Reincarnation Paradise: The Crucible.

Chapter 469 Cooperation
The turbulent thoughts gradually calmed down. Information was just information after all. What was more important now was how to escape from the Qiongqi Cave which was blocked by the formation.

Xu Yue didn't know much about formations, but according to Cang Chi, he once spent nearly half a year running in the same direction. However, even after running tens of thousands of meters, there were still endless underground tunnels in front of him, densely packed and endless.

This is very abnormal. No matter how huge a cave is, it can never be exaggerated to this extent. Therefore, the formation in the cave can either confuse perception or control space. But no matter which possibility it is, it is obviously not something that can be easily broken, otherwise almost no one would have escaped for hundreds of years.

Xu Yue in the cave withdrew his hand that was pressed against the rock wall and frowned slightly. He had just pushed his vibration perception to the limit, but still could not reach the boundary of this cave.

However, even though conventional means were ineffective, he was not completely without confidence in escaping. If he was really pushed to the limit, an Apollo would be dropped. In the face of the Sun's Wrath with a killing range of up to two kilometers, the entire cave would collapse in an instant and turn into a sea of ​​red magma.

As long as the main body of the cave is destroyed, any formation will be useless.

Of course, this was only a backup measure to be taken when necessary. He only had two Apollos in his hand. If he used them simply to escape from trouble, it would be a bit too wasteful. Moreover, he was also quite interested in Qiongqi, one of the four evil beasts.

Thinking of the two powerful weapons in the space, Xu Yue's brows relaxed slightly, and then his attention was focused on the two trophies he had just obtained.

One of them is a metal wolf claw as long as a forearm. It is crescent-shaped, white all over, and tough in texture. The edge of the blade is extremely sharp and cold. It is one of the ten front claws of the gray wolf.

【Wolverine Claw】

Quality: purple

Type: Forged Material

Rating: 149
Introduction: After being tempered with a large amount of gold elements, the toughened wolf claws naturally have extremely strong sharpness and toughness, and are excellent forging materials.

Price: 20000 Paradise Coins

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Apart from the intelligence, the wolf was a treasure trove, thanks to its spirit-controlling ability called 'Hard Claws'. Its claws and fangs were all made of extremely high-quality forging materials, especially its ten front claws, which were only a step away from breaking through to dark purple. Otherwise, it would not have been possible to leave those white marks on its metal body.

With this part of the profit alone, after returning to paradise, he can use it as material to easily forge at least a dozen purple or even dark purple weapons and equipment, as well as dozens of wolf-tooth arrows, which is a huge profit.

He bent his fingers and tapped the crescent wolf claw in his hand. A clear and penetrating sound suddenly rang in his ears. With a curl of his lips, Xu Yue turned his hand and retracted the wolf claw into space. Then he glanced sideways at the other prize in his hand, an exquisite brooch that seemed to be made of gold.

【plunder】

Origin: X-Men, Apocalypse

Quality: light gold
Category: Brooch (extremely rare)
Durability: 60/65
Equipment requirements: Intelligence 50 points

Equipment effect: Plunder (passive). When the target is in a dying state, the brooch can be inserted into the target's heart, thereby forcibly plundering one of the opponent's abilities and converting it into the brooch's equipment effect.

Tip: Each time you launch a plunder, the special abilities gained from the previous plunder will be replaced.

Tip: Ability that is too strong may cause the brooch to be unable to withstand it, resulting in a permanent decrease in durability.

Plunder effect: Differentiation (passive), for every 10 to 50 mana points consumed, a wolf clone can be summoned that inherits 15% to 20% of the holder's attributes. The wolf has the instincts of a beast and can be completely controlled by the holder, and there is no limit on the number.

Tip: The existence time of the Gray Wolf is determined by the mana consumption, and it can exist for up to 3 hours.

Tip: Consume corresponding mana to share the wolf's senses and directly manipulate them.

Rating: 294 (Note: Light gold items are rated from 260 to 310.)
Introduction: Desire is endless, and I am above it, go ahead and plunder, all things are prey to the weak.

Price: 105000 Paradise Coins
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"Can I still only summon the Gray Wolf? But the Gray Wolf's attribute inheritance effect has been greatly improved. It is indeed an equipment close to the full score of Pale Gold."

Looking at the newly added equipment effect on the Plunder Brooch, Xu Yue's eyes revealed satisfaction. This was the first time he used this brooch after opening it from the treasure chest of Apocalypse, and the effect of using it was quite in line with expectations, and even exceeded them.

The "hard claws" ability of Cang Chi has little effect on him, but the "differentiation" of the living creature system is completely worth starting with. Although the frontal combat power of this summoned wolf clone is average, it is very useful in restraining harassment, hunting and vigilance, especially in the current complex cave environment.

After checking the effect introduction, Xu Yue's palm holding the brooch glowed with a faint red light, and hundreds of mana points poured directly into the brooch. Then several rays of golden light flew out from the brooch, and then six giant blue wolves appeared in the cave.

