“Congratulations on finding the key. Please insert it into this keyhole and open up the next task.”
After the voice fell, there was a keyhole that suddenly appeared on the base of the statue.
It seemed that there was a reason why the statue had fallen down here with them.
If it hadn’t, then there wouldn’t have been a way for them to continue onwards.
However, those with sharper eyes noticed something else…the place where the keyhole had suddenly appeared. It was at the base of the statue, but it wasn’t in the center of the base.
This was at the very left side of the base of the statue.
At the same time, when they looked at it closely, it seemed to only take a fifth of the base. It was almost as if there was space that was deliberately left in the base of the statue for something else.
Almost like there were other things that would have appeared at the base.
Huang Xie didn’t waste any time in making his way over to the statue, but before he reached it, he suddenly jumped back.
That was because there were a few balls that suddenly fell down from the sky.
There was a large empty space above them that they couldn’t see the end of, but they had ignored this since they had been focused on the balls around them. But if they thought about it, the balls must have come from somewhere…
The few balls that suddenly fell from the sky was proof of this.
After the balls stopped falling, Huang Xie stood there looking at the statue.
There wasn’t a single response from the statue, but it was clear that this was done deliberately by the statue that controlled this trial. It was clear that this was a hidden part of the task that hadn’t been stated.
Many people would let their guards down when they thought that victory was at hand.
This was a bad trait to have, but it was one that most people had naturally.
That was what these final balls falling down were testing.
They were here to test if one would be able to react to something suddenly happening when they thought that they had passed the test.
It was a bit mean, but Huang Xie could understand why this was done.
As for why he had dodged them, it was because he knew that all of them were trapped. If he had touched even a single one of them, there was no doubt that he would have ended up like all those he had pushed before.
Everyone just stared at Huang Xie in silence when they saw him like this, but the only ones that were actually worried about him were Xiao Ming and the other two. The others all felt disappointment when they saw that the balls had missed him.
But of course, that disappointment had quickly disappeared since they knew that Huang Xie was the only one that could get them out of this predicament. So their expressions quickly changed from disappointment to wanting Huang Xie to finish this as soon as possible.
Huang Xie waited for a moment to see if anything else would happen, but then he stepped up to the statue.
It seemed like these balls were the only ones that had been prepared as a trap for an unsuspecting person.
When Huang Xie put the key into the keyhole and turned, the statue suddenly lit up.
It took no time at all for all of the balls to suddenly disappear from the room.
The way that they disappeared, it was as if they had suddenly evaporated into thin air.
No one had an idea of how the balls suddenly disappeared like this, but there wasn’t a single ball that was left as they all suddenly disappeared without a trace. It was almost like magic with how quickly they had disappeared.
For a moment, everyone just stood there without moving.
It was as if they were afraid that something else would happen after balls had suddenly disappeared. However, it didn’t seem like anything was going to happen after the balls were gone.
So they finally were able to move.
There were a few people that fell down to the ground as relief came over there. There were some that were still standing there without moving, as if they were one guard for what was about to happen. And there was one person that…
“Die!”
This person shouted as they suddenly charged at Huang Xie.
The balls had disappeared, so there wasn’t anything that was stopping this person from reaching Huang Xie anymore.
This person had charged out so suddenly that they had caught Xiao Ming and the others off guard. They had also been relieved that the balls had disappeared so that there was a momentary lapse in their guard as they let themselves relax.
This person had taken advantage of that since they knew that this would be the case.
As for the reason why they were charging at Huang Xie…
It was naturally so that they could kill him and take back the part of their soul that had been taken.
However, this person was wrong in thinking that everyone would be caught off guard by this.
Huang Xie hadn’t let his guard down for an instant since he had already figured that someone would try something like this. Huang Xie had already thought of everything when he came up with his plan, so it wasn’t as if he would let himself be caught off guard by someone trying to rush him like this.
Huang Xie was even already looking at this person when they charged out, as if he was already fully expecting it.
But it was already too late for that person to stop, so all they could do was keep going and try to take Huang Xie down.
Before they could reach Huang Xie, Huang Xie’s hand suddenly closed and there was the sound of something being crushed.
The next moment, that person suddenly slowed down as their spiritual energy started to scatter.
This was the spiritual energy that they had gathered in an attempt to attack Huang Xie, something that shouldn’t have scattered for no reason. But there was a reason why it had scattered in the end.
That was because the thing that Huang Xie had crushed was the fragment of their soul that he had taken from them. The moment that he saw this person attacking him, he didn’t hesitate to crush that fragment of that person’s soul.
A person’s soul was something that was deeply connected to them.
It could be said that it was the core of what made a person a person.
So if even a fragment of it was destroyed, then it would cause serious injuries for that person.
That was why this person’s spiritual energy had suddenly scattered like this.
After stumbling to where Huang Xie was and falling in front of him, that person even spat out blood to show how seriously injured they were. However, they didn’t have time to deal with their injuries as they could feel that there was danger from in front of them.
They looked up to see Huang Xie standing there in front of them with a weapon raised and a cold look in his eyes. The way that he was looking at this person made it clear that…he was going to show no mercy.
But this person couldn’t just accept that they would die like this, so they wanted to fight back.
Huang Xie had a trace of admiration in his eyes when he saw this.
Others might have collapsed where he stood and would have tried to beg for their lives, but this person kept their pride and instead tried to fight back instead of just giving up.
At the very least, this was something that was worthy of praise.
It was just that the rest of this person wasn’t worthy of any praise at all since they had tried to kill him.
So Huang Xie didn’t hold back at all as he swung his weapon down at this person.
Though it was a blunted weapon, it cut right through that person’s sword and even their body. The two halves of their body fell to the ground and just remained there.
Huang Xie ignored this corpse and looked at the rest that were just standing there with knitted brows.
He looked at them with a cold look and asked, “Anyone else?”
All of them quickly shook their heads when they heard this before looking away from Huang Xie. With the way that they turned their heads, it was almost as if they were afraid to look at him.
Huang Xie gave a nod before saying, “If anyone else wants to try anything, know that I won’t show any mercy.”
All of them slowly gave nods, but they still didn’t look in Huang Xie’s direction.
Huang Xie wanted to go over to Xiao Ming’s group after doing all of this, but he didn’t have time to do it as the floor suddenly gave out from under them.
It was the same thing as before where the floor had suddenly disappeared from under them.
They were thrown into the darkness that was waiting beneath them.
Huang Xie however couldn’t help feeling that this was strange.
The timing of the floor disappearing…it was almost as if there was someone that had been waiting for him to settle that person before dropping them down.
Could it be that there was some kind of will inside of the statue that was controlling all of this?
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