148: C148 Relic 2

C148 Relic 2

The sun in the sky was still scorching hot, as if it was moving with Gu Yuan. At this moment, Gu Yuan had only traveled a third of the distance.

"If this goes on, will I die of thirst..." Gu Yuan murmured weakly.

On the contrary, the Azure Stone Monkey on his shoulder was much less affected than Gu Yuan. At this moment, it stirred its claws to cool Gu Yuan down, and it squeaked to cheer Gu Yuan on.

After walking for an unknown amount of time, Gu Yuan felt as if his throat was on fire. Finally, he arrived at a place not far from the building.

However, what made Gu Yuan desperate was that the building was very simple and crude. It was only a city surrounded by broken walls. From the broken walls, Gu Yuan could see what was inside.

A few houses piled with broken loess were completely silent. It seemed like there was no one living inside.

Gu Yuan smiled bitterly and said to Qingming, "Am I wrong? I should have stayed in that oasis."

QingMing squeaked and showed an expression of agreement.

Since he had come here with great effort, he had to go in and take a look. Even though he was extremely thirsty, Gu Yuan still held onto a glimmer of hope.

The moment they entered the city, Gu Yuan's face lit up as the temperature suddenly became cool.

Gu Yuan straightened his body and walked towards the city. Although there wasn't a complete building, there were actually water vats in some of the houses.

Although he knew the chances were slim, Gu Yuan still went up to look for it. Most of the vats were either broken or had a hole in them.

Finally, in a relatively intact mud hut, Gu Yuan found a water tank with a lid, and the water tank seemed to be complete.

Gu Yuan prayed continuously in his heart, then he opened the lid of the water tank. His originally hopeful face changed, then he bent down and vomited.

There was no one in the vat, but a corpse full of maggots!

The corpse seemed to be in a miserable state before it died. It was as if it was trying to climb out, but in the end, it did not succeed.

As the lid of the cylinder was opened, an intense stench quickly filled the room. Gu Yuan hurriedly retreated.

At this moment, another change occurred.

The corpse in the vat suddenly had a tumble, and from it, countless colorful insects the size of fingers crawled out. These bugs seemed to have no eyes, but they were very sensitive to the auras of living people.

The moment they appeared, they started crawling in Gu Yuan's direction.

"F * ck!" Gu Yuan cursed gloomily and ran outside. Previously, due to the journey, Gu Yuan had almost used up most of his inner force. Plus, this space could barely recover his inner force, so Gu Yuan didn't dare to use up what little inner force he had left.

With the appearance of these bugs, it was like stabbing a beehive. Countless of these bugs began to crawl towards Gu Yuan from all directions, from the cracks in the walls and even the cracks in the ground. They were so densely packed that the onlookers' scalps were going numb.

"Damn it!" Gu Yuan had no choice but to take out his Fangtian Halberd and attack the bugs that were crawling over.

Unfortunately, there were too many bugs and Gu Yuan didn't notice them earlier. Right now, he was in the middle of the city, so he couldn't break out. Even with Qingming's help, he still couldn't stop the bugs.

As the bugs got closer and his internal energy was gradually depleted, Gu Yuan's movements in waving the Fangtian Halberd became slower and slower. Finally, he said to Qing Ming: "Sorry, I can't get stronger with you."

After saying that, he ignored Qingming's objections and put Qingming into the Fantasy Ring. At the same time, Qingming's body also shook and slowly fell down. He was instantly submerged by countless bugs.

The feeling of being eaten by countless bugs was really unforgettable!

Gu Yuan was woken up by a cool feeling. The moment he opened his eyes, he looked around and found that he had fallen asleep in front of a very tall tombstone.

Carefully recalling it, he felt like he was trapped in a strange jungle, and then he came to a desolate desert through a small stream. In the end, he had spent a lot of effort to enter a city, and after that …

Thinking about the feeling of being eaten by countless bugs, Gu Yuan felt his scalp tingle.

"But now, why am I here?"1

This place seemed to be a separate space. The surroundings were all grey except for a tombstone that was two meters tall. The tombstone was filled with densely packed words as if it had recorded some information.

Gu Yuan couldn't help but stand up and slowly look at the tombstone.

The tombstone seemed to tell of an event that occurred in the ancient times.

After that, something big seemed to have happened. The warriors were almost completely annihilated in that matter, and Cultivator's inheritance was also cut off, which led to the decline of today's cultivation world and the downfall of the warriors.

However, what happened was not written on the tombstone. All that was left was the main story of the tombstone's owner's life.

What made Gu Yuan even more surprised was that the owner of this tombstone was a very powerful martial artist from the ancient times!

At this moment, Gu Yuan finally realized that he had accidentally entered the relic the four families were looking for, and this relic was not Cultivator's inheritance like they thought, but a relic left behind by an ancient martial artist.

According to the description on the tombstone, the tombstone's owner, in order to find a determined successor who would not easily give up, had specially set up those several checkpoints. Whether it was the jungle or the desert, it was all to test the willpower of the challenger.

In the end, the bite of the ten thousand bugs in the city wasn't real either.

Seeing this, Gu Yuan shook his head and smiled bitterly. He thought to himself, "The owner of this tombstone is really vicious. In order to select a qualified disciple, he actually left behind such a perverted exam."

If he hadn't been lucky enough to discover the secret of the stream, he would probably have been trapped there for the rest of his life.

As for the darkness in the stream, it was the toughness of the people. Under such a pitch-black environment, with no end in sight, coupled with the increasingly stifling feeling, there were only a few people who could maintain their cool and perseverance to the end.

After that, there were many traps in the desert. Behind him was a cool oasis, and in front of him was scorching hot yellow sand. Very few people would be able to so decisively give up on an oasis.

Even if they were to enter the yellow sand, they had to persevere until the end. Otherwise, if they were to return to the oasis halfway, who knows what might happen.

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