Chapter 180: The Dragon's Grave (Part I)

After some time, Jonah felt the wind strengthen, and a warm and strong wind blew from the bottom of the cave, and the air current blew so that he couldn't open his eyes, "That's great!" he covered his hunting shirt and smiled at the corners of his mouth. The speed of his descent was slowing, and the currents began to counteract the speed of the fall, and the astrologer felt the dizziness caused by the sudden change in speed. The vision brightened at the same time, and a golden light came from the bottom of the cavern, and this dazzling golden light that was impossible to look at was exactly like the sun, "The fourth sun!" Jonah whispered to himself.

It only took thirty seconds for his fall to be completely counteracted by the updraft, filled with golden glow on all sides, and the temperature was so hot that it could scorch people, but thankfully Jonah didn't stay here for long. ......The strong wind changed the direction of his travel, and the astrologer's small body was violently lifted, and "Oops...... Jonah turned and bounced upward, and his head became congested and ached, and he couldn't help but scream. Now he was bounced up a few hundred yards, fell again, bounced up again, back and forth like a pinball several times, before he was finally held up by the air and suspended in the air.

Jonah was dizzy, unable to move for a long time. When the nausea subsided, he shielded his hand from the rays of the fourth sun and looked around, and found that there was a horizontal hole in the wall of the whirlpool, and a deep channel opened in the gray water. He didn't hesitate to swim through the air,—— though he wasn't a good swimmer, it felt easier - it took him a few minutes to move to the edge of the cave. The whirlpool outside had slowed down, but Jonah pulled out a piece of bread and threw it as a test to test it, and the dry bread tumbled into the passage and rolled a few times, standing still on the ground.

When your feet finally hit the ground, the feeling is incomparably beautiful. Jonah fell into the passage with a thud, panting for air, not wanting to move. If you look closely, you can see that the passage is also made of lake water, but the liquid is strangely "stationary", not frozen into ice, but maintains its liquid form as if time had stopped, and no matter how much external force is applied, it will not change.

There were so many strange things along the way that Jonah decided not to dwell on the little details. After a few minutes of rest, he began to move along the passage with his staff in hand. The gray water-made passage was crooked, just big enough for an adult to walk upright, and Jonah felt that the concentration of magical elements in the air here was unbelievably high, and if a magician or priest came here, his cultivation progress would be a rapid progress. The air is warm and moist, the transparent walls are illuminated by the small sun at the bottom of the water, and the lake is surrounded on all sides, and it is a strange feeling to walk through the passage formed by the lake. Jonah looked down at the sun, and was so shaken that he couldn't see what was shining.

After walking like this for five minutes, "Bang!" he suddenly hit a wall, and he groaned in pain. The passage is the same color as the lake, and it is not clear that the front is closed, he rubbed his nose and looked carefully, only to see that at the end of the passage is a wall of water, and there is a faint line of small characters on the wall, the font is not recognized at first glance, and then at a glance, it has become the lingua franca of the Western Continent, and Jonah whispered: "Ancient tokens." - Are you ready for the audience?" he wondered, "...... What does this mean? What token, and to whom do you meet it?"

In the center of the wall, he found a round hole, about the size of a fist, that appeared to be used to place "tokens". Jonah pondered for a long time, and had no clue, and subconsciously fumbled around in the deerskin bag. After so long on the journey, my bag is full of messy things, and I might be able to find the right thing by mistake. His fingers suddenly touched a cold, heavy round object, and when he took it out, it turned out to be a heavy easter egg. This is what the emissary of the Worship Cult in the ruins of the city of Moisan gave to Asai, summoned with the folding cane of the dead Vir-Ariondo.

"Huh? Looks like a good fit. Jonah picked up the colorful egg-shaped object and slipped it into a hole in the wall. There was a soft click, and the egg and the hole were tightly embedded in one place, "...... Is that right?" the astrologer opened his mouth in surprise.

The wall vanished silently, and the egg disappeared with it. "Do you mean to keep going?" Jonah spun around twice and decided to keep going. After this level, the passage suddenly became wider, enough for two four-wheeled carriages to run side by side. At this time, Jonah felt a little tired, sat down by the passage to rest for a while, took out the soaked dry food and nibbled on two pieces. His water bladder was left in the camp last night, and he was a little thirsty at this time, "There is water everywhere, but he can't drink it......" The young man couldn't help complaining, reaching out to pick at the wall, but who knew that a piece of solidified water actually fell to the ground, and returned to liquid with a bang. Jonah was pleasantly surprised to break off a few pieces of water and successfully filled the water bladder, before Asai told him that Yun Mengze's water was safe to drink, because there were absolutely no toxic ingredients and insects that could dissolve into it, and the disadvantage was that it was not nutritious. The water in this strange place is probably of different composition, but it tastes sweet and has a hint of pineapple juice, and Jonah is amazed as he gulps the water.

