After hearing Liu Zixuan's words, Qiqi lifted her head abruptly: "So, you can make a clone appear right now?"
Liu Zixuan nodded with a smile: "Of course, but that's my biggest ace. I can't show it to you here."
"I understand." Qiqi smiled sweetly: "So, even if your true self loses a small realm now, it won't affect anything, right?"
Liu Zixuan paused his steps: "No, instead it gives me more opportunities to confuse the enemy, and strike them down instantly when they're unprepared!"
"What is that?"
As they both paused their steps, Qiqi pointed ahead.
Not far in front of Liu Zixuan and Qiqi, there was something that looked like a house but wasn't quite a house.
Liu Zixuan squinted his eyes: "Stay here and don't move!"
Having said that, he tiptoed and soared into the air, suspended above the ground, activating his X-ray Vision, and looked ahead.
The thing Qiqi had just pointed to was somewhat like a maze, as big as two football fields, with a four or five-story pagoda in the middle. There were already people moving within the maze, and from those figures, Liu Zixuan suspected that they were martial artists who had come in with him. Yet he couldn't clearly see which side they were on.
However, what surprised him was that the maze and its surroundings had fluctuations similar to those of an array. They were quite different from the arrays he had encountered before.
Liu Zixuan landed beside Qiqi and said with a frown: "It's a very unique maze. I've looked around, and this should be the center of the Ancient Ruins."
Qiqi propped her chin and mumbled: "Previously, I pondered that the central location might be a palace, inside which there are the most treasures. But unexpectedly, it's such a complex maze."
"Although it's said to be the Yudu Treasure, it's after all a part of the Ancient Ruins. Being ruins, the treasures must be separated; they can't be stored in one place. Otherwise, it wouldn't be necessary to have something like Thousand Saints Tomb and Hundred Immortals Forest, and people could just rush into a palace and snatch everything!" Liu Zixuan said, spreading his hands.
"What should we do now?" Qiqi asked.
"There are people in the maze. Being able to find this place, I think they must have at least one map. We also need to explore the maze to gather information about others, find additional maps, and thirdly... I believe the pagoda in the center of the maze holds what I need."
After Liu Zixuan said this, he took Qiqi's small hand and walked towards the maze.
Looking from afar, it didn't seem like much, but once they got closer, both were slightly surprised.
The walls of the maze were a good two meters high, and whether from outside to inside or inside to outside, nothing else could be seen nearby. This grand maze could indeed be described as majestic!
The main entrance had a pattern resembling the Eight Trigrams with three large characters in a vigorous script, "Qiankun Palace," exuding great authority! It seemed as though the Qiankun Maze was a miniature world.
"Brother, this shouldn't be difficult for you." Qiqi said with a smile.
"I have never navigated a maze before," Liu Zixuan replied with a bitter smile, "it's not that easy!"
"There is a maze in the family that equals this one in magnificence. Brother only entered once as a child, later navigating it effortlessly with his eyes closed. Although Brother has lost childhood memories, subconsciously, you'll receive many impressions!" Qiqi said, pulling Liu Zixuan's hand and stepping through the gate of Qiankun Palace.
"Huh?" After walking through two bends, Liu Zixuan stopped, puzzled: "I clearly felt array fluctuations from outside, but once I entered, they disappeared completely!"
"The maze itself is already troublesome; there shouldn't be an array," Qiqi said with a furrowed brow.
"Who knows what's going on, but let's be cautious. Creating such a maze at the center of the ruins can't simply be a maze game!"
While chatting, they continued to explore ahead, finding the outer circle quite smooth.
However, upon reaching the second circle, Qiqi's and Liu Zixuan's faces turned grim.
They found the intersections ahead were straight paths, visible as walls with no entrance to the third circle.
In other words, moving forward seemed to be a dead end.
Qiqi checked her phone: "There's no signal, and the phone's built-in compass has failed."
"No signal might be due to the Relic World being independently existent, and the compass failure indicates maybe a strong magnetic field is present," Liu Zixuan squinted his eyes, "Maze? Magnetic field? Array?"
"Brother, what are you murmuring?"
"I'm thinking about how to enter the third circle. We can't go back," Liu Zixuan said with a frown.
While talking, he crouched down and started drawing on the ground with his finger.
He was drawing an Eight Trigrams diagram. Everything external is generated from two forms to four phenomena, four phenomena to Eight Trigrams, similar to arrays, by finding the key point, thus unveiling the mystery ahead.
Shao shao...
Shao shao shao shao...
While Liu Zixuan was in deep thought, sounds resembling things being dragged walked through the corridors, drawing nearer and nearer.
Qiqi clutched Liu Zixuan's clothes: "Brother, something is approaching us."
Liu Zixuan nonchalantly looked up: "Nothing!"
"I clearly feel it, though I see nothing tangible," Qiqi repeated, fearing Liu Zixuan was too focused on cracking the maze and didn't sense it.
Taking Qiqi's words seriously, Liu Zixuan looked up again; initially, there seemed nothing, but his keen perception told him things were indeed approaching them, not just a few, but a group!
His eyes blinked, activating X-ray Vision again, and upon seeing the surroundings, Liu Zixuan felt goosebumps.
There were countless lizards, over a meter long, densely closing in on them, provoking a nauseating impulse.
Of course, Liu Zixuan knew these lizard types existed, but they weren't ordinary lizards. They were the King of Lizards, Komodo Dragons, a species recorded in the Holy Medical Scripture, being ancient with dragon bloodlines. Some scholars even call them Komodo Dragons!
They possess strong attacking capabilities, large yet extraordinarily agile. Jaw power rivals that of crocodiles; a human arm placed in their mouth can be pulverized instantly.
With so many Komodo Dragons around... they're not easy to deal with!