Wu Chang Jie

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Chapter 171
"Space?"

"Yes, we have checked all the stone rooms here, even the secret passage to Hell that Jiang Qu Lian wanted to hide most was found by us. There is no reason why two exits could not be found. The exits would not disappear out of thin air, so the only possibility is that they are hidden somewhere we did not expect." Fan Wu She glanced at the suspended treasure chest, "We presumed according to common sense that the exit was hidden behind one of the walls. Even the most powerful mechanism or formation, we wouldn't have found anything by tearing down the wall. Plus, the stone room hasn't changed in the meantime, so there's no such thing as moving suddenly, but instead of finding the exit, we found an unexpected secret passage. This means that our method is working, but we're looking in the wrong place."

"But we've checked every single wall." Xie Bi An looked at the sword marks all over the wall. The gullies were left by sword Qi almost every three feet. Although this sword Qi did not penetrate the stone wall, but through the depth, vibration and perception of the returning force, he could immediately tell whether the wall was solid or hollow.

"Really?" Fan Wu She held out his hand, his long slender fingers facing upwards.

Xie Bi An was startled, "You mean, the wall above our heads and below our feet?"

"Yes, this is what I've guessed; a spell formation that changes space." Fan Wu She analyzed, "When we entered this underground palace, we had already entered this tricky formation without knowing it. In fact, the twenty-four stone rooms had never changed before. It was the formation that changed about once an hour, and the reason why this formation could fool us was because the whole underground palace was not built on a flat surface."

It was a sudden realization for Xie Bi An. He was shocked with goosebumps: "The 24 stone rooms of this treasure trove were built from different planes. The roof of one room could be the floor or sidewall of another room. People could only walk on the flat floor and objects would only fall down. The function of this spell was to make us not know even if we walked onto the wall!"

Fan Wu She nodded his head.

Xie Bi An remembered those stone rooms; dug in a mess, one piece from the east and one from the west, some big and some small, some slanted and some upright, not tidy at all. Some places would have a slight slope, so these were all to confuse the intruders. But there was still a question in his mind, "But if that's the case, why didn't we dig and pass through the other stone rooms when we examined those walls?"

"Because the wall between the two stone rooms are five or six feet thick, which is as thick as solid, but the wall that leads to the secret passage to Hell cannot be built that thick; there must be a mechanism there. If it is too heavy for the mechanism to carry, the vibrations caused can probably be felt even on the ground."

"That makes sense. What, what about the treasure chest?"

"I think all the magical treasures here were individually enchanted, because they are active in relation to the fixed stone room. Adding a few pieces today, missing a few tomorrow, and changing locations the day after. A spell formation that is not controlled by anyone cannot make predictions about future variables as well, so it had to re-enchant the variables themselves. Many of the magical treasures in here would have fallen to the ground, and all the furnishings in the underground palace were perfectly symmetrical, and the caster of the formation managed to fool us by disguising the stone rooms and them."

Xie Bi An let out a long breath, "There is such a strange formation in this world. It is truly unheard of." He looked at Fan Wu She with glowing eyes, not hiding the admiration in his eyes, "Wu She, how could you be so clever? This is not something ordinary people would normally think of."