Chapter 1178 Nails and Giant Snakes, 7th Insect, Short Film

The deep passage does not look like a natural cave.

The traces left on the rock wall make people feel as if it had been carved out by something big, or had been "rammed through".

Legend has it that there is a giant snake lurking in the depths of the rocky abyss, and this place seems to be the passage through which the snake came out.

Or rather, it was not "as if" at all. Ying mentioned that she and Paimon did encounter a giant mechanical snake here.

Jiang Yi looked up at the rock wall and came back to his senses when he heard Zhiqiong's question.

"I guess so..." he answered vaguely.

"Wow! I actually guessed it." Zhiqiong was very happy. "Before, Senior Ying warned me again and again not to come to this 'Giant Pillar Rock Palace'. I actually sneaked in... The long passage that is specially sealed with a gate always attracts the curiosity of adventurers."

"Ha! I knew you wouldn't listen." Paimon couldn't help but say when he heard Zhiqiong revealing his secret, "That little fragment before made you look like you were having a last gasp, and you actually dared to come and see this bigger fragment later?"

"That was before! Now, I don't have that uncomfortable feeling anymore." Zhi Qiong chuckled, "Before, I was contaminated by the black mud, which is why I had such a big reaction to the crystal. I felt like my whole body was purified by the blazing light."

Walking out of the passage, you will see an extremely huge, vast and towering space.

A huge crystal pillar as blue as the sky is suspended in the sky.

Surrounding it, small blue energies in the shape of cubes formed something as dazzling as a star ring. Dazzling blue light emanated from the crystal, like cold and frosty moonlight, spreading over the surrounding protruding rock pillars.

The rock pillars crisscrossed like bridges connecting the earth and the rock wall at one end, with only half of them left standing in the air.

The shape of the rock pillar is the same as that in the previous "Rugged Stone Hall". It is composed of many huge cubic rocks, which is extremely strange.

The earth is full of cracks and the rock layers are tilted, forming a complex and dangerous terrain.

"Looking at this incredible thing again, I still find it hard to comprehend the miraculous sight before my eyes." Zhi Qiong raised his head, "This is definitely not a creation of the earth. It can only come from the sky, which is as dazzling as it is."

This creation allowed the original crystals of Lumen Stone to spread throughout the earth veins, allowing Lumen Stone to be found throughout the underground of the Layered Abyss.

Its mystery deeply attracted Zhiqiong.

She was satisfied after drawing the map to the place where the legendary Yaksha disappeared, but she still had the urge to continue exploring deeper through the hidden passages.

"There is no trace of Yaksha here, but there may be larger tunnels and broken spaces deeper inside..." Zhiqiong looked at the darkness that the crystal could not illuminate.

"You don't want to go?" Paimon asked alertly.

"It's very dangerous down there..." Ying reminded, "You should remember what you just said."

Zhi Qiong scratched his head and went against his own heart with great difficulty: "I will do as His Highness Jiang Yi said and make full preparations. When I am stronger and more experienced, I will explore again..."

"The rear is not a forbidden area that mortals can record with courage." Jiang Yi stopped him, "You will need a long, long time to prepare... Dangerous roads like this should actually be sealed."

"..." Zhiqiong opened her eyes wide. If Jiang Yi sealed it forcibly, she would not be able to pinch Jiang Yi's thigh at all.

"That's right! Zhiqiong, you should improve yourself first." Paimeng crossed his arms, "Jiang Yi will go ahead and explore the front."

"Today, I have no intention of exploring deeper." Jiang Yi shook his head and walked to the side.

There is a stone tablet erected here. The material of the stone tablet is slightly newer than the ruins themselves. Judging from the traces, it was erected in recent years.

There are ancient inscriptions on it, engraved maps of the surrounding areas, and some complex patterns drawn on it.

The pattern depicts the space in front of you, the floating crystals, and the surrounding mechanisms.

"These scribbled patterns are different from those inscriptions. They should have come from the surviving Fatui. When they retreated, they left records in the hope that those who came after them could continue their experiments." Jiang Yi analyzed the experimental logs left behind by the Fatui.

The last time I came here, the scene in this space was not like this.

