Chapter 299 - 115 【Demons and Ghosts in the Secret Realm】（8200 words）_3
"It’s human skin!" Chen Yan whispered, "These four kabukis are draped in human skin made with some unknown spell! No wonder I always felt a deathly aura from them."
After the skin fell off, the bodies of the four kabukis turned into pitch-black skeletons!
The skeletons weren’t damaged at all under the burning ghost fire, and after the ghost fire dispersed, the four skeletons slowly bowed, then retreated out of the hall with their butts raised.
The elderly man with long hair laughed loudly, "What a skill! Truly a marvelous skill!"
As he spoke, he picked up the wine bottle on the table, took a swig, letting the wine dribble from the corners of his mouth, staining his clothes, but he didn’t care and just shook his head and sighed, "Astounding craftsmanship! The technique of skinning and refining human skin, it’s simply admirable!"
At this moment, two puppet servants dressed in black walked in past the screen at the door. They bent over and walked to the center, one puppet holding a golden melon hammer, and the other carrying a copper gong the size of a washbasin.
After the two puppets walked to the center, they struck the copper gong three times.
After the three gongs sounded, the guests at a few tables instinctively sat up straight, even the casually postured elderly man with long hair ceased his laughter, his smile froze as he stared coldly at the two puppets.
The two puppet servants straightened up and began to speak in a dull, mechanical tone.
With Chu Keqing leaning against Chen Yan, whispering translations into his ear, Chen Yan finally understood what the two puppets were saying.
"Thank you all distinguished guests for coming! The welcome banquet concludes here.
Next, we will ask the distinguished guests to return to the rooms on the second floor for rest, the trial will officially begin in one hour.
The trial time will last thirty-six hours after it starts, and the Secret Realm is now closed starting from the end of the banquet!
Any guests who did not make it to the banquet will be unable to enter and have regrettably lost the qualification for this trial."
The puppet looked around at everyone and continued slowly, "It is an honor to welcome seven groups of distinguished guests, and now I will announce the specific rules of the trial:
During the trial, all guests already in the trial, under no circumstances, may stop the trial or leave the Secret Realm.
Guests can use any abilities here, including all cultivation techniques, spells, equipment, shikigami, and spiritual objects.
The rules of the trial are very simple: survive for thirty-six hours, and you will be considered to have passed the trial. Each survivor who passes the trial will receive a gift from the Secret Realm Master.
To avoid misunderstandings, there is no limit to the number of winners in the trial, and the quality of the gifts will not be affected by the number of winners!
This point is made clear because the Secret Realm Master does not encourage guests in the trial to kill each other—of course, the Secret Realm Master will not oppose or intervene either."
After the two puppet servants loudly announced this, they paused for a moment, then the puppet on the left holding the golden melon hammer separately spoke, "These are the rules of this trial, do the distinguished guests have any questions?"
"So, may I understand that I can do anything here! Anything! The only rule is to survive for thirty-six hours, is that right?"
The one who spoke was the guest in military general armor, his voice muffled by his helmet.
"Yes." The golden melon hammer puppet immediately bowed and responded, "The guest can do anything here."
"Including dismantling this building or doing damage to the Secret Realm?"
"Of course, as long as you can do it," the puppet replied in a very mechanical tone.
Swoosh!
The military general armor suddenly stretched out a large hand, drawing a long sword from his back! He chopped it down directly!
A whirlwind whipped up, a sharp glow burst forth from the blade, shooting straight ahead, passing between the two tables of big-headed dolls and white-clothed tall-hatted guests opposite him!
The sword light directly struck the right wall of the hall, but only a faint gray glow seemed to squirm on the wall, and in an instant, the sword light was devoured, vanishing silently without a trace, and not even a speck of wall skin was damaged.
"Fool." The elderly man with long hair sneered, "A first-timer in the trial here, did you think the Secret Realm could be so easily destroyed by you!"
The military general armor ignored the elderly man, just sheathed his sword, nodded, and said in his muffled voice, "I have no more questions."
The golden melon hammer puppet slowly said, "Does any other distinguished guest have any questions?"
The elderly man with long hair slowly stood up, and coldly said, "Guests who passed the trial last time can choose their rooms first, I haven’t remembered that wrong, right?"
The golden melon hammer puppet nodded and bowed, "Yes, Mr. Kiyoda, as per the rules, you are one of the guests who passed the trial last time, you can choose your room first."
The elderly man nodded and squinted at the girl in the student uniform with long black straight hair right across from him.
He shouted in a loud voice, "Hey! From the Xisang Family, which room do you want? I can let you choose first for your father’s sake."
The girl in the black long straight-haired student outfit, is she really also a winner from the last trial? Chen Yan instinctively glanced in that direction.