This isn't a souls-like game at all.

"Let me think about it. From now on, you might as well call yourself the Unmovable Mountain True Lord. That would be a perfect match for you and the Meteor Driving Moon True Lord."

After naming the weapons with a smile, Ye Yiyi put his sword and shield behind his back and turned to look elsewhere.

"This axe for chopping wood looks pretty good. It's rotten but not completely rotten. Take it down and have a look."

He took the axe for chopping wood in his hand, and a light curtain popped out.

【Chopping Axe】

Requirements: Strength 5

Damage Modifier: Strength E

Durability: 15/50

Item Description: A small axe called a chopping axe.

It's an everyday tool, not a weapon.

The attack range is short, but the combo performance is excellent and it is easy to use.

Combat skills: No combat skills

"Okay, it's not a weapon, and it doesn't have any combat skills, but it's not trash at all. I'd better take it with me, just in case I need it."

Ye Yiyi's habit of picking up trash in the game came back, and she immediately stuffed the axe into the "four-dimensional chrysanthemum".

After walking around again and finding no object that could pop up the light curtain, he finally walked out of the wooden house.

I looked up at the sky and saw that the sun had already set below the horizon. On the other side of the sky, the azure moon had risen, juxtaposing the dim yellow sky with its beauty.

"The Azure Eternal Moon, I remember in the game's background, the first foreign planet that the ancient kings set foot on was this blue moon.

"I wonder if I can find the teleportation array that doesn't exist in the game. I'll find a chance to go up and take a look."

Recollecting his thoughts, Ye Yi lit the portable lantern, walked through the camp full of spider corpses, and entered the deep pit.

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Chapter 17 Ancient Ruins

As soon as he stepped into the deep pit, a damp breath rushed towards him, giving Ye Yi goosebumps all over his body.

"This place...it's eerie enough just looking at it."

He quickly took off the Immovable True Lord from his back, held the shield in front of him with his left hand, and took out the rainbow stone with his right hand.

There was a long tunnel in front of me. It was very dark at the bottom and there was no light at all.

Fortunately, the waist lamp that the saint gave him worked very well. There seemed to be a flickering flame in the classical and exquisite lamp, emitting a bright but not cold white light.

Moreover, the brightness of this light can increase or decrease according to Ye Yiyi's thoughts.

Ye Yiyi tried to adjust the light to the maximum, and the area two or three meters around him was illuminated by the cold light.

He looked up and found that the tunnel was not high, less than three meters.

The entire tunnel is made of hard rock. There are no cracks on the rock surface, no rustling gravel, and it feels very smooth to the touch.

"Huh? Is this a torch?" Ye Yiyi scanned the wall and his eyes lit up.

When I walked closer, I saw that it was a torch embedded in the rock wall.

It's not quite right to say it's inlaid. It's more like using a drill to drill a hole in the rock and then forcing the torch in.

“It’s completely unsophisticated, but surprisingly solid.”

Ye Yiyi commented that these torches were probably left by the Eagle-winged Knights who had explored the dungeons.

The Eagle-winged Knights set up camp there and naturally explored this cave.

But after so much time, these torches have rotted and are completely unusable.

Throwing a rainbow stone at the torch position, Ye Yiyi continued to walk deeper into the tunnel.

As they went deeper, Ye Yiyi did not encounter the situation of being besieged by spiders as he had expected.

On the contrary, everything went smoothly without any obstacles.

If it weren't for the traces of fishy yellow liquid on the ground proving that a spider had passed by here, Ye Yiyi would have thought he had taken the wrong path.

The long tunnel continued forward, extending deep underground at a subtle slope.

After a while, Ye Yiyi discovered traces of another human existence.

"Is this the staircase?"

Looking at the rock stairs under his feet, Ye Yiyi was a little surprised.

Stairs are not something that the Eagle-Wing Knights can make on the spot.

Besides, what's the point of building stairs in an underground tunnel? Are you worried that the spider will fall when walking?

After careful observation, Ye Yiyi finally found something wrong.

The stairs under your feet are of unusually standard width and height, as if they were built under a unified construction standard.

Looking around, the neatly arranged stairs and a torch embedded in the wall form a sharp contrast on the technical level.

"Could this place really have been built by humans?"

As for who built it, just think about where this tunnel leads to.

"This may be a back-up route extending from the ancient ruins, similar to an escape passage." Ye Yiyi guessed secretly in his heart.

Leaving a rainbow stone on the stairs, he continued on his way.

After walking for about ten minutes, I finally heard a sound.

There seemed to be light coming from the distance, and at the same time, the strange and somewhat indistinguishable sound also came from there.

Ye Yiyi lowered the brightness of her waist lamp, and the light in the distance suddenly became conspicuous.

He looked down at the lamp at his waist, then looked into the distance, his expression gradually becoming strange.

"Why does the light in the distance look a bit like the light of my waist lamp?"

He turned off his waist lamp, and the surroundings suddenly fell into darkness.

Looking from a completely dark angle, far at the end of the tunnel, a cold white light was flickering.

"Boom! Boom! Boom!"

