Put away your magical powers now!.

Chapter 126 [The Final Trial!] (7200 words)
Chapter 7200 [The Final Trial!] ( words)
From the corridor on the second floor to the stairs and then to the lobby on the first floor, everything along the way was dark.

Originally, the lights in the houses were off, and as they walked along the road, only the lantern held in the hand of the waiter puppet illuminated the way.

It feels very hellish.

However, as Chen Yan followed the waiter puppet all the way and saw that it was pitch black along the way, he had an idea in his mind: This was the owner of the secret realm guarding against him!

The construction of a mirror world requires a light source. Without a light source, the mirror world cannot exist. Jumping into it will lead to a black void that will swallow you up.

It should be because he had previously spied on the secret building through the mirror world, and this action aroused the vigilance of the owner of the secret realm.

Following the waiter puppet out of the first floor hall and into the courtyard outside, the puppet that led the way actually took Chen Yan to the side of the building.

What surprised Chen Yan was that it actually led Chen Yan all the way to the underground passage that he had spied on before!

It was still pitch black along the stairs. Under the light of the lantern, the puppet went down the stairs in a strange and mechanical posture, stood in front of the corridor of the underground passage, and looked back at Chen Yan.

After opening the door, the corridor inside, where Chen Yan originally remembered that there should be two rows of puppets standing against the walls on both sides of the corridor, had disappeared. However, at the end of the corridor, the door to the slaughterhouse-like place was wide open.

Firelight, human figures, and the sound of tinkling came from inside.

"Why don't you leave?" Chen Yan looked at the waiter puppet.

"I'll take you here, please go inside."

Chen Yan pointed to the door of the slaughterhouse-like place at the end of the corridor: "Where?"

"Yes, go inside, to that place, and then keep going inside."

After the waiter puppet finished speaking, he bowed to Chen Yan and handed the lantern in his hand to Chen Yan.

Chen Yan frowned and took it, then saw the waiter puppet turn around and leave, heading towards the ground.

"Wait a minute." Chen Yan suddenly spoke.

"What other instructions does the guest have?"

"Will the other guests come here after the trial?"

"Yes, as long as the guests don't die in the trial, I will lead them here after it's over."

Chen Yan frowned: "So, what is inside? What should I do after I go in?"

"There will be a waiter inside to serve you."

The waiter puppet said nothing more and just left.

Chen Yan narrowed his eyes and turned his head to look at the door at the end of the corridor. The swaying light and shadow and the sounds coming from the door made him feel a little depressed.

However, after taking a deep breath, Chen Yan slapped a [Talisman for Attracting Good Luck and Avoiding Evil] and a [Talisman for Six Yang Righteousness] on himself, and then stepped in.

After walking through the corridor, we entered the large room that looked like a slaughterhouse.

The room was no longer as quiet as it was in the mirror world.

The innermost stove had its hearth door open, and flames shot up into the sky. The flames flickered, casting shadows of the entire room swaying on the walls.

There were fewer bodies on the huge table in the middle of the room. But Chen Yan only needed to glance at it to understand where the bodies had gone.

Several black skeleton puppets were busy pushing four-wheeled carts around a large table, carrying corpses one by one to the front of the furnace. Then they pushed the carts to the furnace mouth and pushed them in. As the carts tilted, the corpses slid into the furnace one by one and burned under the blazing flames...

The air in the room was stuffy and filled with a strong, nauseating smell!
There were also some skeleton puppets standing around the big table, busy at work.

Holding knives and hooks of various shapes...

Blood was flowing on the table, dripping along the edge of the table to the ground. The floor in the room had been turned into slippery mud by the blood.

The smell of blood is pungent!

What these puppets were doing was very similar to what Chen Yan saw when he went to the vegetable market as a child:

At the fish stalls in the market, the fishmongers would hook the fish with iron hooks, slap them on the counter, then use knives to scrape the scales off the fish, cut open the belly, gut the fish, and remove the internal organs...

And these puppets are using this method to deal with the corpse on the table!

Chen Yan saw with his own eyes a puppet peeling the skin off a corpse's face by inserting a thin blade under the skin and then separating the skin and flesh bit by bit.

Perhaps the corpse itself was too damaged, and one of its eyeballs fell off and rolled onto the table covered in blood plasma. The puppet picked it up, took a look at it, and threw it into the cart next to it.

