Chapter 345: Eternal Night is not the protagonist!
[You are about to enter the racial heritage level ember zone: Eternal Night! ]
[Note: This is your fourth assessment in the Ember Zone. Most of the rewards you receive will be converted into sequence ranking battle points.]
When the system prompt sound of the Cinder Zone sounded, Xia Lin opened his eyes in the pre-war preparation space.
Then, the reminder sounded again.
[Unstable mutation takes effect! ]
Right now, Xia Lin is in a state of fraudulent luck, with great fortune and the mutation effect is also very gratifying.
But after a quick look, Xia Lin still chose not to keep the mutation - his skill set was already perfect enough.
At the same time, there is no prompt that the permission card is effective.
The permission cards of both parties cancel each other out, causing all conditions in the Jhin zone to be completely random, out of human control, and completely dependent on the Jhin zone system.
After waiting for a minute, Xia Lin felt blurred again.
When he opened his eyes again, he had already appeared in the Cinders Area.
It was pitch black everywhere. The red moon in the sky was emitting a dim light. The big stars were shining but sparsely and their light was almost unnoticeable.
For ordinary people, the environment here is almost impossible to see, but a strong man of Xia Lin's level does not have this problem.
Xia Lin briefly looked around and then began to breathe.
The eerie ghost energy rushed into his mouth and nose, and was quickly analyzed by Xia Lin.
The mental power in the body turned into spiritual energy under the effect of energy conversion. Xia Lin thought about it, and the spiritual energy left the body. However, after leaving the body, its movement was quite sluggish. It was no longer light and agile, but like cement.
This made Xia Lin breathe a sigh of relief.
"In a semi-absolute spiritual environment, I have the advantage on the field."
Aura is the foundation of immortal cultivators.
A strong spiritual environment can greatly enhance the power of cultivators' skills.
However, this ashes zone named Eternal Night is not a completely spiritual environment. There is free spiritual energy in the air, and spiritual energy can also be used in this world.
But for some reason, the circulation of spiritual energy here is extremely sluggish - this is enough to significantly weaken the combat effectiveness of the cultivators.
The next second, Xia Lin immediately rose into the air and looked around.
The observation skill greatly improved Xia Lin's eyesight. When the nearby environment came into view, Xia Lin slowly frowned.
"After the good news comes the bad news."
"There seem to be fewer natives in this Jin District..."
Xia Lin couldn't possibly underestimate the Human Sequence Four, Luo Zhi said.
And his strongest form, the Black Source Domination form, must have enough Black Source infected people to exert its strongest power.
There are fewer natives in the Cinders, which means that Xia Lin can get less increase. From this perspective, Fraud.Luck has brought Xia Lin some luck, but it has not shown the previous strength.
Combined with the six-pillar level props: notes on the fortune-telling horoscope.
Xia Lin was finally able to confirm that Luo Zhidao's fortune-telling horoscope also had the effect of affecting luck.
…
At the same time, in the Eternal Night Ashes, another planet in another star field.
Luo Zhidao sat cross-legged in the void, the fortune-telling star plate behind him glowing with colorful light like the scorching sun.
This light dispelled the darkness and even illuminated the area thousands of miles around.
At this moment, Luo Zhidao was like an immortal or a god, just like an immortal descending to the mortal world.
[Astrology Plate (Six-pillar item): Predict fate and fortune, know everything! 】
[Function 1: Gathering Luck: The fortune-telling horoscope can greatly improve the luck of the holder. This effect can be activated actively. After activation, you will receive a stronger blessing of strong luck! This effect lasts for one day, and the cooldown period is three days! ]
Just talking about the function of the horoscope, it is already amazing.
From the performance point of view, this function is even comparable to the effect of fraud. It lasts longer and has no negative effects!
It can be called a superior alternative version of Fraud. Luck! But just as Xia Lin couldn't guess Luo Zhidao's family background, Luo Zhidao couldn't know everything about Xia Lin.
The current Luo Zhidao has fallen into such a misunderstanding.
In other words, his personality determines that he will think a lot.
"A semi-absolute spiritual environment. This kind of environment has a certain degree of suppression on me."
"From this perspective, Xia Lin obviously also has the means to change his luck. This may even be a six-pillar level method."
The Fortune Telling Astrology Plate is a six-pillar item, so anything that can suppress it must also be a six-pillar item!
Of course, Luo Zhidao was wrong about this.
Because in this battle of luck, Xia Lin gained a certain advantage in the venue, but lost the advantage in terms of people.
It is difficult to say which of the two advantages is stronger, so it is also difficult to determine which one is better, the horoscope or the book of the spiritual world, in terms of the degree of interference with luck.
