Chapter 427.
Sorry!
Wang Chen silently expressed his apologies to Zuo Xiaomo in his heart.
He had promised to be Zuo Xiaomo’s dao protector, but as a result, he didn’t expect such an accident to occur, and he didn’t even know if he could find his way home, so he simply couldn’t help the other party in the slightest anymore.
Wang Chen was also not sure if Zuo Xiaomo had encountered the same situation as himself.
Whether he can go back alive.
Everything can only rely on Zuo Xiaomo himself!
But while feeling apologetic, Wang Chuan also felt that this was not a purely bad thing.
Earlier, Wang Chen couldn’t understand why the West Sea Sect allowed the existence of the role of the protector during the disciple assessment process.
One must know that flowers cultivated in a greenhouse are unable to experience wind and rain, while eagles can only forge steel bones and iron wings by soaring above the blue sky and experiencing the baptism of frost and thunderstorms.
Since it is a test, it should be done independently, not with a nanny.
Fear of death flowers, then do not participate.
A disciple of a family like Zuo Xiaomo actually needs to go through trials and tribulations more than anything else in order to truly grow up.
In fact, Wang Chen wasn’t particularly worried about Zuo Xiaomo’s safety, after all, he had lent the other party a powerful protective spirit weapon, and Zuo Xiaomo himself was fully prepared.
Let’s hope he’s lucky!
Wang Chen discarded the distracting thoughts in his mind and began to explore the surrounding area.
Due to the presence of the spatial suppression force, he took careful steps and first climbed the highest nearby hill to observe the surroundings.
As a result, when Wang Chen looked around, he only saw countless hills rolling up and down like a dormant demonic beast, and he couldn’t see the existence of a border at all.
This made his heart sink slightly downward.
The Nine Dragons Earth Palace was truly immense, it should be called the Nine Dragons Earth Realm, no wonder the West Sea Sect had explored it for hundreds of years, but had only developed it up to the second level at the moment, and there were still a large number of unknown areas on the second level as well.
According to this progress, it is estimated that another thousand years will not be able to lift the mysterious veil of this ancient underground palace.
After thinking about it, Wang Chen inspired his magic power to leap up.
His air-skimming technique had already been cultivated to the grand achievement level, and he could fly tens of feet high in an instant.
However, this time, Wang Chen was only ten feet off the ground when he felt that the spatial force around him had steeply increased and pressed down on his body, weighing a thousand pounds, and his whole body involuntarily fell down!
It was really like this.
Wang Chen had previously learned that inside the Nine Dragons Earth Palace was forbidden to fly in the air, whether it was a Purple Mansion cultivator’s Skimming Technique, Land Taking Flight Technique, or the use of flying spells or flying swords, none of them were able to take to the air and fly.
In other words the air advantage was gone here!
Wang Chen, who was back on the ground, shook his head – one could not truly die until one had tried it.
He stretched out his right palm, and a hot flame steeply emerged from his palm.
A lifelike fire crow quickly condensed!
In the next moment, Wang Chen suddenly closed his fingers and pinched the fire crow into countless sparks that fluttered and fell.
A very simple spell test made him realize that his speed of casting spells here was thirty percent slower, consuming the same amount of mana, and the power of the spells dropped significantly.
The Nine Dragons Earth Palace’s “malice” towards middle and high-level cultivators was really speechless.
Next, Wang Chen tested the power of talismans and magic weapons, and they were all weakened to different degrees.
After a lot of tossing and turning, he had a basic grasp of the spell casting environment here.
Finally, Wang Chen pulled out a universal compass.
The Universal Compass was a small magic weapon used to determine the direction, applicable to all kinds of environments, and belonged to the essential items of cultivators.
However, just after this compass was taken out, the pointing needle on it was spinning around like crazy.
It couldn’t point out the direction at all.
Kam!
Wang Chen almost cursed.
This was because according to his understanding, the universal compass was able to work properly inside the Nine Dragons Earth Palace.
It was assumed that this territory was very special, and the compass couldn’t work properly when it was subjected to strong interference.
There was no way around it, so Wang Chen could only put away the Universal Compass and then randomly selected a direction to move forward.
He raised his head to look at the sky, which was gray and cloudy, with clusters of black clouds tumbling silently, vaguely exuding an aura that made people feel oppressed.
Trekking aimlessly alone in such an environment, not knowing what kind of dangers one would encounter, was undoubtedly quite a test of one’s will.
But Wang Chen was fearless.
Perhaps it was a habit from his previous life, when he went out to participate in missions or adventures, he would always stuff a large amount of supplies in his storage pouch, just in case of emergencies.
Now, in the Sumeru Ring on his left ring finger, the stock of spiritual rice and wine was enough to last for decades.
As for talismans and pills, there was no shortage.
Even if he was really trapped in this huge underground palace, Wang Chen was confident that he would be able to last for a hundred years.
He really didn’t believe that he would not be able to find his way back!
Having just crossed a small hill in front of him, Wang Chen’s gaze suddenly condensed.
Only to see a dark, black pool of water accumulating in a depression a hundred paces away.
Next to the pool of water grew a patch of weeds half a foot high, among which there were a few plants of ink grass gently swaying without wind, shaking down bits of fine starlight.
Shattered Star Grass!
Although Wang Chen was not a dan master, nor was he a medicine picker, he had flipped through a large number of books and catalogs, and immediately rummaged through his memories to find the corresponding content.
Shattered Star Grass was a kind of spiritual grass that only existed in dark environments, relying on the absorption of Yin Fury Qi to grow, and growing very slowly, only growing an inch taller in a hundred years.
Its external characteristics are very obvious, the grass pistil will secrete spiritual light floating, similar to the broken starlight is very beautiful.
This kind of spirit grass is the material for refining many kinds of spirit pills, and its value is quite high.
Wang Chuan swept over with a glance and found five plants of Shattered Star Grass, and they all seemed to be of high vintage!
Although the current Wang Chuan was not poor in spirit stones, such an unexpected discovery still caused a trace of joy to flood his heart.
Although exploring unknown regions was dangerous, risk and chance went hand in hand.
Since he had encountered it, there was naturally no reason to miss it.
Wang Chen quickened his pace.
However, just as he approached the small pool of water, a sudden warning sign sprang up in his heart.
Woosh!
The water suddenly exploded, and a black shadow shot towards Wang Chuan like lightning, its speed was unbelievable.
Although Wang Chuan was shocked and did not panic, he met the black shadow without avoiding or dodging, and blasted out his right fist.
His clenched fist emitted a reddish-golden light and collided heavily with the sneak attacker.
Bang!
Accompanied by a muffled sound, this black shadow was sent flying out and landed beside the water pool scurrying about.
It was clearly a black snake as thick as an arm!
Clang!
The Red Geibi Sword was steeply sheathed and slashed down towards this black snake.
Puff!
The sword was fast and accurate, instantly slicing off the black snake’s head, and dirty blood splashed out from the severed mouth.
The snake’s body struggled and twisted for a few more moments before there was no more sound or movement.
[Human Virtue +126]