Chapter Ninety-Eight: The Ruins of the Ancient Temple
Originally, with his strength, even if he didn't say that he was unscrupulous in the Trial Forest, it was enough to ensure his life was safe, unless he took the initiative to venture into the forbidden area. Pen ~ fun ~ pavilion www.biquge.info
But the dialect is still somewhat self-aware. He knew that since even a strong man comparable to the level of a second-level wizard like Ralfil was so jealous of the forbidden area, then there must be a terrifying danger in the forbidden area.
Therefore, Fang Yan naturally did not go into danger to verify the horror of the forbidden area, and he was very careful to avoid all the areas bordering the forbidden area.
It's a pity that some things don't always work the way you want them to.
More than a month after Fang Yan entered the Trial Forest, he had already collected almost all the materials, and there was only one "Phantom Butterfly Wing Powder" on the remaining list that had not yet been collected.
"Phantom Butterfly Wing Powder" is a powder made from the wings of a strange creature called "Phantom Butterfly", which is an excellent neutralizer after being refined by witchcraft, and is also an indispensable thing when refining witchcraft in dialects.
And on the map given by Ralfil, there is only one place in the Forest of Trials where the creature "Phantom Butterfly" lives, and that is the "Lost Forest"!
When he saw that his goal was in the "Lost Forest", Fang Yan couldn't help but hesitate a little, not knowing whether to go in or not.
The "Lost Forest" is a dense forest bordering the forbidden area, and the entire dense forest is shrouded in a colorful mist all year round, which looks very beautiful and weird.
The creatures in this dense forest are not very powerful, but they are also very strange, and most of them have the ability to create illusions, among which the "Phantom Butterfly" is the most powerful. And the colorful mist that shrouds the dense forest is not simple, although it does not have a violent toxicity like miasma, but it has the ability to cover people's five senses, making people become blind and deaf inside!
But none of this is a big deal for dialects. He can use his mental power, even without the help of his physical five senses, he also has the ability to observe the outside world, even more clearly than with his five senses.
The magical creatures in the Lost Forest, which can only create minor illusions, are not a problem with dialect. Not to mention the presence of the inheritance witch crystal, there are no spiritual attacks that can hurt the dialect, even the strength of the dialect's own consciousness alone is enough to be immune to some low-level illusions.
What made him scruple was that the "Lost Forest" was too close to the forbidden area!
After thinking about it for a long time, Fang Yan still planned to go in, because the "Phantom Butterfly Wing Powder" was too important to him, and if there was no conflict between various materials when refining witch weapons, then the success rate of his witch refining weapons would drop by at least three layers, which was the most unacceptable to Fang Yan!
After entering the "Lost Forest", the beginning was extremely smooth. Just as Fang Yan expected, those magical creatures that only create a little low-level illusion could not pose a threat to him at all, and it didn't take much effort for Fang Yan to successfully find the trace of the "Phantom Butterfly" in the "Lost Forest".
It's just that to Fang Yan's surprise, in the place where there are "phantom butterflies", he actually found the remains of a dilapidated ancient temple!
Seeing a clearing that suddenly appeared in the dense forest, and the ruins of an ancient temple standing in that clearing, Fang Yan felt a little square. Isn't it true that only those ancient ruins remain in the depths of the forbidden area? How come there is one outside this forbidden area?
For a while, Fang Yan thought that he had unknowingly walked from the "Lost Forest" to the forbidden area, but after carefully observing the surrounding environment, he denied his guess that this place was indeed outside the forbidden area and within the scope of the advanced trial area.
So, what is the ruins of this ancient temple......
A wizard's curiosity is always as good as his sanity, and dialect is no exception, and in this case, it would be unreasonable for him not to explore the ruins of an ancient temple.
So, the tongue did the same.
Cautiously walking towards the ruins of the ancient temple, Fang Yan was always on guard against possible dangers, but until Fang Yan walked to the entrance of the ancient temple, there was no movement.
Looking up at the ancient temple in front of him, the dialect couldn't help but secretly let out a sigh of admiration, this is a typical Western-style temple building, the whole is made of unknown stones with huge specifications, and it looks very imposing. Although the temple in front of you is only in ruins, you can still see the splendor of the temple at that time from those remaining details.
Standing at the entrance of the temple, Fang Yan did not rush in, but first probed with witchcraft.
"Secondary Life Perception!"
After chanting the incantation, an invisible wave began to emanate from the center of the dialect, and all living objects in his path were marked in his mind.
"No life?"
Fang Yan raised his eyebrows, and the witchcraft effect showed that there was no life in the ruins of the ancient temple in front of him.
After thinking about it, Fang Yan put on a "secondary dark curtain technique" and "danger perception technique" for himself, and then cautiously walked into the ancient temple.
Smack! Smack!
The sound of crisp footsteps sounded in the main hall of the ancient temple.
