Several hours passed, and the sky remained unchanged.
On the desolate sand, there were only a few traces of monsters running.
Xuanwu's speed is indeed a major weakness; I just don't know if it can be linked. Even if it were linked, it probably wouldn't be of much use.
I can't hear its feedback.
I tried it casually, and surprisingly it actually connected.
Could it be because I fed it just now?
"Hey, big turtle? How are you?" The snake head sprayed water all over his face.
"As long as you understand, that's fine. By the way, aren't you a mythical beast? Why can't we communicate?"
The snakehead looked into the distance and this time did not answer.
"Could it be that, like us slimes, you didn't have an ancestor who ascended to that level?"
The snake head shook its head, seemingly reminiscing about its past glories.
"So they did exist, and they all died later?" Luo Fan knew that these awesome things all had that unique bloodline inheritance, and this Xuanwu probably knew something about it.
The snake head continued to shake its head, its eyes looking somewhat desolate.
They're not dead? Then where did they all go?
"Sigh, so being a monster has its own difficulties! Forget it, I'll try to be a human from now on. If I keep being a monster, and my girl gets kidnapped again, I'll be devastated."
"Big turtle, do you also want to become a human?"
This time, the giant snake didn't spit on him; it just shook its head, its eyes filled with disdain.
"Hmph, you just wait. One day, I will stand tall in front of you and give you the middle finger to belittle you."
Thinking that it was good to have an audience member who couldn't express their opinions, Luo Fan asked a lot of questions.
"Does your clan rely solely on yourselves when mating?" The snakehead ignored him.
"You have two heads, don't you ever fight?"
"If you disagree, will you be unable to break through the turtle's defenses?"
"You and the big tortoise, one plus one, still end up as one. Don't you think that's a huge loss? Haven't you ever thought about splitting up?"
In the end, the giant snake severed its connection with him, not bothering to look at him again.
This guy is so easily amused.
"Huh, so many pillars? They all have those special symbols on them!" Luo Fan looked ahead out of boredom, then his little eyes widened.
After walking for so long, we've finally found something interesting.
In the sand ahead, many broken stone pillars are scattered randomly, and the symbols on them have faded considerably due to the erosion of time.
Luo Fan thought of the Stonehenge he had seen in his previous life, but it wasn't this large in scale compared to this place.
The area stretches for several kilometers and is dotted with numerous stone pillars, with broken stone slabs visible in some places.
After reconnecting with the two girls, Luo Fan woke them up.
"Girls, time to get to work!"
Even Xiaoxue was summoned by Daisy.
Seeing the obvious ruins before them, the girls sprang into action, searching for possible treasure.
Listening to Toria's explanation, there were no records of this site in previous explorations. Therefore, this place may very well hold some kind of heritage.
Hearing these words, Luo Fan became even more excited; these were definitely treasures!
The earthworm, working with Xuanwu, began clearing the sand and digging for treasures. The earthworm inherited several of the scorpion's skills: dust storms, earth spikes, and traps, and could also help alter the sandy environment.
"Sigh, this country bumpkin is actually better than the fake one. Those ice scorpions back then were just too bad!" Luo Fan thought to himself, and suddenly discovered a good way to learn magic.
I should really think about creating elemental clones in the future; I'll have to specifically look for monsters with a lot of skills.
Who said I can't use magic? This is how I easily achieved it, and it's multi-elemental at that.
However, their joy was short-lived, as Luo Fan soon sensed they were surrounded again. This time, it wasn't the weak demonic scorpions, but enormous stone giants!
Luo Fan was stunned when he saw the huge creature suddenly emerge from the ruins.
Its body, standing seven or eight meters tall and around level 45, was able to completely ignore the pressure from Xuanwu.
Luo Fan even tried to link to them, but received no feedback whatsoever; instead, he was met with hostility.
"Luofan, come quick!" Ellie shouted as she noticed a huge rock flying towards her.
