Revelation of the Way of Heaven

Chapter 131 The Dungeon

"Is this a dungeon?" Guo Shiyi asked, holding up a glow stick and looking around the corridor with a curious expression.

The walls on both sides of the corridor were already quite mottled, with dust and cobwebs covering almost every corner. There were many stone stands that looked like candlesticks hanging on the walls, which seemed to be tools used for lighting in the prison cells.

Because so much time had passed, the air here smelled strange, and if it weren't for their strong curiosity, they would have wanted to leave immediately.

"There's an entrance over here," Xiaoying said, pointing to the house in the center of the circle on the right.

They went inside through the entrance and, by the faint light of the glow sticks, took a look around. The furnishings were very simple, with only a bed, chairs, and a table. On the table were simple instruments of torture such as whips and wooden sticks, which seemed to be a place where the prison guards would rest temporarily.

"It really is a dungeon. I don't think we'll find anything in a place like this," Guo Shiyi said disappointedly.

"Let's go in and take a look. Maybe there's treasure hidden inside," Xiaoying said reluctantly.

"How could there be treasure in a dungeon?" Qin Xiaochuan said, somewhat speechless. "But since we're already this far, let's go in and take a look. Let's see what ancient dungeons were like and what kind of people were imprisoned inside."

"In that case, let's go," Han Kexin said calmly, and took the lead into the depths of the dungeon.

Because this dungeon is circular, its structure is spiral-shaped, with the central passageway constantly spiraling downwards.

Moreover, the further down the corridor you go, the wider and more complex the dungeon becomes. The cells on the right side change from one row to two rows, and several more rooms are added to the left side. There are not only places for guards to rest temporarily, but also torture chambers and interrogation rooms, all filled with all kinds of complicated torture instruments.

Each time they went down a floor, they encountered a group of skeleton monsters, but having learned from their previous experience, they were able to eliminate them all in a short time.

"Uncle is so amazing." The little girl finally praised him generously, but Qin Xiaochuan didn't feel any sense of honor at this moment.

Of course, the cell wasn't empty. As they spiraled down the corridor for almost a full circle, all sorts of skeletons began to appear in the cell. These skeletons included human skeletons, witch skeletons, and demon skeletons, all seemingly sentenced to life imprisonment.

"Wow! It's so big! Is it a dinosaur?" Xiaoying grabbed the two iron bars of a cell and stared in disbelief at the enormous creature inside.

"There are no dinosaurs here. Dinosaurs from that time are already extinct," he said to her speechlessly.

The cell contained the skeleton of a demon lying on the ground. Even lying on the ground, it was still more than two meters tall. The cell where it was imprisoned was also designed to be very large, about 100 square meters.

Although they could no longer discern the original appearance of the skeleton, they could roughly tell that it had thick limbs, a long tail, and many thick, rotten iron chains that were locked around the demon skeleton. The chains were covered with white spider webs, indicating that although the witch clan had captured it, they still had a strong sense of fear towards it.

"Don't you guys find this a little strange?" Guo Shiyi suddenly asked the others.

"What's wrong?" Qin Xiaochuan looked at her, puzzled.

"These skeletons outside the cells must be the cell guards, but why are they all human and not a single one of the witches?"

After thinking for a moment, he said, "Perhaps it's because humans had a relatively low status back then, so they were all assigned to guard dungeons like this."

"But there should be one or two members of the Witch Clan, right? After all, this place is so important. Are the Witch Clan really so comfortable leaving it entirely to the humans to guard?"

"That makes sense, but whatever, it happened thousands of years ago, and the mystery will probably never be solved," he said to her with a smile.

Guo Shiyi nodded and did not delve further into the matter. They continued down the corridor, eliminating wave after wave of skeleton monsters.

As you descend, the number and size of the skeletons in the dungeon increase, while the torture instruments in the torture chamber become increasingly bizarre, indicating that the deeper you go in the dungeon, the more terrifying the characters you imprison.

"Just how deep is this dungeon? We've been walking for so long and we still haven't reached the bottom," Guo Shiyi said with some dissatisfaction.

"How can they have so many prisoners to hold? I'm so hungry from walking, I really want to eat," Xiaoying said unhappily.

Qin Xiaochuan took a bag of cookies out of his backpack and handed it to her, saying speechlessly, "Didn't you insist on coming down to take a look?"

"I thought we'd reach the bottom soon, but who knew this dungeon would be so big," the little girl pouted.

"Huh, why aren't there any skeletons on this floor?" Guo Shiyi suddenly said in surprise.

Her words made everyone realize that something was wrong. Previously, there were waves of skeleton monsters on each floor, and usually as soon as they entered the next floor, the skeleton monsters would swarm over. But this floor, the corridor was still quiet, and deep inside the dungeon, there was only darkness.

"Be careful, something's not right," Han Kexin warned them.

Guo Shiyi threw the glow stick in her hand forward. The blue light drove away the darkness and revealed the somewhat mottled walls inside. Five meters in front of them, a skeleton monster sat cross-legged in the middle of the passageway.

"What? There's only one skeleton monster, and it's sitting on the ground," Qin Xiaochuan said in surprise. "It doesn't seem like this skeleton monster intends to attack."

"We can't let our guard down," Han Kexin said coldly. "It's not going to be welcoming us."

"Never mind it, let's try casting a skill first." With a thought, a fireball appeared in front of him.

"&$%&$%……"

Just as he was about to unleash the fireball, the skeleton monster in front of him suddenly opened its mouth and said something, but unfortunately its speech was so strange that no one could understand it.

"Hey, did I see that right? That skeleton monster seemed to have started talking." He asked Guo Shiyi uncertainly.

"It seems... to be..." Guo Shiyi's face was also full of disbelief.

"&$%&$%&&……"

"Wow, this skeleton monster is sentient!" Xiaoying exclaimed, pointing at the skeleton monster.

Has it become a spirit? He looked at the skeleton monster, which just then raised its head. Two red lights suddenly appeared in its two originally dark eye sockets. At the same time, its jawbone moved up and down twice, making that strange sound again.

"Gulp." He swallowed hard; this skeleton monster was truly sentient.

"Is it trying to tell us something?" Guo Shiyi asked, frowning.

"It looks like it, but the language of ancient times is completely different from that of today," Han Kexin said with a slight nod.

"&$%&$%……"

The skeleton monster shouted at them again, this time its voice was dozens of decibels louder, and the echo lingered in the dungeon for a long time. Although they didn't know what it was saying, they could still feel the anger and intimidation in its tone.

"It looks like it's about to make a move. Should we attack?" Guo Shiyi asked.

"I think it wants us to leave this place," Qin Xiaochuan said. "If there's no need to take action, it's best not to. After all, it has been cultivating here for thousands of years and has finally become a spirit. It would be unreasonable for us to ruin its cultivation for no reason."