Dimension Paradise, I am a summoning apostle

Chapter 221 Netherworld Ferry
Beyond the passageway is a spiral staircase leading downwards.

Main tombs like the Xuan Nu Zhi tomb, located on the surface, are ultimately rare.

Although Yuanping Wang was once a deposed emperor, he was still a king and marquis. His status on the ground was indeed small, but his inner power was considerable.

We walked down the spiral staircase for about half an hour, and we still hadn't reached the bottom.

"Brother Guo, don't you sense anything is amiss?" Chu Danqing couldn't help but ask.

Although they weren't traveling at full speed, they still covered ten miles in ten minutes.

Chu Danqing didn't believe that the tomb of the Prince of Yuanping could really be dug ten miles underground.

Upon hearing this, Guo Ming pondered for a moment and said, "I don't sense any problem."

As for the fact that he hadn't reached the end after walking for so long, he didn't find anything wrong with it.

After all, there are even deeper secret rooms in his house.

Chu Danqing also realized that Guo Ming's world was at a higher level, so ten miles was nothing to him.

That's why Guo Ming didn't think anything was wrong.

"I'll leave a mark," Chu Danqing said, taking a piece of clothing from her storage space and tossing it onto the steps.

He suspected that he and his group had been going in circles all along.

Seeing this, Guo Ming didn't say anything, and continued walking down after making the mark.

And this time the speed has increased.

Then they saw a familiar object.

The clothes that Chu Danqing threw on the steps.

Chu Danqing picked it up; both the style and the material were the same as the one Chu Danqing had put down.

"This is troublesome, we're really stuck here." Chu Danqing muttered, then handed Yue Lanwuying a rope several hundred meters long.

After receiving it, Yue Lan Wu Ying walked down the steps.

"Strange, why don't I feel anything?" Guo Ming thought to himself, this shouldn't be happening.

He perceived no problem.

"Perception can be deceiving," Chu Danqing said. "This must be due to some extremely sophisticated feng shui arrangement."

"Essentially, it might be using spatial illusions or some other weird principle, anyway, I don't know how to do it." Chu Danqing said this with a straight face.

What kind of feng shui would a summoner like him know?

As soon as they finished speaking, footsteps came from behind them. Yue Lan Wu Ying was clearly walking downhill, but after circling around, she reappeared behind them.

"It's confirmed, there's definitely a problem." Chu Danqing canceled the Moon Orchid Martial Shadow, then summoned it again.

He was worried that it was a counterfeit product.

However, the confirmation process was successful; the Moon Orchid Shadow in the background was indeed summoned by him.

By retrieving the rope, Chu Danqing determined that the entire spiral staircase was 120 meters long.

It wasn't long, but it kept repeating itself, making it impossible to escape.

"How about we jump down?" Chu Danqing glanced at the bottomless darkness beside the spiral staircase.

The steps and surrounding area seemed to be made of some kind of light-absorbing material, so even when a strong flashlight was shone on them, it was still pitch black.

That makes sense, though. How could an S-level mission's area be so easily compromised?

“It’s possible, but Brother Chu, aren’t you afraid that even if you jump down, you’ll be stuck in a loop?” Guo Ming wasn’t worried about dying from jumping down. From the Son of Heaven to the Ghost Mother and now to himself, everyone could fly, and even lift people up to fly.

Therefore, nothing will happen.

“Oh, then let the Son of Heaven jump first.” After Chu Danqing finished speaking, the Son of Heaven emerged from the edict hanging on his chest and then jumped off the edge of the steps.

“He’s not dead yet. If he were dead, the imperial edict would disappear,” Chu Danqing said.

Then a golden light flashed below, and the Son of Heaven returned.

He briefly described the situation: he jumped down and landed on a set of steps, and on his way back, he encountered Chu Danqing.

"Looks like this won't work; we're trapped here," Chu Danqing said. "What do we do? Break through by force?"

He was out of options; there was no way to solve the problem of his major not being relevant to his job.

So we can only pin our hopes on Guo Ming.

Upon hearing this, Guo Ming naturally nodded, and immediately set up the Three Talents Sword Formation with his three flying swords: the Zi Shi Shen Hou Sword, the Chou Shi Da Ji Sword, and the Yin Shi Gong Cao Sword.

They bombarded the area where they were located directly downwards.

The entire staircase began to collapse rapidly, and they fell down with it.

However, with the Son of Heaven supporting him with magic, Chu Danqing wasn't too afraid.

This wasn't the first time Da Bao had received this treatment, so he was quite adept at it, while Yue Lan Wu Ying was a little unaccustomed to it.

They only landed after the entire spiral staircase was destroyed.

"Something doesn't seem right." Chu Danqing looked around; it was still pitch black, which meant they might not have escaped the spiral staircase yet.

Fortunately, there was some good news: in a corner of this dark space, they found a corpse that had decomposed to the point of being nothing but bones.

“They’re from the Mountain Moving Sect.” Chu Danqing looked at the Taoist robe the other person was wearing and knew that he was a Taoist from the Mountain Moving Sect, one of the four major sects.

He's been dead for quite some time.

After some searching, they found something resembling a diary. [It's the Netherworld Ferry, the ditch where Prince Yuanping truly can't get out this time.]

