Cultivating Through The Game-Chapter 554 - 316: Key Command

Only after multiple identity verification methods did everyone truly believe Wei Long was himself.

Wei Long looked at everyone and asked curiously, "Why are only a few of you here? Where's Lu Yu?"

Luo Feng's gaze shifted slightly as Lin Qingqing replied, "He failed the challenge in the previous game and should be in the dungeon now. Who knows when he'll be out."

Wei Long nodded to express his understanding and glanced around, saying, "Let's go, we'll talk once we're outside."

Led by Lin Qingqing, the group headed towards the maze's exit…

At this moment, on the thirteenth level of the dungeon, Lu Yu and the Soul Body claiming to be Wei Long stood by the wall.

Seeing Lu Yu approaching, Soul Body Wei Long conserved his remaining power. Since Lu Yu could see him, there was no need to expend energy to create a shadow.

Not creating a shadow made it more discreet and less likely to attract the residual attentions of the magical beings.

They dared only hide in the darkness now, performing Secret Technique to remotely monitor happenings in the magical castle, unable to easily detect the presence of Soul Body Wei Long.

"Where is it?" Lu Yu asked, looking at the silhouette in front of him.

Wei Long stepped forward, walked straight into the wall, and after entering, he extended his body and waved to Lu Yu.

Lu Yu walked to where he was, searching for the switch, when a hand appeared on the right side of the wall.

After a moment of thought, he understood, pressing hard at the spot where the hand appeared, causing an seamless yet isolated stone block to drop.

The wall in front of Lu Yu moved inward, then tightened to the left within the wall, revealing a corridor made of black crystal floating into his view.

Passing through the black crystal corridor, Lu Yu entered a hemispherical space, with a large circular conference table at the center, at the heart of which was a sphere emitting a faint glow.

As Lu Yu entered the control room, the sphere's light brightened, seemingly activated by his arrival.

A beam of light shot towards Lu Yu, making him instinctively dodge, and the missed beam caused the sphere's glow to flicker, then redirect towards Lu Yu's position.

From films, one can infer that this type of beam is likely an identity-recognition beam.

As an invader, Lu Yu certainly wouldn't allow the beam to expose him, so after several evasions, the sphere failed to scan him, causing the beam to vanish and its glow to dim again.

Seeing the beam disappear, Lu Yu approached the sphere and asked while walking, "Where is the secret command you mentioned?"

Wei Long walked towards one side of the circular conference table, with Lu Yu following closely and staying alert to avoid being ambushed.

He stopped in front of a chair, where a deep blue crystal ball rested in a groove on the table.

"The wolf steward used to sit here," Wei Long said.

Without him saying, Lu Yu could see it; only this chair at the conference table showed signs of use, while the other chairs remained neatly arranged without signs of movement.

Lu Yu hadn't expected the wolf steward to sit there.

As a magical being puppet, the wolf steward could appear in such an important place, indicating he had a very special identity.

"Where's the secret command?" Lu Yu glanced at the chair, then at the Soul Body and asked.

"It should be in this crystal ball; I don't know about anything else. But the seventh golden crystal ball on your right controls the steel titan," Soul Body Wei Long said.

"I originally planned to help you, but I didn't expect you to be so powerful, easily defeating the strongest magical being puppet, so it wasn't needed." He explained.

"Really?" Lu Yu casually replied.

Heading towards the golden crystal ball, most crystal balls on the conference table dimmed. The golden crystal ball representing the steel titan flickered like a candle in the wind, ready to extinguish.

Lu Yu hesitated for a moment, then pressed his hand on the golden crystal ball. Instantly, he saw two worlds.

One was the dimly lit control hall he was currently in; the other was a brightly lit spacious plaza.

Unfortunately, in the other world, he couldn't control his vision's direction, as if the eye-control module was broken.

Lu Yu understood; what he saw in the other world was undoubtedly the first level of the dungeon.

Looking at the golden crystal ball in his hand, "So, does this crystal ball truly control the movements of magical being puppets?"

Soul Body replied, "Not completely; we lack the Control Technique of magical beings and can only slightly influence them, not fully control their actions."

Releasing his hand, his vision returned to normal, and he approached the deep blue crystal ball.

Soul Body warned, "The wolf steward is special; I suspect it's not fully a magical being puppet. When touching the crystal ball, don't command it, observe it as a bystander. Otherwise, it might discover us."

Lu Yu nodded to show he understood, "Final question, what is the secret command? A phrase or a switch?"

"A special Spiritual Power frequency," Soul Body revealed. "It cuts the core's control over the magical being puppet's body; One-Eyed told me this."

Lu Yu thought deeply, then focused his mind, calmed himself, and pressed his hand on the deep blue crystal ball.

Instantly, Lu Yu saw the wolf steward's vision; it stood on a podium, facing a jade-like wall with five silhouettes.

It was Lin Qingqing, Wei Long, Chen Qingyun, Luo Heng, and Luo Feng moving in the maze, just as he suspected, the wolf steward had been monitoring them.

Seeing Wei Long in the crowd, Lu Yu instinctively glanced at the Soul Body beside him—who was the real Wei Long?

He already has a rough idea in his heart.

Without influencing the Wolf Butler, he just silently watched it, feeling the fluctuations inside the crystal ball.

Inside the crystal ball, subtle spiritual waves were emitted. These spiritual waves were connected to the Wolf Butler, the result of its mental activities.

