The "giant" had been dead for a long time, but still stood in the depths of this sea of blood. The skin of her corpse was covered with mold spots and even showed countless rotten areas. Mythical worms as wide and long as city streets were drilling and gnawing inside her body.
There was a "tumor" on one side of its neck, which was extremely scarlet.
However, this "tumor" is actually a fruit made of flesh and blood, with clusters of roses growing around it. Vines covered with barbed thorns are entangled around the "giant" like shackles or parasites.
And that strange light emanates from this fruit!
Chen Lun stood in the distance. Although he blocked his sense of smell, he suddenly found that he could actually "smell" the breath of knowledge! The strange fragrance emanating from the fruit contained extremely strong pollution and was mixed with extraordinary knowledge of the flesh and blood path!
Through the constant prompts from the panel, he knew that his sanity value was decreasing rapidly.
And the extraordinary knowledge of the flesh and blood faction was also constantly instilled into his mind!
Sequence 9-Butcher, Sequence 8-Gourmet, Sequence 7-Ghoul, Sequence 6-Vampire, and Sequence 5-Bone Man... all of them are under his control!
Then more profound mythological knowledge followed.
Chen Lun felt a dull pain in his brain, as if the knowledge he could handle had almost reached its limit. But this time, he decided to grit his teeth and hold on for a while longer, trying to get more.
At the same time, the pollution source ahead also experienced unusual movements!
Those fat and huge worms seemed to have discovered Chen Lun's existence. They crawled out of the "giant" corpse, jumped into the sea of blood, and swam towards him rapidly.
Crash...
The worms broke out of the water, like dark brown stone pillars covered with ring-shaped patterns, and smashed down on Chen Lun's head amidst the upheavals. This terrifying sense of déjà vu was like standing in front of a high-rise building with hundreds of floors, and this towering building was immediately falling towards you!
Peng!
Boom boom boom!
There was an earth-shaking noise in the sea of blood.
Countless blood waves were tens or hundreds of meters high, and the heavy beating even forced Chen Lun to block his hearing to avoid being disturbed by the loud noise.
In order to avoid these terrifying worms, he had to use teleportation several times in a row to create enough distance... After all, these worms were too big! Any one of them was comparable to the "corrupted body" that had been besieged by Ginsberg and other archons before!
Dong Dong Dong!
Chen Lun kept shuttling back and forth in this space, dodging with difficulty the attacks that covered the sky and the sun.
His body was inevitably covered in blood and he looked miserable.
'Hold on a little longer...'
Chen Lun gritted his teeth, endured the increasing pain in his head, and paid full attention to the worms flapping towards him from all directions.
Two minutes passed again.
He finally felt that the high-level knowledge in his mind had been successfully collected.
So Chen Lun no longer hesitated, and immediately communicated with the wooden house in the initial area and teleported away directly.
boom!
The magnificent and terrifying sea of blood that looked like a mirage, the giant corpses parasitized by flesh and blood fruits and rose flowers, and those huge and terrifying worms disappeared one after another. In their place, there was a quiet and peaceful interior layout of the wooden house.
Chen Lun let out a long sigh, then collapsed directly onto the wooden bed, his chest and abdomen heaving violently.
Sweat soaked his clothes, but he didn't care. With trembling hands, he took out two enhanced versions of "Spirit Tranquility Agent" and "Thirst Agent" and drank them down in one gulp.
It took more than ten minutes to recover.
Chen Lun sat up with difficulty and began to sort out his gains.
'Just like the upside-down tree and the cocoon on the mountain of corpses before, I got all the extraordinary knowledge in the corresponding sequence of the flesh and blood path from the blood sea giant...'
A smile appeared on his pale face.
'And, unlike the previous two times, I obtained a complete set of mythological knowledge! Sequence 4 - Sin Eater, this is the sequence Rafa is in! '
This is also the only complete high-level knowledge he has mastered so far.
Then, Chen Lun checked the expenses of this trip.
During this period, players were busy participating in the Scarlet Campaign and rarely entered the Wonderland to play dungeons, so the efficiency of harvesting Sanity points dropped significantly... The Sanity points reserve, which had just risen to 9000+, dropped directly to around 6000.
"But it's all worth it. After all, I have never mastered the flesh and blood knowledge of Sequence 6, 5, and the high-ranking Sequence 4..."
He seemed to have thought of something again and sighed.
'It's a pity that the secondary occupation recorder cannot copy knowledge above the middle sequence. Otherwise, I could use this to copy the precious extraordinary knowledge in my mind and exchange it for more resources to improve myself.'
