Chapter 500: Endless Maze

Shi Mu glanced around, and his heart skipped a beat.

With him as the center, eight passages seemed to appear in the surrounding gray fog, all of which had towering gray walls on both sides and a gray hollow in the middle.

After some observation, each of these passages, from the entrance, looks exactly the same as the other passages around them, which seems quite strange.

With his eyes fixed, Shi Mu released a strand of divine consciousness and extended it towards one of the passages.

However, after reaching a distance of less than Zhang Xu, that divine sense seemed to hit a soft wall. Although there was no sign of damage, it was unable to move forward.

Seeing this, Shi Mu smiled wryly in his heart.

It seems that I am a little overconfident, thinking that I can easily complete this test, but I don't think that since this is the test left by the ancestor of the white ape, how can it be so difficult?

A golden light flashed in Shi Mu's eyes, and his spiritual powers were instantly activated. His eyes swept across the entrances of the eight passages again, and after careful observation for a while, he still couldn't find any obvious differences.

In desperation, Shi Mu had no choice but to bite the bullet, chose one of them, and walked in slowly.

As a result, he didn't walk for long, and he immediately discovered that the passage was still filled with a layer of fog, but it was much thinner than the fog walls on both sides. He waved his hand and lightly drove the fog away. go.

Seeing this scene, Shi Mu had a whim, and reached out to the fog wall on the left, trying to see if he could pass through the fog wall.

However, when his palm came into contact with the foggy wall, he only felt a icy coldness at the place where he touched it. The touch was no different from that of a solid wall, and he couldn't go through it at all.

Obviously, although these fog walls are formed by the condensation of fog, they have some kind of forbidden protection.

He didn't intend to use force to test it. If the restriction set by the ancestor of the white ape can be broken by a person who has mastered profound arts, then the restriction is meaningless. If one is careless and self-defeating, the gain outweighs the loss.

With this in mind, Shi Mu wasn't too disappointed at the moment, so he calmed down and continued to walk forward.

He walked straight for about a hundred feet in the gray fog passage, and finally came to a wider area, where the fog seemed thinner, like an exit.

Shi Mu frowned, quickened his pace, and walked over.

But when he walked out of the original passage and came to that area, he was immediately a little dumbfounded.

Because he saw eight gray mist passages suddenly appeared around him.

After a look, Shi Mu suddenly found that those passages were exactly the same as the ones he had seen before, even the subtle differences in the passages that he had observed with his spiritual power were all exactly the same .

Did he return to the place where he just started?

Shi Mu was startled, and frowned slightly. Although he didn't understand what was going on in front of him, he didn't panic too much, and just observed the surrounding environment coldly.

Anyway, go back the way you came, and try another way.

Thinking so, Shi Mu turned back the same way, picked a new passage, and walked in.

After a cup of tea, Shi Mu walked out from the end of the passage, and glanced around. As expected, it was the same as the situation after the first passage before.

So, Shi Mu turned back the same way again, chose the third passage and walked in.

...

After tossing back and forth for three hours, Shi Mu walked out of a passage again.

He looked at the eight identical gray passages in front of him, and only then realized the seriousness of the problem, and the cold sweat dripped down his forehead uncontrollably.

He had already tried to walk through all the eight passages starting from the origin, and he also walked through the seven passages that followed, but found that no matter how he walked, what greeted him was the same as the origin.

Generally the same eight channels.

At this moment, he felt as if he was trapped in a strange cycle. The primordial spirit was trapped in place and could not escape, and even if he returned to the original origin, he could not leave this space at all.

His complexion became cloudy and uncertain.

After all, there is a certain time limit for the primordial spirit to leave the body. If the primordial spirit leaves the body for too long, the vitality in the body will slowly fade away. In the end, even if the primordial spirit escapes, it will no longer be able to fit with the body, and it will be troublesome at that time.

Thinking of this, he couldn't help regretting that he was too big to enter here so easily.

After a long time, Shi Mu exhaled lightly, and his expression became firm again.

It's useless to regret now, the only way is to pass the test here, after all, if you don't get the second level of skills, you are very likely to end up in the end.

After a while, he followed his memory again and returned to the original point. He looked at the eight passages ahead and chose the leftmost passage to enter.

Since he couldn't find the right path, he decided to try all the paths in the most primitive way, and he didn't believe he couldn't find the right path.

Half a month passed in a blink of an eye.

Shi Mu stood in a gray passage with a gloomy expression on his face.

