Is this guy crazy?
Ziyue was also quite certain that the monsters inside those transparent jade stones were extremely troublesome, and once released, they would probably be even more terrifying than the ten thousand dragons outside the palace.
Is this guy planning to take everyone down with him?
However, the other party turned too quickly, and the distance between the two sides was already quite short. Even with Murong's speed, he couldn't react in time and could only watch helplessly as Chen Qing crashed into the transparent jade wall!
But then an unbelievable thing happened!
The imagined shattering and explosion did not occur. Chen Qing, enveloped in a massive cloud of water vapor, instantly disappeared into the transparent jade wall. The jade wall, which had originally been able to repel countless monsters, became as soft as water, leaving even the well-informed Ziyue dumbfounded and unable to react for a moment.
What's going on?
"Aren't you going to chase after them?" Murong asked immediately, though he was also stunned by the scene.
Because once Chen Qing is out of sight, finding him again would be harder than climbing to heaven!
"Chase him?" Baiyu said calmly, "Don't act rashly. This Chen fellow is very strange. He knows a lot about ancient things. As for the Nine Heavens Mirror Valley, we haven't known its rules for tens of thousands of years, but he seems to have it all under his control. If he weren't so young, I would suspect that he personally created the Nine Heavens Mirror Valley!"
Upon hearing this, Murong forcibly stopped his impulse to chase after them. Indeed, this jade wall, which could clearly trap so many monsters, should be incredibly sturdy, but in Chen Qing's hands, it was softer than water, and he managed to break through it just like that.
The things inside were enough to send chills down my spine just from a single glance; how could I dare to chase after them?
"Wrong!"
Just as Baiyu and Murong were both startled, Ziyue suddenly stepped forward and poked her finger into the jade wall. The powerful force passed through her fingertip, causing her hand to sink into it just like Chen Qing's!
" Ziyue?" Murong's eyes widened in surprise.
"So that's how it is!" A fierce glint flashed in Moon Eye: "This is a spatial formation. Hurry up and catch up, otherwise, if Chen Qing shakes us off, the three of us will be doomed!"
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"Fine."
After Chen Qing entered the jade wall enveloped in immense wind energy, he breathed a slight sigh of relief.
Although this version is different from the one I remember, it is an iteration based on my own ideas and is exactly the same as what I envisioned. The place that traps countless monsters is a huge spatial magic circle. It is basically impossible for anything inside to get out, but it is very easy for people outside to get in.
Fortunately, this detail wasn't changed; otherwise, if I had failed to break in earlier, I fear I would have been captured by Ziyue and the other two.
Thinking of this, he quickly looked around. In the original version, those terrifying creatures of the Dragon Palace would only come out to wreak havoc on the world after the Dragon Palace dungeon was completed. After all, in the original design, those things were just embryos, frozen in the unique ice jade of the Dragon Palace. They would only start to cause terrifying massacres on the world after being taken out by the players.
However, the original owner wasn't entirely satisfied with this design, feeling it lacked a certain awe-inspiring impact. After all, these terrifying weapons that the dragon had researched over millions of years only began to slowly revive after they went outside, which was far less impactful than the direct catastrophes that descended upon other ancient dungeons.
Since the boss said that, Chen Qing had no choice but to work overtime to revise it, which led to the current design.
In the original setting, the top-grade jade hidden in the core of the Dragon Palace was no longer inside the underground mine, but was taken out and made into cages for these biological weapons.
This design is quite reasonable. After all, if the original design had been followed, it would have seemed unreasonable for the Dragon Palace to have such a large reserve of jade that remained unused.
While it's reasonable, the difficulty has increased significantly compared to before.
If it were the original version, Chen Qing only needed to find the mine and then find the biological weapon he needed to take away the Dragon Palace's greatest resource. But now, he has to search for that thing in this magic array!
Waaah
Just then, a strange sound wave came from afar, Chen Qing immediately noticed that the entire sea surface began to shake.
Without hesitation, Chen Qing channeled energy into the jade disc, which seemed so close yet so far. The next second, a line of Chinese characters, unique to the human race, appeared on the jade disc. " Heavenly Ghost Octopus, Unsealing Date: 48,000 years and 276 days!"
Upon seeing the words, Chen Qing's body trembled slightly.
