Chapter 167: The Chaotic Cube

If it weren't for Lin QiYe's quick reflexes and movements, the beheaded man's strike would have been enough to instantly kill him.

Lin QiYe extended a finger and gently flicked it. The two straight blades embedded in the beheaded man's chest began to violently tremble, then flew out. Although the blades left gaping wounds on its body, no blood spilled, as if it didn't have blood to begin with.

The two straight blades flew back into Lin QiYe's hands, and he lightly landed on the ground without making a sound.

Boom—!

At the same time, the murderous black flames surrounding the berserk Cao Yuan, who had been sent flying into another room, surged violently. He shot forward like an arrow, grinning as he swung his blade at the beheaded man.

When Cao Yuan created a louder sound, the beheaded man immediately abandoned its search for Lin QiYe and turned to swing its blade at Cao Yuan. The giant decapitation sword and the black flame sword collided once more!

Berserk Cao Yuan was sent flying again, crashing through another wall!

"Crackle… crackle…" Berserk Cao Yuan, like an unrelenting beast, was thrown back time and again but still grinned and swung his blade again!

The beheaded man could easily decapitate other recruits, but facing Cao Yuan, whose combat abilities far exceeded the norm, it found itself in a prolonged struggle. In fact, without making any big noise, Cao Yuan could easily overpower the beheaded man, as the beheaded man relied on sound to enhance its power.

But unfortunately, with every clash, the resulting shockwaves would temporarily increase the beheaded man's strength, which would then give it the upper hand in the battle, though it would still take some time for it to take Cao Yuan's life. After all, Cao Yuan's resilience in this berserk state was extraordinary, even more so than a cockroach's.

Lin QiYe, like a ghost, stood to the side, quietly watching as the beheaded man pummeled berserk Cao Yuan into the ground. He sighed helplessly in his heart.

If Cao Yuan had even a sliver of sanity now, stopped grinning foolishly, and slowed down his movements, the beheaded man would have already been taken down. But alas...

He suddenly realized that letting Cao Yuan join the fight was a huge mistake.

"Crackle… crackle…"

After breaking through countless rooms, Berserk Cao Yuan once again crawled up from the wreckage. Staggering, he gripped his straight blade tightly, grinning maniacally as he slashed at the beheaded man!

Lin QiYe silently followed behind the two combatants, trying to find the right moment to strike and kill the beheaded man, but he didn't dare get too close, as he might be pulled into the chaos by the unpredictable Cao Yuan.

At that moment, without warning, the surrounding rooms suddenly began to shift once again!

"It's changing again!" Lin QiYe was startled and quickly dashed toward the room where the battle was taking place.

Just as he was about to step inside, the room in front of him suddenly vanished, replaced by a series of shifting, different rooms.

When the environment finally stabilized, Lin QiYe found that he could no longer detect the presence of either of the two fighters within his mental perception.

"The second mysterious entity hiding inside the building doesn't want me to interfere in their battle..." Lin QiYe quickly figured out the cause of the latest shift, his brows furrowing deeply.

With him no longer lurking, waiting for an opportunity to strike, Cao Yuan's chances of taking down the beheaded man had grown slim. Cao Yuan's mental power was insufficient to sustain his berserk state for long, while the beheaded man could constantly strengthen itself by feeding off the battle sounds. If this continued, Cao Yuan would definitely fall into a disadvantage.

It seemed the second mysterious entity hiding in the shadows was quite intelligent...

Lin QiYe hesitated for a moment before quickly moving through other rooms, expanding his mental perception to cover every room around him, hoping to once again find the two combatants.

Since the beheaded man was already being restrained by Cao Yuan, there was no need for Lin QiYe to hold back anymore. He increased his speed, moving at full force, and if he had the ability to cause large-scale destruction, he would have already begun tearing the building down.

Lin QiYe's figure passed through one room after another. Suddenly, he abruptly stopped!

Within his mental perception, amidst the endless rooms, something unusual appeared...

He turned his head and looked at the wall on his right. His gaze seemed to penetrate the wall and see beyond two rooms, where a strange spherical void hung in space.

Yes, beyond the two rooms, there were no more rooms, but a spherical void that looked like the core of a fruit, surrounded by layers of rooms!

Within this void floated a silver, three-tiered Rubik's Cube, radiating an eerie glow.

Lin QiYe's eyes narrowed slightly.

A floating Rubik's Cube at the center of this chaotic space—this was most certainly abnormal. If his guess was correct, then this was...

The second "Chuan" Realm mysterious entity hidden inside this building.

However, Lin QiYe never expected the mysterious entity to take this form. Until now, all the mysterious entities he had encountered were biological, never an object with a modern design.

Could it be a Forbidden Object, not a "mysterious" entity?

The thought flashed through Lin QiYe's mind but was immediately discarded. His mental perception could clearly sense the presence of life within the cube, and if it were truly a Forbidden Object, how could it possess such intelligence?

"A Rubik's Cube... I see." Lin QiYe seemed to have figured something out, his eyes lighting up.

He had finally understood the pattern of the building's spatial distortions.

"Rubik's Cube?"

Bai Li Pang Pang, hearing A Zi's telepathic transmission, was filled with astonishment.

"Yes. The pattern behind the rooms' distortions is based on a Rubik's Cube," A Zi confirmed. "If we treat each room as a small square on a Rubik's Cube, the entire building is essentially an irregular N-dimensional Rubik's Cube. The exact number of dimensions changes every time, depending on the will of that mysterious entity.

Each time the space shifts, it's as if the N-dimensional Rubik's Cube is scrambled, with the positions of the small squares rapidly changing. This creates the illusion of an unpredictable environment, but in reality, as long as we master the direction and angle of each rotation, we can predict the next shift.

In other words, the entire space has become a Rubik's Cube, and that mysterious entity is the one manipulating it."

"I've compiled and analyzed the first thirty-two shifts, and I've summarized the pattern of how it scrambles the cube. Starting from the next shift, I can predict the trajectory of the changes."

Upon hearing this, the others in the room were filled with excitement. They had been analyzing and drawing for so long, just waiting for A Zi to make this statement!

"But that's not all," A Zi's voice echoed again. "I've also figured out where that mysterious entity is hiding..."