In short, at this moment, Luo Zhidao slightly overestimated the strength of the Spirit World Book.
Looking back at the fortune-telling horoscope behind him, Luo Zhidao stared at the 108 shining stars on the horoscope, as if he was peeking into the secrets of heaven.
[Function 2: Peering into the fate: The fortune-telling star plate can peek into the owner's fate. It will use different colors and starlight to indicate changes in the owner's fate! ]
[Note: No one can know everything, not even the six pillars, and even less can the horoscope! Therefore, the tips from the horoscope can only be used as a reference and cannot be trusted.]
The professional system is rigorous.
It will show the strength in numerical value.
But for some special cases or special things, even numerical values cannot describe them specifically - such as fate and luck.
Therefore, there is a saying circulating in the professional system: the more general the description of a skill, the higher its strength.
This statement is of course wrong, a typical example is the life and death battle (inferior).
However, following the teachings of his master, Luo Zhidao knew that this sentence should be expressed in this way: the more general the skill described, the greater the difference between the upper and lower limits.
Life-gaze is such a function.
The vague description means that the effect of this function depends entirely on how the owner uses it.
Luo Zhidao had only had the fortune-telling horoscope for a short time, but he already had a certain, though not complete, understanding of its capabilities.
Before, he had spied on Xia Lin by spying on him, and he knew that Xia Lin would definitely become his enemy at some point in the future, and even harm his life. That's why Luo Zhidao decided to activate the tracking card.
Then, Gu Ming gave Luo Zhidao a hint about the outcome of this round: a mixed bag of good and bad, with an unpredictable chance of winning.
This is why Luo Zhidao seemed to be saying goodbye to Lingbao Immortal Venerable, but in fact he was seeking treasure.
Now, he activated the life-gaze function again to spy on his own destiny. Soon, he understood the hints from the horoscope.
The hint made Luo Zhidao frown.
"Strange, external forces intervening to achieve win-win cooperation? What kind of logic is this!?"
Just as Luo Zhidao was muttering this, a cold wind suddenly blew over.
The eerie ghostly aura floated in the air, transforming into lines of text.
This was the opening hint of the Jhin Zone! However, in addition to this, there was also a gilded invitation that fell from the sky and landed precisely in front of Luo Zhidao.
…
Xia Lin reached out to take the gilded invitation, and at the same time looked up at the words made up of ghostly energy.
【Welcome to the Selection Battlefield 4: Eternal Night. 】
【Note: This ember area is a real ember area.】
[The opening period of the Ember Zone is one month. 】
One month... is too short, really too short...
Luo Zhidao's pursuit did affect Xia Lin's growth progress and disrupted Xia Lin's strengthening plan.
But soon, Xia Lin shook his head and continued to look down.
After all, he couldn't determine the logic of his enemies' behavior.
[The main quest has been released. ]
[Main Quest: Mori King’s Birthday Banquet! ]
[Mori-no-King's Birthday Banquet: Attend Mori-no-King's Birthday Banquet and survive until the end of the Ash Zone time! ]
[Penalty for mission failure: None.]
[Task success reward: 10w ranking battle points. ]
【The clearance mission was not triggered.】
[The side quest was not triggered. ]
Xia Lin frowned suddenly.
"The difficulty of this Ash Zone is wrong!"
Main quest: Mori Wang’s birthday party is essentially a disguised survival quest.
As we all know, survival mission is actually one of the more difficult mission modes in the Ashen Zone!
Because the survival missions show such a logic: the strength of the Cinder Walkers is far weaker than that of the natives of the Cinders! But let's not talk about Xia Lin's own strength, just say that the hunter Luo Zhidao is a human sequence 4! His combat power can even be compared with that of a level 11 strongman! This level of Cinder Walker was assigned to the survival mission.
The information revealed is quite intriguing.
…
"O Lord Mori..."
On the other side, Luo Zhidao also let out a long sigh.
When the word "Sen Wang" appeared in his eyes, he finally understood why the fortune-telling astrology gave the eight-word hint of [external intervention and win-win cooperation], and why the Cinders system released the main survival mission.
The reason lies in the two words "Sen Wang"! This Jin District is a real Jin District, and all the natives in the real Jin District are real people in the main universe.
And the Mori King is even more famous! Mori King, level 11, ghost cultivator.
It seems to belong to the system of immortal cultivators, but it does not belong to the camp of the Lord of Heaven.
Since there is a branch of ghost warriors under martial arts, ghost cultivators have always been a wavering, fence-sitter existence in the battle between immortal warriors and martial artists.
