Chapter 240 The Uber Labyrinth (4)
The chamber that held the golden key was the same layout as the silver key.
After quickly retrieving the golden key, Ji Yuan and his party quickly exited the chamber.
After an hour, Feng Minyue seemed to be somber and she was flushing. As she did not drink a lot, she seemed to remember how she had lost her inhibitions and was really careless with her words earlier.
All the other four maidens knew how awkward that Feng Minyue must be feeling so they did not tease her at all.
Everyone was just staring at one another, not knowing what to do.
Finding the golden key was supposed to be a happy thing but right now, none of them had the mood to celebrate over their find.
This golden key was the only way to complete the trial and without it, it was pointless even if they could find the completion point of the uber labyrinth.
With this golden key, they had already won half the battle.
But still, no one was smiling.
All the maidens were looking at Ji Yuan seemingly for him to get everyone out of this awkward predicament.
Ji Yuan knew that they were all waiting for him to say something first.
He blinked with his eyes before he held up the golden key. “Why is this key with me?”
All the maidens: ???
“Is this the golden key?” Ji Yuan pretended to be astonished. “Why is this golden key in my hand now?”
“Are you alright, my lord?” Bai Qianfeng asked anxiously.
Ji Yuan rubbed his chin with a great perplexed look. “That is weird. I can’t seem to recall anything earlier.”
All the maidens: ???
Ling Feiyue smiled weakly. “You have found the secret portal that held the golden key and had even retrieved it just a moment ago. How can you possibly forgotten about this?”
Ji Yuan scratched his head, “Did I? But I don’t remember anything?”
Little Princess gasped softly as she clapped her hands. “That must be it. He must be drunk as well! Sisters, you may not know it but Ji Yuan tends to forget things when he was drunk.”
She had a light flush before she said. “300 years ago, he was also drunk…”
Ji Yuan smiled awkwardly and this awkwardness was not a pretense…
He remembered what had happened 300 years ago…
Well, he had forgotten most of the details and had only kept the vivid details of him riding Little Princess because that was the ultimate humiliation to his soul…
But then come to think of that, he was actually enjoying himself…
When he had thought of that, he was almost drooling and at the same time, he had remembered peeking below Feng Minyue’s bodice. This caused him to really drool naturally.
Shui Xisi gasped. “He is drooling…is he alright?”
Ling Feiyue, Little Princess and Bai Qianfeng panicky surrounded Ji Yuan to check if he was alright.
“My lord, are you alright?”
“Ji Yuan, you seem to be in a daze…”
Ji Yuan weakly replied. “I think this must be the aftermath of my drunkenness. I really can’t remember anything…”
Xiang Li raised her fingers in his soul sea to remind him. “Big Brother, your soul is getting impure…”
“Shut up Xiang Li. This is an honest lie.” Ji Yuan protested immediately.
“An honest lie?!” Xiang Li asked curiously.
“Yea. You don’t understand.”
Xiang Li: ???
Ji Yuan returned his attention to the three maidens and said weakly. “Never mind. At least we have got the golden key now. So let’s go.”
Then he laughed jovially as he marched off. “How did we get so lucky?”
Feng Minyue was quietly looking at Ji Yuan’s back and was sighing softly. She just did not understand Ji Yuan and did not know if he was faking or not.
She could only mutter softly. “Let’s hope that he is really drunk or I need to dig a hole to dig…”
As Ji Yuan walked off, he kept muttering as he stared at the golden key in his hand. “What just happen just now?”
He was naturally pretending of course.
The other maidens began to follow him slowly.
Feng Minyue was the last to follow and she had a perplexed look as she turned to look at Shui Xisi.
Sisi (Shui Xisi) shrugged her shoulders as though she was saying. “I don’t know.”
But secretly Sisi was sighing in her heart; he is only pretending to be drunk…
Although she had no proof and she looked dumb but most of the time, she had only pretended to be dumb. She may not be as smart as her sister Jiajia but she still had the smart level of intelligence to wander around the Desolate Celestial Fraternity on her own without getting played by the others.
