Jiang Zhaoyue's Battlefield Intuition was indeed impressive, but it wasn't omnipotent.

The skill could only cover a radius of three hundred meters, while the overall scale of the Limestone Cave Maze was far larger.

Every time they traveled a certain distance, she had to stop and close her eyes to rescan, the silver moon emblem on her forehead flickering like a faint heartbeat.

Sometimes, after scanning, she would open her eyes, shake her head, and point in a different direction; the path ahead was a dead end, and they had to turn back.

Even so, the team's exploration efficiency was many times faster than before.

Arrow Eye walked at the very back, using a dagger to carve clear arrow markings on the rock walls at every fork they passed.

Su Yurou held a piece of parchment, drawing as she walked, recording the routes Jiang Zhaoyue identified one by one; the paper was already covered in a dense network of lines.

Tie Dun leaned over to take a look and felt his head spin. "What are you drawing? It looks like a spider web."

Su Yurou smiled without explaining and continued her drawing.

There were many low-level monsters in the grotto: Skeleton Soldiers, Skeleton Warriors, and Skeleton Archers, ranging from level five to level nine.

They huddled in groups of three to five at the ends of forks or behind stalagmites, eerie green soulfire flickering in their eye sockets.

But these low-level monsters posed almost no trouble to the team's progress. Zhao Hu didn't even bother to draw his blade, and Arrow Eye and Wang Wu saved their arrows, as Tie Dun and Feng Qingyan handled all the fighting between them.

Tie Dun charged at the front with his troll bone shield. Whenever he saw a skeleton, he would bash it with his shield, then turn back and shout, "Three!"

Not to be outdone, Feng Qingyan waved her staff, sending out a burst of flames that blew an entire squad of Skeleton Archers to pieces. "Seven! I'm at seven!"

Tie Dun grew anxious. "I just took down two Skeleton Warriors! Why didn't you count those?"

"You didn't shout it out!" Feng Qingyan replied righteously.

The two of them killed and counted as they went along.

Shi Pojun followed behind carrying his Tower Shield, expressionless, as if he saw nothing.

Jiang Zhaoyue walked in the middle of the group, occasionally closing her eyes to scan or speaking up to give directions, completely ignoring the competition between Tie Dun and Feng Qingyan.

As they walked, Tie Dun bragged to Feng Qingyan, "You have no idea. Our Lord soloed a level thirty-five Rare Boss this morning!

That Gatekeeper Boss was over three meters tall, and its battle axe was bigger than my shield. One swing and the ground split open!"

Feng Qingyan's eyes widened. "Alone? Soloed? A level thirty-five Rare Boss?"

"You bet!" Tie Dun held his chin high, as if he were the one who had soloed the Rare Boss.

"Our Lord was incredibly fierce, piercing that guy through with just a few spear thrusts."

Feng Qingyan turned to look at Lin Feng, her eyes filled with surprise and a hint of admiration.

Jiang Zhaoyue also glanced sideways at Lin Feng, her gaze lingering on him for a moment before turning back to continue her scanning.

She said nothing, but the corners of her mouth twitched slightly.

Tie Dun continued, "That guy even had a set equipment effect. When it activated Armor Unification, it glowed purple all over. Our attacks were all zeros; it was like scratching an itch."

Feng Qingyan sucked in a breath of cold air. "A set effect? Armor Unification?"

"Exactly! But then our Lord also activated Armor Unification and traded blows with it, tanking its axe. He took it down in just a few hits."

Tie Dun got more excited as he spoke. "You should have seen it, the scene was..."

"Wait," Feng Qingyan suddenly interrupted him. "You're saying you treated that level thirty-five Rare Boss as the Gatekeeper Boss?"

Tie Dun scratched his head. "Yeah, what's wrong?" Feng Qingyan was stunned for a moment, then burst out laughing, her ponytail swinging behind her head:

"Hahaha... The gatekeeper monster for the first floor was a level thirty-five Rare Boss?

Then how strong will the gatekeeper for the second floor be? Will the third floor start directly at level forty? Hahaha..."

Jiang Zhaoyue couldn't help but laugh too, her lips curving into a slight arc.

She shook her head without speaking, but the mirth overflowed from her eyes, making her usually calm face look much softer.

Tie Dun was baffled by the laughter and stood there scratching his head. "What... what's so funny? I thought it was pretty normal..."

Feng Qingyan finally managed to stop laughing, wiped away the tears from the corners of her eyes, and patted Tie Dun's shield.

"Brother Tie Dun, the Gatekeeper Boss for the first floor is a level thirty-five Rare Boss? Then what comes after that?"

Although Tie Dun didn't fully understand, he felt like Feng Qingyan was praising him, so he grinned and continued his bragging.

Lin Feng, walking at the front, heard the commotion behind him and his lip twitched slightly.

Tie Dun, a warrior, was competing for kills with a mage battery. Feng Qingyan's Flame Burst could blow up a whole area, while Tie Dun's shield could only bash one at a time. Where was the comparison?

But seeing Tie Dun's enthusiastic state, he didn't have the heart to dampen his spirits and just let him be.

The team traveled through the maze for about three hours.

Jiang Zhaoyue's scans became more frequent because the deeper they went, the more forks there were and the denser the dead ends became.

Sometimes, after scanning, she would frown slightly and stand in place for a good while before choosing a path.

Arrow Eye followed behind to carve markings, his dagger making faint clicking sounds against the rock wall.

On Su Yurou's parchment, more than half of the map was filled with a dense network of lines like a precise spider web.

Lin Feng walked in the middle of the group, silently making estimations.

It had been three hours; the scale of the first floor's Limestone Cave Maze far exceeded his imagination.

Without Jiang Zhaoyue's Battlefield Intuition, if they had relied solely on Tie Dun to lead the way, let alone three hours, he might not have found the entrance to the second floor even in three days.

Just as he was thinking this, Jiang Zhaoyue suddenly stopped.

She closed her eyes, and the silver moon emblem on her forehead lit up, its light particularly prominent in the dim grotto.

A few seconds later, she opened her eyes, a look «N.o.v.e.l.i.g.h.t» of joy appearing on her face. "Found it."

Everyone stopped in their tracks.

Tie Dun was the first to react, his voice changing pitch. "Found it? You really found it?"

Jiang Zhaoyue nodded and pointed to a tunnel ahead to the right. "Go through here; the straight-line distance is about two hundred meters.

But the path winds, so we'll actually have to walk about four hundred meters."

"Let's go, let's go!" Tie Dun was about to charge forward with his shield.

Zhao Hu He grabbed the back of his collar: "What's the rush? Lord Jiang lead the way."

Jiang Zhaoyue smiled and took the lead.

Her pace was much faster than before, but every step was steady.

The others followed behind, their footsteps echoing in the tunnel, sounding much lighter than before.

The four-hundred-meter path wound back and forth, taking about the time it takes to drink a cup of tea.

The tunnel grew wider, the rock ceiling higher, and the stalactites sparser.

The fluorescent glow of the moss dimmed, replaced by a faint blue-white light emanating from ahead.

Jiang Zhaoyue stopped and stepped aside to make room.

An open clearing appeared before everyone's eyes.

The clearing wasn't large, about two hundred square meters, with the ground covered in smooth stone slabs carved with simple patterns.

In the very center of the clearing, a translucent light screen hovered in mid-air, flowing slowly, with a line of words written on it: Entrance to the Second Floor of the Dungeon.