"Hey!!"

Beneath the dark clouds, a blurry figure flew rapidly from the west.

Jiang Yan lay prone on the back of the Sky-Splitting Wind Eagle, facing the raging wind and looking down at the continuous rows of stone buildings below.

"It seems... there really is no one around!"

Jiang Yan observed carefully and found that these stone buildings were eerily quiet, as if they were in a no-man's-land.

But he had clearly seen hundreds of ancient people performing sacrificial fires in the sulfuric acid rain!

Surely he can't be seeing things?

Jiang Yan rode the Sky-Splitting Wind Eagle to the top of the stone building, circled around for a while, and quickly found the shallow pits where the ancient people had performed sacrifices.

In the shallow pit, a huge flame burned fiercely, its flickering light illuminating the nearby stone buildings in a crimson glow.

However... Jiang Yan quickly searched the area but couldn't find even a single person in these buildings!

"Elder Dak! Elder Dak?" Jiang Yan shouted loudly.

The sound echoed through the stone buildings, but there was no response.

Finally, Jiang Yan put away the Sky-Splitting Wind Eagle and came to the ball of 'divine fire'!

"Elder Dak, if you don't come out soon, I won't be so polite!" Jiang Yan threatened sharply, but there was still no response.

Could it be that I really misread it?

At this moment, Jiang Yan began to doubt himself.

But when he opened the mission log, he clearly saw the mission issued by Elder Dark!

What exactly happened?

Jiang Yan frowned, but soon his eyes lit up: "Regardless of whether Elder Dark I saw was real or not, this divine fire must really exist, right?"

If one can absorb divine fire, does it make any difference whether or not this task is done?

But... Jiang Yan looked up, but couldn't see any white exclamation mark above the flames.

Is there no hidden information, or is my Golden Eye suppressed by some kind of formation, just like in the White Dragon Palace?

Oh, right, the mass grave!

Jiang Yan hurriedly contacted Xiao Dongxie, and then, following his instructions, went to a stone building not far away, where he indeed found half a dead tree.

The tree had long been corroded by sulfuric acid rain, leaving only a layer of bark, and the middle was completely hollowed out, revealing a dark passage.

As expected of the Little Eastern Heretic, he even managed to find a way to burrow underground!

After a sigh, Jiang Yan immediately jumped down.

Following the tree's core passage, Jiang Yan quickly arrived underground. Ahead was a tunnel, the soil of which had been compacted and was extremely hard.

Jiang Yan continued on his way and soon encountered a fork in the road. Following Xiao Dongxie's instructions, Jiang Yan went left and right and soon arrived at a pit the size of a football field.

And inside the pit were countless chilling white bones!

The bones were stuck haphazardly in the pit, seemingly disorderly, but in fact each one was pointing straight upwards.

Jiang Yan looked up and suddenly a possibility occurred to him: "Could this be the divine fire?"

"Boss!" Just then, a voice suddenly came from the side, startling Jiang Yan!

"Little Eastern Heretic..." Jiang Yan's heart pounded like a drum, but he calmly asked, "Besides this mass grave, have you found anything else?"

Little East Evil said, "There are some murals over there!"

As he spoke, Xiao Dongxie led Jiang Yan to a passageway not far away, where, sure enough, someone had carved four murals on the mud walls with sharp objects such as knives and swords.

These four murals appear to have been carved with immense hatred, each line being extremely deep. As a result, despite the passage of time, the content on the murals remains clearly visible!

Jiang Yan looked at the first mural and found that its content was quite similar to the mural he had entered this instance.

There was also a group of people worshipping in front of the flames, but the murals here were painted with a lot of short dots, which Jiang Yan guessed were sulfuric acid rain.

The second mural depicts a large snake, painted on top of raindrops!

"Could this snake be Felix? Is it not in the swamp, but in the clouds?" Jiang Yan frowned and then looked at the third mural.

In this mural, the sulfuric acid rain has stopped, the giant serpent has vanished, and countless ancient people are cheering and embracing each other in front of the flames.

In the fourth mural, the flames surrounding the crowd suddenly exploded, attaching themselves to the ancient people and burning fiercely!

Fireworks burst forth from the bodies of the ancient people, transforming into skulls.

"Boss, did you figure it out?" Little East Evil asked from the side.

Jiang Yan shook his head slightly and said, "The content on the murals is very simple, so there shouldn't be any hidden meaning."

"Hehe." Little Eastern Heretic chuckled smugly and said, "Boss, I've discovered something unusual!!"

"Oh, tell me quickly!" Jiang Yan's eyes lit up, and he asked hurriedly.

"When I was bored, I loved playing spot-the-difference games, finding the differences between two pictures!" Little East Evil said, walking to the third mural and pointing to a figure in the lower left corner. "Look, boss! This figure is in the third and fourth murals, but not in the first and second!"

Jiang Yan hurriedly looked at the lower left corner of the first and second murals, and sure enough, he didn't find any figures!

"So, there's an extra person in the third mural? And this person..." Jiang Yan looked at the fourth mural and found that all the ancient figures in the mural were burning, but this figure was not!

"Could it be... that this figure is Elder Dark?" Jiang Yan frowned deeply.

The lines in these four murals are very deep and extremely sharp, clearly indicating that the artist was filled with hatred. Given this hatred, it is unlikely that the content of the murals would be wrong!

Therefore, there must be something wrong with this figure, or rather, Elder Dark!

Just then, the Lucky Guys suddenly shouted in the team chat channel that it was raining sulfuric acid outside again!

Sulfuric acid rain?

A giant snake?

Jiang Yan vaguely sensed something and hurriedly instructed, "Little Eastern Heretic, try to dig out as many bones as possible from the pit of corpses! Or at least make sure the bones aren't pointing upwards!"

As soon as he finished speaking, Jiang Yan transformed into a bolt of lightning and returned the way he came.

Whoosh!

At this moment, a torrential downpour of pale yellow rain once again enveloped the world, and the divine fire, which was surrounded by a large number of stone buildings, was suppressed by the rain and flickered uncertainly.

With a flash of lightning, Jiang Yan flew out of the tree hole and quickly arrived in front of a stone building, gazing at the direction of the divine fire.

Before long, as the rain intensified, the air near the divine fire suddenly distorted, and then a large number of ancient people wearing animal skins appeared!

"These ancient people must be the ones in the murals who were burned to death by flames!" Jiang Yan's eyes flashed with a cold light. Then, in the lower left corner... After casting Lightning Shield and Thunderous Wind on himself, Jiang Yan immediately rushed out of the stone building and sped towards the lower left of the flames!

The corrosive and toxic nature of the sulfuric acid rain quickly shattered the lightning shield and was consuming Jiang Yan's HP and MP at a rate of 5% per second!

Jiang Yan immediately drank a bottle of premium monkey wine (restores 6% health and 6% mana per second for 60 seconds), and then continued his search.

The rain was so heavy that Jiang Yan couldn't see the situation inside the surrounding buildings at all.

But just then, an aged voice suddenly came from not far away: "Young man, are you looking for me?"

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