Chapter 975

Chapter 975: The Man in a Bronze Ding

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There was red soil inside the bronze ding . It smelled like blood, and someone had been buried beneath it .

The head and the hair of a man was all that was left uncovered by the soil . As Han Sen looked, the man's pale face seemed to be looking at him .

The man's eyes were white, and they had no pupils . It was a chilling sight, and he could have easily been mistaken for a demon .

Han Sen could not tell whether it was a human or a spirit . He couldn't detect a lifeforce, but it was so curious and unnerving to think a person had been buried there, so far underground, inside a ding .

Han Sen gulped, as he was getting rather creeped out .

When he regathered his composure, he sought to check the man out and see if he could learn more . His preliminary examination told him that the man had a pretty face, and he was wearing jade earrings . That was all he could see .

"Who is this man? And why has he been buried here?" Han Sen flew away from the ding and saw a folding screen . Moving past it, his eyes were greeted with the sight of a stone hall .

In there, Han Sen noted the presence of several stone statues . They were all demonic-looking in their imagery . But he didn't know which demons they depicted, as they didn't at all look familiar to Han Sen .

Towards the end was a stone table, and atop it, a grey box . Han Sen approached it, and noticed it was open . The lid was slightly ajar .

Through that gap, he saw that a bone was inside it .

Han Sen magnetized the box towards him and fully opened the lid to get a look at the bone that was within . Much to his surprise, he realized that it was actually a rubik's cube that had been crafted from bone .

This wasn't an average rubik's cube, though . It was six-sided, and none of its surfaces were color-coded . In place of colors, there were many symbols that were foreign to Han Sen .

After a thorough count, he learned there were one hundred faces for the rubik's cube .

Creating a rubik's cube that was so small, yet so dense and complex, was not something of average craft . It would require the precision of high technological advancements and machinery .

If you could complete and solve a simpler rubik's cube, you could do this one . The only difference being, with this level of complexity, it'd take far more time .

If you could complete and solve a simpler rubik's cube, you could do this one . The only difference being, with this level of complexity, it'd take far more time .

And with only foreign symbols for an indication of which face aligned with what, minus any easier-to-discern colors, it was sure to be far harder .

With ten-thousand faces to unmuddle, it was to be a real headscratcher . And it was most certainly not a puzzle that could be solved by any average human .

Thinking it quite interesting, Han Sen wanted to keep it . After another examination, to espy whether or not there was any danger associated with the item, he deemed it okay to take . Swiftly, he pocketed the puzzle .

When he got back, he fancied completing it through the use of a computer . He figured there was no point in exhausting actual brainpower to solve it .

All Han Sen worried about was whether or not the bone that had been used to craft the rubik's cube had come from a creature . If it had been, he couldn't return to the Alliance with it .

Han Sen decided to leave the stone hall, and just as he was to pass the screen, he was delivered a fright . Standing atop that screen was the man he had previously seen buried inside the ding . He was staring at Han Sen .

"Are you a man or are you a spirit?" Han Sen eyed the man suspiciously, as he drew his blood dagger .

The clothes the man was wearing did not seem like any uniform belonging to the Alliance . There were many plates of black metal across his attire, but they looked soft . His garb was strange .

The man did not answer . He reached out his hand towards Han Sen's neck with a sudden burst of speed .

The man did not answer . He reached out his hand towards Han Sen's neck with a sudden burst of speed .

Han Sen's face changed in acknowledgement of this, and a blaze of phoenix fire enveloped the dagger in his hands . He struck forth with it and slashed the man's outstretched hand .

Dong!

When his blade collided with the man's skin, it sounded as if Han Sen had just struck metal . The dagger bounced off the man's hand, and with a sudden reversal of power, Han Sen was sent flying backwards into the stone walls of the hall .

The white-eyed man sought to attack Han Sen again before he could recover, so Han Sen summoned his Dragon-Blood Snake to defend him .

Pang!

The white-eyed man created a hole directly through the Dragon-Blood Snake . The creature squealed in pain .

Fortunately, it was a strong and powerful beast soul . It was able to withstand the hit, and it'd take more than that to bring it down .

But the white-eyed man had no interest in fighting the Dragon-Blood Snake . After his initial attack on the creature, the man moved past the reeling beast soul and went after Han Sen again .

Using his dongxuan movements, Han Sen repeatedly slashed the man with a storm of black fire strikes .

But the white-eyed man had no interest in fighting the Dragon-Blood Snake . After his initial attack on the creature, the man moved past the reeling beast soul and went after Han Sen again .

Using his dongxuan movements, Han Sen repeatedly slashed the man with a storm of black fire strikes .

But no matter where it landed, each hit was useless . He even attacked the man's face, but it was all to no avail .

The man closed the distance between them with an attack of his own, and Han Sen was too late to dodge it . The flesh of his shoulder was torn, and the gash instantly wept blood .

"Who are you!?" Han Sen asked again .

Against this enemy, Dragon-Blood Snake was all but useless . And even if he employed his super king spirit mode, Han Sen wagered he'd still be weaker than the man .

Realizing he could not beat this foe, all Han Sen wanted to do now was escape . The landscape, and its winding tunnels, were maze-like this far below the earth . If he was quick enough, there was a chance he could lose the man .

But that was a big if . The man was incredibly fast, and Han Sen was unsure whether or not he could compete with him . Already, that speed was being employed to prevent Han Sen's departure .

After a few more evasions, Han Sen's chest was slashed . When the man's middle finger came back into view, it dripped with Han Sen's blood .