My daughter has been possessed.

Chapter 27 The Mysterious Dark Palace

However, before stepping into the dark hall, Li Jiuhe instinctively felt a sense of foreboding.

It's a feeling of being watched.

It was as if a pair of eyes were silently watching him from some corner of the dark palace.

So he instinctively started the task definition process immediately.

When he was completing the mission in the Morning Palace, although he reset it seven times, the time after each reset was actually quite long. During this period, the reset point would be restored by 1 point every hour.

In addition, he later stopped the mission and has been resting, so the current reset point has been restored to 10 points.

However, Li Jiuhe does not yet know what the rules of the mission in this dark hall are.

He could only give a vague definition of the task.

The words quickly appeared before my eyes.

[Task definition successful. The task is temporarily named "Mysterious Dark Palace".]

【Name: The Mysterious Dark Palace】

[Level: Grade II, Class A]

[Requirement: You sense a deadly danger lurking in the shadows of the Temple of Darkness. Before it transforms into the Temple of Dawn, ensure your survival and solve the mysteries within the Temple of Darkness.]

【奖励：1、任务总时长延长20分钟（当前上限1小时10分）；2、奖励1个重置时间锚点。】

[Note: 1. The total duration of the tasks you can currently define is 1 hours and 10 minutes; 2. There are more clues to be uncovered behind this anomaly.]

The mission's level, rewards, and descriptions are exactly the same as those in the Morning Palace, the only difference being "a deadly danger lurking in the shadows."

Moreover, Li Jiuhe was well aware that he could not complete the task in the dark hall in just four hours.

He even had a vague feeling that, although the missions seemed to be of the same level, the missions in the Twilight Palace might actually be a little more difficult than those in the Morning Palace.

Sure enough, the moment the mission was successfully defined and he stepped into the dark hall, the gazes he was being watched became even more intense.

From a dark corner inside the hall, a rustling sound came, seemingly the sound of someone's footsteps, but this person seemed to be wearing iron shoes, making the footsteps unusually heavy.

Upon hearing the footsteps, Li Jiuhe's heart skipped a beat, immediately reminding him of the stone figure in the adjacent Morning Hall.

Because the stone figure's feet were made of stone, that's the sound it made when it stepped on the ground.

It seems there should also be a stone figure in this dark hall.

However, for some unknown reason, the stone figure seemed to come back to life the moment he entered the dark hall.

The footsteps quickened, and it was clear that the stone figure had begun to run, and the sound was getting closer and closer.

Li Jiuhe was startled and immediately went on high alert.

But the hall was too dark, and even with his eyes wide open, he still couldn't see clearly in the distance.

Suddenly the approaching, dense footsteps disappeared, and a series of strange sounds came from above, as if monkeys were climbing.

Li Jiuhe stepped back and looked up, vaguely seeing a thin figure that looked just like a large monkey, quickly climbing up the roof beams and approaching.

He immediately turned and fled.

At this moment, he was very close to the entrance of the main hall behind him, and naturally he wanted to escape to the outside of the hall.

No sooner had he stepped out of that high threshold than his body was struck as if by an electric shock, and he instantly lost consciousness.

When he came to his senses, he found himself standing in the same spot again.

Apparently, the mission was forcibly reset because of his death.

"It seems that once I enter this dark hall, I won't be able to escape directly unless the two halls start to switch places." Li Jiuhe understood.

At this moment, he had one foot on the threshold of the dark hall, but did not enter.

After a slight hesitation, since there were still plenty of reset points available, he decided to keep trying and then entered the Hall of Darkness.

Soon, the heavy footsteps came again from the dark corner, exactly the same as before, faster and faster, and then climbed up the roof beam.

Knowing the direction from which the pursuers were coming, Li Jiuhe looked closely and discovered that what appeared to be climbing on the roof beam was also a stone figure. However, this stone figure was the size of a normal person and was no longer as tall as three meters, but its movements were obviously much more agile.

Moreover, as the stone man approached, a clanging metallic sound could be heard, and it felt as if the stone man was covered in fragmented metal pieces that collided as he ran.

Li Jiuhe no longer turned around and ran out of the hall, but instead ran in another direction inside the hall.

The clanging of metal echoed from the roof beams above him, growing ever closer, clearly indicating that his opponent was much faster.

Running away like this is not a solution, but Li Jiuhe knows very well that he is no match for that stone man. This guy's strength should be the same as the stone man of the Morning Palace. Once he is resurrected, he will be an existence that he cannot fight against.

But when he first woke up, he was in this dark hall, and Li Jiuhe remembered that he did not suffer any attacks at the time, and did not even notice the existence of the stone man.

It wasn't until the two halls began to alternate and the heavy sound of millstones came that he quickly ran out of the dark hall, and he was not electrocuted when he escaped.

He didn't move until he ran out of the dark hall; he just sat on the ground.

This made Li Jiuhe seem to realize something at that moment.

Just then, danger approached. He could clearly feel the stone figure above him getting very close and about to make a move.

The next second, Li Jiuhe stopped abruptly, motionless, just panting heavily.

The impending danger abruptly ended.

Li Jiuhe slowly turned his head, then stopped, and only continued to turn his neck to look behind him after confirming that turning his head would not cause any danger.

Then a thick iron chain hung down from one end of the roof beam, eerily suspended in mid-air, less than a hand's width away from him.

This chain is made up of interlocking oval iron rings, each about the thickness of an arm.

The moment he saw the thick iron chain, the chain, which had been hanging motionless in mid-air, suddenly loosened, and one end fell to the ground, where it was then slowly retrieved by the people on the roof beam.

The stone figure remained motionless as it climbed the roof beam, only retracting its iron chain.

Li Jiuhe believed that if he had stopped a second later, the chains would probably have already been on him.

His face was pale, and he quickly adjusted his breathing, maintaining his current posture without daring to move.

He needed to figure out the rules of this chaotic palace before figuring out how to break them.

It now seems that as long as he doesn't move, the stone figures on the roof beams won't attack him.

Turning his head as far as he could, he looked up and saw that the stone figure seemed to be wrapped in a large number of these iron chains.

"Using one's own actions to cause one's own consequences?"

Li Jiuhe silently recited the words in his mind, thinking quickly.

What is the cause of this chaotic palace, and what is its effect?

It seems that the so-called cause and effect is related to the large number of chains on the stone figure.

It was just too dark in the dimly lit hall. If he wanted to find more clues, he could only get closer and observe slowly. But as soon as he made a move, the stone figure behind him, which moved even faster, would attack.

However, if one remains standing here until the two halls alternate, it will be impossible to break the spell of the Dark Hall.