Chapter 166: Demonic Cultivator Country
until that grayish-blue outer shell once again enveloped the golden flowing light.
Mu Qiu finally confirmed that this was indeed the blink of an eye.
There was something outside that she couldn’t identify—it was alive!
The volume of this thing must be terrifying; the golden surface in front of her was clearly its eyeball.
The pupil alone completely covered the opening, equivalent to the other party clearly looking at herself.
Thinking of this, Mu Qiu’s heart couldn’t help but pound violently.
She wasn’t afraid of zombies, nor was she afraid of the Demonic Beasts on the Yunzhou Continent.
But this unknown thing, which was so large it defied imagination, of course, she would be afraid.
She was just a Cultivator in the Late Qi Condensation Stage!
Some things were universal in the Cultivation World, such as any beast, whether it was a Demonic Beast or the legendary Spirit Beast, besides human Cultivators.
The larger the volume, the more Spiritual Energy it absorbed, making it a terrifying existence.
The volume of this eyeball exceeded imagination; how terrifying was its physical form.
What was it?
Whatever it was, it was not something Mu Qiu could deal with.
So Mu Qiu dared not move.
She remained frozen in this opening, staring at the golden pupil. As she stared, for some reason, the surrounding light grew brighter.
It also allowed Mu Qiu to see that the flowing light within the other party’s pupil gradually reflected Mu Qiu’s appearance.
She was lying there, her Puppet’s somewhat deformed face showing a hint of terror due to the unknown—making it even uglier.
Mu Qiu unethically guessed that this Puppet was probably made by the Sect Master himself.
It seemed her craftsmanship was really not great.
A few seconds later, the golden pupil disappeared.
The light grew even brighter, as if her appearance had triggered some switch. She could even see a vague, blurry scene outside through the opening.
Mu Qiu froze.
She asked the System, “There’s clearly something outside, should I go out?”
System: “It’s your choice. You might not be able to complete this Task, so you can stay here for three days and wait to change maps.”
Mu Qiu asked, “If I die here, will I truly be dead, unable to Teleport back to the Sect?”
System: “Yes.”
It was possible to exploit bugs, but not to such an extent.
If one could Teleport out of a Secret Realm at will, Song Jiulai wouldn’t have gone to so much trouble back then.
As the saying goes, fortune favors the bold; Mu Qiu now faced two choices.
One was to go out, either to be killed or, if lucky, perhaps to see something, but her Account might be lost.
She had already resigned from her job; this Account was currently her livelihood, a guarantee for working for Han Tian.
The other was to stay put and wait for the Small World to change in three days, seeking opportunities in other Small Worlds.
The former had a death rate close to 99%, while the latter sounded a bit cowardly.
However, cowardice was the foundation of survival in the Cultivation World.
Cowardice itself was not terrifying.
What was terrifying was that her curiosity and unwillingness were now taking the upper hand. If she truly didn’t go out, she might never know the secret here in her lifetime.
It was still the mindset of playing a Game, but deep down, there was a trace of the daring nature of Huaxia people.
Mu Qiu finally understood why people in horror movies loved to court death.
In fact, sometimes it wasn’t about liking to court death, but rather not being at ease without finding out.
—If you die, you’ll be at ease.
Mu Qiu didn’t just sit in this opening agonizing; she also sent a message to the World.
【 Mu Qiu: I have a problem. I’m currently in a secret room within a Hidden Task. Outside, a Giant Beast beyond my imagination is waiting. If I go out, there’s a high probability I’ll die, but if I don’t, I might gain nothing in this Small World. What should I do? 】
【 Gu Yunxi: What else can you do? Just mix it with scrambled eggs. 】
【 Qi Zuo: What kind of evil dish is scrambled egg salad? Heretics, get out of Yunzhou Continent! 】
【 Su Daqiang: Damn it, I don’t like scrambled eggs. 】
【 Han Tian: Be serious, everyone. @ Mu Qiu, consider it. I definitely hope you don’t go out. 】
Mu Qiu was the studio’s top fighter whom he valued. Han Tian certainly didn’t want Mu Qiu to court death in the Game and lose her Account.
【 Wang Daoist Priest: In a Cultivation Game, everything is an opportunity. Not only is luck important, but courage is even more so. Encountering such a situation, if you retreat, you might never encounter a good opportunity in your life. 】
【 Zhou Nüzi: Normally, one should play it safe, but in this Game, I agree with Daoist Priest. 】
Mu Qiu trembled all over.
Yes, the Account was important, but a Cultivation Game emphasized opportunities.
She had already been chosen by the System. If she lacked the courage to step out at this point, perhaps her Account’s luck would plummet from then on.
Even so, to truly prepare herself mentally, Mu Qiu thought for a long time.
In the end, it was with the thought: At worst, I’ll just snatch another Account later!
Zhen Weida could still reclaim his ID; did she not have that kind of luck?
Mu Qiu took a deep breath and finally decided to crawl out.
She extinguished the flame on her fingertip and, step by step, cautiously began to crawl outwards.
The light from the opening grew closer, and everything around was extremely quiet.
So quiet that Mu Qiu could hear her own faint breathing and her heart pounding like a drum.
In an extremely quiet environment, the senses could be amplified countless times, further heightening one’s nerves.
Her Spiritual Energy was still there, but she couldn’t sense any movement around her.
If the Giant Beast’s eye earlier was not an illusion, then it could only mean that the Giant Beast was so powerful that she couldn’t detect it.
When she reached the end of the opening, a gentle breeze suddenly brushed past.
She instinctively turned her head, and her heart clenched again.
Would there be wind underground?
But she saw nothing.
She could now see the full picture of the outside.
Light from an unknown source allowed her to see everything here clearly.
She was somewhat surprised.
It was a vast, artificially carved underground Plaza.
It looked like it was cast in bronze, spread out in a square shape. To her left was the center of the Plaza’s sacrifice, where a massive Bronze Cauldron stood.
And she knew where she was.
It was an eye!
She was inside the eye of a bronze statue. Unlike human eyes, this eye was a square frame.
Because opposite her stood an identical bronze Giant statue, that strange Giant statue’s eye was square, with the pupil in the middle serving as this opening, allowing her to crawl out.
Such a terrifying Giant statue, buried for who knows how many years, what was it used for here.
Mu Qiu recalled seeing Sanxingdui in Huaxia.
Sanxingdui also had various bronze Giant statues, but the one in Yunzhou looked stranger. Besides its square eyes, it had wings on its back, and its body was exceptionally robust, seemingly unclothed.
It carried a primitive wildness within its ancient and profound mysterious civilization.
It reminded Mu Qiu of what the Spirit Body had said.
This was once the Demonic Cultivator Country.