The King of Forest is a representative figure among them! He created the Eighteen Hells of Senluo by himself, and grew up in a corner of the main universe. He did not get involved in the great struggle between the immortals and warriors, and was regarded as a neutral party between the two camps of Super Star and Heavenly Dao Creator.
But at this moment, in the Jhin Zone, the Jhin Zone system directly threw Xia Lin and Luo Zhidao in front of this person.
Thinking of this, Luo Zhidao reached out to take the invitation, glanced through it, and sighed again.
"Bad luck. It seems like I'm being targeted by the Jhin Zone system."
An interesting fact:
King Sen was a decent man when he was alive, an eleventh-level Immortal King. The reason why he became a ghost cultivator was because he died tragically at the hands of Lingbao Immortal Venerable.
Yes, King Mori and Luo Zhidao's master, Lingbao Immortal Venerable, are murderous enemies! ...
Xia Lin took the invitation and opened it.
Distorted text came into view.
[Seven days later, Senluo Ancient City. ]
[King Mori held a banquet and invited many heroes to discuss important matters. ]
[We sincerely invite you, the unknown Cinder Walker, to come to the banquet. Please be on time. 】
The seven words "unknown Cinder Walker" made Xia Lin narrow his eyes.
This Mori King seems to have some strength...
Just after Xia Lin finished reading this simple invitation, the invitation immediately turned into light and disappeared, but a strange and difficult energy seeped out of it. It did not force its way into Xia Lin's body, but only imprinted a faint ghost head pattern on Xia Lin's skin.
If Xia Lin wanted to, he could easily dispel this mark.
But he also knew that doing so would inevitably bring negative consequences - the hostility of the Mori King.
Shaking his head and letting this special tattoo remain on his skin, Xia Lin closed his eyes and recalled the hint about the Jhin area and the words on the invitation.
"This time, things didn't go as planned."
"Whether it is my wish or Luo Zhidao's wish."
Luo Zhidao chased Xia Lin, and Xia Lin passively faced the enemy.
But regardless of whether it was active or passive, Xia Lin did have the idea of killing Luo Zhidao in this Ashen Zone.
As for killing people, Xia Lin is quite good at it.
However, the current situation is that the Jin District system clearly told Xia Lin and Luo Zhi:
In this game, you are not the protagonists. There are people in the Jhin zone who are more powerful than you two.
This made Xia Lin feel a little amused and helpless.
"What is this? This is a fight between two tigers, and the Jin District is the winner!"
If it weren't for the previous permission card battle, with the financial resources and strength of Xia Lin and Luo Zhidao, the Jhin zone dungeon would be like a back garden to them, a very comfortable growth environment, and a leek field that can be harvested at will.
As a result, the two of them fought to the death, and Jhin saw it all.
Well, if that's the case, then the two of you should stop messing around and just get into the high-difficulty Jhin zone and complete the high-difficulty missions! If my Jhin zone system doesn't work, have you forgotten that I also have a name called Gu Zhong? ?
Shaking his head and sighing, Xia Lin muttered.
"In this case, we have to change our thinking."
With a more powerful third party on the side, Xia Lin would not be able to just pick up a knife and fight to the death with Luo Zhidao.
How to survive this Ashes Zone, and how to kill Luo Zhidao in this Ashes Zone, this matter still requires Xia Lin to weigh and think carefully.
But the first and foremost task is to start jumping out of the Three Realms.
Xia Lin didn't dare to let himself fall into the predicament of bad luck in this ashes area.
While Hongyun was still there, Xia Lin escaped from the battle with a flash of light.
…
Even though this was the case, and even though the horoscope gave the hint of [win-win cooperation], Luo Zhidao did not want to cooperate with Xia Lin.
There is really no basis for cooperation.
Therefore, the problems and troubles he faced in this area were even greater than those faced by Xia Lin.
Xia Lin's growth rate was just delayed.
Luo Zhidao said that he had run directly into the hands of a powerful enemy...
This also seems to indicate that during the effective period, the strength of the fraud luck seems to be higher than the luck of the fortune-telling horoscope.
He decisively put away the shining fortune-telling star plate, and Luo Zhidao dropped from the sky, restraining his breath.
The lights of skills and props flashed continuously, and when Luo Zhidao landed on the ground, his appearance had completely changed!
Not only the appearance and body shape, but even the aura and the mysterious cause and effect have changed.
This is the most brilliant disguise, and it is enough to deceive the eleventh-level strongman: Sen Wang!
“But that’s all.”
Luo Zhidao looked worried.
