《Labyrinth Master's Cultivation Log》 Chapter 1 - Should I welcome them? ???: Senior Feng! Feng: I hear you! A long-haired girl in her twenties who is wearing a mixture of light blue and dark blue silk robe spoke after turning around to face another girl who is wearing a light pink silk robe. ???: I thought you will be lost in your thoughts again Feng: Xin Caisun, is that the way you speak to your senior? Xin: I am sorry, Senior Feng. Feng: Hmph Feng Lanlian turns back to the original direction and continues walking ahead. Xin: Senior Feng, shouldn''t we just wait in one place for other sect members to come and find us? Xin spoke as she continues to follow her senior from behind. Feng: Xin, you still don''t get it, do you? Xin: Huh? Feng: Do you remember what I have said? Xin: You said that this white fog is abnormal. Feng: And? Xin: This forest area is used for sect member training and there is no white fog mentioned after the sect members returned from training. Feng And then? Xin: We are unable to advance further into the forest for seven days and the white fog has not disappeared. Feng: And what does that mean? Xin: This white fog is either created by our sect to prevent us from advancing further or by someone else who is preventing us from advancing. Feng: I take back what I said. Feng stopped in her tracks.Stolen content warning: this content belongs on Royal Road. Report any occurrences. Xin: Eh? What''s wrong? Feng: Until now, I have not detected any abnormal objects that indicate we are in an illusion formation. Feng: And don''t forget. Our sect skills focus mainly on sword styles and sword formation. There is no way our sect could come up with an illusion formation like this. Xin: So does that mean there is... Xin''s mouth was covered by one of Feng''s hands. Feng: Skies have eyes and trees have ears. Be careful with your words, Got it? Xin nodded her head, with her mouth still covered. Feng: Good. Feng removed her hand and Xin began to speak. Xin: Senior, Wouldn''t other sects know about this? Feng: Our sect''s sword formations... Feng: Who''s there!? Feng quickly looked around her surroundings and could only see the white fog and shades of trees. Xin: What happen? Feng: I thought I feel someone eavesdropping on us. We should stop talking now and find ways to advance. Xin: Okay. // ???: Scary, this woman''s intuition is scary. A man who is in his twenties is watching the conversation between two women from a screen that has thin transparent gray border around it. Nicholas Huangfu, also known as Huangfu Meng is a thirty-year-old mountaineer and loves climbing mountains, especially snow mountains. He also owned a small business that sold mountain gear at common places where mountaineers gather. Meng was climbing one of his favorite snow mountains before he falls over from a slippery edge into a snow hole. The safety rope that he has attached saved him from having broken limbs but before he even touches the bottom of the snow hole, he was transported into a black vortex. When Meng woke from his another world transportation, he found himself in another person''s body. His modern clothing and mountaineer gears are replaced by brown robes and straw shoes which are worn by farmers in ancient Chinese dynasties. Meng himself also noticed his long hair is bundled on top of his head with a straw rope. Before he could undress and check the condition of his body, a transparent gray window with black Chinese letters appears before him. Core: Revival operation is successful. Core: No abnormalities detected after core merging. Core: Innate ability "Master and Core as One" has been added. Meng''s thoughts: Master and Core as One? what does that do? Answering his thoughts, another window brought up the ability description. Core: Ability Name: Master and Core as One Core: Ability Type: Innate Core: Ability Description: The Labyrinth disappears into the Master if the Master exits the Labyrinth. Should the Master returns, the location that the Master disappear from will become a Labyrinth Gate. The design of the Labyrinth Gate will change according to the surrounding environment and climate. Meng''s thoughts: So this is the legendary system which is often written in fictions. I guess I have to live with this. Meng''s thoughts: I wonder If I can check the body condition using the system? Answering his thoughts again, another window brought up his status window. Core: Name: Huangfu Meng, Nicholas Core: Health: 100% / Level: 1 Core: Race: Labyrinth Master / Race Type: New Core: Occupation: Merchant, Mountaineer Core: Abilities: Master and Core as One (Lv 1) Meng''s thoughts: THAT''s ALL!? I was hoping for more. Meng retorts in his mind. Returning from his recollection, Meng is still staring at the screen. Meng: Should I welcome them? Chapter 2 - Are we going to die here? // The female cultivators shownon the screen are not the first visitors but can be considered as the first human visitors that enter his labyrinth. His first visitors are creatures and demons. They are either looking for shelter or food. Meng made use of his Labyrinth Gate, giving it magical camouflage effect using Labyrinth Points (LP). Those visitors enter the gate without knowing what fate awaits them. Meng would wait untilthe creatures and demons fight against each other to survive before activating magical mud golems to kill them. The formation which Meng set in the first forest dungeon of the Labyrinth was neither a spiritualformation nor a magical formation. Core: Formation Name: Stone Sentinel Maze Core: Formation Type: Military Core: Formation Target Type: Anti-Team Core: Formation Creator: Zhuge Kongming Core: Formation Description: The formation has the ability to cause delusional vision and hearing to whoever enters it. Activation of ability and type of delusiondepend on