Chapter 89: Hell's Three-Headed Dog

  Is it an adventure? What's there to be adventurous about!

  Chu Cheng let out a deep sigh in his heart.

  Maybe Chu Yan really encountered a bottleneck, and maybe calculating his fate could help him break through. But why not delay it until he has higher cultivation? Wouldn't that be more secure?

  After all, Chu Yan still didn't trust himself!

  That azure tomb, fraught with peril, Chu Yan is going to divine his own fortune!

  "Alright then, let's go all out!" Chu Cheng burst into loud laughter, his heroic spirit soaring.

  "Alright then, brother! Today we'll test the will of heaven and see what fate has in store for us!" Chu Yan also burst out laughing.

  This small forest is actually just a decoration on the outside. Chu Yan's five years of operation are all underground.

  Chu Yan pressed down with one hand, and the mysterious power transformed into a peculiar key that traveled downwards for fifty meters, passing through large amounts of mud, sand, and rocks, until it finally arrived in front of a massive black stone.

  This black stone is known as the second hardest material, even the Seven Treasures artifact cannot damage it - obsidian.

  And on this piece of obsidian, there is a small keyhole.

  Insert the mysterious key into this lock hole, then start rotating left and right according to a predetermined rule.

  Twelve strokes on the left, seventeen strokes on the right.

  Then there was just a faint rumble, and the ground began to split open.

  "We've set up a suggested soundproof formation underground, so all our movements can't be transmitted outside the small forest. However, external sounds can reach our ears." Chu Yan explained.

  The ground cracked open a large, pitch-black hole, the entrance of which could accommodate one person passing through. Chu Cheng fixed his gaze and looked down, fifty meters underground, before he finally saw a piece of black obsidian slowly moving aside.

  "Let's go, let's go down." Chu Yan smiled slightly and then jumped down.

  Chu Cheng followed suit. This height, for the two of them, was really nothing to worry about. Moreover, as cultivators with spiritual energy in their bodies, although they couldn't fly, slowing down their descent was still an easy task.

  Through the huge obsidian, the two continued to descend for another thirty meters before finally landing.

  Chu Yan didn't know what he had done, and the black obsidian slowly closed again. Then, the dark space gradually brightened.

  Chu Cheng took a closer look and found that it was not a particularly large hall, with a length and width of only one hundred meters and a height of thirty meters. The walls around were all made of black obsidian, with dense and intricate symbols carved on the surface. Chu Cheng wasn't very familiar with this, and could only recognize about one or two out of ten.

  This rune is too profound and absolutely not what Chu Yan learned in his 17th year. It's probably the memory of his past life, something he learned in his previous life before he woke up.

  On each wall, nine fist-sized night pearls were inlaid.

  This is a thousand-year-old deep-sea clam, which produces night pearls. With just a hint of mystical power, it can emit brilliant light that lasts for at least a month. This is also the source of the light here.

  In the center of the hall, a three-tiered platform was placed, with each tier being one foot high, for a total height of three feet.

  This entire pedestal is made of a rare and precious gold. This gold, although it is metal, looks like stone, called "stone gold". The two lines of gold and earth are combined into one, extremely mysterious and extremely precious.

  Nothing else but this.

  "There are at least three thousand arrays set up here, each with a different use. I won't introduce them one by one, and even if I did, you might not understand. Chucheng, all you need to know is that these arrays are for our safety, that's enough." Chu Yan said:

  "As for this golden platform cast from the stone, it is used by me to observe the heavens. The art of observing the heavens in Chu City is mysterious and unpredictable, and can invite external evil demons to descend, at which time I have no defensive power, so I need you to protect the law!"

  External evil spirits?

  "Chu City took a deep breath: 'Good!'"

  Seeing Chu Cheng agree, Chu Yan smiled and nodded, then regretfully said: "Unfortunately, all my savings from the past five years were invested in this grand hall, and there's nothing I can give you. Everything will have to rely on yourself."

  "It doesn't matter." Chu Cheng's eyes flashed with a complex light: "With me, you are safe; without me, you are not! As long as I am still alive, nothing can get close to you!"

  "I believe that." Chu Yan burst out laughing: "There are thousands of evil demons outside, I don't know which ones will come here, nor can I give you guidance. Do your best and leave the rest to fate! Alright, let's begin!"

  He stepped up onto the high platform made of stone and gold, then sat cross-legged in the center of the platform, took out a turtle shell the size of a millstone, and placed it in front of him.

  Chu Cheng's eyes narrowed, and from the tortoise shell, he felt an enormous pressure. The special pattern on the tortoise shell made him think of a certain legendary existence.

  Xuanwu!

  That's the shell of the divine beast Xuanwu!

  Of course, if it were the real Xuanwu's shell, Chu Yan would not have been able to use it at all. Presumably that shell was left by some old ghost who had stimulated the Xuanwu bloodline, a turtle shell.

  Tortoises are spiritual, their shells can interfere with the heavenly mechanism, and they are the best medium for observing the sky and fortune-telling. The Xuanwu shell is naturally a medium among mediums, one of the best mediums.

  "Observing the heavens, what I observe is not the sky above my head, but the heavenly mechanism. Ordinary people cannot arbitrarily guess the heavenly mechanism, so a medium is needed. Chu Cheng, I will do my best to stimulate the Xuanwu shell and observe the heavenly mechanism."

