Although I don't know what we'll encounter next, I'm prepared.
I can clearly feel my own improvement.
We hadn't walked much further before we indeed found another huge room.
However, this time, there seemed to be nothing particularly strange inside.
It looked like an empty room with no other furnishings.
"This should be another level, but how do we get past it?" Shen Zhi asked.
We two had been wandering around in this room for a long time, but still couldn't find the entrance to the passage.
Just then, I suddenly noticed that the wall in front of me was slightly different from the surrounding walls.
The outer walls were all stone, but this wall looked different.
I reached out and touched it. It felt cold, but I knew for sure it wasn't stone.
I looked in the direction, and if nothing unexpected happened, this wall was the way forward.
But, how could I open this wall?
We searched the room for a long time, but found no mechanisms or traps.
At this moment, Shen Zhi suddenly exclaimed with surprise, "Lu Ge, come quickly and look here, is this the door we're looking for?"
I hurried over and took a look. Indeed, there was a large door behind this wall.
But the outer wall was like a tempered film, blocking the door tightly.
"Do we have to break through this to get in?" Shen Zhi asked.
Hearing this, I suddenly understood.
If nothing unexpected happened, this should be the challenge of this level.
I directly took out my short sword and struck the wall.
Then, to my surprise, my sword strike had no effect at all...
"What's going on?" I frowned.
My physical strength had already reached a terrifying level. Putting aside other things, even a casual sword strike from me would not be resisted by ordinary stone.
Yet, after striking like this, the wall showed no trace of damage.
"How is this possible?" I was also shocked.
With the improvement of my strength, I could also feel my power greatly enhanced, but with such strength, I couldn't even leave a mark.
"Lu Ge... what's going on?" Shen Zhi asked.
"I can't say for sure right now..." I said, frowning. After thinking for a moment, I wrapped my Mu Shen power around the short sword and then slashed at the wall.
This time, a shallow mark was left on the wall.
However, the mark was too shallow, and I didn't know how long it would take to break through this wall and enter if I kept hacking at it.
But fortunately, we had plenty of time...
"You rest over there, I'll handle it!" I said.
Shen Zhi nodded and sat down on the side.
In this situation, her attack would probably be useless.
I took a deep breath and wrapped my Mu Shen power around the short sword. Immediately, the power of fire and lightning intertwined and covered it.
Without hesitation, I slashed at the wall.
This time, the mark became a little deeper.
"Looks like there's hope. As long as we can persist, this wall will be broken sooner or later..." I said with a smile.
But I was also somewhat puzzled.
We had gone through two rooms before. The first room had monsters fighting me, and the second room had so many arrows.
Compared to the previous two rooms, this one seemed too safe.
At this moment, I suddenly had a bad premonition. If we didn't break the wall as quickly as possible, I felt that something big might happen!
At this point, I couldn't care less and sped up, chopping at the wall.
A faint fragrance permeated this room. It was very faint; if my sense of smell hadn't been greatly enhanced, I wouldn't have smelled it at all.
But I didn't pay much attention to it. It smelled like sandalwood; perhaps it was a hobby of Elder Yu before...
Just then, Shen Zhi behind me suddenly groaned in pain.
I quickly turned around and saw that Shen Zhi's face was pale, and cold sweat was dripping from her forehead.
"What's going on?" I frowned. The next moment, I felt a sharp pain in my abdomen.
This pain was like being pricked by needles, dense and escalating.
At this moment, I suddenly noticed a line of small characters appearing on the wall I had been attacking.
"Live if you break the door within the time it takes for one incense stick to burn!"
There was also an incense burner beside it, and an incense stick was already lit...
My face instantly changed.
If I couldn't open this door within the time it took for one incense stick to burn, would both of us die here?