After entering, Cao Jinxing and Lu Kunlun glanced around. It was a small, enclosed octagonal room with eight identical wooden doors.
Eight carved stone lamps stood before the doors, each holding a luminous pearl.
Jade-green light bathed the entire secret chamber in an eerie, sinister glow!
The eight trigrams were carved into the lamp stands.
Lu Kunlun was baffled. "What is this? Was Fang La this wary of his own son?"
"I told you to look at the mechanism diagram," Cao Jinxing said. "If you had, you'd know. The layout resembles a honeycomb, and each chamber has only one correct trigram position. You have to follow the right route to reach the final chamber. Otherwise, how would I dare come in so rashly? The first door is at the Zhen position."
By the time Cao Jinxing finished speaking, he had already reached the wooden door at the Zhen position on the western side.
He pushed it open hard, revealing a long corridor.
As the door opened, the phosphorus powder on the torches along both walls ignited spontaneously, lighting the passage.
"Those damned things behind us are catching up! I'll open the doors, you close them. We'll leave those people running in circles!"
Cao Jinxing spoke rapidly.
Lu Kunlun nodded firmly. "Got it!"
Behind them, Gold-Swallowing Rats surged toward them in an overwhelming tide, their strange squeaking enough to make anyone's skin crawl.
Lu Kunlun hurriedly shut the door, though wood certainly would not stop the tide of rats. When he turned around, Cao Jinxing had already crossed the corridor, opened another door, and entered a second chamber with the same layout.
It was exactly like the first room.
"Stay close!"
Cao Jinxing moved extremely fast, barely needing to think. Upon entering, he first chose the correct trigram position, opened the