Dimensional Hotel
Chapter 348: There’s Killing Intent!

Chapter 348: Chapter 348: There’s Killing Intent!

Yu Sheng’s heart skipped a beat, feeling a vast and grand power, or rather a "will," that surged in his mind like a fierce wind, crossing time and space straight towards him. After a brief moment of dizziness and perception reset, he opened his eyes again to find the darkness around him had receded, and he was standing in an expanse of endless yellow sand.

Hu Li was beside him, hugging her two tails vigilantly like Rambo, while Erin’s heavy weight was felt on his shoulder, and Luna stood not far ahead, with Xuan Che already showing off some pills.

"Wow..." Erin exclaimed in awe, looking at the vast yellow sand before them, "This really is... I wouldn’t have believed this place could be accessed from that mine shaft if no one told me."

"This is also one of the Exotic Realm ’illusions’ that can be reached by descending from that slope," Xuan Che commented nearby, "Everyone be vigilant. According to the cultivators who have explored down here before, even the Exotic Realm scenes that have been confirmed will have slight changes in details and things each time you enter."

Erin absentmindedly acknowledged, then looked at Luna standing ahead, observing for a long time before suddenly blurting out, "Hey C-type buckle, walking in the desert with high heels, don’t you sink in? What’s the secret?"

Luna moved her limbs as if trying hard to explain the principle of her free movement in the desert. After a long time, she could only utter two words: "Training."

Listening to their conversation beside him, Yu Sheng increasingly felt something was off and finally couldn’t help but ask, "Didn’t any of you hear voices when you came in? Like a bunch of people shouting together."

"...A bunch of people shouting?" Hu Li tilted her head, "Didn’t hear anything."

"You didn’t hear it?" At that moment, Yu Sheng understood where the sense of discord came from—had he really been the only one to hear it?

Xuan Che’s expression became instantly serious at this: "What kind of shouting?"

"I couldn’t hear clearly. It was all echoes, just barely making out a few words, something about ’activate’ and ’great formation.’

"Activate the great formation?!" Xuan Che’s face turned grim as he suddenly looked back into the depths of the yellow sand, as if wary of someone setting a trap. However, after surveying all around, he found nothing but distant, seemingly ruinous shadows in the sand and did not sense any reaction of a "great formation" being activated.

"There’s no array here, or the formation is so advanced it’s merged with nature, undetectable," Xuan Che shook his head, "But since Mr. Yu indeed heard it, there must be something strange."

Without a word upon hearing this, Hu Li leaped forward, her figure transforming into a gigantic Nine-tailed Silver Fox amidst rising radiant light.

Yu Sheng then casually opened a door beside him, retrieving his Tetanus Wand, and opened another small door to pull out a piece of Steel Erin, equipping it on his shoulder.

The puppet was dazed when pulled out, not reacting for a while...

"Let’s go check over there first," Xuan Che drew his icy cold treasure sword, pointing with the other hand toward the shadowy ruins in the distance, "The exit should also be within that ruin."

Yu Sheng directly jumped onto Hu Li’s back: "Go!"

The group swiftly headed towards those shadows—the demon fox ran swift as lightning, Xuan Che transformed into a breeze, even Luna, usually slow, regained her elegant and ghostly stride when moving, supplemented by her short-range teleportation ability, and even led the whole team along the way.

Soon Yu Sheng could finally see more clearly what those ruin-like things were.

"What... the heck?"

The group halted near the "ruins," and Yu Sheng looked up, stunned, at the golden armored giant supported by a halberd, collapsed and half-buried in the yellow sand.

These shadows, indistinct from afar, turned out to be a group of giants over ten meters tall when seen up close. Each clad in golden armor and helmet, wielding a halberd, their faces shrouded by heavy face armor, they stood here like statues, some fallen, partly buried by the sand.

"Are these... the ’natives’ of your Taixu Spirit Hub?" Yu Sheng, standing on Hu Li’s head, could only gaze up at those colossal golden armored figures. After being amazed for a while, he finally turned to look at Xuan Che, "They seem even taller than Snow White’s Thunderbolt Titans!"

However, Xuan Che frowned, leaping forward and landing on one of the golden armored giant’s arms to carefully examine something, then jumped down after a moment: "They’re Mechanical Men."

Yu Sheng raised an eyebrow: "Mechanical Men?"

"Yes, the highest tier, Siege Giant Divine Soldiers," Xuan Che said, his expression growing heavier, "And moreover..."

"What else have you discovered?"

Xuan Che raised his hand, sketching a few intricate and archaic runes in the air with spiritual light, before speaking in a low voice: "The mark of the Lying Cloud Ten Halls."

"Lying Cloud Ten Halls?" Yu Sheng responded and quickly remembered, "Wait, that’s one of the five major factions on Taixu Spirit Hub, the Lying Cloud Ten Halls, specialized in Artifact Refining and City Building... Are these ’Mechanical Men’ made by them?!"

Xuan Che slowly nodded, but his voice carried a hint of confusion: "But I have never heard of them constructing this type of Giant Divine Soldier... At such a level of the Mechanical Man, if truly built and used, it’s impossible to keep it hidden from the world."