[No, there's still a chance. I've found a way out.]

Damn it, they've blocked the escape route!

I, who have been so wise all my life, am now going to starve to death here! I am filled with rage!

Chu Danqing briefly flipped through the diary. The first part was about discovering that she couldn't get out of the stairs and figuring out what it was.

After two days of feeling down, he managed to find the so-called "gate of life" before running out of rations, thanks to his solid feng shui knowledge and experience.

In other words, they managed to escape the feng shui pattern of the spiral staircase called the Netherworld Ferry, only to find upon arrival that the gate of life had been completely blocked.

That makes perfect sense; it's designed to deter tomb raiders.

In the end, they couldn't get out, their food supplies ran out, and they starved to death.

As for breaking through the wall, he had the tools, but the Mountain Moving Taoist dared not do so.

The gate of life should be a lifeline, but when it is blocked, life is cut off and a large amount of death energy accumulates.

Once broken open, it will inevitably be submerged in deathly energy, and even in death it will not find peace.

Of course, being directly impacted by death energy while alive is worse than death, and it's better to choose to starve to death.

"I must say, the tomb of Prince Yuanping is quite friendly to us." Chu Danqing handed the diary to Guo Ming after reading it.

The structure of this tomb is designed to trap tomb raiders. You might think you've cracked the feng shui pattern, but they're just playing a trick on you.

We'll die if we don't crack it, and we'll die if we do.

After all, all these measures were taken to prevent people from visiting his tomb, so why leave any chance for tomb raiders?

Naturally, the more ruthless and vicious the better.

Coincidentally, among Chu Danqing's group, only Chu Danqing had a rudimentary understanding of feng shui; the rest of them only had physical strength.

After walking for half an hour without finding a problem, they decided to shoot it down.

"That's true." Guo Ming nodded after reading it, then asked, "Brother Chu, which wall should we attack?"

Besides the above, there are also four other positions: east, west, south, and north. Guo Ming couldn't figure it out, so he could only let Chu Danqing make the decision.

Of those present, only Chu Danqing had a rudimentary understanding of feng shui, which was much better than guessing blindly.

However, Chu Danqing was also completely in the dark, which was like having him learn the multiplication table and then asking him to do advanced mathematics.

Chu Danqing could only ask: 'Wasn't this supposed to be a math exam? Why did they give me an English test, and what does "factory" mean in English?'

So after carefully observing the surroundings, Chu Danqing couldn't say he didn't notice anything; he could only say that the materials used to build the tomb were indeed of high quality.

"How's it going? Have you got any leads?" Guo Ming asked Chu Danqing.

Chu Danqing spread his hands: "No."

As a professional, Zhong Ting should have been able to tell, but he was in a hurry to go back and rescue people, so he didn't come down with Chu Danqing.

"Then I'll just randomly pick a wall and smash it. There are only five choices, so I'm sure I'll find the right one." Guo Ming said, raising his flying sword and preparing to unleash his power.

As for the death aura, that's alright. The Son of Heaven started buffing everyone, and Da Bai also used the Spirit Healing skill to stack double shields for area healing.

Chu Danqing also activated the Five Elements Primordial Spirit Array to further enhance its effects.

At the same time, he immediately shielded Yue Lanwuying in front of him to prevent himself from being affected.

Guo Ming's Three Talents Sword Formation landed on the east wall.

The bad news is that the attack was misdirected, and the even worse news is that a massive surge of death energy is arriving, so dense that it is visible to the naked eye.

Fortunately, Guo Ming was strong enough to block the gaping hole of death energy with the Three Talents Sword Formation.

The sword energy forcefully withstood the ever-increasing death energy, thus preventing the space of the Netherworld Ferry from being tainted by it.

Seeing this, Guo Ming had no choice but to choose the adjacent western side once again.

With another sword strike, the Three Talents Sword Formation could only continue to plug the hole.

"Do you think this thing might be playing a trick on us? We might have fought all five sides and still not found anything, but the real entrance is actually right above us," Chu Danqing said.

When Guo Ming heard this, he initially thought it made a lot of sense, but upon closer inspection, he realized there was a problem with it.

If it's above your head, then it becomes an exit, not an entrance.

"Brother Chu, even subverting conventions requires logic." As Guo Ming said this, his two swords flew simultaneously, shattering both the north and south sides.

But that still wasn't the entrance. Finally, they forcibly shattered the floor beneath their feet with the Plain Maiden Sword, creating a large hole.

The ground beneath their feet gave way, and they plummeted downwards.

Fortunately, it's only about ten meters high, which isn't very tall.

Upon landing, the surroundings transformed into an underground palace, but it was shrouded in a thick layer of dark clouds.

"Death energy? No, that's not right." Chu Danqing's expression was not good as he watched the shield value drop continuously.

Guo Ming's expression suddenly changed. He decisively took out a set of formations and a large number of talismans to enhance them, concealing everyone and leading them to retreat to the location of the previous gap.

Judging from his posture, he seems ready to escape on his sword at any moment.

Before Chu Danqing could react, she heard the sound of synchronized footsteps coming from the dark clouds.

(End of this chapter)