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The strange and powerful monster was destroyed in an instant. Hank, the young man next to Wang Zhifan, widened his eyes in shock and stared in a daze at the place where the monster disappeared on the lake.

Wang Zhifan took the golden crown that Bingshou had retrieved in his hand and looked at the explanatory text that appeared on it.

【The Shining Crown of the Ancient King (Excellence)】

[This is a priceless ancient crown, made of extremely rare star gold. It is not only strong and lightweight, but also always emits a luxurious glow that makes people addicted. It is a rare treasure in the world.

In addition to its monetary value, it is said to have other uses, and the royal family of a certain country has been looking for it. 】

"It's an excellent item, but there's no clear functional attribute marked on it. What's going on?"

Holding the glowing golden crown in his hand and looking left and right, Wang Zhifan felt a little confused at the moment.

He had seen many items of excellent grade or even higher grade, but this was the first time he had seen something like this in his hand that had almost no practical use except for glowing and selling for money. Perhaps the key to the value of this crown was that the royal family of a certain country was looking for it as written in the introduction of the crown.

Without much hesitation, he handed the thing to the young boy Hank standing next to him, indicating that he could give it to him.

Hank took it with trembling hands, his face full of disbelief, and looked up at him and said:
"Give me this? It looks too expensive..."

"It's called the Shining Crown. It's really valuable. Moreover, a royal family of a certain country is looking for it. If you sell it to the royal family, the money for your brother and sister's medical treatment will definitely be enough."

Wang Zhifan then explained to Hank that this thing could solve his dilemma.

"Are you... rushing me to leave?"

After hearing this, Hank held the glowing crown in both hands, looking a little embarrassed.

"Why? You have achieved your goal. If you go back early, can't you raise money for your brother and sister's medical treatment?"

Wang Zhifan did not hide his intentions. He really felt that it would be difficult to perform well with a little kid around him.

"But... the portal back won't open until tomorrow at the earliest, so there's no point in me going back so soon."

Hank responded immediately.

"That's something you need to consider. It has nothing to do with me! If you insist on following me, I can't guarantee your safety later!"

Seeing that he failed to chase the man away, Wang Zhifan spoke seriously to let the indigenous boy know the seriousness of the situation.

You can't blame him for turning his back on you. It's just that being a babysitter for a stranger who has no fighting ability is not a very pleasant experience.

"Please don't worry! I can take care of myself! I've wanted to explore this place since I was a kid. There's no way I can go back so soon!"

After hearing this, the boy still insisted on following him, looking a little stubborn.

"It's up to you... your greed may very well get you hurt."

Wang Zhifan left the last sentence and turned to walk towards the deep passage that appeared around the underground lake.

He didn't walk very fast, but he was still not as fast as the boy. Especially after entering the passage, the boy slowed down his pace due to fear and was soon left behind by him.

After he easily crossed the more than 20-meter-wide deep pit in the passage, the boy could only stay where he was and could not continue to follow.

"As expected, the further you go, the more difficult it becomes. People who are not agile enough or cannot fly simply cannot reach the back."

Walking forward alone, he suddenly felt much more relaxed physically and mentally. Wang Zhifan crossed the deep pit and soon came out of the passage and came to a not very wide stone chamber. There was nothing else in the stone chamber except a tall statue of a two-horned monster.

He fixed his eyes on the statue and found that it was indeed made of some kind of stone. It was not a monster in disguise, but there was some other illusory thing attached to the stone.

Sure enough, the next second, he heard a low, bewitching voice in his ear:
"Worship Purgatory..."

"Entering Purgatory..."

"Becoming Purgatory..."

These sounds kept repeating themselves, lingering in his ears like the buzzing of a mosquito, as if they were trying to exert some profound spiritual influence on him, but unfortunately, after listening for a few seconds he only felt it was noisy.

So he immediately drew his sword, ready to kill this stone statue that could only speak nonsense with one blow.

However, a dramatic scene occurred. Just after he drew his sword, the stone wall on one side of the stone chamber automatically opened upwards, revealing a larger palace.

In the palace, two rows of figures can be seen standing in an orderly manner on both sides, with an empty throne in the middle.

