Mai Bao Xiao Lang Jun
Chapter 144 Opening the Door
Zhang Yuanqing lowered his head in astonishment, glancing at the hollow in his chest. A single blow had broken through his electromagnetic defense, causing a fatal injury. This attack, exceeding even the reaction limit of a peak Saint, was undoubtedly the power of a Dominator!
The second wave of trials was Dominator-level. What would the third wave be?
Moreover, the dragon breath was as fast as light, making it impossible to dodge. It was like an ordinary person trying to dodge a bullet at close range.
Zhang Yuanqing felt a surge of crisis.
“Calm down, calm down. The precursor to the dragon breath attack is the dragon's eyes glowing. I have less than a second to react.” As soon as Zhang Yuanqing thought this, he saw the dragon's eyes emit a red light!
His scalp went numb, and adrenaline surged. With a speed that humans couldn't capture, he grabbed the sliding shoes and threw them onto the boat. Aiming at the shoes, he executed a slide, his feet accurately entering the shoes!
His body instantly became ethereal, like a projection from another world. Almost simultaneously, a scorching red beam struck his afterimage, blasting apart a display case not far away. The high-temperature beam pierced into the weak water.
It had to be said that the Merchant's Void ability was a cheat-level life-saving skill. Although the sliding shoes were a Saint-quality item, as long as the Void state was activated, both mental and physical attacks could be perfectly avoided!
No wonder he was a slippery loach, untouchable and uncatchable, with first-class survival ability.
After dodging the attack, Zhang Yuanqing immediately took out a vial of Life Elixir and stabbed it fiercely into his neck, injecting the entire golden liquid into his veins. The hollow in his chest throbbed with flesh and blood, beginning to grow and heal!
The dragon's eyes lit up again!!!
And so, Zhang Yuanqing slid back and forth on the small boat, using prediction to avoid six scorching dragon breaths. But he had already reached the limit of the sliding shoes. He even used the Craftsman's Ring buff to slide one more time!
Seven times already. How many times would it take to end? Given the level of the Slaughter Instance, it should be ending soon.
Zhang Yuanqing sighed inwardly. Just to be safe, he took out Little Red Riding Hood, shook out a Level Four Yin corpse, and threw the Perfect Human Skin over it!
As soon as he finished doing this, he saw the dragon's eyes light up with a red glow. He unhesitatingly manipulated the Yin corpse to put on the Perfect Human Skin, turning it into his own appearance!
At the same time, he shamelessly covered his head and fell to the ground!
As expected, the scorching dragon breath aimed at the Yin corpse, the crimson beam piercing through the Yin corpse's chest and abdomen.
The Yin corpse crashed down, while the Perfect Human Skin actively peeled away from the dead "host"!
Zhang Yuanqing quickly rushed over to retrieve the Perfect Human Skin, pushed the discarded Yin corpse into the weak water, and then watched the dragon warily and nervously.
For a full ten seconds, the dragon didn't move!
“Phew!!!” Zhang Yuanqing breathed a sigh of relief. A full eight scorching dragon breaths, a full eight Dominator-level attacks, had finally ended.
Was the display case on the second floor particularly difficult, or had they triggered a hell mode? If every exhibition hall on the second floor was this difficult, he didn't believe anyone else could survive.
Zhang Yuanqing cursed and complained, not daring to relax in the slightest because the third wave of trials was coming soon!
He quickly took out a matchbox, struck a match, and made a wish: "I wish the cooldown on the Thunder God Suit's skills would end immediately!"
Then, he fished out Little Red Riding Hood and shook out an Extraordinary Yin corpse—the Saint-quality Yin corpses were already used up. He had the Extraordinary Yin corpse strike a match and make a wish: "I wish 'Extremely Angry Slide' had its uses reset!"
The wish was granted, and the Yin corpse was successfully sacrificed, turning into a bright torch that burned to ashes!
Actually, the safest way was to reset the function of the Perfect Human Skin, but the Human Skin was a causal item, which was higher than the rule-based matchbox wishes. It was impossible to achieve, and it would only waste a match!
A deep, resounding roar shook the exhibition hall!
Zhang Yuanqing stiffened, knowing that this was a warning of the third wave of dragon breath trials. He quickly put away the matchbox, and while putting on the Thunder God Suit and sliding shoes, he looked around for the source of the sound. He saw the dragon squatting on the base, and its membranous wings were actually flying!
The weak water that drowned everything didn't affect it!
“Whoosh, whoosh!!”
The dragon spread its wings, stirring up a strong wind. Its long neck arched slightly, circling the exhibition hall in the air. After circling three times, it suddenly stopped above the small boat, vigorously flapping its wings, lowering its massive body in the air, and its abdomen bulging!
“Eat this from me.” Zhang Yuanqing, who had been prepared for a long time, raised his right palm, crackling with electricity, and launched an electromagnetic cannon at the dragon overhead.
At that moment, the dragon's neck bulged and it spat out a sulfurous tongue of fire. The two forces converged in mid-air, the charges and flames colliding crazily, creating bizarre and colorful lights in the air.
