Walker Of The Blue Sky

Chapter 135: Ch 135: Trapped

Gu Huzi asked seriously, "Who are you?"

Emrys could tell that Gu Huzi no longer had any intention of fighting him. Since that was the case, he also stopped and turned towards the palace before speaking, "Emrys Frazier."

With that, he started walking.

Seeing this, Xu Ling hurriedly followed behind Emrys. The other four people also came back to their senses and started walking toward the palace.

Gu Huzi, however, remained rooted to the spot. His mind was a whirlwind of conflicting thoughts, hesitation gripping his heart.

Should he still enter the palace in search of the rumored artifact?

He was afraid that he would be killed by Emrys inside the palace. The fear of being killed by Emrys within those ancient walls gnawed at him. Yet, as he thought deeply over it, he realized how flimsy that reasoning was. If Emrys had intended to kill him, he could have done so effortlessly right here and now. There was no need for subterfuge or a drawn-out battle within the palace.

The realization hit him like a thunderclap. Emrys had shown him mercy. The question that now plagued Gu Huzi was whether he should trust this man who had just spared his life.

Gu Huzi’s gaze drifted towards the palace. For a moment, he stood there, wrestling with his inner thoughts. It was only after a whole minute that he was able to gather the courage to step forward. He then slowly begins to walk towards the palace as well.

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Opening the door, Emrys entered the palace. Unlike his imagination, there was no corridor or a long narrowed path for him to walk. Instead, after crossing the gate, Emrys directly entered a hall.

Emrys astonishingly discovered a small circle with patterns inscribed in its inner areas not far from him. For some reason, this patterned circle attracted his attention.

This was actually a small teleportation formation. But since Emrys had never seen or heard about formations, he was unable to recognize them.

Other than the teleportation formation, two fork-shaped roads could be seen on both sides, and he didn’t know where it led to.

With a cautious frown, Emrys walked straight to the teleportation formation in the middle of the room. Xu Ling kept following behind Emrys. As for others, they started to observe the hall instead of following the two people ahead.

After thinking for a while, the four people made a group of two and went to fork-shaped roads on the left and right.

On the other hand, just as Emrys and Xu Ling stood in the middle of the teleportation formation, it started to flash with light.

Following a flash of light, both of them were shocked to find that they had appeared in a place full of white. There was no tree, no brick, and no path for them to walk ahead. The surroundings were just a vast expanse of whiteness.

It was very quiet here, nothing could be heard at this place. Xu Ling tried to use her spiritual sense but was surprised to find that she could not sense anything in this place.

"Oh no, it seems that we should not have entered the teleportation formation. We’ve actually arrived at a place that can cut off all our senses."

Xu Ling appeared to have some understanding of formations. She could not help but exclaim in shock.

Emrys was at a loss for what to do as well. This was the first time he encountered such a situation where his senses were not working. He never thought that after entering this place, the situation would become like this.

Who would have thought that using the teleportation formation would teleport him to such a place?

Or maybe, this happened because the unlucky Xu Ling was with him.

Emrys could not help but dart a serious look at Xu Ling, suspecting his own decision, thinking that he might have made a wrong decision by deciding to help Xu Ling or allowing her to follow him.

Having no choice, Emrys activated Node Shift. Immediately, the area within the radius of 500 meters transformed into a three-dimensional world in Emrys’s eyes. Countless nodes appeared in front of him. It was only when he could see everything around him with the perspective of a God that things started to become clear.

He then grabbed Xu Ling’s hand and shifted with a node, appearing right in front of another teleportation formation that was hidden on the white floor and could not be seen with the naked eye. Moreover, since senses were blocked in this place, sensing them was out of option.

"You... Did you just teleport?"

Although Xu Ling had traveled with Emrys for a few days already, Emrys had never shown the ability to teleport before. His sudden action surprised Xu Ling.

"It is just a movement skill." Emrys refused flatly and then stepped into the formation.

Unlike Emrys, Xu Ling still could not see the teleportation formation. Seeing that Emrys had taken a step forward, she also followed him behind and stepped inside the teleportation formation.

The moment they stepped into this teleportation portal, Emrys was surprised to find that he could actually sense a strand of spatial energy.

When he used the previous teleportation formation, he did not sense spatial energy. He only saw a light flashing before his eyes and then he appeared in this white space. But this time, things were different for some reason.

Light flashed before their eyes again and then appeared in another space. This time, it was still a vast expanse of space. Fortunately, this was not a space full of white. Instead, there were mountains, rivers, lakes, and even sand that filled the sky.

Xu Ling was confused at first, not knowing what happened just now. But she soon realized everything and observed the surroundings.

"Hmm?"

She could not help but frown when she saw the sand filling the sky, and muttered, "We are now trapped inside another array formation."

Emrys frowned, not understanding Xu Ling’s meaning. Seeing his confused expression, Xu Ling immediately explained to him about arrays and formations, and what being trapped inside an array means.

"Oh, is there such a mysterious thing in this world as well."

Emrys was truly surprised. He also thought that arrays and formations are used by the people of Infinite Soul Star as well. It is just that he never came in contact with them because he never actually left the Great Flame Kingdom. In fact, he had not even explored the 5% areas of the Great Flame Kingdom. He had been to only a few cities, that’s all.

His horizon was still very narrow and needed to be improved.

"How should we break the formation?" Emrys asked curiously. He wanted to get rid of the formation trapping them so that they could explore the palace. However, since he has no knowledge of formations, he could only put his faith in Xu Ling.

Unfortunately, Xu Ling disappointed him. She shook her head, saying, "I don’t know."

Then she explained that she only knows one or two things about arrays and formations, she is not a formation master.

It was clear that they had to look for another way out now.

Emrys kept observing the surroundings and his attention was attracted to a green mountain. For some reason, a strand of desire arose in his heart as he looked at the mountain, but he soon found that something was amiss and muttered not long after that, "This seemingly close mountain is actually located at an unknown distance. Just how far is it?

Since they could not break this formation normally, they could only walk forward.

Emrys no longer utilized his ability of Node Shifting because this ability has a limit as to how many times it can be used. He did not want to waste this ability for every small trouble. Otherwise, when bigger troubles arrive, he won’t even have a card up his sleeve to escape.

Stepping forward, Emrys started to walk ahead. Xu Ling also followed behind him closely.

However, after walking for less than ten minutes, they stopped once more. It is because they realized that no matter how much they walked, they could not close the distance between them and the mountain.

What is bizarre is that the mountain still appeared to be within their reach, and yet so far away.

"Illusion Formation!"

"Not only are there other trapping formations in this space, there are also illusion formations." Xu Ling muttered in a deep voice.

Emrys was stunned for a moment as he realized that they had been completely trapped in this illusory formation. No matter how much they walk, they cannot close the distance. What made them curse in their mines is that they couldn’t even find a way out.

"If this continued, even if we were to walk for a year, we still wouldn’t be able to leave this formation." Just as Emrys was at a loss, Xu Ling’s voice suddenly came out of his mind.

"Do you have any ideas?" Emrys could not wait and asked. Even if Xu Ling does not know how to break the formation, she might have some other information that could break it.