At the same time, a dull sound came along the tunnel.

"Could it be..." Ye Yiyi had a vague guess.

He walked lightly for the next part of the way, trying not to make any noise.

There was almost no sound as his bare feet stepped on the cold rocky ground. Combined with his agile skills, Ye Yiyi was as agile and silent as a cat.

The closer we got, the brighter the light became, and the loud sounds of "Boom! Boom! Boom!" became clearer.

At the same time, the ground beneath his feet began to vibrate rhythmically with the sound.

"grumble!!!"

Suddenly, an extremely sharp scream came from the end of the tunnel.

"Grass!"

Ye Yiyi was so frightened by the sudden noise that she almost had a cardiac arrest.

After calming down a little, he figured out the source of the sound.

"Wasn't that the cry of a spider just now?"

Ye Yiyi thought of the spider that stared at him with wide eyes and whose screams almost made him laugh to death.

But the cry was so miserable that the spider must have encountered some unexpected accident.

After the scream, the "dong dong dong" sound disappeared. Seeing this, Ye Yiyi immediately increased his speed.

As he stepped onto the upward stairs, Ye Yiyi finally walked out of this deep and long tunnel.

"This is……!?"

When he saw the appearance outside the tunnel clearly, Ye Yiyi couldn't help but widen his eyes.

He had imagined many scenarios before coming.

For example, at the end of the tunnel is a dark and damp cave, with spider webs and dense small spiders on the walls, ceiling and ground.

But no matter how hard he tried to imagine, he had never imagined the scene before him.

This is an extremely spacious hall, with the ceiling alone being nearly ten meters high.

The hall floor is paved with smooth tiles of unknown material, and the walls on both sides are made of a material that looks like jade and emits a faint glow.

In the center of the hall, a giant ecological tank is particularly eye-catching.

The ecological tank is surrounded by transparent crystal similar to glass, and its height extends from the ground to the ceiling which is about ten meters high.

And right above the tank, there is a colorless transparent gem floating in the air.

The gem emitted a bright, cold white light, illuminating the interior of the vat while also driving away the darkness in the hall.

However, the interior of this uniquely shaped ecological tank was dead silent at the moment.

Lifeless dead plants are everywhere, growing on the white bones of animals. The dehydrated branches and leaves are wrapped with a faint black smoke. Just looking at them can make people feel eerie and strange.

And around the ecological tank, in the area illuminated by the gem light, the corpses of giant Nephila spiders were densely packed.

Those giant insects, as big as wolves, fell limply to the ground, with a big hole directly on their foreheads.

The fishy yellow insect body fluids overflowed from the corpses and flowed freely on the ground, looking extremely tragic.

Ye Yiyi was shocked for a moment, then reacted and felt a little amused.

"I thought the deep pit cave was a spider's lair, but it turns out to be just as I suspected, and it's actually an escape route from the ancient ruins."

That’s right, Ye Yiyi had seen this architectural style in the game, including the extremely conspicuous ecological tank in the center of the hall.

The so-called ancient ruins are actually the architectural remains of the era when ancient kings ruled the countries on land.

In ancient times, when the [bordering] continents had not yet split, the ruling areas of the land-based countries almost covered the entire continent.

But later, the stagnation curse broke out. As the curse spread, all living things died, and almost one in a hundred of the continent's population remained.

The ancient kings had no choice but to rush back from the alien planet to fight a great battle against the curse.

During the war, [bordering] was torn apart, and all the countries on land were destroyed.

Now, more than ten thousand years have passed since the great war, and the surviving humans have reproduced and grown again, and have developed countries and new civilizations.

Those buildings that survived by chance and did not completely collapse in the war have become the ancient ruins we see today.

The ancient ruins contain relics from the period of the land kingdoms and many powerful ancient weapons.

This is also the reason why Ye Yiyi did not go to the capital of the principality after regaining his freedom, but ran to the Fairy Mountains to look for ancient ruins as soon as possible.

Are you kidding! The King of the Principality is so dangerous, how can you go there without getting some weapons to protect yourself?

Ye Yiyi walked slowly towards the ecological tank with light steps, glancing back and forth at the dead spiders.

There was a diamond-shaped penetrating wound on the spider's head. The wound was very deep and completely pierced the entire head.

"This kind of death should be caused by being trampled to death by a skilled servant."

After a brief observation, Ye Yiyi came to a conclusion.

The Skilled Slave is a tall humanoid mechanical puppet, generally used for security and miscellaneous work, and can be found in major ancient ruins.

But then Ye Yiyi felt something was wrong.

"If there are slaves protecting the ruins here, why are these spiders going in? It doesn't make sense!

"If the New Queen of the Netshin used the ancient ruins as her lair, how did she manage to break through the guards of her skilled servants and do so?"

He glanced at the dead spiders on the ground, then walked past the ecological tank and headed deeper.

"Unless these skilled slaves have just been awakened, they detect foreign objects and begin to spontaneously execute the pest extermination program.

"As for the reason for the activation, it should be because I defeated the Knight Master outside."

Ye Yiyi stared ahead, his expression gradually becoming cautious.