107: Nine Palace Trap, Eight Hundred Gods

The others spoke animatedly, all at once.

Anyway, they were unwilling to take the risk themselves.

Haitang thought of a method.

"Yang Yi was the first to scout just now."

"I think this time, who goes should be decided by Yang Yi."

"What do you all think?"

After this method was proposed,

the people from Duobao Pavilion immediately agreed.

Because they knew very well,

the people from Duobao Pavilion had helped Yang Yi before.

If Yang Yi were to decide,

he would definitely not let the people from Duobao Pavilion take risks.

The people from Luoyue Sect also supported Haitang.

Because they also knew Yang Yi would not let them take risks.

The people from Duobao Pavilion and Luoyue Sect were quite numerous.

They unanimously supported Yang Yi.

This meant nearly a quarter of the people supported Yang Yi.

Coupled with the support of those who had good relations with Duobao Pavilion,

more than half of the people agreed with Haitang's method.

The faces of the Elders from Diancang Sect turned ashen.

Their foreheads twitched slightly.

It went without saying,

if Yang Yi made the decision,

he would inevitably send the people from Diancang Sect to scout ahead.

But at this point,

they had no other choice.

Yang Yi surveyed the crowd,

not rushing to make a choice.

He let this group of people be on tenterhooks for a while.

Then he finally looked at the Elders from Diancang Sect.

"Elders,"

"you are very capable."

"Your Diancang Sect should send one person to scout ahead first."

Among the seven Elders,

a short Elder let out a strange laugh.

He stepped forward to the front of the crowd.

Under everyone's gaze,

he flew towards the pillars.

The four pillars were in the center of the hall,

standing there abruptly.

They were extremely peculiar.

The short Elder's target was above the pillars.

He believed that on the floor of the open space beneath the pillars,

the possibility of a mechanism was very high.

So he wanted to step on top of the pillars.

Presumably, the person who set up the mechanism

could not have placed it on top of the pillars.

However,

there was a certain distance between him and the pillars.

It was somewhat difficult to fly directly over.

So he looked at the dead bodies,

planning to step on the bodies to get onto the pillars.

However, just as he flew into the hall,

he suddenly felt a terrifying pressure from above.

That pressure made his body fall straight down,

as if someone had slapped him onto the floor.

Everyone heard a thud.

The short Elder fell onto the hall floor.

The sound was extremely loud.

However,

the floor was not damaged in the slightest.

The Elder groaned in pain.

Fortunately, no mechanism or trap was triggered.

As soon as he stood up,

an Elder watching from not far away reminded him, "Be careful of the floor."

The short Elder observed the floor.

He suddenly discovered that these floor tiles were very peculiar.

Each tile looked the same,

but in reality, they were all different.

He hadn't noticed this when standing far away.

He immediately told everyone about his discovery,

hoping that with everyone's combined strength, they could help him overcome the difficulty.

The others didn't intend to harm this Elder.

Everyone's current goal was to find the Treasure Trove,

so they jointly searched for a way to break the floor's puzzle.

Some people had studied mechanisms and traps.

They told everyone,

the floor might be a Nine Palaces pattern.

It should be arranged according to something like the Eight Trigrams to set up mechanisms and traps.

They just needed to find a certain pattern,

and they could pass safely.

But where was the pattern?

Everyone couldn't find it yet.

Some people suggested letting this Elder try walking on a few tiles first.

Because if he stood there motionless,

no one could see anything.

Only when he moved,

could everyone discover some trajectory from the tiles he stepped on.

The short Elder had no choice.

He could only gently take a step,

stepping onto the nearest tile.

He prepared a full-spectrum defense.

The tiles were continuously stepped on under his feet.

The surroundings were eerily quiet.

There was no sound at all.

The short Elder breathed a sigh of relief.

Then he stepped onto another tile.

When he stepped on this tile just now,

he felt the tile move down slightly.

In an instant,

dense arrows shot out from three directions,

like raindrops.

Only the direction where Yang Yi and his group were located had no arrows shooting out.

Such dense arrows

made one's scalp tingle.

The short Elder knew it was impossible to dodge.

He could only take it head-on.

He circulated all his vital Qi,

and set up a circular defensive shield around his body.

The arrows struck the defensive shield,

all turning into powder.

In just a moment,

thousands of arrows had struck the defensive shield.

Cracks also appeared in the sturdy defensive shield.

The short Elder's face paled slightly.

He was about to give out.

Just then,

another Elder from Diancang Sect flew to his side.

With his arms spread,

a semi-circular defensive shield enveloped both of them,

blocking the remaining arrows.

When the surrounding arrows had stopped firing,

everyone observed the place where the arrows had just emerged,

showing surprise.

The arrows shot out from the surrounding walls.

But at this moment, there were no holes in the walls.

This was strange.

Since there were no firing holes,

where did the arrows come from?

As everyone was wondering,

the short Elder had already flown back to Yang Yi and his group.

The other Elder continued to probe forward.

The next section of the path

could be described as extremely perilous.

Stepping on a tiled floor with a mechanism

would trigger the mechanism.

The mechanisms were diverse.

The most common were dense arrows.

No one knew how many were hidden.

They seemed inexhaustible.

Besides these,

large hammers, swords, fire attacks, and so on

were countless.

This Elder's strength was clearly much stronger than the short Elder's.

Mechanisms and traps were like a gentle breeze in front of him,

unable to harm him in the slightest.

Everyone watched as he endured various mechanisms and traps,

and arrived in front of the pillars.

The space within the four pillars was composed of a huge stone slab,

not the small tiles found around it.

The Elder placed both feet in the middle of the pillars,

concentrating and being on guard,

just in case he triggered any mechanism.

Everything was safe and sound.

He walked around the area again,

confirming that the place was safe.

Then he shouted to the people not far away,

"It's safe here."

"You all come over."

A playful smile hung on his lips.

He secretly thought to himself:

If you want to come over,

you need to have my ability.

Do you have it?

He felt that most people didn't have his ability.

Therefore,

they would probably lose their lives to the mechanisms and traps.

He shook his head slightly,

and couldn't help but feel sorry for this group of people.

Everyone looked at each other.

They were not scared by the mechanisms and traps just now.

Especially since someone had already cleared the way for them,

they were even less afraid.

The Elder who walked over didn't use any clever tricks.

He simply relied on his own defensive power to get through.

Their Qi might be insufficient,

but they had so many friends around them.

With everyone helping each other,

it wouldn't be difficult to pass this place.