Versatile Mage: I have a proficiency panel

Chapter 93: A Test That Starts Greatly but Ends Badly, a Trip to Tianshan

The White Jue stood high in the sky, and the vast magic energy filled the mountain patterns and gullies. If one wanted to obtain the Eye of Vastness, one must first make it reveal its true form. If one did not know in advance that the Eye existed here, and deliberately searched for it, it would take who knows how many years for its existence to be discovered...

The divine eye appeared, and a feeling of the boundlessness of heaven and earth spread into Bai Jue's heart. When he came to his senses, he was already in a special space, empty and silent.

"The test of refining the divine eye? Why does it feel like the magic weapon recognizing its master in the novels about cultivating immortals..." Bai Jue muttered to himself, although in a sense the divine eye is really very similar to a magic weapon.

A shadow gradually emerged in the space, and Bai Jue recognized its appearance. It was "himself"!
Bai Jue frowned slightly. He was already an intermediate emperor, but this phantom seemed to have copied everything about him perfectly, without the slightest deviation in realm.

As for the record, I don't know if it's all or just part of it.

While Bai Jue was thinking, the shadow moved, and infinite magic energy surged, blooming into an invisible dark flower...

My illness?

'Bai Jue' gathered his spirit and prepared to give up the Desolate Eye and run away. If he couldn't get the future this time, there was still a chance, but if this body died, the loss would be great.

He is well aware of his own abilities. So far, Bai Jue's skill of killing has only been used once, not long after his awakening. The power and cost are enormous, it can be called a life-threatening skill!

Now that the phantom is using the body of the Central Emperor, there is a risk of death if I take it head-on. It is really not worth it. I have to run away!
However, the phantom dissipated just after it had accumulated half of its power, leaving only Bai Jue, who had just torn through space, silently staring at the empty space...

The special space collapsed, and Bai Jue didn't know what happened for a moment, but judging from the result, he had obtained the Eye of Desolation.

"...I don't have enough magic power to perform the magic, this is really..." After initially controlling the Cangmang Eye and knowing the reason, Bai Jue was a little amused.

In order to prevent the noise from being too loud, 'Bai Jue' deliberately blocked the space around with the Eye of Time and Space, making it impossible to get out and come in. By accident, the channel for the Eye of Desolation to absorb the energy of heaven and earth was cut off.

The energy of the Divine Eye itself is not enough to fully reproduce the unique skills of a Middle Emperor, so this situation occurs.

………………

With the return of the strongest bodyguard, Bai Jue no longer had to worry about safety issues. He simply prepared some tools and started climbing with Apas.

Apas was also very interested in the mysterious place of Tianshan and was quite excited along the way.

"First, we'll go straight to the Trace of Tianshan Mountains from the Great Rift Valley, and then go down the mountain from the outside. We can enjoy two different scenery in one round trip!" Bai Jue told Apas about his plan.

"Great Rift Valley?" Apas was present when Bai Jue was collecting intelligence on Tianshan, but it seemed that she had no relevant information.

“This is a quick route learned from other channels.”

The formation of the terrain did not happen overnight. The Great Rift Valley has always been there, but no one has discovered it yet. 'Bai Jue' found it after a deliberate search.

The two of them slowly strolled through several low-altitude mountains under the Tianshan Mountains and entered a desert area. The entrance to the Great Rift Valley was here.

The Great Rift Valley does not have just one long road. Once you enter it, there will be countless forks inside. No one can tell which one is the road that continues to lead to higher altitudes.

After all, this Great Rift Valley is too long. If you are in one of the valleys, you can't tell whether the terrain is flat or rising. What's more, a valley that is not rising must be unobstructed. It is possible to walk for several kilometers and finally reach a Dead end.

The Great Rift Valley is winding and forked, connected, and has circuitous paths. Sometimes you don't even realize you've turned back.

It is difficult for sunlight to reach here. Some parts of the rift are very deep and narrow. When you look up, all you can see are rugged and curved rocks. There is no sunlight, so you need to hold a torch and prepare your own light source to move forward.

But some places are suddenly bright and clear, as if you have stepped into a flat valley. There is enough light and the terrain is gentle. If it weren't for the wall of cracks rising from the ground that can still be seen in the distance, it would really be no different from walking in an ordinary desert. .

"It feels like walking in a maze, it's quite interesting!" Apas led Bai Jue around in the rift. With sound magic, Bai Jue naturally knew the correct route, he just let her do what she wanted.