Three seconds later, the power of the electromagnetic cannon was exhausted. Zhang Yuanqing, whose right arm was completely carbonized, hurriedly executed a slide to avoid the oncoming spray of fire.
The dragon moved with him, the flames covering him. Zhang Yuanqing, who had just gotten up, was instantly engulfed in flames. His clothes and hair were burned to ashes in an instant, and his skin was carbonized!
The second trial was also fire-breathing. How long would it last? He couldn't care about the pain. He executed another slide to the other side of the boat. Sliding back and forth like this, he persevered six times before Zhang Yuanqing was once again enveloped in flames.
The flames spewed by the dragon almost covered the entire small boat. The scales and wood were Dominator-level materials, impervious to water and fire, but they were also scorched red by the high temperature, and the surface began to carbonize!
Bathed in flames, Zhang Yuanqing burned for only two or three seconds before being burned red and bright!
He struggled to circulate the power of the Sun God, forming a shield on his body surface. He opened his inventory, grabbed all the Life Elixirs, and stuffed them into his mouth, swallowing the liquid and glass shards together!
Then, he took out the Natal Spirit Moon and stuck it on his burned red skull!
The Natal Spirit Moon could greatly increase the power of Taiyin, allowing him to become a Night Walker who primarily cultivated the Taiyin path. The strength of the Taiyin power directly determined the upper limit of his vitality and self-healing ability!
Vine-like patterns covered his skull, and the strong Taiyin power brought a trace of coolness, resisting the flames and cooling the burned-red head.
The Life Elixir allowed the flesh and blood to regenerate quickly, burning and regenerating!!!!
Repeating the cycle!
Zhang Yuanqing was burned into a daze, feeling like he had turned into a fire-resistant log. Before the log turned to ashes, his consciousness might collapse first!
He opened his inventory and put on the Houtu Boots!
The Houtu Boots didn't have defensive power, but they could enhance his endurance and improve his ability to withstand.
Finally, Zhang Yuanqing activated the electromagnetic protection of the Thunder God Suit. Under the protection of the bright blue electromagnetic barrier, he crashed down, motionless!
The flames burned for a full thirty seconds before the dragon retracted its breath, flapped its wings, and flew back to the base, returning to a bronze statue!
The small boat floated quietly, the exposed part of the hull black and smoking, flickering with red light.
Zhang Yuanqing turned into a charred corpse, with faintly visible red bones and blood!
After two or three minutes, the carbonized corpse opened its eyes and let out a painful groan. After a long while, Zhang Yuanqing took out the Mountain God Scepter, cast a healing spell on himself, and struggled to get up, looking at the blank scroll to the east.
At this moment, the ancient house in the scroll that had been burned in half had disappeared, replaced by a dark, dense forest, with a locust tree in the forest. Xiaoyuan and Qingzhu, Huang Taiji, and Alicia were hanging from the tree!
Xiaoyuan and Qingzhu had blank expressions, their tongues sticking out, their lives hanging by a thread!
Alicia and Huang Taiji were struggling painfully, but unable to save themselves!
"The Earth Guard is not good at dealing with spiritual bodies, and Father's strengths can't be brought into play!!!!!," Zhang Yuanqing gritted his teeth, raised his charred, bony hands, clenched the wooden oar that had been burned in two, and rowed the boat with difficulty.
Given the state of Xiaoyuan and Qingzhu, they were probably unable to actively escape the scroll. They had to solve the problem in the exhibition hall immediately and go into the scroll to save them!
Zhang Yuanqing rowed the charred boat in front of the dragon. At this time, the water level had already submerged the base. He tiptoed, reached out, and took off the two gems from the dragon's eye sockets. After roughly scanning the item attributes, Zhang Yuanqing rowed the oar towards the old man with the long beard and big nose wearing ancient Greek clothing!
As soon as he got his hands on the heavy scepter, he felt dizzy, nauseous, and a clear sense of inversion.
At that moment, the two gems in his hand emitted a warm light, dispelling the chaos.
Zhang Yuanqing quickly put the scepter into his inventory, completing the recognition process. Then, he took it out and raised it high, launching the "Chaos" skill towards the Jade Purification Bottle in the distance!
The sound of rushing water stagnated, and the next second, the weak water in the room poured back into the Jade Purification Bottle!
Success!
Only then did Zhang Yuanqing truly breathe a sigh of relief. He rowed the small boat and parked it in front of the scroll, summoned Silver Fairy County Princess, and gave her the Dionysus Scepter and Dragon Eye Gems, letting her maintain the reversal state of the Jade Purification Bottle!
He then jumped into the painting!
The scene changed abruptly, and Zhang Yuanqing arrived in a dark, dense forest, the night dim, the mountain shrouded in mist. His four teammates were hanging from a large locust tree!
In his vision, there were five people hanging on the tree. In the middle of the four teammates was a female ghost wearing a red dress and embroidered shoes!
