Supreme Warrior in the City

Chapter 568: Chapter 567 Strange Prohibitions

The monster, with its eyes fixed on Su Yang, retreated fearfully to the side of the stone wall and curled up in the corner.

Su Yang couldn’t help but wonder, with the monster so fearful, why hadn’t it fled?

At this point, Su Yang finally had time to carefully observe the stone cave.

The cave was underwater, but fortunately for Su Yang at his current level of strength, he could use the Art of Fetal Breathing, which meant even staying underwater for ten days to half a month was not a problem.

During the fight just now, he hadn’t noticed, but now Su Yang could feel that the water temperature here was much colder than outside. Moreover, he could distinctly feel that the water was imbued with Spiritual Energy, the same kind found in the fish soup he had drunk earlier and in the homemade wine.

A thought flickered through Su Yang’s mind—could this be the River God Cave?

But this was at the bottom of the water, inside a cave. According to the information Su Yang received, the River God Cave was supposed to be near a mountain spring on the mountain, certainly not here.

And more importantly, the strength of this water monster was not weak. It was estimated that only the powerful Sovereign could contend with this water monster, while an ordinary person at the Fusion Realm entering here was probably just delivering a meal to the creature. Therefore, under such circumstances, getting water from here was an impossibility.

Taking all these situations into account, this place could not be the River God Cave. However, the fact that the water here possessed Spiritual Energy similar to that of the River God Cave indicated there must be some connection to it.

The cave did not end here. It resembled a spacious stone chamber, and at the other end of the chamber, there was another cave, continuing deeper.

After being beaten by Su Yang, the monster was expected to either flee outward or deeper into the cave. But it had not done so; instead, it curled up in the corner of the chamber, fearfully watching Su Yang as if it was scared, which was very strange.

Could it be that the monster didn’t want to leave this place?

Su Yang quickly dismissed this thought, because if the monster didn’t run, it might end up dying here. If it wasn’t running, that meant it could not run. But why couldn’t it run?

Su Yang looked around. There wasn’t anything special about this stone chamber.

After a moment of thought, Su Yang suddenly lunged forward, coming right beside the monster.

Having been thoroughly frightened by Su Yang, the monster didn’t think to resist when it saw Su Yang charge, but rather hurriedly shrunk back into its turtle shell in panic.

Su Yang grabbed the turtle shell and lifted the creature up, then headed straight for the cave leading further in.

The monster’s head was hidden inside the shell, but its eyes were surveying the outside. When it saw Su Yang taking it toward the cave, it clearly became fearful. When they reached the edge of the cave, it ignored Su Yang, extending its limbs from the shell and hurriedly grabbed onto the nearby stone wall, bracing itself there.

Seeing the monster act this way, Su Yang knew his guess was correct—the monster dare not run. So, the question was, what was inside the cave? Why was the monster too scared to go in?

Of course, Su Yang himself was not going to venture in to find out. He punched the monster’s paw, which immediately recoiled. Su Yang took the opportunity to push the monster’s paw into the cave, ready to push the creature into it.

But just then, the monster let out a miserable scream, as if in great pain.

At the same time, the monster’s claws that had extended into the cave also instantly shattered into a bloody mess, as if some formidable power inside had crushed them.

Su Yang quickly pulled the monster back and furrowed his brows.

The monster did not dare to enter, and that was the reason—there were restrictions inside the cave. It was lucky that he had pushed the monster in to test it first; had it been Su Yang himself, who knows what might have happened.

But why wouldn’t the monster dare to leave? When Su Yang had entered from the outside earlier, there hadn’t been any restrictions.

With doubts in his mind, Su Yang once again lifted the monster, this time walking towards the cave’s exit.

The monster still didn’t want to leave, but just as before, Su Yang stretched another one of its claws outside.

The monster screamed miserably once more, and just like before, its claw exploded.

At this moment, Su Yang was completely stunned. He stared, dumbfounded, at the monster scrambling into a corner and finally understood why it didn’t flee. It turned out that there were restrictions on both paths; the monster didn’t fail to escape because it didn’t want to, but because it simply couldn’t—it was essentially imprisoned in this stone chamber.

Fortunately, the monster could control water flow and used it to bring in food, which allowed it to survive. Otherwise, it probably would have starved to death here long ago!

But who could have set such restrictions here, trapping the monster in this stone chamber?

And why hadn’t Su Yang encountered any such restrictions when he had entered earlier from the outside? Yet the monster was clearly subjected to these limitations. Could it be that the restrictions were aimed solely at imprisoning the monster?

Still puzzled, Su Yang looked towards the inner cave.

If the exterior restrictions were only meant to constrain the monster, might the ones inside be intended for the same purpose?

After a moment of silence, Su Yang walked towards the inner cave. He didn’t know if his speculation was correct, but having come this far, he had to try regardless.

He plucked a hair and tentatively threw it into the cave; there was no change.

Su Yang felt a bit more at ease. He slowly extended his hand forward, inching closer to the cave. His movements were very slow, allowing him to withdraw his hand immediately if something felt wrong.

As it turned out, Su Yang reached his hand all the way into the cave without feeling anything unusual. The restrictions inside the cave were indeed the same as those on the outside, effective only against the monster and posing no limitation to Su Yang.

Su Yang let out a long sigh of relief. He ignored the monster and walked straight into the cave.

The cave extended far and deep, and furthermore, Su Yang could feel that the cave was steadily sloping downward.

After walking for what seemed like two hours, Su Yang came upon a spacious stone chamber that was shockingly the same one he had entered before. The monster, which had originally been in the middle of the chamber, immediately curled up in the corner, its face filled with terror and dread upon seeing Su Yang come in.

Su Yang frowned. He distinctly knew that he had been descending the whole time, with no side paths or turns along the way—how could he have ended up back in this place? Could it be that he was walking in a circle, and that’s why he had returned to the starting point?