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Chapter 1195 - Chapter 1195 Chapter 1197 Secret Passage_1

Chapter 1195: Chapter 1197: Secret Passage_1 Chapter 1195: Chapter 1197: Secret Passage_1 “Did you get the hidden quest?” Song Jian turned his head to look at Xin Ling, who was standing tall, observing the entire Demon God Stone Statue. Hearing Song Jian’s question, her brows slightly furrowed, and she shook her head.

Song Jian pointed at the stone tablet and said, “Try looking at this tablet for a while, maybe you can get a hidden quest.”

Most quests are shareable, but many special quests require a trigger point, such as the one Song Jian had received, which could only be triggered after fully understanding the content of the stone tablet.

A hesitant look appeared on Xin Ling’s face. She had just stared at it for a short while and already felt discomfort. If it was for a longer period, she feared her mind might be harmed.

“But, but I can’t understand the text on it either!” Xin Ling’s face showed an embarrassed expression.

“Look, I will relay it to you, maybe you can still get this quest!” Song Jian laughed, sensing that this was the quest to find the Forgotten Temple.

“Well, well, okay then!” Hesitating, Xin Ling squinted her eyes towards the stone tablet, while Song Jian began to translate the content of the stone tablet word by word.

Although most of the text on the stone tablet was damaged, some characters were still recognizable.

Just as Song Jian had translated a couple of sentences, Xin Ling’s face suddenly changed drastically, and she spat out a mouthful of blood. She staggered as if struck by lightning and collapsed onto the ground.

Song Jian was shocked and hastily stopped translating, rushing forward to help Xin Ling up. Upon further examination, Xin Ling’s Vitality Points had dropped by a third, and inexplicably, her status bar showed a negative effect called “Abyss Whisper,” losing 3 Vitality Points per second, 5 Spirit Points per second, with a 50% reduction in resistance, lasting for 60 minutes!

If it had been an ordinary player encountering such a negative effect, they probably could only wait for death, since dropping to zero Spirit Points meant fainting, but if Vitality Points hit zero, one could truly die.

Song Jian administered the regenerative force of the Azure Dragon Sword Body on Xin Ling, removing the negative effect, then watched as Xin Ling’s Vitality Points rapidly started to recover.

Once Xin Ling’s Vitality Points were fully restored, she slowly regained consciousness. Checking her information bar, her face changed dramatically. If not for Song Jian’s help, she might have actually died in her unconscious state.

Looking at the stone tablet, a hint of fear appeared on Xin Ling’s face.

“So, did you get the quest?” Song Jian couldn’t help asking.

Xin Ling glanced at her quest log and shook her head with a sense of disappointment.

Song Jian, feeling helpless, slowly helped Xin Ling to her feet and said, “Why don’t you rest here for a while, and I’ll complete the quest?”

After speaking, Song Jian shared the quest details with Xin Ling.

Seeing that the quest was a hidden one with cumulative forced rewards, a tinge of envy flashed in Xin Ling’s eyes. Such quests are hard to come by, and although dangerous, completing it could bring about a revolutionary change for a player.

“I’d better stay with you!” Xin Ling glanced around, feeling a bit timid. After all, she had just arrived at a new place surrounded by continuously collapsing spatial fragments, which was rather unnerving to face alone.

“All right, then let’s search this statue together and see if there are any secret passages or the like!” Song Jian nodded and said.

Knowing the content of the hidden quest, Xin Ling was aware that the key to the first ring of finding the Forgotten Temple was on this statue. She nodded, activated her flight ability, and flew towards the top of the statue.

Song Jian watched, smiled faintly, and began searching from the base of the statue.

After searching back and forth two or three times, the two of them did not find any secret passages around the stone statue and, disappointed, flew back to the front of the altar.

“Song Jian, what should we do, there aren’t any secret passages or anything like that?” Xin Ling said with tightly furrowed brows.

“Let’s rest for a while, and search again tomorrow!” Song Jian shook his head and said.

Although it was just a small semi-dimensional plane, there was still a clear distinction between day and night. It was just that there was no sun during the day, nor were there moon and stars at night, only a difference between light and darkness.

At night, Song Jian lay quietly in his tent, but the image of the enormous demon statue loomed constantly in his mind.

“Since the mission says to find the path to the previous temples from within the stone statue, then the key must definitely be with this statue!” Song Jian thought to himself.

After thinking for a long time, an image suddenly emerged in Song Jian’s mind, of the Demon God Stone Statue with three heads and eight arms. By concealing the statue’s body and leaving only the three heads and eight arms, isn’t this just like a formation with the Three Talents of heaven, earth, and man at its core, supported by the Eight Trigrams?

Moreover, the core area of this formation is the third eye in the middle of the head that represents the Heavenly Pivot!

With this thought, Song Jian immediately sat up excitedly. If his guess was right, the entrance to the secret passage should be located at the third stone eye of the left head of the Demon God Stone Statue.

The next day, as soon as dawn was breaking, Song Jian couldn’t wait to crawl out of his tent and flew toward the third eye of the left head of the Demon God Stone Statue.

Xin Ling woke up groggily to the commotion, rubbed her eyes, and also crawled out of the tent, watching Song Jian closely inspecting something next to the head of the demon statue.

“What’s up, did you find something?” Xin Ling flew to Song Jian’s side and asked.

“If I’m not wrong, the secret passage should be here!” Song Jian said, pointing at the vertical eye at the center of the statue’s forehead.

This vertical eye was more than two meters long and looked no different from the third eyes on the two other heads. Song Jian examined it closely for a while but did not detect anything unusual.

“It seems like there’s nothing unusual here?” Xin Ling said, unable to help slapping it twice with a look of confusion.

Song Jian suddenly raised an eyebrow, drew out his Sky-breaking Sword, and fiercely stabbed towards the stone eye.

The Sky-breaking Sword easily pierced through the third eye of the statue. As the Sword Qi surged, there came a “boom” as the entire third eye of the stone statue exploded, revealing a deep passage behind it.

“A secret passage, there’s actually a passage here?” Xin Ling’s face showed a look of surprise, and after gazing at the secret passage, she turned to Song Jian with amazement and asked, “How did you find out there was a passage behind it?”

“Hahaha, it’s all thanks to you knocking on it a couple of times!” Song Jian laughed heartily: “Otherwise, I wouldn’t have been able to hear that there was a hollow space behind it!”

It turned out Song Jian was right, the entire statue and the mountain behind it were one piece. Only here was a thin layer of stone shell. Not to mention using the Sky-breaking Sword, even an ordinary person with a hammer could easily break it open.

“I’ll go ahead, and you follow me. Don’t run around everywhere, be careful of danger!” Song Jian said cautioningly, before going straight into the entrance of the passage.

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PS: I’ll write two chapters for now, and I’ll try to write one more before ten to make up for yesterday!

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