Siheyuan: The Temptation of the Mountains

Chapter 799 Successfully Avoiding the Spikes

"Everyone, pay attention! These spikes have a pattern!" Lin Ze shouted loudly, and his voice echoed in the cave. "Follow me and jump in this rhythm!" As he shouted, he demonstrated the jumping movements and timing.

When everyone heard Lin Ze's call, they all concentrated their attention, observed the rhythm of the spikes, and tried to keep up with Lin Ze's pace. At first, they were a little flustered, but with continuous practice and adaptation, they gradually mastered this rhythm and successfully avoided more and more spikes.

Just when everyone thought the crisis had been resolved, a dull sound suddenly came from the stone wall above their heads. Then, the stone wall began to peel off, and huge pieces of stone fell to the ground like meteors.

"Scatter!" Lin Ze shouted, and everyone followed his voice and quickly scattered around, looking for a place to hide. The already narrow space in the cave seemed even more cramped at this time, and everyone could only rely on the corners and stone pillars of the cave to protect themselves.

While dodging the boulders, Lin Ze did not forget to observe the surrounding environment. He noticed that the location of a boulder was somewhat special, it was located right in the center of the cave, and the surrounding stone walls seemed to be related to it.

"Could this be the location of the mechanism?" Lin Ze secretly speculated in his heart, "If we can destroy this huge rock, maybe we can stop the attack of falling rocks."

He saw the right moment, and when a huge rock was about to hit him, he suddenly jumped up and landed on that special rock as lightly as a flying swallow. The long sword in his hand drew a cold light in the air and slashed at the rock fiercely.

There was a crisp sound of "crack", and the boulder broke apart, instantly turning into countless pieces of rubble that scattered all over the ground. At the same time, the vibrations and falling rocks in the cave also stopped abruptly.

After these two thrilling crises, everyone was out of breath and exhausted. But they did not hesitate at all. After a short rest, they continued to walk deeper into the cave. Because they all knew that the key to unlocking the old man's seal was waiting for them not far ahead.

The deeper they went into the cave, the lower the temperature became, and a chill went straight to their bones.

Suddenly, an area of water emitting a strange blue light appeared in front of them, and strange ripples appeared on the water surface from time to time.

"Everyone be careful, this water doesn't look simple." Lin Ze warned cautiously.

At this critical moment, the calm water surface suddenly rolled violently as if it was boiling, and then several huge blue tentacles suddenly shot out from the water like lightning, sweeping towards everyone with bared fangs and claws!

This sudden change caught everyone off guard, but they were all experienced warriors after all. They reacted quickly, drew their weapons, and started a thrilling and fierce fight with the hideous tentacles!

The flashing of swords and the deafening shouts of killing made the whole scene extremely chaotic. However, in this chaos, there was one person who seemed exceptionally calm. He was Lin Ze.

Lin Ze did not blindly fight with the tentacles like the others, but stood aside and carefully observed the situation in the water. He found that although these tentacles seemed extremely ferocious, they would leave a short vortex on the water surface after each attack.

This discovery made Lin Ze's heart move, and he immediately realized that this vortex might be the weakness of these tentacles!

It happened in a flash. At the moment when a tentacle launched another attack, Lin Ze seized the opportunity, flashed his body, leaped like a flying swallow, and jumped straight into the vortex!

After entering the vortex, Lin Ze felt a strong suction force holding him tightly, as if he was going to swallow him up. But he was not afraid, he gritted his teeth and struggled to resist the suction force, while using his eyes to search for the situation in the depths of the vortex.

Finally, at the deepest part of the vortex, Lin Ze found a core emitting a faint blue light. This core looked like a source of some kind of energy, and the tentacles were obviously controlled by it.

Seeing this, Lin Ze raised the sword in his hand without hesitation and chopped it down towards the core with all his strength!

There was a crisp "crack" sound, and the core shattered, and the blue light dissipated instantly. At the same time, those originally ferocious tentacles seemed to have lost their vitality, and instantly became soft, and then slowly sank to the bottom of the water.

As the tentacles disappeared, the water surface gradually returned to calm, as if nothing had happened.

Seeing this, everyone couldn't help but breathe a sigh of relief and praised Lin Ze's wit and bravery. After a short rest, they continued to move forward along the cave, and finally saw the old man sealed in the crystal at the end of the cave.

However, just as they were about to approach the crystal to rescue the old man, an accident happened again - mysterious runes suddenly appeared around the crystal, and these runes emitted dazzling light, forming a powerful barrier that firmly blocked everyone out!

Lin Ze frowned and carefully observed these mysterious runes, trying to find a way to crack them.

Just as he was thinking hard, the old man spoke weakly in the crystal: "This rune requires the gathering of all your strength and the injection of it in a specific order to be deciphered."

When everyone heard what the old man said, they quickly stepped forward and surrounded him tightly, their eyes focused on the mysterious rune.

Lin Ze stood at the front of the crowd. He took a deep breath, calmed himself, and then without hesitation, continuously channeled the power in his body into the rune.

As Lin Ze injected his power, the runes began to emit a faint light, as if they were awakened.

Soon after, others followed Lin Ze's example, gathering their own strength and injecting it into the runes like a trickle.

The light of the rune became brighter and brighter as everyone's power was continuously injected into it, just like the stars in the night sky gradually shining.

However, just when the power was about to fill the rune, an accident happened - the rune suddenly trembled violently, and a powerful recoil force swept towards everyone like a raging wave.

Everyone was caught off guard and was flung flying by the force, with their bodies hitting the surrounding walls heavily.

Lin Ze was not spared either. He was knocked backwards by the recoil force and fell heavily to the ground.

But he was not defeated by this sudden setback. He gritted his teeth, endured the severe pain in his body, and struggled to get up from the ground.

He looked firmly at the still trembling rune and shouted loudly: "Don't give up! Let's try again!"