The Mind Game Of Earth's Abyss

For a few seconds Bai Wan's spirit seemed to fly out of his body. The demon's eyes did not seem to focus on anything because his vision was blurred with the distress that had taken over his body. Intense punctures appeared in his stomach making him almost lose his strength.

A high level of agony hit Bai Wan's spirit. He had only his bag with a few objects that he always carried with him, without his sword and ten giant statues of the ancient celestial elders surrounded his way to the portal that opened on the other side of the room. If he ever was in a bad situation, he did not remember it now, this was probably the worst of all.

However, what caused the demon to be strange was that none of the statues made the first attack. He was as still as they were, and barely breathing, but as soon as he moved a single muscle toward the portal, one of the statues raised his arm and quickly came down with an ax almost hitting him, but luckily, he dodged just having the chance to see the cracked ground. Bai Wan had completely lost his courage; fear took over his mind when he realized the crater that the statue's stone ax had opened on the ground. This was much worse than the lightning at the entrance.

As soon as he took a step to another statue he launched arrows in his direction, but again he was faster and managed to dodge giving time to see the arrows dig into the walls opening holes.

In addition, the more he moved the more movements the statues made and he finally realized that if he continued to move he would die. Then he stopped behind the rubble and thought briefly about his next attack. As soon as he stopped, he also saw that the statues stopped and a light blew in his mind. The statues moved as he moved, if he stopped they also stopped. It was the same logic as the rays at the entrance. To prove his theory Bai Wan took a large stone and threw it to the other side, none of the statues followed the flow of the stones, but when it hit the ground, they all moved in a quick gesture for an attack. Bai Wan watched a joint attack of three statues hit the ground at once, opening a new hole.

"Blind!"

"They are all blind!"

He concluded in thought when he saw that the statues did not see the stone, only felt its touch on the floor. Bai Wan stood up quickly and realized that all the statues turned to him, but none was staring at the point they were in. Soon, he ran to the other side of the room. In addition, a succession of attacks came over him, but before he was hit by the same ax that attacked him the first time, he created a barrier around himself and counter attacked the ax attack with a ball of air causing all the pressure of the statue's attack to return against itself twice as strong. The crash as if a pile of giant rocks had fallen from the sky filled the place and Bai Wan covered his ears to withstand the impacting sound.

Nevertheless, the statue resisted the attack, because in the same instant that it fell, its body was recovered. Then, he realized that the statues' strength was not physical, because physically they were not strong, but it was just protecting the room and constantly regenerating. In addition, they were blind and he did not know exactly where his body was, only where his feet stepped.

"Feet..."

Bai Wan looked at the floor and realized that the entire floor was formed from the same stone as the statues. However, he did not have time to conclude a thought because three of them came towards him with their fierce attacks. Again, a shower of stone arrows flew towards him, but the barrier around him held each one. Once again, the ax and the sword came towards him and as much as he wanted to pass through the statues and reach the portal on the other side it was impossible, seven other statues guarded the doors with much stronger weapons. Bai Wan stepped cautiously on the floor, but the statues always found him.

"Would it be better to go back upstairs?" Bai Wan thought as he analyzed his situation. There were ten blind statues, but they all blocked their way and regenerated. He had always been a man of thinking long before he acted, and now he was in a situation that had no way out. Until he concentrated the maximum amount of magic inside his body and finally let it go calmly feeling his feet leave the ground.

He had learned this technique from his master. He vaguely remembered the lessons, but remembered that his master was a simple man and always taught that small tricks were the best way to escape intense struggles. As he floated through the air, he realized that all the statues had calmed down, there was no attack against him, and while he was in the air, everything was calmer.

Bai Wan turned his attention to the door ready to go through it and realized that there was something strange about everything in that room. If someone managed to fly, would he leave that room? A very simple trap to guard such a powerful god. Bai Wan floated perfectly over the room and there was no attack. Only three statues fought against him, while seven others guarded the portal on the other side. He had not noticed some trick yet.

As there was no blow against him, Bai Wan rose a little higher and noticed something unusual, one of the statues, the last one that guarded the door was different from the others, there were six guardian statues of the portal and three warriors, but the seventh was a little lower and held no weapons, just a stone scroll.

"If I step on the ground I will be attacked" Bai Wan thought quickly and floated forward towards the portal, but to his surprise, only the smaller statue reacted to his approach and like a game piece it moved slowly over the room opening space for him.

All the others remained quiet, as they were when they entered. The portal looked brighter and more beautiful now that it had nothing to stop it. However, when the light seemed more contagious to receive him, he stopped and looked back. Was the smaller statue looking at him expecting something, why did not it attack? Bai Wan thought of a thousand possibilities until he retreated a little from the portal.

- There is something wrong. - He thought aloud and realizing that besides being blind, all the statues were deaf. - They only attack me if I step on the ground. Only three statues actually move while the others guard the portal, but why did not the other statues prevent you from entering the next room? The ten elders were intelligent men; they would never make such a breach. Furthermore...

Bai Wan stared at the smaller statue that did not move like the others, why would it be? It seemed that a distraction game was taking place in that room; it could be that the portal is a trap, or the game is as easy as he thought. Bai Wan had already done this when in the past his master always made a fool of him and blinded him with a blindfold so that he could solve his silly mysteries. Bai Wan felt that he was on one of the old man's charades again, and made him smile. The ten elders also liked charades like his old master, very interesting.

Like the mirror and the rays, he felt that he needed only one piece to fit the game and move on to the next level.

"Interesting," he said, smiling. - Do you think you can beat me? The master Glutinoso trains me in charades. - He smiled as he remembered the old man who ate like a three-headed dragon and liked to throw people into traps. Now his master would be of great value at that moment, surely he would have already solved all those problems.

Bai Wan looked at the standing statues and looked at the portal behind him. It was too easy to be the solution, there was something else in this game and he would find out. Then, he went down and stepped on the ground and the three statues again moved in a fierce attack. Nevertheless, the most interesting thing was that the seven that were standing in the portal ran and stopped in front of the smaller statue. A mischievous smile crossed the demon's lips when he killed the charade. The seven statues were not protecting the portal, but the smaller statue that held the stone scroll.

However, successions of attacks began in his direction and new arrows flew through the environment until he quickly dodged them all and ran towards the stone statues that guarded the smallest. However, it was not easy to get where he wanted, as all seven statues made a strange sound and fell apart in thousands of stones. Bai Wan held his feet in place in time not to die buried, but in the next second the stones moved to form a giant wall around the smaller statue.

"There that must be the exit, with that little statue," Bai Wan thought and again concentrated all his magic to float up above the walls and see the statue protected by the others. The key to getting out of that place was right there in front of him.

As he was about to enter the siege of stones that guarded the statue, a sinister black light came out of it and reached the skies beyond them.

Bai Wan felt that he had been trapped, that was a signal for the celestials to come and guard the abyss of attacks.

On the other side of the chasm were Chi Yu and Ch'eng Huang, watching the light emanating from the place. Someone had managed to penetrate the abyss that had always been seen by everyone as impenetrable. Chi Yu felt a chill in his stomach when he approached the entrance. They were finally in the terrestrial abyss.