The truth is, Mori King is by no means an ordinary Level 11, and as a Human Sequence 4, he is far from being Mori King's opponent.
It is true that the top five humans in the human race have the combat power to fight against level eleven warriors.
But confrontation is confrontation, and victory is victory, and there is a difference between the two.
There are also differences in levels among the level eleven strong men.
And Mori King is actually one of the most powerful ones among the level eleven, and is definitely not an easy opponent.
Naturally, this disrupted Luo Zhidao's plan before entering the Cinder Zone.
Killing Xia Lin was what he wanted and was also his primary goal this time.
But at this point in the situation, saving his life became Luo Zhidao's top priority.
Thinking of this, Luo Zhidao raised his legs and walked towards the dark and desolate distance.
…
After three days of isolation, I finally came out.
Xia Lin finally began his exploration of the Eternal Night Ashes.
Compared with Luo Zhidao, this is undoubtedly three days slower, but there is nothing that can be done about it.
In what should be the second wave of the battle of luck, Xia Lin theoretically had the upper hand. However, it must be admitted that there was a certain rationality in the fact that the Spirit World Book was not rated as a six-pillar level item.
The negative effects of fraud and luck can sometimes really cause problems.
In comparison, the fortune-gathering special effects of the fate star plate appear to be simple, crude but powerful.
Wearing a weird mask and disguising his body shape, breath and even personal information, Xia Lin began to explore the nearby area at a not-so-fast speed. Soon, Xia Lin had a rough understanding of the surrounding environment and this ashes area.
"This time the Ash Zone is very large, covering several nearby star regions. The planet I am on should only be a small part of the Eternal Night Ash Zone."
"And the planet I am standing on should have been a planet of life, and there was even a high probability that spiritual energy existed. It was just polluted by ghost energy, causing the spiritual energy to disappear and all living things to become extinct."
Muttering this, Xia Lin loosened his hand.
Then a strange shadow escaped from Xia Lin's fingertips and flew away for its life.
The perception spread far and wide, quickly covering the entire planet.
But in Xia Lin's perception, there was no trace of Luo Zhidao - the two were not sent to the same planet by the Cinder Zone system.
2. No breath of life.
There are no living people on this planet.
There are only various kinds of ghosts, which can be called a hundred ghosts parading at night!
In order to avoid trouble, Xia Lin had already used a weird mask to adjust his aura to that of a ghost, successfully blending in local characteristics.
And just now, through the analysis of these "plot natives", Xia Lin also realized such a thing.
"Black Source. The End of This World. It probably doesn't have much of a place in this Ashes Zone..."
The power of the black source restrains flesh and blood creatures and mechanical creatures.
But ghosts are essentially a kind of energy waves, and the power of black source has no effect on them.
"Besides, the time limit of the Ashes Zone is only one month. How can there be the conditions to activate the Black Source. The End of This World..."
He shook his head and stopped thinking about the Black Source Overlord's form.
With Xia Lin's current strength, even without the Black Source Domination form, he may not be a match for Luo Zhidao.
"Anyway, this planet is already useless, and there's no useful information to be found here."
While muttering, Xia Lin raised his hand and looked at the ghost head brand on it.
"If you want to know more, I'm afraid you'll have to rely on this thing..."
You must attend King Mori's birthday party.
This is the requirement of the main quest.
Therefore, Xia Lin could not use jumping out of the three realms to avoid risks and complete the main task by trickery. This method would not complete the main task, but would most likely result in backlash and punishment from the Cinder Zone.
This is also the reason why Xia Lin can't find time to perform a set of incredible brush combo in the current situation.
Three of the seven-day deadline has passed.
There are still four days left, but Xia Lin hasn't even figured out the worldview of this Ashes zone.
"It can only be like this..."
As soon as the thought came to him, Xia Lin used his mental power to actively connect to the ghost head brand.
A faint light bloomed from the ghost head brand.
Soon, a ghostly aura floated in front of Xia Lin. In the secret tremor of the space, a small black-sailed boat appeared out of nothing in front of Xia Lin, floating in the air.
With a whoosh, the red paper umbrella opened, making a crisp sound.
A beautiful woman wearing gorgeous palace clothes but with a pale face bowed to Xia Lin.
"Sir, please get on board. I, Xiao An, will take you to the ancient city of Senluo."
The invitation card that turned into a ghost head mark was not only a ticket to the birthday party, but also a ticket to the ancient city of Senluo.
Xia Lin smiled, walked onto the boat calmly, and bowed to Xiao An in a very ancient manner.
"Then I'll have to trouble Miss Xiao An."
(End of this chapter)
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