Here, everyone who disembarked was wearing very thick down jackets.

Standing on this island, what is most impressive is not the vegetation or the wooden houses, but the smell of sulfur, which is very strong and pungent.

The smell made Xiaoqing very uncomfortable. Although she wasn't harmed, her experience was far from pleasant.

Xu Qian could clearly feel the slight heat on his arm, so he patted his hand reassuringly.

Agatha led the way, and the journey went much more smoothly than they had imagined, without any unexpected incidents.

It's just... a little too smooth. Xu Qian is actually not used to it. Maybe it's because he's been unlucky for so long. Suddenly being lucky makes him feel uncomfortable. He keeps suspecting that there's some conspiracy behind it.

About an hour later, the group, led by a man named Charles, crossed the territory inhabited by the Alt people and arrived at a meteorite cave on the island.

The area around the meteorite crater was covered in a silvery-white glowing substance. Upon touching it, it was discovered that this silvery-white substance was 'branded' onto the stone, as if the stone had undergone a mutation.

Agatha gestured to the group, and soon they took out the tools they had prepared, seemingly ready to go down.

Xu Qian didn't understand why Agatha and the others went to that meteorite cave. Weren't they talking about the shipwreck tomb yesterday? Why did they change their minds and go to some meteorite cave now? Could there be some clues down there?

Xu Qian stared straight into the bottomless meteorite cave. After a while, he also took a set of equipment and went down.

Once inside, Xu Qian clearly felt an abundance of oxygen, completely different from the sulfur outside. It was a very comfortable and pleasant smell, like a warm current slowly flowing from his feet to his body and then to his brain.

Xu Qian didn't know how long he had been climbing down. Just as he was getting a little drowsy, the little blue thing on his arm suddenly became hot, which brought him back to his senses.

When his mind cleared again, Xu Qian found himself standing on the edge of a cliff. If he took another step forward, he would fall into the abyss ahead. Thinking of this, he broke out in a cold sweat. He almost got sent back to the respawn point!

Xu Qian shook his head to clear his mind and asked Xiao Qing where the others were.

"Hiss—" (I don't know)

"What was I just doing...?" Xu Qian was a little confused. He hadn't had this experience in a long time—the feeling of being choked.

(There is a problem here)

Xu Qian didn't respond. He took off his down jacket and silently cut his vest into Qi Chun. At this moment, only Qi Chun's "Eight-Second True Man" gave him a slight sense of peace.

Looking up, I saw a thick layer of fog all around, with visibility of only about half a meter. I couldn't see anything around me at all. When I opened the map, it was all foggy, and I couldn't see the yellow dots on the map.

The cheat seemed to have stopped working. Xu Qian sighed and could only hold up his Crimson Lotus and carefully search his surroundings.

After a while, the sword made a 'thud' sound, as if it had hit something.

Xu Qian slowly approached, waved his hand to clear the fog in front of him, and then—he saw an animal skeleton!

The animal carcass was fine, Xu Qian breathed a sigh of relief, and was about to walk closer to take a look when the animal carcass turned into dust in the next second.

He paused for a moment, poked the powder he had just seen with the Crimson Lotus, and found nothing unusual. He then asked Xiaoqing, "Didn't you feel anything different?"

(Does "very comfortable" count?)

"I suppose so." Xu Qian continued walking forward, sword in hand.

After a while, Xu Qian poked something else, but it was soft.

He pushed aside the fog and discovered that it was someone he recognized—Monk Neil.

The other person was like a puppet, with their hands tied to a tree branch, and had lost their mind.

(Save him)

Xu Qian's eyes twitched, thinking to himself, "So she really has her eye on me. Help, help, help..."

He drew his sword and removed the branches from Neil's body one by one, catching him in his arms as he slipped down.

Just then, Xu Qian suddenly heard a clear bell ringing. The bell ringing became more and more urgent and got closer and closer to them.

"Aren't you going to come out and lend a hand?" Xu Qian was referring to Xiao Qing, who was used to being lazy.

