The Potential of the Abyss People

"Why do I feel like the two of them are going through a life-or-death separation?"

Romantina couldn't understand what Abel and Riko were saying, but she could sense the sadness in Riko and felt a pang of sympathy for her.

"Qing Ge?" Tang San asked.

"Don't really think of me as a translator. I'm just a novice, and the two of them were a bit emotional and speaking too fast, so I couldn't hear them very clearly."

Even so, Zhou Qing actually understood.

As Romantina had said, Riko was saying her final goodbye to Abel.

Reason?

She couldn't bear the Ascension Curse.

However, Zhou Qing and Tang San had already experienced the Ascension Curse firsthand. It was related to "Aura Field". Even if the Aura Field below was chaotic, they were confident that they could minimize the damage caused by the "curse" and help Riko her Aura Field.

How to adjust it?

By knocking her unconscious and controlling the Soul Power within her body to circulate in a certain direction, adjusting her Essence, Qi, and Spirit, Aura Field, and bringing it into harmony with the special environmental Aura Field during ascension, it can also help her to ignore the Ascension Curse.

After leaving Ruozhi Primary School, Riko looked back at the school gate, and tears welled up in her eyes again.

"Should we find another guide?"

Wang Sheng couldn't stand it and made a suggestion.

"Don't!"

Riko immediately wiped away the tears from the corners of her eyes and said cheerfully, "I'm just touched, not sad. Ruozhi Primary School will definitely be proud to have taught such an excellent student as me."

Seeing this, the others stopped trying to persuade them.

They could all see that this was a strong child. If they had really looked for someone else, wouldn't this "little guy's" farewell to Abel have been a joke?

Led by Riko, the five arrived at the edge of the Abyss Ruins and climbed down one by one, quickly reaching the first level.

Time on the first floor is exactly the opposite of the outside world; it's daytime outside, but nighttime here. You can even look up and see the stars twinkling in the night sky.

"How strange. There should be a dark boundary between the top of this first level and the ground, right? Going down, it's night; going up, it's daytime. And once you cross this boundary and look up, you still see the vast Starry Sky, not stars pasted on a curtain." Xiao Wu looked up, quite curious about the form of this dark boundary.

"It's probably some kind of force distorting the light, creating this visual effect. You can think of it as Romantina's ability to Spiritual Sharing," Zhou Qing explained considerately to Xiao Wu.

"I see... But are you implying that I'm not smart?"

Xiao Wu's eyes were unfriendly.

"I didn't mean that, I was just giving a simple example." Zhou Qing smiled awkwardly, then changed the subject and said to Riko, "Please have our little guide lead us to the Second Layer."

"At night, the nearby villages do not offer Bird Horse rental services. If you have to walk, it will take most of the day to get to the central Elevator Platform."

Riko took out a map. "However, near this edge, there is a cave leading to the Second Layer, which requires climbing and may be dangerous."

With only seventy-two hours to spare, they had no time to waste traveling, so they all hoped to choose the cave route.

However, before deciding on this route, we should ask the guide for advice.

"I?"

Riko paused for a moment, then honestly replied, "I prefer to go through the caves because that's where the adventure is. However, this route is quite dangerous, so we can wait until tomorrow to set off."

"Alright, let's take the cave route then."

Zhou Qing pointed to the vast grassland in front of him.

"Everyone···"

Riko deeply moved. "Actually, you don't need to take care of me."

"No, it's mainly because we only have three days and want to see as much as possible down there," Zhou Qing told the truth.

Riko: "..."

Following the map's markings, Riko spent about ten minutes finding the cave located on the edge of the mountain wall. The cave was about ten meters above the ground, and apart from a huge protruding rock platform on the lower front side of the cave, the rock walls on both sides were quite smooth. Fortunately, there were rock spikes left by previous Explorer, which Riko use to tie ropes.

Just as Riko was about to put down her backpack, Xiao Wu picked her up and tossed her onto her back.

"Catch."

Upon hearing this, Riko surprised to see Xiao Wu leap up and jump onto the rock platform in front of the cave, which was more than ten meters high. Zhou Qing, Tang San, Romantina, and Wang Sheng followed closely behind and jumped onto the rock platform one after another.

"Amazing!"

Riko surprised; she hadn't expected these people to be so skilled, able to jump so high without using any exploration tools.

In the Abyss Town, even the Purple Whistle Explorer need tools or other equipment to achieve such skill.

"Is this the Soul Skill of the Soul Master outside? How convenient!"

"It's not Soul Skill, just a little technique for generating power." Xiao Wu put Riko down from her back and patiently explained, "You can actually do it too, as long as you understand how Soul Power circulates in your body."

But it is very difficult for the residents of Abyss Town to do this on their own.

Living within the Abyss Ruins, they are unable to awaken their Martial Soul. Even though they can sense Soul Power due to the unique environment here, they do not know how to utilize it to the greatest extent possible.

Admittedly, most Soul Master outside the community don't understand this either, but at least they have Martial Soul, which can help Soul Master control the flow of Soul Power within their bodies during meditation.

If most Soul Master outside the city know how to cultivate Soul Power but not why, then the vast majority of residents of Abyss Town know nothing about Soul Power cultivation. Even if they can obtain Meditation Method and know that there are meridians in the human body that circulate Soul Power, without Martial Soul, they don't know how to circulate it. They can only passively enhance the Soul Power in their bodies that makes their physical functions stronger through physical exercise.

Um--

She was somewhat similar to Romantina before she mastered the correct cultivation method, but far inferior.

It is only because the Heaven and Earth Energy inside this Abyss Ruins is quite rich that it can withstand the townspeople's physical exertion; otherwise, most people in Abyss Town would not be able to reach adulthood.

Perhaps this is one of the reasons why the Abyss People were so short?

However, not awakening Martial Soul also has its advantages, namely that their inventive and creative abilities are not limited to the Martial Soul itself, and their diversity of directions far exceeds that of the outside world.

As for cultivating Soul Power, perhaps in another ten or twenty thousand years, and without any external interference during this period, they will realize that the Meridians in the body are the key to cultivating Soul Power, and begin to study the human body. They might even create a way to cultivate without Martial Soul.

That is, it is equivalent to the Internal Cultivation Method of various sects, large and small, in Tang San's previous life.

The Abyss People definitely have that potential!

Zhou Qing even suspected that if the Abyss People were more numerous and no longer confined to this one town, they might have been able to develop Internal Cultivation Method much earlier.