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Chapter 395 - 364 Infinite

Chapter 395: Chapter 364 Infinite

Clang!

Sikong Lan’s mind was shaken, he lost his balance, fell forward, and his knee hit the stone box.

Rumble——

The entire stone chamber shook violently, as if experiencing an earthquake; fortunately, Li Cheng and Zhang Fulu quickly pressed against the stone box, stopping the tremor.

’Desires are not born, the mind naturally calms. When the mind is calm, the spirit is undisturbed.’

Zhang Fulu silently recited the Clear Heart Technique to calm himself down, then slowly released his grip on the stone box, "Everyone stop moving; this box is precisely the stone chamber we are in."

Sikong Lan grabbed his hair and gritted his teeth, "What exactly is this thing?"

"In a sense, you can think of it as a three-dimensional ghost maze, or a paradoxical space."

Li Cheng calmly said, referring to paradoxical space as those structures detached from spatial logic, impossible in the real world, like the infinitely ascending Penrose stairs, or the endless staircase artwork by Dutch printmaker Escher,

an artistic style that greatly influenced later works like the movie ’Inception’ and the video game ’Monument Valley’ among others.

"From the outside of the stone chamber, looking at our three heights, the ratio of the two nested spaces is approximately 14:1, which roughly matches the ratio of the stone chamber to the stone box."

Li Cheng paused to think, then asked, "Gentlemen, who among you is willing to go up and investigate? To ensure that the room outside the stone chamber is not an illusion, but a real room."

Among the three, Sikong Lan probably had the best Qinggong skills, but he was already dizzy from the scene before him, his face pale.

"...I’ll go." Zhang Fulu tied the short sword to his waist and looked up.

The stone chamber’s ceiling was seven meters high, higher than the Olympic record for pole vaulting in the real world. Zhang Fulu surveyed the room, pondering which wall had the most protrusions to utilize for Qinggong.

"No need to go to such trouble."

Li Cheng tore a strip of fine cloth from his nightwear, pinched both ends with his fingers, and slowly lowered it into the stone box.

Simultaneously, a thick, black cloth fell from the dark door at the top of the stone chamber.

Zhang Fulu silently reached out to grasp the cloth, while Li Cheng gently pulled on the cloth strip, causing the fabric to ascend, bringing the Taoist to the upper space.

’Blessing of the boundless heavenly lord’

Zhang Fulu pressed his lips tightly; upon reaching the upper space, his height did not change, but the entire stone chamber appeared fourteen times larger in his eyes, with Li Cheng and Sikong Lan having turned into giants over seven meters tall.

From the perspective of Li Cheng and Sikong Lan, Zhang Fulu, standing at merely twelve centimeters tall, "climbed" out through the dark door of the stone box.

Li Cheng crouched down to overlook the miniature Zhang Fulu, and said gravely, "Having seen the future, why not bow?"

And in the upper space, the giant Li Cheng leaned forward loudly shouting, the sound waves stirred up a gale that whipped Zhang Fulu’s clothing until he had to draw his sword and nail it to the top of the stone box.

"Gentlemen, now is not the time to jest, is it?"

Once the echo dissipated, Zhang Fulu stood up helplessly, luckily he had refined himself on Dragon Tiger Mountain for many years, being a Taoist; if it were an ordinary person, he might have developed gigantophobia right there.

"Sorry, got carried away."

Li Cheng picked up the cloth strip again, lowered the dark door, and let Zhang Fulu down.

Sigh...

Zhang Fulu landed on his feet, breathed a long sigh of relief, and solemnly said, "Now it’s confirmed, the upper stone chamber is indeed the stone box."

In the upper space, he had used the sword to affix onto the stone box,

Upon returning to the lower space, on this layer, the top of the stone box indeed showed tiny white marks left by the sword point.

It proved the two spaces were interleaved, intertwined.

However, the problem also arose. Where was the exit? Or how to escape?

Argh! Argh!

Zhang Fulu and Sikong Lan were solemnly pondering when they heard the sound of labored breathing and looked up.

Li Cheng right hand held the cloth strip lowered into the stone box, while he jumped into the noose hanging down from above the stone chamber, strangling his neck, enacting a hanging on the spot,

his entire body swaying and turning blue while scratching himself hoarse yelling, "Double-tap, hit subscribe!"

Gosh!

Zhang Fulu and Sikong Lan thought Li Cheng couldn’t bear it anymore, quickly rushed to pull him down; Sikong Lan stuttered, "Brother Pifu, don’t think rashly, whatever difficulties we face, we’ll find a solution together."

Li Cheng unhooked the noose from his neck indignantly, "Cough, cough, why are you interrupting me? I was about to escape; I could see the aurora dancing the sky, the sea of flowers blooming everywhere."

Out-of-body experience is called escaping, is it?

Ignoring the egg pain expressions of the others, Li Cheng rubbed his neck, casually said, "Now I have good news and bad news; which would you like to hear first?"

Zhang Fulu and Sikong Lan exchanged a look, replied helplessly, "...The good news first."

Li Cheng shrugged, "The good news is, we won’t starve to death. We have plenty of food."

"What do you mean?"

"The ratio of this layer stone chamber to the upper layer stone chamber is 1:14. In the upper space, we can carve out some meat and drop it into the stone box, eat meat to grow meat, we’ll have an endless supply of meat to eat."

Li Cheng paused, "If you’re afraid of disability, you can start with dead skin, calluses, moles, and if you’re thirsty, you could..."

"Stop, stop!"

Sikong Lan’s stomach churned violently; he quickly stopped Li Cheng from speaking further, bitterly said, "Even if food and drink aren’t a worry, being trapped here forever is not a solution.

Right, what’s the bad news?"

"The bad news is we can’t handle waste disposal."

Li Cheng’s face was extremely solemn, stating, "There aren’t any dung beetles, the waste produced can only pile up in the corner; if dropped into the stone box’s dark door, it would become 14 times the amount, falling down from above us. Unless someone with a pure spirit, firm resolve, ready to return to nature volunteers to eliminate it on the spot.

To avoid an overwhelming shit flood."

Gosh, why are you looking at me?!

Zhang Fulu’s scalp tingled, hurriedly waved, "These are matters for later. Brother Pifu has a strategic plan, should probably have a countermeasure already, right?"

Prior in the treasure house, Zhang Fulu claimed Li Cheng was not from this world, wasn’t just speaking randomly.

Dragon Tiger Mountain possesses a secret technique—not passed down—called Qi Observation Skill, capable of gauging a person’s qualities through the elusive, invisible qi.

Li Cheng’s qi was as heavy as black clouds, without contact with the ground, indicating his deep thoughts and weak connection with this world, clearly not a person of the Great Ming.

The maid next to him had qi red as blood, with strong murderous intent, and at the edge of the blood cloud, mixed with a lot of miscellaneous, incomprehensible colors, suspected components too complex.

"Hard to say if it’s a countermeasure, just a thought."

Li Cheng rubbed his palm, "Name this layer of the stone chamber we are in Alpha, and the upper layer stone chamber Beta.

When I from the Alpha stone chamber place fabric into the stone box, likewise fabric falls in the Beta stone chamber.

In this process, how many stone chambers do you think emerged, two, three, or infinite?"

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