In his previous life, Chen Lun was at a too low level and had never seen more advanced secondary occupations.
But he knew that there was definitely a force in this world that could replicate the extraordinary knowledge above the middle sequence... Otherwise, the knowledge inheritance of those major forces and the few advanced books circulating outside would not exist.
'When the speaker comes back, find a chance to ask her...'
Chen Lun thought.
Next, he left the fairyland and took a short rest in the real world.
That night, he entered again.
This time, he started from the top of the ivory tower on the easternmost side of the Crystal Mountains and explored in depth from east to west.
Black barren rocks can be seen everywhere, and mountain peaks stand one after another.
Along the way, he encountered all kinds of withered creatures, some in animal form, some in human form, and even worse, with strange shapes that were difficult to identify. The powers they possessed were also very different and no two were alike.
These are the differences in each mountain area.
At the same time, it also confirmed Chen Lun's initial guess... On the top of each mountain, there is the soul of a magician from a school, and these statues are their creations.
The difference between schools begins from Sequence 6 - Mystic Mage. The "secret methods" of each school are different and each has its own system... As far as Chen Lun knows, most of the extraordinary people in the magic faction inherit the skills in the form of master and apprentice. Of course, there are also academies similar to the Madman School or the Byron Kingdom.
But one thing they all have in common is that no matter which school or force they belong to, they will treasure their own "secrets" and not easily pass them on to others. When they reach Sequence Five - Carver, this distinction becomes even more obvious.
Among them, the magicians of the School of Everything sculpted mostly animals, plants, and insects that existed in nature, while the magicians of the School of Madmen created some "things that do not exist in the world" entirely based on their imagination.
Fantastic and weird.
If you don't understand the intelligence, you will most likely suffer a great loss when you confront the magician of the Madman School for the first time.
As for the idol school that Carmen belongs to, it is mainly based on people. The sculptures of this school are often based on a high-ranking person in a mysterious field, such as a saint, an angel, or even a god! Then they borrow their images to gain some power.
By fighting with the ghosts of magicians from different schools, Chen Lun gained a deeper understanding of the ways of magic.
Eight or nine hours passed like this.
Chen Lun has explored all six hills.
Although there were only two wooden houses found, and the extraordinary knowledge left by Philip was also the remnants of a "useless" juggler, he still continued to go deeper without getting tired of it.
After all, if you want to upgrade the juggler to the maximum level, you still need a huge amount of experience points... The fraud incarnation is leading a team to hunt down the Red Apple Church, and his original body cannot slack off either.
This was a good opportunity to kill the dead magicians and gain tens of thousands of experience points. Although not much, it was a steady accumulation.
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A week passed like this.
Apart from daily meals and rest, Chen Lun spent all his time in the Crystal Mountain area of the Fairyland.
He had visited almost all the hills, destroyed statues, and killed countless magicians. Although he was very tired, he had gained a lot.
First of all, there are experience points, totaling more than 125W. Secondly, there are more than thirty pieces of "wisdom dust", a supernatural material left behind by the magician's soul. As for the "azurite" obtained from the withered creatures, there is also a pile of it.
Chen Lun has now entered the deepest part of the Crystal Mountains from the central area, and found that it is a canyon-like structure... The ground not far ahead is cracked, bottomless, dark and deep, and he can feel a terrifying breath coming from it.
The source of the spiritual intuition's warnings seems to come from the abyss beneath this mountain range!
'The crazy god of murals, Clarenso, is likely living in the abyss of the Crystal Mountains... Perhaps the most valuable place in this area is also here.'
Chen Lun frowned and looked at the entrance. After thinking for a while, he finally gave up the idea of going in.
'Now is not the time. Facing the Mad God directly is too risky. The gains do not outweigh the losses... And the 1.0 version is about to end. By then, all players will log off the line for the version update. The source of the sanity reserve of the Maggie Statue will be gone. I can't squander it as recklessly as before... I have to use it sparingly.'
He turned his gaze to look further away. Above the abyss, there was a broken, floating path that seemed to have been artificially excavated. It extended all the way to the top of the mountain. He just didn't know what the scene would be like on the other side after crossing this last ridge.
Chen Lun thought about it, first found a black rock nearby to sit on, then spent all the experience points on the panel, reached level 6, and after using up the attribute points, the four-dimensional attributes reached a unified 165 points. Then he took off into the air and flew along the path to the highest point of the mountain.
whoosh!
The tiny figure soared up along the steep rock wall and path at an extremely fast speed. It took him nearly a minute to reach the top...
Standing on the top of the mountain, it was surprisingly quiet and there was not even a breeze to be felt.