Xuanwu summoned its shield again and charged towards the stone giant to the side.
With a tremendous crash, the stone giant was knocked to the ground, and even its body cracked open.
Luo Fan dodged the rocks and jumped over to check, only to find that the cracks on the stone giant's body were slowly repairing, showing signs of regrouping.
"Damn, if you can't even kill someone by hitting them, how are you supposed to play?"
Seeing that dozens more stone giants were climbing out one after another, some of them even covered with stone pillars bearing symbols, Luo Fan was unsure of what to do.
This thing is made entirely of large rocks, with no visible structures like eyes, nose, or buttocks, leaving almost no room for breakthrough.
Moreover, it can be repaired with the power of the earth, making it a true perpetual motion machine!
Luo Fan poked at it with the wallpaper knife, but couldn't get it in at all.
"What should we do, run away?"
"Use water!" Toria shouted.
At this moment, Xuanwu's serpentine body rushed towards a stone giant, and the condensed sand and soil slowly separated, soon revealing the core inside.
The thing seemed to realize it had been exposed and quickly burrowed into the sand, only to be intercepted by Luo Fan beforehand.
"Lofan, throw it away! Throw it far away!" Toria shouted. "That's an exploding sand puppet!"
Luo Fan realized that the thing was gathering energy, so he casually tossed it into the sky. With a bang, the sand puppet turned into dust!
"Toriya, thank you!" I didn't expect this thing to have a second form, with sand control and self-destruction abilities, as well as insane regenerative abilities.
If they can't find a weakness, they'll probably have to run away.
Huge rocks continued to rain down, and the group, now back on Xuanwu's body, assisted the snake head in attacking the sand puppet.
If this thing were to burrow into the sand, it wouldn't be long before it became another stone giant.
Although its weaknesses are obvious, it is practically invincible as long as it doesn't encounter an element that it is weak against.
After a flurry of activity, the group cleared out the nearby puppets, but gained nothing and ended up covered in dust.
"These big guys are so annoying!" Daisy covered her mouth with her clothes, her face covered in dust, to avoid inhaling more sand.
“Well, it’s already blown up, so let’s continue. We should at least find something to compensate for it!” Luo Fan replied.
Seeing the chaotic ruins, everyone finally breathed a sigh of relief. Several girls even deliberately avoided Luo Fan and washed the dust off their clothes.
No wonder there are no other traces of magical beasts here. With such a reckless creature around, any more coming would be a freebie.
Upon arriving at the center of the site, the group began clearing away the sand.
Taking this opportunity, Lovan followed Toria to collect the symbols on the stone pillars.
Finally, after digging several meters deep, they found several stone slabs with magical characters on them, recording the past glory and decline of this place.
The Puppet God Cult, also known as the Puppet God Cult, is famous for its puppetry. They are most skilled at using various types of magic to create all kinds of magical puppets. In history, they once killed a real fire god.
However, as war broke out, a large number of gods and demons entered the arena, and the area they were in was shattered and thrown into spatial turbulence.
Finally, the entire cult was engulfed in the secret realm by a spatial tremor, leaving no survivors.
"So that thing was actually a puppet?" Everyone finally understood.
But what kind of spatial tremor could have wiped out the entire cult?
Luo Fan, who had some understanding of spatial elements, tried to sense the changes in the surrounding space, but found nothing.
"Wow, there are magic records here!" Daisy, who was looking for something nearby, looked at a stone slab and found some leather protected by a magic circle hidden inside.
A group of girls gathered together and studied the text, discovering many magic records and combinations, as well as more knowledge about alchemy.
"Why are they all magical characters?" Luo Fan was very upset.
These girls were actually reading these messy, nonsensical scribbles with great interest, while he had absolutely no interest in them and little desire to learn.
Sigh, looks like I'll have to brush up on this when I go out in the future. Puppetry looks like it would be really fun.
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