And now, Apas is lost. Not long ago, they passed through a cave, and the road ahead was very strange. Apas chose many valley roads and finally returned here.

There is not much light in this cave, and the upper stone wall is obviously curved and uneven, making it difficult to see the situation up there clearly.

"Oh, we've walked into this spider cave again!" Apas felt very uncomfortable. You know, she had boasted to Bai Jue before that she could definitely get out of this "maze", but she ended up being trapped here.

In this way, wouldn't I have to obey the excessive demands of Bai Jue, the big bad wolf?
Dozens of desert bone-eating spiders approached silently. Each of them had an extremely large venom gland, and their pointed heads looked like those of evil women when they were ferocious and vicious. Their slender and soft claws could stick completely to the vertical stone wall, and they did not make any sound while moving quickly!

They didn't make the slightest sound. They approached quietly, peeped quietly, and were so quiet that it was creepy.

However, this did not escape Apas's perception. With a wave of her hand, countless earth spikes pierced through the wall and killed them all! The monarch released his aura without reservation. He was already very anxious, and he didn't know how to live or die and came to annoy others!

"Are you giving up?" Bai Jue looked at Apas with amusement as she was getting frustrated.

"Tsk, I lose. Even if this didn't happen, you can still easily control me if you want. It doesn't make any difference if it's earlier or later." Apas turned her head away, looking completely unconcerned.

With Bai Jue leading the way, they soon left the cave. Not long after, a tremor came from not far away, as if something huge was sweeping past... It was a debris flow!
The Great Rift Valley of the Tianshan Mountains leads to areas with higher altitudes. Floods of rocks rush down like torrents and can basically fill most of the slits, rift valleys, steep slopes, and rock tunnels. However, some caves and caves that do not have a thick mountain to rely on, There is a high probability that the grotto will be directly collapsed and destroyed!
Bai Jue and Apas were at a higher place. Apas looked at the long cracks, rock corridors, and flat valleys they had walked through before. She thought that the flood would flow along the skeleton of the valley like a river flowing into a valley. But who knew that the flood was more powerful than expected! It rushed under the cracks on the surface, easily destroying the cracks beyond recognition, and even widened the original landform of the rift several times. The huge noise was enough to make ordinary people deaf!

After waiting for a few hours, the debris flow turned into ordinary sand, rocks and soil. Although it changed many landforms of the desert rift valley along the way, the rift valley was still the rift valley. It would not be blocked by the impact of the debris flow, nor would it be filled and disappeared because of the debris flow.

Valleys, river valleys, and streams are all formed by the continuous erosion of rainwater. The Tianshan Great Rift Valley is probably also formed by countless floods and rock flows, which eventually eroded a rift at the foot of the Tianshan Mountains.

"As the temperature rises, the glaciers on the top of the mountain melt, and the accumulated snow and water combine with various debris, rocks and soil to flow down from the heights to form such a flood of debris, which is quite spectacular."

Bai Jue exclaimed in admiration, recording everything with the camera in his hand.

After the flood, the entire desert rift became silent. Occasionally, some corpses buried on the surface could be seen along the way. Apparently, the creatures living here were sometimes unable to avoid such sudden disasters.

Following the route of the flood and debris flow, the two walked out of the desert layer and began to enter the meadow layer with moss and cold grass.

The meadow layer means that the ground above their heads is covered with thick plateau meadows. What they see is a land of mostly green mountains and greenery, ethereal, holy, beautiful and spectacular!
Going down from the highest point of the Tianshan Mountains, there are the glacier layer, the alpine zero-temperature layer, the meadow layer, and the desert layer. So walking out of the desert layer means that they are closer to the glacier layer, and one step closer to the location of the Tianshan Trace.

The ecological form of the Great Rift Valley in the desert layer is relatively simple, mainly composed of rocks, sand, cliffs, and cracks. The meadow layer is more diverse, and the monster species that inhabit it will be more diverse and the number will definitely be larger.

The terrain of the Great Rift Valley in the meadow layer is relatively more open, and some places can even look like valleys, basins, and low-lying pastures. They also inherit the characteristics of the meadow layer.

At first, it was just some vegetation that obviously grew in low-lying areas was covered under your feet, but as you continue to go deeper, you will find that even the cliffs above your head and on both sides are covered with plants, including some large-leaf climbing grasses. It was as thick as a wall. If you didn't get closer, you would have thought you were walking into a dead end.