The corpses in the cart were all bloody and mangled, their skin had been peeled off, and their internal organs had been hollowed out.

When a cart is full, it will be pushed by the puppet to the furnace, dumped and burned!

There are also skeleton waiters who will carefully clean the peeled human skins - there is a large jar and a bunch of brushes on the table in front of them.

The puppet used a brush to dip some grease paint of unknown origin in a jar and gently brushed it on the human skin.

Finally, they would carefully pick up the human skin, just like picking up pieces of clothing, and hang it on the hooks in the room to dry...

The shadow of the human skin swayed, the flames flickered, the puppets were busy, and the room was filled with the smell of blood...

Chen Yan forced himself to suppress the urge to vomit!
Just when he turned his head to vomit, his face suddenly changed!
He saw a pile of things placed in the corner!
Broken and in a mess, they were just thrown into a pile in the corner!
That is……

A set of general armor!
Of course Chen Yan recognized this set of armor!

Especially the helmet on the top of the pile... the bull-horned helmet that was so broken that only half was left!

He immediately forgot about vomiting and turned around to look at the corpses on the large table in the middle...

I don’t know… which corpse belongs to which general’s armored guest?

He should be lying on the table right now, among these corpses!

At home, the gutted organs were placed in huge basins. Then, several puppets lined up, holding the basins filled with organs, and walked to the back of the room...

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At the innermost part of the slaughterhouse room, there was a large door—this door, Chen Yan remembered, didn't exist in the mirror world!
At this moment, the huge arched door on the wall was open - without even a door panel.

Each puppet held an iron basin filled with offal and walked in quietly and orderly.

Chen Yan followed.

He remembered what the puppet waiter said to him: Keep going inside!

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After passing through the archway, the air inside suddenly became cooler - there was a stove in the slaughterhouse room, so it was very stuffy.

Behind the archway was a gloomy corridor with a layer of slippery moss on the stones on the ground.

But the mosses didn't seem to be green, but a creepy pink.

The corridor was long and wide, and the further you walked into it, the dimmer the lights on the walls became.

At the end was a large room wider than a slaughterhouse - to be more precise, it was more like a hall or a lobby.

It is supported by several pillars, and next to each pillar are tables and chairs.

When Chen Yan walked in, he saw a monster covered in blood and flesh sitting on a chair under the pillar on his left.

The monster's neck was cut off and its head was lying on the ground.

A skeleton puppet next to it was carefully sticking a piece of human skin onto its head.

Its movements were very delicate. While sticking to the human skin, it also used a brush to carefully apply a layer of milky white paste on the head.

After applying the human skin, use a clean brush to iron it over and over again...

This action easily reminds people of putting a screen protector on a mobile phone.

Just as Chen Yan was observing carefully, the monster head on the table suddenly opened its eyes, blinked twice at Chen Yan, and grinned.

What a smile that was... vicious and weird!

Especially that bloody face, with only a small half of the human skin covered. Half of the face looked like a young man with a fair complexion, while the other half was a skeleton covered with flesh and blood!

Chen Yan felt his stomach begin to churn! He regretted drinking water and eating before!

Just at this time……

"You are the first guest to pass the trial tonight, please follow me."

In front of him, a puppet in white clothes was walking towards him.

The clothes on this guy are almost the same as those of the previous puppet waiter, the only difference is that the clothes are white. The same thing is that the tone and intonation are both mechanical and dull.

Chen Yan looked at the white-robed puppet and pointed at the monsters that were sticking human skin on. "Are these the monsters responsible for attacking us in the room during the trial?"

"Some, yes." The white-robed puppet replied sternly, "Most of them will be inspected and assessed after being donned in human skin. Defective products will be thrown back into the refining furnace. Only qualified products will be allowed to enter the trial field and provide services to the guests."

Providing services... Chen Yan silently repeated this statement in his mind, feeling that it was a bit ironic.

The white-robed puppet bowed and said, "Please believe us, we will only allow qualified monsters to enter the trial field. We attach great importance to our guests' trial experience!"

Chen Yan's face was stern, and he said coldly, "Come on, take me to the final trial stage—this is your job, right?"

The white-robed puppet nodded: "Please follow me, my guest."

