Chapter 353 - 156: Instance Unlocked, Ancient Tomb Training
Rustle, rustle.
Deep in the Great Snow Mountain.
Surrounding them was a vast expanse of whiteness, mountains stacked upon mountains in the distance.
Having crossed the teleportation array, the pioneering blacksmith, Food God, stared at the environment, stunned for a moment: "The developers really are getting cheaper."
"What do you mean?" Shao Chaikun also crossed through the teleportation array.
Food God said, "This tomb's environment is the same as last time, all just snowy mountains, probably just changed the textures, the environment hasn't changed at all."
Shao Chaikun was taken aback.
Wasn't the tomb environment always deep in the mountains?
Now everything's covered in snow, they kind of all look the same!
But if Food God insists on analyzing the production budget like that, it seems there's no problem.
"If I had money, I'd set my tomb in water, inside a volcano, in the mud, in the sky—just to mix it up a bit."
"Afraid all these texture-type tomb bosses are repeats?"
Ning Zheng watched them complain from the [observer perspective], speechlessly.
Isn't the Three Elements Realm tomb always like this?
Your expectations are quite high.
Thinking they'd build it inside a volcano or underwater for a unique tomb-raiding experience?
Look at that, is that even reasonable?
"Stop arguing and hurry up with the adventure."
Several little blacksmiths appeared at the tomb entrance and quietly entered the tomb.
This tomb has been stolen from by the Shi Family.
The Shi Family claim to have taken all the valuable things inside.
But when everyone looked:
Is this it?
Floor tiles, railings, walls, palaces, tall buildings, everything was there.
Only most of the valuable and beautiful maidservants and handsome manservants were gone, and all the precious treasures have vanished.
Just the remaining crooked and cracked manservants and maidservants.
"Oh my, is this appearance discrimination? I'm too ugly to be stolen?"
"The Shi Family is really double standard."
"They don't have professional skills, didn't even pry up the floor tiles."
"Stop with the snark, can we pry them up?"
"Seems not, doesn't it?" Food God paused, "Considering we can't play as the construction team anymore and openly pry up floor tiles."
Shao Chaikun said, "Exactly, once we start fighting with the tomb owner, these floor tiles and spirit plants will shatter."
Ning Zheng was silently watching, thinking: "With no air wall on the map, it's quite a hassle, now that they're outside the manor, they might run off at any time."
"Maybe I should set one up."
As Ning Zheng thought of this, he unknowingly stepped before the fate gambling table in his mind, putting forward his requirements.
Soon a message popped up:
[Spiritual Great Yang Seal, mentally set locks, subconsciously remind oneself of being unable to leave the area, 50,000 Qi Fortune Value]
[Body Chaos Lock: Physical setting lock, attempt to leave the area causes convulsions and cramps, 30,000 Qi Fortune Value]
...
Ning Zheng looked over them all, they were demon path methods, some sort of spirit secret technique.
The ways of controlling people in this world are still plenty.
But this convulsions and cramps?
That's a bit too obvious.
Ning Zheng thought for a while and spent 50,000 Qi Fortune on a [Spiritual Great Yang Seal], after all, it was only five days at 10,000 Qi Fortune per day.
Just at the moment Ning Zheng clicked on it.
...
In a distant tomb.
A cultivator had a lock and a seal laid out before him.
"Is this the tomb of an elder from the notorious Yuren Sect, an ancient sect?"
"Control the spirit, control the body..."
This filled him with joy.
His Dharma Aspect had infiltrated several times, tomb raiding, finally hidden his identity, slipping into the ultimate treasure trove.
"Bold!"
A voice suddenly came from behind him.
The tomb owner had discovered him.
"I have to fight my way out." The cultivator quickly rolled up two treasures and began to act swiftly.
Boom!
Due to the tomb's extremely unstable space, space turbulence erupted, during combat, one of the seals suddenly fell into the space turbulence.
"My seal!" The battling cultivator was instantly furious.
How am I so unlucky? Does this space turbulence have a grudge against me?
Recently, the turbulence had just snatched away a bell magical artifact, and now it took a battle prize.
...
Sword Casting Manor.
In a room down the mountain, a huge space tremor suddenly emerged, a seal abruptly dropped out.
"Truly fortunate, sitting at home, magical treasures fall from the sky."
Ning Zheng looked over it.
It was a magical artifact of entry-level Two-Phase Realm, capable of controlling a Three Elements Realm cultivator, setting spiritual imprints.
Though it could only control the Three Elements Realm, this magical artifact was quite strong.
Great cultivators in some city clans are basically all Three Elements Realm...
This Two-Phase Realm demon path cultivator had previously used this method to secretly control many family clans in various cities, causing a tremendous disaster.
"Good stuff."
Ning Zheng thought for a moment and merged it with Ai's server body.
Ning Zheng quickly noticed he could set an [Air Wall] for the little blacksmiths.
He thought about it and put a ring around the manor, also set the action range within the tomb for the blacksmiths from the [observer perspective].
He was immediately pleased with the effect.
With this thing, he wouldn't have to worry about those blacksmiths messing around.
When Ning Zheng returned to his senses.
He found Food God and Shao Chaikun had already been discovered and promptly destroyed by the tomb owner.
After all, a tomb that's been stolen from once makes its owner even more sensitive.
"Guess we can only charge in."
"I knew it, all ten dungeons are boss fight dungeons, gotta go hard."
"Kill!"
...
A giant Embers traversed through the teleportation array, descending upon the opposite tomb.
"The opposite has Fire Series Spiritual Root!"
Yan Shuangying with bow and arrow in hand, got into the groove after a few shots and started crazily attacking the opponent, poisoning them with mental toxins, continuously weakening them.
The essence of archery lies in prediction and control, each arrow's landing point should restrict the opponent's actions.
Now their goal is to prevent the opponent from fighting desperately and destroying the spirit plants behind them.
Otherwise, even after killing the tomb owner, they would still gain nothing but trouble.
The tomb owner would still revive after a while.
Whoosh!
Whoosh!
Arrow after arrow shooting out, with crazy movements.
"It's not working, even though I'm firing arrows, he's still trying to destroy the spirit plants." Yan Shuangying shouted.
"You're not that good."
A nearby combat expert player shouted, "You're moving poorly, use your body to block in front of the spirit plants, take damage madly, getting hurt is no big deal, Manor Master Embers dying is trivial, plants dying is the real issue."
"Let me control the giant's movements, I'll go take the hits." The combat expert shouted, "Watch me dodge, I'll eat damage specifically."
They launched into their first cooperation in their lives.
They seemed to be enjoying it.
But in the end, no spirit plants were left in this tomb raid, the tomb owner was almost utterly defeated.
"No plant loot left."
"Woo woo woo! My floor tiles are gone, everything's gone!"
The blacksmiths used to smooth sailing were now crying faces everywhere,
"This game is absurdly ridiculous, the boss has such high intelligence to destroy dungeon loot?"
Ning Zheng only chuckled upon hearing this, finding it quite normal.
In battle, nobody's a fool, how could someone leave loot behind when they're about to die?
They would definitely destroy their own storage bags, various treasures, magical artifacts.
The kind of trope where loot, martial arts secret manuals, are left behind for the protagonist, only exists in those fictional novel stories.
"That's why the Shi Family didn't bother to act, tomb raiding is stealing, not robbing, robbing would ruin the loot."
"But thankfully, at its core, it's military training."
"After some practice, their skills might improve enough to prevent the opponent from destroying the spirit plant area... if not, it's no big deal, since it's hard to obtain anyway."
Ning Zheng thought it actually was quite alright.