Chapter 83: Monkey King Shi Lei
Shi Lei looked at the middle-aged man with an indifferent gaze: "Seven star halls have already appeared, Star Lord Wan Xiang, the eighth star hall you spoke of, why has it still not opened?"
Star Lord Wan Xiang gave a bright smile: "Immortal Monkey King, there's no need to worry. We can only make the eighth star hall appear when we have killed enough desolate beasts and let their blood seep into the ground. We have already killed six desolate beasts but the amount of blood is still not enough."
"How much more desolate beasts should we kill exactly?" Shi Lei asked impatiently.
Star Lord Wan Xiang revealed a thoughtful expression and said after a pause: "According to my annual explorations over the past twenty years and my own speculations, we probably only need to kill one more desolate beast."
"Hmph! You better not deceive me." Shi Lei replied in an overbearing manner.
Star Lord Wan Xiang lowered his head: "I am just a lone cultivator, even if I had ten times the guts, I would not dare to deceive Lord Immortal Monkey King. Based on Central Continent's time, I can only forcibly break into this star path Grotto-Heaven during this point of the year.
Moreover, the duration we can stay is only two days, after these two days, the small opening leading to the grotto-heaven will close up and we won't be able to exit. Why would I deceive you when time is so limited? I also want to plunder more resources, but several years ago, I accidentally saw the eighth star hall, that hall was covered in a foreboding atmosphere.
The guards of the star hall were all ancient desolate beasts, it definitely is the central control point of this grotto-heaven and it is very likely for the heavenly spirit to be there."
Shi Lei nodded, he believed Star Lord Wan Xiang's words.
"Sigh, if not because I had a huge battle with Song Zi Xing and spent large numbers of immortal essence, and that I urgently require large amounts of immortal essence stones to covert into immortal essence due to my blessed land's approaching tribulation, I would not have told such a huge secret to you." Star Lord Wan Xiang sighed.
Shi Lei's tone softened: "Don't worry, I will abide by the agreement, eighty percent of this exploration's battle spoils will go to you while I take twenty percent. Also, I will not tell anyone else about this secret. Later, we will come to explore this grotto-heaven every year."
"Lord Shi Lei has an outstanding reputation, I can be at ease. According to my past explorations, there is a star demon bat not far away and it is rather easy to kill."
"Alright, let's go there. Old rules; when fighting, you stand to the side, don't interfere." Shi Lei was very decisive and immediately started flying rapidly towards the destination.
Star Lord Wan Xiang laughed bitterly while hurriedly following behind.
Fang Yuan and Hei Lou Lan cautiously entered the star hall.
This star hall had no defenses, there was no one inside, only six large wells in the center of the main hall.
The water in the wells were of different colors; red, brown, yellow, blue, purple and white. The well water was glittering and translucent, and emitted slight radiance.
Hei Lou Lan and Fang Yuan used investigative Gu worms to completely check them.
Their discovery was that the well water, the star hall, everything was as normal as they could be. This was naturally impossible. How could an ordinary hall appear out of thin air? How could ordinary well water be of different colors and emit light?
"This color..." Hei Lou Lan observed again and could not help mumbling.
Fang Yuan knew what she was thinking. He remembered when they had just arrived in Starry Sky grotto-heaven, he had looked at the sky. He saw the shadows of six stars in the sky, they were as large as the full moon and were easy to notice.
These six star shadows were the colors of red, brown, yellow, blue, purple and white, the same as these six waters in the wells.
"What connection do they have?" Fang Yuan mumbled and sent a mortal storage Gu inside a well to take out some of the water to study.
However, when the mortal Gu entered the well water, the tranquil and calm well water suddenly moved and formed a whirlpool, swallowing the mortal Gu.
Fang Yuan knew that his mortal Gu had not been destroyed yet, because he could still sense its existence.
But this connection was very weak now.
Fang Yuan originally had a close connection to the mortal Gu, but now the feeling was much weaker, it was like the two were very far apart.
Fang Yuan followed the connection in his mind, slowly deducing the direction and raising his head.
All he saw was the top of the walls in the star hall.
Fang Yuan activated his investigative Gu, in his field of vision, the roof of the star hall became translucent. Fang Yuan's gaze pierced through the roof of the star hall, seeing the six huge circular star shadows in the green sky.
He felt a sensation in his mind, his gaze remained on one of the star shadows. According to the remaining connection he had, he knew that the mortal Gu was on top of that star shadow!
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Swoosh swoosh swoosh!
The star demon bat's huge wings whipped up fierce winds as countless arrows shot out at the same time.
Their numbers were high, flying towards Immortal Monkey King Shi Lei like a storm.
Seeing the large scale attack, Shi Lei scoffed in disdain: "Merely rank two star arrow Gu, except the numbers are a bit high."
Mortal killer move — Fallen Grey Cloak.
He did not dodge, he allowed the arrows to land on his body.
No matter how many star arrows came, they dissipated after coming into contact with the mortal killer move fallen grey cloak, vanishing in an instant.
"This time, look at my eagle transformation!" Shi Lei shouted, his body shining in a bright golden light.
As the light dissipated, Shi Lei had vanished, in his place was a desolate beast iron crown eagle.
Far away, Star Lord Wan Xiang quietly observed the battle, seeing this, he sighed helplessly.