There are twelve pillars in the hall, and there are tables and chairs under each pillar. Most of them have monsters receiving services from puppets... with human skin attached to them!

Just like putting on clothes, sticking on human skin!

Chen Yan followed along and came to the end of the hall, where there was a huge curtain.

But after just one look, Chen Yan couldn't help but change his expression slightly - how could this be called a curtain?
That huge curtain was clearly made of countless pieces of human skin! It looked gray and white!
Chen Yan's scalp tingled, but he just followed the white-clothed puppet behind the curtain!

Behind the gray-white human skin curtain was a flight of stairs, and on several steps, there was a huge chair!

A figure as huge as a mountain was sitting on the chair. Chen Yan only took one look at it and felt a strong sense of nausea!
That... is a person, or to be more precise, it's a monster!

A mountain of meat!
This was the first impression in Chen Yan’s mind!
The chair was clearly wide enough for three people to sit side by side, but the monster sitting on it had squeezed the chair so tightly that there was almost no space left.

Its body looks like a mountain of meat made up of who knows how much fat!
It was only wearing a pair of large shorts, with a huge part of its skin exposed. On the exposed body, layers of fat were stacked on top of each other, swaying slightly like water waves.

There is almost no neck between the huge head and the body. The layers of fat make his head look like it is directly connected to the body.

There was not a single hair or beard on that head, it was as smooth as a peeled boiled egg.

The sound of breathing was like a fan turned to the highest gear, as if the monster sitting high above was spewing out a strong airflow with every breath, and the air was filled with an indescribable stench!

It sat there, but instead of resting, it was eating voraciously!
One by one, black skeleton puppets, holding iron basins filled with internal organs in their hands, lined up from top to bottom along the edge of the stairs.

The puppet standing on the top step was standing next to the meat mountain monster's chair. Although the monster was just sitting, it was more than twice as tall as the puppet.

The puppet raised his hands with great effort, trying to lift the iron basin above his head.

The meat mountain monster stretched out his hand, pinched his fingers, picked up a piece of internal organs from the iron basin, threw it into his mouth, and then swallowed it in one gulp!
It ate slowly, but mouthful after mouthful, without stopping. In a matter of moments, the basin of offal was empty. Then the puppet immediately turned around, picking up the basin and walking down the stairs. The puppet behind it immediately followed, walked to the chair, and tried hard to lift the basin full of offal in its hands...

Chen Yan just stood at the bottom of the stairs, coldly looking at the monster that looked like a mountain of flesh, feasting on it, eating basin after basin of internal organs...

It was not until it had eaten the third bowl that this huge monster, like a mountain of meat, stopped and lowered its head. Its face, which seemed to be squeezed by fat so that its facial features could not be seen, finally opened its eyes with difficulty and glanced at Chen Yan.

"Dear master of the secret realm, this is the first guest to pass the third night trial tonight." The white-clothed puppet finally spoke.

"Woo~~"

The meat mountain monster nodded, then stared at Chen Yan - Chen Yan clearly saw a large and sticky drop of saliva left at the corner of the monster's mouth when it stared at him!

Fighting back his nausea, Chen Yan shouted, "Are you the master of this secret realm?"

The meat mountain monster stared at Chen Yan, but did not answer. Instead, it withdrew its gaze, turned its head away, and continued to concentrate on eating.

"Dear guest." The white-robed puppet beside him said slowly, "Because the other guests have not yet completed the third night of trials, please wait here for a while.

Chen Yan already had some guesses in his mind and nodded, "So, we have to wait until everyone else is here before we can proceed with the final trial?"

"Yes."

Chen Yan said slowly, "I thought that after the third night of the trial, it was truly over."

"The rules were announced before the trial began. The trial here lasts a total of thirty-six hours, so..." The white-robed puppet looked at Chen Yan and bowed respectfully: "The third night is not the final trial. There is still one final stage."

"What is the content of the final trial?"

"I'm sorry, this won't be announced until all guests who have survived the third night's trial arrive."

"..."

Chen Yan took a deep look at the white-robed puppet and nodded: "So I'll just wait here?"

"Yes." The white puppet thought for a moment and said, "Of course. If all other guests have died during the third night of the trial, and you are the only one participating in the final stage, then you don't have to wait. We can start early."

