What's most frightening in high-difficulty instances isn't powerful enemies, but unknown mechanics.
Just like now.
Often, as long as you figure out the instance's mechanics, what remains is merely a powerful enemy, and you just need to take care of it.
The Yao Guang statue wielded the Immortal Slaying Flying Dagger, powerful enough to instantly kill any of them, yet it was still slain by the team's strength.
Encountering a level nine main room is something they could fight through, but if they couldn't figure out the instance mechanics, they could be defeated one by one, ultimately leading to a team wipe.
Zhang Yuanqing didn't even know who the enemy was, nor was he clear about the reason for his teammates' bizarre disappearance, he was completely confused, not knowing where to begin.
"He forced himself to calm down, with their levels, they have enough strength to deal with the crisis, they won't be in danger in a short time."
"Before that, figure out the mechanics of this level, and things will take a turn for the better." Zhang Yuanqing quickly thought.
"We must have triggered the instance mechanism, which caused the bizarre disappearances. Xiahou Aotian disappeared when the ghost marriage procession passed by, and the others disappeared after separating from me. Maybe, it's not them who disappeared, but me."
"My scout Yin Corpse also disappeared inexplicably, but the Yin Corpse didn't see the ghost marriage procession, so triggering the disappearance mechanism is not related to the ghost marriage procession."
Analyzing this, Zhang Yuanqing vaguely reached a conclusion, what triggered the disappearance was entering this area.
When they entered this place, they already triggered the second level's mechanism, but why did Xiahou Aotian disappear first, and why did the Yin Corpse disappear faster than the teammates, these details haven't been figured out yet.
Zhang Yuanqing landed lightly, dissipated the miniature sun behind his head, and deactivated the Blazing Sun God state.
At this time, because it had devoured too much Yin energy and Sun God power, the Devouring Sky Beast's abdomen was bulging, and it stopped operating, waiting for fifteen minutes to open the second state.
Zhang Yuanqing, bearing the Devouring Sky Beast that was already fed and no longer worried about backlashing its master, walked towards the golden-roofed hall not far away. The house area had already been inspected, and he was going to explore the golden-roofed hall.
Although it might trigger the crisis in the hall, and being alone would be a bit dangerous, it was also the only way to quickly find a way to rescue his teammates.
Dense black smoke spread, obscuring his vision and dulling his senses.
Zhang Yuanqing cautiously moved forward in the dark, taking a dozen steps, he suddenly heard a call from behind him.
"Yuanzi, what are you doing here?" Zhang Yuanqing was stunned, it was Chen Shu's voice.
The next second, someone grabbed his arm from behind and said angrily, "You're hiding here again!"
Zhang Yuanqing felt a chill in his heart, instinctively turned around and punched behind him.
Accompanied by his turn, the environment enveloped in black smoke turned into a summer dusk, the sun hanging in the west, fiery clouds covering half the sky, magnificent and majestic.
He was sitting under a locust tree outside the village, punching Chen Shu in the lower abdomen.
Chen Shu, who looked more than ten years younger, frowned, slapped Zhang Yuanqing to the ground with a backhand, and said angrily, "You won't listen when I talk nicely, do you have to be beaten to know fear?"
Zhang Yuanqing's face was burning, he incredulously looked down at his fist, which was thin and small, and then looked at himself, wearing a white work shirt, light yellow shorts, and a pair of Double Star running shoes with rubber studs on the bottom.
How could I be here? His mind was in chaos, unable to think calmly, like being drunk.
Chen Shu's scolding echoed in his ears, "I'm transferring to work in Songhai city tomorrow. If you don't want to live with your grandparents, then stay here by yourself. I'm leaving today, I can't be bothered to take care of you."
After saying that, she turned around and left. After a dozen steps, seeing that Zhang Yuanqing hadn't followed, she was furious, quickly stepped forward and slapped him a few times, grabbing him by the back of his neck and walking away.
Zhang Yuanqing remembered, after his father's death, Chen Shu planned to leave the town and return to Songhai to work.
But he didn't want to leave, he had grown up in the town since he was a child, it had his playmates and familiar neighbors, the big locust tree where his father often brought him to cool off, all filled with his father's presence.
Zhang Yuanqing burst into tears, struggling desperately under his mother's restraint.
Just then, his heart began to beat wildly "dong dong dong dong", each beat more intense than the last, his chest rising and falling with the pounding.
But Zhang Yuanqing suddenly stopped moving, his pupils dilated, and he fell into a daze.
A few seconds later, his eyes regained their brilliance, deep, calm, wise and bright.
"Sigh, Chen Shu is so annoying even in illusions..." Zhang Yuanqing waved his hand gently, Chen Shu, the sunset glow, the locust tree, the village, all dissipated, returning to the black smoke-filled Shushan Southern Garden.
He had just been pulled into an illusion.
The illusion came from his heart, one of the most unhappy memories of his childhood. Fortunately, the Illusion God Heart was too special, giving him a "reminder", coupled with the characteristics of the Night Wanderer profession, allowing him to quickly break free from the illusion.
So, everyone else should have entered illusions too. Logically speaking, if their consciousness is pulled into an illusion, their bodies should still remain in place.
But Zhang Yuanqing didn't see his teammates' figures.
At this time, the golden-roofed hall was less than ten meters away from him, with only a blurry outline visible in the black smoke.
He raised his hand, a ball of golden light lit up in his palm, the clear sunlight like a torch, the surrounding black smoke quickly receding.
Although it wasn't as effective at diluting the black smoke in a large area as the combination of the Devouring Sky Beast, "Sunrise", and "Blazing Sun God", it was enough for "illumination".
With the golden sunlight, Zhang Yuanqing looked attentively, under the eaves of the golden-roofed hall, hung a plaque, with neat regular script writing: Hall of Righteousness!
Zhang Yuanqing put on the Violet-Gold Armor, wore the Golden Dragon Shield on his right arm, raised the golden flame in his left arm, and stepped over the high threshold into the hall.
The size and layout of this hall were no different from the Yao Guang Hall. On the high base, stood a handsome man with a flowing beard, wearing a flowing robe and carrying a sword on his back.
The black smoke in the hall was so dense that even the golden flame seemed to be covered with a layer of dark veil, hazy and indistinct, illuminating a range of less than ten meters.