192: Chapter 192 The Void Labyrinth and the Divine Warning

"The next Gods Game map is in the Seven-Star Secret Realm [Thousand-Mirror Realm], located deep within the African Great Rift Valley. According to records, a statue of a bull-headed human sleeps inside—it calls itself the God of Space, Minos," Yuan Feng said.

"God of Space?"

Lu Chen raised an eyebrow. This divine title sounded trickier than that sinister Evil God of Life.

"That's right."

Yuan Feng took over. "This God of Space is completely different from the Evil God of Life. It is akin to a neutral deity; it never actively courts trouble and only methodically issues its inherent God Play [Void Realm Maze], with the difficulty chosen by the participants themselves!"

"A maze? And we choose the difficulty?"

Lu Chen picked at his ear. "Sounds simple enough."

"Young friend, do not be careless!"

Yuan Feng warned quickly, his eyes lingering with lingering fear. "That is no ordinary maze! It is a multi-layered structure maze composed of constantly shifting spatial fragments. A Peak Eighth-Rank Space Mage once led a team to challenge it, and in the end... none returned, not even their bodies could be found!"

"Hehehe, with Lu Chen here, no matter what kind of God Play it is, we can easily handle it!"

With the previous god-slaying experience, Wasteland Guardian was not worried at all.

Yuan Feng laughed awkwardly and followed closely behind.

Soon, the three arrived at the Seven-Star Invading Secret Realm [Thousand-Mirror Realm], easily found the hidden map, and entered.

A massive stone statue of a bull-headed human stood silently.

Its horns curved toward the sky, its face ancient and majestic, and its stone-carved eyes were half-closed, as if it had been sleeping since time immemorial.

Sensing the intruders' presence, a silvery-white light slowly lit up in the statue's eyes, and a peaceful, deep voice without a hint of emotion sounded directly:

"Intruders, I am Minos, the God of Space. Are you willing to participate in this deity's God Play and challenge the profound mysteries of space?"

The voice was devoid of joy or sorrow, as if merely stating a fact.

"We know the rules. Let's start directly, Hell difficulty!"

Wasteland Guardian shouted boldly.

Minos's gaze was like a deep pool, without a ripple.

Its gaze slowly swept over the three, finally resting on Lu Chen for a moment.

When it perceived Lu Chen's absurdly large number of beast pets, as well as the Azure Dragon and White Tiger exuding SSS-Rank legendary fluctuations, the calm stone face seemed to twitch ever so slightly.

"An F-Rank Beast Tamer... how can he contract so many beast pets? And how can he contract SSS-Rank legendary beast pets? This little guy is strange!"

A trace of imperceptible shock flashed through Minos's heart, but it quickly suppressed this curiosity.

Caution was its creed!

Prying into others' secrets often meant risk.

"As you wish, Hell difficulty, [Void Realm Maze], activate!"

Minos had no superfluous words.

The three were sucked into the God Play Space at the same time, arriving in a void with no sky and no earth, only countless huge, broken mirror surfaces reflecting eerie light suspended in the nothingness, forming a hallucinatory cage with no end in sight.

The sense of space was completely ineffective here; up, down, left, and right seemed to be flipping and reorganizing at any moment.

The grand and cold rules of the God Play then resounded through the maze:

[Gods Game: Void Realm Maze]

[Difficulty: Hell]

[Rules are as follows:]

1. Participants will be thrown into a constantly changing multi-dimensional maze, which is pieced together from spatial fragments.

2. "Spatial Anchors" are scattered throughout the maze. You must find and activate 3 every 10 minutes to reach the next exit, until the level is cleared.

3. Every time an anchor is activated, the maze structure reorganizes, making the path more chaotic.

4. There are hidden "Spatial Rifts" in the maze; touching one will cause a random teleportation and a loss of 10% of maximum HP.

5. No recovery skills, items, or potions can be used, and no insight or detection skills or items can be used.

6. Failure condition: Failure to activate 3 anchors within the time limit, or HP dropping to zero.

"Damn it, this ghost place has even interfered with my Beast Fusion Perception!"

Wasteland Guardian tried.

"Same here, the Eye of the Ringed Heavens cannot be deployed!"

Lu Chen responded.

They were currently standing on a suspended path made of broken stars, with twisted light and shadow and a bottomless Void Realm all around them.

He tried to summon beast pets to scout the path.

However, as soon as the Ice-Burst Magic-Horned Ant appeared, it was cut in two by a silent spatial rift that swept past!

The Abyssal Soul Mouse tried to sneak into the shadows but was directly shaken out by the chaotic spatial fluctuations, falling into a suddenly appearing rift and disappearing instantly.

The Flame Falcon had just flown up when it hit an invisible spatial barrier, dizzy and disoriented.

"No! The spatial rules here are too weird; we can't clear the level quickly through beast pets!"

Lu Chen stopped summoning.

His army of millions of beast pets was useless in this Void Realm Maze that specifically countered quantity and multi-point detection!

Time ticked away.

Three minutes of the ten-minute time limit had already passed, and they hadn't even seen the shadow of an anchor.