  Chu Yan's arms were empty, embracing the Xuanwu shell, which slowly rotated in the circle formed by his arms. On it, there was a mysterious glow flowing and turning within the patterns on the Xuanwu shell, just like heavenly scriptures.

  At this moment, suddenly a formation was activated in the entire hall, sealing off the entire hall.

  Chu Cheng immediately felt as if he had left this world and was in another one.

  This was not the first time he had encountered such a situation.

  The Five Phases Boundary Array set up with the five-colored flags and the Five Phases Boundary Formation, in the ancient Taoist way of cultivating the body's inner world, where the Yin Spirit Guards are in command, all have similar effects.

  In this way, it can be guaranteed as much as possible that this place will not be disturbed by the outside world, and Chu Yan can observe the sky and calculate his fate with peace of mind.

  As the Xuanwu shell rotates, a cold and ruthless force, like a prehistoric behemoth, slowly awakens, and just a slight leakage of its power makes one feel an unparalleled oppressive force.

  In the face of this force, no one can hide anywhere.

  Chu Cheng felt that in the vastness of space, there seemed to be a pair of eyes scanning the heavens and the worlds. A will, seemingly present yet absent, swept across his body, and the secrets within him, whether it was the divine fetus's precious blood symbol or the mark left by Chu Tian Ge, were all laid bare, seen through in an instant.

  Only that super synthesis book, in the instant those eyes swept over it, suddenly escaped into an unknown space and disappeared. Until after those eyes had finished sweeping, it suddenly reappeared again.

  That moment was so short that Chu Cheng felt as if he was in a daze, and something was wrong with his perception.

  It was just a glance, and this space began to shatter. In fact, where those eyes swept through, countless spaces shattered, piercing through countless time and space.

  After those eyes swept over, in countless unknown spaces, various strange and bizarre existences simultaneously cast their gaze here.

  The spatial laws are mysterious and unpredictable, the strongest cannot traverse them, but their projections can cross the barriers of time and space, arriving here after paying a huge price.

  There are also those coincidences, weak and small existences on the edge of fragmented space, who have come here through fragmented space.

  The first to arrive was a three-headed black giant dog, but not pure black, it was that eerie black-red color. The dark red mouth dripped with foul-smelling toxic liquid, and it had a long snake-like tail. On its head and back were coiled strips of venomous snakes.

  This giant dog, as soon as it arrived at this place, saw Chu Yan, especially the Xuanwu shell in front of Chu Yan. Three pairs of eyes turned red and let out a terrifying howl, then pounced on Chu Yan.

  "You beast, how dare you!"

  Chu Cheng let out a loud shout, pulled out his long spear Jingguang, and thrust it forward to block the giant dog.

  "Be careful, Chu Cheng. That is an evil bloodline from 'Yōu Míng Tiān', which accidentally flowed into the 'Dì Yù Dào Jiè' and produced an evil spirit called 'Hell's Three-Headed Dog'. It is bloodthirsty, cold-blooded, and emotionless, a naked devil!" Chu Yan's voice came over, calm as ever.

  "Got it! Don't worry about me, go all out!" Chu Cheng let out a cold hum and engaged in an intense battle with the three-headed dog of hell.

  This hellish three-headed dog is not weak in strength, and compared to ordinary seven-treasured realm strongmen, it's much stronger. Especially its body's toxic liquid has extremely strong corrosive properties, even the long spear of silence, after being stained with the toxic liquid, makes a sizzling sound.

  "Huh? This is... a demon creature from the Nether Realm?" Kūn's voice came, filled with shock and uncertainty.

  "Do you also know this creature?" Chu Cheng shot back the three-headed dog of hell, then retreated three steps in a row, dodging the splashing toxic liquid, feeling extremely troublesome.

  "It seems to have some impression... The Kunpeng bloodline in my body is slowly awakening, and some memories are flooding into my mind... This is the Three-headed Dog of Hell, inherited from the evil bloodline of Youming Heaven, extremely difficult to deal with!" Kuangshen thought.

  "Stop talking nonsense... how are we going to deal with it!" Chu Cheng was worried sick.

  This three-headed dog of hell is almost impossible to get close to, with countless snakes all over its body, spitting snake letters and spraying venom. Now Chu Cheng feels that he has become somewhat dizzy and his eyes are blurred, apparently poisoned.

  "Fire, use fire! Any poison is afraid of fire! Under the fierce flames, no poison can survive!" Kunshen roared.

  Chu Cheng's eyes lit up as he recalled that when they were hunting in the Yinling Ancient Road, they had used fire to deal with the yin poison, and it was indeed very effective.

  "Bloody hell!"

  Chu City let out a loud roar, and from the seven drops of Blood Essence, a raging blood fire spread out, transforming into a layer of Blood Fire Divine Armor.

  "Not enough!"

  Chu Cheng waved his hand, and a wooden stick as thick as an arm and one zhang long suddenly appeared. Chu Cheng retracted the spear and grasped the wooden stick with both hands, and the entire stick was immediately ignited by blood fire, turning into a pillar of flame.

  This piece of wood is a treasure of Red William, a second-class material for fuelwood, it's the easiest to burn among all woods, and just one finger-thick piece can sustain burning for a month.