Getting a Sugar Mommy in Cultivation World!! - Chapter 843 - 483: Trap Or Exit?

“Oh heavens. These cultists and their creatures, everyone is crazy!” Yuan Ming’s face turned white seeing the sheer number of the spiders trying so hard to chase them.

“Why are they trying so hard?!”

Woosh!

Instead of answering, Noah looked around his feet and picked up a stone, the size of a fist. With a swift swing, he threw the rock, directly aimed at the base of the tower that the spiders were trying to make.

The weakest link in the tower, a small spider that was holding the curve with its weight, was struck by the stone and fell into the dark hole below.

Screechhh!

And just like that, one spider after another, the bridge crumbled away into darkness.

At the same time, Noah used their moment of distraction to drag Yuan Ming deeper into the path they had landed on.

By the time the spiders focused back on the cave openings, the two were long gone and nowhere to be seen.

With no other food available to them, the spiders started to back away. They crawled back into the holes they came out of, and the platform returned to the original state it once was.

Seeing it like that, no one would be able to tell what dangers lie in the seemingly calm place.

But indeed, that’s how spiders trap their opponents.

…

“Stay close to me; only step on the spot I place my foot on.” Noah looked back at the opening behind them, the same spot they came from, before glancing at the boy beside him.

As if realizing something, Yuan Ming asked, “Are there traps in this place?”

He looked around but did not notice anything, and yet he knew that Noah had abilities that allowed him to see what others normally could not.

“More than you can count.” Noah replied calmly, but in his vision, he could see the ground covered in glowing spots, which meant traces of qi. There were only a few steps that he could count as ‘normal.’

If he did not follow the path of the normal steps, the traps would activate, and their chances of survival while staying unharmed would become lower.

“Okay.” Hearing Yuan Ming’s agreement, Noah nodded and stepped on the first tile he deemed as safe and…

As expected, nothing happened.

He moved on to the second, and the result appeared to be the same.

After getting the confirmation that they were indeed the correct steps, Noah’s steps became more unhesitant and confident.

The path stretched on.

Torch light flickered against ancient stone walls, casting shadows that seemed to move of their own accord.

But the spiders did not follow.

The moment they had entered the corridor, the clicking and clacking had stopped.

‘They gave up,’ Yuan Ming thought, his breathing slowly returning to normal. The tension in his shoulders began to ease. ‘Or they cannot enter here.’

They walked in silence for what felt like an eternity. The path was indeed empty—no hidden enemies, no sudden ambushes.

Only the sound of their footsteps echoing off stone and the rhythmic breathing of two survivors pushing forward.

But eventually, the path ended.

A dead end. Smooth stone wall blocking their way forward, no opening, no passage, nothing.

Yuan Ming opened his mouth to speak, but Noah was already moving. The man approached the wall carefully, his eyes scanning across the surface.

Then he stopped before a stone that looked no different from the others, rougher perhaps, with an odd discoloration that blended with other rocks around it.

But to Noah, this rock looked special. The reason being the complex array formation that is hidden on the rock.

Without having proper knowledge of array formation, anyone would overlook this as a simple rock.

Noah grabbed the rock and twisted it upside down.

And it moved so smoothly and easily that it felt as if it were supposed to be that way.

The wall blocking their path vanished. It faded away as if it were not even there in the first place.

Beyond the wall was a chamber, dimly lit with pale green light seemingly coming from far away in the deeper sections.

Noah looked at the boy beside him and nodded before stepping in first. The tunnel-like passage went on for a long while before it spat them out in another room.

And standing in the middle of the room was a familiar silhouette they had seen only recently.

“You two?” Supervisor Gui sensed them approach and turned to look at them. His eyes widened in shock as if he had seen something that was not supposed to be. “How did you reach here so soon?”

“Were we not supposed to arrive here this early?” Yuan Ming asked carefully, feeling weird from the attention he was getting.

As he looked around, he came to realize that it was only three of them in the room and there was no one else. Which meant that either everyone else had moved on to the next trial or they were still stuck in the old one.

“The openings in the second trial lead to a path full of peril and danger.” With his arms crossed, Supervisor Gui explained, “no matter which path you take, the shortest time you need to pass should be around 5 months.”

Yuan Ming’s eyes widened slightly when he heard that, but upon recalling how, had it not been for Noah’s abilities, they would have spent a considerably longer time getting across the road of traps safely.

And more than that, it was supposed to be a path blocked, which others would assume as a dead end and turn around to choose a different one.

“There are no wrong paths, but it seems you took the shortcut. Was it luck or…” Supervisor Gui narrowed his eyes in suspicion.

Even though Yuan Ming could not see it, he could sense the qi moving around in his body as if the man were preparing to attack them.

Realizing what was happening, his body tensed and his eyes instinctively darted towards Noah.

“Not to mention the numerous amount of traps that were laid in that path.” The man also turned to look at the long black-haired youth and asked, “the path you came from was supposed to be blocked by a secret formation. How did you get across that?”