In the past half a month, with great perseverance, he tried one road after another, trying a total of no less than ten thousand paths, and even drew a map of the road he traveled.

But it was useless. He still hasn't found the slightest pattern of the passage in this maze, and he is still going around in the maze. Every time he comes out of the passage, he is greeted by seven other passages that look exactly the same.

...

At the same time, Shi Mu retreated to the closed room.

Cai'er squatted lazily on a big tree outside the secret room, squinting her eyes, looking a little drowsy.

There was a sound of footsteps, Cai'er suddenly woke up and looked up.

A tall middle-aged man with a fat body like a ball came over, wearing a small round cap on his head, it was Qi Feng who was in charge.

"Hey, what are you doing here?" Cai Er said after flying down from the roof.

"Master Cai, near the end of the month, I want to report something about the spiritual land to the Palace Master, please let me know." Qi Feng saluted Cai'er and said.

Since Leng Cuihuan practiced in seclusion, Qi Feng has been the head of the attendants.

"Oh, what's the big deal?" Cai'er asked.

"It's not a big deal. Some of the spiritual herbs planted in the spiritual land are already close to maturity, so I want to ask the palace master for instructions on how to deal with it." Qi Feng said.

"Shishi has been retreating recently, you can make up your own mind about these small matters." Cai'er said impatiently.

Qi Feng saw that Cai'er seemed to be in a bad mood, so he quickly agreed and took his leave.

After sending away Qi Feng, Cai'er flew to the roof again and landed. She glanced at the closed gate of the cave, feeling a little depressed in her heart.

Since Shi Mu retreated more than ten days ago, the connection between it and Shi Mu's spiritual consciousness has suddenly become indistinct, and the information he sent in the past has also disappeared without any response.

This kind of situation has never happened before. During the three months of retreat at the Lingquan, Shi Mu at least responded to it, but now there is no news at all. something happened.

...

In the maze restricted by the sky-shattering stick, Shi Mu returned to the starting point at this moment, sitting cross-legged on the ground, looking at the eight passages in front of him and muttering silently, as if he was thinking about something.

He has completely calmed down now, and many attempts have made him understand that it is absolutely impossible to get out of this maze with brute force and random running.

It has been nearly twenty days now, and he is running out of time. He must grasp the mystery of this labyrinth.

Shi Mu closed his eyes, and all the situations encountered in the maze these days emerged in his mind.

There are passages and unpredictable terrain, as if countless lines have drawn a complex pattern in his mind.

A quarter of an hour later, Shi Mu suddenly opened his eyes, his face showing excitement, the golden light in his eyes looked at the eight passages in front of him, and he quickly landed on the second passage on the left, and walked in.

Shi Mu walked in the passage, not very fast, his eyes were shining golden, and he looked around from time to time.

This time, he walked for less than half an hour, and in a flash before his eyes, the road finally came to an end, and eight identical passages appeared in front of him.

A smile appeared on his face, his eyes flickered with gold, and he looked at the eight passages again for a moment, muttering something, as if he was calculating something.

This time he watched for a full hour before finally locking on to the second passage on the right and walking in.

Stepping in, he swept his eyes slightly, and his heart was suddenly happy.

He took a deep breath and continued walking forward.

A quarter of an hour later, he reached the end again, and eight space passages appeared in front of him.

The golden light in Shi Mu's eyes flickered, and he flexed and stretched his fingers, constantly counting, and muttering words in his mouth.

He stayed in front of the passage for a longer time, and after about two hours, he made a choice and stepped into a passage.

At this moment, with a faint confident smile on the corner of his mouth, he strode forward.

In the following time, the same situation appeared one after another. Together with the time at the origin, he made a total of seven choices.

"There should be a final trial..." Shi Mu exhaled softly, muttered to himself, and continued to move forward.

After walking for a quarter of an hour, the passage came to an end. His eyes blurred, and he appeared in a huge space, with eight passages in front of him as usual.

Shi Mu's complexion changed, not because of the eight passages, but in the open space ahead, there was a green-haired young man, hesitating facing the eight passages, walking back and forth in front of the eight passages, as if thinking hard.

This person is thin and thin, but his face is quite clear and handsome, and he looks a bit like a handsome man.

The appearance of Shi Mu also immediately aroused the other party's idea. The person suddenly turned around, looked at Shi Mu, and shouted with a changed expression:

"Who are you? How did you find this place?" (To be continued.)