The giant’s rage immediately quelled when it saw Ku Wei’s Finger Tap technique. The technique had drilled a hole into the massive humanoid’s palm and knocked it to the ground.
This giant had not fully grown up yet, which was why Ku Wei dared to fight it. However, as more giants continued to run at him, he did not stick around for a moment longer as he quickly dropped to the ground.
Ce Jiu was in the same position as Ku Wei. All of the outsiders were immediately attacked by the giants, aside from Xia Jiuyou who simply moved past the giants.
The Xia family were Progenitor Chen’s descendants, which was the only logical explanation for this phenomenon. As for the earlier attack, he had just been unlucky.
Within the Seven Courts, it was common knowledge that the members of the Xia family were able to move about freely within Progenitor Chen’s Mausoleum.
Lu Yin’s trio had also encountered the guardian giants.
The guardian giants sought out their prey by smell, and the trio was quickly discovered.
A giant smashed down at them with a club, creating a huge pit in the ground.
Silver, Beast, and Lu Yin immediately ducked. The giant roared and followed up with another smash. This time, even the air around the club warped.
A single swing from the guardian giant’s club was easily powerful enough to destroy a whole planet. Lu Yin did not want to face such a monstrous strength head on.
The trio did not notice that someone was standing atop this guardian giant’s head, hidden within the hair and staring at them in shock. It was Ku Wei.
Upon entering Progenitor Chen’s Mausoleum, Ku Wei had been immediately sent flying by a club smash, and when he regained consciousness later on, he had found himself stuck in a random giant’s hair. His legs were tangled in the hair, and he was dangling from his legs.
He was actually somewhat grateful that he had been launched into the giant’s hair, as otherwise, he would have been discovered and turned into a meat patty.
While Ku Wei’s luck had been quite good, he was also a bit worried, as he had no way to escape. He knew that, with his speed, the moment he moved away from the guardian giant’s body, he would be immediately caught and smashed to death. There was no way about it.
Originally, he had submitted himself to his fate and had decided to only leave when Progenitor Chen’s Mausoleum reopened. However, then, he had noticed these three people.
At this moment, he was fervently hoping that they could kill the guardian giant he was trapped atop.
Ku Wei did not know who these three people were as he had never met Silver, and he also was not able to see Lu Yin, who was wearing heavy black robes. However, a chance was still a chance. Of course, Ku Wei would resign himself to his fate if these three people wanted to kill him instead.
In theory, a mature guardian giant was strong enough to fight against a powerhouse with a power level greater than 100,000. This was because guardian giants fought by using brute force and raw, physical strength. The most important detail was that their bloodline made them strong, but that was not their true fighting potential. A powerhouse with a power level greater than 300,000 was strong enough to kill a mature guardian giant. However, Silver, Beast, and Lu Yin each had the means to unleash attacks with power levels higher than 300,000, though they chose not to do so. They merely sliced open a gash on the giant’s leg, bathed in the blood that poured out, let it cover every inch of their bodies, and then quickly escaped. This method kept them from being pursued by the other guardian giants, as the blood was masking their scent.
Ku Wei watched all of this take place, and he was very disappointed that the three people had not chosen to kill the giant. However, he was tempted to copy the method that they had used. The guardian giant half knelt on the ground, and Ku Wei hesitated before the opportunity to bathe in its blood.
What if I get smashed to death?
Due to that moment of hesitation, Ku Wei lost his window of opportunity to escape from the guardian giant. The giant simply picked up a bit of dirt, slapped it on his wounds, and rubbed it around. The blood flow immediately stopped, stumping Ku Wei.
He felt as though destiny was playing a joke on him. It had not been easy for him to enter Progenitor Chen’s Mausoleum, but as soon as he entered, he had been forced to spend his time stuck to a giant. If word of this reached the outside, his patriarch would probably skin him alive.
However, no one could really blame Ku Wei. After all, he was simply afraid of dying.