After a short break, he continued on his way, this time for ten minutes, and Jonah's nose collided head-on with the wall, causing tears to flow from his eyes. On the wall is written "Proof of the strong." - Are you ready for the audience?"

"What proof of the strong, what kind of place is this?" he muttered, covering his nose. There were no holes in the wall this time, and he couldn't think of anything that could "prove that he was strong". After thinking about it for a while, he stepped back a hundred yards and shot out a "Zero Ray" with the smallest power, this new attack array would probably use up the general spiritual energy if it was launched at full strength, but after the controllability was improved, the output power could be adjusted as he wanted.

"Boom!" the explosion unleashed a huge fireball, the walls standing still, and Jonah was pushed seven or eight times by the shockwave that traveled in one direction along the passage. He scrambled to his feet, checked his body, and was fortunately uninjured. After a while, the explosion site cooled down, Jonah walked to the wall, and found that the wall of water did not leave a trace at all, "It seems that I am not a strong person at all......" The young man sat down on the ground and smiled bitterly, "Either go back, if you can answer it......

After thinking about it for a long time, Jonah suddenly remembered something. He opened the deerskin bag and poured out the contents in a daze, grabbing a red silk pouch, "Aha, here, forget about it!" The brocade bag was tied with gold thread and sealed with the three-color beeswax of the Astrologer Association, which was given to him by the enchantment warlock Zhai Sancheng when he set off from Suiyang City, and it was prepared by the Night Fifteen Kingdoms,—— of course, it actually came from the hard-mouthed and soft-hearted old man of the ninth-level astrology master Seth Battheon.

At that time, Zhai Sancheng said that "it can only be opened when there is a crisis and there is no way out." Jonah had been in crisis more than once, but he never remembered the bag, "It's really desperate now, isn't it?" he carefully untied the beeswax, untied the knot, and opened the bag.

"How!" something strange happened, a gust of wind blew from the bag, "Danger!" Jonah immediately felt the hairs on his body stand on end, shivered fiercely, and involuntarily took five or six steps back, holding his staff in an attacking stance. He felt that some kind of unusually powerful aura appeared in the passage, as if a giant beast had descended into the world, "invincible, invincible......" In just a moment, his self-confidence had been completely destroyed, and this aura showed the difference in strength between the worlds and the abyss, and he seemed as humble and weak as an ant, and he used all his strength to hold on to it without falling to the ground.

Just for a moment. The inexplicable intimidation suddenly disappeared, and the pressure lightened, and Jonah leaned against the cave wall and gasped for air, drenched in cold sweat. He didn't know what was just happening, and after a few hours of observation, he didn't notice any signs of anyone else or living being there. The bag was empty, and Jonah turned the bag on its side, finding nothing.

"There are so many strange things to do today...... he said, touching his nose in annoyance, and when he looked up, the wall had disappeared at some point. "Proof of the strong...... Jonah seemed to understand something, "Could it be that this is the breath in the bag? Is it the mark of Master Battheon, the ninth-level astrology master, the strength at the top of human ability, and has passed the test of the wall like this?"

Was it a coincidence, or luck, or was it fate? Jonah's mind was in a state of chaos at the moment, so he simply didn't think too much about it, and moved on. The passage widened again, this time so wide that it was impossible to determine the direction of its extension unless it had been along one side of the cave wall. Jonah estimated the width of the passage to be three hundred to four hundred yards, and from his vantage point it was impossible to see the wall of condensation on the opposite side. "Is such a wide road for humans?" he looked up in awe, the passage was also more than three hundred yards high, and it was hard to imagine what kind of creature it was customized.

This time, after walking for half an hour, another wall appeared, and this time Jonah did not hit it head-on, not because he was careful, but because the wall was too wide and too high to be ignored. The words on the wall are each two circles than Jonaben**, "Immortal soul." - Are you ready for the audience?"

This time, Jonah did not rummage through the bag, but simply untied the necklace around his neck. The soul of the Black Dragon Queen Aksetan is housed in the artifact Kuligara, and the owner of the Suiyang City weapon shop "Red Iron Zhai" has made a transformation of the necklace, saying that at the right moment, the soul of the black dragon will talk to him. - Is there a better time than now?