The two leading horses were particularly huge. When standing upright, their shoulder height was almost the same as his. In addition, there was a special golden-red pattern between their eyebrows, which extremely resembled a burning pure yang flame and looked extremely majestic.

"what?!"

His eyes fell on the flame pattern on the giant wolf's forehead, and Xu Yue let out a light exclamation. If he guessed correctly, these two giant wolves that cost 50 points of mana to summon might have inherited some of his talents.

"Try to spit fire."

After he finished speaking, the two leading giant wolves did not hesitate at all. They opened their wolf kisses and spit out two golden-red fireballs one after another. The moment they landed on the ground, flames splashed and heat waves surged. Then, two large charred pits several meters deep appeared in the corners of the cave.

"That's right. Wolf One and Wolf Two will be responsible for guarding outside the cave, and the rest will split into four directions to explore outside."

He casually gave the wolves in front of him a name, and when the order was given, he heard a burst of intensive running sounds, and the six wolves in the cave all ran out of the cave in an orderly and quick manner, and soon disappeared completely.

Although the intelligence level of the gray wolves summoned by the brooch is not too outstanding, they can still complete routine commands such as fighting, guarding, and exploring independently. Moreover, when necessary, he can also share the various senses of these gray wolves through the brooch, and even remotely control them like puppets.

Therefore, as long as he sends these Cang Wolves out, even without leaving his house, he can easily collect a lot of specific information about the current situation of the Qiongqi Cave. This ability is also the important reason why Cang Chi has been able to survive safely for three years in this cave with scarce resources but the law of the jungle.

The running sounds echoing in his ears gradually faded away. Xu Yue slowly withdrew his gaze, first setting the plunder brooch to equipment hidden mode, and then as the silver liquid surged, a suspended magic mirror condensed and took shape in front of him.

At the same time, with the infusion of mana, ripples began to appear on the surface of the magic mirror, and soon the image of Ah Fu appeared on the mirror. Behind him was a rock cave that was almost the same size, and even a pile of bloody corpses could be vaguely seen at the edge.

"master!"

"Ah."

After responding lightly, Xu Yue's eyes swept across the extremely familiar cave environment behind Ah Fu. It seemed that although the two of them landed in different places, they were both within the scope of the Qiongqi Cave.

On the other side, Ah Fu also discovered this fact. Although he had not been here for long, after the active explanation of several "enthusiastic natives", he had a better understanding of the degree of trouble in this cave. "Master, are you also in the Qiongqi Cave?"

"Well, is Manta on your side?"

Hearing this, Ah Fu, who was sitting on the other side of the magic mirror, was slightly startled, then shook his head decisively.

Generally speaking, when teleporting to a derivative world, it would be defaulted that the contractor and his servants, familiars and other creatures would land in the same or nearby location, and this was the first time he encountered a situation where they were separated.

But let's just separate. With Wen Yao's extraordinary fortune as a beast, she won't encounter any fatal crisis. Maybe she will gain something else after separating from them.

Moreover, even if something really happened to Wen Yu during this period, as long as the Jiuli Battle Flag in his body was still there, it would only take some time for Wen Yu to be resurrected. At most, he would only lose a gem body, so the impact would not be too great.

Thinking of this, Xu Yue suddenly coughed dryly, and glanced calmly at the dark cave environment around him. He suddenly felt that the reason why Wen Yu was not teleported to the same place as them was probably because the overly strong auspicious beast luck on the other party did not allow it to descend into the current dangerous and desperate situation.

"Well, don't worry about the manta ray for now. It won't be in any danger if anything happens to us. Have you explored the surroundings?"

"Well, I have sent out ten puppets to conduct a thorough search of the surrounding area, but so far, apart from finding some humans and monsters with a particularly strong desire to kill, no clues about the exit have been found. Do you need to gather, sir?"

"No, this cave is huge. Let's explore separately. Pay attention to the fairies in the cave. If you have a chance, capture a few more. I'm very interested in their existence. As for the others, contact me if you find any clues or encounter some powerful enemies that you can't deal with."

"Yes, sir."

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Although they could easily reunite through the magic mirror, Xu Yue decisively rejected this option. In his perception, the cave was almost endless. Instead of joining forces together, it would be better to explore separately for the time being. Anyway, both sides had the magic mirror as a connection. As long as there was something to gain, they could connect with each other at any time.

A few minutes later, after briefly exchanging the information they had collected about the cave, Xu Yue retracted the magic mirror floating in front of him into his body, and then glanced sideways at the deep cave entrance not far away. According to the feedback sent back by Canglang, there should be an uninvited guest approaching the cave where he was quickly.

"Following the traces of battle? I hope it's a genuine goblin."

Suddenly, a black shadow flashed in the cave, and Xu Yue's figure disappeared without a trace, leaving only a few whistling sounds of wind in his place.

