Chapter 73: Chapter 73: Door
The Jewel Beetle tribesmen were still fearful of Lu Zhen even though he looked so approachable and no one was courageous enough to serve him. Lu Zhen also didn't mind their actions, it was quite normal for them to react this way. "Do you have a house that's not in use? I'll rest here today and leave tomorrow in the early morning. Does this sound good?"
One of them nodded in agreement and led Lu Zhen to his house and quickly ran away afterwards. Lu Zhen couldn't help but be amused with this person's actions. As promised, Lu Zhen left the tribe early in the morning the next day. All the tribesmen heaved a sigh of relief, to them, a single night with Lu Zhen felt like a year had passed.
After Lu Zhen left this forest, "I guess I'll let the other two live a few more days." he had been following one scent for days and we would take him too much time to go back to the same place and track another scent, it might even be possible that is has already dissipated. Just as he was immersed in his thoughts, he found himself in an icy environment.
He looked back and saw that it was still summer behind him but it was winter in front of him. He had seen many strange things in his previous life so this was nothing new. The snowy place didn't stop him from continuing with his journey. He walked further inside the snow.
And although he wasn't wearing much, he wasn't affected by the cold winds that constantly blew in his direction. The deeper he went, the less mystic plants there were and the colder it became. Lu Zhen continued with his path, he knew that there was some sort of treasure waiting for him to obtain it.
Lu Zhen kept walking until he didn't know how far he had walked, something suddenly pulled him out of his deep thoughts, it was the voices of a few individuals. "It has to be here. All the ancient records point to this place, quickly find the secret passage!"
"Senior sister, we've been here for two months now, it's pretty obvious that we wasted our time and resources by coming here. We have to go back to the Northern Continent." A young man's voice was heard by Lu Zhen. From their conversation, it was clear that they used some kind of treasure that helped them come here without needing to wait for the Fairy Land to open.
And it seems they came here to find something, 'Are they here for my treasure?' Lu Zhen thought to himself. 'I'd better start looking for this treasure before it falls in their hands.' he opened his eyes and activated his Emperor's Eyes, all illusions and hidden traps and arrays were visible in Lu Zhen's eyes, nothing could hide from them.
He saw a faint light about ten meters to his right and stealthily approached it, he even resorted to changing his entire body to his white lion transformation. His pure white fur blended in perfectly with its surroundings, after reaching the source of the light, he saw that a sealing array was placed here and it was also very powerful.
"I've been looking for powerful sealing arrays and I finally found one. Let's try to see if we can absorb its healing power. Lu Zhen released his own sealing power into this formation. His sealing power started to integrate itself with the sealing array and absorbed the sealing power contained within no problem.
After days of absorbing this sealing power, the power within the sealing array had decreased drastically, after absorbing the last piece of sealing power from it. The sealing array disappeared and a huge cave entrance showed itself, the opening of this cave didn't create any commotion like most would. He didn't think much and jumped inside the cave entrance.
He also had already turned back into his human form. The interior of the cave was very wide and spacious, it could probably house hundreds of people at the same time. Light crystals were placed on the wall so that everyone could see what was in front of them. Lu Zhen of course avoided all the traps that were layed along the way, he didn't want the people outside to have an easy time.
When he was very far, he could feintly hear one of them shouting, 'We found it' but didn't care, it would take them a very long time to reach him. There were a lot of passages inside the cave, and identifying the correct one wouldn't be possible, so he chose a random passage and continued with his journey.
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The cultivators entered the cave after Lu Zhen left it open for them, there were six of them in total. Their leader was a beautiful lady with black hair that was tied in a ponytail, black beautiful eyes with a blue lipstick, she was beautiful and was wearing a purple dress which drew an outline of her sexy and curvy body. "Tread carefully, there might be traps laid here." and it was immediately after saying that that someone stepped on one of them.
He was immediately frozen to death which scared everyone. Someone took out a small bell and rang it a few times, they could now see where the traps were and avoid them, this bell was called Life Saving Bell. The bell had more than one function, it could warn its owner of potential danger or gauge a person's strength.
"Someone must have already entered this cave, let's speed things up." the lady said. Unfortunately for Lu Zhen, his plan didn't work as he had planned, it wouldn't be long before they caught up to him.
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Lu Zhen had to avoid all the traps and was now standing in front of a huge door made of unknown materials. The first thing he did was send a punch to the door which resulted in him being sent flying. He didn't even scratch the door much less make it flinch, "This is gonna be fun.." his smile became wider as he looked at the door.
BOOM! BOOM! BOOM!
He punched the door again and again but nothing happened but this didn't disappoint him and instead excited him."Let's see just how durable you are."