Reincarnation Paradise: The Crucible.

Chapter 471 Witch?
In the quiet cave, Fei Lian, who was still unconscious, was casually thrown on the edge of the rock wall. Next to her was a giant blue wolf staring at her throat hungrily. Further away was Xu Yue, who was holding the Eye of Insight in his hand and looking down at the reconnaissance information.

He was quite interested in the unknown peeping ability of this cat demon, and if he guessed correctly, the other party's ability to lock onto the core of the formation should also come from this.

[Comparing the intelligence attributes of both sides..., the comparison is completed, our intelligence is 1.27 times the enemy's intelligence, and we have obtained 96% of the enemy's information]

The information is as follows:

Name: Fei Lian (Humanoid)

Race: Moon Cat

Health: 80%

Mana: 680/1050
Power: 30
Agility: 56
Stamina: 35
Intelligence: 48
Charisma: 50
Skill 1: Spirit Body (Passive LV.22): By gathering spiritual essence, the flesh and blood body of this creature has been greatly strengthened, with health +300, intelligence +10, agility +10, and wind element compatibility +6.

Skill 2: Spirit Control·Wood·Wind Control (Active LV.26): By consuming the corresponding mana, Fei Lian can gather the surrounding wind elements and control them to achieve various effects such as strengthening, attacking, and defending.

Tip: Currently developed moves include 'Wind·Gathering Blades', 'Wind·Light Body', 'Wind·Hundred Disappearances', 'Wind·Condensed Shield', etc., totaling 8 techniques.

Skill 3: Psychic System·Truth (Active LV.23): For each corresponding amount of mana consumed, Fei Lian can develop a unique spiritual perspective and directly observe a more 'real' world.

Tip: From a spiritual perspective, the interference and masking effects brought by illusions, formations, barriers, mimicry, etc. can be greatly reduced, and the essence of a single target can also be deeply observed.

Tip: When you gaze into reality, reality will gaze back at you.

Skill 4: Psychic Cat Charm (Active LV.22): This skill is activated by sight, and a forced charm judgment can be made on the target. If the judgment fails, the skill target will fall into a charmed state for 10 to 60 minutes, and the favorability towards Fei Lian will be directly increased to 70 or above.

Tip: The charm effect is determined by the difference in charm and willpower between the two parties. The cooldown time of this skill is 8 hours.

Skill 5: Demonization (Active): You can return your form to the Moon Cat, and various attributes and skills will change accordingly.

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“Dong Zhen…”

Looking at the large amount of information displayed on the virtual screen, Xu Yue immediately locked onto the psychic ability called "Dongzhen".

Although the description of this ability is quite concise, sometimes the more concise it is, the more powerful its effect will be.

His eyes fell on Fei Lian's tightly closed eyes which were still stained with blood. Xu Yue stroked the plundering brooch in his hand. After pondering for a moment, he finally gave up the tempting option of using the brooch to plunder the opponent's abilities.

The formation was too unfamiliar to him. Even with the 'Dong Zhen', he could not guarantee that he could find the so-called formation core in a short time. In this case, there was no need to increase the risk. After all, leaving the cave as soon as possible to carry out the awakening mission was the most important thing now.

After putting away the brooch and the Eye of Insight, Xu Yue took out a bottle of ordinary white recovery potion from the space and forced it directly to Fei Lian on the surface. After that, he no longer paid attention to her situation, but closed his eyes and began to sense the other four Cang Wolf clones that he had sent out for external exploration.

With the brooch as the medium, the vision of those gray wolves can be shared synchronously with him, so even if he does not leave the house, he can also understand the current situation of the entire cave with extremely high efficiency.

His closed eyelids caused his vision to be dim, but as the plundered brooch began to shine, four completely different special perspectives soon unfolded simultaneously in his mind. And thanks to the multitasking ability brought by the "Split Mind to Preserve the Body", although these perspectives seemed a bit chaotic and bumpy, they were far from being a problem for Xu Yue.

There seemed to be endless corridors and caves, the occasional brutal fights in the dimness, the blood-red beast eyes that would pounce on you fiercely from time to time, the light red mist that kept floating and gathering but quickly dissipated, and the pale bones scattered everywhere and covered with teeth marks...

All kinds of scenes with different contents but equally depressing styles quickly surged in Xu Yue's mind. In just less than thirty minutes, after paying the price of four wolves being hunted down one after another, the image of a bloody and cruel cave was completely and vividly presented before Xu Yue's eyes.