The structure of the maze was still changing irregularly, and the path they had just memorized might completely disappear in the next second.

"Lu Chen, this won't work!"

Wasteland Guardian was overwhelmed. "This ghost maze is just changing blindly; there's no pattern to find. I almost stepped into a trap just now!"

Yuan Feng's voice also carried anxiety: "The Hell difficulty Void Realm Maze is too hard, there's absolutely no clue!"

Lu Chen frowned, his brain working at high speed.

No insight, no detection, beast pets ineffective...

Could it be that they really had to rely on luck to force their way through?

Just as he was at his wit's end, a flash of inspiration struck!

"That's it! That thing!"

He immediately took out the item that was almost forgotten from his storage ring—the [Tattered Compass]!

This compass still looked so inconspicuous, heavily worn, with a rusty needle.

Its effect was "to point in the correct direction in special spaces."

Could this Void Realm Maze count as a special space?

Hum!

The originally rusted needle suddenly vibrated violently and pointed in a direction!

Even though that direction might visually be an indestructible mirror wall, or just a piece of nothingness!

"It works!"

Lu Chen was overjoyed. "Two Seniors, follow me closely!"

With the guidance of the compass, the situation instantly reversed!

No matter how the maze changed, that tattered needle always pointed firmly in the direction of the nearest Spatial Anchor.

They were no longer deceived by the chaotic appearances, no longer took wrong turns, and could even anticipate the appearance of certain spatial rifts in advance and cleverly avoid them!

"Hahaha! Lu Chen, you really are a walking Treasure Trove! You even have this kind of obscure stuff!"

Wasteland Guardian was overjoyed, following closely behind Lu Chen.

Yuan Feng was also greatly encouraged, and his evaluation of Lu Chen in his heart rose again.

"First anchor, activated!"

"Second anchor, activated!"

"Third one... found it, activated!"

Three Spatial Anchors were found, the maze reorganized and changed, but it still couldn't stop the three of them.

As for the Void Realm Invading Monsters that popped out, they weren't even enough to fill the gaps in Lu Chen's teeth. Relying on the tattered compass, the three easily cleared the level. This was the easiest Hell difficulty God Play Lu Chen had ever cleared!

[Ding! Congratulations on successfully clearing the Seven-Star Hell difficulty Gods Game [Void Realm Maze]!]

[Calculating rewards...]

[Congratulations on obtaining: 11.2 million Gold Coins, Rank +10, 7 million Reputation, Seventh-Rank Exclusive Legendary Equipment (any slot x1), Legendary Title [Void Realm Mirror Breaker], Special Unique Evolution Materials [Void Prism]!]

The reward beam fell.

[Ding! Congratulations, your Rank has increased to Seventh-Rank LV210!]

The Rank was full!

Once Hunter Headquarters gathered all those massive basic advancement Materials, he could immediately accept the Eighth-Rank advancement mission!

While happy, Lu Chen was also stunned; he had actually obtained another unique special evolution Material.

If it only appeared once, it might be a rule reward, but if it appeared continuously, it made Lu Chen have to suspect whether the god behind the scenes was playing tricks.

But what was the purpose of doing this?

Lu Chen had no way of knowing for the time being, but it was a good thing regardless.

Lu Chen gave the [Void Prism] directly to the third one to consume, and the third one immediately evolved into an SSS-Rank legendary beast pet—the Abyssal Vermilion Bird!

With the appearance of a portal.

The three appeared again before that bull-headed human statue.

Minos's silvery-white eyes stared at Lu Chen, especially the seemingly tattered compass he had just put away, as well as the faint, yet god-dreaded god-slaying Evil Qi on him.

"You are very special."

Minos's stone brows furrowed imperceptibly, carrying a rare hint of solemnity: "Be careful... the divine blood stained on the spear tip—"

The voice stopped abruptly.

The silver light in Minos's eyes quickly dimmed, turning back into that ancient statue without any breath of life, as if the reminder just now was just an illusion.

"Hey? Old Cow? Don't leave your sentence unfinished! What divine blood? Careful of what?"

Wasteland Guardian shouted at the statue.

However, the statue had no further response.

Lu Chen stood in place, frowning, analyzing Minos's warning repeatedly in his heart.

Careful of the divine blood stained on the tip of the god-slaying spear?

The tip of this spear, according to descriptions, had bloodstains from the right eye of a mysterious deity.

This divine blood... could it have some hidden danger?

Or rather, what would it attract?

"Kid, don't think too much."

Wasteland Guardian patted his shoulder: "These deities love to speak in riddles. The top priority is to go back quickly, get your advancement Materials, and rush to the Eighth Rank. Only by becoming strong quickly can we fear no deity's warning!"

Lu Chen took a deep breath, suppressing the doubts in his heart: "Senior is right, strength is the foundation, let's go back!"

The three stopped lingering and returned to Hunter Headquarters immediately.

Light flashed, and the Thousand-Mirror Realm returned to silence.

Only that bull-headed human statue opened its eyes again, muttering: "A descendant of the Beast God? But why has he not obtained the Beast God's divine throne?"