Chapter 255: The Way Forward
Even after a long period of time, collecting 20,000 Elementals by a single person can be regarded as an unprecedented project.
In this land without civilization, at first, Ye Chen was still counting the years and months day by day, but after saving several humans from a vicious dragon beast of an unknown breed and being seriously injured and unconscious, he disrupted all the time he calculated.
Since then, Ye Chen has given up the idea of calculating time, but spring goes to autumn, flowers bloom and snow fall, this most basic natural law can be regarded as the easiest method.
In the cave that was simply dug out, Ye Chen sat on the ground, lit a bonfire to keep warm, and was not wearing clothes, but coarsely seamed dragon skin.
The original clothes had been buried in the ground for too long, and after a little intense exercise, they turned to ashes, and it had already taken him a lot of effort to make this extremely ugly dragon skin on his body - he didn't want to be naked like the rest of the people outside, and he would die of cold in this cold weather!
Stretching out his somewhat stiff hands and approaching the fire, the bonfire crackled and crackled, and the jumping flames shone on Ye Chen's somewhat solemn face.
He found that during this time, whether it was the dragons guarding outside the paddocks, or the dragon beasts that entered the paddocks to feed, they all seemed to have noticed something and were constantly searching.
"It seems that it is difficult to use the original method again. ”
Although a lot of elements have been collected, there is still a big gap, and the dragons' premature vigilance is undoubtedly bad news.
"The earth element has already made up enough 10,000 pieces, but there is still a gap of more than 7,000 pieces of water element...... Ye Chen thought to himself, "Most of the earth elements are buried under the ground, they are inherently inert, and they are basically stacked together, which is very conducive to excavation, but the water element is not." ”
Among all the elements, the earth element is a well-known nail household, once it is seated, it is basically lightning that cannot be moved, so Ye Chen is very easy to collect.
But the water element is notoriously naughty, after all, water is flowing, and the water element is naturally extraordinarily naughty, with the flow of rivers and lakes, the difficulty of collecting is second only to the thunder element that only appears in thunderstorms, fleeting.
"The longer the time drags on, the more likely it is to have accidents, and since the dragons have sensed that something is wrong, then ...... The pace of collecting water elementals is about to accelerate...... But where is there so much water?"
Ye Chen fell into deep thought.
Rivers and lakes...... Sea?
Indeed, whether it is a big river, or a lake or a stream, it will eventually converge to the end point - the sea is inclusive!
Ye Chen didn't want to go to the sea to collect water elements, but after all, ...... He's a human, even if it's a demigod, it's impossible not to breathe!
As the water element of the river flows into the sea, it naturally continues to sink into the deepest trench, Ye Chen can't imagine how deep the ocean will be in this world where even the ground is dozens of times thicker than the earth, I'm afraid that the air pressure alone can crush him into powder!
"Sea ...... How can I move freely in the sea?"
Even if you use mental power to condense a bubble to dive, I am afraid that you will not be able to support how deep it is, beyond the critical point, even if the bubble still has oxygen, the pressure of the seawater will make the bubble burst instantly.
"Isn't there anything ...... be done?"
If it was just a short dive and didn't rely on mental power, then Ye Chen also had many methods, such as the sponge body in the cavity of the shallow water dwelling dragon, as long as it was stuffed into his mouth, he could breathe for a quarter of an hour.
But if you want to collect the amount of water you need, just a little bit of oxygen is absolutely not enough.
And oxygen is only the best thing to solve, how to resist the terrifying pressure is the key.
"Stress...... Oxygen ......"
Ye Chen's brain was running rapidly, and suddenly, a passage was recalled by him.
Those were the words of his cheap master, Xiao Xiao, who used to satisfy his curiosity.
About the Twelve Secret Treasures of the Terrans!
Over the course of a long period of time, humans have created twelve incomparably magical S-class treasures, each of which has incomparably amazing abilities.
The Crown of Sin, above the Dragon King Sacrifice, it made the collection of only the strength of the extreme contractor burst out with a powerful power that was close to the level of the king;
Cruel angels, strange fusion abilities, created dragon-blooded people, a species that should not exist;
The Blood Emblem, controlled by the Dragons, is able to restore a seriously injured Dragon King to his peak state in a very short time;
And the Black Contract allowed Ye Chen to obtain a contract level far beyond that of ordinary contractors.
"If it's 'that', diving into the deep sea to find the water element will probably be like walking on the ground, right?"
One of the four elemental beads - "Ice Spirit Bead"
The wielder will not take damage from water, ice, and fog, and will be immune to all anomalies caused by these three powers, and will be 100% stronger by all three attacks!!
"The problem is, after all this time, those Noble Phantasms ...... Does it really exist? and if it does, where will it be?"
Ye Chen muttered.
To find an inconspicuous bead, a bead that he has never even seen, is even more difficult than looking for a needle in a haystack!
But the Ice Spirit Bead seems to be his last chance, because it won't take long for the dragon clan who perceives the abnormality to be able to discover him, and when the time comes, he will definitely not be able to compete with him without the power of the contractor.
Just as Ye Chen was sitting and lying down, wanting to sleep for a while and wait for the snowstorm outside to pass before starting to look for the Ice Spirit Bead......
"Uhh!!!!h
The incomparably severe pain struck again, and it stands to reason that Ye Chen was used to this feeling, because it would happen every once in a while, but this time the pain was a little different from before.
"What ......!!!"
It was naturally impossible for Ye Chen not to know the abnormal situation that happened in his mind, and when his subconscious entered, he was immediately stunned by the scene in front of him.
Floating above his dry and cracked spiritual desert all the time, on the gray book fragments, there were incomparably mysterious characters, Ye Chen swore that he had never seen this kind of font, but when his eyes fell on it, he could actually know what it meant!
"Southwest...... Three hundred and seventy kilometers?"
"Are you...... Are you guiding me how to move forward?"
Looking at the characters on the gray fragments, Ye Chen felt an incomparably powerful force, so powerful that even those dragon kings he had encountered were like ants in front of this force.
But this force seemed to be guiding his way.
"Okay, then listen to you, go there and have a look, I don't think, you won't cheat your landlord, right?"
Ye Chen said with a smile.