Category: Nine Rings

Chapter
Nine Rings C110
by MarineTL — Chapter 110: The Lotus Statue The light of the fire starter flickered in the stone passage. I stood alone before the stone wall. I didn't know the exact time, but it felt like a long time had passed. I had felt every inch of the gaps in the stone wall, and there was no doubt it was a single, solid piece. The surface was smooth, with no signs of mechanisms or grooves. Baldy had found a stick from somewhere and was tapping it on the ground out of boredom. The contact between the stick and the floor…
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Nine Rings C109
by MarineTL — Chapter 109: The Wrong Path Fifteen minutes to memorize an entire map was no simple feat, especially since the structure was frustratingly complex. After Qiao Sangui finished speaking, I squeezed my eyes shut, forcing my brain to stay calm, then quickly looked down to start memorizing. When a person focuses intently on a single task, time always seems to slip away with inexplicable speed. After carefully examining every section of the map, I had essentially committed it to memory. As soon as the…
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Nine Rings C108
by MarineTL — Chapter 108: The Underground Palace The second before I lost consciousness, in addition to the sight of Tian Xiaoqi moving as if in slow motion, there was an incredibly crisp sound. It was the noise of stone colliding with stone, accompanied by the heavy rumble of a mechanism being triggered. The entire mountain began to vibrate. A piece of rubble struck me squarely, and with a sharp pain in my shoulder, I quickly drifted into oblivion. However, I woke up soon after. Unlike previous times, I was…
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Nine Rings C107
by MarineTL — Chapter 107: Poisoning and Murder He Yu was still jumping around, complaining about how we had ruined him. He grumbled that he was already having a run of bad luck, and now that we had used the explosives he provided to blow the Buddha statue to smithereens, he would probably choke on a sip of cold water from now on. I retorted, telling him that since he knew he had been down on his luck for so many years, praying to Buddha clearly hadn't done him any good. I suggested we try a different approach,…
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Chapter
Nine Rings C106
by MarineTL — Chapter 106: Blowing up the Buddha The Soul-Suppressing Pagoda. I understood it as a stone tower meant for suppressing and performing the Transcendence Ritual for the souls of the dead. Lu A'yao told me that the incantations chiseled into the pagoda were actually the text of the Diamond Sutra. Logically, the chanting I heard was likely meant for lonely spirits. "What do you mean? Why can't any of you hear it, but I can?" I protested. I wondered if the Bodhisattva thought my soul was impure and wanted…
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Nine Rings C105
by MarineTL — Chapter 105: Inside the Pagoda 3 Mentioning this, we all fell into a collective silence. He Yu shot me several meaningful looks, and as we stared at each other, I knew we both had plenty of theories. However, since we had tacitly agreed that Tian Xiaoqi was an outsider, we could not voice those thoughts right now. Tian Xiaoqi spoke with such sincerity that I decided to believe her for the time being. As Tian Xiao's biological grandson, Tian Yuqing had been sent abroad by his grandfather before he…
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Chapter
Nine Rings C104
by MarineTL — Chapter 104 Inside the Pagoda 2 Despite this, I still hoped He Yu would put the knife down, but he refused, saying he felt more at ease "interrogating" with the blade already in place. People in this line of work really love their weapons, and I couldn't talk him out of it at all. So, as soon as Tian Xiaoqi regained even a shred of consciousness, He Yu pinned her shoulder with one hand, the sharp blade of the combat knife resting against the fabric of her collar, a technique used to prevent…
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Nine Rings C103
by MarineTL — Chapter 103: Inside the Pagoda 1 The hook at the top of the pagoda kept making that hair-raising sound. After some thought, I decided to climb up and take a look, but these five flights of stairs were quite a challenge to navigate with only one good leg. Besides, ever since I had been bound by that mycelium, I felt as though I couldn't muster any strength in my body. I gripped the ladder and hauled myself upward. It was pitch black inside the stone pagoda. As I climbed, a faint sound of chanting…
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