"Convenient!" Zhao Hao's spirits immediately lifted, "Senior, please instruct me! I will go through fire and water without hesitation!"
If the elder said so, didn't it mean there was still a chance to survive?!
After all, elders were known to have peculiar tempers, and perhaps this was exactly what they liked!
As for dignity...
Compared to his life, dignity was worthless!
"It's like this," Ye Fan said politely, "After all, it's my first time here, and I'm not very familiar with the route. I don't know what dangers we might encounter ahead?"
"...Senior, it's like this..." Zhao Hao said miserably, "This secret realm is a bit special. The dangers encountered each time are different. Otherwise, we wouldn't have suffered such heavy losses this time..."
Ye Fan was clearly stunned after hearing this.
Different every time?
Was roguelike popular in the cultivation world too?
Ye Fan's brief moment of daze was interpreted completely differently by Zhao Hao!
In his eyes, Ye Fan's expression clearly conveyed one message: Are you kidding me?! If that's the case, then aren't you useless?
Once he had no value to the elder, it meant his end was near...
"Senior, it's like this!" Zhao Hao quickly tried to save himself, "Although the dangers are different each time, the path forward remains the same!"
Ye Fan nodded in realization.
Not bad.
At least there was no need to worry about getting lost.
"Then I'll trouble all of you to lead the way."
With these 'old horses' guiding them, Ye Fan and the others had a much easier time.
When there was combat, Zhao Hao and his group went first. When there were mechanisms and traps, they were the ones to fill them...
Several times during the journey, they almost met their end, but Ye Fan never intervened.
It wasn't that he held a grudge.
It was mainly because these young people needed experience!
Without experiencing storms, they would only be flowers in a greenhouse, unable to grow!
As for casualties...
The path of cultivation was inherently defying the heavens. Dying on the way was quite normal, wasn't it?
And along the way, Ye Fan was also pondering something.
The appearance of demons like Kurgos, who belonged to the Abyss, on this Eastern cultivation continent, might be related to the master of this place.
It seemed that this trip to the secret realm might bring him unexpected surprises...
Several hours later, everyone arrived at another circular room.
It looked similar to a coliseum, but there were no spectator seats around.
Ye Fan couldn't help but complain about this.
The people here must have had problems with their brains.
Except for the room with the inner demon at the beginning, all the others were circular...
It was likely that there was some strange elemental control...
When Ye Fan and the others entered, a giant beast was lying on the ground.
Just lying there, the beast was over three zhang tall, and its body occupied almost a fifth of the room!
As for the beast's appearance, there was even less to say.
Just like the various demonic beasts they had encountered before, it was clearly a chimera!
Coupled with the various strange instruments they had encountered earlier...
Ye Fan had ample reason to suspect that this place was a perverted personal laboratory!
And the subject of its research was also very peculiar...
It was a pity that the master of this laboratory was not here. Otherwise, Ye Fan would definitely have advised him as someone who had been there before.
"Playing with chimeras is a dead end. You should give up as soon as possible!"
The arrival of Ye Fan and his group did not wake the sleeping beast.
"Snore—snore—"
Zhao Hao and the others tentatively approached the beast, circling around it nervously for a few laps.
"Snore—snore—!"
The snores stirred up gusts of wind, making their hair flutter...
Confirming that the creature seemed to be genuinely asleep, Zhao Hao and his group stealthily headed towards the large door behind the chimera.
There were no dangers or obstructions on the door. It opened with a gentle pull.
Zhao Hao and the others immediately looked at Ye Fan with joy.
The implication was obvious.
Elder, there's no danger, we can pass!
To their surprise, the little demoness suddenly spoke.
"This thing looks quite large, I wonder how it tastes?"
Ye Fan immediately gave her a strange look.
"You're trying to force them to fight, aren't you? Isn't that a bit unkind?"
The little demoness proudly tilted her head upwards, "Yes, yes, that's right."
She had written down the matter of these guys ambushing Ye Fan in her little black book!
