99. Who is behind the doors?

Mei Lin completely forgot about the bandit's attack or the reality of what happened in Fey's mansion. As the memory continued all of them ate dinner and Xin Ming and the girls opened a wine jar and started drinking the wine. Yu Lan started talking about what she and Xia saw at the Canyon and what she drew. Xia and Hua Fey also entered the convention and Mei Lin and Xin Ming listened to them and started imagining their day.

Neither Mei Lin nor Xin Ming didn't do anything except cultivate, and their days were always the same. After the wine Mei Lin was suddenly sitting at her and Xia's room Xia was combing her white hairs. It was a delightful feeling. Mei Lin was suddenly drinking blood tea and looking out from the window toward the green zone.

Unlike the yellow zone, green was beautifully decorated, and night lights were shining like a dot in the dark. Xia slowly stopped and Mei Lin placed a teacup in the frame of the window to look at Xia. As she was turning around with her head, instead of beautiful Xia's face she saw a skinned bloody grotesque face identical to the one on the wooden doors.

A few deformed mouths with different kinds of teeth opened at the same time and started making identical noises like in the tunnel. It scared Mei Lin out of her wits and in this moment, she hit the muddy ground burying herself more than five centimeters in.

She didn't hurt herself but the fall took her breath away and she started to catch the air fanatically.

Creepy noises were reasoning in the tunnel and made the atmosphere in the dark muddy tunnel extremely uncomfortable. Mei Lin wanted to climb out of the cellar, but she knew that she had no chance to climb up or push away the ceiling. Even if she wanted to use her QI Condensation realm, she would need to spend much more time here to heal and replenish her natural energy.

Even then she had a feeling that it would be for a long time to get out of the ruble. In the end, she only broke through the first stage of BT, and her power was comparable to a normal cultivator in the same realm only with access to the powers of the QI Condensation realm which made her like an immortal at the same realm.

After a few minutes of listening to creepy noises, Mei Lin went back to the wooden doors. As she was slowly moving forward sounds of her shoes burying into the mud were suppressing everything in the cave and Mei Lin nearly didn't hear strange voices.

This time Mei Lin was using the torch all the time and went straight to the doors. All traps were used up next time, so they were not a threat, and it didn't take long before Mei Lin's wooden doors were slowly forming in from the dark. The most noticeable thing about them was their skinned deformed face making noises and a few eyes started looking at Mei Lin.

Mei Lin didn't pay attention to the skinned face making noise and shouting nonsense and started inspecting the doors to find a way to open them.

It did not take long and Mei Lin searched the doors for a clue for she found nothing. Doors had different kinds of ornaments on them, but she discovered that doors had two wings and the only place which held the doors closed was the strange face. Mei Lin stepped a few steps back to look at the whole door.

As she inspected the doors with her spirit sense as carefully as possible, she found that different ornaments were placed there in such a strange way that Mei Lin instantly thought that this order represented some kind of formation. Different kinds of lines were parts of this formation, with one clear center, situated in the middle of the doors was a disgusting face. With extreme disgust, Mei Lin looked at it.

Mei Lin sat in front of the doors and quickly entered a cultivation state and started contemplating the mysteries of the doors and strange face which was most likely the key to what or who was behind the doors.

As she started inspecting the face, she managed to find some clues, eyes at the face saw what Mei Lin had done, and the whole face started hysterically moving and a few deformed mouths started shouting at her. Voices were not synchronized and lots of them couldn't speak, so they only made weird noises. Mei Lin started listening to the voices carefully. At first, they were unsynchronized, but after a few minutes, different platforms the face started to shift.

As they were shifting, the same lines started appearing under the face parts, which were like the ones on the doors. Mei Lin started looking at them and she found that the lines were not in order, on the other hand, they were continuously shifting.

Mei Lin ended her cultivation state and as she stretched her arm forward the face two mouths suddenly emerged from the face and opened.

Mei Lin extended her spirit sense and discovered that as soon as she swept over the strange face, it started shifting and two new mouths were following her spirit sense. Mei Lin quickly discovered that as the mouths moved, the carving inside the face also shifted and turned. A smile appeared on Mei Lin's face as she discovered how to open the doors.

Mei Lin moved her spirit sense across the face, and as the mouths were following it, they suddenly stopped. From inside the face emerged a round platform with a missing piece in the middle.

Mei Lin didn't know if she wanted to laugh or cry. After going through such difficulties, she didn't have the last piece of the platform to open the doors. Natural energy surged from her body, and she placed her hand on the platform and tried to destroy the platform. From contemplating the array formation, Mei Lin discovered that all parts of the formation were leading to the core of the formation, which was this platform, so once she destroyed the core of the formation, she would be able to get inside.

More and more natural energy flew through her hand into the platform and under the pressure of her natural energy, the platform started to crack. Her natural energy was quickly depleted, and Mei Lin was forced to stop.

Using her natural energy was far more draining than she thought, and Mei Lin had to stop every few minutes to enter a cultivation state and replenish her natural energy. Replenishing natural energy was quickly long and it took her more than an hour to be in peak conditions.

 After Mei Lin started to pour her natural energy into the platform and more, she poured inside more cracks appeared on the surface of the platform. In response, whole doors lit up and the whole formation was bursting with power.