349: Happy Dragon Boat Festival!

Wang Defu lunged left and right within the passage, and after discovering that it could not be destroyed, he quickly realized something was wrong.

Thus, he planned to traverse the area as quickly as possible to see if there were any gaps or weak points.

However, before he had gone far, he came to a stop.

"Damn it, could this place be a Small World?"

"The walls are so sturdy and the place is so vast; I haven't seen a trace of George until now."

"Wang Defu, I'm over here!"

Wang Defu snapped his head to the left, only to see George waving at him on a small screen.

Wang Defu stepped forward quickly, but hesitated for a moment, only approaching the screen after confirming what he saw.

During that brief moment of hesitation, he had clearly seen the other party's situation; George wasn't trapped inside the screen but was in another location, communicating with him through it.

"How hellish. This place is incredibly hard and impossible to break through; I can only keep moving forward. Luckily there's this small screen, and I just happened to see you."

"My side is like a dead-end corridor. How is it on your end?"

Wang Defu frowned as he looked around; the passages here branched out in all directions, and he hadn't seen a dead end yet.

"I'm at a fork in the road. I haven't seen any dead ends so far."

George turned serious upon hearing this. "It seems this place is even larger than we thought. But as long as we spend some time..."

At that moment, Wang Defu's eyes suddenly widened.

Through the screen, he saw a man holding a blade slowly creeping along the left wall behind George. The man seemed to notice Wang Defu watching him and smiled, making a "shh" gesture.

"George, behind you!"

Wang Defu suddenly shouted. George's heart tightened, and he immediately circulated his power into his fists, ready to strike at any moment.

But when he turned around to scan the area, there was nothing but a few sticky rice dumplings leaning against the wall.

"Wang Defu, what did you just see?"

Looking at George's confused expression and the empty space behind him, Wang Defu was also stunned.

"There was clearly someone behind you, and then they suddenly vanished."

Seeing Wang Defu's horrified expression, George was somewhat baffled.

"Are you joking? Even if he could hide his aura to deceive my senses, it's impossible for him to slip away right under my nose after you warned me. If someone truly had the ability to come and go without a trace..."

Before he could finish, the stealthy man from before reappeared as if growing out of the ground, this time pressed against the right wall and even closer.

"He's back, on your right!"

George turned his head again, but it was still empty behind him.

Strange, has that sticky rice dumpling always been on the right?

Wait, what exactly is a sticky rice dumpling?

"No, Wang Defu, what is wrong with you?"

"You were the one who said we should come, and you were the one who took the initiative to attack. Why are you so jumpy now? You couldn't possibly be..."

On the screen, that figure appeared once more, this time directly behind George, even raising an eyebrow at Wang Defu through the screen.

"He's right behind you!"

George wiped his face, feeling like everything he just said was in vain.

Like coaxing a child, he cooperated with Wang Defu by turning left, right, and around, but every time he looked back, there was no one there.

Finally, he said helplessly,

"Listen, Wang Defu, you need to calm down right now. We can't waste time on this, or else none of us might get out... Urgh!"

George looked down at the long blade that had suddenly pierced through his chest, turning around in disbelief.

From Wang Defu's perspective, the man had attacked George from behind and then instantly vanished from the screen as if sinking into the ground.

No matter how Wang Defu pounded on the screen or shouted, there was no longer any response from the other side.

Wang Defu could no longer sit idly by. If George was truly in danger, he had to go support him. This place was far too eerie; if he lost a teammate, he likely wouldn't survive either.

Just as he set off again, the original passage suddenly turned into a large door, and he rushed inside before he could catch himself.

By the time he realized something was wrong and tried to retreat, the door behind him had already turned into a wall.

"Bang bang bang, welcome to Sticky Rice Dumpling Fun. Here are the game rules..."

"A game?"

"Damn it, this really is a Small World!"

Wang Defu finally confirmed that he had fallen into someone else's Small World, which was the ultimate taboo in the world of cultivation.

A Small World, though not as large as a normal world, possessed complete World Laws and lacked the various suppressions found in the regular world. A Soul Transformation Cultivator entering a Small World was almost no different from a god.

He knew all too well how dangerous a refined Small World could be.

Wang Defu picked up a sticky rice dumpling, his eyes filled with struggle.

"Damn it, it looks like I really have to eat it."

At this moment, Zhou Yan was sitting in the monitoring room watching all of this.

He had won this Flower Boat in a previous Dragon Boat Festival event. He had originally only considered it an extra home and hadn't expected it to be of much use.

It wasn't until this past year, as he gradually understood the danger an unknown Small World posed to Cultivators, that he specially prepared these things.

Although Zhou Yan couldn't modify the Laws within the Flower Boat at will, he could still delete portions of the terrain or temporarily create and reorganize it.

"It really works."

"If this continues, Wang Defu's mental state will collapse."

"When his mind is about to break, that's when I'll make my move."

"As for George's side..."

On the other side where George was, he and Zhang Wei had fallen into a massive cubic space together.

Earlier, Zhou Yan had specifically given the sticky rice dumpling costume to Zhang Wei and installed two monitors at that location just to put pressure on Wang Defu.

Now that the goal had been achieved, it was time for George to die.

"Cough, cough..."

George spat out several mouthfuls of blood and then glared at Zhang Wei across from him, shouting curses.

"You insidious fellow, I won't let you get away with this!"

Zhang Wei didn't say much. He simply formed a sword seal with his hand, and hexagonal rock pillars rose from the ground, turning the cubic space into a stone forest in an instant.

George immediately released his Power of Law, and frost and snow emerged out of thin air. But just as it was about to spread, it was as if it were being deleted out of existence, barely able to maintain a thin layer.

Once the snow exceeded a certain thickness, it would disappear.

Zhang Wei smiled slightly, his hands forming a triangle.

"Overlapping Peaks!"

The monitor screen was quickly submerged by the flying and intersecting rock pillars, and no figures could be seen anymore.

However, George's health bar was continuously dropping. It seemed that Zhang Wei, who possessed construction permissions, could handle him without help.

Boom!

"OK, this side has hit the jackpot too."

Zhou Yan looked back at the screen showing Wang Defu's side.

At this point, only half of Wang Defu's body remained as he slowly slid off a stool.

Although his body was still slowly regenerating, the experience was surely unpleasant.

Looking at his newly regrown torso, Wang Defu felt a lingering fear.

Just moments ago, when he stuffed a sticky rice dumpling into his mouth, a surge of power suddenly exploded within it.

That Talisman, which was at least at the Soul Transformation level, had actually been hidden inside the sticky rice dumpling. He had swallowed it in one bite, and it detonated directly inside his body.

Fortunately, the injuries were still within a controllable range, and after he finished the dumpling, the door opened.

But when he stepped out of the door and saw the long waterway and two dragon boats before him, he felt even more irritable.

Dragon boat racing, eating dumplings, Guessing riddles, Ring tossing... game after game began, and each one harbored hidden means of attack.

Some did indeed wear Wang Defu down, but more were seen through and avoided by him in advance.

With the first experience as a lesson, subsequent attacks struggled to achieve the same surprise effect as the initial one.

Wang Defu had originally thought the opponent would keep wearing him down like this, and a hint of regret had already sprouted in his heart.

Not until a figure wrapped in golden light suddenly appeared before him did he finally reveal a somewhat crazed smile.

"I thought you were going to keep hiding and not dare to show your face."

"It seems you've also run out of tricks."