Chapter 1 Why Doesn't the Weak Water Flow to the Stairs, or to the First Floor?

Qing Zhu stood on the display case, craning his neck to look. He saw that the Weak Water was blocked by an invisible barrier at the stairwell, preventing it from flowing down to the first floor.

"The first and second floors are two separate spaces. Don't be deceived by what you see," A'yali Xi said with a solemn expression, educating them.

"I know, I know..." Qing Zhu responded impatiently. He was just venting his emotions.

Qing Zhu was more panicked than anyone else because Yuanshi Tianzun had seen in the Xingguan (astrological observation) that he would be devoured by the black water, that he would die in this crisis.

The five of them stood on the display case, looking down at the slowly rising water, which was already knee-deep.

Fortunately, the exhibition hall was large enough that the water was rising slowly. Huang Taiji straightened his back and looked around the hall as if calculating something. After focusing his gaze for a moment, he concluded, "We have 30 to 40 minutes!"

"Father, you're a scholar!" Zhang Yuanqing, a college student, said in surprise.

Huang Taiji nodded calmly. "My education is higher than yours!"

Hearing that they had plenty of time, A'lixiya breathed a slight sigh of relief, and then asked loudly, "How do we deal with the Weak Water?"

As a Saint from the First District, the Weak Water was not within her realm of expertise.

"We need Lin Wood!" Zhang Yuanqing didn't hide anything, sharing the situation. "Only Lin Wood can float on the Weak Water. There's no other way. Using spells to cross the Weak Water will cause them to fail instantly, and even spiritual bodies can't float across!"

"Lin Wood?" Qing Zhu thought for a few seconds, his face turning ugly. "That's a Master-level material. I've seen it in the Hundred Flowers Sect's material compendium. Lin Wood is very rare and is only produced in a few dungeons."

He briefly described the characteristics of Lin Wood.

Xiao Yuan looked around, analyzing, "Maybe there's Lin Wood in the display cases. Since there's Weak Water in the dungeon, there must be Lin Wood!"

A'lixiya subconsciously wanted to take out the Wind Eye, but remembering that the Weak Water could sink everything, she silently dismissed the idea.

Fortunately, they were all Saints with sharp eyes. They divided the work and quickly examined all the cultural relics, but they didn't find any Lin Wood that matched Qing Zhu's description.

Huang Taiji shook his head and said, "These cultural relics have no records, and the display cases can't be opened. Even if there is Lin Wood, we can't get it."

Seeing the water level slowly rising, anxiety spread in the hearts of the five people!

Xiao Yuan said in a low voice, "Yuanshi, do you have any ideas?"

The other two also looked at Zhang Yuanqing, looking at this genius who was famous for clearing dungeons.

After thinking for a moment, Zhang Yuanqing turned his gaze to the west side of the exhibition hall. "Let's ask it. It's the only cultural relic in the exhibition hall that we can communicate with and obtain information from!"

"That guy is full of nonsense," Qing Zhu said angrily!

A'lixiya also disagreed.

"I think it's okay. That mask answers every question. Just now it seemed to say that its answers are half true and half false, first true then false. That's easy to test!"

"There's no way to know which is true and which is false in those ancient secrets," Zhang Yuanqing shouted loudly.

"Mask, among the three of us men, who is the most handsome?" From the display case in the western corner came the smiling, old voice of the terracotta mask: "That young man with the tattered clothes!"

Among the three men, only Huang Taiji was dressed in tattered clothes, and his appearance was very ordinary!

Zhang Yuanqing: "Is this a lie?!"

Qing Zhu nodded in agreement.

Huang Taiji: "!..."

Zhang Yuanqing asked the same question again, and this time the answer was that Qing Zhu was the most handsome.

Zhang Yuanqing wasn't convinced, but after taking a closer look at Qing Zhu, at Qing Zhu's handsome features, he remembered that Qing Zhu was a Mu Yao (wood spirit) with a strong desire to reproduce. These types of Mu Yao would have improvements in their appearance when upgrading in order to attract a mate!

