Cultivating Through The Game-Chapter 529 - 305: Lucky Maze

Lu Yu, Chen Qingyun, and Luo Heng walked down the wide corridor, where an arrow was appearing on the wall, guiding them forward to participate in the first game.

Lu Yu glanced around and asked through spiritual power transmission, "Does the Magic Spirit Puppet have any weaknesses?"

Suddenly hearing Lu Yu's voice, Chen Qingyun instinctively turned to look at Lu Yu, noticing Luo Heng still in an excited state, seemingly unaware of Lu Yu's voice.

He immediately realized it was a spiritual power transmission.

Chen Qingyun instinctively glanced at the ceiling, stared for a moment, then lowered his head and communicated with Lu Yu through spiritual power.

"There are no obvious weaknesses. The Magic Spirit Tribe, in order to counter their natural enemies, used the best materials when creating the Magic Spirit Puppet. This ensures that even if the puppet lacks attack power, it can become a meat shield or armor at critical moments for the Magic Spirit Tribe."

"Sometimes, the Magic Spirit Tribe would hide within the puppet to cover their own fragile weaknesses."

After pondering for a moment, Chen Qingyun said, "If you insist on a weakness, there is a not-weakness kind of weakness."

"Oh?" Lu Yu turned to him with curiosity, signaling him to continue.

"Each Magic Spirit Puppet has a set of key instructions. If the Magic Spirit Tribe enters these key instructions, the puppet will immediately enter a sleep mode. This is a backdoor left by the tribe to prevent puppets from getting out of control."

"Usually, only the owner and creator of the puppet know these key instructions. According to the housekeeper wolf, his master left the Magic Spirit Castle countless years ago, and the creator may have died thousands of years ago."

"We have no way of knowing the key instructions to control the housekeeper wolf," Chen Qingyun transmitted.

During their conversation, the trio unknowingly reached the end of the corridor, where a massive stone door appeared before them.

After seeing the stone door, Chen Qingyun stopped, looked up, and after thinking for a while, softly read out the four symbols on it: "Lucky Maze."

Upon hearing this, Lu Yu and Luo Heng exchanged a glance and immediately turned away.

After turning, Luo Heng noticed a line of text on the wall in the language of the Divine Martial World.

"Pass the Lucky Maze, and you will receive a gift left by the Master. Inside the Lucky Maze, there are many dangerous game projects. Completing these projects can win you lucky cards that can help you exit the Lucky Maze."

Lu Yu also saw the line, and upon seeing it, the mission he started updated to "Pass the Lucky Maze," with several unknown sub-tasks appearing below, waiting for Lu Yu to explore and trigger.

Rumble~ The stone door opened automatically, and the entrance to the Lucky Maze appeared before everyone.

Just at the entrance of the maze, there were three branching paths. The maze was completely sealed on all sides, with no way to cheat and find the correct path out.

"Which way should we go?" Chen Qingyun asked.

Luo Heng said, "Isn't it obvious? Of course, we go left."

Chen Qingyun looked at Lu Yu, the strongest among the three, trusting his judgment more.

Lu Yu glanced at the three paths, not finding any differences, nor were there traces indicating someone had passed through.

Without any clues or hints, any choice made no difference to them.

Lu Yu spoke, "Let's go with what Luo Heng said, go left and check it out."

The trio entered the gate, chose the left path, and ventured deeper into the Lucky Maze.

Walking last, Lu Yu scattered fine, brownish dust from his palm, leaving a faint line on the ground.

Leaving marks while walking through a maze is a good strategy. Although with his memory, he could perfectly recall the paths without need for marks, in any case, memories can sometimes be deceptive.

Chen Qingyun glanced at the fine line on the ground, said nothing, and silently followed behind Luo Heng.

Soon, they encountered another fork. This time, without much thought, they directly took the left path.

The simplest way to navigate a maze is to keep going in one direction, hit a dead end, then backtrack and try another way. With enough time, they would eventually find the correct exit.

After passing 27 junctions, the trio turned into a dead end.

"There seems to be someone there?" Luo Heng said, looking at the end of the dead-end, to Chen Qingyun and Lu Yu.

Lu Yu focused and saw a wooden figure standing at the end of the dead end, facing the wall, completely motionless.

