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Chapter 1194 - Chapter 1194 Chapter 1196 Hidden Task_1

Chapter 1194: Chapter 1196 Hidden Task_1 Chapter 1194: Chapter 1196 Hidden Task_1 Many dangerous areas exist within the game world, and players would only dare to try teleportation arrays with unknown destinations when the game first launched. As the game progressed, fewer players took such risks, unless they had life-saving skills like Song Jian did.

Standing before the Transmission Array, Song Jian hesitated for a long time but finally shook his head. He had just completed a legendary quest, and as long as he returned to the Imperial Sword Sect to acquire the legendary skill, the Chaotic Sword Art, his strength would greatly increase. Furthermore, with the ability to cultivate the Snake Vine Grass and obtain a substantial amount of Purple Crystals, passing the third-tier Combat Power assessment would be a simple matter.

Just as Song Jian and Xin Ling were about to give up, the Transmission Array suddenly burst into dazzling light, as if someone had triggered it from the other side, preparing to teleport over.

Song Jian took two steps back cautiously. This was a one-way Transmission Array, how could anyone possibly teleport from the other side?

“Be careful!” Song Jian whispered to Xin Ling, both wearing a guardedly alert expression.

At that moment, Song Jian felt a sense of danger enveloping him, and his face turned pale. Just as he was about to enter the Divine Country, he discovered that the surrounding space seemed to be sealed off all at once, even the air beside him became viscous, making it impossible to even move a finger.

Song Jian and Xin Ling were like two insects trapped in amber, unable to move at all. In a short time, a powerful suction force emanated from within the Transmission Array, drawing both of them in. A flash of white light appeared, and the two vanished, leaving the Transmission Array looking like its previously desolate state.

Song Jian and Xin Ling felt the world spinning around them, and then with a “plop,” they fell into a lake.

“Ah, help me, I can’t swim!” Xin Ling flailed in the water, her expression one of panic.

With a thought, Song Jian rose into the air, standing on a flying sword, and scooped up Xin Ling, “You can’t swim, but can’t you also perform the Sword Flight Art?”

Xin Ling was startled, her face turning crimson with embarrassment. As she fell into the water, she became panicked, completely forgetting she was in the game world, and that with her current strength, she could hold her breath for an hour or two even if submerged.

“I, I forgot…” Xin Ling said sheepishly.

Only when Song Jian and Xin Ling flew into the air did they realize that they were in a semi-dimensional plane on the verge of collapse, one of the smallest they had encountered, roughly just over two thousand square kilometers, similar to a rather large island.

Looking up, they could see the edges of the semi-dimensional plane continuously collapsing, with large chunks of debris falling from the sky, landing on the ground with tremendous roars. The parts that broke away appeared pitch black, like the vast expanse of space.

What was surprising, however, was that the entire semi-dimensional plane still seemed to be protected by a mysterious force. Even as the edges crumbled, no disasters seemed to occur within the plane, the surroundings remaining quiet and peaceful.

“We must find a way to leave this place quickly, or we might very well perish along with this semi-dimensional plane…” Song Jian’s face turned grim.

“Judging by the rate of collapse, the entire semi-dimensional plane will completely disintegrate in two to three months, right?” Xin Ling said in awe, staring blankly at a dark hole in the distance, speaking in a low voice.

“The faster it collapses later on, we’ll likely have no more than a month!” Song Jian glanced at Xin Ling and said, “Luckily, the area isn’t large. A month is more than enough time for us to explore this place several times over!”

“Hey, Song Jian, look across the lake, that’s an enormous demon god statue!” Xin Ling suddenly pointed across the lake and shouted loudly.

Song Jian looked up and saw that across the lake was a mountain peak over a hundred meters high. The side of the mountain facing the lake had been flattened, and a demon god sculpture, almost as tall as the entire mountain and with claws bared, stood towering there.

The demonic stone sculpture had three faces and eight arms, blue faces with sharp fangs, and each head had a single horn. It was clad in a suit of armor that, where not covered, was entirely made up of palm-sized scales.

“Three heads and eight arms, could this be the statue of that deity?” Song Jian’s eyebrows were tightly furrowed.

“Anyway, it doesn’t look like any kind of benevolent god; it looks more like a monster or wild beast of some sort!” Xin Ling curled her lip and said.

“Let’s check out the other side; there seems to be an altar over there…” Song Jian said, pointing across the lake.

The two quickly arrived at the foot of the demonic statue on the opposite shore of the lake, where there was an altar covering an area of about a hundred square meters. The altar seemed to have been deserted for a long time and was overgrown with weeds. Traces of sacrificial rituals could vaguely be seen on its surface.

Next to the altar, there was a stone tablet that was taller than a person. The tablet was severely damaged, and the inscriptions on it were somewhat blurred.

“Abyssal language…” Song Jian thought to himself as he began to recognize it.

“This is a place of worship for a deity from the Ancient Desolate Abyss known as Istanbul Beyazit…” Song Jian translated while wiping the dust off the stone tablet.

“These characters are so strange. After looking at them for a while, I feel dizzy and it’s as if someone is whispering in my ears…” Xin Ling said with a confused expression in her eyes, shaking her head vigorously.

“Don’t look at these characters; they will affect your mind!” Song Jian quickly pulled Xin Ling aside and said seriously, “If you don’t have any skills to resist enchantment, you must never touch the Abyssal language. Otherwise, at best you may suffer damage to your consciousness, and at worst you could fall and become part of the Abyssal Clan…”

In fact, many players who had become part of the Abyssal Clan did so because they had come into contact with Abyssal information, leading to their corruption.

Song Jian had previously been able to resist the corrosion of the Abyssal language and successfully learn it due to his innate skill, “Thick Skin.”

After scrutinizing the tablet for a long time, Song Jian finally finished reading all the text on the stone tablet. The tablet was so badly damaged that much information had been lost, and Song Jian was a bit puzzled about what the text was actually saying.

Just as Song Jian was about to give up and explore other areas to find a way out of this place, he suddenly received a system prompt.

System: You have come into contact with the stone tablet of the Ancient Desolate Abyssal Deity, triggering the hidden quest “Forgotten Temple”;

Song Jian was startled and hurriedly opened the quest log to check for himself.

The “Forgotten Temple” quest actually tasked him with exploring the entire demonic statue, finding the path to the Forgotten Temple. As for the reward, it was not specified in advance, suggesting it was a cumulative reward quest that could potentially be epic.

A hint of joy appeared on Song Jian’s face. Such quests were at least of epic tier and offered rich rewards. Especially those with cumulative rewards could bring rewards beyond imagination in the end.

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PS: Thanks to “E Guo De ” for rewarding 500 starting coins~