Corpse Recovery Diver-Chapter 1252 - 228:

The young man climbed onto the altar, first removing the array he'd set up, then tearing open the seals on the two stone pedestals.

"Brother Runsheng."

"Here I am!"

Run Sheng understood, jumped onto the altar, and raised his shovel to smash down.

"Boom!" "Boom!"

Within the two stone pedestals, one housed a mace, and the other housed a mace as well.

Tan Wenbin asked curiously, "Why would it keep a set of things stored separately?"

Li Zhiyuan grabbed a mace, not as heavy as imagined, the middle seemed hollow, and the young man tossed this mace to Tan Wenbin.

Tan Wenbin reached out and caught it: "So light, would it hurt people if I smashed them?"

Saying so, Tan Wenbin forcefully struck the ground with the mace.

"Thunk!"

Only a slight, barely discernible white mark was left.

"This won't do, could it be concealing some secret?" Tan Wenbin flipped the mace in his hand and checked it thoroughly, "Huh, can't see anything special, it feels worse than a brick when hitting someone."

Li Zhiyuan tossed the second mace to Tan Wenbin, and Tan Wenbin grabbed it with his other hand.

In an instant, Tan Wenbin's hands were compelled to raise sideways, as a strong repulsive force appeared between the two maces.

"Damn, how do you use this thing?"

Li Zhiyuan: "Brother Binbin, try turning your wrists."

Tan Wenbin turned his wrists, the repulsion turned to attraction, and the maces swiftly stuck together; fortunately, Tan Wenbin released them quickly, or his arm would have been injured by them pulling.

"That's too exaggerated, even magnets aren't this powerful, right?"

Li Zhiyuan: "Ah You, pick them up."

Lin Shuyou bent down, picked up the two maces, adjusted them a few times, then turned his wrists to separate them, and tried swinging them; initially, the movements were a bit awkward and slow, but gradually sped up.

Finally, the maces crisscrossed, using their repulsive and attractive forces to amplify and smashed into the ground.

"Boom!"

A pit was created, and Lin Shuyou hadn't even exerted full strength to swing.

Ah You excitedly said, "Good stuff, Brother Xiao Yuan, this is really good stuff."

Tan Wenbin looked at the white mark he made, then at Ah You's pit, nodded and said, "This is martial talent, isn't it?"

Lin Shuyou: "Brother Bin, I can teach you."

Tan Wenbin: "No, don't bother, you wouldn't be able to teach me, back then you could dodge bullets even before mastering divination."

Li Zhiyuan: "Ah You, these dual maces are yours, especially since your trident broke."

Lin Shuyou heard this, first was delighted, then looked at Run Sheng: "But I think Brother Runsheng's strength, paired with these, can perform even better."

Run Sheng shook his head in refusal: "Using these requires brain work."

Yin Meng stepped and stomped in the pit: "Thanks to Brother Xiao Yuan for sealing these maces in time, if that Gatekeeper True Monarch took them earlier and paired with his power..."

Run Sheng: "I would have been smashed to death."

Yin Meng: "With Brother Xiao Yuan here, you won't be smashed to death."

Run Sheng: "Then I would lose something very precious."

Yin Meng: "What?"

Run Sheng: "You wouldn't understand."

Yin Meng: "Ha, forget it if you don't want to say."

Run Sheng: "Because I don't understand either."

On the altar, Li Zhiyuan turned around, facing the cloud wall.

Earlier the Gatekeeper True Monarch had been attached to the wall, surrounded by an arrangement of auspicious clouds and sun and moon to set the atmosphere.

After observing, Li Zhiyuan took a step back, and concentrated a flag of the array in his right palm, waving it gently.

"Crack... "

The cloud wall parted to both sides, revealing a passage inward.

The others collected their expressions, packed up, and walked in.

Here was a cluster of buildings, not temples connected in a row, the Gatekeeper True Monarch guarded merely a temple door.

Upon walking through the temple door, the outside was open and empty, the ground was covered with grass like hair, at first glance it seemed as though tens of thousands of heads with dense hair were buried below.

Yin Meng: "This is Soul Breath Grass."

Saying this, she bent down, used a dagger to cut a handful, hesitated a moment, then cut another handful, twisted them like a braided hairstyle, and placed them into her backpack.

Tan Wenbin: "Is it valuable?"

Yin Meng: "This kind of grass generally only grows in mass graves."

Tan Wenbin: "That's not too rare."

Yin Meng: "Even if a mass grave has it, only one stalk would grow there at most."

Tan Wenbin: "My backpack still has space, I will cut more for you."

Just as he said, Tan Wenbin bent down and cut a bunch, the touch was greasy, not only "densely haired" but also "oily-headed."

Tan Wenbin: "You say, if we cut more to sell to wig manufacturers, wouldn't we get rich?"

Li Zhiyuan: "Wei Zhengdao mentioned in the 'Jianghu Chronicles' that using this grass in a special way to weave grass hats, after wearing, it opens a 'false walking Yin' state that lets you see evil."

Yin Meng heard this and immediately squatted down to cut more, in the entire team, only Run Sheng still didn't know how to walk Yin.

Once she finished cutting, everyone continued to move forward.

Walking forward, they encountered another temple.

Yin Meng: "Can we bypass this one?"

Tan Wenbin: "Not really, the layout here is like a mosquito coil; although it appears there is great space between each circle, to enter the next circle, a fixed node must be passed."

Yin Meng: "So if we don't follow the rules, there will be array restrictions?"

Tan Wenbin: "I'm not skilled enough, couldn't spot any array signs."

Li Zhiyuan: "There are no arrays, but if you don't follow the rules, you're likely to enter a 'vortex', like what we encountered upon entering."

Yin Meng: "That's worse than an array, at least with an array, you can tangibly feel it."

Li Zhiyuan looked at everyone and asked, "Are you ready?"

"Ready."

"Ready."

"Let's enter the temple."

Before entering this temple, everyone thought they would encounter the same situation as the previous temple door. But upon entering, they found it wasn't so...