"Should we go take a look?" Chen Qingyun suggested. "The game rules said completing games inside the maze could earn us lucky cards, which might provide clues to exit the maze. This could likely be a game."

"How do you know if this game is dangerous?" Luo Heng asked.

"Will you go?" Chen Qingyun responded without answering his question.

"I'll go!" Luo Heng gritted his teeth. "I don't want to wander aimlessly in here, without clues, who knows when we'll get out."

Chen Qingyun looked at Lu Yu, who nodded and then walked toward the wooden figure.

Once they got closer, Lu Yu and the others discovered a line drawn on the ground inside the alley.

As they approached, a line of text appeared on the wall outside the red line.

"Death Wooden Figure Game: The wooden figure holds a lucky card. Participants in the Death Wooden Figure Game must approach the wooden figure while disguised as a wooden figure and obtain the lucky card on it. If the wooden figure discovers you're not one, it will instantly break your neck."

"Hint: Dying in the Death Wooden Figure Game isn't real death. You'll be sent to a death cell, where you'll need to complete a high-difficulty game task to resurrect and return to the Lucky Maze to play again."

"Death Wooden Figure Game?" Chen Qingyun and Luo Heng puzzled over the game's rules.

Chen Qingyun turned to Lu Yu, asking, "Do you know what these rules mean?"

Having had a childhood, Lu Yu knew about the wooden figure game, just never having played such a bloody version.

"It's like this: once we cross the red line and move forward, the wooden figure will turn to look at us. When it turns, we can't move and must act like a wooden figure, gradually closing in until we can take the lucky card from it."

Lu Yu explained to the two.

Both seemed to ponder over it. Luo Heng clapped his hands, "It's a children's game, isn't it? What's so hard about it? Besides, it doesn't result in real death, so I've decided, I'll participate."

"It's true it doesn't result in death, but I suppose once in the death cell, bad things could happen," Chen Qingyun said worriedly.

"Always so cautious, when will we ever leave here, let me go first." Luo Heng walked up to the red line, as Lu Yu and Chen Qingyun watched from the outside.

Not fully understanding the detailed rules of the Death Wooden Figure Game, having someone willing to experiment matched Lu Yu's thoughts.

Nervous, Luo Heng focused on the wooden figure, having never played this game, only seeing children outside play it from a wall in his childhood.

He kept his eyes on the wooden figure, ready to halt at any movement from it.

Controlling his every bodily movement more naturally than eating or drinking, he knew with caution he could easily complete the game.

Stepping past the red line, he took a small step.

As Luo Heng stepped over, the wooden figure began to move, prompting holding his breath and slowing his heartbeat to the minimum.

But only its arm moved, seemingly drawing on the wall. Relieved, Luo Heng exhaled, resumed breathing, his foot touching the ground.

But as he was about to continue, the wooden figure abruptly turned its head towards him, jolting Luo Heng's heart into a stop, freezing his muscled into a sculpture stiff pose.

Watching from behind the red line, Chen Qingyun shared the initial shock when the figure turned until realizing it focused solely on Luo Heng, sighing in relief.

"Seems like not having crossed the red line means not participating in the game."

Thought Chen Qingyun inwardly.

Noticing Luo Heng's immobility, the wooden figure swiftly turned back, moving its arms.

Another sigh of relief escaped Luo Heng, fearing the repeated suddenness would be too much for his heart. Waiting to observe the timing and frequency of its head turns, he cautiously moved again.

When its head rotated away, Luo Heng leaped forward, covering seven to eight meters instantly, cutting the distance by four-fifths. With merely fifty meters from the figure past the red line, it was a blink away.

Except he remained wary of anything odd about the figure, feeling the short span was surmountable quickly under normal conditions.

Just as his front foot squared to land, the wooden figure's head snapped back. Amid a jolt, Luo Heng managed to immobilize mid-leap, supported only by his front foot.

Its vision eluding Luo Heng, the figure eventually turned its head back.

Luo Heng stood firm as he realized the closer to the wooden figure, the more frequent and rapid its head turns.

Earlier opting to rashly leap across might have meant a broken neck, a one-way trip to the death cell, and a high-stakes, life-refreshing task to survive.

With caution raised, Luo Heng slowed his advance, creeping step by careful step.