vrcanaries Chapter 297 Rescue
Chapter 297 Rescue
Huo Die has lived for tens of thousands of years and has seen all kinds of gambling games. This kind of gambling game is not surprising to Huo Die, but he still clenched his fist silently.
Tu Xiaoxiao had heard of this kind of gambling, but only heard about it. Just imagining it made her feel that it was vulgar and cruel, and she didn't want to gamble with Shen Yao.
Shen Yao and Feng Yu were furious. Underground casinos should never exist.
Dice awaited her reply: "When you killed the black boar demon, your methods were even more ruthless. You won't be too scared to gamble because of this plate, will you?"
Shen Yao adjusted her mindset and said nonchalantly, "This young lady isn't easily intimidated. I just think this kind of plate is nothing special. Low-level cultivators' lives are as worthless as grass. What's the point of killing low-level cultivators?"
She revealed her malice: "Hey, don't you guys offer high-level cultivators to kill for fun here?"
"Your question is quite clever, young lady. Yesterday, the chief steward arrested quite a few high-ranking cultivators." Dice felt a sense of unease, but he didn't care. The underground casino was no ordinary casino; even if three demon ancestors came, they could take them down in one fell swoop.
He even sent out a message to test the waters: "Besides the Demon Saint Yao Fan, there is also a Demon Ancestor. If you want to gamble with their lives, this is the price..."
He wore a smirk as he flipped the dice rapidly.
Shen Yao tossed him a string of ten swords: "Don't worry, no matter the price, I can afford to gamble."
Dice, clutching the Ten-Perfect Blade, laughed enthusiastically: "Young lady, you are so generous! I will take you there right away."
The cultivators passed through the corridor and arrived at the brightly lit inner hall. Shen Yao discovered that there were many hidden doors on all four sides of the inner hall, which should be hidden private rooms.
Dice entered the inner hall without stopping, leading them forward through the long corridor and into the staircase leading to the second basement level.
The second basement level was as dark as the outer hall on the first floor, and no spirit lamps were visible, but the entire second floor was dimly lit.
The second basement level was even hotter than the first basement level; your shoes burned your feet when you stepped on the ground.
Dice led them through two corridors, opened a door in the wall of a corridor, and led them into the room.
The room was empty; there wasn't even a seat.
The dice player took his leave, saying, "Distinguished guests, the second floor is not under my jurisdiction. I will return now, and the manager of the second floor will arrange a gambling game for you in a while."
Without waiting for a response, he left with a smirk, closed the door from the outside, activated the external security mechanism, and locked the room.
No action escaped Huo Die's eyes: "That kid broke the barrier, we've been exposed."
Shen Yao, unsure if she had misacted something, asked, "How could this be? What did I do wrong?"
A pungent odor emanated from the walls. Huo Die released a barrier to block it: "It's a gas that suppresses spiritual power. How do you feel?"
Shen Yao: "I covered my mouth and nose when I saw steam coming out, so I didn't inhale it."
Feng Yu tried circulating her spiritual energy: "My spiritual energy circulates slowly, but it's still usable."
Tu Xiaoxiao: "I can use my spiritual power, but my body feels a little weak."
The pale yellow gas increased, blocking the barrier and filling the entire room.
Huo Die checked Feng Yu's pulse and injected a wisp of divine power into him. The divine power circulated within Feng Yu's meridians, relieving his spirit-suppressing poison.
He then checked Tu Xiaoxiao's pulse and infused her with a trace of divine power, and Tu Xiaoxiao quickly recovered.
Huo Die sensed the entire second underground level with his divine sense and opened his eyes after a long while: "There is a fighting arena in the middle, where cultivators are fighting beasts, and there are many gamblers watching."
“In the rooms opposite us, there are some cultivators of level six or seven trapped. They should be disciples of the Xiangyun Sect and the Xiaoyao Sect.”
"Go around a small hall, then through two corridors, and Mu Ze and several cultivators are trapped inside. They didn't see City Lord Liu."
The poisonous gas took a long time to dissipate. Feng Yu had everyone put on masks, Huo Die removed the barrier, and after confirming that everyone could use their spiritual energy, Feng Yu went to remove the door seal.
