Chen Jiu opened his eyes and found that he was not dead.
The spikes were soft, and even left no bruises on him.
Narrowly escaping death, Chen Jiu got up from the cushion and picked up his long knife.
He looked around, seeing no one and no other chanisms appearing, he decided to climb the stone wall to get out of the deep ditch.
He felt this didn’t count.
It was the person who dug the pit who was too insidious; if he were just a bit more cautious, he wouldn’t have been tricked at all.
So he decided to climb back and continue the challenge.
But just as he took a step, he triggered another chanism, and a large pendulum swung towards him.
Although he couldn’t use spells, his body technique was still there, and Chen Jiu dodged by dropping to the ground.
He laid on the ground for a while, seeing no abnormalities, he carefully got up.
However, the pendulum seed to be waiting for him, as it swung back and hit the back of Chen Jiu’s head.
The force was just right, stunning but not harming his brain.
Chen Jiu staggered from the hit, face down on the ground, and the chanisms on both sides of the stone wall activated, projecting two large red characters above Chen Jiu’s head.
Die.
Noob.
Chen Jiu flipped over and saw those two words.
He understood the word "die," but what did "noob" an?
"Does it an at the banquet, I only deserve to eat one dish?"
He couldn’t figure it out, but this ti he dared not move at all.
"Gold custor service Fuji at your service. Dear guest, the trial ends here, please orderly exit the underground city."
A dium-sized Fuji erged from the ground, reading from a small piece of paper.
"No more chanisms?" Chen Jiu dared not get up.
"None, I’ve turned them all off." Fuji replied.
Only then did Chen Jiu rub his head and sit up, but at this point, he was sowhat reluctant to leave. He was intrigued by this underground city and wanted to see what the next levels were like.
Looking at the young girl in front of him, Chen Jiu began scheming.
Chen Jiu thought that this girl nad Fuji looked easily deceived.
"Well, just now didn’t count." Chen Jiu said, acting all self-righteous.
"Those spikes of yours couldn’t even break my protective divine skill.
If you don’t believe , let try again.
I’m not convinced."
People in Jianghu are not only bold, but also very cunning.
However, Fuji just tilted her head looking at Chen Jiu for a while, "You’re not convinced?"
Chen Jiu nodded.
Then Fuji released her Half-Step Nascent Soul Great Demon aura.
"How about now?" Fuji asked.
The chilling aura hit Chen Jiu, making him feel like he fell into an ice cave. He rubbed the goosebumps on his arms, awkwardly smiling and nodding.
"Convinced, convinced."
Fuji was very happy, "Brother indeed said it correctly."
[So-called custor service is to ask if the guest is convinced, if not, keep asking until they are.
——Zhang Ze.]
Having failed in his ruse, Chen Jiu sighed, following behind the gold custor service Fuji towards the exit, feeling quite unsettled in his heart.
He had just been boasting outside, even about stepping on the array.
Now, let alone stamping on the array, he didn’t even see what kicked him.
"How should I explain this when I get out, sigh."
Just when he reached the teleportation array, Fuji suddenly rembered sothing.
"I almost forgot, here’s this for you."
Fuji took out a card wrapped in yellow paper and handed it to Chen Jiu.
Upon opening it, Chen Jiu saw the card was golden, with a vortex-like pattern on the back, inscribed with the words "Thousand chanism Pavilion" on the bottom right corner and "Heaven-Blasting Gang production" on the top left corner.
The front of the card featured an image, depicting a short, despicable evil creature, with a dark green spirit pearl mark on the top left corner, and a poison symbol next to it.
The little creature had a distorted face with its nose not like a nose and its eyes not like eyes.
Its entire body was dark green, with thick liquid dripping from its mouth and nose, and black ragged cloth wrapped haphazardly around it.
"What is this?" Chen Jiu asked.
"That’s what hit you earlier, use your divine sense to connect, there are instructions." Fuji replied.
Chen Jiu tried connecting with his divine sense to the card and found that indeed a stream of information flowed into his mind.
[One-Star · Poison]
[Corpse Demon]
[Corpse Vein Yin Qi-Born Innate Evil]
[Fear light, avoid Yang, infinite strength...]
Not just a simple introduction, the small card contained knowledge about how to counteract the Corpse Demon, and thods of detoxification after being attacked by a Corpse Demon...
"This thing for ?" Chen Jiu was a bit incredulous.
For disciples of the Sword Sect, they’ve slain many evil creatures like the Corpse Demon, and the Library Pavilion had detailed records about them, for whoever wanted to see it themselves in the books was fine.
But for loose cultivators like Chen Jiu and the others, such information was extrely valuable.
Especially information on how to counter the Corpse Demon, and how to detoxify from its poison—if sold to those venturing into the Corpse Nurturing Land to treasure hunt...
"Are there more of these cards?" Chen Jiu asked.
"Yes, but I can’t give them to you, because you, dear guest... are too noob.
So you only get this one-star card."
Chen Jiu seed to understand what that "noob" word ant, suddenly feeling a bit of a blow to his self-esteem.
However, he also picked up so other information from Fuji’s words.
If he goes far enough within the underground city, he could obtain more cards, even those of more advanced evil creatures.
The information on these cards could be sold for money...
"Miss Fuji, please quickly take out." Chen Jiu suddenly said.
"Okay."
Leaving the underground city, Chen Jiu turned back and saw his na appear on the Divine Sword Stele, only the exploration progress marked after the na looked quite irkso.
Ignoring the ridicule from several familiar loose cultivators around him, Chen Jiu chuckled coldly in his heart.
"Once you go inside, you’ll know, one step in and you won’t make a sound."
Chen Jiu first went to the big poplar tree 500 ters east of the mountain gate and paid to reserve the next underground city trial.
He didn’t book it for tomorrow, but for seven days later.
Chen Jiu then borrowed a pen and paper from the registrar and wrote down all the information he got from the card just now.
Then he quickly headed towards the marketplace, finding the person he was looking for in a shop selling thousand chanism tools.
"Brother Li, I heard you’re going to a Corpse Nurturing Land for treasure hunting?"
The loose cultivator nad Li Hai imdiately beca wary, "What do you want?"
"What could I want? You know my character, Chen Jiu. We’ve been brothers for many years. I’m here to talk business."
Chen Jiu pulled Li Hai into a corner of the shop, whispered, "I have information about the Corpse Demon. Do you want it?"
Li Hai frowned, "How much spirit stone?"
Chen Jiu gestured a number to Li Hai, and then the two started a whispered negotiation. Finally, the information was sold at a price that was a huge profit for Chen Jiu.
When Li Hai left, Chen Jiu patted the spirit stones safely tucked in his pocket, feeling satisfied.
Grateful that he was among the first few.
After all, that thing was too insidious; most people, upon reaching that point for the first ti, would likely take a hit.
And those kicked into the ditch should all receive such a card.
Soon, Corpse Demon information would no longer be valuable, at least not in Thousand chanism City.
This business of duping a brother by cornering a white wolf can only be done once, so he had to make the most of it.
With money in hand, Chen Jiu planned a bit and decided to spend so here first.
Then imdiately go to Yangguan Road west mountains through the teleportation array to hunt a few demon beasts, to hone his strength, and prepare for the next ti he entered the underground city.
"Boss, give a set of wilderness survival gear."
"Fellow Daoist, which version do you want?"
"The deluxe version! Today, this master got money!"
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