What Lu Yu needed to do was analyze these spiritual waves and find the hidden key instructions within.

Under normal circumstances, Lu Yu would never have the opportunity to analyze the spiritual waves of the Wolf Butler. But now the situation was different, the crystal ball displayed the Wolf Butler's spiritual waves like a background process.

Through the crystal ball, Lu Yu could easily observe every trace of the Wolf Butler's spiritual waves.

Unfortunately, the spiritual waves were too complex and chaotic for Lu Yu to decipher their meaning or find the hidden key instructions.

At the moment when he had no clue, he thought of the lucky card he had kept, though he didn't know if the card would have any effect here or what it could do.

But with no other option, why not give it a try?

Taking out the lucky card, Lu Yu received a system prompt.

[This area does not belong to the Lucky Maze. Using the Lucky Card will have unknown effects. Players are advised to use with caution.]

"Unknown effects? Meaning it can still work?" Lu Yu pondered for a moment, then used the lucky card in his hand.

The lucky card was activated, but Lu Yu waited for a long time without receiving any system prompt. What was the effect of the lucky card?

Just when he thought the lucky card was ineffective, the world in his eyes suddenly changed, and he saw many fine fragments appearing in the deep blue crystal ball.

These fine fragments were interspersed among the complex and chaotic spiritual waves. Lu Yu sensed the spiritual waves of each fragment and found that these fragments could be connected.

Or perhaps, these fragments were deliberately shattered and mixed into the spiritual waves of the Wolf Butler.

Lu Yu picked out all the fragments he saw, remembering their spiritual wave frequencies, and simulated the corresponding frequencies in his mind.

He didn't know how long had passed when the effect of the lucky card disappeared, and the world in his eyes returned to normal. A strange spiritual wave was added to his mind.

This spiritual wave seemed like a set of artificially constructed codes, something no normal creature could possibly emit, as it violated common logic.

Lu Yu looked at the constantly changing spiritual wave in his mind and thought, "Is this the key instruction to deal with the Wolf Butler?" 𝒇𝙧𝙚𝓮𝔀𝓮𝒃𝙣𝓸𝒗𝒆𝒍.𝙘𝒐𝒎

Wei Long watched Lu Yu nervously. He had seen the changes of the lucky card just now. Now that the effect of the lucky card had disappeared, he was a bit anxious, anxious whether Lu Yu had obtained the key instruction.

Lu Yu opened his eyes, and at the first moment he saw him open his eyes, Wei Long hurriedly asked, "Did you get the key instruction?"

"Got it, but it's not certain if it's real," Lu Yu said.

After all, he had never seen the key instruction, and didn't know if the spiritual wave in his mind was indeed the key instruction.

"Go to the eleventh floor and find the One-Eyed; she knows if it's real." Wei Long quickly said.

Lu Yu hesitated for a moment, nodded, and turned to walk out of the control room.

Arriving at the entrance of the twelfth floor, Lu Yu took a deep breath before going down.

Entering the twelfth floor, Lu Yu unexpectedly found that the guard "Wooden Man" had disappeared, and didn't know where it had gone.

Taking advantage of the absence of the Wooden Man, Lu Yu quickly crossed the twelfth floor and returned to the eleventh floor. The One-Eyed maid puppet had been waiting for a long time, standing at the entrance waiting for Lu Yu.

"Use the key instruction on the One-Eyed; the Wolf Butler's key instruction is of the highest level and can affect lower-level magic spirit puppets," Wei Long said next to Lu Yu.

The One-Eyed "looked" at Wei Long, then "looked" at Lu Yu, lowering her head without speaking.

In fact, the One-Eyed maid had always kept her eyes closed; as soon as she opened them, her innate ability would activate, pulling the surrounding creatures into her spiritual domain.

Lu Yu did not hesitate, directly using the spiritual wave obtained from the deep blue crystal ball on the One-Eyed maid.

Of course, before using it, he copied an identical spiritual wave to keep in his mind.

If he lost this spiritual wave, Lu Yu would also be unable to completely restore the spiritual wave and frequency.

The spiritual wave was input into the body of the One-Eyed maid through Lu Yu's spiritual power, causing her body to suddenly tremble, as if she had lost all strength, her head drooping down, losing all ability to move.

"Did it... succeed?" Lu Yu looked at the One-Eyed maid and asked Wei Long beside him.

Wei Long nodded and said, "It succeeded. First, take out her eyes; that is her core. As soon as you take the core out of here, she will be free."

Lu Yu looked at Wei Long, did not speak, and did as he said, removing the One-Eyed maid's eyes.

After inputting the key instruction, the power within the One-Eyed maid's eye gathered inside, looking no different from a big eyeball, with no other effects.

However, Lu Yu could sense a spiritual wave inside the eyeball, meaning that the consciousness of the One-Eyed maid still remained in the eye.

He put the eyeball in the backpack, into the system backpack. Even if the One-Eyed maid had great skills, she had to lay low.

As long as Lu Yu doesn't take it out for a day, it remains just an eyeball, a piece of the system's inventory, incapable of causing trouble.

Without wasting any time, Lu Yu took advantage of the Wooden Man's continued absence to quickly pass through the twelfth floor without even glancing at the guards on the thirteenth floor, directly rushing up to the fourteenth floor.

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