She was actually thinking; around Ji Yuan, I seem to be getting stupider every day…
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It was now another two days in the uber labyrinth.
Along the way they had encountered several traps and many fearsome monsters that roamed the passages of the uber labyrinth.
The desolate monsters that were in this place were naturally more powerful than the nightmare labyrinth.
But Ji Yuan and his party of five were all great saints and great saintesses of the highest level.
They were actually more fearsome than the most powerful desolate monster here.
What was terrifying to the others was actually no kick to them.
It was truly overkill on their part.
Moreover there was a powerful seventh rank profound beast that was following Bai Qianfeng.
This ‘Yuanyuan’ was definitely not friendly to Ji Yuan especially when he tried to fondle Bai Qianfeng’s butt on the sly, despite that her name was inspired after him.
Ji Yuan cursed Yuanyuan silently; one of these days, I will barbeque you over the fire once and for all…𝑵𝓞𝓋𝚎𝓵𝞰𝓮xt.𝒞𝓞𝑀
They did not encounter any other cultivators in the place so they began to wonder if the place was really so vast that it would make any encounters hard. At least they could remember that there were three other cultivators that were with them before they had entered the uber labyrinth.
They were all a party of expert cultivators here.
Once they had the golden key, they began to move rapidly through the uber labyrinth because there was actually no need to find any hidden golden keys anymore.
And finally they had found a large cavern that seemed to be the end of the uber labyrinth because there were three shimmering portals that were in front of them and of course a black stele.
These three portals all looked alike so there was no clue which one was the way to complete the trial without touching the black stele.
They had to first complete the trial first by touching the black stele firs; finding the way here was one thing but overcoming the final trial was another.
And the final trial was a gigantic stone giant that stood in their way.
Ji Yuan was stunned. “This is actually the final trial?”
The other maidens were also startled.
It was because this gigantic stone giant seemed to be composed of golden celestium, the hardest material in the Celestial Realm.
Although golden celestiums are not actually unbreakable and was harder than diamonds but cultivators with their great profound strength that are armed with the heavenly relics of the divine swords will be able to damage it.
However there was a problem now…
This gigantic giant had profound animus radiating from around it!
Now that was a different thing.
Profound animus or profound aura could only be emitted by living beings to envelop them, offering them protection against hits by condensing the field around the cultivator into an invisible barrier.
That is why defensive cultivators with powerful profound animus are like invincible tanks and greatly feared. Against this type of cultivators, there is no way to instant kill them without weakening their profound aura first.
And there is another thing about profound animus; it can also make the flesh as hard as steel even if the profound animus is seemingly bypassed.
Golden celestiums are already hard enough and it only takes a little profound animus to make golden celestiums to be invincible.
Even Ji Yuan with little celestial knowledge knows about this because many defensive arrays make use of celestiums and heavenly relics to erect a barrier.
Ji Yuan inhaled softly. “What rank is this monster?”
Bai Qianfeng sighed softly. “Maybe an epic desolate monster…”
Ling Feiyue said. “We can actually win by wits instead.”
“Oh?” Everyone looked to Ling Feiyue to look at her curiously.
Ji Yuan grinned. When did my Feiyue become so smart all of a sudden?
Ling Feiyue chuckled as she explained. “Look at its size. It is not only massive but it also looks clumsy. All we need to do is to run past it, touch the black stele and we can goodbye to this place!”
Ji Yuan laughed. “Feiyue, I totally agree with you. So let’s do it…”
“I am not deaf.” A powerful resounding and deep voice from the gigantic stone monster interrupted Ji Yuan, startling everyone.
Ji Yuan was startled as he stared at the gigantic stone monster with disbelief. “You are a talking monster?!”
All the five maidens were also startled as they all brandished their divine swords.
