47: Chapter 47 Yang Bai's Little Thoughts

The central area of the Stone Gate Maze is a magic-free zone; there are no maze paths here, replaced instead by a stone platform covering an area of about five hundred square meters.

The place where divine power is sealed in the magic-free zone is on top of this high platform.

The exit to the monster zone is an opening in the maze path, and there are four entrances around the entire magic-free zone from which Divine Lords can enter.

The opening of the maze path is twenty meters away from the high platform, and within these twenty meters, Divine Lords can still use their own divine power and divine arts.

This setting is designed to allow those Divine Lords who have passed through the monster zone to use their divine power to recover their state so they can perform better in the subsequent battle on the Magic-Sealing Platform.

Before being pulled into this private divine domain of the Stone Gate Maze, Yang Bai had carefully observed the situation of the maze and naturally discovered this small detail.

Therefore, he decided to activate his full state and speed-run through the first four zones.

Noticing the four Divine Lords preparing for battle, Yang Bai did not immediately walk onto the Magic-Sealing Platform, nor did he use spiritual power to adjust his physical state.

"Spiritual power still remaining, plan successful."

After checking the remaining spiritual power in his body and muttering to himself, Yang Bai formed the finger seals for the Taiyi Green Wood Method and began to cast the Taoist technique.

Yang Bai arrived at the entrance of the monster zone where he had entered; green light lit up in his eyes, and emerald spiritual power surged wantonly outside his body.

"Taiyi Green Wood, Emerald Forest Vine Array, Seal!"

Yang Bai shouted violently, pressing his palms against the stone wall of the maze. The next second, countless huge vines as thick as arms grew out from the stone wall.

The vines grew rapidly and intertwined, blocking the entire passage in no time, forming a dense, impenetrable vine forest ten meters thick.

Not only that, Yang Bai moved his fingers slightly and, at the end of the vine forest in the monster zone, used the vines to create a large container resembling a water vat, and wrote a sentence on it.

"Offer sacrifices, use blood to fill the Sacred Vat, only then can you enter the next zone."

After doing all this, Yang Bai went to the remaining three entrances and did the same, setting up three huge vine forests and creating identical large vats, along with the same text.

This was Yang Bai's plan: use a speed-run method to quickly reach the central magic-free zone, set up roadblocks and false rules, and prevent those Divine Lords from entering.

This Stone Gate Maze is a private divine domain created by the sixth-level Divine Lord Ren Fengjiu, and everything that appears in the maze is a rule set by Ren Fengjiu.

Judging from the weightlessness zone, trap zone, and monster zone, all participating Divine Lords follow the rules and advance step by step.

Therefore, when they finally arrive at the exit of the monster zone, seeing that text and the large vat, they will treat it as one of the rules, and then foolishly hunt monsters, using the monsters' blood to open a restriction that does not exist at all.

Even if there are smart people or reckless brutes among them who want to break through directly, this Emerald Forest Vine Array, which incorporates Heavenly-grade wood spiritual power, is not so easy to break.

These vines are dark in color, impervious to water and fire, have a texture like steel, and are not easily cut even with knives or axes. At the same time, the branches are intertwined, dense and impenetrable, with complex root systems that even an eighth-level typhoon could not blow away.

Delaying them for an hour or two is not a problem.

The reason Yang Bai did this was because he was worried that too many Divine Lords would arrive at the magic-free zone.

His location information had been published, which undoubtedly meant he had become the target of all the Divine Lords.

The Stone Gate Maze shrinks every ten minutes; eventually, Yang Bai must enter the magic-free zone.

Outside the magic-free zone, Yang Bai can use spiritual power to crush other Divine Lords, but once he enters the magic-free zone, he is just a high school student with decent martial arts accomplishments and swordsmanship foundations.

Facing a siege by a dozen or dozens of Divine Lords, even if he could handle it for a while, if the other side used a wheel war tactic, even he would be exhausted to death.

After blocking all four entrances, Yang Bai had little spiritual power left. He simply loosened his muscles and bones, then strode onto the Magic-Sealing Platform.

Passing through the barrier of the Magic-Sealing Platform, Yang Bai felt the spiritual power in his body being sealed, and his Divine True Body disappeared along with it.

Returning to his ordinary human state, Yang Bai felt no discomfort or panic; instead, he smiled and walked to the weapon rack on the side, starting to select suitable weapons.

There were weapons available on the Magic-Sealing Platform: knives, spears, sticks, clubs, long swords, daggers, throwing darts, and grappling hooks were all available.

"You four are quite fast, any tricks?"

Yang Bai smiled.

But the four Divine Lords did not speak, only holding their weapons, standing in front, waiting for Yang Bai to choose his weapons.

Seeing that the few still had some martial ethics, Yang Bai did not stand on ceremony. He picked two knives of different lengths from the weapon rack, one a wide-bladed great saber and the other a Tang dao.

He carried the wide-bladed great saber on his back and tied the Tang dao to his waist.

Next, he took out a three-foot long sword and tucked it on the other side of the long saber, took out five throwing knives and tied them to his left leg, and strapped a dagger to his right thigh.

He hung a claw knife on his chest, tucked a short blade into his waist, and took out two spiked knuckles; after testing the weight, he put them on his hands.

Perhaps feeling it was not secure enough, Yang Bai untied a one-and-a-half-meter long, two-finger-wide rope, tied it around his waist, and made a slipknot.

Seeing Yang Bai fully equipped like this, the four Divine Lords were full of solemnity on their faces. Their weapons were merely the ones they held in their hands; they were not wearing as much as Yang Bai.

The martial arts these Divine Lords usually learned included defeating enemies and fighting monsters.

And Yang Bai's full body of weapons left no doubt that he might be a practical weapon master who specialized in studying how to kill.

Yang Bai tightened the knuckles on his hands, drew his long saber to test it, and after confirming that the knuckles would not affect his saber-swinging feel, he held the great saber in one hand and walked forward slowly.

The hostile Lords dispersed, standing in the four directions of Yang Bai, forming a four-ringed encirclement.

These four Divine Lords included one holding a long staff, one shouldering a great saber, one carrying a long sword, and one playing with twin forks.

Long, medium, and short, three types of attack ranges.

Yang Bai stood in the center of the four, his arms hanging down naturally, the tip of the saber pointing downward, his head lowered, panting heavily.

Following the rhythm of Yang Bai's breathing, his heart rate accelerated, his pupils dilated, his hair stood on end, a faint blood-colored aura appeared around Yang Bai, and a sound like beating drums—his heartbeat—resounded.

"Prepare to attack!"

The sturdy woman holding the long staff, who was the leader, gave the surrounding Divine Lords a look and said in a low voice.

Before she could finish speaking, Yang Bai reacted.

"Roar, roar, roar, roar!!!"

Yang Bai spread his arms, his eyes becoming incomparably blood-red, and a roar like a dragon, a tiger, a crane, and a bear erupted from his mouth, stunning the four on the spot.

Blood aura permeated, baleful energy entangled his body, and killing intent solidified. This technique was: Generals Might - Flesh-Eating Blood-Drinking Great Method.