Compared to the information he learned from Cang Chi, the current situation of the cave he observed through Cang Lang's perspective was undoubtedly more real and more cruel. The scale of this Qiongqi Cave was indeed so huge that it seemed to have almost no end, but despite its large scale, its resources were quite scarce.

The closed cave cannot form a complete ecological chain. There is no food here. Even the luminous mosses growing on the rock walls are full of toxins that cannot be removed. As for the water source, it depends entirely on the scarce groundwater that occasionally drips from the top of the cave.

In other words, if you want to survive in this Qiongqi Cave, you must constantly fight with other creatures in the cave. You need to fight for scarce water sources, and as for food, the killed opponents are the best and only food.

In the long run, even without the influence of those evil spirits, any creature that can survive for a long time will have its mental state just a step away from madness.

That's why Cang Chi said that they were both pitiful prisoners and cruel poisonous insects. In some ways, this place was a giant poisonous insect breeding farm created by the tiger demon clan.

For hundreds of years, they have been continuously adding new Gu worms to this Gu breeding farm, stimulating these Gu worms to constantly kill each other, while also hoping that this Gu breeding farm can cultivate the true Gu King they have always expected - the vicious beast Qiongqi...

The perspective in his mind had long since returned to darkness, but Xu Yue still kept his eyes closed, silently sorting out the information. After a long time, he slowly opened his eyes, and in front of him was still the dim and silent rock cave. The only difference was that Fei Lian, who was supposed to be lying on the ground not far away, was now sitting cross-legged.

With each breath, reddish spots visible to the naked eye began to appear on her body surface, fluctuating. Next to her was a giant blue wolf that was staring at its target with an eager look on its face.

Feeling Xu Yue's gaze directed at him, Fei Lian, who was breathing in spiritual essence, paused, while the wolf with bared fangs next to him quickly straightened its head and glanced at him sideways with a flattering look on its face.

"Master, I've got her under my watch. If she dares to move, I'll bite her to death!"

Relatively clear mental fluctuations came from Canglang. Xu Yue raised his eyebrows slightly, nodded lightly, and signaled him to leave the cave first to be on guard.

On the other side, as the footsteps of the wolf faded away, Fei Lian on the edge of the rock wall slowly opened his eyes. The light red spots lingering on his body surface quickly dissipated, and in the center was a pair of ferocious beast eyes that were completely scarlet.

After a while, the deep scarlet color in the eyes gradually dissipated, and was replaced by the familiar yellow and green pupils. However, deep in the pupils, a faint blood light could not be wiped away.

"It seems that your psychic ability called 'Dongzhen' cannot completely immunize against the erosion of the evil spirit essence."

The indifferent voice rang in Fei Lian's ears. After hearing it, her body, which was sitting cross-legged, stiffened slightly. Then she smiled bitterly and said:

"The erosion of spiritual essence reaches the essence of the soul. It is impossible to be completely immune to this situation. All I can do is try my best to suppress it. Although I am still struggling to survive, it can help me hold on for a while longer."

"But the effect of suppression has become less and less effective. At least... I would never have been so reckless two years ago."

As she spoke, Fei Lian stood up and looked at Xu Yue on the opposite side. When their eyes met, she resolutely bowed and apologized sincerely. How credible it was, but at least this gesture was very convincing. "It is a great provocation to pee into someone else's body without their consent. I apologize and am willing to compensate and bear any cost!"

"Oh? What are you prepared to pay for it?"

"How about this? After being absorbed slowly, this gem can resist erosion. It is very useful in the cave."

After he finished speaking, Xu Yue looked at the transparent crystal in Fei Lian's hand, his eyes flashed, but he quickly suppressed the surprise on his face.

"How many do you have?"

"Well, I relied on this thing to survive in the cave for two years. This is the last one."

"One pill is not enough to save your life, and you consumed a bottle of extremely precious healing potion while you were unconscious. You also need to pay for the cost of the latter."

Blinking her eyes, Fei Lian recalled that she seemed to have felt a weak warm current flowing into her stomach when she was drowsy. As for the effect, well, it seemed to be not much different from the spiritual fruits and vegetables widely planted in her tribe. Could it be that I sensed it wrongly...

The memories in his mind were still surging, but when he noticed the increasingly dangerous gaze from the opposite side, Fei Lian wisely skimmed over this insignificant detail and quickly continued.

"Well, one is indeed a little too little. How about using it as a deposit? As long as we can escape from the cave and return to our clan, I will then offer you five gems of the same size."

"Fifty!"

Listening to the bland offer from the other side, which could be described as a lion's mouth opening wide, Fei Lian felt his breath stagnate. Fifty? Not to mention her, the entire Moon Cat Clan does not have that many.

