Chapter 1166: The Team's Name

Xu Yang smiled. "There's no need to consider this question further. Let's call it 'Eight Gates.' Since we all escaped from the Eight Gates Death Prison in Lover's City, 'Eight Gates' is the perfect name."

Everyone smiled, agreeing that the name perfectly suited their situation and their shared destiny. "Eight Gates Unbound, Live and Die Together!"

A Nuo was the first to declare the team's ultimate motto, then extended his palm. At the same time, everyone reached out their right hands and stacked them together. They encouraged each other, as if rekindling the passionate fighting spirit and desire for glory they had lost on the battlefield years ago.

"Alright, Boss, everything is ready except for the last crucial step," someone said. "We need your clear guidance on how to resolve our current predicament! More importantly, we don't know much about these mechanisms. If we act rashly, we might alert the enemy. What are your thoughts on this?"

Xu Yang shook his head with a wry smile. "To understand the operational patterns of the mechanisms here, there must be a starting point. That means I need to first trigger and observe the release rhythm and layout of the initial set of mechanisms before I can deduce the subsequent dangers. Since we haven't encountered a single mechanism yet, I can't give an accurate judgment at this stage."

Hearing this, the "Little One" smiled, jumped, and was the first to rush forward. It was this action that allowed Xu Yang and Xiao Hua to witness the astonishing speed of the little fellow. "Hahaha, it seems this Little One is really something!"

Just as Xiao Hua's words fell, and before anyone could quite grasp what had happened, the little fellow, who usually maintained a neat appearance despite his cute looks, returned. To everyone's amusement and embarrassment, he was struck by seven or eight aluminum arrows, resembling a small, disheveled hedgehog. Though messy, he was utterly hilarious.

"Hahaha, Little One, what happened to you? Did you trigger a mechanism?" Xiao Hua, unable to stop himself due to his speed, tentatively asked, making a guess. However, he received a completely opposite answer from the little fellow.

"Pretty lady, you're really underestimating my abilities," the little one replied. "You don't know that another one of my supernatural powers is physical virtualization. Not only can I use it for invisibility, but I can also become immune to physical attacks within a certain range of intensity. Therefore, these arrows caused me no substantial harm whatsoever. Look!"

As soon as he finished speaking, he swiftly pulled out all the arrows embedded in his body. Then, his body remarkably recovered in the shortest time, like a living rubber candy, possessing an incredibly strange healing ability. As for where his vitality originated, even Xu Yang couldn't immediately determine.

"I deliberately proceeded down the first tunnel to the left, triggering some arrow mechanisms," he explained. "Captain A Yang, take a look at this layout map of the mechanisms I've outlined. See if it can provide you with some guidance. I'll draw it out."

He quickly outlined the map on the ground with a finger, and soon a complete layout of the arrow mechanisms appeared before Xu Yang. At that moment, Xu Yang unhesitatingly activated his Ghost Valley Qimen Formation field. Based on the mechanism diagram outlined by the little fellow, he quickly determined that the first tunnel on the left was located in the "Kan" position under the Ghost Valley Qimen formation's alignment!

"Hahaha, I see!" Xu Yang exclaimed. "If the clue you provided is accurate, Little One, then I can now almost certainly determine that the correct path to the next exit is the third passage on the right-hand side."

Xu Yang raised a finger and pointed to the empty tunnel behind them, immediately causing confusion among the other members of the Eight Gates team. "Boss, are you sure that's the right answer? Haven't you noticed that almost every other tunnel around here is heavily guarded, while this one has always remained completely quiet? It should logically be the least likely exit!"

Xu Yang burst into laughter. "Listening to you, I can understand why the Central Domain Royal Family managed to annihilate your De Ke clan. What you lack isn't strength, but a true brain, a leader. No wonder your clan's civilization rapidly declined after your guardian left."

"But now that you have me as your team leader, you no longer need to worry about that problem. As long as you absolutely follow my guidance, I guarantee you will achieve a true rebirth."

Of course, everyone had absolute trust in Xu Yang because his and Xiao Hua's strength far surpassed that of the others, giving them no reason to deceive them. As expected, after hearing Xu Yang's words, they all unhesitatingly chose to follow Boss Xu Yang's lead, quickly advancing down the passage where hardly any guards were visible.

However, they soon understood a crucial reason. Although there were no visible guards on this path, the mechanisms hidden here were far more powerful and concealed than those in other tunnels, continuously firing various hidden arrows with elemental energy fluctuations.

As the team proceeded, they almost used every skill they had, furiously counterattacking the hidden weapons unleashed around them. They passed through more than a dozen tunnel sections in the shortest possible time.

"Stop! Nobody move without my order!" Xu Yang's gaze was fixed on the seemingly ordinary stone door before them, as if facing a formidable enemy. No one else in the team dared to make a move.

However, their confusion only deepened. It was just a normal stone door, and they couldn't sense any powerful aura fluctuations around it. How could it be the true source of danger?

Unbeknownst to them, in the positioning of Xu Yang's Ghost Valley Qimen Grand Formation, he had astonishingly discovered that behind this stone door lay the exact center of the "Rest Gate." In areas arranged with such mechanisms and secret passages, the very center of the Rest Gate had always been where the most powerful hidden weapons were sealed.

Furthermore, Xu Yang had already determined in advance that opening this stone door would undoubtedly activate a deadly mechanism capable of affecting the entire defense system of Lover's City.