205: Traps continue

The moment Xiao Zhuo flew into the collapsed city gate of the ancient city, he felt all his magical power instantly shielded by an invisible force.

His entire body, losing the support of magical power, immediately fell.

Without magical power, no spell, Divine Ability, or Law could be cast.

As for his Divine Sense, although suppressed to its limit, it could still cover about a hundred meters around him.

Xiao Zhuo did a somersault in mid-air and landed steadily. Although he lost his magical power, his formidable Physical Body strength was unaffected.

It was just that without magical power, many Moves and Divine Abilities that could enhance the Physical Body could not be used.

Xiao Zhuo tentatively walked out, but he was not obstructed.

He easily walked out of the ancient city.

Instantly, the invisible force shielding his magical power vanished without a trace, and his magical power was fully restored.

"Is it only within the ancient city that magical power cannot be used?" Xiao Zhuo took out the jade tablet and once again communicated with the Tree God's consciousness.

"Little friend! Sealed within this city is an old acquaintance of mine. This power that suppresses all magical power is the Seal Restriction left by Evergreen True Immortal. You only need to follow the map to find my old acquaintance and show him this jade tablet, and he will naturally give you something."

The Tree God's consciousness sent out a mental message and then disappeared again.

Xiao Zhuo's eyes flickered, but he still stepped into the ancient city again.

He had signed a Chaos oath with the Tree God, and this place was special. It was likely that, apart from Body Cultivators like him, ordinary people truly couldn't help the Tree God. Xiao Zhuo believed that the Tree God would not harm him before the oath was fulfilled.

After all, if something happened to him, the Tree God would not get what it wanted.

The ancient city was extremely quiet, seemingly devoid of any living creatures.

Relying on his powerful Physical Body, Xiao Zhuo moved swiftly through the ancient city, scaling walls and flying over rooftops.

He advanced quickly according to the route provided by the Tree God.

"Whoosh!"

A sound of air breaking rang out, and Xiao Zhuo's footsteps paused. He exerted force in his ankles, instantly changing direction.

A bone spear grazed his waist and embedded itself in the ground.

The range of his Divine Sense was not only compressed to less than a hundred meters, but his reaction speed was also more than halved.

Xiao Zhuo's heart tightened. This was with the map provided by the Tree God, already knowing that this area was very likely to contain traps.

If he had been a fraction of a second slower, there would have been a hole in his waist.

His gaze swept around, and Xiao Zhuo's vigilance was at its highest.

Taking a deep breath, his steps became swift, and his speed instantly surged as he rushed forward.

Almost the instant he charged, bone spears appeared one after another. These bone spears were shot from collapsed houses.

Moreover, they were traceless, and he could only rely on his own reaction speed to dodge. The power of the bone spears was also extraordinary; each one could break through the Physical Body defense of a Body Cultivator Undergoing Tribulation.

Even Xiao Zhuo, without magical power, dared not easily withstand several of them head-on, so he had to force his way through by relying on his speed and reactions.

This bone spear death trap was more than ten miles long. Xiao Zhuo dodged and advanced, taking a full half an incense stick of time to get through, and he was hit several times in between.

Although he wasn't injured, it was far from pleasant.

If it were an ordinary Body Cultivator Undergoing Tribulation, they would probably have perished there.

No wonder the Tree God said that even if others obtained the token, they probably couldn't help it.

This was only the first dangerous section marked on the map. The city was enormous, and according to the map's scale, it covered at least several hundred miles around.

And there were more than a dozen marked dangerous areas, all of which were unavoidable paths.

This made Xiao Zhuo's face full of solemnity. Although he had long known that the Tree God's benefits would not be easy to obtain, Xiao Zhuo now realized that he had still underestimated the difficulty.

Xiao Zhuo continued to run and soon reached the next dangerous area marked on the map, which was a seemingly ordinary square.

However, the moment Xiao Zhuo stepped onto the edge of the square, the solid flagstones beneath his feet suddenly softened and flowed!

The entire square instantly transformed into a viscous, deep sea of quicksand.

Even more bizarre, this sand sea did not swallow downwards, but instead produced an irresistible upward suction force!

"Gravity reversal?!" Xiao Zhuo's heart was violently shaken.