On the other side, when Xu Yue disconnected the connection, Afu on the other side of the magic mirror also began to explore the outside world.

In a cave of similar shape and size, Ah Fu first put the magic mirror in his hand properly, then raised his hand and the Psylocke standing with a knife in the corner of the cave turned into a small puppet and flew into his hand.

When it comes to combat power, this mutant who is expected to become one of the Four Horsemen of the Apocalypse is undoubtedly the best among all the puppets in his hands, so the other puppets can be sent out to explore on their own, but this one must be kept close to his body.

More than ten minutes later, the puppets returned one after another from the cave entrance. After making sure that all the puppets were retrieved, with the surge of mana in his body, Ah Fu's figure shook, and then his whole body fell straight into the hard rock under his feet like a phantom, until he completely disappeared.

This is not some kind of ninjutsu like earth escape, but a mutant ability exactly the same as that of Phantom Cat Katie. As long as he is conscious, he can transform himself into unique atomic components by consuming mana or physical strength, thereby passing through all obstacles.

And it's not just matter, even invisible attacks such as energy and lasers cannot reach targets in an atomic state. Even in the movie, after developing her abilities to a certain level, Kitty the Phantom Cat can even travel through concepts such as time through her mind and use it to reverse everything.

Of course, whenever the concept of time is involved, the consumption of ability will be extremely exaggerated. At least Ah Fu, who has just obtained this ability, is far from reaching such an exaggerated level.

After the end of the last world, one of the main quest rewards Xu Yue received was an 'X Gene Loader' that could grant others some alpha-level or higher abilities. This potion was eventually used on Ah Fu, and he successfully awakened this top-level X gene that could save his life.

Although in terms of combat power enhancement, "time travel" is definitely not as good as top abilities such as Magneto, Quicksilver, and Storm, but it perfectly fits the positioning of a summoning assistant. Just leave the combat to the puppet. All he needs is to save his life, the ultimate life-saving ability that allows him to calmly ignore all attacks even when he is right in front of the enemy.

And this is precisely the main reason why Xu Yue felt at ease to explore separately with Ah Fu. When it comes to saving his life, Ah Fu is far better than him now. As long as they fall underground, they will be in an absolutely safe state.

Under the cave, Ah Fu, who had activated his "crossing" ability, felt that the surrounding rock formations seemed to have turned into some kind of invisible "water waves". As long as he wanted, he could dive or float freely without any obstacles throughout the process.

The only limitation is that when in the atomic state, even oxygen will pass directly through his body, so he is completely unable to breathe in this state. This is the main reason why Phantom Cat Katie cannot maintain this state for a long time.

But it just so happens that creatures like the puppet have a very low dependence on oxygen. As long as the internal organs are turned into wood, it can continue to travel without stopping.

Since it is impossible to reach the boundary of the cave by conventional means, he will try to walk underground. He doesn't believe that the range of the formation can be exaggerated to cover a depth of hundreds of meters underground.

Ten meters, thirty meters, fifty meters, one hundred meters, two hundred meters...

It didn't take long before Ah Fu fell hundreds of meters underground. After estimating the amount of mana he had left, he stopped sinking and turned around to run straight to the right.

As long as the range of the formation did not reach a depth of 100 meters underground, he would be able to escape the blockade of the cave and eventually return to the land by moving forward in a straight line. Although this method was time-consuming and labor-intensive, it was totally worth a try.

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In the cave above, when Ah Fu was running wildly deep underground, an unexpected encounter broke out quietly in a corridor not far from where Xu Yue was.

In the quiet and dim corridor, two extremely threatening growls suddenly broke the silence of the corridor, and on the other side of the growls, subtle footsteps were heard, and a figure with long white hair casually scattered was walking slowly out of the darkness.

"Canglang clone? How could that be? The dead dog is clearly dead. Could it be some kind of predatory ability..."

The footsteps stopped, and Fei Lian stopped following the scent. Her charming yellow and green eyes looked at the two handsome giant wolves on the opposite side that almost filled up half of the corridor. There was no fear in her eyes, only a hint of doubt that gradually spread.

As far as she knew, this unique wolf clone could only be performed by the dead dog Cang Chi in this cave, but it should have been turned into charcoal not long ago.

And if it wasn't Cang Chi, then these two Cang wolves could only have been plundered or cloned by the guy who killed Cang Chi using some means.

Thinking of this, Fei Lian became more fearful. He did not continue to move forward, but stepped back slightly, spreading his hands and said:
"Don't get me wrong, I have no hostility. Tell your master behind you that if you want to escape from the cave, maybe we can cooperate..."

Before he could finish his words, the wolf on the opposite side, which was leaning over and growling, suddenly opened its mouth wide, and then two huge golden-red fireballs came roaring towards him.

"Boom! Boom!"

Violent explosions echoed throughout the corridor, mixed with a few sharp curses.

"Damn it, these damn dogs are still so annoying!"

(End of this chapter)