Chapter 223: Quicksand that Devours People

After successfully passing through the lattice maze of the second space, the five people followed the narrow passage to the third larger stone cave.

The space in this place is not as big as the grid maze. It is like a rectangular box, more than ten meters long, and only more than two meters wide and high.

There is a big pit on the ground of the cave, which is filled with yellow sand and almost covers the entire ground.

On the walls on both sides of the sand pit, there is a carved ochre-colored frog head with its mouth wide open as if it is about to spit out something.

Apart from that, there was no one living here and no corpses.

Mo Juren and others had experienced the lattice maze before, so they knew at a glance that this place was not that simple.

Although the other side of the cave was connected to another passage, and it seemed that one could leave easily by just jumping over the long pit filled with sand, no one tried it easily.

Zhao Han approached the edge of the sand pit, grabbed a handful of sand and checked it out, and found that it was just ordinary yellow sand, nothing special about it.

Then he threw the sand back into the pit, but he keenly discovered that the speed at which the sand fell to the ground seemed to be different.

He said "eh" and tried throwing out a handful of sand again.

As soon as the sand got close to the sand pit, it seemed to be sucked in and could not be thrown far away.

Seeing this, the eldest brother Wang Zhuo analyzed:

"It may be a forbidden air formation. Let me give it a try."

After saying that, Wang Zhuo took out the corpse of a small monster from his storage bag. It was the prey he had saved from a previous hunt.

He threw the prey fiercely across the sand pit. The prey flew less than ten feet away and fell into the yellow sand with a "bang".

Then the yellow sand began to flow, suddenly swallowing up the entire prey like running water, and slowly sank into the ground.

"Sure enough, there is a no-fly formation, and the ground is full of quicksand!" Zhao Han exclaimed.

The third brother Zhang Xing sighed,

"This is difficult. There is a forbidden air formation, so we can't fly through it. The ground is filled with quicksand and we can't even stand. What should we do?"

Mo Juren did not say anything when he heard this, but stared at the two frog head statues on the wall.

Fifth sister Qin Xiaorong had been keeping an eye on Mo Juren. Seeing him absorbed in his studies, she asked,

"Friend Zhang, aren't those just two frog head decorations? What's so good about them?"

Mo Juren said,
"If it can be hung here, it should be very ordinary... Look, there is movement!"

After the quicksand in the pit swallowed the small prey, a stream of sand suddenly spurted out from the frog head on the wall, slowly replenishing the sand pool like running water.

The second brother Xie Hong sighed,
"This mechanism is so clever. It should prevent us from emptying the sand pool!"

Zhao Han said angrily,
"Why don't we take turns using storage bags to move the sand away and see whether it replenishes faster or we move it away faster!"

He did what he said. He immediately took out his storage bag, squatted down and sucked the sand into it.

After working for a long time, I finally dug a small hole in the sand in front of my feet, but the storage bag was full.

When Zhao Han wanted to pour the sand in the storage bag somewhere else, more sand suddenly spurted out from the two pairs of frog heads, like water pipes, and immediately replenished the amount Zhao Han had taken away.

The eldest brother Wang Zhuo said at this time,

"Don't bother, fourth brother. It shouldn't be that simple. Does Brother Zhang have any ideas?" Mo Juren, who was suddenly asked, turned his gaze back from the frog head statue and said slowly,
"I can't think of any solution. There's not a single person in this place. The only thing that's not so dead is these two frog heads. If no one else can do anything, why don't we ask them?"

Fifth sister Qin Xiaorong chuckled and said,

"Haha, Fellow Daoist Zhang is really interesting. How do you want to ask this stone?"

Mo Juren smiled, walked to the edge of the pit, and casually sent out a magical power that passed through the sand pit and directly hit the frog head on the left.

There was a "bang" sound, and it seemed as if some switches were triggered inside the frog's head. Several leaks suddenly appeared in the sand pit not far from Mo Juren's feet.

The quicksand in the leak flowed down and gushed out, rolling endlessly, tumbling up and down like boiling water.

However, in the middle of these churning quicksands, there was a small area that seemed to have not moved much, and a temporary hard sand surface had actually formed on it!

The third brother Zhang Xing's eyes lit up and he responded,
"Haha, that space in the middle seems like it could accommodate someone!"

Mo Juren also nodded, and then another stream of magic power hit the frog head on the right.

Sure enough, the same scene appeared not far from the churning quicksand, and two places to land appeared one after another in front of Mo Juren!
Now everyone understood that they only needed to step on these two small pieces of hard sand to safely cross the quicksand.

Mo Juren was very confident this time. He tried to be the first to attack and jumped directly towards the hard sand surface that appeared first.

As soon as he stood there, Mo Juren felt his whole body sink. It was probably the residual force of the forbidden air formation that pressed him to the ground.

The hard ground supported Mo Juren for a while, but he soon sank down.

Mo Juren quickly used the force to fly up and leapt towards the second piece of hard ground.

Before leaving the ground, he sent out another stream of magic power from his hand and hit the frog head on the left, causing a third piece of quicksand to appear in front of him.

He walked back and forth like this, and after hitting the frog heads on both sides nearly ten times each, Mo Juren finally made the last leap and jumped to the other side of the sand pit.

After his example, the remaining five friends from Mengshan followed suit and soon all "walked on the sand" safely.

Before entering the next passage, the third brother Zhang Xing couldn't help but say to Mo Juren with admiration,

"It's a good thing that Fellow Daoist Zhang is here. He came up with a solution so quickly."

"If there were only five of us here, we might still be at a loss in front of those grids, haha."

The eldest brother Wang Zhuo also said happily,

"Third brother, you are right. Fellow Daoist Zhang's talent is truly something that I admire."

Mo Juren smiled and said,

"It's nothing. In fact, the trick to pass the level was told to us at the stone gate a long time ago, but no one paid attention to it."

Fifth sister Qin Xiaorong was puzzled.

"Is there? What did the stone gate say? Why didn't I see it?"

The third brother Zhang Xing pondered and said,
"Could it be the words 'look, listen, ask, and feel'?"

Mo Juren Dao,

"That should be it. As a doctor, I feel it more deeply and discovered it earlier, which is normal."

(End of this chapter)