the user''s choice. Even though it is mentioned as stone sentinel maze, the formation does not really need piles of stones and large boulders as formation points.Meng would prefer getting Formation Mastery and Stone Sentinel Maze Formation Planning but he had to be thrifty. In the end, he bought the formation plate at a cheaper cost instead. As long as the formation points are adjacent to the formation plate, the military formation will be automatically set up. Once trees became the formation points, Wooden Sentinel Maze is set up instead of Stone Sentinel Maze. The formation description remains unchanged. Meng also merged the formation plate with a magical mud golem and left it activated while the golem is deactivated. Magical mud golem has the ability to bury into the land when deactivated, preventing anyone from finding the plate. Speaking ofLabyrinth Points (LP), Meng was at first not sure how he can obtain LP and only noticed he could get them by eating or drinking from outside theLabyrinth. He did not spend any LP to buy any food and drinks. Meng''s thoughts: Does that mean I have no need for the toilet? Meng decided to experiment by becoming a glutton and ended up gaining a few levels and some LP. Meng''s thoughts: Did I just discover a cheat? Meng moved on to experiment by gathering stuff from outside and putting them inside the Labyrinth. Stuff like normal wood and grass that are piled up ondifferent spots would give Meng a gray window asking him whether if he would like to store them or convert those to LP but stuff like piles of spiritual wood and leaves, a gray window would appear asking whether if he want to store them or covert them to LP or experience points (EXP).If you encounter this tale on Amazon, note that it''s taken without the author''s consent. Report it. Meng''s thoughts: Another leveling cheat discovered. Meng''s thoughts shifted to whether he could cultivate using the same cheats. A gray window appeared answering his thoughts. Core: Experience points cannot be used for leveling cultivation. Only cultivation points (CP) can be used. Core: Due to Labyrinth Master''s body condition,Labyrinth Master will not be able to cultivate immortality (Xian). Meng''s thoughts: EH!? Wouldn''t I die of aging or something? Core: Labyrinth Master does not age. Meng''s thoughts: In other words, I am a monster who has achieved immortality without cultivating. Core: Correction: Labyrinth Master can be killed. Meng''s thoughts:............Right. So I can be killed even I am immortal. Meng''s thoughts: Wait! Cultivation points? Didn''t you say I cannot cultivate immortality? Core: Correction: Other cultivation is possible. Meng''s thoughts: Such as? Core: Martial Cultivation. Meng''s thoughts: Isn''t that the same? Wouldn''t the martial path also lead to immortal cultivation? That''s what Meng thought from his own knowledge of fictions which he read. Most of the protagonists of the fictions ended up entering immortal cultivation using the martial path. Core: Correction: The martial path can also enter other cultivation. Meng''s thoughts: Satanic (Mo) Cultivation? Core: Correction: Due to Labyrinth Master''s body condition,Labyrinth Master is also unable to cultivate satanity. Meng''s thoughts: This also cannot and that also cannot. What cultivation can I main? Core: Divine (Shen) Cultivation. Meng had already entered the forest dungeon while recalling the conversation he had with the Core. Meng''s thoughts: Camouflage Mode Meng''s appearance started to become semi-transparent before switching to colors that could allow him to blend in with the surroundings. Meng then activated the magical tree golems hiding in plain sight. Magical treegolems are mistaken as trees when they are deactivated. When they started showing theirglowing eyes and extending limbs, their locations are revealed. Tree golems began advancing and surrounding the two female cultivators. Xin and Feng summons their swords from their spatial rings and stood guard against the tree golems. One of the tree golems took a swing at Feng''s blind spot and Xin managed to deflect it with her sword. Feng took advantage of the moment to climb up the tree golem and cut off the head. Xin: What are these things? Feng: Puppets....no, they are more like living creatures. Xin: Should we call for help? Feng: Do it Xin summons a jadestone from her spatial ring and breaks it. Core: Spiritual Signal Detected. Meng''s thoughts: Block it Core: Spiritual Signal Blocked. Meng is watching the girls fighting the tree golems from on top of another tree golem. One of them start using handseals to deal a fireball at one of the tree golems. Meng''s thoughts: This will be one of the problems I would face while dealing with cultivators. Meng''s thoughts: Is there any way I can block them from using immortal arts (xianshu)? Core:Labyrinth Master has the ability to applyLabyrinth Rules and Dungeon Rules. Meng''s thoughts: I still got that kind of ability!? Core:Labyrinth Rules applies to all the dungeons in the labyrinthand Dungeon Rules only apply to thechosen dungeon. Meng thoughts: Set a Dungeon Rule for this forest dungeon. No Spiritual Energy is allowed. Core: Dungeon Rule has been applied. Xin: Senior Feng, how long will the Elder come and find us? Xin spoke after taking down one of the tree golems. Feng: I don''t know. The longer we can hold out, we might be saved. Feng spoke while switching to deflect attacks from hitting Xin. Xin tried to use another hand seal to deal another fireball. Xin: Eh? Feng: What''s wrong? Xin: I can''t... I can''t use spiritual energy. Feng: That''s impossible! Feng tried doing one hand seal herself. Feng: Is this...Forbidden Curse? Impossible. if it is a curse, my spiritual treasure should have activated. Xin: Senior Feng..... Feng:..... Xin: Are we going to die here?