I have to say that the oxygen under the rift valley is indeed a bit thin. The plants themselves are negative and do not receive sunlight. There is no such thing as plants purifying the air without sunlight. People feel stuffy and short of breath.

Once you reach the high mountains, the vegetation becomes noticeably sparse, with most of the vegetation being steep and rugged alpine rocks. Due to the greater altitude difference here, many areas in this great rift valley feel like you are deep under dark cliffs.

Walking in this rift valley does not feel like walking under a crack in the earth. It is more like walking on a majestic mountain screen in front and on both sides, with rolling cliffs touching the vast blue sky.

There are very obvious snow lines on some mountain peaks. The sacred white color reflects the light of day, making the more winding, steep, long and dangerous mountain road ahead appear more clearly before our eyes.

The sky had just begun to brighten, and the orange morning light shone on the high mountain area where the coniferous forests grew. There were also many coniferous forests in this rift valley. Not all areas of the Tianshan Rift Valley were dark, narrow, and deep.

At this high mountain layer covered with wind and frost, walking in the Tianshan Great Rift Valley is not much different from walking in the mountains. Many times, people will doubt whether they are still in the Great Rift Valley.

The ground is covered with a layer of fallen leaves, which make a slight sound when stepped on. The frost will melt at dawn, so the fallen leaves appear wet. Walking on such a path covered with leaves, the emptiness will give people a sense of uneasiness, as if something is staring at you nearby...

"thump……"

The Tianshan Demon Tiger stared at Bai Jue and Apas and fell asleep.

"Apas, do you think the meat of the Tianshan Demon Tiger is delicious?" Bai Jue measured the Tianshan Demon Tiger with his hands. The meat was firm and elastic, but he didn't know how it tasted.

"It should be delicious. After all, it is a powerful creature among the commander-level demons. It should be tastier than ordinary animals." Apas was a little hesitant. She didn't understand these things.

There are many very powerful demon races in Jiuzhou, among which the magic tiger clan is at the top. The more famous ones are the Dunhuang magic tiger, Tianshan magic tiger and Kunlun magic tiger.

The Tianshan Demonic Tiger is a creature of very high bloodline and is a predator in the mountains. Facing such a powerful demon, even a mercenary group led by a super-class mercenary would have a hard time dealing with it, which means they must be prepared for casualties.

The habits of the Tianshan Demon Tiger are difficult to figure out. The strength of an adult Tianshan Demon Tiger ranges from commander-level to monarch-level. The above content talks about some commander-level Tianshan Demon Tigers. If you encounter a monarch-level one, you will just be dead if you don't have a few senior super-class mages.

The bloodline assessment of the Tianshan Demon Tiger is also very simple. The more white hair on its body, the higher its level and bloodline. Ordinary Tianshan Demon Tigers are generally ice blue in color with white tiger stripes. This one has only half of its body covered with white hair, which means that this is a Tianshan Demon Tiger with a relatively high bloodline, and it has the potential to become a monarch in the future.

Bai Jue cut up the body of the Tianshan Demon Tiger smoothly, which felt like a butcher cutting up an ox. This was because he had already figured out the structure of the tiger's body, so the process was naturally pleasing to the eye.

"I've seen a rumor on the hunter website you gave me before. It's said that the Sky Mark Holy Tiger will walk in the Scar of Tianshan Mountains at the end of autumn every year. The first person it meets will receive a gift from it. Some people have been completely transformed because of the gift from it! Is this rumor true?" Apas admired Bai Jue's movements and suddenly asked with some curiosity.

When she saw the Tianshan Demon Tiger, she suddenly thought of this: among the Tianshan Demon Tiger clan, the Tianhen Holy Tiger is the king.

But it is a pity that the Skymark Holy Tiger has always been the rarest and rarest existence in the Tianshan Mountains. Let alone seeing its true face, it is a luxury to hope to find its footprints.

"The story is true, but the protagonist in it is fake. How could the Holy Tiger of Tianhen care about the people who go up the mountain? It's just a kindness of a girl trapped in Tianshan Mountain to the world."

"To be so kind that one is almost unwilling to resist is, in my opinion, a form of cowardice."

Bai Jue's movements remained unchanged, and his voice remained the same, but Apas could sense a hint of anger in his voice.

　There will be another chapter later

　　
　
(End of this chapter)