Chen Yan looked around. There was no place to sit in the hall, so he simply sat down on the steps and said coldly, "Then wait!"

The puppet in white stopped talking and slowly took two steps back before leaving.

Chen Yan sat on the steps, leaning sideways, looking coldly at the monster that looked like a mountain of flesh at the top of the steps!

Using the Qi-gazing technique, one can actually see the monster's vital energy surging.

Obviously, as the master of this secret realm, this meat mountain monster did not hide his vitality.

The Qi-Observing Technique showed that this monster's Qi cultivation was much stronger than his own!

Stage realm?
Chen Yan nodded.

Although he felt a little scared, he was not afraid.

It’s not like I haven’t killed before in the Dengtai realm!
The old ghost in Gangcheng is at the Dengtai realm!

Moreover, since then, Chen Yan has mastered some new spells and methods. His current strength is much stronger than when he was in Hong Kong City.

However, Chen Yan was still waiting and did not act in a hurry.

Because he always had a strange feeling in his heart - things didn't seem to be so simple!
The hall was filled with the sound of the meat mountain monster eating frantically. Chen Yan felt more and more disgusted as he listened. When he raised his head to look at the monster, he found that the monster was chewing with big mouthfuls, but its eyes were always fixed on him!

There was clearly... greed in those eyes!
It wants to eat me!

Chen Yan immediately felt the meaning of the look in the eyes of this person from the secret realm.

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After an unknown amount of time, Chen Yan heard footsteps outside the hall.

Soon, the puppet in white came in again!
Following behind it were Ouyang, Chu Keqing, Jiudai, and the girl with long black hair!

As expected, all four of them survived.

However, Jiudai's condition was obviously very bad. His face was pale, his beard was stained with blood, and his clothes were becoming more and more tattered.

The girl with long straight black hair hung her head and seemed to be limping as she walked.

Chu Keqing's face was pale, and she didn't look injured, but she didn't dare to look around. Judging from her appearance, she was probably frightened by the scene in the slaughterhouse outside. She covered her mouth with one hand, as if she was about to vomit at any time.

The only one who looked calm was Ouyang. This guy looked around with a calm expression, but when he saw Chen Yan, he started laughing.

"Brother, you are truly extraordinary! You actually completed the third night of the trial ahead of schedule."

After saying that, Ouyang raised his head and looked at the meat mountain monster on the steps with an ugly expression: "Master of the secret realm?"

Chen Yan didn't say anything, but looked at Chu Keqing. Chu Keqing had already walked quickly to Chen Yan's side. The woman's face was pale and there was a bit of panic in her eyes.

"Senior, outside, that place outside..." Chu Keqing looked at the meat mountain monster. After seeing clearly what it was eating, Chu Keqing finally couldn't help it, lowered her head and turned away...

vomit! !

Chen Yan patted her on the back before looking at Ouyang and asking, "Is it daybreak outside?"

"Well, the night is over." Ouyang stared at the meat mountain monster with a frown.

The puppet in white suddenly took two steps forward, raised his hands and clapped them twice.

clap clap!

The puppets that were standing on the steps and lining up to feed the meat mountain monster suddenly turned around in unison, lowered their heads, held the basins, and lined up to leave.

The meat mountain monster snorted, sat up straight, and looked down at Chen Yan and others at the bottom of the stairs.

"Dear guests!" The white-robed puppet said slowly in a dull tone, "You are the guests who have passed the third night trial and are still alive.

Here, on behalf of the owner of the secret realm, I would like to congratulate all the guests.

According to the secret realm trial process, we are now entering the final trial phase. All guests who can pass this phase will receive a gift in the end."

"Reward... um, gift, what is the gift?" Chen Yan asked loudly.

"We offer different options for each guest to choose from." The white-robed puppet replied calmly, "A spell, a magical weapon, and a technique that can enhance soul power."

As it spoke, its gaze swept over everyone. "Any surviving guest may choose one of the three options—but it must be noted that each option only has one item. Once a guest has chosen one, that option will automatically be removed, and subsequent guests will not be able to choose again."

After hearing this, Ouyang deliberately said loudly: "So, the final gift is only three things in total? But there are five people here!"

"To be precise, there are four groups of guests." The white puppet looked at Ouyang and said, "My dear guest, you have teamed up with the lady from Dragon Country beside you. The two of you can only receive one gift together."

