His gaze turned cold, and at the moment the arrows were about to touch him, an old, golden bell rose from him, and it perfectly knocked away all the arrows with a tremor.
The arrows fell to the floor with tinkling sounds.
All sorts of traps were then activated, and a wave of hidden weapons came flying at him violently in the house.
When he saw this, even if Happy was brave because of how skilled he was, he still broke out in cold sweat.
He was stunned for two or three seconds while he watched the disorderly and dangerous room from above as well as the fire burning in the room next door, and he gulped laboriously.
"Which bastard designed so many darn traps over here?" Happy cursed while fear pounded in his heart. "It's no wonder why even top-class elites don't dare to come inside and take risks. This isn't even taking risks anymore, but going off to die…"
Fortunately, he fell into the first trap, which was why he didn't need to be tormented by all the strange traps in the room, or else, he might have actually gone mad by now.
There was also the room to the side. There were two big boxes inside, but once the steel fence came down and the doors as well as windows were shut, it immediately turned into an airtight, enclosed compartment made of steel. It was burning fiercely inside right now, and anyone who went inside will not even be able to come out.
Half a minute passed, and that strange fragrance was still wafting around his nose.
Happy felt as if there was fog in his mind, and he really wanted to sleep.
'Darn it… there's poison as well?'
Happy had the great urge to kill someone right now.
One of them was a fragrant poison that can cause a person's nerves to become numb and his or her movements to slow down.
One was an airtight metallic cage filled with fire.
And the last was the wild silk trap that currently bound him.
When he thought about the wild silk that bound him, Happy really wanted to curse that barbaric merchant to his death.
He actually used such a precious and noble item to kill! But there was something worse: wild silk cannot be damaged by normal weapons, and even supreme grade weapons will have a hard time cutting it off.
Once a person was bound, the more he struggled, the tighter it will bind him!
In the end, wild silk can even bind a per
son so tightly that it can disfigure him, and he will suffocate to death.
'No. I have to think of a way to break free of this stupid wild silk…
'The other Chen Kaixin can read information over here from my brain. If that little brat knows that I, Happy, who can command the world as I please, ends up dead by wild silk all because I don't have those ultimate techniques, he'll definitely laugh at me…'
He tried shrinking his bones, but it did not work.
Wild silk was incredibly pliable and tough. If he shrank, it will immediately bind him tighter, and it was absolutely meaningless.
Golden Bell Cocoon!
He activated his body fortification.
A feeling as if he had countless sharp objects prodding into him immediately assaulted his senses.
Those accursed wild silk had an effect on body fortifications. It can completely suppress it.
But what was strange was that at the moment his body was injured, Happy suddenly sensed Tendon Changing Classic activating on its own.
A faint qi flow slowly circulated in his meridian system.
Aside from the pain on his body diminishing slightly, that qi flow also seemed to be beginning the trip of widening his meridian system slightly. In fact, most of that strange fragrance in the whole house that caused him to be slightly dazed was chased away, and his mind became much clearer.
"Hmm?" This bizarre situation caused Happy to be incredibly excited!
He quickly meditated so that he can use inner sight to observe his body.
Just as he expected, as wild silk tightened around him, Tendon Changing Classic activated on its own, and the level for this qi cultivation technique also began slowly increasing.
Aside from that, the increase for his Affinity also began increasing much faster than the three full circulations he performed everyday.
It seemed like pain and injuries will activate Tendon Changing Classic, and at the same time, it will also refine Happy's Affinity and body.
This shocking discovery caused Happy to be incredibly stunned. He quickly calmed down from his nerves and was no longer in a hurry to get out of his current predicament.
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