The floating crystal was suspended in the cave sky with a purple-black background, entangled with numerous dark auras visible to the naked eye. The dark auras encircled the crystal like snakes, turning into sticky darkness on the crystal, almost covering up the dazzling blue light it emitted.

The ground, rock walls, and rock pillars were covered with purple-black mud and bulges, as well as purple-black crystals and monsters from the Abyss Cult.

The energy veins formed by the mechanism of the five purple crystals polluted and suppressed the crystals.

Ying and Paimon followed the instructions on the stone tablet, purified the black mud, defeated the monsters, and used the energy of the lumen stone to charge the mechanism, replacing the original abyss energy veins.

After a huge external impact, the crystal released a powerful force, accelerating the purification and removing the sticky and ominous black spots on it.

It also attracted a giant mechanical snake.

Jiang Yi looked at the warning on the stone tablet and turned around. Purple things like tree branches and corals were growing in the cracks of the rocks, as if proving that this place may have been a marine environment in the past.

The crystal shines brightly, but it doesn’t actually give people a sense of security.

In Paimeng's words, it was similar to the big guy seen on the Dragon Ridge Snow Mountain, with a similar "smell" or "atmosphere". The entire crystal was quite weird.

This thing, like the abyss, is actually not something that is easy to get along with.

"A creation from the sky..." Jiang Yi was bathed in the light of the crystal stone and could feel a burning sensation. It seemed that the other party had reacted to the black Yinglong in his body.

Compared to the "Frost Nail" on the Dragon Ridge Snow Mountain, which has almost no energy, the "nail" here has surging energy and is more intact.

"That mechanical snake was wrapped in a dark force, just like the purple-black mud. When it attacked us, the black mud that fell off its body polluted a large area of ​​the earth." Ying recalled, "It looks like that mechanical snake is very related to Kanreya, and the mechanical style is the same. And, strangely, my attacks were not very effective, and it was difficult to hurt it."

The tail of the mechanical snake is a drill that can drill through the earth. Its body is made up of circles of mechanical gears, each section has a golden energy core, and its head is also a huge gear engraved with ominous and mysterious runes. It can use its "teeth" to dig at the mountain walls.

As its body rotates, a vortex of mud and rocks is formed, absorbing the ominous energy of the earth to restore itself, and sending down many golden chaos energy balls and abyss energy to attack, and defending with abyss black mud... It is very difficult to deal with.

It may be a digging machine from its appearance and movement, but it also has strong combat capabilities. With its huge size and steel-like hard and immortal body, it can cause great damage to people.

Plus, there was the horrible black mud flowing down from the giant mechanical snake.

Adventurers without the Eye of God cannot activate the purification power of the "Lumen Stone" catalyst, and they may be polluted like Zhiqiong.

Even if you escape, your life will be in danger.

"The Seventh Heir Worm...The Ruins Serpent." Jiang Yi thought about the name of the giant mechanical snake. Some of its parts were on his own Du Lin, and they came from the sponsorship of the abyss.

The giant snake here should also be reawakened by the Abyss Cult. Moreover, there is more than one.

"Legend has it that in the deep black cracks of the earth lurk huge vipers, who forever harbor hatred and malice towards the world above. With unknown sinister purposes, they dig vast tunnels and quietly move in the shadows of the mines, opening a path to the known world for unknown evil omens deep underground."

His eyes turned to the messy spaces on the ground. Those spaces were dug out by the giant snake.

Deeper...

The rolling black mud and the monsters that came out of the black mud and corroded the crystal together, although they retreated and shrunk back into the ground at this moment, they will eventually come back.

This crystal that falls from the sky will also be contaminated again.

"That day, someone helped us shoot down the Frost Sky Nail..." Ying thought for a moment and called the crystal stone by a familiar name, "and the Frost Sky Nail suppressed the Mechanical Snake. After the Frost Sky Nail fell to the ground, it caused a huge vibration and dots of blue light, causing it to rise again and float in the air, as if it had consciousness."

"At that time, the cave seemed to be collapsing, so Paimon and I left first, but we didn't see whether the giant mechanical snake went underground again."

Zhi Qiong said, "It turns out that the legends that the miners told about the giant snake or insect below were true. At that time, I felt several earthquakes outside. It was Senior Ying who was fighting, and the reason why this thing fell down!"

