Chapter 80: Staircase Crisis and the Mysterious Shadow
Lin Yu and his two companions carefully made their way down the winding, twisting staircase. The surrounding darkness seemed to possess a life of its own, wrapping tightly around them like a rising tide. It was so silent that they could hear only their own slightly ragged breathing and the strange, increasingly clear sounds echoing up from the depths below. The noise sounded like some ancient creature dormant in the Dark Abyss, emitting a low, threatening roar, or perhaps a heavy gasp from the nether realms of hell. It reverberated through the enclosed, silent space like a heavy hammer, striking their nerves blow by blow and sending an involuntary chill through everyone's heart, filling them with a creeping sense of dread.
As they ventured deeper, a faint, hazy glow emerged quietly from below like a mysterious hand reaching out from the darkness, tearing open a small patch of space in the endless gloom. By this dim light, they were surprised to find the staircase walls completely covered in lifelike murals. The scenes depicted were bizarre and eerie; the figures in the paintings all wore strangely styled, intricate garments and gathered around a massive, solemn stone platform, devoutly performing some mysterious sacrificial ritual. On the platform, a mysterious object was shrouded in layers of dazzling radiance—light so intense that the object's specific shape was completely hidden from view, as if it carried some unkno…
Chapter 80