There were more than a dozen tunnels here, and each tunnel had a different situation. Some of them were relatively safe. As long as one was at the Nascent Soul Stage, one could reach the end. However, there were also some tunnels that even a Severed Soul Stage expert might not be able to pass through.
The tunnel Xiao Lingyu was in was extremely cold, and it was one of the most dangerous. Therefore, he was a little depressed and secretly cursed his bad luck. However, he was also glad that the tunnel he was in was not the most dangerous one.
This was only the first test to obtain the treasure. There were more difficult encounters to come. However, with Jiang Lanyue's guidance, as long as Xiao Lingyu could safely pass through this tunnel, he would be able to find a way to deal with the dangers that came after.
Xiao Lingyu knew that the further he went, the lower the temperature would be. If he had to deal with it with his own strength, it would be better for him to stay here. No matter if he went forward or backward, he would reach the second test and face the lower the temperature would be. However, he had the help of the snake, so he had enough confidence to move forward.
After adapting to the environment and sorting out his thoughts, Xiao Lingyu took firm steps forward.
In order to obtain the treasure, he had to hurry. One had to know that there were Body Integration Stage experts in this place. According to Jiang Lanyue, Body Integration Stage cultivators who entered this place should be able to find the treasure as long as they were not particularly unlucky.
Xiao Lingyu moved forward as fast as he could. After ten minutes, he had reached a place where he could no longer resist the cold. He released the snake.
The snake did not feel uncomfortable at all. It used its tongue to surround Xiao Lingyu and then continued forward.
Xiao Lingyu was not unlucky when he was teleported here. Even for the snake, it was a little difficult for it to pass through this cold tunnel.
Half an hour later, the snake's movements slowed down.
The stone walls of the tunnel were covered with a thick layer of ice crystals, and in front of the tunnel, gusts of cold wind mixed with snowflakes kept blowing. The low temperature even covered the serpent's body with frost, and the extremely cold temperature made the serpent feel that its power, blood, and bones were about to be frozen.
Such a low temperature was enough to hurt a snake at the late stage of the Spirit Severing stage. If an ordinary cultivator came here, if he didn't have a high-grade spiritual weapon to protect his body, he would have been frozen into an ice sculpture.
Xiao Lingyu continuously took out bottles of spirit liquid for the snake. This kind of gentle spirit liquid that did not need to be refined was very effective in nourishing and protecting the body. With the support of the spirit liquid, the snake was able to continue moving forward.
After another hour, they finally arrived at the most dangerous part of the tunnel. The snake's scales were completely frozen, and its flesh began to show extensive frostbite.
The serpent was still moving forward, but its consumption of Spirit Liquid had increased by a lot because it needed a large amount of Spirit Liquid to recover its frostbitten flesh.
In the end, Xiao Lingyu even took out a bottle of ten-thousand-year-old Queen Bee Nectar and gave it to the snake.
After using up the bottle of ten-thousand-year-old Queen Bee Nectar, the serpent was finally able to pass through the tunnel with Xiao Lingyu.
The temperature immediately returned to normal, and the frost on the serpent's body also melted rapidly.
The exhausted serpent was directly put into the spirit beast bag by Xiao Lingyu to rest and left more than a dozen bottles of Spirit Liquid in the spirit beast bag as a reward for the serpent.
At this time, Xiao Lingyu was in a long corridor. There were more than a dozen stone doors on the walls on both sides of the corridor. These stone doors were connected to the tunnels. Xiao Lingyu had just entered this corridor from one of the stone doors.
However, these stone doors could not be opened from the side of the corridor. They could only be opened from the tunnel.
Xiao Lingyu walked along the corridor, but his expression was not happy at all. This was because along the way, he found that eight stone doors had already been opened. This also proved that eight people had already arrived at this corridor before him.
At the end of the corridor was a low doorway, and at the side of the doorway was a stone qilin sculpture.
This qilin had a single horn with spiral-shaped grooves on it.
Xiao Lingyu walked to the side of the doorway and broke off the horn of the stone qilin sculpture.
The horn seemed to be just a part of the stone sculpture. It didn't give off any energy fluctuations, nor did it have anything special about it. Any cultivator who passed by here wouldn't even think of breaking it off. However, Xiao Lingyu did so because he knew that the horn would be of great use later on.
Unfortunately, the scene of Xiao Lingyu breaking off the qilin's horn was seen by a cultivator who had just arrived at the corridor. Xiao Lingyu originally wanted to kill him to silence him, but first of all, the other party had no enmity with him, and second of all, the other party was a powerhouse at the Severed Soul Stage. He gave up on this idea and directly went into the doorway.
The Severed Soul Stage cultivator walked to the front of the doorway and carefully sized it up. He did not see anything wrong with this qilin sculpture, but he felt that it was too strange when Xiao Lingyu broke off the qilin's horn, so he directly put the entire stone sculpture into his storage bracelet.
Behind the doorway was a completely dark world.
Here, no light source could project too far. The darkness here seemed to have the ability to devour light. Even if the cultivators released spells or used their own spirit force to illuminate, they could only illuminate a radius of three meters around them.