Wang Zhifan observed and stepped into the group. The two figures suddenly turned their heads to look at him. The scene was quite scary.

It can be seen that these figures are different from the zombies seen before. They are more like a group of "living people" without any signs of corruption on their bodies. Their appearance and adventurer profession can be easily distinguished, except that their expressions are fanatical and ferocious, as if they have all fallen into madness.

"Worship Purgatory! Enter Purgatory! Become Purgatory!"

The many figures lined up in two rows then shouted loudly at Wang Zhifan who was walking in, with hatred and anger in their eyes, as if some of Wang Zhifan's actions made them very dissatisfied.

"You're so weird... Do you think I'll join you?"

Wang Zhifan immediately showed disdain, seeing through the intentions of these guys, and then slashed them with a ruthless knife!

In an instant, the crescent-shaped blade light that was more than ten meters wide pierced through the two rows of fanatical fallen adventurers in front, destroying them all like a whirlwind, until it reached half a meter in front of the throne, and the remaining power dissipated rapidly.

His strike was so fast and powerful that it made these fallen adventurers seem like mere decorations.

In fact, any experienced professional here can see that all the fallen professionals maintain their peak combat effectiveness and can launch a violent and orderly group offensive against intruders.

Wang Zhifan then walked towards the throne that blocked the aftermath of his sword light and confirmed that this thing was the so-called reward, and the quality was not low. [Purgatory Throne (Epic)]

[Purgatory King: Sitting on this throne, you can summon up to a million Purgatory troops. Targets killed by your Purgatory troops will automatically be resurrected and join the army.]

[King's Majesty: You can only control the Purgatory Army when you sit on the throne, otherwise the Purgatory Army will fall into a state of disorder and chaos.]

[The King will not fall easily: Before your army is annihilated, as long as you sit on the throne, you can automatically resist damage, and the damage you suffer will be shared by the entire army. ]

"A chair that can summon an army of millions? The target you kill will automatically join the army? If you sit on the chair, you won't die until the army kills you? Wouldn't you be invincible with this thing?"

After reading the introduction of the throne, Wang Zhifan couldn't help but sigh that he had encountered a tough guy. Just by looking at the description, you can know how powerful it is. An army of millions is no joke.

"But there seems to be a hidden danger... Can this army be disbanded after being summoned? Only by sitting on the throne can one control the army. Doesn't that mean that once you sit on it, you dare not come down?"

After a little thought, he found that this throne had many problems. It didn't seem to be used to help the owner conquer the world, but more like to find a commander for the Purgatory Army and promote it.

"It doesn't matter. Just use it carefully. Take it first."

Without much hesitation, Wang Zhifan picked up the throne and transferred it into the space ring.

He then walked to a side door of the palace and went to the next treasure storage location.

In this way, relying on his own strong comprehensive strength, he swept through the maze at an astonishing speed, eliminated the remaining monsters, and seized all the treasures they were guarding.

During this period, he obtained many excellent items, but never encountered any epic items again, until he reached the deepest part of the maze and came to a huge burning blue fire.

The fire is five meters high and eight meters in diameter, but you won't feel hot when you get close to it. Instead, it's a little cold, which is consistent with its dark blue hue.

In the center of the blue flames, you can see a beautiful girl kneeling in front of a gorgeous long sword stuck in the ground, silently praying with her eyes closed.

The girl has long, brilliant golden hair, snow-white skin, an impeccable and delicate face, and broad white wings on her back. Her image is exactly the same as that of an angel in the legend.

The most important thing is that it is easy to see that she is alive and in perfect peak condition, and she exudes a very powerful aura.

As Wang Zhifan approached, this angel-like being slowly opened its eyes, revealing a pair of silver pupils without any emotion.

However, what surprised Wang Zhifan was that the owner of the lifeless silver eyes not only did not launch an attack, but also told him to go back and leave.

"Turn back, adventurer! There is no treasure you desire here! A pointless fight will only add another cold corpse here!"

Wang Zhifan listened silently, his eyes swept across the cold blue flames, and the angel who slowly stood up in the flames, and asked in confusion:
"If there is no treasure, why are you here for others to challenge? And the cold corpse you mentioned, why don't I see any trace of it?"

