Chapter 522: Unaffected by the Curse
"It seems that this door cannot be pushed open by a normal soul master."
Tang San touched the bronze door and knocked on it again, making a "dong dong dong" sound, and he couldn't help but frowning.
Different metals produce different sounds when struck. The sound emitted by this bronze door is dull, with a lingering vibrato. It is not a common metal, nor is it the special metals he had come into contact with in his previous life.
"Have you recognized what material this is made of?" Seeing this, Zhou Qing thought that Tang San already knew what this bronze door was made of.
"It's not bronze anyway."
"..."
Zhou Qing was speechless about Tang San's joke, but he also understood that this bronze door should be some special metal that Tang San had never come into contact with in his previous life, or some other strange material.
Moreover, based on the long vibrating sound that was transmitted, perhaps it would not necessarily require such a great deal of force to push open the door, as long as we found the appropriate method.
After all, the door and the lock have always been integrated, so all you have to do is find the key to open it.
However, there is only this bronze door left in this area now. It would be easy to just move on without considering the legend about this bronze door.
Just go around it.
After all, the walls and towns on both sides of the gate and behind it have collapsed, and only some ruins remain in some areas.
Then, under the leadership of Riko, the two continued to move forward. They wanted to take a closer look at the black pillar that reached the sky.
The three of them rode on their bird horses again, and in less than ten minutes, they arrived in front of the thick pillar.
The black pillar with a diameter of about 480 meters, made of unknown material, runs through this layer. There is also a 20-meter-long ring-shaped black hole between the first layer and the pillar, which is as deep as looking down from the outskirts of Abyss Town.
At the edge of the pillar parallel to the ground on this level, there is a circle of black truncated platforms, with ropes similar to steel cables connecting the top, and hanging baskets hanging below the truncated platforms for official explorers to go up and down.
In addition, four rope bridges were built above the circular platform and the circular black hole on this level.
"To go to the second floor, is the only way to go down from here?" Zhou Qing asked.
"No."
Riko shook her head. "There are caves and caves scattered around the edges of this level. Some of them lead to the lower levels."
"Generally speaking, most explorers who have not joined the Abyss Exploration Guild will start from the cave, because if they want to use this elevator, they need to pay a fee to the guild."
"Although this black pillar runs through the entire Abyss, the ropes, elevators, platforms, safety measures and other devices on the pillar were all built and installed by successive explorers of the Abyss Exploration Guild at the risk of their lives, and they must be inspected every seven days."
Zhou Qing and Tang San both understood this.
After all, to ascend from this place, one needs to bear the "curse" of the abyss ruins. If the rest of the people want to use the results achieved by these predecessors at the risk of their lives, they naturally need to pay corresponding rewards.
"Want to go to the second floor?"
Liko suddenly became a little excited. After all, she had never been to the second floor.
"No, go back."
Zhou Qing shook his head.
Although he wanted to explore the lower areas further, this time he came down only to determine the preliminary situation inside the abyss ruins.
Now, after going through this level, he has a rough idea of the situation of the Abyss Ruins -
Even if the environment of the next level is completely different from the first level, the basic rules must be the same. There is no need to rush in without sufficient time.
He wanted to first determine the time difference between this first layer and the outside world.
It's night outside, but it's day here.
Maybe the time is the same, but the day and night are reversed, but the specific details need to be tested.
In addition, Zhou Qing also wanted to experience the so-called ascending curse.
The first level of the ascending curse, whether it is an ordinary person or a soul master, and regardless of the level of soul power, anyone who goes upward will experience slight dizziness and vomiting.
Tang San also felt that this was safer.
"OK then."
Riko looked regretful. She had thought that she could take advantage of the opportunity to lead these two outsiders to the second floor to take a look.
However, the employer comes first.
As for why she didn’t go down by herself in the past?
The main reason was that she was not a member of the Abyss Exploration Guild. If she wanted to go down, she had to pay. As an orphan, she usually used the money she earned from digging for resources on the first level that were looked down upon by Black Flute and other explorers above, as well as the money she had left from her frugality, to buy exploration equipment, except for the necessary daily necessities.
Now, even if I get a gold soul coin, I still want to buy better exploration equipment, hoping to use the best posture to go from the cave on the edge of the first layer to the second layer in the future...
Riding the bird horse back to the village near the edge of the first floor, Riko returned the bird horse to the couple and paid ten bronze soul coins.
Then, he followed Zhou Qing and Tang San to the edge of the first floor.
At the beginning of the ascent, when they reached 200 meters, Riko's face turned slightly pale, but she was still able to hold on, and the movements of her hands and feet did not slow down at all.
There is no doubt that Riko has been up and down the first floor many times, but she still can't avoid slight dizziness, but her body has developed an instinctive conditioned reflex.
But the strange thing is that Zhou Qing and Tang San did not feel any discomfort during the ascent.
dizziness?
Vomit?
does not exist at all.
"Is this place immune to foreign spirit masters?" Tang San immediately dismissed this possibility as soon as he thought of it, "Impossible, if this is true, foreign spirit masters will definitely come here in large numbers."
Zhou Qing did not answer, but continued to climb, carefully sensing everything around him. Suddenly, he was stunned, opened his eyes suddenly, and said to Tang San: "I seem to have guessed some reasons."
"What?" Tang San asked hurriedly.
"We are soul masters, and using soul power is instinctive. But didn't you notice that during the ascension process, the soul power in our bodies started to circulate on its own initiative?"
Since they were soul masters, at the very beginning, whether it was Tang San or Zhou Qing, the moment they pulled the climbing rope, in order to save energy, they both instinctively activated their soul power.
But this detail was overlooked by them.
"Is it possible that I can just circulate my soul power?"
Tang San was puzzled, but this didn't make sense, otherwise wouldn't the foreign spirit masters be unaffected by the rising curse here? At worst, they could withstand the curse by using the body functions strengthened by the use of spirit power!
But this is not the case.
"It's all about circulating soul power. What do we have more than ordinary soul masters?" Zhou Qing asked.
"Our way of circulating soul power is more perfect. It can unify the spirit, energy and spirit, and put our own aura in the most natural and harmonious state..."
(End of this chapter)
