Obelisk

"More murals…"

Ye Long didn't know how many murals he had seen. It felt like a museum with a guide.

The whispers were like a pre-recorded message. They would play as soon as someone arrived.

Ye Long continued downward, collecting information along the way. Until, on one level, he saw Adam's corpse.

Adam was kneeling on the ground, his eyes wide open. A trident was impaling him through his mouth, piercing through his entire body!

Ye Long instantly backed away. But after waiting for a moment, nothing happened.

He cautiously took a step forward. Still nothing.

So the question is:

"How did Adam die?"

"He couldn't have swallowed the trident himself, right?"

Ye Long walked in front of Adam but didn't pull out the trident.

He walked around the hall and found another corpse. The corpse was kneeling, now a skeleton.

Ye Long had seen this scene.

In the murals.

"This person is Karen?"

Ye Long looked at the skeleton. There were stairs behind it. This wasn't the end.

Hm…

Should he continue downward, or pull out the trident and leave?

Ye Long hesitated for a long time, then chose the latter.

"I don't know what dangers lie ahead. I'll take the Trident and leave."

He grabbed the Trident and pulled it out of Adam's body.

And at this moment, countless bloody eyes suddenly opened on the walls!

As expected!

Ye Long didn't hesitate. He grabbed the Trident and teleported away!

This teleport was the golden ability he possessed.

It's called Land Shrinking. It can shorten a 10-meter distance into a single step. He could move 10 meters in a single step. This was one of Ye Long's two golden abilities!

To others, it looked like Ye Long was teleporting. His figure would suddenly appear far away!

But as he teleported forward, countless bloody eyes appeared on the walls!

And at the same time, tentacles shot out from the walls, flying towards Ye Long!

Ye Long dodged the tentacles using Land Shrinking and his movement techniques. But more and more tentacles appeared. In the end, there were thousands of them, blocking his path!

"Damn, I can't get out!"

Ye Long said and threw the Golden Trident!

All the tentacles instantly changed direction, grabbing the Trident, then throwing it back!

Ye Long was about to react, when a huge mouth suddenly appeared on the ground, biting his legs!

Splat, splat!

The Trident struck, piercing through Ye Long's body.

But at this moment, a light blue fog suddenly emanated from Ye Long's body.

The fog quickly enveloped him, instantly healing his body.

This was a one-time-use purple item called Breath of the Deep.

It can instantly heal any injuries on the body and slightly enhance the user's physical body.

But it requires Fish-Man's Heart to use.

This item was extremely precious. After obtaining it from 079's game, people were usually reluctant to use it.

Because dying in the game is not really dying.

But in real life, if facing a situation of certain death, this item could save your life.

Ye Long, while recovering, pulled out the Trident and threw it forward, then teleported!

The tentacles attacked again. Ye Long caught the Trident and swung it at the tentacles!

Splat!

The Trident easily sliced through the tentacles like tofu.

"This thing… is handy!"

Ye Long didn't know the Trident's powers, but its sharpness alone made it worthy of being called a divine weapon!

Quickly adapting to the Trident's attack style, Ye Long charged forward, swinging it left and right!

He was agile. All the tentacles in his path were cut down.

But as Ye Long reached the next hall, something unexpected occurred!

Crack!

A fissure suddenly tore open the space!

At the same time, a pitch-black figure, wreathed in black flames, emerged from the fissure!

It seemed like a wraith, wearing a black robe, its legs invisible, carrying a huge black sickle!

"Death?"

Before Ye Long could react, Death had already closed in!

Ye Long instantly raised the Trident, but Death appeared behind him!

The giant sickle rested on Ye Long's neck!

Whoosh!

Death swung the sickle. The blade grazed Ye Long's neck, then strangely passed through it!

Ye Long's physical body wasn't harmed, but his soul was severed in two!

Thump!

Ye Long's body instantly collapsed. His eyes were wide open, lifeless. He couldn't even utter a word.

An invisible thread snapped.

Mei suddenly turned and grabbed the broken fateline.

She pulled the two ends of the fateline together and tied a knot, reconnecting them.

This was an interesting experiment.

If being cut by Death's sickle represented death by causality, then being reconnected by it, wouldn't that mean resurrection by causality?

Mei glanced at Ye Long on the ground, but he remained motionless.

"It didn't work? What a pity."

Mei turned and continued down into the Old One's Temple.

Those who called themselves the Serpent's Hand were looking for the temple. Mei, intrigued, had been watching them.

She hadn't expected them to actually find it.

The temple's existence was unusual. It was in a state of both existing and not existing.

Ordinary people needed to lower their rationality to a certain level to see it, but Mei could see it directly.

There were two possibilities.

First, She had the ability to see imperceptible things.

Second, because these things were created by her, she could see them directly.

She reached the bottom level of the temple unimpeded. At the bottom level was a vast, empty hall. In the center was an obelisk, covered in winding text.

Mei touched the obelisk. The characters transformed into lines of English.

"It even has a translation function?"

"Surprisingly convenient."

Mei looked at the words on the obelisk. They shifted, displaying names. "Is this… a master list of all the Ancient Artifacts?"

"214 Ancient Artifacts in total."

"64 Greed-type, 71 Ocean-type, 45 Curse-type, 34 Spirit-type."

"So, I already have more than half of them."

002 had brought Mei 118 Ancient Artifacts, and still had more than a dozen. Combined with the ones found by the Kitsune, the Serpent's Hand, and the vampires, almost all the Ancient Artifacts had been discovered.

But some must have slipped through the net.

"My collecting habit is acting up again. I should personally go and collect all these Ancient Artifacts."