279: Chapter 278 Sword Qi Soars

"Third floor?"

"Shouldn't going down from the second floor lead to the first floor? Why are we back on the third floor again?"

"Could this be a ghost wall..."

The group looked down the stairs, seeing only a deep, dark abyss.

"We must keep going down, keep heading downwards!" Lin Jie's slightly hoarse voice rang out, but he immediately changed his tune.

"No, that's not right... We should go out through the fire door and take another stairwell..."

Cold sweat streamed down Lin Jie's face, his eyes dazed. Without anyone noticing, deep furrows had crisscrossed his face, revealing an aged appearance, stripping away all traces of his youth.

Hearing this, the group's expressions changed, and they couldn't help but feel their scalps tingle.

Which path should they take?

However, no one dared to offer an opinion at this moment; they all turned their gazes toward Chu Xuan, waiting for him to make the final decision.

"My Talent is severely overdrawn, my sensing isn't clear anymore..."

Lin Jie clutched his head, his expression filled with agony.

Just then, a round, crystalline bead appeared before his eyes, with swirling mists flowing inside it, making one unable to help but be intoxicated by it.

"Here is 100 spirituality value. Use this first, and we'll talk if it's not enough."

As the calm voice spoke, Lin Jie subconsciously took the small bead. He was stunned for a moment, then his face immediately lit up with joy.

In an instant, the swirling mists inside the bead vanished.

The confusion in Lin Jie's eyes disappeared completely, replaced by a look of determination: "Continue downstairs, the exit is right below!"

"Let's go!"

Chu Xuan took back the spirit bead and led the group downstairs once more.

Before long, the group reached the second floor, but as they continued downward, it unexpectedly turned back into the third floor.

"Keep going down!" Lin Jie gritted his teeth and said: "Keep going down, I can sense it—the exit is right below!"

However, after the third, fourth, and fifth rounds, the group still returned to the third floor. The deep, dark passage below seemed endless.

"It's clearly right below..." Lin Jie stared blankly. He had just left some Marking, but they always returned to the starting point.

Chu Xuan frowned slightly. Suddenly, a thought occurred to him, and recalling everything that had happened, he immediately asked: "Are you sure it's right below?"

"It's definitely correct. I have a sense in the nether, the path to survival is right below." Lin Jie nodded repeatedly, his tone extremely certain:

"Brother Chu Xuan, you must believe me!"

"But you've already been wrong twice before. It's not impossible for you to be wrong a third time!" Chu Xuan looked at him deeply, a thought suddenly crossing his mind.

—Never trust anyone!

Lin Jie was stunned. Before he could recover, Chu Xuan suddenly pulled open a fire door on the side: "We're taking the other way!"

The group followed Chu Xuan through the opened fire door and arrived back in the third-floor corridor.

At this moment, the third-floor corridor was no longer dim; it was bright and clean. However, it was completely empty and silent, with neither patients nor medical staff.

It was terrifyingly quiet.

Chu Xuan's expression darkened slightly, and with a flick of his hand, he released a Slash.

The Black Flame, wrapped in a sharp edge, flashed and vanished. A deafening roar erupted ahead; the wall plaster fell away, revealing blood gushing out and flesh churning within.

The Black Flame clung to the flesh, burning a deep, meter-long Slash mark, but soon, as the flesh writhed, the deep gash was filled in once again.

"No feedback on spirituality value."

Chu Xuan's heart stirred, and he immediately used his Eye of Insight. In an instant, his spirituality value was rapidly consumed—10 points in the blink of an eye, followed by 20, then 30...

[????]

[Unable to probe]

A string of question marks appeared before his eyes. At this point, the consumed spirituality value had already reached 50 points, yet Chu Xuan's Eye of Insight still could not probe it.

Not only that, the entire corridor was undergoing a violent transformation.

The patient rooms on both sides were gone, as were the bright lights. This corridor had transformed into a passage of flesh!

The fascia, mucus, blood vessels, and veins on it were visible in minute detail, and as they pulsed slightly, they seemed to possess endless vital energy.

Seeing this, the group felt their hearts leap with terror.

Chu Xuan's gaze was cold. He raised his hand and pointed downwards, releasing continuous Slashes, each one condensed by consuming 30 points of spirituality value.

Nine Slashes flew out one after another. Black Flame rolled and flesh flew everywhere; the entire passage of flesh was directly widened by a large margin.

However, in the blink of an eye, the flesh writhed and returned to its original state.

Chu Xuan couldn't help but frown deeply.

"This is indeed a dead end. We should turn back and keep going down..." Lin Jie said, his voice trembling slightly.

Hearing this, Chu Xuan's brow suddenly smoothed out: "No, this is the path to survival. Your Talent must have been interfered with by the rules. Follow me!"

Lin Jie was stunned again, but seeing that the group had already followed Chu Xuan into the passage of flesh, he didn't linger and gritted his teeth to follow.

Only after stepping inside did Lin Jie suddenly notice that the end of this seemingly endless passage of flesh was emitting a strong white light.

Lin Jie instantly became excited. He quickened his pace to keep up beside Chu Xuan and said repeatedly: "This is it, I can sense it—the path to survival is right ahead."

While speaking, Lin Jie asked with some confusion: "However, Brother Chu Xuan, how did you know I was being interfered with?"

"You'll get used to it."

Chu Xuan's expression remained unchanged.

At this moment, less than 700 points of spirituality value remained, and resources were running low. What gave him more confidence was the forty Slashes remaining within him, each condensed with 30 points of spirituality value.

The Black Night continued to be released, now reaching a cost of 5 points of spirituality value per second. Chu Xuan did not skimp on this, leading the group forward.

Furthermore, Chu Xuan continued to accumulate Slashes at maximum power.

With the experience of completing missions many times, Chu Xuan instinctively felt that it wouldn't be this easy to leave.

To avoid further complications, the closer he got to the place that looked like an exit, the more Chu Xuan slowed his pace. After thirty seconds, 300 points of spirituality value were consumed, and a full fifty Slashes had fully formed within him.

At this moment, Chu Xuan had reached his strongest Peak state.

With over two hundred points of spirituality value remaining, Chu Xuan did not let his guard down; through the night cloak, he increased the coverage of the darkness.

This was not the time to be frugal at the final moment.

"Finally, we're going to get out!"

An excited look appeared on Lin Jie's face.

But just then, at the very front of the flesh passage, where the white light shone like an exit, a figure abruptly appeared.

He was wearing a security guard uniform, and was holding a flashlight in his hand.

The security guard is here!

The dim yellow light of the flashlight was not strong, but as it shone over, the darkness enveloping the group instantly began to twist.

It was like a branding iron meeting snow.

Within this intense distortion, the darkness was being rapidly dispelled by the beam of light at a speed visible to the naked eye.

"It's over!"

The group widened their eyes, all sharing the same thought. Their hearts were filled with despair, and even more so, intense unwillingness.

Why? They were so close to escaping!!

"I've been waiting for a long time..."

Almost at the same time, that familiar and reassuring clear voice rang out. In a trance, the group saw Chu Xuan raise his hand and point forward, seemingly casually.

"Slash!"

A metallic ringing sound!

As if ten thousand swords were chanting in unison—

Sword Qi runs rampant, slaying ghosts and purging evil!!!