After moving away from the guardian giant, the trio reached an impressive speed as they continued on towards their destination.
Then, a huge droplet of some dark liquid suddenly fell on Beast.
Silver and Lu Yin both instantly dodged aside before turning around to check on Beast after it had been struck.
Beast was unscathed. It growled within the ball of liquid and tried to break out, but to no avail. Its attacks were completely ineffective against the ball of dark liquid.
“Attack it from the outside,” Silver ordered.
Lu Yin knew that Silver was speaking to him. So, he raised his hands, formed a sickle with death energy, and then slashed at the liquid ball.
The sickle hacked at the liquid, leaving behind a gash in the droplet. However, nothing dripped or spilled out. This material did not seem to have the normal properties of a liquid.
Silver whipped out his butterfly knife and also slashed at the ball of liquid, but his attempts yielded similar results.
At this moment, more droplets began to fall to the ground. Silver and Lu Yin continuously dodged and evaded them while Beast continued to be hammered.
Yōu Qin was some distance away, also dodging the droplets. However, she was eventually hit and sealed within the liquid.
Ku Lei, Ce Jiu, Hui Santong, and the rest were also being attacked by this rain of strange droplets.
Even Xie Xiaoxian and Shu Jing, who were the closest to the entrance, were suffering from the same attack.
“Stange, when did attacks like this start showing up in Progenitor Chen’s Mausoleum?” Xie Xiaoxian was rather confused. The Seven Courts had explored this area for countless years, and as a result, they had found and taken many things from this region, including battle techniques, cultivation techniques, power vessels, and more. This place was a mass grave that contained many traps and guardian giants. However, massive droplets of liquid had never fallen from the sky before.
Something seemed to have changed within Progenitor Chen’s Mausoleum.
The falling of black droplets continued on for nearly ten days, and during this time, everybody did their best to avoid them.
While all of the humans had to evade these droplets, the guardian giants were completely unaffected by them. To the giants, this rain seemed to be normal droplets of water, and there were unaffected when the droplets struck their bodies.
After ten days, the rain gradually vanished.
At that time, Beast was able to use the second corpse king transformation to escape from the droplet that had trapped it.
These droplets were only able to immobilize people, and they had no other effect. They were not very fast either. As long as one paid attention, they would not be struck.
Yōu Qin also managed to escape after using some of her Yōu family’s techniques.
After the droplets of dark liquid disappeared, next was gigantic volleys of arrows that flew through the air horizontally.
These arrows were able to pierce and even kill a guardian giant, but due to the creatures’ large size, these arrows were not regular arrows to the humans. Rather, they were massive weapons that could blast their bodies to smithereens in a single hit.
These arrows were rather intimidating, and everyone had no choice but to descend to the ground to avoid being struck.
Lu Yin felt somewhat puzzled. These arrows did not seem designed to injure any would-be invaders. Rather, it seemed more like they were meant to damage or kill the guardian giants.
Is it possible that these guardian giants are not actually guarding Progenitor Chen’s Mausoleum? Are they also seeking something in Progenitor Chen’s Mausoleum? In that case, who put these arrows in place?
Progenitor Chen’s Mausoleum was filled with dangers and traps. After the volley of arrows, next was a strange gust of wind, and that was then followed by strange screeching noises. The members of the Seven Courts were all prepared for this. Lei Nü, Shu Jing, and Lu Yin were the only ones experiencing it without any foreknowledge.
At this moment, the first person that Lu Yin thought of was the Ghost Monkey. That damned monkey had raided many tombs and graves in the past, and he definitely had a great deal of experience in this area.
Lu Yin still felt somewhat reluctant about letting the Ghost Monkey go after spending over ten years together with him. He wondered how the Ghost Monkey was doing right now.
***
Far, far away, in Shaman God’s Tower of Darkness that stood tall within Aeternus Nation, the Ghost Monkey was feeling extremely relaxed. He was not a human, and he held no animosity towards the Neohuman Alliance. He was just a shadow, and he had decided that it made no difference to him who he followed.