He formed hand seals and activated the array, the colors and patterns of which were very strange: "I have never seen this kind of spatial restriction before."
The forbidden patterns that appeared on the door were chaotic and disordered, with the spirits of the patterns connected intermittently, and the luster was reddish with a hint of black.
“It’s Asura Technique.” Huo Die quickly identified it: “It’s the technique of the Asura race in the Eighth Realm Heaven, the Asura World.”
Bloodworms… Asura Technique… Could it be that an Asura has come to this world from the Eighth Realm Heaven?
Shen Yao raised a question, which was rejected by Huo Die: "The Heavenly Dao will not allow beings from higher planes to do evil in lower planes."
That's strange. If no Asuras came here, where did the Asura technique come from?
There's no time for these deductions right now; breaking the restriction is the priority.
It's unlikely that the barrier will be broken anytime soon. Huo Die tested the energy and found that the room's restrictions were set up by Zu Xiu, and the three of them—father-in-law, son-in-law, and son-in-law—could break them by force.
Huo Die used his divine sense to investigate the situation outside: "There is a group of cultivators patrolling the corridor. The leader is a sixth-grade cultivator with five spiritual roots, and the other four are seventh-grade cultivators with four spiritual roots."
He noticed the black line on the leader's neck and his gaze sharpened: "He's an evil cultivator. Kill them all after we get out."
The patrolling evil cultivators strolled back and forth lazily. When they were almost at the door of the room where they were, Huo Die called out, "Make your move."
"Bang!" Tu Xiaoxiao broke through the restriction with a single strike, and the patrolling seventh-rank evil cultivator was killed before he could even react.
The leader of the evil cultivators turned to run away, but Shen Yao threw out the Ice Soul Sword, the blade piercing through the back of the leader's head and breaking his soul core.
She raised her hand to recall the Ice Soul Sword, and Tu Xiaoxiao praised sweetly, "Yao Yao has such good aim."
Feng Yu broke through the barrier on the opposite door, revealing disciples of the Xiangyun Sect inside.
Their spiritual power was suppressed, and Huo Diena infused them with divine power to detoxify them.
Ayu recognized them: "They are those out-of-town repairmen."
It's good that we know each other. Feng Yu and Tu Xiaoxiao continued to break into the other rooms. Shen Yao told A Yu, "It was A Nan who sent us to rescue you."
The other rooms contained cultivators from the Xiangyun Sect. After making contact, they learned that they had all been captured outside the tree hollow by a strange spiritual net.
Ah Yu said that Ah Nan was also captured by the spirit net. That kind of spirit net can appear suddenly and is impossible to defend against. Once you are bound, you can't break free.
The reason they can't break through is probably because they are of low level; after all, these Asura Techniques were set up by the ancestral cultivators.
Even the Demon Ancestor Liu Yucheng was captured; it's unknown how many evil ancestors are in this underground casino.
There shouldn't be an evil lord; if a casino had an evil lord, it wouldn't be an underground casino.
They had already occupied the entire Ruifeng City long ago.
The cultivators patrolling the second floor are all evil cultivators, and the one in charge of the first floor is probably an evil saint.
The abilities of a heretical cultivator of the same level are twice that of a normal cultivator. One heretical saint can defeat two saint cultivators, and one heretical ancestor can defeat two ancestor cultivators.
It would be difficult to get the twenty-odd cultivators of level six or seven to retreat from the first floor. A single die could stop them all.
Let's take them with us and kill them all.
"Xiaoxiao, you lead the charge. Daughter, you and Yunhe work together to kill Gao Xiu. As for the rest of you, follow me. I'll cripple them, and you'll kill them."
After Huo Die finished making the arrangements, they followed Tu Xiaoxiao out of the room and rushed towards the small hall to rescue Mu Ze first.
The corridor was filled with sixth and seventh-ranking evil cultivators on patrol, and they easily passed through.
Mu Ze was still a little dazed when he was rescued. When he saw that it was Shen Yao and her group who had saved him, he excitedly shook Tu Xiaoxiao and begged for help: "The boss has been sent to be tested by them. Hurry up and save the boss!"