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Chapter 11: Squat Jump
Fang Chang cast a sidelong glance toward the main gate of the ruined temple.
A gentle arrow of qi shot out, blowing away the dust on the plaque and revealing three large, paint-chipped characters: “Yideng Temple.”
Only then did Fang Chang fully confirm his location.
He muttered the name of the chance encounter quest: “《A Lamp Illuminates the Ancient Temple, Broken Walls Conceal the Fading Glow》.”
In the early storyline of Fallen Immortal.
As long as one was within the Hongliu Mountain Range region where he currently stood, there was a certain probability of encountering Dai Bojun, the Little Martial God.
At this time, Dai Bojun had not yet embarked on the path of cultivation.
The task he gave was merely to search together for a lost tiger cub.
And in the process of following the cub’s traces.
By chance, they would arrive at the ruined Yideng Temple, where the cub’s trail happened to lead down into an abandoned well.
Once they entered.
They would officially step into one of the rare high-difficulty dungeons in the early storyline of Fallen Immortal.
The difficulty of this quest was absurdly terrifying.
The level range of the Hongliu Mountain Range was between the First Realm Qi Absorption ~ the Second Realm Spirit Preservation.
But in reality, after going through it once,
one would discover that even if someone exploited the storyline and entered with the strength of the Third Realm Guarding Unity, facing the abbot of Yideng Temple or the final boss would still result in dying five, six, seven, eight times.
And at such a level of difficulty,
the rewards contained within were naturally plentiful.
An extremely practical S-grade secret treasure, and a key tied to another world quest that also rewarded an S-grade secret treasure.
However, in the previous life’s quest, when players cleared it,
Dai Bojun would split the rewards with you, and the player could only choose one.
This chance encounter quest was on Fang Chang’s must-do list.
He had originally planned to attempt it after his strength improved somewhat.
Unexpectedly,
without any player triggering it, Dai Bojun had initiated the dungeon on his own.
From this, it seemed that
after the game Fallen Immortal’s storyline became reality, it had changed somewhat.
Over here.
Cui Wenxi found a torn piece of cloth snagged on the cover of the abandoned well.
“It’s our new junior brother’s clothing.”
Her delicate face immediately turned serious.
Cheng Hua peered down into the well and spoke bluntly:
“The underground cavern of this abandoned well is filled with miasma and is extremely sinister. If that new junior brother has not cultivated, he has likely already met a tragic end.”
Cui Wenxi said, “I must go down and take a look. You two wait above.”
“Senior sister, the sinister aura here is unusual. Do not take risks.”
“I have already advanced to the Fourth Realm Sitting in Forgetfulness. If there is danger, I can still protect myself. Junior sister need not worry.”
She paused.
A trace of bitterness and self-blame appeared on her face. “Besides, I was the one who arranged to meet here. If the new junior brother has lost his life, I bear part of the responsibility.”
“Master said that life has its own destiny. Perhaps it was simply his fate to die.”
Cheng Hua said.
Cui Wenxi shook her head, neither agreeing nor denying.
She took out a crow feather from her bosom and handed it to Fang Chang.
“My junior sister is seriously injured and should not exert herself. If danger arises, activate this, and it will take you away from peril.”
Fang Chang nodded.
Cheng Hua said calmly, “He will protect me well. Senior sister, travel safely.”
“Junior sister, you…”
Cui Wenxi did not know whether to laugh or cry, and leapt down into the abandoned well.
Leaving Fang Chang and Cheng Hua staring at each other above the well.
Once this sunshine-like girl left,
and with the breeze blowing through the dilapidated forest,
the surrounding temperature seemed to drop noticeably.
Fang Chang put away the crow feather and looked helplessly at Cheng Hua.
“‘It was his fate to die’—is that something a human would say? And ‘travel safely’? Is that something you say at a time like this?”
I’m not even your senior sister, and even I couldn’t stand it.
Cheng Hua wore no makeup, yet her face was still as beautiful as if she had stepped out of a painting.
“What’s the problem?”
“Fine, fine, you’re pure and detached. Everything you say is right.”
Wasn’t being blunt also a kind of sharp-tongued cruelty?
