Qin Ze was speechless. "Please, can you stop saying such strange things that could be misunderstood?"
Miss Sword Case quickly apologized, "Oh, I'm sorry, but... but it really itches."
Qin Ze stopped making any physical advances.
Miss Sword Case finally breathed a sigh of relief upon seeing this.
Are you ready?
"We're going out!"
Miss Sword Case was full of energy and looked forward to leaving the temple.
Qin Ze suddenly felt a sense of floating; it was because Miss Sword Case had left the incense table.
Why is the outside world like this?
"It's not pretty at all."
Soon, Miss Sword Case's disappointed voice rang out.
Qin Ze asked, "Is this your first time going out?"
Miss Sword Case replied, "That's right."
Qin Ze asked, puzzled, "Why didn't you let them take you out before?"
Miss Sword Case said, "I told them, but they didn't agree. They seem to think I'm a burden."
Qin Ze didn't know whether bringing it out was a good thing or a bad thing.
But since things have come to this, we need to rescue Mom and Dad first.
Miss Sword Case has lived in the temple since she was born.
At this moment, it was like a primary school student on a field trip, full of curiosity about everything it encountered along the way.
Why is there such a thick fog?
"There's another stone here, very rough, and it can't talk."
"The weather is so nice!"
"The outside world is so big!"
"..."
Miss Sword Case chattered on and on, even more so than her clones on the Local Area Network.
Qin Ze asked impatiently, "How much longer until we reach Underworld Mountain?"
Miss Sword Case replied cheerfully, "Soon, soon!"
"How long is 'soon'?"
"It'll be soon, it'll be soon."
Like that cheap, pesky stone, Miss Sword Case has no concept of time.
They are not ordinary living beings; they stay in the same place day after day, so time doesn't seem so important to them.
Qin Ze couldn't see outside, so he simply walked around.
The Sword Case has a large interior space, but it's quite empty. It would be a very good storage space.
Furthermore, Qin Ze could sense that this void space was extremely fragile.
Just as Miss Sword Case had said before, if Qin Ze his way out, the other party wouldn't be able to stop him at all.
The Mist Lord muttered to himself, "I have a feeling I've been tricked."
The Dharma King disagreed. "Even if it's a pirate ship, it doesn't matter. We'll just seize the ship and become its Captain."
Ghost Captain: "Who called me?"
The Dharma King rolled his eyes. "Nobody called you, go somewhere cool and stay there."
The Captain exclaimed excitedly, "Brothers, guess what I ran into? That female knight captain invited me to visit their world!"
His Dharma King: "Who asked you?"
Thousand Faces said calmly, "Be careful, or you'll get a kidney injury."
Giant Overlord: "Going straight into the park is considered..."
Brother Devour retorted, "Why would she invite you? Just because you can turn into a ghost?"
The Captain said smugly, "Of course, they were captivated by my powerful personal charm!"
Qin Ze pondered for a moment and said, "Don't drive the Flying Circus Man in, or we'll all be wiped out."
Also, always keep your Paopao with you at all times, so you can run away anytime.
While Paopao Void Traversal is generally not very effective in combat, it is extremely useful for escaping.
The Captain said, "Okay, okay."
Why are you being so nagging, like an old woman?
"I'm not talking to you guys anymore, I'm going to have a chat with the female cavalry captain about life."
The clones on the Local Area Network were kicking themselves.
" That Captain deserves to die!"
"That's not Fairness! I want to go to the New Land too!"
Me too.
"I should have stuck with the Captain from the beginning."
" The Captain really lucked out by stumbling upon the hidden map."
"..."
No one expected that the Captain, who seemed to have mediocre skills, would be the first to make a significant discovery.
Everyone thought the Captain would lead his crew to their doom, but now they realize they were completely wrong.
Qin Ze was not worried about the Captain's safety.
Judging from those three pioneering explorers, their world has no Advanced Martial Artist.
The Captain's skills are already among the best of them.
Plus, there's the companionship of Paopao.
In case of danger, they can board the boat and escape at any time.
Qin Ze always harbored a sense of curiosity about foreign civilizations.
Especially with such an nascent civilization, one wonders what magical sparks will fly when the Captain arrives.
We've arrived!
Miss Sword Case's voice interrupted Qin Ze's thoughts.
"Now I'm going to open it."
"You're ready to come out."
A "click" sound rang out from the surroundings.
Immediately, ripples of space appeared around Qin Ze.
Qin Ze did not resist, allowing himself to be swallowed by the spatial ripples, and was teleported out of the Sword Case in the next second.
Beneath the gray fog, Underworld Mountain finally revealed its true appearance.
It was a mountain made entirely of corpses.
These corpses included both mythical beasts and humans.
They all had ferocious-looking faces.
He appeared to have suffered greatly before his death.
Halfway up the mountain, a thin blue beam of light pierced the gray mist high in the sky.
Qin Ze focused his vital energy in his eyes and activated his Divine Markings.
At such close range, his vision was finally able to penetrate the gray fog.
Following the blue beam of light, Qin Ze saw its source.
It was a light blue oil-paper umbrella.
The umbrella surface is decorated with mountains, rivers, seas, flowers, birds, fish, insects, and animals.
They are so lifelike and vivid that they seem ready to jump out of the umbrella at any moment.
The blue beam of light was emitted from the oil-paper umbrella, landing halfway up Underworld Mountain.
Qin Ze looked down and finally saw the two familiar figures in the beam of light.
They sat cross-legged on the ground, their eyes closed, as if they had fallen into a deep sleep.
The Sword Case didn't lie.
My parents were suppressed by Underworld Mountain.
The oil-paper umbrella was that magical item.
It keeps all Corruption out.
However, several tiny cracks had already appeared on the umbrella surface by this time.
The oiled paper umbrella was clearly struggling to stay afloat and was nearing its limit.
The Corruption on Underworld Mountain is more than a hundred times greater than that at its foot.
The fact that oil-paper umbrellas have survived to this day is a miracle in itself.
Miss Sword Case said proudly, "See? I wasn't lying."
"The artifact has developed cracks."
"To save them, we must split open the Underworld Mountain."
Qin Ze and the Sword Case stood in mid-air, still dozens of steps away from the Underworld Mountain.
The Dharma King said in the Local Area Network: "Ding~ New mission issued: Split the mountain to rescue your mother."
Thousand Faces clicked his tongue in amazement. "Interesting, we've become agarwood in a while now."
The Mist Lord gazed up at the Underworld Mountain, hundreds of meters high. "This mountain... can really be split open?"
Qin Ze also had his doubts.
Miss Sword Case noticed his hesitation and said calmly, "Don't worry, they're just small fry. I'll help them!"
Qin Ze took a deep breath and drew his bone sword.
Just then, the eyes of the corpses on the mountain suddenly lit up with red light, and they all locked onto Qin Ze in mid-air.