Chapter 20 Difficulty Adjustment
The white-clothed youth nodded in satisfaction. After all, it was his own dog; it knew how to cover for him.
However, what came next wasn't so pleasant to hear.
"What's so good about that news? Didn't we already know this was a secret realm left behind by a Golden Immortal?"
"No, it's different, kid. This is a big surprise. I originally thought this secret realm was something he built beforehand and just left here. But I never expected, never expected, that he'd actually left a system, a wisp of his original consciousness, to control it.
"You wouldn't believe it, that guy was as dumb as you, the lowest IQ in the whole team.
"He's just like you, always doing inexplicable stupid things, burdened with all sorts of unlucky attributes…
"But that's not important; you protagonists are all like that.
"The most important thing is,
"He's! Low! IQ!
"Think about it, what kind of high-difficulty task could a guy as dumb as you come up with? With Xiaoyu's intelligence, wouldn't it be easy to handle?
"Hahahaha…
"Haha…
"Ha…"
The little yellow dog's laughter grew softer and softer as it gradually sensed the temperature around it seemed to be dropping.
A visible person,
And an invisible person,
Were both looking at it with gloomy, icy expressions.
With those words,
It had offended two people at once.
The white-clothed youth forcibly suppressed the urge to slap the little yellow dog to death, taking several deep breaths.
"Since you're all so confident, then the task difficulty will be adjusted to hell-level."
The little yellow dog's smile completely froze on its face. It felt…
Like it had caused trouble.
Wan Lei's expression turned even colder. At this moment, he really wanted to strangle the dog to death.
"Why did you have to be so talkative? You're going to be the death of me! Why did you have to provoke him? Couldn't you just execute the task properly?
"Now look what's happened; you've angered him, and our difficulty has increased.
"Hell-level! That's hell-level difficulty! Just hearing it tells you how cruel it is!"
The little yellow dog, being shaken relentlessly by Young Master Lei, hurriedly explained,
"Kid, don't worry. Hell is a good place. Hell is just the common name for the ghost realm. They have a lot of good friends there, and a lot of good memories. They all met in hell.
"Ouch, stop hitting me…"
"Don't think you can fool me just because I haven't read much. Hell isn't a good word in any world. Apologize now, apologize to him."
"Ouch, stop hitting him; he didn't mean to. What's the use of blaming him now? You might as well think of a way to get through the task."
Fang Xiaoyu pulled Wan Lei away, snatching the little yellow dog over and stroking it with a pained expression.
The little yellow dog felt extremely aggrieved, rubbing against Xiaoyu's ample bosom, making Young Master Lei even angrier.
"Right, speaking of tasks, what was the task again?
"Oh, I remember, to open the door and go out. What a difficult task."
Young Master Lei reached out to open the door, preparing to complete this "difficult" hell-level task.
Boom!!!
The moment Young Master Lei's hand touched the door, he felt a powerful and domineering force coming at him.
He couldn't resist that force at all, and he crashed heavily into the wall, then rolled onto the ground.
"See, the difficulty has increased, hasn't it? What are we going to do?"
Young Master Lei stood up in a sorry state, glaring fiercely at the dog.
Then, Young Master Lei and Little Sister Xiaoyu walked up to the door and began searching for mechanisms, trying to break through the door.
The white-clothed youth had another headache and reminded them again,
"Please open this door. Note, it's open, O-P-E-N!"
"Oh, oh, oh, got it."
Young Master Lei nodded quickly, then suddenly threw a punch at it.
Boom!!!
He flew out again.
Unwilling to give up, Young Master Lei stood up, donned his armor, and spread his wings.
This time, he learned his lesson, using lightning to strike the door from a distance.
No use.
Using a hammer to smash it,
Still no use.
Releasing divine powers,
Still no use.
Young Master Lei exhausted all his skills, but he couldn't do anything to the door.
"Let's use our brains."
Little Sister Xiaoyu sighed.
"Brains?"
Young Master Lei looked confused, then,
He lowered his head,
Leaned forward,
And charged…
Thud!
"Ouch!"
"I said use your brain to think of a solution, not use your head to ram it, you idiot!"
Seeing Fang Xiaoyu's exasperated expression, the white-clothed youth looked at Wan Lei again in puzzlement.
This guy was just like Wan Qingyi in every way, so why wasn't he like him in terms of intelligence?
"Kid, stop wasting your energy, listen to my analysis."
The dog seized the opportunity to perform,
"That immortal was a cultivator of the metal element. Metal, what is metal?
"Metal is the most unyielding and masculine, invincible, cutting through everything, destroying everything in its path.
"Most importantly, metal is the belief in victory, concentrating all power into one point, burning your boats, either the enemy dies or I die.
"What you lack is conviction."
"Conviction?"
Wan Lei's eyes grew brighter and brighter. He stared intently at the door in front of him,
And suddenly smiled,
"The most unyielding and masculine? Hmm…
"Compared to attack, compared to violence, I think the Way of Metal can't compare to lightning.
"Lightning is not a power that humans can control; it is something that Heaven created to destroy everything.
"Destroy this door?
"I think it shouldn't even exist in front of me!"
Wan Lei roared, and countless violent lightning bolts erupted from his body.
Then, he slammed his hands forward, gathering countless lightning bolts in his palms, turning them into a bolt of lightning, and blasting it towards the door.
Boom!
The door,
Shattered in response.
Success.
The white-clothed youth nodded in satisfaction.
After the door shattered, the room disappeared as well.
They arrived at…
A cosmic starry sky.
The scene before them left them speechless.
"Bright is day, vast is night,
Monsters and demons, nowhere to hide.
Heretics and rebels, fear our divine light.
Merit lasts long, eternal radiance!
Great kindness without self, great love without bounds,
The Great Dao has virtue, great merit has Hao.
Vast is the night, enemies and friends hard to know,
Though my body is dead, my merit shines forever."
In this universe, not far from a huge, unknown disc-shaped celestial body, there was a palace floating in the void of space.
Inside the palace, three towering figures shining with golden light were leading tens of thousands of people below in kneeling worship towards the huge disc-shaped celestial body, constantly chanting these scriptures.
"Pure and kind people, for the sake of great merit, for the purity of this world, go and cleanse those sinners, so that our world may be filled with supreme kindness."
A person in the middle, radiating golden light, opened his arms and recited this noble declaration to those below who radiated golden energy and clear energy.
"Kindness."
Tens of thousands of people below responded in unison.
"What is this?"
Looking at the shocking scene before him, Wan Lei suddenly felt a chill in his heart.
These people were almost no different from a cult.
The little yellow dog looked at the scene before him with a complex expression, containing hatred, remembrance, entanglement, bewilderment, and a hint of nervousness about being close to home, all contained in those two small eyes.
"This is… the Moral Plane."