The gigantic stone monster said calmly. “I am the master of this trial. All of you here are not any ordinary cultivators and are all armed with a divine sword. Impressive but I will advise that you put away your swords first because I am stronger than what you think.”
Ji Yuan laughed weakly. “We thought that our objective is to defeat you to reach the portals. So if there is a peaceful way to complete this trial then I am of all ears.”
The gigantic stone monster roared with laughter. “Naturally there is but you have to answer my question first.”
“What? A riddle? Then I’m screwed.” Ji Yuan muttered weakly.
Then he turned to look at Ling Feiyue. “Didn’t you say that we can use our wits to complete the trial? You’re right. We do have to use our wits now. Feiyue, why don’t you try to answer his question instead.”
Ling Feiyue: …
The gigantic giant resounded deeply. “If you can answer my question then I shall let you pass. Why do you cultivate at all?”
Ling Feiyue giggled as she answered. “Isn’t that an easy answer? We cultivate in order to ascend to the Immortal Realm, to be freed of our mortal bodies!”
The gigantic giant said. “The desires in your heart are heavy. You do not practice what you have preached.”
Ling Feiyue: …
“If I do not practice what I have preached, I wouldn’t be a great saintess now.” Ling Feiyue was clearly offended by the gigantic giant. “I am not convinced that this isn’t the answer…”
“You have desecrated my holy ground with this man here. Do you want me to spell it out?” The gigantic interrupted her.
There was a flush on Ling Feiyue’s countenance and she had immediately kept quiet.
All the other four maidens were also flushing lightly as they recalled the white stuff that they had seen on Ling Feiyue.
But because they did not want to embarrass her, they pretended that they did not know anything about it at all.
They were all thinking; this question is actually quite easy to answer but it has become so difficult to answer now…
“All of you only have one chance to answer. Next.” The gigantic giant said.
“We cultivate to be holy…”
“WRONG!”
“We cultivate to be one with the heavens and the earth…”
“WRONG!”
Bai Qianfeng began to grow irritated. “Do I even need to cultivate? Do you know who I am? I am an…”
“WRONG!”
Bai Qianfeng: …
Bai Qianfeng: …
Bai Qianfeng: …
“I haven’t even finish spoken…”
“WRONG!”
“So that we can attain long life?”
“WRONG!”
“WRONG!”
“Now this is your last chance now.”
Ji Yuan inhaled slowly as he muttered weakly. “Why are you all looking at me like this? It is not like I will answer it correctly. My state of divinity is the lowest in the party.”
Ling Feiyue muttered. “Ji Yuan will never be able to answer the question…”
Little Princess was infuriated. “This stupid trial master is insulting my years of cultivation…”
Feng Minyue had a perplexed look on her. “I will actually get the answer wrong?”
Shui Xisi was also upset and she was shouting softly. “Let’s kill this trial master and we can get pass him…”
Ji Yuan said weakly. “Actually I know nothing about cultivation. I am a Celestial, born in the Celestial Realm. The mortals in the lower realm have to cultivate because their life span is so short. Well, many Celestials are struck at the lower realm levels too but this question has never occurred to me before…”
He sighed. “But if you want to know the answer then I can only say I am cultivating now because I want to protect all my love ones and I have to be stronger than my enemies. I know that this isn’t a righteous answer but it is meaningless for me if I cannot protect my women.”
Xiang Li nodded slowly in Ji Yuan’s soul sea…
The gigantic giant was silent for a while before he resounded. “The true cultivator will follow his righteous heart. You have passed the trial now. Go touch the black stele and go claim your rewards.”
Ji Yuan: ???
“I have passed the trial?”
Not only was Ji Yuan astonished but all the five maidens were also astonished.
The gigantic giant said. “There is no right or wrong answer to this question but can you answer the question that is in your dao heart. Your dao heart did not lie at all. You only want to protect your women so you have passed.”
Ji Yuan blinked his eyes awkwardly as he looked at the five maidens who were all looking at him with a flush countenance.
The maidens were thinking; Ji Yuan only want to protect his women…