Fang Yan looked around, looking a little surprised. He didn't think much of it when he looked at the pile of ruins outside, but after he walked in, he realized that the area of this ancient temple was really not small, and the hall in front of him was not much smaller than the Great Hall of Hogwarts.
Looking around the main hall again, Fang Yan's gaze finally fixed on the statue of the god on the altar in front of him.
This is a very strange image of the five-headed god, covered in gold, but the five heads that grow from the neck up are all snake heads, and below the neck is still a human body, but when it reaches the position of the feet, it becomes a thin snake tail coiled up.
Fang Yan frowned, this strange statue made people feel cold all over their bodies when they looked at it, and the five snake heads with red eyes and slender eyes, and their mouths were wide open and grinning, as if they were smiling.
Fang Yan's gaze inadvertently met the eyes of the serpent's head, and for some reason, a feeling that this god statue was alive came to his heart.
Shaking his head, Fang Yan shook off this illusion in his heart, of course he knew that it was not that the idol was really alive, but that the craftsmen who carved the statue were too skilled, so it would seem as if the idol was about to come to life. What's more, he had already confirmed with witchcraft that there was indeed no life in the ruins of this ancient temple.
"What kind of god is this?" The dialect racked his brains, but he did not find the origin of this god statue in the major mythological genealogies of this world.
According to the specifications of ordinary temples, there should have been murals on the walls of the main hall that recorded the deeds of the gods enshrined, but after Fang Yan checked it just now, he found that the murals on the four walls had long been blurred by the passage of time, and only some broken lines remained, and no clues could be found from them.
But dialects are not without other discoveries.
"Squeak-"
A dusty stone door was gently pushed open by the dialect. It was a hidden stone door he had found behind the idol, and it looked like it had been sealed for a long time, and he didn't know what secrets were hidden inside. However, before Fang Yan could look inside the stone gate, he immediately turned sideways and dodged to the side.
"Whew-" A turbid air flow suddenly burst out from the stone gate, with a lot of momentum. It can be seen that this stone chamber has not been opened for too long.
After waiting for two minutes, after making sure that the gas in the stone room had completely dissipated, Fang Yan walked to the entrance of the stone gate again, and looked inside curiously.
The room was not big, but it looked empty, and there was nothing but a stone platform at the end of the room.
Fang Yan's eyes narrowed slightly, as if he saw something on the stone platform.
Fang Yan silently felt it, and found that the "Danger Perception Technique" on his body did not come with any warning, so he walked into this stone room with confidence.
Stepping into the room, just as Fang Yan expected, he didn't encounter any traps or prohibitions, and walked smoothly to the stone platform.
There are not many things on the stone platform, only a palm-sized thing, and the whole body is made of unknown metal, which looks like a heraldic thing.
Fang Yan looked at it, and the pattern on the metal heraldic was also very familiar, it was the head of the god enshrined in the main hall outside, and the five snake heads were still so vivid.
He didn't take it directly, but after several tests of magic and witchcraft were thrown up in succession, and after making sure that the metal coat of arms was not in any danger, Fang Yan reached out and took it down from the stone platform.
Take this one, but something will happen!
"Buzz!"
Just after Fang Yan had just removed the metal sigil from the stone platform, the originally smooth and empty ground suddenly burst out with magical aura. Before the dialect could react, a complicated magic array appeared out of thin air on the ground in the stone chamber.
"Not good!"
Fang Yan was shocked, although he didn't know why the "Danger Perception Technique" didn't work, but this magic array in front of him, which looked very complicated and very high-end, would definitely not be a good one!
But just when Fang Yan was about to throw away the metal emblem in his hand, it was too late, and the magic array had been fully activated!
Fang Yan only felt that after a white light flashed in front of his eyes, a very familiar pressure enveloped his body.
"It's ...... Space Spells!? ”
"But isn't it true that you can't use your spatial abilities in the Trials Forest?"
Before Fang Yan could figure out this question, he felt the pressure around him suddenly relax...... He instantly understood that this was the teleportation destination!
The rest was simple, and after recovering from the vertigo of teleportation, Fang Yan found himself in the ruins of another ancient temple, the same size and style as the one he had stayed in before.
If it weren't for the fact that he found that the environment around the ancient temple had changed from before, from a forest environment to a desert, I am afraid that he would still think that he was still staying in the ruins of the original ancient temple.
It's just that Fang Yan felt depressed that the metal sigil that teleported him over didn't have any reaction at the moment, even if he stood in the stone chamber again, there was no other teleportation circle on the ground to teleport him back.
As a last resort, he had to go outside the ruins to find his way back.
But after Fang Yan came to the outside of the ruins, he couldn't help but feel a little Spartan. Although it was a desert environment, the rich magic factor in the outside air, and the even more violent will hidden in the magic factor, all told Fang Yan that the place where he was staying at this time was the forbidden place that he had been trying his best to avoid!