# 710
Chapter 711: Stone Statues Awaken
Feeling the tremor in the earth, the expressions of Lin Qiye and the other two changed abruptly in the cramped room.
After a moment of hesitation, Lin Qiye first set down the pixel gun in his hand, extending his spiritual sense outward to carefully perceive everything around him.
After passing through the torii gate wall, they had been transported directly into this room. That torii gate most likely possessed the power to shift space—in other words, they were no longer in the outer area of the city ruins, but had arrived at a completely unfamiliar place.
This was most likely the core area of the ruins.
As his spiritual sense expanded, Lin Qiye's brow furrowed even tighter. With his current level of spiritual mastery, his perception could cover nearly ten kilometers, but even with full coverage, he sensed nothing but endless cramped rooms, not a single other thing.
This sensation reminded Lin Qiye of the time at the training camp when the space cube folded the dormitory building, but the difference was that in the training camp, rooms were scrambled, creating the illusion of endlessness, whereas here, the rooms were genuinely infinite...
No doors, no windows, like an infinite Go board, where the squares were endless rooms and the black lines were neatly arranged corridors.
Oddly, embedded within some of the walls were bizarre stone statues. The statues varied in appearance and pose, and when Lin Qiye's spiritual sense touched their surfaces, it was blocked entirely, unable to penetrate even an inch.
Lin Qiye found these statues puzzling but didn't dwell on them, simply treating them as some kind of mysterious symbol or ritual.
Unable to find a way out, Lin Qiye could only return to the wall where they had entered, running his hand across its surface—it was rock-hard, impossible to pass through back to the torii gate wall.
Lin Qiye's brow furrowed tightly. He strode quickly to Wei Dong and pressed the pixel gun against his forehead, coldly asking:
"Where is this place? How do we get out?"
With the gun pressed against his forehead, Wei Dong helplessly closed his eyes and said, "I don't know either. Every torii gate on that wall leads to a different place. The one I took before wasn't that one, and this place is my first time here too. Believe it or not, it's up to you."
Just as Lin Qiye was about to say something, a crack suddenly appeared in the wall behind Amemiya Haruki.
Click—!
Amemiya Haruki froze, turning to look. Silky black hair extended from the crack in the wall like dense clusters of sinister serpents, rushing toward him with a howl!
These strands of hair moved too fast—even Lin Qiye hadn't detected their presence beforehand. As the hair shot toward Amemiya Haruki like lightning, the hand that had been resting on the hilt of his blade at his waist suddenly gripped down hard!
Clang—!
A deep-blue blade light swept through the air like a crescent moon, firmly blocking the dense curtain of hair. The strands scraped violently against the blade, producing blinding sparks.
The force contained within these strands of hair was immense. Amemiya Haruki's arms went numb, and he was sent flying uncontrollably. Immediately after, several times more black hair poured out from the crack, piercing toward Amemiya Haruki's body from all directions.
Amemiya Haruki's pupils constricted sharply!
Instinctively, he wanted to activate 【Rainfall Collapse】 to slash through all that hair, but this was a ruin. Once he activated the power of the Magatsu Blade, the blade would tear itself from his grasp and fly toward the depths of the ruins. In that split second, he suppressed the fear in his heart and held back from slashing out that blade.
It wasn't because he wasn't afraid of death, but because he knew someone would block this attack for him.
A black figure instantly flickered into position in front of him!
【Night Flash】.
Lin Qiye, clad in a black knit windbreaker, stepping on the night, his eyes glittering with faint starlight, stared at the overwhelming tide of hair. His hands pressed against the void, and two magic circles rapidly unfurled.
The next moment, two Straight Blades had landed in his grasp.
"A thousand guests drunk among flowers in full bloom, one sword cold enough to freeze fourteen states." Lin Qiye murmured, and the twin blades in his hands trembled violently!
The Straight Blades lightly swept through the漫天 hair. Surging blade light rolled forth like the mighty Yangtze River, instantly shredding all the hair before him into fragments, scattering chaotically across the ground where they writhed like maggots.
Seeing this, Wei Dong suddenly froze in place.
Everything had happened too quickly. He had only seen Lin Qiye flicker in front of Amemiya Haruki, his hands flipping out two Straight Blades with a single motion, then casually slicing through the curtain of hair.
Throughout this entire process, he hadn't even drawn the Magatsu Blade at his waist.
What was going on?
Weren't you a Magatsu Blade master? How could you not even need to draw the Magatsu Blade and be that fierce?!
Wei Dong watched Lin Qiye standing amid the scattered hair, his gaze naturally falling on the two Straight Blades in his palms, his brow creasing slightly.
He suddenly felt like these blades looked somewhat familiar...
"Stone statue?"
Lin Qiye gripped his twin blades, his eyes fixed on the wall from which the hair had emerged. Among the碎石 and bricks, a pitch-black female ghost statue was rapidly melting, restoring its original form, and the curtain of ghost-snake hair had come from her head.
Lin Qiye seemed to realize something and猛地 turned to scan his surroundings.
Crunch, crunch—!
Dense sounds of walls cracking echoed from all around. Cracks both large and small spread across some of the surrounding walls. On certain wall surfaces, hands had already broken through, half a skull, or long nails—sounds of roaring rose and fell throughout this space, sending chills down the spine, as if countless demons were about to burst through the walls.
The stone statues embedded in those walls were all coming to life!
Within Lin Qiye's perceptual range, the number of statues breaking free from the walls was at least sixty or seventy!
Lin Qiye's expression immediately darkened. He had no time to contemplate why these statues had suddenly and inexplicably awakened, because the black-haired female ghost before him had already completely crawled out of the wall. As her head swayed gently, the curtain of black hair that had shrouded her face like a waterfall lifted slightly, revealing a pale face completely devoid of features—only a gaping mouth filled with狰狞 fangs.
She dropped to all fours like a wild beast, opening her mouth to screech at Lin Qiye with a sharp cry!
Tens of thousands of black strands of hair rolled forth once more.
Lin Qiye gripped his twin blades, his eyes kindling with scorching, sacred flames like a furnace. A powerful Seraphim's pressure burst forth from his body, completely suppressing the black-haired female ghost's sinister aura. The curtain of hair also came to an abrupt halt.
"The wild fire can never burn them out, the spring breezes blow again and life anew."
Lin Qiye murmured, then fiercely flicked one of the Straight Blades in his hand. The sharp blade's edge erupted into a blinding burst of flames, shooting toward the black-haired female ghost's head like a meteor!