"Didn't you promise me a vacation?" Xiaoqing complained as soon as she came out.

"I'll definitely do it next time." Xu Qian looked around, his expression still relatively calm.

"Surely next time..." Xiaoqing rolled her eyes, but the monk who was lying upside down took over the task.

Xu Qian ignored her, because the ringtone was getting closer and closer—

"Squeak—"

A small monkey, about half a meter tall, emerged from the mist. It had a small bell around its neck, and the sound that had just rang out was from the bell around Xiao Qian's neck.

"Oh, it's you," Xu Qian breathed a sigh of relief and turned to Xiao Qing behind him. "Here comes the person in question."

"Hey, what if I don't give it to you?" Xiaoqing took the opportunity to hug the monk's neck even tighter, just like a villainous female supporting character in a TV series.

Xu Qian didn't argue with her. Instead, he squatted down and looked at the bell around Xiao Qian's neck. The last time he saw it, the bell was clearly not making a sound. But now, it was ringing very clearly.

He reached out and touched Xiao Qian's head. Seeing that it looked confused, he didn't say anything, but picked it up and stood up with his sword in hand.

"What do we do now?" Xiaoqing asked him.

"Now..." Xu Qian frowned as he looked at the misty surroundings. "Let's take it one step at a time and see where we are first."

Xiaoqing nodded and easily lifted the monk, who weighed over a hundred pounds.

Xu Qian glanced at her upon hearing the noise and felt that the scene was strangely familiar; Miss Chu seemed to be in a similar situation.

Finally, the three of them, along with the monkey, disappeared into the hazy mist.

...

At the same time, several figures appeared in the deepest part of the thick fog. They were dressed uniformly in long, wide-sleeved, moon-white robes, but their features could not be clearly seen due to the fog.

After a long while, the fog dissipated slightly, revealing a white jade coffin in the center of the fog. The coffin was inlaid with some kind of purple beads in a regular pattern, which at first glance looked like eyes.

The figures that had been surrounding the white jade coffin seemed to be performing some kind of solemn ceremony.

At this moment, the fog that had just dissipated enveloped them again, startling the group of people who were carrying out the ceremony.

They whispered among themselves, speaking a language known only to their tribe.

As the fog grew thicker, they seemed to have planned it out. Together, they opened the white jade coffin, revealing a person inside—it was none other than Hua Laosan, whom Xu Qian and the others had been searching for!

If Xu Qian were here, he would be surprised to find that Hua Laosan, whose flesh and bones had been permeated by the corpse poison, was rebuilding his body with an astonishing regenerative ability.

Not long after, Hua Laosan, who was lying in the white jade coffin, opened his eyes—they were scarlet.

"Boom—"

Xu Qian instinctively straightened his sword, while his other hand gripped Xiao Qing's shoulder tightly.

"What's going on?" Xiaoqing's body swayed as he pulled her.

Xu Qian shook his head; he was just as confused.

Just as the two were confused, the rumbling sound grew even louder.

“Charles—” Agatha’s voice suddenly came from the mist.

Xu Qian glanced at Xiao Qing subconsciously, and the two nodded in tacit agreement before disappearing into the mist.

Following Agatha's voice, the two, along with a monkey and a person, arrived at a long stone bridge. On the other side of the bridge, there was an upside-down stone statue.

Along the edge of the stone statue, there is a stone staircase that spirals into the depths.

Agatha and the others went in through that stone staircase.

"Should we follow them and see?" Xiaoqing asked him.

"Hmm." Xu Qian nodded silently, checked the contents of his Qi Chun ship, and found that they were still barely enough.

The two stepped onto the stone steps, whose destination was completely unknown.

But just as he took his first step, Xu Qian vaguely heard a sound, a very faint sound. He frowned and thought about it carefully. The sound was like... something breaking open.

Author's Note: Updates will now be at 6 PM.

(Today's update is a tiny bit shorter.)

Next up is the plot that you guys aren't so interested in, sigh! (sigh)

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