[Third ritual challenge completed. Reward: one Divine Mask. After using the mask, the player's attributes can be increased by 200–350%. The player may choose whether to proceed to the fourth stage of the ritual. If they do not enter, the enemies will begin their first round of enhancement in one hour.]
Liu Zhi did not hurry onward. He stood before the mask and looked up at the murals on the ceiling. He always felt that something was hidden within them, yet no matter how closely he examined them, he could not find any details.
After watching for nearly fifteen minutes, Liu Zhi finally shook his head and went down the stairs at the back of the hall.
As for the mask, it remained where it was, untouched.
Liu Zhi did not notice that the instant he left the hall, the ceiling murals seemed to be corroded, rapidly blackening and vanishing.
Following the stairs downward, Liu Zhi realized that they had truly entered the underground. The obvious stone architecture inside the pyramid gradually faded away, and the surroundings slowly became tunnels dug through earth.
The passage was relatively large. Judging from its size, it should have been wide enough for three giant snakes to travel side by side.
The floor was still laid with stone slabs, but there were no longer many murals on the walls.
Instead, amid the abundant soil, strange plants had gradually begun growing along both sides of the passage.
Liu Zhi did not know what kinds of plants they were, but the dense roots all around made him believe this was beneath a tropical rainforest.
What surprised Liu Zhi was that despite how strange the underground passage had become, its direction had not changed at all. It still led downward. Liu Zhi estimated that the entire passage