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Zhong Kui's Diary
A sharp shout from Lou Wei came from behind, followed by a whistling sound rapidly approaching me. Turning around, I saw a Climbing Rope swiftly chasing after us.
What a remarkable Lou Wei! Setting aside his quick reflexes, his thinking was incredibly agile. In the blink of an eye, he reacted and came up with a plan, immediately gathering his strength to throw down the Rope.
As I grabbed the Rope, Fatty and I had already fallen about ten meters. In that moment of pause, I quickly glanced down. The reflection from the ice and snow revealed a wide chasm about two meters across, with an incline of roughly seventy degrees, leading down into an unfathomable depth.
Fatty was probably scared out of his wits. First, he fell on his own, then I saved him, only for us to fall again. Now we were facing yet another near-death experience; this feeling was akin to riding a roller coaster. I could hear him below shouting, "Damn! Damn! Damn! You scared the life out of me! My heart is racing like crazy! Lou Wei, hurry up and pull us up!"
Lou Wei's angry voice came from above: "Shut up! If you don't stop talking, I'll let go! You'll fall to your death, you idiot."
Fatty immediately fell silent, and Lou Wei slowly began to pull us up.
Just as we had been pulled up a couple of meters, two loud bangs echoed from above, as if someone had been hit and fallen to the ground. To my shock, I felt the Climbing Rope loosen at the other end. Amidst our startled cries, we once again tumbled down the steep slope.
Fortunately, although the slope was steep, it wasn't vertical at ninety degrees. After sliding down several dozen meters in a hurry, I managed to calm down slightly. I kept kicking against the Ice Surface on both sides to slow my descent while shouting at Fatty. He snapped back to reality and began kicking against the ice walls as well.
We continued to fall for several hundred meters before finally landing at the bottom. After catching our breath and surveying our surroundings, we found ourselves in an Ice Crystal World. The ice walls on either side of the chasm were crystal clear. A rustling sound came from above; it was the Climbing Rope sliding down and landing in front of us. Looking up, everything was white, with a faint light visible through a narrow gap at the exit.
Thinking about how we had just fallen from such a height, we couldn't help but exchange glances and saw relief mixed with fear in each other's eyes. We both shouted Lou Wei's name at the top of our lungs but received no response.
"Damn it! What if some snow creature grabbed him?" Fatty cursed.
"Are you kidding? Even without Qiongqi's powers, Lou Wei is a super expert himself. What kind of snow creature could knock him out without making a sound? From what just happened, it seems Lou Wei was ambushed by another super expert," I replied as I glanced at the nearly imperceptible gap above us.
"Super expert? Can he even fly?" Fatty scratched his head. "When we were up there earlier, there were no signs of anyone around; it's impossible for someone to have dropped down."
I chuckled and said, "This situation is easy to explain. First, someone could be hiding in the snow, just like the crevice we fell into. There should be more than one of these crevices in the snow, so it's quite simple to hide a few people. Second, the ambusher of Lou Wei could be one of the Dark Overlords. Now that Lou Wei has lost a significant portion of his power, even if this Dark Overlord hasn't broken through, he should still be able to deal with Lou Wei under surprise attack. Third..."
Fatty quickly interrupted me, "No need for a third. The first two speculations are enough. Let's think about how to get out."
I touched the Ice Surface on both sides of the crevice and pulled out my dagger to poke at it. I found that the ice wall was exceptionally hard; I had to exert a lot of force just to get the dagger all the way in. I couldn't help but smile wryly and shake my head, "This ice wall is so hard and nearly a hundred meters high. Trying to dig a hole to climb out would be like chasing a fool's dream."
Fatty called out Lou Wei several times loudly but received no response. Feeling frustrated, he looked around at both sides of the crevice and hesitated for a moment, "How about we go sideways?"
I nodded, "That's all we can do."
Next, we decided whether to go left or right in a very scientific manner. I chose left, while Fatty chose right. We played rock-paper-scissors three times; Fatty won two rounds, so we followed his chosen direction and moved forward.
After walking a few hundred meters, we reached the end of the crevice. Ahead was an almost vertical ice wall, indicating that this path was blocked. Both of us cursed loudly and turned back. This time we walked for half an hour without reaching an end, only feeling that the sides of the crevice were widening from initially over two meters to nearly ten meters wide. At the same time, it was getting brighter; looking up, we could actually see sunlight above us. It seemed that the upper end of the crevice was also widening and no longer covered by ice and snow.
Fatty laughed and said, "Ghost Brother, if we keep going like this, this crevice might lead directly outside the valley. We could see vast grasslands and hear someone singing—Alasor! This is the Qinghai-Tibet Plateau..."
Fatty's thoughts were similar to mine. In my impression, it was summer now, and such perennial snow-capped mountains probably only existed in Northwest China and those mountain ranges on the Qinghai-Tibet Plateau. Among them, the only ones I remembered were Mount Everest in the Himalayas and Snow Sea Bogda Peak in that mountain range. Other than that, even if there were other peaks, I had completely forgotten them.
