Labyrinth But I Have a God's-Eye View

Xu Mu and Chen Xuan hurried toward Li Hongdou. When they arrived, they found her and Zilan Yin crouched behind a huge boulder.

Naturally, the boulder was covered in ice as well.

The moment Xu Mu and Chen Xuan reached them, Li Hongdou pointed toward one spot on the boulder. “Look here.”

Following her indication, Xu Mu and Chen Xuan noticed a glow beneath the ice covering the rock.

“This glow is very strange. You can’t see it from the front—you have to stand where I am,” Li Hongdou explained. “Zilan Yin was the one who discovered it. If not for her, I wouldn’t have noticed it either.”

The glow was only the size of a fist. Just as Li Hongdou had said, it disappeared when viewed from any other angle.

It could only be seen from where Li Hongdou was standing.

“Old Chen, what do you think?” Xu Mu asked Chen Xuan.

“The exit might be here,” Chen Xuan replied.

Xu Mu pressed his hand against the ice and closed his eyes to sense the formation. A moment later, a smile appeared on his face. “As expected, the formation here is different from the ones around it. The exit should be right here, but opening it will be a little troublesome.”

“In my opinion, we can just break through the ice and find the exit,” Chen Xuan said, tightening his grip on the woodcutter’s knife.

“How could it be that easy? That eighth-tier expert fought with all his might just now and still couldn’t destroy the ice beneath our feet. How could the few of us possibly break through it?”

Zilan Yin spoke from the side.

After taking the pill Xu Mu had given her, the wounds on her body had already stopped bleeding, and her complexion looked much better.

“That’s right. I tried attacking the ice here just now, but I couldn’t break it either.” Li Hongdou pointed toward where she had been standing. “I attacked it from this direction as well.”

“Really? It’s tougher than I thought.”

Chen Xuan swung the woodcutter’s knife at the ice.

Crack!

Ice shards immediately flew in all directions.

Seeing this, everyone around them widened their eyes.

“Could it be that we can’t use qi?”

Zilan Yin reacted first. She punched the ice, but it remained completely unmoved.

“Senior Hongdou, how did you break the ice just now?” Xu Mu asked at once.

“Like this!”

Flames covered Li Hongdou’s fist as she punched the spot Chen Xuan had just struck.

Boom!

The flames instantly spread out, covering the entire boulder.

“That must be the reason. Your attack covered too large an area. You have to strike only this one spot.”

Xu Mu walked over and placed his hand against the corresponding location. Dark-golden light flowed from his palm.

The dark-golden light continuously devoured the ice, eventually melting a fist-sized hole directly toward the glowing point inside.

Xu Mu reached his hand into the hole and touched the glowing point. In the next moment, his figure vanished.

“As expected, it really is here.”

Chen Xuan smiled and reached his hand inside as well.

Li Hongdou muttered, “Chen Xuan’s luck is truly incredible. Earlier, he casually pointed in a direction, and the exit happened to be there. This time, he was the one who reminded us again.”

As she spoke, she also reached inside and transferred herself away.

Zilan Yin immediately followed, afraid that something unexpected might happen.

…

Xu Mu and the others appeared inside a cave. Above them, they saw a circular point of light, which was presumably the entrance they had used to come in.

When Zilan Yin came through, the point of light above them began to slowly disappear.

Xu Mu crouched down and sensed his surroundings, then expanded his perception. His eyes narrowed immediately.

He felt somewhat relieved. Fortunately, his perception had improved by another level. Otherwise, they would surely have wasted a great deal of time here—

perhaps several months, or even several years, without being able to get out.

That was because they were currently inside a maze. The paths ahead were densely interconnected, and snow beasts blocked some of them.

But that wasn’t the most important part. The key issue was that several of the passages were constantly shifting.

The exit might clearly be located in one of those passages, yet the passage would be blocked, only reopening for a few seconds after a certain period of time.

“Brother Mu, what should we do next?” Chen Xuan asked, looking toward the dark cave in the distance. “Should we go in?”

“Of course. But before that…”

Xu Mu suddenly turned toward Zilan Yin. “I want to ask you something. If we run into an eighth-tier expert from the Black Moon Clan, will you try to seize our treasure?”

He naturally had a reason for asking. Through his perception, he had seen an eighth-tier expert from the Black Moon Clan wandering around inside the maze.

With that expert’s help, their chances of killing Ye Chen would naturally be much greater. But Xu Mu was worried that the other party might try to take their treasure.

“Absolutely not. If it weren’t for you, I would have died several times already. If we really encounter them, I’ll make sure you get the larger share,” Zilan Yin immediately replied.

“Your answer would be different in a different situation.”

Xu Mu shook his head lightly. Right now, Zilan Yin had no choice but to follow him if she wanted to stay alive.

If an eighth-tier expert from her clan were by her side, she would probably have a completely different answer.

In the end, Xu Mu decided not to rescue that eighth-tier expert.

At least not before he obtained the treasure.

With that thought, Xu Mu headed toward the cave in the distance. After passing through the roughly ten-meter-long dark tunnel, he and the others arrived at the entrance of a small, square passage. A layer of ice covered the area around it.

The passage was about two meters wide and two meters high. Xu Mu was over 1.8 meters tall, and even when he slightly raised himself onto his toes, his hair nearly brushed the ceiling, creating an oppressive feeling.

“Ice again? There’s an incredible amount of ice in this place!”

Chen Xuan took out his woodcutter’s knife and struck the ice with all his strength.

Boom!

Golden qi slammed into the ice, but not even the slightest mark appeared on its surface. Not a single ice shard fell.

“Let’s go. This place isn’t that simple.”

Xu Mu led the way. After walking for roughly ten meters, the passage came to an end.

Two openings appeared on the left and right.

When Zilan Yin saw this, her expression gradually turned grim. “Which way should we go?”

“Brother Mu, how about we follow the old rules? You take the left, and I’ll take the right,” Chen Xuan said with a smile.

“No. This time, I’m trusting my own luck. You can’t keep being lucky forever.”

Xu Mu pointed toward the right. “All of you, follow me.”

With that, he headed down the passage on the right.

This was the benefit of his divine ability reaching an even higher level.

If his perception were still as it had been before, requiring living beings to see the surrounding area, then this maze would remain completely dark to him.

He could certainly see the eighth-tier expert from the Black Moon Clan and observe the environment around that person.

But the maze was simply too large. A single person could never see the whole layout clearly.

Now, things were different. It was as if he possessed an omniscient view, allowing him to look down upon the entire maze and know which paths were dead ends and which led to safety.

After walking five meters down the passage on the right, it split into two more paths.

Only then did everyone understand what was going on. This was a maze; it wasn’t merely designed to separate people from one another.

Suddenly, Xu Mu narrowed his eyes.

As expected of the protagonist—Ye Chen and the others had entered as well, though they had come in through different entrances.

But this time, no matter how good his luck was, it could never compare to Xu Mu’s omniscient view.