She was facing away from Zhang Yuanqing, her body hanging on the hemp rope, swaying gently in the night wind. Sensing that a newcomer had entered, the female ghost suddenly turned around, facing Zhang Yuanqing.
Her bloodshot eyeballs were swollen and bulging, her face was covered with maggots, her lips were congested, and her dark appearance was extremely horrifying!
Trying to scare me? Zhang Yuanqing snorted. Dark, viscous energy surged in his eye sockets, the patterns on his face lit up with black light, and golden light spurted from his palm, condensing into a long sword. At the same time, the Illusionist's mental attack locked onto her!
Whether it was Taiyin, Sun, or Illusionist, they were all natural counters to wraiths. The female ghost with Dominator status silently turned her body back!
Pa, pa, pa, pa, four hemp ropes snapped one after another, and the teammates fell to the ground with a thud, breaking free from the charm, gasping for breath or coughing violently.
"How did you get in? Did you pass the dragon breath trial?" Alicia rubbed the deep purple marks on her snow-white neck, looking at Zhang Yuanqing with both expectation and nervousness!
She was worried that Yuan Shi Tianzun had not passed the trial and had escaped in to seek refuge!
Qingzhu thanked him hastily, with the same worry in her eyes!
Xiaoyuan and Huang Taiji had blind confidence in Yuan Shi Tianzun. Seeing him appear, they immediately put their hearts back in their stomachs!
Xiaoyuan sized up her lover's bloody, charred body and said softly, "How are your injuries?"
Without saying a word, she grabbed a small jar from her inventory, took out a plump cicada fly, and was about to feed it to him!
Zhang Yuanqing cooperated and opened his mouth, swallowing two cicada flies in a row, and said, "It's safe outside. Leave here quickly. I can still suppress the wraith now, but in fifteen minutes, it won't be this weak."
According to the Clay Mask, everyone in the painting would die within fifteen minutes.
The five immediately left the painting, passed through the thin barrier, and landed on the small boat!
At this time, the water level in the exhibition hall had already dropped to waist level. It would take a while to completely solve the problem.
Zhang Yuanqing was seriously injured, leaning in Xiaoyuan's arms to recuperate, waiting with his teammates for the weak water to disappear.
At this time, he finally had time to do something else!
He opened the leaderboard to check the rankings!
The ranking on the leaderboard had not changed much. Sleeping Dragon Lord was still at the top of the list, with a score of 420 points. Obviously, the other party was also hunting in the second exhibition hall, seizing other people's scores!
Zhang Yuanqing ranked second with 386 points. There was no way around it. Sleeping Dragon Lord had gained too much of an advantage on the first floor of the museum, leading far ahead of everyone else. Although the ranking had not changed much, the total number of people had been reduced by half!
When they first arrived at the second floor exhibition hall, there were still 22 Saints in the instance. Now there were only 13. Those who could reach the second floor exhibition hall were all the best among the Saints.
These guys who usually dominated the real world had fallen in the second level of the instance!
Except for two that I don't recognize, the others are all acquaintances!!!!
Eh, Jiang Ju's score is up. This guy's score was at the bottom when he was subduing cultural relics. How did he suddenly take off?
Zhang Yuanqing discovered that Jiang Ju's score had strongly jumped to eighth place. The only thing he could think of was that this guy had single-killed someone in the top ten of the leaderboard!
So it seems that Jiang Ju is wise! Subduing cultural relics with a timid attitude, if solving puzzles and breaking through levels doesn't work, then killing and plundering is the way to go!
Let others earn points, anyway, it's all mine in the end.
With Jiang Ju's intelligence and combat power, he will probably fall in the second level. He must have a strategist by his side. I wonder who it is!!!!!!
Zhang Yuanqing thought!
At this time, the weak water in the museum exhibition hall finally returned to the Jade Purification Bottle, completely "emptying" the room.
Huang Taiji immediately jumped off the scale wood, enjoying the sense of security of standing on solid ground!
With Qingzhu's help, Alicia, who had healed the strangulation marks on her neck, couldn't help but ask, "Should we ask that cultural relic how to get the key!"
From beginning to end, they had not seen the key to the bronze gate, nor did they know where it was!
Inside the Jade Purification Bottle, Zhang Yuanqing opened his eyes. He had already understood the copy mechanism of the second floor, and the answer from the mask was true.
"The way to get the key is wrong. You have to use the Dionysus Scepter!"
Speaking, he took the Dionysus Scepter from Silver Fairy County Princess and led the group towards the Avalokitesvara statue.
Zhang Yuanqing jumped onto the palm and once again activated the "Chaos" function of the Dionysus Scepter, then put his arm into the wide mouth of the Jade Purification Bottle and groped for a while before grabbing a bronze disc.
To take out the key from the Jade Purification Bottle, you must use the chaotic effect of the scepter to distort the properties of the weak water!
"It's time to go to the third floor and meet some old friends!" Zhang Yuanqing, wearing the Yin-Yang robe, curled the corners of his mouth!