I smiled and said, "It might not even be a mountain; as soon as we step out, we could see Xinjiang girls calling out—Daban City's stones are hard and flat, and watermelons are big and sweet..."
We laughed and continued walking for another two hundred meters when Fatty's keen eyes spotted a large indentation in one side of the ice wall where a tree was growing inside. As we approached for a closer look, both of us gasped in amazement; it was an incredibly lush green tree. I swear I had never seen such a beautiful tree before; it looked as if it were carved from jade—about one meter tall—with its trunk, branches, and leaves all shimmering green.
Amidst this greenery hung several bright red fruits about the size of ping pong balls—perfectly round and equally translucent like red gemstones.
"Damn! Could this be some treasure left behind by an immortal?" Fatty exclaimed in admiration. "If it really is carved from jade and rubies, this tree's value could easily buy Golden Peak Building."
Although Fatty's claim was exaggerated, if this tree were indeed made of gemstones, it would certainly be worth a fortune.
Despite how exquisite this tree is, we dared not reach out to touch it. From the dungeon of the Song Family to here, everything that had happened was too bizarre. We were inexplicably transported to such a snowy mountain, fell into a massive crevice, and suddenly encountered this lush tree. Moreover, Lou Wei seemed to have gone missing after being attacked. In short, I felt everything that had occurred was too strange; it was better to be cautious in this situation.
After thinking for a moment, I took out my dagger and poked one of the leaves. To my surprise, where the tip of the blade touched, the leaf actually oozed some sap. I was taken aback; this tree was indeed real.
"Ghost Brother, what kind of tree is this?" Fatty looked at me, confusion filling his eyes.
"Probably some Ancient Divine Tree?" I scratched my head.
Upon mentioning the Ancient Divine Tree, I suddenly remembered that there was also an Ancient Fierce Beast in the Mustard Seed Pendant; both were from ancient times. It might recognize this tree.
Forget everything else; close the door and let the dogs out!
I took out the Sugar Doll, which seemed still half-asleep. It glanced at me with a confused expression and hugged my arm to continue sleeping. I pointed its dog head at the green tree and shook it vigorously: "Wake up! What is this? dg, yu lk lk! ha's his?"
The Sugar Doll opened its eyes in confusion and glanced at me: "You idiot, do you think speaking a couple of English phrases makes you cool? Look in the mirror; you're Chinese! Keep spouting that nonsense English, and I'll take you down!"
Then it went back to sleep. Not even a second later, it suddenly opened its eyes wide, broke free from my grasp, jumped to the ground, and barked at the tree: "What the heck, am I dreaming? Wow, this is the Yin Yang Divine Tree! And it's bearing fruit! I'm so excited; wow, I'm really so excited!"
I slapped the Sugar Doll on the head and scolded, "What are you excited about? Quickly tell me what's going on!"
The Sugar Doll wasn't angry; it just incoherently shouted: "Damn! This is the earth's treasure, the Yin Yang Divine Tree! Ah, accept my knee!"
While saying this, it began bowing to the lush green tree in a dog-like manner.
I turned around and lit a cigarette with Fatty as we pointed and laughed at the Sugar Doll.
"This silly dog has truly never seen the world."
"Still Ancient Fierce Beast, huh? Bah!"
...
Sugar Doll knocked its head a few times before standing up and dancing around the Yin Yang Divine Tree for a while. After calming down a bit, it turned to us and scolded, "You two fools, encountering such a divine object in your lifetime is already your great fortune."
I scoffed, "Isn't it just a tree? What makes it a divine object?"
Sugar Doll snorted coldly, "The Yin Yang Divine Tree absorbs the essence of the earth and the sun and moon, born in the extreme cold of Billion Years ago. It blooms once every hundred thousand years and bears fruit once every hundred thousand years, producing ten fruits each time. The fruits are called Yin Yang Divine Fruit. Eating one grants you two thousand years of magical cultivation. Eating a second doubles it to four thousand years, the third to eight thousand years, and so on. Ten fruits make one treatment. What’s ten to the power of how much?"
Fatty took out his phone and tapped a few times: "104,000 years."
"Exactly! Just by eating these nine Yin Yang Divine Fruits, you'll immediately possess Sixty-Five Million Years of magical cultivation. Isn't that miraculous enough to be considered a divine object?" Sugar Doll exclaimed loudly.
"Then what are you waiting for? Hurry up and eat!" Fatty waved his hand generously at Sugar Doll: "There are one, two, three, four, five, six, seven, eight... um, nine fruits... no wait, there are really ten fruits. Go ahead and eat them all; from then on, you won't just be an ordinary Ancient Fierce Beast, but a very impressive one—a 'cool beast' for short."
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