293 Different from the Outside World
The child safely entered the talisman matrix with spry steps. She briefly closed her eyes to feel the subtleties of the talisman matrix before quickly entering the Maple Pavilion.
On the first level of the Maple Pavilion:
Qiao Mu looked around her and discovered that it was empty besides the four walls.
Qiao Mu remembered her master's instructions and jogged forward. There was a set of a spiral staircase on the left side of the room.
The child climbed the stairs in one breath and turned several times without meeting any resistance. Her mystic energy flowed smoothly throughout her body, and she did not feel unwell in the slightest.
How strange!
Qiao Mu paused with some trepidation and looked around her for a moment. She even ran to the center of this level's room to try and sense that crystal platform that Master mentioned.
Ha ha, there was not any reaction.
She had no choice but to continue to climb the stairs. She had to have climbed thousands of levels, right?!
She could not have any other thoughts in her mind nor could she blame her master for deceiving her!
Why didn't you tell me there would be hundreds of steps to a level???
Just how tall was this ordinary "two-level" building?! She felt like she was climbing some pagoda that was as tall as the sky!
She kept scaling the seemingly endless set of stairs.
Qiao Mu had been silently keeping track of the passing of time since she entered. About two hours had passed already!
However, the path looked endless without an end in sight, and the center of the chambers did not have any reaction.
There was no way she would remain empty-handed four hours later and be directly sent out, right?!
The mere thought of that stirred anger in her. She originally felt exhausted and wanted to pause to catch her breath, but she hastily kept climbing up when she thought of how she might not have enough time!
The space inside the pavilion must have been altered by that formidable talisman practitioner. Affected by the talisman matrix, the space inside the pavilion was different from the outside world.
Poor Qiao Mu wiped her sweat off and looked up at the endlessly spiraling staircase, disappointment ringing in her heart.
She furiously gritted her teeth before pulling out a small jar of water from her sack and drinking two sips out of it.
Then, she slapped two speed talismans onto her and increased her speed. Her speed would be tripled for 20 minutes.
Qiao Mu shot forward like a meteor until the two speed talismans exhausted all of their energy and fell off of her.
Qiao Mu slammed into a thick and sturdy wall, her head having an intimate encounter with said wall. She nearly turned dizzy from the impact.
D*mn it, my poor forehead is probably bruised…
There was nothing in front of her, but she was certain that she had been stopped by an invisible wall just now.
Qiao Mu rubbed her forehead and reflexively took a few more steps upward when a mighty pressure slapped her down the stairs.
Caught off guard, Qiao Mu tumbled down and rolled onto the platform.
The small child stopped fast and climbed back up even faster.
She kneaded her waist after jumping up and looked back. A tall crystal platform was rising out of the ground.
The child sprinted over hastily and saw a black ball placed on the crystal platform. The chamber was devoid of anything else.
She had to inject her mystic energy into it!
Qiao Mu recalled Murong Xun's words and mounted the platform in a few steps, arriving next to the black ball. Then, she slowly placed her hand onto the ball.
From the corner of her eyes, she saw a "Six" engraved onto the crystal platform.
