Chapter 101: Secret Realm of the Abyss (3)
Killing an ordinary fire demon is not a difficult task.
Even though they each had their own characteristics, and were promoted by absorbing the remains of the Fire Demon King, as long as Ji Weihang splashed water, the fire covering the surface of most of the Fire Demons' bodies would be extinguished, and their movements would become stiff.
Upon discovering this condition, Ji Weihang took out a few round-bellied vases like the previous ones and smashed them one by one in the sky, and water flowed down with a roar.
It doesn’t matter if I can’t see Jiang Qian and the others. This water has no other harmful properties except for being cold. She usually uses it to freeze fruits.
Seeing the Flame Demons stiffen, Jiang Qian and Ji Chengyuan knew that someone had taken action, so they smashed them all.
They quickly worked together to clean up all the fire demons that escaped from the cracks.
The third level is a quiz: "How many Balrogs were killed in the first and second levels?"
If you can’t answer one question correctly, you will fail in all of them.
Ji Weihang answered his own question and then waited for the result.
Jiang Yan and Ji Chengyuan both said they didn't remember such a thing.
She had no choice but to use her arms to help the other two answer.
Jiang Yan said directly, "You really have the style of Ji Jiang" and "I would like to call you elder sister."
After answering the questions, the scene in front of them changed and the ambient temperature dropped sharply.
This is a world of ice and snow, with ice everywhere. Unlike the vast plains of Yanyuan, here are endless snow-capped mountains. At a glance, it is so dazzling that you can't tell the direction.
The fourth level, leaving the Yanyuan and coming to the cold abyss on the previous level.
Ji Weihang took out a snow hat and put it on.
The specially made green gauze falls down to form a barrier, which can block the cold wind and prevent snow blindness without affecting vision.
Level 4: "Find the Ice Lotus."
All three must find a snow lotus of their own.
Strange request.
Ji Weihang told them not to move in a hurry and to stay where they were.
Activate the teleportation symbols left on them.
The teleportation talisman that could have forcibly teleported them to my side was ineffective. It was as if there were layers of strict and distant distances between them, and obvious rules were blocking them.
But Ji Weihang could still vaguely sense that they were not far from her.
It’s just that the folded space affects perception and makes it impossible to determine the specific location.
Still unable to break through the constraints of the rules.
There is no vegetation to mark this place, only endless silvery white snow-capped mountains.
We can only separate temporarily and go in different directions to look for snow lotus.
Ji Weihang floated slowly in one direction, pondering the deeper meaning.
Since Amuda is the tomb keeper, normally, she would kill the two aliens, herself and Jiang Qian, in addition to Ji Chengyuan.
It is undoubtedly very impolite to trespass into a secret place with the intention of breaking into a tomb.
However, Amuda did not take action directly. Instead, she proposed the so-called "nine difficulties" and said that if they could pass them, they would be able to reach the cemetery.
So weird…
Putting aside the so-called difficulties, it’s not particularly difficult.
Let’s talk about this specific level – killing the Fire Demon King, ordinary Fire Demons, answering questions, and finding flowers.
If the first two levels were Amuda using them to clean up the house and eliminate the militants in Yanyuan, then answering questions in the third level and finding flowers in the fourth level seemed like child's play.
And I really can't see any connection.
She waited for a while at the third level, hoping to get possible clues from the attitudes of the other two. But they both said they didn't remember. She didn't feel anything was wrong, and didn't want to waste time, so she helped answer first.
Now, I feel that the third and fourth levels have deeper meanings, but I just can’t come up with any results for the time being.
What was Amuda's purpose? Was it to target her or Jiang Yan? Why didn't she just do it?
To think about this problem, we need to go back to the original question:
——What is Amda doing here?
Simply guarding the tomb? She didn't believe it.
Amuda is Ji Yuan's predecessor and teacher.
More than a thousand years ago, when Ji Yuan just crawled out of the Demon Abyss, Amuda already had great prestige among the demons.