Ling Diao was the same.

The next answer should be a lie... Zhang Yuanqing asked, "How can we resolve the Weak Water filling the room?"

He didn't ask where the Lin Wood was because obtaining the Lin Wood would only allow them to float on the Weak Water and wouldn't truly solve the problem!

After that, they still had to find the key and face other crises!

The voice of the terracotta mask came: "Find the Lin Wood!"

Zhang Yuanqing asked again, "How can we resolve the Weak Water filling the room!"

The terracotta mask's answer changed: "Obtain the Dionysus Scepter to reverse the Jade Bottle and collect the Weak Water."

Dionysus Scepter...

A'lixiya's eyes lit up, and she pointed to the statue wearing ancient Greek clothing in the north, saying, "It should be the scepter in the statue's hand. In ancient Greek mythology, the Dionysus Scepter is made of grapes and pine cones, symbolizing harvest."

A Drunkard profession can distort rules, turn positive into negative, and reverse the right way.

"Yes, that's the correct answer..." Zhang Yuanqing asked again, "How to obtain the scepter?"

"Find the Lin Wood!"

This was another false answer. He asked again and got the correct answer: "Obtain the Fire Dragon's Eyes, which can resist 'chaos' and make the holder immune to the effects of the Dionysus Scepter!"

"How to obtain the Fire Dragon's Eyes?" Zhang Yuanqing asked two questions in a row!

The first answer was still the unchanging "Obtain the Lin Wood!" The second answer was, "Pass the Fire Dragon's test and avoid the Fire Dragon's breath attack!"

Avoid the Fire Dragon's breath? Zhang Yuanqing looked at the Weak Water filling the room, then looked at the small display case. There was no room to maneuver at all!

Not to mention that the Weak Water made it impossible to get close to the Fire Dragon, just this little space under his feet would be enough for a breath of dragon fire to turn him to ashes.

So Zhang Yuanqing asked how to avoid the dragon's breath!

The first reply he got was "Borrow strength from the display case to leap!"

The second reply was "Obtain the Lin Wood!"

Lin Wood, which had always been the wrong answer, was finally correct this time!

Zhang Yuanqing hurriedly asked, "How to obtain the Lin Wood?"

After excluding the wrong answers, he got the correct reply, "Break the first display case in the second row and take out the large writing brush inside. Draw the Lin Wood!"

Therefore, the method to resolve the dungeon crisis had been obtained: break the display case to get the brush, draw the Lin Wood, use the Lin Wood to pass the Fire Dragon's test, and obtain the eyeballs!

Then, holding the eyeballs, get the Dionysus Scepter, reverse the Jade Bottle, and collect the Weak Water to perfectly solve the disaster!

As for how to break the display case, Zhang Yuanqing learned after asking that the seal on the display case would be lifted after the crisis was triggered. However, there was a limit in the dungeon: out of the nine cultural relics, they could only choose one, and they only had one chance to break the display case.

But an even bigger difficulty followed: how to get the brush?

The display case containing the cultural relic brush was several meters away from them. The Weak Water sank everything, making it as difficult as lifting a feather!

Subconsciously, Qing Zhu asked the terracotta mask loudly, "How to get the brush!"

The terracotta mask replied, "I don't know!"

He asked again, and the answer was still the same!

Going around in circles, they were back to the original question: how to float on the Weak Water?

This was an unsolvable dead end. A feeling of despair spread in everyone's hearts. They hadn't despaired when they were forced onto the display case.

That was because dungeons wouldn't have unsolvable dead ends. But now, they had missed their chance to break the situation!

They were desperate!

The correct process to break the situation was to obtain enough important information before the Weak Water flooded the exhibition hall, to get the solution from the terracotta mask, and then break the display case to get the brush. Once they were forced onto the display case by the Weak Water, it was a dead end.