She was a little envious of Paimon. There were so many mysteries here, but she was destined to not be able to find the answers easily.

What a pity for adventurers.

"It's actually still very dangerous here. I thought the mining area would be reopened very late, but I didn't expect Qixing to resume mining on the surface the day after we reported it." Ying was puzzled.

"Because we need to build a new city! Liyue's booming business cannot be separated from the nourishment of the Sparse Glass Crystal Sand for too long. If we want to build a new city in Guiliyuan as soon as possible, the amount of Mora, stone, wood, etc. needed will be simply incalculable." Zhiqiong guessed a little.

"Yeah! Almost!" Jiang Yi nodded.

Selling jade slips and floating boats is very profitable, but the money is used to support scientific research, not to build houses. Qixing can only find ways in other aspects to get the money and materials to build a new city.

The people of Liyue like wooden buildings, and the amount of wood required is huge, so they are worried about it now.

The holders of the Grass Elemental God's Eye, alchemists, and alchemists were dispatched to research the "Quick Growth Potion" to quickly grow trees that can be used to build houses.

Another option is to add more stone buildings and reduce the use of wood.

There is also the purchase of logs from other countries.

It all costs money.

Jiang Yi supported it a little, and now he is considered a half-real estate tycoon.

After looking at the crystals, Jiang Yi quietly set up a barrier around them. In the next two days, he had to persuade the exploration team to go to the ground to rest, and also bring the surviving Fatui and others around with him.

To avoid the situation where he comes down and enters a deeper space with Xiao, something unexpected might happen and affect the people nearby.

"Zhi Qiong..." Jiang Yi looked at this stubborn adventurer, "Let me show you another short film!"

"Huh?" Zhiqiong was surprised and confused.

"God has never been disappointed in mortals, and the chosen ones of God's grace have never looked down on you." Jiang Yi took out a jade slip. "This is the first promotional video produced to demonstrate the function of the jade slip at the second Liyue Technical Exchange Conference that will begin tomorrow."

Because he went to shoot this short film with Keqing, he didn't go to the Layer Rock with Ying.

"Look! Civilization is made up of you!" He handed out the jade slip.

After entering this space and hearing Zhiqiong's words, he knew that Zhiqiong still had a sense of unwillingness and was still eager to prove that she was a mortal... just like the fantasy and fear she saw in the black mud.

Fear of God’s disappointment.

"This is proof of human efforts and existence..." Jiang Yi watched Zhi Qiong open the jade slip.

The short film in the jade slip was projected onto the stone wall.

The protagonist inside...

They are the herbalists who suspend themselves on cliffs thousands of feet high to work, the miners who treat the danger of earthquakes and landslides as their daily routine, the workers who hammer every nail into the giant ships several stories high... all the busy people.

"I don't know the selection criteria for the Eye of God, but I want to tell you..."

"At least in my opinion, there is no difference in the wishes and dignity of different people..."

Jiang Yi put his hands behind his back and said, "The earth, the forest, the water, the breeze... remember your efforts, remember everything you have done, and future generations will also remember, remember our ancestors."

And... me!

“You were not born to prove anything to God, to prove any courage or any achievement, but just… to be alive is great.”

“The dust of the times is the mountain of individuals. Countless individuals ignite the fire of civilization and build the mountain of civilization.”

"You work hard every day with ordinary courage, and you make small efforts to avoid being forgotten... every bit of your courage and mood will be witnessed by time."

"The meaning of humanity and the meaning of your efforts do not need to be given by others. They already exist."

"You are not outside the sight of the gods, born by chance, filtering out the remnants of the chosen ones."

“The dreams and small wishes that we keep carefully are the brightest stars.”

God!

Always afraid of your dreams, your desires.

This earthly world, this eternal world, is your world.

In Jiang Yi's mind, all living beings are flowing, and the brilliant humanity is reflected on the wheel of Taixu Realm. You are the protagonists of the human world among the three realms of heaven, earth and man. Why bother to prove anything to the gods?

Go purely and take risks with only your own desires!

Zhiqiong.

And...you in the world.

……

He turned around, leaving Zhiqiong staring at the jade slip with tears in her eyes.