Letting them suffer a bit now was just paying back some interest!
As for whether this seemed too petty and vengeful?
The little demoness stated: I'm a woman! Isn't being vengeful and petty only natural?!
Their voices were not very loud, but they were just enough for Zhao Hao and the others to hear...
Their faces immediately fell, and they looked incredibly miserable...
After weighing their options, they still felt that facing the chimera was relatively safer.
And so...
Zhao Hao gritted his teeth and immediately led his men to attack!
"Snore...?"
The beast was woken up and looked around in confusion.
Upon realizing what was happening, the beast was furious!
What did my sleep do to offend you?
Is there no public morality?!
The enraged beast opened its large mouth and spewed flames at Zhao Hao and the others!
Perhaps it disdained these two-legged creatures too much, it couldn't even be bothered to stand up!
The fight lasted for a full hour!
Zhao Hao's group lost quite a few more people, leaving only five or six now...
Fortunately, the beast didn't stand up the entire time, otherwise, they would probably all be dead by now.
Even so, those who survived were at their limit...
"That's about enough," Ye Fan said, putting down his watermelon and signaling, "If any more die, there'll be no one left to lead the way."
The Chicken-Banana combination immediately understood and rushed forward.
Shan Ji raised his hand, and a large area of flames covered the beast!
However, after this move, Shan Ji himself was stunned!
Because he discovered that his flames were even stronger than before!
Although his realm hadn't changed, his combat power had at least doubled!
"Roar—!"
The beast cried out in pain from being burned and immediately stood up...
At this moment, everyone was stunned.
Because they saw that the beast's body seemed to have risen slightly, and four legs had appeared beneath its belly.
Each leg was about two feet long, and compared to its massive body, they appeared incredibly comical...
It seemed to have stood up, but also not entirely...
The beast, while howling, frantically scrambled its four short legs...
The originally tense scene instantly became absurd...
Tears streamed down from the beast's eyes...
I was sleeping so well, why did you hit and burn me again?
Mommy...
Seeing the beast running amok, Xiang Jun immediately shouted and ripped off his clothes!
Then he raised his right hand and threw a demonic energy banana at it...
The mountain-sized body of the beast suddenly stopped...
Its short legs uncontrollably wanted to pick up the banana, but it couldn't reach it no matter how hard it tried...
"Huh?" The little demoness seemed to have noticed something, "Their strength seems to have increased... I'll try too!"
As soon as she spoke, she was already above the beast!
The little demoness raised her right hand high, and a giant black hammer materialized from her demonic energy.
Then the little demoness swung the hammer and smashed it towards the beast!
"Whoosh—!"
"Bang—!"
A streak of light flashed.
The beast fell to the ground.
Its two huge eyes turned into concentric spirals...
"It seems I've gotten stronger too?" The little demoness stared at her right hand in a daze, "I barely used any strength just now..."
If it were anyone else, such a sudden increase in strength would surely cause great concern.
After all, such inexplicable strengthening was hardly a good thing.
It could even endanger one's life.
But for the little demoness and the other two...
Never mind, let's not mention it...
The little demoness casually stored the beast's corpse into her ring and excitedly ran to Ye Fan.
"Ye Fan, I seem to have suddenly become stronger!" The little demoness said happily, "I feel like I can fight two of my past selves now!"
"Big Brother, us too!" the two accompanying demons said excitedly.
Their expressions were not of concern seeking explanation, but more like showing off.
"It might be because of the inner demon earlier," Ye Fan glanced at the three of them, "Alright, stop showing off, we need to depart."
At the same time, countless fluorescent lights floated from the corpses and merged into Ye Fan's chest.
Ye Fan was no longer overly concerned about the system charging itself...
He now only wanted to quickly explore this laboratory and see what secrets it held.
Or rather...
How did the master of this place obtain abyssal monsters!
If he could find clues to the entrance of the Abyss here, it would truly be a huge gain!