"And don’t forget this is the Exotic Realm," Erin also spoke up, "How would their Mechanical Man be in the Exotic Realm?"

Xuan Che shook his head gravely.

At that moment, Erin suddenly raised her head sharply, looking at the shadow amidst the siege Giant Divine Soldiers: "There’s murderous intent!"

Murderous intent again?

Yu Sheng subconsciously had this thought of complaint, then felt his Spiritual Intuition tighten, the next second, he saw shadows writhe and rise in the distance, and a whistling sound suddenly sliced through the air!

Several figures in black robes and armor, with strange masks on their faces, charged out of the shadows like tempest and thunder, directly towards Yu Sheng and the others standing at the feet of the Giant Divine Soldier!

"Shit! There really is murderous intent!"

Yu Sheng only managed to shout this much before he saw a cold gleam rush towards his face; it was a Flying Sword wrapped in the sound of wind and thunder, and he quickly raised his hand to block, a huge force leaving his arm numb, while Hu Li quickly back-stepped two paces, helping Yu Sheng dissipate the force as nine fox tails spread out like a blooming flower, and a barrage of Fox Fire bombarded the black-clothed Cultivators who had suddenly appeared!

Erin’s black Spider Silk and scorching beams erupted simultaneously, blocking several enemies’ offensive, taking advantage of this brief delay, Xuan Che quickly burned a few talismans he had been holding in his hand, while also swallowing several Pills, then charged towards one of the black-clothed Cultivators, delivering a simple and plain Straight Punch: "Medical Disturbance Explosion Fist!"

Yu Sheng nearly fell off Hu Li’s head on the spot—this honest guy really used that name huh?

The next second, he saw the black-clothed Cultivator narrowly dodged Xuan Che’s fierce and powerful punch, quick-stepping back while a longsword appeared in his hand, thrusting directly at Xuan Che’s face.

Xuan Che swiftly reacted, dodging the sword while delivering a palm strike, this palm subtly carried the sound of thunder, compressing and igniting the surrounding air with a deafening explosion: "Medical Patient Relationship Correction Palm!"

The black-clothed Cultivator’s reaction was half a beat slower, yet it’s uncertain whether it was hindered by the wind pressure of the palm, or bewildered by the astonishing name of the move, anyhow, he was struck instantly, but the expected death by explosion did not occur—his black armor suddenly surged with strange splendor, then a few crisp cracking sounds were heard, the Magic Treasure hanging on his chest shattered into pieces, allowing him to take the palm strike unscathed, before quickly retreating, putting distance between himself and Xuan Che.

A look of pain flashed in the black-clothed Cultivator’s eyes after his protective Magic Treasure was shattered by a single palm strike, but his posture remained steady, and after stabilizing his footing, he strode forward with his sword, only this time the murderous intent in his sword was overwhelming!

Meanwhile, several enemies focused their attention on the most conspicuous Nine-tailed Silver Fox present, several black-clothed Cultivators formed a battle formation, a shimmering brilliance rose from them, surprisingly enduring a round of salvo from the Fox Radish Machine Gun, then charged directly at Yu Sheng standing on Hu Li’s head—

Just because Yu Sheng was standing on the head of the Nine-tailed Silver Fox, with a Short Melon Cannon on his shoulder shooting Spider Silk now and lasers later, such a clearly ostentatious boss-like figure, who wouldn’t aim for him?

But the next moment, an eerie figure suddenly leapt out from the yellow sand, disrupting the black-clothed Cultivators’ battle formation like a dance, while several sharp blades slashed down forcing the leading enemy to hastily halt and dodge.

Luna stepped gracefully and elegantly, swiftly passing through several enemies, the clash of metal suddenly reverberating.

Once entering combat mode, she seemed like a different person, showing none of the sluggishness and occasional freezing she usually displayed.

The leading black-clothed Cultivator instantly sensed immense danger from the suddenly appearing Iron Puppet before him.

Not simple murderous intent—he stared intently at Luna’s tall figure standing amidst the yellow sand, feeling that something else was hidden around that figure, while a pure ’death intention’ was brewing, manifesting in the air.

The pale smiling face concealed a gaze fixed upon the corpse behind.

"Everyone be careful!" The leading black-clothed Cultivator immediately raised his voice in warning, "This Mechanical Man has ancie—"

Before his words finished, Luna’s figure had already vanished into thin air, the next second she was upon him, ten Fingertip Blades reaching directly for him.

Yet despite the sudden assault, the leading black-clothed Cultivator evidently possessed extraordinary abilities, parrying all of Luna’s attacks with dancing sword, then swiftly retreating, a treasure mirror rose behind him, its surface radiating brilliance, capturing Luna’s figure and pinning her mid-air!

"Nothing much..." the black-clothed Cultivator felt a surge of joy, stepping forward intending to end the "Iron Puppet’s" life.

However, the next second, he beheld an endless wilderness rushing towards him.

The Nether River hung high in the sky, a bleak wilderness vast and boundless, with piercing cold winds enough to penetrate the soul whistling through, a Golden-haired Female Knight clad in holy armor stood before him.