When he had been with Lu Yin, he had often encountered danger, but now that he was following Shaman God, one of the Seven Skygods, the monkey felt extremely carefree. A powerhouse like Shaman God often trained in seclusion, and thus, he had no time to care about the Ghost Monkey. The monkey had thus decided that he would act more loyal towards Shaman God and gain a better position within the Neohuman Alliance. He would then take command of an army of zombies to attack the Astral Beast Domain and take back “his” concubines—the Celestial Ice Phoenix clan.
The Ghost Monkey felt more excited about his future prospects the longer he thought about it. It was as if he could finally see the light at the end of the tunnel, beckoning him toward a beautiful future.
As for Lu Yin… Forget it. he’s just someone I used to know. At the most, I’ll let him off next time I see him. Well, so long as he calls me Lord Ghost Monkey. No, Big Bro Monkey instead! How dare he make me call him Seventh Bro? That bastard! I’m getting more pissed the more I think about it. Seventh Bro? Pfft. Call me Big Bro Monkey.
***
As time passed, the people within Progenitor Chen’s Mausoleum gradually moved past the various traps and closer to their destinations. They moved further in, and soon, there was a tall, lofty city wall standing before them.
Xia Jiuyou was the first to spot the city walls. These city walls were like towering mountain peaks, and they resembled sharp, inverted daggers. Upon closer inspection, one could see that there were sharp, bloodstained spikes in front of the walls.
This area had once been the birthplace of a civilization.
The Xia family possessed records showing that, once, there had been a civilization of giants within Progenitor Chen’s Mausoleum and that the current guardian giants were nothing more than a certain tribe that did not have much intelligence. However, how had the guardian giants managed to build such tall walls? Also, were there giants patrolling along top of the city walls? Had they given birth to a giant emperor?
Ce Jiu was the next to see the city walls. His usage of the Ce secret technique allowed him to proceed through the mausoleum extremely quickly, and it also helped him evade the guardian giants.
When he saw the city walls, he felt as though his knowledge had been overturned. This was Progenitor Chen’s Mausoleum, and the presence of the guardian giants was already considered a bizarre thing. However, after countless years, had the giants finally managed to give birth to a civilization?
Xia Jiuyou saw Ce Jiu, as neither of them had hidden themselves. They would not be able to proceed and make it over these walls by themselves.
Soon after, Hui Santong arrived with Lei Nü tailing him.
Ku Lei and Yōu Qin were the last to arrive, and Yōu Qin looked to be in a rather sorry state.
She was the weakest out of the Seven Courts’ inheritors.
“Where’s Xie Xiaoxian?” Yōu Qin asked.
“She had a tail, so my guess is that she won’t be coming,” Ce Jiu replied.
“Progenitor Chen’s Mausoleum is littered with treasures for the Xia family, so it’s no big deal if she doesn’t come,” Hui Santong said as he glanced sideways at Lei Nü before looking back at the towering city walls. Suddenly, he felt rather relieved that Lei Nü had managed to follow him. When faced with these massive city walls, the more people they had, the greater their chances of getting over it would be.
Beneath her mask, Lei Nü stared up at the city walls in awe. Even the Hall of Honor’s records had mentioned the rare possibility of a civilization emerging from a tribe of giants. It often heralded the birth of a giant emperor, which meant that the guardian giants must have one.
“The giants throughout the universe can be divided into two types: the first are savage giants who use their bodies as weapons and are often brutal warmongers. The second type are intelligent giants, and they lean more towards creativity and technology. Once upon a time, a civilization of intelligent giants armed with amazing technology appeared in the Innerverse and caused a great upheaval. They had created many technological weapons, but they eventually disappeared without any trace. As for savage giants, the only reason why they would form a civilization is when a Giant Emperor is born,” Hui Santong explained in a relaxed manner while the rest of the youths listened quietly.
