Infinite Puzzle City

Chapter 889: Admit Defeat
"What!!"

By the time Hu Wei and the others came to their senses, Xiao Ranren was already standing behind them.

"You're cheating!" Xiong Gang angrily got up and roared at Xiao Ran.

As he spoke, he was about to rush towards Xiao Ran again, but was stopped by Lu Shou.

Lu Shou shook his head at Xiong Gang: "You lost. They were already showing mercy. Otherwise, your head would have been gone by now."

At this point, Lu Shou realized that Xiao Ran had been holding back and hadn't really gone all out.

Otherwise, even if they were all combined, they probably wouldn't be a match for them.

Xiong Gang touched his neck, then suddenly his face stiffened. He realized that all the hair on his neck was gone. Thinking of Xiao Ran's knife strike just now, if she had really gone all out, he was afraid...

Thinking of this, Xiong Gang's resentment gradually faded, and his gaze towards Xiao Ran became complicated.

"Fellow Daoist, we admire your skill. However, this Five Immortals Hall is not just for us gatekeepers. The methods behind it will either kill or injure you. Please think carefully."

Hu Wei cupped his hands towards Xiao Ran and tried to persuade her again, but his tone had become more respectful.

No matter where you go or how big your reputation is, strength is the only true measure of success. The methods Xiao Ran displayed were enough to earn the admiration of Hu Wei and the others.

"Understood, please!"

Xiao Ran cupped her hands in greeting, turned around, and continued walking away.

Watching Xiao Ran's retreating figure, Bao Xing, Zhu Lie, and the others said with a helpless expression, "We really entered the world too late. We didn't even know there were such extraordinary people in this world."

It has only been a short time since they landed in the Lost City. Although they came from the Lost City, they have lost the initiative and even the younger generation has already surpassed them.

"Shall we accept it?"

Xiong Gang looked at Hu Wei and said.

Zhu Lie nudged Xiong Gang with his elbow: "What are you talking about? We don't even know what's going on outside. Why are we closing in so early? If people outside know we were so easily defeated, don't we have any shame?"

“Yes, we can’t accept it. Not only can we not accept it, we should also make a big fuss with gongs and drums,” Lu Shou nodded and said.

Huwei glared at the soldiers behind him and cursed, "Good, this is a good opportunity to train you all. You bunch of bastards, you're always slacking off, but you've got diarrhea today. Get the hell out of here, the bigger the commotion, the better."

The soldiers groaned and complained, but following Tiger's command, they began to drill again around the area.

The bigger the commotion, the better.

At this moment, Xiao Ran had already entered the valley. He spread his spiritual power and found that he could not even reach the edge of the valley.

It's as if this road is endless.

What kind of hell is this?
Xiao Ran frowned, realizing that the further she went, the more astonishingly her body was being consumed. In just a short while, she felt her stomach start to rumble.

He took a piece of bread from his spatial storage and put it in his mouth.

This place seems to increase my energy expenditure, and it also seems to extend indefinitely. The further I go in, the faster my energy is depleted. It's somewhat like the legendary hell of hungry ghosts.

Seeing this, Xiao Ran simply stopped walking, closed her eyes, and recalled the scene of the Five Immortals opening the hall at the Dream Pool back then.

What's truly terrifying about the Five Immortals' Hall is that these old immortals have the ability to mimic hell.

The Hell of Bones, the Hell of Flames, and the Hell of Maggots are all extremely dangerous.

Back in the Dream Pool, he was caught in the Five Immortals Opening Hall, which was extremely dangerous. If it weren't for his brothers risking their lives to rush in and save him, Xiao Ran might not have been able to get out in the end.

Back then, the Five Immortals Opening the Hall was a simplified version and not complete, but now it is a complete Five Immortals Opening the Hall, so Xiao Ran naturally will not underestimate it.

But even if it's the complete version of the Five Immortals Opening the Hall, so what?

I am no longer the person I was back then.

A moment later, Xiao Ran opened his eyes, a glint of light flashing in them. He spread his arms and threw out sheets of joss paper, instantly amplifying the murderous aura.

Immediately, Xiao Ran formed hand seals, and with the support of his immense spiritual power, the Yin energy in the void suddenly surged.

Xiao Ran extended one hand, and the previously boiling Yin energy quickly gathered on Xiao Ran's palm, condensing into a black sphere.

Under Xiao Ran's immense mental power, the sphere continued to shrink, gradually shrinking from the size of an adult's fist to the size of a fingernail.