The biological weapons were created in a last-minute overtime effort, so most of the monster models were hastily made by the staff and were rather rough, but simple and brutal. In fact, many of them were quite easy to deal with, since they were intended for most players to farm experience after obtaining the inheritance.
However, to add some difficulty, there are some rather troublesome items that require personal preparation. I remember making about five or six of them myself.
And coincidentally, this Heavenly Ghost Octopus is a prime example!
Octopus creatures often appear in monster movies. Their unique shape, when scaled up, gives off a Cthulhu vibe. Many alien movies use octopuses as the base model, simply because this creature is so fantastical.
With nine brains and two memory systems, many biologists believe that octopuses may not be a species from Earth.
Therefore, they are often made into monster models.
The Heavenly Ghost Octopus I designed is a bug-level monster. Once it recovers from the Ice Jade and has enough food, it can expand and evolve infinitely, growing in size almost without limit. Eventually, it can grow into a cataclysmic monster on the scale of a moving earth crust. I remember that in several servers, this monster grew to a size that was almost impossible to destroy, thus devouring all humans. It was a monster that destroyed four or five servers!
Thinking this, Chen Qing didn't hesitate to compress his wind energy and quickly move towards the light. However, though his reaction was fast, the monster reacted even faster. From the darkness, countless tentacles swarmed out, almost filling the entire space. The suckers on the tentacles possessed terrifying suction power, directly stirring up the surrounding seawater into a chaotic storm. This caused the wind energy around Chen Qing to go out of control and be sucked down!
"This is?"
After Murong and the others followed Ziyue inside, they frowned as they looked at the vast, dark sea.
Just now, Murong turned around to try and find the spot where he came from, but found that the jade disc, which was so close, seemed infinitely far away, and no matter how hard he tried, he could not reach it.
But they just came in; the distance between them should only be a few feet, right?
"Just as I thought." Ziyue looked at the glass-like jade walls around her, which resembled fish tanks, yet she felt a strange sense of incongruity from which she could never touch them, and suddenly she understood everything.
"What's going on?" Murong asked.
"Spatial Cage!"
"A spatial cage?" Looking at Ziyue's answer, Baiyu's eyes also flashed with a strange look.
"It's actually quite similar to the Nine Heavens Mirror Valley, but this one is even more exaggerated," Ziyue explained. "This should be something the Dragon Palace truly excels at. Think about it carefully, isn't the academy Chen Qing established primarily focused on magic arrays?"
"Indeed." Baiyu looked around. "The spell array of Chen Qing's forces uses Rune Stone as a medium to store enough spell energy, allowing a low-level spell of only Fifth Rank to quickly unleash First Rank -rank spell. This is all thanks to the spell array and rune techniques!"
Ziyue: " Chen Qing's inheritance mostly comes from the Dragon Palace, which is why he can use rune stones to set up an exaggerated magic array that covers Nanming Prefecture, intimidating Xiao Mingxue and the imperial court. The Dragon Palace is even more so; Rune Stone can collect magical energy, and magic arrays can create magical effects a hundred times greater than those of a single person's spell. The Dragon Palace should be the best in this field. The massive amount of jade in front of us must have been collected by the Dragon Palace in ancient times. Its quality far surpasses the so-called imperial green jadeite in the human world today!"
"The reason why so many biological weapons could be trapped was not only because of the massive amount of Rune Stone, but also because of the spatial array personally set up by the Dragon Palace forces."
Ziyue looked around. "These monsters give me the feeling that each one has caused turmoil in the human world. So, to keep them alive, we need a sufficiently large space and ecosystem. If I'm not mistaken, the space inside this magic array is probably comparable to the size of the Central Plains, or even larger!"
"This?" Murong and the straw man were both stunned, clearly unable to comprehend how a space larger than the Central Plains could be hidden within a palace. What kind of ability was this?
"There's a saying in Western Regions Buddhist tradition: ' Buddha Kingdom in the Palm,'" Ziyue whispered. "Legend has it that top-tier Buddha, through their supernatural powers, can compress a vast kingdom to the size of their palm, looking down upon the mortal realm. These ancient beings likely possessed some form of spatial ability; otherwise, it's hard to explain how the world of the past could have sustained such beings!"
"Perhaps the truth of this world is..."
"The truth?" Baiyu looked at Ziyue: "What do you know?"
As they were talking, they suddenly felt the entire space tremble. In the next instant, countless tentacles surged out from the darkness and swept towards them in an overwhelming manner.