"If you want me dead, just tell me. Even if you sell me off, I'm still not worth fifty. This kind of gem is a treasure that can significantly increase the power of immortal beings. I can only take out ten at most, and that's all the stock of our Moon Cat Clan."

"Then 10 pieces, deal!"

"Eh?!"

Ignoring Fei Lian's astonishment, Xu Yue raised his hand and took the soul crystal (middle) from the other party's hand, then took out a white glue-like alchemical bomb and a transparent glass ball with golden red flames from the space, and then stuffed the glass ball directly into the glue, and after kneading it a few times, a large round white pill was formed.

After the production was completed, Xu Yue did not have the slightest intention of hiding it. He directly took the white pill and threw it to Fei Lian on the opposite side, and said lightly: "Take it, and after the balance is paid, I will help you get rid of it."

Looking at the seemingly ordinary white medicine in his hand, Fei Lian wanted to continue smiling, but the corners of his stiff mouth could not open even a little bit.

She witnessed the entire formation process of this thing with her own eyes. She might not be clear about the composition of the white gel, but she was very familiar with the golden-red flames contained in the glass ball.

Once this thing exploded inside her body, the boiling flames would probably burn her intestines to pieces in an instant. Even if she was lucky enough not to die, her fate would definitely not be good.

"Can I not eat it? I swear on the reputation of the Moon Cat Clan that I will keep my promise as long as we can escape from the cave!"

"What do you say?"

As the faint voice spread, wisps of black evil spirit began to gradually overflow from Xu Yue's body. In an instant, the temperature in the entire cave dropped sharply, like the underworld.

The yellow and green pupils suddenly dilated, and at that moment, Fei Lian felt that the surrounding cave seemed to have turned into an endless bloody battlefield, with corpses piled up like mountains and blood like a sea. She could even smell the sticky bloody smell that permeated the surroundings, as well as the biting chill as if thousands of swords were inflicting on her body.

To be honest, compared with the evil spirit on the gentleman opposite her, she felt at first that the evil spirits in the cave seemed to be nothing more than that.

"Boss, calm down. I'll eat it! I'll eat it!!"

"Gulu~"

Having just broken free from the illusion, not daring to delay any longer, Fei Lian quickly picked up the pill in his hand and swallowed it in one gulp. As the sound of difficult swallowing rang out, the black evil spirit that was spreading around was finally taken back into Xu Yue's body.

Soon the evil spirit dissipated and the temperature in the cave returned to normal. He glanced at the embarrassed cat demon opposite who was choking and rolling his eyes because the pill was too big. He took out a bottle of water from the space and threw it over. Fei Lian took it and tore off the cap of the bottle, followed by the sound of gulping down drinks.

After drinking the whole bottle of water in one gulp, Fei Lian calmed down a lot. Even the groundwater in this damn place, Qiongqi Cave, had a faint smell of blood. God knows how long it had been since she had replenished such normal water.

Moreover, although her life and death are no longer under her control after taking the pill, in other words, it also means that the big boss on the opposite side will not abandon her easily, otherwise there is no need to waste his time on her. At least before escaping from the cave, the stronger the opponent is, the safer she will be.

Thinking of this, her nervous and panicked thoughts suddenly relaxed, and even the corners of her lips, which looked even redder due to the water stains, unconsciously lifted up a relaxed smile.

“It’s delicious and a little sweet.”

Looking at the transparent water bottle in her hand, which was made of unknown material, Fei Lian stretched out her pink tongue to lick the remaining water stains on her lips. After savoring it for two seconds, she decisively raised her eyes to look at Xu Yue on the opposite side and asked hesitantly:
"Uh, big man, is there anything to eat?"

"……Have."

Ten minutes later, Xu Yue looked at the cat demon opposite him who was wolfing down a food box, and the corners of his mouth twitched slightly. This guy finished four instant lunch boxes produced by the park employees in just ten minutes, and it seemed that he was not full yet.

Sure enough, less than twenty seconds later, Fei Lian put down the clean new lunch box in his hand again, raised his watery yellow-green eyes again, looked straight at the tall figure on the other side, and continued with confidence.

"I'm not full, boss. Any more?"

"...Yes, but before that, tell me, what did you see on me when you used the Hole?"

Hearing this, the lunch box in Fei Lian's hand was crushed directly by the huge force that erupted inadvertently, and at the same time, a strong look of fear quickly emerged in his eyes.

"I saw a demon god that could reach the sky and penetrate the earth, or... it should be a... witch!"

"witch?"

(End of this chapter)