Beginning Of Multiverse Saga

Chapter 182: Finally Found Watchhard DNA

While Zhao Ruizhi’s group was busy looking for hidden mechanisms, Sharky and Catherine slid through a long secret passage. Eventually, they appeared in a completely new room. Sharky walked over to the wall and twisted something that resembled a light fixture. This room immediately lit up.

Suddenly, a loud rumble erupted, and the two of them almost lost their footing. "I can sense that our surroundings are changing."

He exclaimed as he grabbed Catherine.

Sand and dust began to fall from above. Then, the walls around them began to quickly rise, fall, and slide horizontally. The room continuously moved and shifted. The entire palace around them began to change quickly like a rapidly changing Rubik’s cube, while they seemed to be the small square at the very center.

The rumbling continued for roughly fifteen minutes before the surroundings gradually calmed down.

The group jumped off the wall... No, it was now the ceiling. Then, they walked through a newly formed door.

They arrived in a giant room. The interior was wide and spacious, but there was a grand and imposing bronze coffin floating in the center. There were large chains binding the coffin, their ends extending toward the walls all around them.

Catherine spoke up and asked, "Do you feel that the elements in this space are a bit strange?"

Sharky had overlooked that fact because he was overthinking things. When he sensed the surroundings, he said, "The earth element here is much more active and richer than usual."

Just then, the ground suddenly began to rise and fall. The entire room began to quake!

"Are all the rooms going to change again like earlier?" Catherine quickly moved toward Sharky’s side. She was worried that they might be separated into different rooms. If that happened, she might really fall into true despair.

"I don’t think so," Sharky said. He stared at the space beneath the coffin. The ground there suddenly ruptured.

Then, a mound slowly rose from it, growing taller and taller. The mound continued to twist about, eventually becoming a giant bear-like structure. It was a good thing that the room was big enough, or else it wouldn’t have been able to stand up straight. It didn’t have eyes, but its large head still ’looked’ at Sharky’s party. It roared and charged at them.

Catherine was a little worried. She quickly warned him, "This monster is called a Giant Earth Bear. It’s extremely violent and strong, and it also possesses strong defensive prowess! It’s hard to defeat...?"

Sharky charged head-on, letting this bear hit him all it wanted. However, the bear’s attack didn’t even tickle him. His fist hit the Giant Earth Bear in the head.

Boom!

The bear’s head exploded, and its giant body came crashing down.

Catherine quickly rushed over to Sharky’s side, asking, "Are you okay?"

"Of course," Sharky said with a laugh.

"But you were clearly hit by the Giant Earth Bear’s fist..." Catherine looked worried. Even though she had never fought a Giant Earth Bear, she had read about it in books. Its punch carried a thousand pounds of force. Even a master rank cultivator would be seriously injured if they were hit directly!

"Don’t worry, it can do nothing to me," Sharky said, but he suddenly heard strange sounds coming from behind him. He turned around and saw that the Giant Earth Bear’s headless body was moving. The scattered earth condensed into another head. Then, after groping around on the ground, the bear replaced its head.

He understood, this thing is hard to deal with because as long as it has access to the earth element, it will regenerate endlessly.

That Giant Earth Bear roared and charged at Sharky again. Sharky’s attack had already made it angry.

However, Sharky came up with an idea and summoned his Fire Phoenix. The phoenix flames quickly surrounded the monster. The extreme temperature evaporated all of the water in its body, causing its surface to develop visible cracks. There were even signs of crystallization.

Then, he quickly withdrew the phoenix fire and changed to the Snow Phoenix. The room quickly turned into a frozen world, rapidly cooling the Giant Earth Bear’s body. Its body could no longer hold on after being exposed to both heat and cold so quickly, and it crumbled into countless earth chunks.

With a wave of Sharky’s hand, a layer of frost covered the chunks, freezing them and preventing them from gathering together again.

"That’s all," Sharky patted his hands. He thought to himself that if he had enough time, he could even burn the pile of dirt into pottery.

"Let’s get out of here before the ice melts and keep looking around." Sharky wouldn’t be stupid enough to keep fighting something that wouldn’t die. Who knew where the emperor was right now? He might even be ahead of them.

Catherine had no objections. They traversed a long path and arrived in a new room. Unlike the previous space, the room was full of life, with green grass everywhere. It felt as if they had entered a primitive forest.

"Those vines look like they’re wrapped around something!" Catherine pointed at the tightly coiled vines at the center of the room.

Sharky walked over fearlessly to examine it. He then noticed, it’s another coffin.

Sharky was curious, so he raised the coffin lid. With his current strength, it wasn’t difficult at all. However, when he saw what was inside, he was shocked, "Why is he here?"

Catherine cried out in alarm. They reacted that way because the figure was someone who shouldn’t have been there at all: It was the same figure, who fought with them on the first sacred mountain, and it merged with Sharky, but they were now already on the third sacred mountain.

Catherine pursed her lips and asked with difficulty, "Are we seeing things?"

Sharky reached his hand to feel the corpse. But again the corpse merged with him, and he feels he has grown stronger again.

Catherine was amazed to see it, she didn’t understand what was happening here.

"It was half of the place here for me, you didn’t need to worry about it, let’s keep looking around." Sharky muttered, Catherine nodded.

A while later, Catherine subconsciously tugged at her collar, asking, "Do you feel hot at all?"