His question caused the air around them to stagnate for a moment, and then the angel in the blue fire drew out the gorgeous long sword in front of him and responded:
"Whether you believe it or not, there is indeed no treasure... As for the body, since you are the first person to arrive here in two hundred years, I haven't had time to make one yet."

After the angel in the blue fire finished speaking, he raised the gorgeous sword in his hand and pointed it at Wang Zhifan who was not far in front of him. The warning was extremely obvious.

Facing this BOSS, whom he could communicate with for the first time since entering the maze, Wang Zhifan's fighting spirit was aroused.

He could feel that the opponent was very powerful, much stronger than all the targets he had defeated in this maze combined, and there was nothing around that looked like a reward, but he just wanted to give it a try.

"Thank you for your reminder...but I think we must have a fight today!"

After saying that, he also drew his sword, and burst out with all his strength to violently collide with the sword-wielding angel!
Boom!

A terrifying shock wave was generated at the center of the confrontation between the two, sweeping madly towards the surrounding darkness.

For the first time, Wang Zhifan discovered that the weapon hit by his Qingdi Sword did not break. The long sword withstood the powerful attack of the Qingdi Sword. The power of the angel bathed in blue fire was also extremely great. It did not lose the upper hand in the fight with him, and even had a tendency to counterattack.

"What a strong opponent...his basic attributes are terrifyingly high...let's see how good his fighting skills are!"

He was not surprised but delighted to have met his worthy opponent. He used the exquisite sword skills of the Great Dream Sword Sutra and the superb body skills of the Wind and Thunder Treading the Sky Sutra to engage in a fierce battle with the angel in front of him. The fighting figures of the two appeared in more than a hundred positions almost in an instant, and ordinary people could not even watch.

This fighting enthusiasm was because he hadn't met a decent opponent for a long time. For a long time in the past, the enemies he encountered had only two outcomes: being killed instantly or crushed by him. The situation of equal strength rarely occurred.

If the guardian in the Dead Soul Land dungeon did not have the protection of the underworld, it would be impossible to fight him for so long, and he could not be considered a qualified opponent in the true sense.

But the angel-like existence in front of him was different. She actually kept up with Wang Zhifan's attack rhythm. Her strength, speed and skills were impeccable. In addition, the long sword in her hand was not much inferior to the Qingdi Sword in grade, which was enough to put substantial pressure on Wang Zhifan.

Facing a strong enemy, Wang Zhifan became more and more courageous. At the beginning, he only competed with the opponent in basic abilities. The two sides fought with swords. The powerful and simple attacks formed a terrifying shock wave, which gradually changed the surrounding terrain.

Later, he gradually used his own unique skills, and he used sword skills such as Dreams Transform the World and Life is Like a Dream one after another, and his clones filled the opponent's field of vision throughout the whole process.

The angel was a little slow at this stage, perhaps because he was not familiar with this kind of attack method, and was brought into Wang Zhifan's advantageous range.

However, she quickly found a way to deal with it. She burst out with all her strength and split the dream world with a sword. The dark blue flames cleared all the clones. She even held the sword horizontally and chanted great power to fight against Wang Zhifan with her special skills, causing the entire maze to shake violently.

The two sides fought for two full hours before the result suddenly came to an end, because the angel who had fought so hard accepted defeat and she didn't want to fight any more.

"Human, our fight is meaningless. I admit that I have lost. Please stop."

At this moment, the dark blue flames around the angel had shrunk a lot compared to the initial size. It could only cover her entire body and could no longer extend to the surrounding area. Perhaps this change was an important reason that prompted her to admit defeat.

"You haven't lost yet, it can only be considered a draw at the moment."

Wang Zhifan heard the order to pause the offensive. His endurance was extremely strong and his current state was not much different from the beginning of the battle.

"But if you really want to end the battle, you must confess something, such as where the real reward is, who you are, and why you are here."

Wang Zhifan felt that this angel was full of strangeness. He was obviously a high-level being with excellent equipment, but he was imprisoned in this deserted underground. There must be a profound reason behind it. (End of this chapter)