Baby with Daoist Monarch System

Chapter 298: Chapter 100: Press On Despite Hardship! Encountering the Desert Celestial Calamity?

Although it will take 19 days to obtain [Skilled in Enlightenment], at this stage, understanding might not have much progress, but Xu Ran wasn’t idle, if he couldn’t comprehend it temporarily, he could browse around.

He circled the area nearby, to see if there were any special plants, treasures...

As it turns out.

The treasures in the Catastrophe-level Contamination Zone are indeed more than those in Level One and Level Two Contamination Zones!

Not just a little more, but several times more.

And this was just the outskirts!

The only pity is that each treasure contained pollution, and was so large and heavy that it exceeded Xu Ran’s capacity—some kind of Divine Beast’s Treasure Bone, placed beside the largest Mushroom Tower in the city center, like a trophy, emitting a strange eerie light.

Xu Ran wanted to reach out and pat it to see if he could devour it, but eventually gave up.

He still didn’t know the details of the divine-level creatures in Mushroom City, and hadn’t even noticed their shadows! If he were just to take some treasures, he could act at any time, but his current primary goal was to comprehend the knowledge of the altar.

So then.

Treasures and such, all take a back seat.

Just treat it as scouting!

Xu Ran patrolled around the vicinity of Mushroom City, during which he saw a broken, rusted knife embedded next to a giant mushroom, also a trophy. Symbolizing some kind of honor.

It exuded an ancient and timeless aura, as if it came from the last era.

But what caught Xu Ran’s attention the most was—on the top of the Mushroom Tower in the city center, he saw a gemstone brimming with rich Time Power. The gem was as big as a millstone, dazzling with brilliant colors, and the Time Power was extremely dense.

So much so that after Xu Ran stared at it for a while, it felt as if countless days had passed, even giving him the illusion of wanting to immerse himself in the river of time and become a drop of water in it.

Xu Ran was stunned.

Suddenly awakened.

Looking around, the endless years actually passed in just an instant...

”Truly peculiar...”

”It’s actually a gemstone containing the Power of Time, if brought back, it might greatly aid Zhu Yuheng. It could even be helpful for me.”

”Too bad it’s too big, not easy to carry away.”

Xu Ran thought for a moment.

The gemstone containing Time Power, placed at the top of Mushroom Tower, holds some symbolic meaning; if he wants to carry it away, he must first kill the City Lord of Mushroom City.

Then fight all the way on the road...

Perhaps encountering that 30 million Qi Blood Value death worm, leading to a tough battle.

”Is it feasible?”

Xu Ran seriously pondered.

This adventurous style doesn’t suit Xu Ran, but if he used the Paperman Legion to carry the Time Giant Stone and fought all the way, as long as he didn’t encounter divine-level creatures with a Qi Blood Value above 20 million, Xu Ran could resolve the battle in a very short time.

But this is a Catastrophe-level Contamination Zone.

If the battle attracts several powerful beings to besiege him, what then?

What he’s skilled in now is not going head-to-head.

But winning through wisdom, winning by kiting.

”Think about it some more...”

After thinking for a while, Xu Ran shook his head. He returned to the cave to progress, inscribe talismans, and feed [Instant Annihilation].

Having been out training for 200 days, Instant Annihilation had already consumed a total of 600,000 talismans.

Just a hair away from a million!

This greatly exceeded Xu Ran’s expectations.

Xu Ran originally thought reaching a million would be difficult, who knew that after training for two hundred days, he completed 60%!

With his 2.4 million Qi Blood Value and 500,000 Spiritual Value, if not for needing to reserve 60% of his Spiritual Value to handle special situations, he could exhaust all his spiritual power to create 5,000 talismans a minute!

Of course.

After exhausting, it would take an hour and a half to recover.

In a Catastrophe-level Contamination Zone, he certainly couldn’t exhaust his spiritual power, encountering danger would be disastrous!!!

He just created 1,000 at a time, then slowly recovered, slowly inscribed...

When the daily progress was complete, or when spiritual power dropped below 60%, he would take advantage of leisure time to wander around, gather intelligence, and find the best escape route.

And some of the time, he searched for treasures everywhere.

In short.

Time was passing very fulfillingly.

However.

Not every single moment was spent repeating like this.

During.

Xu Ran also saw Crystal Beasts carrying back 20 Resentful Beast corpses, tossing them onto the altar... without a doubt, in that battle, 20 elite Resentful Beasts suffered a crushing defeat.

Reduced to sacrificial offerings...

And the Crystal Beasts that died or were heavily injured in that battle were also thrown onto the altar...

The altar operated, the bodies vanished silently, the injured Crystal Beasts cried and wailed in it... ultimately unable to withstand the sacrificial power of the altar, being torn into blood mist, the mysterious sacrificial power, chewing on bones.

Grinding bones to mud...

Visibly... the offerings turned into spirit-like blood snakes, slithering through the crevices of the altar, burrowing into its base, as if devoured by a deity.

Xu Ran was astounded: ”Sacrificing live?”

”Kind of interesting, I’ll have to try this style of play in the future.”

Xu Ran found it intriguing, if the Crystal Beasts themselves could play like this, as a rival species of the Crystal Beasts, why should he have a psychological burden in playing it?

Not being ruthless to enemies.

Is being ruthless to oneself.

Besides watching sacrifices.

Mushroom City had other interesting events.

On the tenth day of his arrival in Mushroom City, the deity of the city returned; it was a giant centipede six meters long, drifting beside it were three black pearls the size of basketballs, pearls dazzling, like black suns, incredibly striking.

From the aura and appearance, the giant centipede looked extremely strong. However, its Qi Blood Value was about 15 million points, far from reaching 20 million!