Sharky voiced his agreement. "It is a bit hot." Even he felt the urge to take off his shirt. Wait... isn’t it a good thing that it’s getting hot? "I can sense the fire element stirring. Be careful."

He noticed faint red glimmers coming out of a room in the distance. That was probably where the feeling of the agitated fire element came from. All of them continued carefully. The closer they got, the hotter they felt. They could clearly feel waves of heat hit them in the face as soon as they opened the door.

Just like the previous two rooms, there was a coffin at the very center of the room. Beneath the coffin were all kinds of complex runes that extended out in all directions. The room was much taller than the previous two, and even the coffin and the surrounding funerary objects were similarly taller.

But something above them drew their attention. Densely packed red lights flickered around on the ceiling, as if countless eyes were opening and closing.

The entire room lit up. The flickering red lights all became bright red, as if countless monsters had opened their eyes at the same time. Then, the red eyes rushed toward the party. They could finally see that the creatures weren’t eyes, but rather brightly burning butterflies.

Catherine seemed to have remembered something when she saw the flaming butterflies. "Be careful; those are Blazing Devil Butterflies! Once, a teacher from the Royal Academy led a group of outstanding students into a small dungeon. In the end, their entire party was wiped out from an encounter with these butterflies! They can burn your body on contact, and you won’t be able to put the fire out no matter what you try; it’ll continue until all of your flesh is burned away..."

She suddenly froze, a blank expression on her face. She saw that there were already several embers on Sharky’s body.

Sharky frowned. Just as he was about to put up some resistance, he saw the flames suddenly begin to tremble. Then, they grew weaker and weaker before extinguishing on their own. Then, as if the Blazing Devil Butterflies had encountered something terrifying, they quickly shrank back. They attached themselves to the farthest wall and dimmed the flames around them as much as possible, as if they had gone back to sleep.

"Huh? How did you do that?" Catherine looked at Sharky in confusion. They hadn’t seen him do anything, so why had those flaming butterflies been scared off?

"It is because I have cultivated the Immortal Phoenix Technique," Sharky replied, his cultivation technique helped him, that even the Blazing Devil Butterflies would be scared.

He changed the topic, "Let’s take a look inside the room. Hm? The coffin looks like a crystal coffin. We might be able to look inside." He jumped over to the crystal coffin after he spoke. But when he got up close, he was surprised. "Huh?"

Catherine arrived next to him. She couldn’t help but exclaim in alarm, "Is this a person or alien?"

There was a being, featuring a humanoid form with a clock face head, intricate chest gears, mechanical limbs, and a polished bronze finish, standing on a sundial-like base.

"It is mine," Sharky said, and then he noticed, there was a Five Elements Formation. And the next room is metal formation. And next to it was water formation.

Soon, the Watchhard stood up from the coffin, and then it started shrinking. When it was shrinked one foot, it went on the Sharky’s body, and then it vanished.

Sharky feels that he has finally found the Watchhard DNA, now he can transform into Watchhard, whenever he wants.

!!You have found the Watchhard DNA, for activation it needs 100,000 points!!

!!Did you want to activate it!!

Sharky didn’t hesitate and he quickly activated the Watchhard DNA, and soon, he felt a massive power inside himself.

Soon 100,000 points deducted, leaving him 22,100 points.

"Now, follow me," Sharky said, Catherine nodded and followed him. They continued through the palace. Catherine asked Sharky out of concern, "Are you alright? That something went inside of you..."

Sharky nodded, "It’s okay, from the beginning, it was something waiting for me."

They were exiting from the place, when five forked paths suddenly appeared. "Which path should we take?" Catherine asked curiously.

Sharky pointed at the path second from the left and said, "This one!"

"How do you know?" Catherine asked, confused. That path was the one she had just thrown the rock down, and yet many traps had immediately activated. She looked at Sharky and waited for him to explain himself.

"Just follow me, I think I know every path." Sharky replied.

They ran into some traps along the way, but Sharky dealt with them easily. After the first bit of danger, the rest of the path was smooth sailing. They arrived in front of another large door. It was covered in orderly rows of golden knobs, making it look exceptionally grand.

But Sharky easily opened it. And they went inside.

———

Meanwhile, in the fire element room, the crystal coffin had been turned on its side.

He Li looked around the coffin and brought a pile of funerary objects to the fatty next to him. "Your majesty, I found these treasures."

Zhao Ruizhi harrumphed. "It’s just a pile of scrap metal. You even call these treasures?"

Things that could serve as a prince’s funerary objects were obviously not scrap metal. But for the emperor, who had the world at his disposal, they weren’t anything special.

They hadn’t found anything in the earth element room. Zhao Ruizhi had thought that he might have stumbled upon the secret of immortality when he saw the corpse remain intact after so much time had passed, but he felt greatly disappointed by what he had seen.

A rumble erupted in the distance, and the room began to tremble as well. He Li and the only two deathsworn soldiers who remained were horrified. Were the rooms around them going to reorganize themselves again?

Zhao Ruizhi had a look of excitement on his face. "Some kind of mechanism has been activated. I can sense the aura of life." He couldn’t wait any longer and rushed out.

He Li and his two companions hesitated for a moment, but in the end, they couldn’t suppress their curiosity. They quickly followed the emperor.