My daughter has been possessed.

Chapter 32 The Bronze Key

The sudden breakage of the bronze balance startled Li Jiuhe, who thought something had gone wrong again.

After he looked closely, he noticed something protruding from the broken section. Upon closer inspection, he discovered it appeared to be a bronze key.

The key was very long, reaching two-thirds the length of his arm.

If the enormous scales hadn't broken, no one would have discovered that the bronze key was hidden inside.

Li Jiuhe's heart stirred, recalling the towering February 7th Morning Bell standing in the square, which had a shape resembling a huge keyhole at the top center.

At this moment, text appeared again before them, the reward for completing the Morning Palace puzzle.

With both tasks completed and the bronze key now revealed, Li Jiuhe guessed that using the key to open the lock on the morning bell might allow him to leave this place.

He immediately moved closer, grabbed the key with both hands, pulled it out sharply, and held it in his arms.

But just then, a familiar cold snort suddenly rang out from above.

"Again?"

Li Jiuhe was startled and looked up to see that the three-meter-tall stone figure had come to life and was skillfully picking up the huge weight.

Although he didn't know what caused it, Li Jiuhe immediately grabbed the keys and ran away.

However, at the same time, he had already defined his current mission as escaping the pursuit and successfully getting away.

Although I had a vague feeling that the task at hand was too sudden and the definition might be a bit late, there was nothing I could do about it.

After the stone man revived, he began hunting him down again.

Now, Li Jiuhe's strength, speed, and agility are terrifying. The stone man behind him keeps chasing and throwing huge weights, but he can't even touch the hem of Li Jiuhe's clothes.

In the blink of an eye, they had run more than two laps in the morning hall. Under Li Jiuhe's control, the distance between them remained at twenty meters.

However, Li Jiuhe's ears twitched quickly, and he noticed something was amiss.

Another heavy footstep was rapidly approaching the Morning Palace. Turning his head to look outside the palace gate, his pupils shrank instantly, and he saw that the stone man from the Dark Palace next door had actually left the Dark Palace and appeared directly at the entrance of the Morning Palace!

Without pausing, the stone figure stepped into the morning palace gate and headed towards the scales.

Li Jiuhe immediately realized that his action of pulling out the bronze key might have activated a mechanism, causing the two stone figures to come back to life at the same time.

Then the stone figure in the dark palace grabbed the black iron chain that belonged to him from the balance tray, skillfully wrapped it around his body, and then chased after Li Jiuhe while holding one end of the chain.

Li Jiuhe secretly realized something was wrong.

Although he was able to evade the pursuit of one of the stone men, if the two surrounded and intercepted him, he might be killed very soon.

Moreover, the area of ​​the Morning Palace is always limited, and when faced with a pincer attack, his space for movement will be instantly suppressed.

"No, we can't stay in the Morning Palace."

Seeing that the stone figure in the Dusk Hall could emerge and even cross the boundary to enter the Morning Hall, Li Jiuhe concluded that the rules between the two halls might have been broken the moment the bronze key appeared, and could no longer be followed.

Since that guy was able to get out, I should be able to leave the Morning Palace now as well.

Thinking of this, he changed direction and rushed towards the entrance of the Morning Hall before the two stone figures could form a pincer attack on him.

Whoosh!

Boom!

The sounds of chains and weights striking each other echoed behind him, sending pebbles flying, but this did not slow down his escape from the Morning Palace.

After suddenly darting out, there was no feeling of being electrocuted, indicating that the previous rules had indeed been broken.

Li Jiuhe didn't stop and immediately ran towards the huge 27 Morning Bell in the center of the square.

He needed to hurry and insert the bronze key into the lock slightly above the morning bell.

The two stone figures behind them immediately gave chase. Once they reached the open space, they swung their arms around the ground, their movements becoming much larger and their speed increasing dramatically.

Li Jiuhe, relying on his greatly improved physical abilities during this period, rushed to the front and got closer and closer to the morning bell. He could already clearly see the keyhole on the top of the bell.

A quick comparison with the key in his hand revealed that the size was just right, confirming that his judgment was correct.

At this moment, the two stone figures chasing from behind did not run in a straight line, but began to run to the left and right, as if they were trying to encircle Li Jiuhe.

In that case, he would be attacked from both sides by the two stone men not long after he arrived at the Morning Bell of the Second Seventh.

Using the momentum of his sprint, Li Jiuhe stepped onto the surface of the morning bell, leaped up, and inserted the key into the hole.

Without any deviation, the bronze key fit perfectly into the keyhole, and because Li Jiuhe was very strong, it went all the way in.

The morning bell on the 27th was over four meters high. Li Jiuhe held the key in his hands and hung in mid-air, but found that there was no reaction.

He then realized that he should turn the key to make it work, but since he was suspended in mid-air, it was inconvenient to use it for leverage.

Almost subconsciously, Li Jiuhe consumed one time anchor point to set the start point of the next reset at this moment.

If the mission fails this time, he can choose to reset from the start of the mission in the Morning Palace, or he can reset directly from this moment.

Setting the reset time anchor point was completed in the blink of an eye. Then, with his feet on the morning bell and his hands holding the bronze key, he tried to rotate it to the right.

Because it was difficult to get leverage, and the keyhole had probably not been used for a long time, although it could be turned, the turning speed was extremely slow.

Even with Li Jiuhe's terrifying strength, which has increased several times over, he could only slowly turn the key.

He had only twisted half a circle when two stone figures attacked from the left and right, chains piercing through his head while a weight slammed down on him.

Li Jiuhe had no choice but to quickly release the key, and he fell to the ground.

However, during his fall, although he dodged the chains, he was still hit on the right leg by the weight.

Even after quickly releasing the force, the leg had already become limping.

After landing, I quickly ran forward a couple of steps and found that my mobility had been greatly reduced.

The chain then turned a corner and came crashing down on his head again.

"That won't do! I shouldn't have turned the key; I should have dodged the attack first."

With a thought, Li Jiuhe reset the mission, returning directly to the moment he inserted the key into the lock.

Knowing that the key was difficult to turn, he didn't try this time. Instead, he immediately let go and started running around the square.

The stone man, which was preparing to attack from both sides, immediately gave chase.

The key was left in the lock. Li Jiuhe ran around once and once again distanced himself from the two stone figures.

He quickly returned to the morning bell, and with the force of his forward momentum, he leaped up, grabbed the key, stepped on the bell with both feet, and quickly twisted.

However, he could only twist half a circle before letting go and falling again. He turned and fled before the two stone men could attack.

At this moment, he consumed one time anchor point again, setting the moment after half a rotation as the new selectable reset point.