His body was uncontrollably pulled upwards, as if to be thrown into the embrace of the sky.

He let out a low roar, and the innate Body Refining technique of the "Thousand Jin Drop" erupted. His leg muscles bulged like Dragons, and he stomped downwards fiercely!

"Boom!" He stomped a deep pit in the flowing sand beneath his feet, but the surrounding sand immediately filled it in, and the upward suction force suddenly intensified.

Pure Physical Body strength resisted the twisted Law of this area.

Each step he took was as heavy as a mountain, and each time he lifted his leg, he felt as if he was tearing at invisible shackles.

The quicksand not only pulled upwards but also had a strong stickiness, as if countless hands were pulling at his legs.

A sharp glint flashed in Xiao Zhuo's eyes. He no longer tried to completely resist the upward suction force, but rather used it to his advantage!

He bent his knees sharply, then, like a cannonball, using the upward suction force and his own terrifying explosive power, he shot diagonally forward—towards the top of a giant stone pillar on the opposite side of the square!

His body cut a dangerous arc through the air, and he was about to hit the stone pillar.

He extended his hands, fingers like hooks, and fiercely dug them into the hard surface of the stone pillar!

Stone chips flew, and he hung on the stone pillar, temporarily escaping the entanglement of the quicksand.

However, the sand sea below, like a living creature, rolled and crept towards him, trying to drag him back into the abyss.

Without hesitation, Xiao Zhuo used both his hands and feet, climbing rapidly up the stone pillar like an ape, until he reached the top of the stone pillar.

He observed for a moment and found that the square was not entirely impassable; only certain specific "quicksand trap" areas had deadly gravity reversal and suction.

Using the stone pillars as springboards, he performed extreme jumps between the few remaining solid footholds at the edge of the square. Each time he landed, he had to instantly unleash immense power to break free from the sand's suction, eventually rushing out of this bizarre "Reverse Current Sand Sea" with fright but no danger.

When he landed, he was slightly out of breath, and his leg muscles trembled slightly. Resisting the Law with his Physical Body consumed far more energy than he had imagined.

He passed through the square and entered a narrow and deep corridor. On both sides of the corridor were towering stone walls, carved with blurry ancient murals.

The moment Xiao Zhuo took the first step into the corridor, he felt all the sound in the world instantly stripped away!

Absolute silence; even his own heartbeat and footsteps disappeared without a trace.

"Silence Domain?" Xiao Zhuo frowned.

This was not simple soundproofing, but a Law-level erasure of sound.

What was more troublesome was that the map clearly indicated that this corridor was filled with trigger-activated invisible sound blast traps!

Losing sound feedback greatly weakened his ability to predict danger.

He could only push his Divine Sense to its extreme, like the most precise radar, locking onto every inch of space within a hundred meters around him, capturing any faint energy fluctuations.

Taking a step, three meters ahead, his Divine Sense captured a nearly imperceptible spatial ripple!

"Here it comes!" Xiao Zhuo's pupils contracted, and his body leaned back at an incredible speed, performing an iron bridge almost touching the ground.

Almost the instant he completed the action, an invisible, high-frequency sound wave, powerful enough to shatter metal, swept across the position where his head had just been!

The sound wave passed over the stone wall silently, but the hard surface of the stone wall instantly became covered with spiderweb-like cracks.

Cold sweat dripped from his temples.

If his Divine Sense hadn't detected that subtle precursor, this blow would have been enough to injure his head.

He became even more cautious, each step like treading on thin ice. The traps within the corridor were interconnected; some sound waves cut horizontally, some erupted vertically from the ground, and others covered large areas like a net.

Xiao Zhuo's figure transformed into a blurred afterimage in the absolute silence, relying on his extreme reaction speed and formidable Physical Body strength to perform countless almost predictive dodges, rolls, and maneuvers.

Sometimes he needed to instantly burst forth, shattering the ground to borrow force and change direction; other times, he had to endure the impact of some peripheral sound waves that he couldn't completely avoid, which made his Qi and blood churn, and his internal organs throb with pain.

This corridor, only a few hundred meters long, felt even more perilous and lengthy than the bone spear death trap before.

When he finally rushed out of the corridor's end and heard his own heavy breathing again, he felt a sense of having lived through an eternity.