"That immoral Lingjing Xingzhe, designing such a dungeon..." Zhang Yuanqing sat down cross-legged and rubbed his face vigorously. Xiao Yuan and the others fell silent, their expressions somewhat dejected!

Zhang Yuanqing opened his inventory and scanned through the guild warehouse, looking for a solution!

Sliding shoes wouldn't work. Sliding shoes could only be used on flat ground. In this environment, they would only slide into the Weak Water!

Perfect Human Skin could let the Yin corpse take his place, and then he could jump over...

In theory, he would sink into the Weak Water the moment he jumped. Jumping was a process. Even if the speed was as fast as teleportation, this process still existed. It was impossible to become invulnerable. Sacrifice could only be used once.

At this moment, his eyes fell on a long-sealed item: a matchbox.

"I have a way!" Zhang Yuanqing said happily, taking out a match in the astonished and delighted gazes of the other four. He struck the match, and a flame flared up.

Zhang Yuanqing made a wish: "I wish that the third display case in the second row would appear under me!"

The flame expanded and burned out quickly. The next moment, the bronze beast cultural relic in the display case under Zhang Yuanqing turned into a brush painted with black lacquer.

His wish was made with consideration. If he had directly wished to obtain Lin Wood, the wish would have definitely failed because their crisis was the Weak Water, and Lin Wood countered the Weak Water!

This conflicted with the restriction of whether it could directly solve the current difficulty!

The same was true. His wish couldn't be that he wanted to appear on top of the third display case in the second row.

Crossing the Weak Water also violated the restriction of directly solving the current difficulty!

But letting the brush come over on its own neither directly solved the crisis nor exceeded the limits of the matchbox!

"As expected of the Item Celestial!" Qing Zhu's face was full of joy, feeling like he was on a roller coaster, with great ups and downs!

Huang Taiji and Xiao Yuan's expressions relaxed slightly!

A'lixiya's face lit up with a smile.

Zhang Yuanqing smashed the glass of the display case with a punch. He picked up the non-offensive brush directly. Reading the information, it wasn't cultural relic information but regular item information!

Function: Creation

Introduction: A pen that can create something from nothing. The things it draws will become real!

[Note 1: It can draw anything you think of!

Note 2: Because it is a consumable item, there is no cost!]

Can I draw the old hag?... Zhang Yuanqing put the Creation Death Pen into his inventory. After completing its recognition, he naturally mastered how to use it.

As the notes indicated, as long as he could outline the details of an object in his mind, the brush could draw it, but it couldn't exceed its limits!

Drawing the old hag was definitely impossible!

Based on his memory, Zhang Yuanqing drew a small boat with a slightly upturned bow, like the one on the Weak Water in the zoo, on the display case!

Light flashed, and the small boat popped out, turning into a two-meter-long boat from his memory. The Creation Pen turned into light particles and dissipated.

Zhang Yuanqing was almost pushed off the display case by the small boat. He quickly lowered his center of gravity to stabilize himself and pushed the small boat into the water!

He immediately jumped onto the small boat, rowing the oars to pick up Xiao Yuan and the others!

Qing Zhu took the oars and was responsible for rowing.

"Don't rush." Zhang Yuanqing took out the Da Luo Star Plate and placed it on his lap, saying, "I'll use Xingguan (astrological observation) for a moment!"

With knowledge of the "enemy" and the clear route, the images seen through Xingguan would be much clearer!

A qualified Xingguan (astrologer) must make good use of the Xingguan technique. Especially after the lesson of triggering the Weak Water crisis, he wished he could use Xingguan with every breath he took!

He poured in the power of the stars, activating the starlight on the star plate!

Zhang Yuanqing closed his eyes. In the vague canvas, he saw the giant dragon sculpture awakening, spewing out scorching dragon breath, turning Qing Zhu, who was made of wood, into charcoal.

He saw Huang Taiji stand in front of everyone, raising a barrier, and being burned all over!

He saw A'lixiya being forced to flee the small boat, sinking into the Weak Water, and saw Xiao Yuan screaming as she turned to ashes!