Invincible Little School Doctor

Chapter 1415: Chapter 1415: Foolish, Truly Foolish! (5 Updates)

”What the hell!” Ye Haochuan couldn’t help but curse.

He had been secretly proud of his strategy, thinking he had found a bug in this hidden weapons area, but now it was clear that this was a lure designed to draw him further in.

Ye Haochuan was now completely in the center of the steel needle area, and moving forward or retreating seemed nearly impossible.

Whoever designed this set of hidden mechanisms, this setup is just damn invincible!

Seeing the steel needles rushing towards him, Ye Haochuan was out of options and had to resort to his last trump card.

”Heaven-Penetrating Barrier!”

This trump card, Ye Haochuan always used with great caution. Because if his spiritual energy wasn’t enough to sustain it, it would consume his vitality. Once his vitality was exhausted, he would be finished.

But he couldn’t afford to worry about that now; if he didn’t use Heaven-Penetrating Barrier, he’d be finished anyway.

With a wave of his hand, all the steel needles were scattered and flew away.

”What the...?”

Ye Haochuan suddenly paused, because he realized that blocking all the steel needle attacks hadn’t consumed as much spiritual energy as he expected.

The attack power of these steel needles could not even be stopped by a Treasure-Level Mid-Stage Ghost Pattern Shield, so how could it be so easily intercepted? No matter how he looked at it, it seemed unreasonable!

But the next moment, he suddenly realized.

There was no spiritual energy fluctuation in these steel needles, which meant their attack power was entirely due to their material composition.

In other words, the strength of these steel needles lay in their own sharpness, possessing a strong piercing ability, which is why they punctured the Ghost Pattern Shield.

Fortunately, the defensive method of the Heaven-Penetrating Barrier is different from that of a protective shield.

The protective shield is formed by spiritual energy into a barrier, like reinforced tempered glass, solid and tangible. It can’t withstand head-on against steel needles.

But the Heaven-Penetrating Barrier is shapeless and formless, eroding the momentum of the steel needles. Once the momentum is lost, no matter how sharp they are, they can’t cause harm.

Understanding this, Ye Haochuan was enlightened. Just in time, the second wave of attacks approached, and Ye Haochuan blocked it again with Heaven-Penetrating Barrier, indeed consuming only little spiritual energy.

Damn, if I had known using Heaven-Penetrating Barrier was this easy, I wouldn’t have struggled so much earlier, Ye Haochuan thought bitterly to himself.

With the crisis over, Ye Haochuan suddenly became interested in the steel needles. He wanted to see what material these incredibly sharp needles were made of.

He was about to pick up a few steel needles to examine them, but he realized that the densely packed steel needles had all mysteriously vanished without a trace.

”What’s going on?” Ye Haochuan was very puzzled.

When he had dispelled the steel needles, the ground was covered with a thick layer. But in his haste to focus on dispelling them, he hadn’t picked any up to inspect. Now, not a single needle was left on the ground.

At the same time, he noticed that after the two waves of attacks failed to significantly threaten him, the steel needles had stopped firing.

”This place is bizarre!” Ye Haochuan couldn’t help but exclaim.

He wanted to probe the situation, but his Perspective Eyes couldn’t be used here. He tried cutting into the surrounding stone walls, but as soon as he did, the whole passage shook violently as if it was about to collapse.

Alarmed, Ye Haochuan quickly sheathed his sword and continued to move forward.

He didn’t manage to collect any steel needles, but he wasn’t completely out of luck. Nearly a thousand were still stuck in the Tortoise Pattern Shield.

He casually pulled one out and examined it closely. Each steel needle had an intricate pattern on it.

He tried to snap it but found the steel needle extraordinarily sturdy. He used almost all his strength but couldn’t break the finger-thick needle.

”Hmm? By the look of it, the material should be pretty ordinary?” Ye Haochuan was even more perplexed; how could common materials possess such power?

”Could it be because of this pattern?” The more Ye Haochuan looked at it, the more he thought it plausible. The pattern was quite remarkable.

Typically, any weapon would have some patterns when forged. But it’s his first time seeing such a complicated pattern as on this steel needle.

Ye Haochuan could only speculate, having no one to answer him. This only increased his curiosity about the place.

Passing through the steel needle area, Ye Haochuan cautiously moved forward. The steel needles just now had been extraordinary, so he wondered what the next line of defense would be.

Strangely, Ye Haochuan walked for over ten minutes without encountering any threats.

He was starting to relax his vigilance when suddenly everything began to shake violently. The walls of the passage ahead started closing in towards the center. In just a moment, the passage was completely blocked.

Simultaneously, the wall on his left slowly split open, gradually forming a new passageway.

Damn it, what is this?

Ye Haochuan furrowed his brows tightly.

One path vanished suddenly, another suddenly appeared. Which one was right and which one was wrong?

Judging from the previous steel needle assault, if he lacked sufficient means to respond and chose the wrong path, he could potentially be doomed with no chance of escape.

He didn’t rush to choose but remained in place, observing carefully.

”How foolish, truly foolish!”

Ye Haochuan suddenly shook his head, ridiculing himself, ”I could have mapped out the course of the secret passage above. Why did I have to challenge through one checkpoint after another down here?”

With that, he suddenly stabbed upward with the Divine Concealment Sword, cutting open rocks, digging through soil, and emerged back on the surface.

After emerging, he realized that where he had entered the passage was less than a hundred meters away.

He couldn’t help but chuckle bitterly. That hundred meters had put him through ten minutes of arduous challenge, which was truly absurd.

With Perspective Eyes open again, Ye Haochuan marked all the areas he couldn’t see through on a paper, forming an approximate layout.

”It seems like the direction I was heading in was correct; the other side only extends a few hundred meters into the secret passage. But going forward, it becomes increasingly complex.”

Having confirmed the direction, Ye Haochuan quickly advanced along the direction of the secret passage on the surface.

After traveling several thousand meters, he suddenly discovered that the strip stones above this position in the secret passage could be clearly observed from above. Through those stones, Ye Haochuan discovered a large arrow on the inner wall of the passage.

Smiling inwardly, he withdrew his Perspective, glanced at the ground, and saw a withered tree stump there.

”So it’s here!” Ye Haochuan chuckled bitterly.

This location must be where the map had indicated the presence of five locust trees. But who knows how long it’s been; all five trees have disappeared, leaving only one stump. This was why Ye Haochuan hadn’t found it earlier.

Even though he found the map-indicated entrance, Ye Haochuan didn’t rush to enter but continued exploring along the mapped out course.

But not far from there, there was a cold pond. If he entered from within the water, it might cause the pond water to flood the secret passage, potentially triggering some kind of reaction.

Moreover, the path below became exceptionally complex, and under Perspective, the entire area was blurry, making it impossible to discern clearly.

”Forget it, better to enter from the marked place on the map. Who knows what kind of dangers still lie ahead!”