The most important thing was that the cultivators' spirit sense and light would be devoured by the darkness and could not cover too far.
Under normal circumstances, after cultivators came here and familiarized themselves with the situation here, they would rush forward in one direction. This was the only way. However, Xiao Lingyu did not do this. After flying randomly for a while, he took out a feather.
This feather was very light, but it could emit light and had some slight spirit force fluctuations. This was because this was the feather of a flying demonic beast. This kind of feather was almost everywhere on the Flying Feather Continent, but cultivators would not pay attention to it.
The feather floated in front of Xiao Lingyu. It shone with a faint light, but it could only illuminate a palm-sized area. However, this ordinary flying demonic beast feather floated in a direction in the darkness without any wind.
Xiao Lingyu's heart suddenly relaxed. He slowly followed the feather. This was the secret to passing this trial.
If they did not find the right method, they would be trapped here for a long time.
The area here was very vast. Even if a Body Integration cultivator came here, it would take dozens of hours to find their way out. Moreover, there were some mechanisms here. If they were careless, it would bring great danger to the cultivators.
Although Xiao Lingyu's method of using the feather to lead the way was a trick, it had a drawback. That was, it was not fast enough.
Therefore, after forty hours, Xiao Lingyu finally passed this trial.
The feather led him to a tall stone door. Then, it was sucked into the door by an indescribable force.
Although there was a gap in the door, cultivators could not pass through it like the feather.
Next to the stone door was a stone statue. However, it was not a qilin, but a one-eyed beast.
Xiao Lingyu pried out the one-eyed beast's eyeball and put it into his storage belt.
The stone door was tightly shut. However, it was very heavy. Although Xiao Lingyu's strength was not enough to push it open, the late-stage Spirit Severing Stage snake that had been recuperating for a long time could easily push it open.
The stone door opened, and Xiao Lingyu arrived at the edge of a sea of fire.
As far as his eyes could see, he could see a lone island in the middle of the sea of fire. On the lone island was a mountain.
There were no living creatures on the lone island or the mountain. There were only bright red rocks that emitted a fiery light.
But even standing on the edge of the sea of fire, Xiao Lingyu could still feel the extremely high temperature in the sea of fire. However, the flames and high temperature in the sea of fire were suppressed by a powerful force and could not overflow strongly.
Xiao Lingyu also knew that the powerful force not only limited the sea of fire, but also limited the cultivators who flew over the sea of fire. It was said that it was impossible to fly directly over the sea of fire without reaching the Dacheng Stage. If you forced to fly, you would only be pressed into the sea of fire and burned to death by the raging fire.
Of course, there was also a path from the shore of the sea of fire to the lone island. There was no need to forcibly fly over it.
There was more than one path. There was an iron chain, a wooden bridge more than three feet wide, several identical boats floating on the sea of fire, and a miniature transmission array.
Xiao Lingyu knew that the miniature transmission array was actually leading to the outside. If he entered it and activated it, he would directly return to the bottom of the big pit in the Falling Rock Desert.
In fact, none of the three options to go to the lone island was absolutely safe. Jiang Lanyue did not remind Xiao Lingyu how to choose the best option, so Xiao Lingyu was more hesitant.
But there were still many cultivators around. They would be trapped in the dark space for a while, but it was impossible for them to be trapped there forever. Especially the Combination Stage cultivator, so Xiao Lingyu did not have much time to dawdle.
After pondering for a moment, he felt that on the surface, the iron chain was the most dangerous, the wooden bridge was the safest, and the boat was in the middle of the danger factor, but in fact, it was hard to say whether this was the case.
However, Xiao Lingyu felt that if the danger factor of these three options was high, medium, and low, then the boat would definitely be in the middle. He did not dare to bet that he would be able to choose the least difficult option, so he chose to take the boat.
Xiao Lingyu jumped into a small boat and saw a palm print inside. He pressed his palm on it and then found that his cultivation began to involuntarily pour into it. He hurriedly withdrew his palm.
Unsurprisingly, he was able to withdraw his palm, but the boat that was already trembling slightly quieted down again.
Xiao Lingyu knew that this boat could only move forward with his cultivation, so he pressed his palm on it again and poured his cultivation into the boat again.
At first, the speed of his cultivation was not very fast, but as the boat moved further and further away from the shore, his cultivation consumption also increased.
When the boat had already traveled one-tenth of the distance, Xiao Lingyu's cultivation was almost depleted. He could only rely on spiritual liquid to continue to maintain it.
At this moment, he could not help but think, what would happen if the snake provided the energy? This palm print was obviously designed to deal with human cultivators. If the snake did not have a palm and poured its energy into it, would the boat be able to accept it?
When the boat had traveled about one-third of the distance, the sea of fire suddenly surged, and the boat became a little unstable. If Xiao Lingyu had not been so focused, the boat would have been flipped over.
Moving forward in the huge waves was not very dangerous, but he needed to be able to stabilize the boat. And to stabilize the boat, he needed to have enough energy to support it. Every time the boat was hit by the waves of fire, the energy consumption would increase by several times.
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