It was quiet all around.
Chen Lun looked towards the other end, and his expression changed drastically.
"What... is that?!"
He couldn't help but murmur.
Behind the Crystal Mountains, there was a vast expanse of nothingness, dark and deep, even twinkling with stars... It was as if the earth no longer existed, replaced by a stage similar to the universe, without any spatial concepts such as up and down, left and right, front and back, and depth.
At the farthest point within sight, there seemed to be an endless ancient "high wall" stretching straight to the sky, like a curtain in the starry sky, blocking the "truth" at the end of the world, making it impossible for Chen Lun to know what was outside the high wall.
Chen Lun stood there hesitating, wondering secretly in his mind.
'Perhaps... when Philip was exploring the dream world, she only went here. Those empty areas and areas outside the high walls were areas she had not touched... As a result, the replica of the wonderland lacked these areas, just like an air area in the game without specific modeling and textures.'
Although he was curious about what was ahead, he would not try it rashly.
Because his spiritual intuition told him that this would most likely lead to horrific and unknown consequences.
"Let's stop here for now... I have basically been to all the explorable areas in Fairyland, except for the abyss under the Crystal Mountains."
Chen Lun thought.
'Perhaps the next area connected to the abyss is the end of the wonderland mentioned by Philip, the dark world where Arnold is... But the mythological knowledge of Destiny Sequence 4 still has no trace.'
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Another half month passed.
The incarnation of fraud finally brought good news.
The remaining nine war zones in Baoshi State and Yan State have all been declared conquered!
At the same time, the faceless waiter also delivered the latest information.
With Chen Lun's advantage as a prophet and the help of providing important intelligence to the official, in addition to the two state cities under the charge of the Kang Kai Council, the other four state cities attacked by the official shelter, the Church of the Sun and the Church of the Moon also achieved remarkable results.
Three base fortresses and seventeen node fortresses were all destroyed!
Although the remaining five node fortresses could not be removed due to various accidents, they also lost their functions... The "Scarlet Festival", a high-standard ceremony that the Red Apple Church had originally secretly arranged, was destroyed to pieces.
They might even be very confused as to whether there was a traitor in the church or whether the empire had used some secret divination method to predict their plans.
In short, the Red Apple Church suffered a crushing defeat this time.
Countless clergy died in the battle, including six of the ten core archbishops of the Scarlet Monastery, and the remaining four were more or less injured and hid... As for the current Pope Louisa, she was besieged by five saints: two imperial judges, Pope Difni of the Church of the Sun, Pope Viola of the Church of the Moon, and Azgiero, the chairman of the Council of Conkai.
If it weren't for the powerful self-preservation ability of Sequence 3-Fallen Grand Duke, Louisa would have probably died long ago... In the end, she also risked losing half of her life, using the S-level weird item-Rose Bible to scare five people, and escaped with serious injuries.
None of the five besieging saints wanted to be dragged into this, and even being seriously injured was not worth it... They knew very well that if Louisa really wanted to die, she would most likely take one of them with her.
This battle was so fierce that the sky was dark and the earth was shattered. From the shallow level to the second level of the spirit world, and even the dark world, there was a strong storm and turmoil...
But this major event finally ended with the defeat of the Red Apple Church.
Countless clergy followed the higher-ups and escaped through the pre-arranged spiritual channel, directly crossing the Anlong United Kingdom in the west and heading to the Beelzebub Kingdom in the far west.
Chen Lun listened to the faceless waiter's report in silence.
In the original world line, the unrest caused by the Red Apple Church lasted until the end of the solar calendar year 4420... But now, at the beginning of February, the unrest has been quelled.
He intervened heavily in this, first pushing the Murder Club to take a seat in the Orthodox Church, adding a powerful force to the Bloody Campaign, and then relying on the prophet's intelligence to minimize the role of the Fortress of Abomination, and directly revealed the secret of the Red Apple Church's "Scarlet Festival" ceremony, completely disrupting the other party's arrangements.
Even the guardian of one of the three most important base fortresses, Rafa, the original boss at the end of version 1.0, was lured out by his design and killed by Speaker Azgiello himself, which affected the overall situation and accelerated the defeat of the Red Apple Church.
At this point, all the fate lines were disrupted and manipulated by Chen Lun personally through unconventional means, ending the main storyline of this version more than half a year ahead of schedule.
'The next step is to complete the third round of the main quest... After that, the version will be updated and all players will log off.'
Chen Lun thought.
"But before that, I'll take their wallets and their minds. Who knows how long it will take for the version update to last in this world... If it takes several years, my life will be very difficult."