Chapter 399: The Surface of the Underworld, Eternal Night + Extreme Cold! _2
Can absorb the use of Insect Race energy, there's no problem.
"Just do as you please."
Zi Liyuan isn't a scholarly Dead Spirit Professional. He is not interested in researching the Insect Race Mycelium; he just wants to kill these bugs.
The Spider Queen gives a seductive smile as she twists her waist and heads towards a cave.
Yuki-onna transforms into a phantom, heading in the opposite direction of Orochi.
Also departing are Hongsha, who directly conjures a blood cloud. Wherever it passes, any living being is corroded and dissolved, its Life Force stripped away.
The only one who has not left is Lao Tie. With an iron shell, he sticks closely by Zi Liyuan's side, ready to act as a shield at any moment.
"Lao Tie, let's take a look at the surface of the Underworld dimension."
With a 21W meter map detection range, up and down, left and right, front and back, he creates a circled cover, everything is presented in his mind.
But in the dimensional Underworld, the surface above appears pitch black in detection results; no light is seen anywhere, as if the darkness could absorb and devour any hint of light.
Similarly, Zi Liyuan finds no sign of any living or Dead Spirits on the surface; it is completely devoid of life.
This strange phenomenon makes him want to go up and take a look.
"Yes."
Even though Lao Tie had become a being with a Life Origin through the Professional's template, he remains quiet and reserved.
The only constant is his loyalty, as he silently stays by Zi Liyuan's side, ready to shield him from fatal injuries.
"Lao Tie, you're just an Epic Boss template, is there any hint on how to advance to the Legendary BOSS template?"
The ground beneath their feet, turned into an icy plain by Yuki-onna, feels slippery to walk on.
"I do not know."
Lao Tie's voice is dull, accompanied by a metallic friction sound when he speaks.
"Then it's difficult. Seems we can only wait to merge into the first layer of the Sea of Realms and see those Alien Races similar to you."
Among the hundreds of millions of races gathering in the Sea of Realms, finding Alien Races similar to Lao Tie isn't hard, but figuring out their promotion method is a super challenging task.
Just a person and an iron Puppet, with heavy steps, they walk inside the insect nest, quickly arriving at a cave that had been blasted straight through to the surface.
A fierce cold wind funnels down from the cave entrance, turning everything from the entrance to the bottom into frozen ground!
"Extreme cold? Damn! This temperature must be several hundred degrees below zero!"
Coming from the Nether's entrance door, Zi Liyuan felt the temperature within the insect nest was very low. With Yuki-onna directly creating an Ice and Snow Domain, he didn't pay much attention.
But arriving at this cave that leads directly to the surface, a blast of extreme cold wind makes even him shiver.
Yet with over 60k in physique, having evolved into a Nether demon body, he is now immune to the heat and cold. Even this extreme chill only brings him a slight coolness.
"Roar~! Ugh, such bitter cold, where is this?"
Dilys, the Black Dragon King, emerges from the summoning Array, lets out a dragon roar towards the sky, and gets a mouthful of cold wind, making her shiver. Her large dragon eyes puzzledly look upwards.
"Underworld dimension, inside the insect nest, stop looking, take us to the surface."
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Casually summoning Dilys, Zi Liyuan hops onto the dragon's back with Lao Tie.
The wings of the Black Dragon King spread and soar towards the surface.
In barely three breaths, the massive Black Dragon flies out of the cave entrance. With a slight wing fold, his large dragon legs touch down on the hardened frozen ground.
"Roar!~"
Dilys lets out another dragon roar, as a black and red flame bursts from her mouth, sweeping forward.
A breath of Black Dragon flame weakly illuminates the area hundreds of meters around.
But the moment the dragon flame ends, the light it cast instantly extinguishes, and once again, the surroundings are engulfed in boundless darkness.
"Interesting, the surface world is shrouded in eternal night, some Rule Power absorbs and devours any light source."
The flame of the Black Dragon was by no means tepid, yet the light it emitted couldn't illuminate far.
Zi Liyuan, who had already encountered some of the Rules of Death, was naturally extremely sensitive to the nearby fluctuations of Rule Power.
However, he only felt a weak force flucturating the space around some kind of Rule Power, and couldn't probe into the Rule Power itself.
"Master, with eternal night and extreme cold, the surface temperature must be below ten thousand degrees. Apart from ice elemental life forms and a very few special ice-attribute life forms, it would be difficult for other creatures to survive in such an extreme environment."
Dilys rubbed her dragon snout with her forepaws, and her tail suddenly struck a small hill dozens of meters away.
With a crisp "crack", more than ten meters of the small hill's top was directly whipped away.
The mountains of the surface world, already eroded by the extreme cold, had become incredibly sturdy. Upon being hit by an external force, they directly broke into several segments.
"Tsk tsk, what a peculiar world; this pitch-black environment is a treasure for professionals eager to comprehend the dark rules or the extreme cold rules."
It's said to be a treasure trove, but only if one can survive in this place.
It only took Zi Liyuan a few seconds on the surface to feel his body being eroded by some force.
His Health Points were dropping by 10 points per second, and a force of extreme cold erosion was interfering with his natural flesh recovery.
But with Zi's current physique and strong recovery ability, even if the recovery speed was reduced, a depletion of 10 points per second couldn't harm him at all.
It can be said, the 10 points lost in one second were automatically recovered the next.
"The Novice Village that coexists with the underground world dimensions gives me another reason to snatch the position of Grand Lord."
Originally determined to secure the position of Grand Lord, now that he had discovered such a treasure, it was even less likely he would let anyone else take it.
"Dilys, fly around nearby and visually check the surroundings with your eyes."
The surface world was covered with some Rule Power, and map hanging only displayed darkness. Although the terrain of the surface could be viewed, no resources could be searched.
Clearly, some Rule Power covering the surface directly blocked the resource status on the surface.
"Okay, Master, be careful. I always have a kind of oppressive feeling."
Dilys nodded, one wing leaning on the ground. After Zi Liyuan and Lao Tie descended, she flapped her wings again and flew up, moving forward.
However, her flying altitude was not high, just a few dozen meters above the ground.
Dilys figured out that surface Soul Detection couldn't retrieve information, and they could only rely on naked eyes. But even with naked eyes, the visibility was limited to just over a hundred meters.
It's known that the Black Dragon King could see at night just as in daylight. Yet in this world, he could only see things within a hundred meters; beyond that, it was pitch black with no light visible.
Zi Liyuan, accompanied by Lao Tie, inspected near the entrance and was quickly drawn to a glacier block.
"What's this?"
Squinting slightly, he saw a giant insect, seven or eight meters in size, frozen within a transparent glacier.
"A frozen insect; with such a size, compared to what was seen in the insect nest, it should have the strength of Third tier."
The insect looked vivid, but the map hanging displayed no signs of life.
This meant the insect was already dead.
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Zi Liyuan, accompanied by Lao Tie, inspected near the entrance and was quickly drawn to a glacier block.
"What's this?"
Squinting slightly, he saw a giant insect, seven or eight meters in size, frozen within a transparent glacier.
"A frozen insect; with such a size, compared to what was seen in the insect nest, it should have the strength of Third tier."
The insect looked lively, but the map hanging displayed no signs of life.
This meant the insect was already dead.
The insect looked lively, but the map hanging displayed no signs of life.
This meant the insect was already dead.