"That's four groups of people, but there are only three items." Chen Yan said coldly, "So, you've concluded that after the final trial, there won't be more than three groups of us left alive, right?"

The puppet in white looked at Chen Yan without saying anything, but his attitude clearly showed his agreement.

It raised its hands again and clapped them twice.

clap clap!

Soon, three puppets came quickly into the hall from outside the curtain.

The two puppets held a huge iron basin in their hands - as big as a bathtub!
The third puppet was holding a wooden barrel with four bamboo sticks in it.

"What is the final part of the trial? Haven't you participated in the trial before?" Chen Yan's heart moved, and he looked at Jiudai and the girl with long black hair.

The girl with long black hair shook her head. "I don't know. The last time I participated, I was with my father. During the third night, I was seriously injured and fell into a coma. When I woke up, it was over, but my father was already dead."

But the old man Jiudai had an extremely ugly expression, his eyes clearly filled with tension and anxiety. He said coldly: "Ask what you want, you will know soon!"

The white-clothed puppet and three other skeleton puppets walked in, and after the iron basin was placed under the steps, it took the wooden barrel.

The three puppets walked out of the curtain, and the puppet in white shook the wooden barrel in his hand. Several bamboo sticks swayed, making a rustling sound.

"The final stage of the trial - selecting the sacrificer!"

The originally mechanical and dull words of the white-robed puppet now seemed to have a strange tone.

"Dear guests who have come to the secret realm, you have received our warm hospitality and attentive service, and have gained a wonderful experience in the trials here - most importantly, you can also receive a treasure gift that you have always dreamed of!

All of this depends on the generosity of the owner of the secret realm!
Shouldn't one give something in return for a gift? "

The white-robed puppet's tone turned cold, "For the final stage, please come forward and draw lots.

There are four bamboo sticks prepared here, each with a mark on it.

Three of them were unsuccessful draws.

One is the sacrifice lot!

If you draw a losing lot, you can survive this trial.

As for the guest who draws the sacrifice... please be sure to offer your life and body with a grateful heart to the Master of the Secret Realm! You will be honored to be the final main course for the Master of the Secret Realm's dinner tonight!"

Hearing it say these words, Chen Yan sighed.

"I now feel that you are truly worthy of being called monsters of Japan. You are indeed so shameless in your words." Chen Yan sneered and shouted, "If you draw the sacrificial lot but don't want to die, will you forcibly kill the guest?"

"Not really." said the puppet in white, and then it actually laughed!

With a giggle, the white-robed puppet spoke in a strange tone, and slowly said: "Sacrifice should be sacred and performed with gratitude and devotion.

So we will give the sacrificer one last chance to survive."

As it spoke, it turned and bowed to the Master of the Meat Mountain on the steps, then said, "The last sacrificer will have a chance to challenge the Master of the Secret Realm... If they are victorious, the Master will mercifully let them go."

At this point, the waiter in white nodded and said, "The rules have been announced... Now, guests, you have five minutes to discuss the order of the draw.

Well, theoretically, the person who draws the lot first has the highest chance of drawing an unselected person."

"Then...what about us?" Chu Keqing suddenly shouted, "We're a team, two of us! If we draw the sacrifice, do we both have to die?"

"Of course not. The master of the secret realm is very fair!" The white-robed puppet replied seriously, "The reward is for one person, so the sacrifice is also for one person! If your group draws the sacrifice lot, then the two of you can discuss and decide whether one of you will serve as the sacrificer. Of course, we don't place any restrictions on the method of discussion."

Just fight each other... Chen Yan sneered.

The old man Jiudai, who had been silent for a long time, suddenly sighed and looked at the girl with long black hair: "Girl from the Xisang family, now you understand!"

After a pause, he said in a deep voice, "The last time I walked here, you were already injured and unconscious. Your father drew lots to be sacrificed... And to protect you, he gave you his chance to live and became the sacrifice himself! So it wasn't me who killed your father at all..."

Hearing this, the girl with long black hair began to tremble uncontrollably!
Sacrifice?

My own father was... eaten!!!

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[Uh, I overestimated myself. I haven't finished writing the secret realm yet... I hold my head in my hands~]

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(End of this chapter)