"Seniors, the methods of the Five Immortals Hall are indeed remarkable. They can imitate the Five Directions Hell, causing people to fall into them and never be reborn. I am presumptuous and would like to try to see if I can use force to overcome skill and carve out a way for myself. If I have offended you, please forgive me."

Xiao Ran spoke calmly, calling out to the old men hiding outside the formation.

The reason he said that was because Xiao Ran had experienced the Five Immortals Hall, even if it was just a simplified version, and knew its power and ingenuity.

However, as the saying goes, "one trick is enough to make you successful," and this trick was clearly not novel for Xiao Ran.

At this moment, an altar was set up above the valley. Huang's fourth aunt was in charge, and the elders of the Bai, Hu, Dai (Grey), and Chang families sat down in order.

Hearing Xiao Ran's shout, the five elderly people were equally shocked.

"How does he know the secret of the Five Immortals Opening the Hall??" Fifth Madam Hu opened her eyes in surprise. The Five Immortals Opening the Hall's ability to manifest the Five Directions of Hell was a core secret of the Five Immortals Hall.

How did the other party know about this?

"Hmph, so what if he knows? I don't believe he can actually break it!"

Bai Jing snorted coldly, his expression no longer as kind as it had been in the car, and even a murderous intent had arisen in his eyes.

However, Huang's fourth aunt remained silent at this moment.

It seemed like he was tacitly agreeing with Bai Jing's words, but he was also observing the situation and wanted to see what Xiao Ran's true methods were.

At this moment, Xiao Ran flicked the tiny black ball, which had been compressed to its limit, with his finger!
"Buzz!"

The ball did not explode immediately upon leaving the hand; instead, it spread out like a stone thrown into calm water, creating silent ripples in the air.

But wherever the ripples passed, the space seemed to be thrown into a block of ice with scalding iron, making a piercing "sizzling" sound, violently twisting and collapsing!
Immediately afterwards, an indescribable and terrifying suction force suddenly erupted!
The valley trembled, and the void around Xiao Ran seemed to be frantically pulled and swallowed into that small black sphere!
The black sphere seemed to have become a bottomless abyss, greedily sucking up everything around it.

"Not good!" The expressions of Grandma Huang and several other elder immortals watching the battle changed drastically.

They could clearly feel that the power holding the core of the "Five Immortals Opening the Hall" formation was being torn apart.

At this moment, the altar began to tremble, and a tremendous sense of oppression swept over, causing the five elders' expressions to change drastically.

"Hold on!"

A cold, stern look appeared on the aged face of the fourth aunt of the Huang family. She pulled out a dagger from her waist, cut open her own palm, and smeared the blood on her face, drawing eerie totems.

Then his entire aura changed, and the altar behind him opened wide, with a middle-aged Taoist priest sitting cross-legged in the middle. At this moment, the old Taoist priest suddenly opened his eyes, opened his mouth and exhaled a puff of yellow smoke, which enveloped the altar and supported the swaying altar.

But before everyone could even breathe a sigh of relief...

“Crack…Crack…”

A teeth-grinding cracking sound echoed in the void.

The massive array of light that enveloped the valley began to crack like a punctured balloon.

After absorbing a massive amount of energy, the black sphere finally reached its critical point, and then a black light flashed.

With a soft "poof," the void suddenly distorted, and the energy that had just been swallowed by the black sphere was now erupting out at an extremely high speed.

"boom!!!"

A dull, heart-stopping hum, as if space itself were being torn apart, came through.

Then, the scene in the valley instantly distorted and blurred, the light stretched into eerie lines. An overwhelming torrent of energy, far exceeding the limits predicted by the five elders, burst forth like a dammed river, threatening to tear apart the illusion before them.

Now it's the five elderly people's turn to feel bad!
The fourth aunt of the Huang family was the first to be affected.

Her elderly body trembled violently; clearly, she could not withstand such repeated pulling and stretching.

Fortunately, at that moment, Xiao Ran suddenly waved his hand, and the black sphere that was originally spewing outwards suddenly twisted and deformed, and then collapsed uncontrollably.

The raging torrent of energy, as if choked by an invisible giant hand, instantly lost its direction, turning into chaotic energy turbulence that scattered and crashed in all directions before finally falling silent, leaving only the scorching heat and burnt smell lingering in the air.

Xiao Ran lowered her hand, facing the air ahead, her voice clearly piercing through the wind, snow, and residual energy fluctuations, and shouted:

"Gentlemen, let's stop here. I don't have the ability to break the Five Immortals' Hall, so I'll admit defeat here."

(End of this chapter)