The light spots, which had been slowly rotating and changing like breathing, suddenly changed when she stepped on them, turning into a distorted, emerald-green light spot.
"Buzz--"
As the sense of spatial disorientation arose, a burst of green light erupted, and a twisted green monster emerged from the ground.
The monster's form was viscous, like a lump of mud struggling to coalesce into a shape, with only a rough outline of a head and forelimbs. A pair of eyes, flashing with an eerie green light, lit up in the 'head' position, staring intently at Wen Jing before suddenly lunging at her.
Having not seen this monster before, Wen Jing observed its form and tentatively released his Frost Vein Silk.
Unexpectedly, the mud monster's forelimbs glowed slightly, releasing a wisp of frosty white silk threads.
"Imitate?"
Wen Jing dodged to the side, and the mud monster did the same, its speed suddenly increasing.
Even more subtly, as it made this movement, the sticky green mud on its body dripped off, and its outline seemed to become clearer, gradually developing into the shape of Wen Jing's insect body.
"That's interesting, but changes require both prediction and time, don't they?"
The next moment, Wen Jing suddenly burst forth with a speed far exceeding his previous speed, transforming into an elusive zigzag line. His speed was so fast that by the time the mud monsters tried to imitate him, the target had already escaped the lock-on range.
In an instant, she appeared behind the mud monster, her insect-like limbs lashing forward.
Although its speed couldn't keep up, its perception was remarkable. It turned its head 180 degrees and, mimicking Wen Jing's manifested forelimbs, changed direction and raised its hand to defend.
However, Wen Jing's fighting skills have already reached a level where he can fight counterintuitively.
The original attack deflected at an angle defying inertia, like a scorpion's tail, precisely piercing the pair of green, gleaming eyes, as if it had been the target from the beginning.
"Puff!"
The terrifying impact and explosive energy from the forelimbs exploded, and the mud monster collapsed and dissipated like rotten mud.
The green light dimmed, and another dark blue light staircase appeared not far away.
Wen Jing didn't linger; he took a step forward.
A dark blue light appeared, and she seemed to sink into an invisible quagmire. The surrounding air became incredibly heavy, and the flow of time and her thoughts slowed down to some extent.
A rectangular, blanket-like 'moss blanket' emerged from the light spots, emitting a drowsy, musty smell.
As soon as it appeared, it immediately locked onto Wen Jing and pounced on her. Wherever it passed, even the normal 'flow' of space became stagnant.
However, the most powerful ability of this strange carpet is not on the material level, but on the spiritual level.
It also continuously unleashes a powerful mental attack, making people uncontrollably feel exhausted, wanting to rest, wanting to succumb...
This requires not only willpower to resist, but also a strong mental defense to withstand its insidious harm.
Faced with this incredibly tempting 'big quilt,' the two star cores in Wen Jing's spiritual world trembled simultaneously, instantly banishing the influence completely.
"I evolved to lose sleep a long time ago!"
Upon Wen Jing's words, it immediately opened its mouth, and Energy Pulse blasted directly at him.
"Sizzle!"
In an instant, the mossy carpet was shattered by the scorching pulse wave, burned to ashes.
After passing the second step, there was a third spot of light emitting a dazzling golden glow.
"Ta-da..."
As I stepped onto the stairs, a metallic clanging sound, both alluring and unsettling, filled the air.
A short monster appeared, carrying a huge round jar on its head, filled with glittering gold coins.
"Splash splash splash!"
The gold coins flew out of the jar; they were not physical objects, but rather composed of energy, and they even had a tracking effect, hurtling towards Wen Jing like a storm.
The exploration team had encountered this monster before; its 'gold coin bullets' seemed endless, and the most effective solution was to break through at close range.
However, breaking through at close range was obviously not easy in the face of this indiscriminate bombardment, which made the Mystic Radiance students feel quite troubled at the time.
However, Wen Jing, who no longer needed to conceal his strength, was completely at ease at this moment.
The next moment, golden patterns resembling those of a bronze cauldron lit up on her exoskeleton. She offered no resistance, allowing the gold coins to bombard her body.
If this gold coin were a physical object, Wen Jing would have to dodge it, but it only appears to be a gold coin; its essence is energy.
She is now a natural counter to energy attacks.
Especially this kind of energy attack, which is similar in nature and also 'large in quantity'.
Even if the conversion rate of unfamiliar energy is not high at Wen Jing, as long as the quantity is large enough, the resistance will naturally increase.
On her last exploration, she braved the gold coins to slay the monster; this time, she was even more efficient.
The energy coins, each a homing bomb, landed on Wen Jing's exoskeleton. Before they could explode, they transformed into a streak of multicolored black and merged into her body.