Fang Chang walked toward the main gate of Yideng Temple.
Withered trees twisted like iron, encircling the half-collapsed old temple. The doorframe was crooked, and the painted decorations had peeled into gray-white fragments.
Passing through the gate, moss covered the stone steps, and the broken leg of the incense burner was buried in wild grass.
A bird suddenly took flight, and sunlight streamed through a gap in the roof onto the altar, where a wooden Buddha statue had its head sawed off.
“One person goes down the cave, one holds the rope and waits. We should stay at the well entrance and wait.”
Cheng Hua followed behind Fang Chang.
Perhaps from sitting in the carriage too long,
her skirt had gained some creases, folding along the slit and faintly revealing her slender, long legs. Paired with embroidered cloud-pattern high-heeled jade shoes, her legs seemed longer than life itself.
Fang Chang did not reply.
He spread his palm.
A pill the size of a longan suddenly condensed in his palm.
The pill was perfectly round, crimson like blood, yet crystal clear.
Looking closely, it seemed as if waves of blood churned within it. Threads of scarlet veins pulsed like living things, slowly circulating around the pill’s core in an endless cycle.
A faint, sweetly metallic scent quietly spread through the air.
“Blood Gold Pill?”
Cheng Hua immediately understood.
This must have come from the Blood Demon Path old woman who had attacked them two days ago.
Thinking of this, she frowned, even showing a trace of displeasure:
“If you killed her, then you killed her. I don’t care. Why tell lies about mother and son reuniting?”
“I didn’t lie. They did reunite—as mother and son—in the underground.”
Fang Chang sighed and shook his head. “Dead is dead. This furnace blood she condensed over so many years might as well be put to use.”
“You’d better use less of these demonic and deviant methods, lest Canglan Mountain refuse to accept you.”
“If they refuse, then so be it. Traveling the world is quite enjoyable, isn’t it?”
Cheng Hua opened her mouth as if to speak, but stopped.
Feeling somewhat annoyed, she said nothing more.
Fang Chang ignored her.
Behind him, an illusory sea of blood manifested, and with a palm strike of Blood Whale Devouring Tide—
The illusion of collapsing mountains and surging seas instantly blasted the wooden Buddha statue and the entire altar into powder.
Fang Chang’s face flushed as he slowly withdrew his technique.
“What are you doing?” Cheng Hua asked.
Fang Chang did not answer and stepped forward slowly.
He saw that beneath the exploded base, now exposed—
it was not bricks or compacted earth.
But a smooth, artificially polished stone slab fitted seamlessly together.
It was clearly another passage leading underground.
Cheng Hua looked at Fang Chang, surprise in her eyes.
“How did you know…”
The abandoned well entrance of the Yideng Temple dungeon only allowed entry, not exit. It would seal shut after reaching a certain stage, and even after clearing it, it would not reopen.
Beneath this headless Buddha statue was the exit after clearing the dungeon.
Of course,
this exit could not be opened directly; only after defeating the boss inside could the mechanism be triggered.
But the dungeon’s difficulty was simply too high.
At that time, in the early version of Fallen Immortal, most players were at Qi Absorption or Spirit Preservation, and only a handful had reached the Third Realm Guarding Unity.
The method of exploiting storyline bugs had not yet been developed, and Guarding Unity cultivators could not encounter Dai Bojun.
Thus, the first clear of the Yideng Temple dungeon remained unclaimed for a long time.
However,
players’ strong desire and determination to clear it were limitless.
After research by forum experts, a deviant speed-clear method was finally discovered.
It was actually quite simple.
As long as one stood on the gap of the exit, continuously squatted and jumped, while constantly using a skill called 《Cloud Step》 downward—
《Cloud Step》 was a rare dodge-specialized skill.
It allowed the user to transform into mist for an extremely short period, thereby evading attacks.
Very unfortunately,
this skill was also on Fang Chang’s must-do list.
And before meeting Cheng Hua, he had already successfully obtained it.
Fang Chang walked straight to the gap of the exit.
He squatted, then jumped.
Under Cheng Hua’s stunned gaze—
“Cloud Step Cloud Step Cloud Step Cloud Step Cloud Step Cloud Step——”