After fighting for a while Shi Lei killed the star demon bat.
The star demon bat landed on the ground, its blood was pouring like a river.
The ground absorbed the blood, just like what Star Lord Wan Xiang said, a formless energy had been activated.
In the sky, starlight appeared again.
"The eighth star hall has finally appeared. My speculation was indeed correct!" Star Lord Wan Xiang spoke with excitement.
Shi Lei canceled the iron crown eagle transformation and returned to his human form. The injuries on his body were still recovering, the blood flow had yet to stop. He indifferently glanced at the sky with his golden pupils: "No wonder you guessed that this was the grotto-heaven's central control point, looking at its appearance, it is very likely to be that."
He grimaced in pain and sat down, healing the wounds.
Star Lord Wan Xiang waited for a little while and when he saw Shi Lei's injuries were roughly treated, he finally could not endure and urged him: "Your healing is almost done right? Time is limited, Lord Immortal Monkey King. The prerequisite for the eighth star hall to appear is that the other seven star halls should be formed first.
Every time the seven star halls appear, they will only exist for fifteen minutes. When the seven star halls disappear, the eighth star hall will also disappear."
"Why are you in a hurry? If you are in such a rush, you can enter it first." Shi Lei opened his eyes and coldly glanced at Star Lord Wan Xiang.
"Lord Shi Lei is jesting, my battle strength has fallen to the depths, I still need to rely on lord to break through the ancient desolate beasts' defenses." Star Lord Wan Xiang chuckled and did not speak any further.
He knew Shi Lei's scheme and intentions.
Shi Lei was a battle-addict, unreasonable and unruly, but he was in no way stupid.
Shi Lei accepted Star Lord Wan Xiang's invitation to come to Starry Sky grotto-heaven to plunder resources. But he did not put in his full effort, he was interested in breaking through the eighth star hall, but he was not willing to see Star Lord Wan Xiang obtain large numbers of resources to pull through the difficulties and escape his grasp.
If Star Lord Wan Xiang does not obtain a fortune in this trip, he would have to request help from others when undergoing the tribulation. Shi Lei could help him then and also obtain a greater grasp on him.
When that happens, in their future visits to Starry Sky grotto-heaven, Shi Lei could obtain larger benefits which would absolutely not be in an eighty to twenty ratio like in this trip.
After a while, Shi Lei's injuries healed completely with no traces of injuries anywhere on him.
Because of the previous oath, Shi Lei could not push it too far; he examined his body once then stood up: "Sorry to keep you waiting, we can now go in."
Star Lord Wan Xiang put on a smiling expression and shook his head: "It was me who was overly anxious, I have to ask Immortal Monkey King to not blame me. More preparations quicken the speed of the work, I will still have to rely on your strength a lot more."
Shi Lei bluntly nodded: "Naturally."
He stamped his foot and charged straight into the sky.
Star Lord Wan Xiang followed closely behind.
The two immortals moved towards the eighth star hall in the sky together.
At the same time, Fang Yuan and Hei Lou Lan also jumped out of a well.
"This is another star hall." Fang Yuan said as he scanned his surroundings.
Hei Lou Lan nodded: "We used many methods to test and we were not wrong, these six wells are passages."
Hei Lou Lan and Fang Yuan looked at each other. Both were clever and shrewd, and they both obtained an understanding.
"What do you think of it?" Hei Lou Lan asked.
Fang Yuan grinned, showing his sharp, jagged canines as he replied with his hoarse voice: "If I am not wrong, this Starry Sky grotto-heaven has a special terrain, there are a total of seven spaces. These seven spaces are isolated and independent of each other, outsiders can only enter or exit them through the six wells in the star halls."
Hei Lou Lan nodded and picked up a Gu worm from the ground: "This is the mortal Gu you tossed earlier into the purple well water, it is the best proof. If my speculation is right, there is also another form of proof, that is the sky. When we go out of this star hall, this space's sky should also have six round shadows of stars.
The difference should be that there instead of a purple star shadow, there should be a green star shadow."
He and Hei Lou Lan finished discussing and they walked out of the door of the hall, gazing at the sky.
They saw six round star shadows like six full moons floating in the air, Hei Lou Lan clapped her hands and gave a bright smile: "Just like I guessed."
"Wait, someone is here!" Fang Yuan looked at the moving objects in the distance and happened to see Shi Lei and Star Lord Wan Xiang rapidly flying. Following the direction they were flying towards, Fang Yuan discovered the eighth star hall.
"This star hall seems to be of a higher standard, it is hovering in the air and is being coveted by others, it is very likely that it is the central control point of Starry Sky grotto-heaven." Hei Lou Lan guessed, her gaze stuck on the eighth star hall.
At this moment, sounds of fighting came from the eighth star hall.
"Looks like these two Gu Immortals are of similar status to us, they are also outsiders. But, they are a step ahead of us." Hei Lou Lan's gaze flickered.
Fang Yuan did not reply, he just snickered, his laughter was cold.
Hei Lou Lan also silently grinned.
Immediately, Fang Yuan and Hei Lou Lan activated large numbers of mortal Gu to hide their bodies and restrain their auras, as well as using many kinds of investigative methods to scout.
The two quietly closed the star hall's door, got rid of all their traces and slowly moved outside.