223: Chapter 223 A Beautiful Shadow? My Major Matches It

When the door to the second level was pushed open, Chu Sheng thought he had gone to the wrong place.

It was not a corridor, nor was it a stone chamber; it was a vast grassland.

The sky was blue, the clouds were white, the grass was green, and the wind blew over, carrying a faint scent of fresh grass.

He looked back, but the door behind him had already vanished. He stood in the center of an endless grassland, like someone who had been thrown into a painting.

"An illusion array," Old Grandfather said from inside the ring.

Chu Sheng nodded. He knew it was an illusion array, but this was no ordinary one; the texture of the scenery was far too realistic.

The dewdrops on the blades of grass, the pollen in the wind, the blurred shadows of trees on the distant hills.

He had seen many illusion arrays in simulations, but none could achieve this level. This was no longer just deceiving the vision; this was creating a world.

In the center of the grassland stood a door, solitary and alone. There were no walls, no house, just a door.

The door was made of wood with a mottled lacquer finish, and the brass doorknob was covered in green rust.

Chu Sheng walked over and reached out to push it open.

The door opened. Behind it was not the grassland, but a Void Realm, from which countless lights and shadows poured out.

They transformed into human-shaped women—beautiful, seductive, pure, cold—and surged toward him like a tide.

Chu Sheng was stunned for a moment, then laughed. He laughed loudly, his laughter echoing across the grassland.

"Seductive shadows? This is my specialty."

Old Grandfather laughed from inside the ring as well, laughing even louder than Chu Sheng.

Chu Sheng said, "Hey, old man, what are you laughing at? These are mine."

Old Grandfather was laughing so hard he was out of breath. "I am laughing because Greed is a fool. When he set up this illusion array, he certainly didn't know that the one entering was a Heavenly Demon Body of lust."

Chu Sheng spread his arms, and black Devilish Qi surged from his Dantian, like a giant mouth swallowing all those seductive shadows whole.

The seductive shadows struggled, screamed, and dissipated within the Devilish Qi, transforming into the purest power of lust that flooded into Chu Sheng's Dantian.

His cultivation vibrated slightly; it wasn't a Breakthrough, but rather him being satiated.

The Bottleneck of the Mid-stage Palace Building loosened under the impact of this power of lust.

Chu Sheng licked his lips, feeling the warm power in his Dantian, and said to the Void Realm, "Is there any more? The more, the better."

The Void Realm did not respond, and the grassland began to collapse.

The sky cracked, the ground sank, the grass withered, and the wind stopped.

That door still stood there, but the lights and shadows behind it had dissipated, revealing a flight of stone stairs leading upward.

Chu Sheng brushed the dust off his body and walked into the door.

The stone stairs were very long.

As he walked, he thought about how he had been in here for quite some time now. Where were the auras of those few Devil King level entities?

He hadn't seen a single one. Even Yu Rumeng's aura had disappeared, and the Copper Mirror had no signal here.

Old Grandfather said, "They might have gone directly to a higher level."

"The Reverse Demon Tower has more than one entrance on each level. That old thing Greed wouldn't stuff everyone who enters into the same path."

Chu Sheng nodded and quickened his pace.

He wanted to see Yu Rumeng sooner and wanted to know what she was up to.

The entrance to the third level appeared at the end of the stone stairs; it was a black stone door carved with dense runes. Each rune was slowly flowing as if alive.

Chu Sheng stood up and pushed the door open. A scent of rot and rust rushed at him.

He squinted to look inside, but couldn't see anything. It was pitch black, like a giant beast with its mouth open.

Chu Sheng took a deep breath and stepped inside.

Behind him, the stone door slowly closed.

He didn't know which level everyone else was on, but he knew he had to keep going up until he found the answer.