It can be said that she was the one who pushed the demon race from its primitive state to its current civilization.
Amuda learned culture and knowledge from humans, and educated the demons who only knew how to act according to primitive desires, so that the demons would no longer be obsessed with killing and reproduction. Most of the high-level demons today have been taught by her to some extent.
It was also with her help that Ji Yuan became the first Demon Emperor.
Amuda believes that the demons really need a leader who can suppress and manage the population.
But she, the demon, did not like being a ruler, so she chose the most suitable and outstanding Ji Yuan.
The end of the war between the two tribes was also driven by Amuda. Her support for the fact that her hard-earned "Swallowing the Heaven and Spitting the Earth" technique was listed as a forbidden technique ensured the smooth implementation.
As a teacher, Amuda guarded Ji Yuan's tomb? If it was a human, it might be normal, but a demon? She didn't believe there was no conspiracy.
The custom of the demons is that corpses return to the Demon Abyss to be transformed into nutrients, and any remaining souls can also condense their bodies again in the Demon Abyss.
If Ji Chengyuan hadn't said that she wanted to come to the Abyss Secret Realm to see her mother's soul, Ji Weihang would never have thought that Ji Yuan actually built a tomb in the Abyss Secret Realm. And Amuda was guarding the tomb here?
What is Amda doing here? What is her hidden agenda?
Does this purpose have anything to do with her lenient treatment of these invaders?
Ji Weihang was thinking, when suddenly he saw a ray of light flashing in his sight. Looking closely, he saw that it was an ice lotus, hidden in the snow and inconspicuous, but it would reflect light at certain angles.
So simple? Ji Weihang looked at the ice and snow lotus from afar.
Although I don’t know what the function of this ice and snow lotus is, it is obviously not an ordinary thing.
It is common sense that there must be a companion spirit beast near a natural treasure.
And here, it is probably a companion demon?
She took out the longbow she had used before, without any arrow on it, and lightly pulled the bow to its full extent. The moment she let go, a white arrow pierced through the wind and shot towards the ice and snow lotus.
At the moment when the extremely fragile and beautiful white lotus was about to be destroyed, a huge arm of ice and snow stretched out from the ground to block the spiritual arrow. The spiritual power dissipated and the long arrow disappeared.
really.
Ji Weihang looked at the snow demon crawling out of the snow mountain, took out special gloves from his Kun Gan bag, and thought while putting them on.
Unable to obtain complete information, and unable to break the rules of space and reunite with his companions, is it possible to keep fighting like this until the level is cleared? Or, in other words, until Amuda wants to end it?
Thinking of this, she paused, thoughtfully.
This familiar pattern makes it hard not to think of the wishing game.
Will it be related to the game?
"Roar——!" The snow demon below didn't care about her distraction and grabbed a hard ball of snow and threw it at her.
Ji Weihang dodged and drew his sword quickly. A thin line appeared on the snow demon's body. Before it collapsed and buried the lotus, Ji Weihang reached out to pull out the ice and snow lotus.
The first touch was freezing cold, and even with the gloves protecting it, the flow of spiritual energy throughout the body stagnated and slowed down.
Ji Weihang pulled it out quickly, avoiding the snow demon's body that was collapsing like a mountain. After throwing the lotus into the jade box, unstoppable coldness still overflowed from the box.
The coldness affects myself, and it may also affect Jiang Yan and others who are fighting.
Ji Weihang placed the jade box in the air and used the spiritual energy in the air to build a platform and wrap it in multiple layers. There was a crackling sound of ice forming. The cold air could freeze everything, but the speed was still slow and it would not freeze to the outermost layer instantly.
It will not affect Ji Weihang's physical condition.
Ji Weihang wrote the number one on his arm.
Soon, the same coldness came from his hands, and after a moment, Jiang Yan wrote two.
After a while, Ji Chengyuan wrote three.
Passed the fourth level.
