Nan Qu had considered that the road ahead might be difficult, after all, the first three trials were all challenging. She really couldn't imagine what kind of situation awaited her in the fire and earth trials.
The further Nanqu went, the hotter it got; it seemed the fourth challenge was fire.
However, she hadn't expected that this ordeal would be so hot that her consciousness began to blur, and she felt extremely exhausted. Her legs, in particular, felt very heavy.
Nan Qu realized something was wrong, so she cut her arm with a dagger, and the pain brought her back to her senses.
She then realized that her legs below the knees were in a swamp. The surrounding environment was completely sealed; she felt as if she were trapped somewhere.
The surrounding heat showed no signs of abating, and she was still deeply mired in the mud. Nan Qu struggled slightly, only to find herself sinking even deeper. She then realized that this trial was a combination of fire and earth.
What plunged her into a daze was the fiery red plant growing in the swamp.
Nanqu is no longer struggling, but is looking for a way to break through this situation.
She tried circulating her internal energy; it was still there, but not much. Clearly, the plant wasn't just causing her confusion, but was also gradually absorbing her internal energy.
What kind of hellish place is this? She's lived so many years and this is the first time she's ever been so disheveled.
Nan Qu suddenly realized that her smooth sailing all this time had been entirely due to her space; she seemed to be overly reliant on it. Now, reality had given her a harsh slap in the face, trying to tell her that without her space, she was nothing.
Nan Qu slapped herself hard. She knew that the plant was powerful; it had previously confused her, and now it was starting to make her lose her will to fight.
It could be said that as soon as she showed even the slightest vulnerability, the plant would seize the opportunity to invade.
Nanqu stopped her wild thoughts and started thinking about how to escape her predicament. Normally, fire generates earth, and fire burns to ashes, which become earth. However, water overcomes fire; water and fire should be incompatible. Here, there is the intense heat of fire, so how could the earth have become a swamp? Where did the water come from?
Nanqu was drenched in sweat from the heat, yet there wasn't even a wisp of water around him. How did this swamp form?
After observing for a while, Nan Qu discovered that there wasn't a single place to stand within her reach. Finally, Nan Qu focused her attention on the plants.
Now, her body continues to fall, and the plant looks like it has strong roots that can support her and prevent her from falling any further.
However, she needed to cut down the plants as quickly as possible, while also making sure they weren't some kind of man-eating plant.
Nan Qu thought for a moment, then took the cloth off her arm and threw it forcefully at the plant.
However, forces are reciprocal. As Nan Qu struggled to throw the cloth outwards, she also plummeted downwards. The mud had already reached her thighs, and her entire lower body was now deeply embedded in the swamp.
Nan Qu didn't have any more time to think. The temperature was too hot, and if it continued like this, she was afraid she wouldn't have the strength left.
Just as Nan Qu was about to give up and go over there, she suddenly froze.
Because the swamp had already submerged her dantian, she was surprised to find that the internal energy in her dantian was recovering!
Nan Qu stared wide-eyed at the huge pile of swamp in disbelief. So the antidote for the ketamine plant was this mud?
Without hesitation, Nan Qu smeared the mud all over her body. Sure enough, Nan Qu not only stopped feeling dizzy, but even felt refreshed.
The next second, Nan Qu leaped out of the swamp and landed in the middle of the fiery red plants. Instead of stepping directly on them, she bent down and used her dagger to cut down the surrounding vegetation. She then stood on the fallen plants.
With the roots and stems of the plant providing support and the branches laid on top, plus the fact that Nanqu is only four years old, there is absolutely no problem for her to be on it.
It was still very hot around her, and Nan Qu was sweating profusely. She would quickly wipe the mud off her body as her sweat washed it away.
Once her life was no longer in danger, Nanqu began to investigate what kind of place this was.
Nan Qu looked around. The place was surrounded by impenetrable walls, which, from Nan Qu's perspective, looked at least five stories high.
Because she was caught off guard, she couldn't remember which direction she had come from.
As it stands, there is no exit location except in the sky.
The surrounding walls looked too smooth for her to climb. So, she'd better find out where she came in from and how she came out.
To get through this swamp, Nanqu decided to make a boat using the branches of these plants.
She couldn't row a boat in the swamp, but she could make two boats and move back and forth to get to the wall.
Without further ado, Nanqu used the plants to build two wooden rafts, each a meter long and wide. After a difficult struggle, they reached the wall, only to find that, unlike the mud, the wall was scalding hot.
The heat here was terrifying; she felt suffocated just staying here, let alone finding an exit.
Nanqu could only return to its original position.
She looked up at the sky and finally understood that the sky above was her only way out.
However, with her current internal strength, she probably can't escape from here.
Her immediate priority is to recover some of her internal energy; she needs to think carefully about the rest.
Nan Qu covered himself in swamp again and sat cross-legged on the ground to begin meditating.
Furthermore, the discovery of the Nanqu miracle revealed that these silts could actually increase the speed of recovery during meditation.
For a moment, she became curious about the silt and couldn't help but feel a little regretful that she couldn't open her own space, otherwise she would have taken some with her no matter what.
Because he was just a mortal, and there was no food or water here, Dongnanqu dared not stay here any longer, even though the mud was good.
She cut down some more plants and this time wove several plates.
Nan Qu tucked the dagger back into his waistband, held several plates in his left hand, and spun one plate in his right hand with great effort. As the plate spiraled upwards, Nan Qu also leaped up.
Stepping on the flying plate with his toes, he used the momentum to throw another plate upwards.
By remotely scouting the location, Nanqu finally flew out of this behemoth! Just as Nanqu breathed a sigh of relief and was about to land, she discovered that she was surrounded by lava.
Nan Qu immediately gathered her strength, threw the only frisbee in her hand, flew towards the frisbee, stepped on the frisbee again to fly outwards for another section, and finally found a foothold.
The moment she landed, Nan Qu felt herself make contact with space, and she finally saw that the so-called copper wall and iron barrier was actually just a bronze cauldron!
Who has so much free time? To build such a huge bronze cauldron here?
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