"Snap!"
It wasn't until Wen Jing used his money attack to fully recover the energy he had consumed in the previous battle that he was able to finally kill the monster carrying the jar (ps: the jar had been chewed up, so it had no nutritional value).
"Envy, sloth, greed... indeed the seven deadly sins. However, the order in which I encountered them this time is different from the last time I explored. Is this determined by the degree of each person's 'original sin'?"
The students of Mystic Radiance, whose cultural level had regressed by a factor of ten thousand, were completely clueless about the meaning of the light-spotted staircase.
Wen Jing figured it out back then because he was 'cultured,' but since he had no reason to explain how he knew, he naturally kept quiet about it.
After all, it's not appropriate to educate the interstellar people about 'ancient' religions. The Federation does have religious circles, but they are all cybernetics, such as the Gaia Cult, the Paper Doll Cult, the Robot Cult, the Credit Point Cult, and so on.
Without his teammates holding him back, Wen Jing unleashed his full strength, smoothly breaking through the first six steps and arriving at the bottom step.
With each step you descend, the monsters you encounter become stronger than those on the previous step, and the damage dealt to them also decreases.
Therefore, it can be concluded that the final step will present the strongest enemy and the greatest weakening.
At this moment, in front of Wen Jing, a murky, purplish-red spot of light was emanating a strong ominous aura.
The steps she had climbed before corresponded to lust, wrath, and pride, so the world believed her deepest original sin was only one—
"As expected... it's Gluttony."
Wen Jing wanted to refute, but couldn't find any evidence, so he could only step into the dark purple light spot with some resentment.
The surrounding space changed in the next moment.
The scene instantly distorted and collapsed, and a nauseating stench of sweetness and decay assaulted the senses.
There were no walls, no dome; all around were slowly writhing, contracting dark red fleshy walls, with pulsating blood vessels and glands secreting viscous Digestion.
Almost instantly, Wen Jing instinctively realized that this entire space seemed to be a living, enormous stomach.
Chapter 164
As Wen Jing fell into this Giant stomach, the slow, undulating movements around him suddenly became violent.
The high temperature and humidity environment has a strong corrosive effect, relentlessly eroding her exoskeleton.
However, due to the [ Myriad Transformation Furnace ]'s ability to absorb external energy, she was rapidly regenerating while being injured, and her body surface emitted a strange, subtle 'sizzling' sound.
Not far ahead lies the heart of this rotten feast.
It was a gaping maw, or rather, a vortex, that kept opening and closing.
Digestion remnants and various culinary illusions nearby were being pushed into the vortex little by little by the surrounding fleshy walls.
There were no monsters of various shapes here, because she herself was inside a monster's belly.
It seemed to have noticed that new 'food' had fallen.
The next moment, a deep humming sound rang out.
"Gurgle!"
The dark red flesh walls on all sides no longer writhed slowly, but suddenly contracted inward, squeezing towards Wen Jing.
As the flesh walls moved, Digestion were secreted frantically, creating a wave of acid that swept over her from all directions.
"Sizzle!"
The newly erected Prism Shield was instantly dissolved, and a drop of acid landed on Wen Jing's exoskeleton, directly corroding a small circular hole.
The last supernatural substance that could directly cause her this level of damage nearly turned her into a freeze-dried droplet of underground cold water.
Now that Wen Jing possesses the characteristics of the Myriad Transformation Furnace, he shouldn't have suffered this kind of harm.
However, this seems to be the underlying rule of this world.
Just as one must dance to move forward in the Altar World, choose a path in the Knotted Rope World, and restrict the movement of squares in the Chess Game World... the deeper her 'original sin', the greater the power of the enemy's attack.
Although the original sin monsters Wen Jing encountered on the six steps he descended had a certain order of strength, their overall strength was still at the same level, with the difference being about 1.1 times and 1.2 times each.
The attack from the stomach right now is at least ten times stronger than the previous six deadly sins!
Wen Jing felt very aggrieved about this—what could she do? She couldn't travel back in time to eat less.
Moreover, if she hadn't eaten enough, she wouldn't have grown to where she is today, let alone made it to this final step.
"Give me my refund!"
Faced with this all-encompassing attack, her Gravitational Field and Ice Domain both erupted.
"Sizzle..."
The Scorching Heat Digestion plummeted in temperature, solidifying into frost. The squeezed flesh walls were frozen pale white and then cracked open under the twisting force of gravity.
However, this attack, which would have been enough to instantly kill the original sin monster on the first few steps, caused very limited damage at this moment, only extending to a radius of less than five meters around her.