Level 5: "Take the Ice Lotus."
At this point...Ji Weihang couldn't possibly eat this weird thing.
Jiang Yan also said that she would not eat it.
Therefore, when they felt their whole bodies freezing cold, as if their souls and time had frozen, they all knew who had eaten the ice lotus.
Fortunately, this feeling only lasted for a moment and then disappeared.
Ji Chengyuan said he was fine.
Even so, Ji Weihang couldn't eat it. She looked at the words of Ji Chengyuan that were gradually disappearing on her arm, thoughtfully.
As for Jiang Yan, she is of the fire element, so even if there is no poison, she will not eat anything of the ice element.
She hates the cold.
Besides, Ji Weihang won’t eat it, and even if she eats it, she won’t be able to pass the level, so why should she suffer this?
She floated in the sky, took out food and ate it to pass the time.
There are still at least ten hours before the game starts, so there is really no need to rush.
She chewed the spiritual fruit. This strange situation didn't seem to be directed at her at all, so she just had to wait.
——
"Grandma, you should know, right? Except for me, they won't eat it."
Ji Chengyuan touched the silver-white ice snow patterns covering his body after eating the flower, feeling cool and refreshing.
"What is the purpose of doing this?"
Amuda did not answer, nor did she care, she just walked slowly in the soft snow. After eating the ice lotus, her cold resistance increased greatly.
The sound of crunching snow accompanied the voice. Ji Chengyuan looked to see if there were any other snow lotuses and said, "Can't you really answer me?"
"I originally thought that you were just doing it for them to see, and that if we separated, you would give me a back door, but you actually ignored me? Why? Are you angry because I brought humans and monsters in? But there is nothing I can do. Auntie doesn't want me to come in to see mother."
"Grandma - you're not really going to wait until they eat the flowers, are you? That's impossible. Breaking through the barriers is one thing, and eating them is another. If I didn't trust you, and if the demons have a special physique, I wouldn't eat them."
"Wait for them to eat the flowers? I think it's more likely that Ji Weihang will break the rules and get out."
Ji Chengyuan saw another ice and snow lotus. He walked over briskly, used the pressure of the Demon Emperor's mark on his body to intimidate the snow demon underground, easily plucked the flower, and ate it with a crunch.
The taste is cool and crisp, with no flavor.
After eating the flowers, she threw away the stems and licked her lips. "It tastes a bit like a smoothie. It's quite delicious."
The color of the ice snow patterns on his body deepened, slowly stretching and spreading, as if climbing up the entire body, and his fiery red hair turned half white.
She didn't care at all, she looked up at the sky and sighed, "Let me out. What on earth do you want to do? I feel like it's not targeting Ji Weihang or Jiang Yan, but me."
"No way, no way."
"Am I not your dear grandson, grandma—"
Her voice was drawn out, with a sweet and cloying flavor.
If Ji Weihang were here, they would probably draw their swords.
This was not like the usual Ji Chengyuan, but more like something wearing the same skin and deliberately getting close to Ji Chengyuan's personality. No matter how much he disguised himself, it still aroused subconscious rejection and nausea, a feeling like tiny insects slowly crawling up his back, dense and lingering.
Ji Chengyuan burped with a savory burp and couldn't help laughing. Her voice was no longer drawn out. "I'm just kidding. How could that be possible? You love me the most." She showed a trusting look. "I remember that you had a quarrel with my aunt over whether to breed me, right?"
"Ah..." She sighed deeply, "But since you've been so stubborn, I have no choice but to wait."
She sat on the snow, and a leaf appeared under her. She slid down the mountain.
"Alas--!"
The shouts of joy echoed through the mountains. The snow piled on the peaks shook slightly. After a moment, a thin crack over a hundred meters long appeared in the ice and snow on the upper part of the mountain. Then, the huge body of snow began to slide.
Like a snow-white tsunami, it surged towards her.
There was an avalanche.
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