Chapter 615: Chapter 615: Traditional Characters, Nine Deaths!

Lu Chen multitasked with single-minded devotion.

He only absorbed the Chaos Spirit Power within range in front of him while also controlling the Chaos Spirit Power behind him to prevent it from surging over to this area.

The idea was simple: to eliminate anything in front of him that could affect him as much as possible.

Including his own Chaos Spirit Power.

However, it was a pity to waste it, so naturally he wanted to make full use of this power, which would also enhance his own strength.

Since the Hateful Heaven Pupil Technique and the Void-Breaking Spiritual Eyes Technique obviously couldn’t guarantee that Lu Chen’s sight was true, he simply decided to rely only on his own eye!

As long as he could see clearly through this corridor, it was fine!

As the Spiritual Power receded, Lu Chen’s naked eye could also see clearly what lay within the corridor.

He saw.

The stone walls on both sides were entirely covered with murals of different styles!

One side depicted beasts, ancient mystical beasts.

The other side depicted humans!

Their expressions exaggerated, their attire strange.

"If the beasts are ancient mystical beasts, then these humans... could they be ancient cultivators?"

Lu Chen was also surprised, his gaze sweeping over them but he dared not look too long, quickly retracting his sight towards the depths of the corridor.

However, inadvertently, Lu Chen looked down at the floor.

The ground was featureless and extremely smooth, exactly the same as when he had seen it through the Chaos Spirit Power before.

But after the Chaos Spirit Power dissipated, he realized that the ground was also covered with murals!

Only these murals were different from those on the sides.

They were a series of circles, each containing complex penned characters!

A circle for each character.

Lu Chen had never seen this script before, but he recognized every character.

"Ancient script, more complex strokes, seems there’s also something known as traditional characters!"

Lu Chen recalled carefully, when he was young, he would learn how to read at the Lu Family as well as practice cultivation.

One day, he saw similar characters and, out of curiosity, asked his teacher.

The teacher had said they were traditional characters which were not easy to write, use or recognize, so after generations of scholars’ evolution, they had developed into their modern form.

"From this, it can be seen that this puzzle... must have existed for a very long time!"

Lu Chen thought to himself, his gaze however scanning over all the characters within the circles.

The arrangement of characters was neat, densely packed.

Each circle was about the size of his face, just enough to step on with one foot.

But these characters, whether read horizontally, vertically, or diagonally, did not form a sentence, not even a word!

"Could it be that I need to walk over these characters and the ones I step on will form a sentence, causing a change in this passage?"

Lu Chen thought as such, glanced back at the Ice Spirit Pearl which had stopped absorbing Spiritual Power, and took it back into his possession.

After some thought, he tucked the Ice Spirit Pearl into his mouth and freed up his hand to pull out the Ice Jib Fan.

Feeling he had made thorough preparations, Lu Chen then turned his attention to the several characters closest to him.

"Humans have nine channels, so I’ll start with nine!"

Nine was the traditional character "九," positioned in the second row ahead of him, and Lu Chen could easily step over it.

He stepped onto "九" with his right foot and, once he steadied himself, his body suddenly sank slightly!

Lu Chen instinctively thought to retreat but ceased sinking.

In front of him, light flickered and changes suddenly occurred!

He saw that the countless circles also sank indiscriminately!

They didn’t disappear but sank lower than the "九" he was standing on!

As for the ones that hadn’t moved, they remained at their original height.

Not only that.

These circles slowly radiated a luminance.

Moreover, the binding force of "九" on his foot had disappeared at some unknown time.

"Is it... that the next choices are only among the characters in these circles?"

Lu Chen craned his neck trying to see, but discovered that the characters were enveloped in light and utterly indiscernible!

"This is too strange," Lu Chen murmured, "then I might as well just randomly choose one."

Lu Chen looked at the circle nearest to him and then slightly bent his legs, leaping forward!

Right foot leaping, left foot stepping.

His left foot landed precisely in that circle and sank similarly to before, sinking to the same level as "九."

Lu Chen looked back.

The character "玫" was also shining, but with a slight difference, it was still clearly visible.

The other circles radiating light had also changed, sinking even further.

Lu Chen ignored them and looked down at the character his left foot had landed on.

This was not a traditional character.

Or to say, this character had never had a traditional form.

But it made Lu Chen’s complexion turn pale in an instant!

Just because.

It was the character.

"死" (dead)!

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