"Alright, alright, I'll let you open all the treasure chests from now on!" Ye Chen said dejectedly. Why did he suddenly become so unlucky?
It's definitely not his fault. It seems to have started after he met Zhou Wenbin and the others. They must be the ones who are corrupt, and they infected him with their ideas. Yes, that's definitely it.
Ye Chen quickly found the reason and reassured himself with certainty.
Luck is a truly mysterious thing. Some people are born in Europe, while others struggle their entire lives to be considered unlucky...
Compared to Ye Chen, the items offered by the others were much better.
Besides the intermediate-grade gold-type spirit orb that the fat man obtained, the others successively obtained three more spirit orbs, but they were all low-grade.
There are also three blueprints for special buildings and one blueprint for a cyclic magic circle.
However, the design of the cyclic magic circle was not very good, and its effect was slightly worse than the one obtained before, so the fat man put it away to use as future stock.
"Brother Chen, the Red Bird has sent back a message. It hasn't been occupied by other dark creatures yet. Should we go over there now?" After packing his things, Le Xinghai's Red Bird flew back and looked at Ye Chen, saying.
"Go! Of course I'll go! And the sooner the better!" Ye Chen nodded.
"Fatty, your goblins come and clean up the battlefield, dwarves grab your muskets, and the mountain god, the earth god, the moon goddess, the moon-embracing rabbit, and the medicine-pounding rabbit, come with me!"
The movement speed within the territory is too slow. To reach the location of the Holy Light Stone, the only option is to leave the territory and lead your own kin. This is why many lords lose their lives or even become tainted by darkness.
After all, many of the locations of the source of darkness are inaccessible from floating islands; only lords can lead their kin to those places.
"How about we go? You, you shouldn't go, it's too, too, too dangerous!" Zhou Wenbin stammered. He was already extremely grateful that Ye Chen had come with them, so how could he let him take any more risks?
“That’s right, she’s our little sister after all, we can’t let you take such a risk!” Le Xinghai said as well. If Ye Chen really got into trouble here, they would feel guilty for the rest of their lives.
"Stop talking nonsense and hurry up and leave. If I don't go and we run into other dark creatures, will you be able to come back?" Ye Chen retorted, leaving the others speechless.
If they were to encounter a horde of tens of thousands of dark creatures, it's hard to say whether they would be able to return alive.
The crowd looked at each other, unable to find any words to refute him. Ye Chen had already jumped onto the shoulder of a mountain god with Zhou Wenxuan, ready to set off.
"What? Aren't you going to wait for the banquet?" Ye Chen turned around and said. Everyone else was fine, but Zhou Wenbin and Gao Caidie would definitely go with him. After all, one was her brother and the other was the only girl. If there was any suggestive behavior like changing clothes, he could avoid suspicion, right?
"Let's go! Let's go! Let's go!" Zhou Wenbin wiped his eyes, and together with Gao Caidie and her goblin dwarves, they leaped onto the mountain giant's back and followed Ye Chen out of the territory.
"You must come back alive!" the fat man shouted, only to be met with a look of disdain from Ye Chen.
"You can shut your mouth now!"
For the first time leaving their territory and venturing into the darkness, Ye Chen, Zhou Wenbin, and Gao Caidie all appeared somewhat nervous.
Without the protection of territory, the aura I could feel was slightly different.
"I have a rather uncomfortable feeling, and I'm feeling a bit irritable!" Ye Chen thought to himself, this was one of the effects of darkness on the lord.
“It’s not just emotional irritability; over time, even worse emotions will emerge, such as irritability, bloodlust, lust, and so on, ultimately leading one into eternal darkness,” Gao Caidie said, her face flushed slightly, clearly indicating that she was also suffering from some kind of emotional distress.
"Hmm!" Ye Chen nodded, having gained some understanding of the dark erosion described in the book.
It is precisely because of the power of darkness to lead to corruption that many lords or awakened beings have stood on the opposite side of humanity on Earth, becoming members of the darkness.
Such people are absolutely suppressed by both the Blue Star government and the lords. If encountered in the dark world, they will be killed without giving the other party a chance to argue.
With the mountain god and mountain giants as their shuttle, the procession moved quickly and soon arrived at the place where they had found the Holy Light Stone.
Instantly, a faint afterglow of holy light appeared in the three people's senses. Compared to the holy light stone used to sustain Zhou Wenxuan's life, the light aura here was even stronger.
“That’s the darkness, the source of darkness, the fountain of light. The Holy Light Stone from before was suppressed there, above that place!” Zhou Wenbin said, pointing to a dark shadow on the ground in the distance.
Seeing in the dark is already difficult, and all Ye Chen could see was a dark shadow on the ground; he couldn't see anything else.
“My sister got tainted by the darkness after touching that black water, but it wasn’t this big back then; it probably all overflowed later,” Gao Caidie added.
“Without the suppression of the Holy Light Stone, the dark source has transformed into more water droplets,” Ye Chen said. However, how to get through the dark creatures on the ground is now the most urgent problem.
Aside from dark creatures, normal life forms should not easily touch the source of darkness, otherwise they will easily be infected and become beasts controlled by desire, helping darkness devour the endless world.
"The vessel that carries it must be that!" Ye Xi scattered moonlight, and the scene in the distance finally appeared clearly in front of everyone. The Moon-Holding Rabbit pointed to a trophy-shaped stone cup in the pool and said.
"Are you sure that's the tool that holds the power? Doesn't all this dark energy come from inside?" Ye Chen asked uncertainly. Dark sewage was constantly flowing from the rim of the stone cup, yet the Moon-Embracing Rabbit was saying that it was the tool that held the power of the source.
"Of course, whether it is or not, the tools that bear the essence of darkness can naturally also bear the essence of elements," the Moon-Holding Rabbit affirmed.
He then stepped forward alone, following the edge of the dark, polluted water, and released a beam of moonlight toward the direction of the stone cup.
A surge of energy caused the moonlight to slowly advance, dispersing the surrounding darkness and sewage. Ye Chen raised an eyebrow, surprised that there was such a way.
That clever little rabbit, always squatting in the field munching on carrots, has been pretending to be a pig to catch a tiger all along. It's really going too far to slack off like that!
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