Chapter 17 The Thousand-Eyed Meat Mountain

Su Lun killed two giant aberrations and immediately detoured to avoid the battle zone, choosing another path to quickly retreat from the battlefield.

The two Rank 3 aberrations had given him a vivid lesson, letting him know how terrifying the monsters in this cursed space were.

Su Lun became even more cautious, not only paying attention to the soul fires within range but also constantly watching the fluctuations of those spatial rifts.

This time, it was purely good luck that he encountered monsters that could be physically controlled and killed with the Black Scythe.

Otherwise, if he had encountered some monsters with special abilities, he wouldn't necessarily have such good luck.

But while he was worried about encountering monsters, Su Lun also secretly looked forward to encountering more.

He had finally encountered a top-tier puppet material like Living Silver, and he didn't plan to give up this excellent opportunity.

This kind of material, which isn't naturally produced, can't be found outside.

The silver content in the flesh and blood of those two corpses wasn't much. He estimated that refining it would at most yield enough for a silver bracelet.

He was still far from his small goal of making a complete alchemical golem.

He needed more.

But he was also afraid of encountering clusters or higher-ranked aberrations.

It was a very contradictory mentality.

...

While Su Lun was walking and thinking, the sounds of battle in the city center suddenly became more intense. It seemed like the Lu Ying Royal Army had encountered some tricky monsters again.

Listening to the sounds, Su Lun suddenly had a thought and muttered to himself, "Those guys should have also encountered those monsters with Living Silver. Maybe they have some in stock?"

Thinking of this, his eyes suddenly lit up.

Unlike him, who was all alone, the main force could run away if they couldn't win.

The members of the Holy Judgment Army in this cursed space had almost no choice but to fight head-on.

Therefore, not being wiped out by monsters meant they had wiped out the monsters.

They must have gained a lot of "spoils of war" in their hands.

However, those two thousand-man legions had Rank 6 commanders, so Su Lun didn't dare to have any ideas about them.

Thinking of this, he became somewhat uninterested again: "My senior sister won't arrive for at least two more days. These guys are breaking the cursed space..."

Huh...

A flash of inspiration in his mind, Su Lun stopped considering the issue of spoils of war and suddenly thought of something else.

Before, looking at the combat power of this Judgment Army, he thought they could sweep through this cursed space.

But now, having personally witnessed the strength of this aberration, that idea wasn't so firm anymore.

In other ordinary cursed spaces, they might be able to push through.

But here...

Now that it was basically confirmed to be the Land of Buried Gods, Su Lun felt that no matter who wanted to sweep through, it definitely wouldn't be that easy.

Otherwise, so many top experts of the Dalu tribe wouldn't have died here in the first place.

Thinking of this problem, Su Lun suddenly discovered a "highlight."

"Strange... Knowing that this cursed space is so dangerous, where did those guys get the confidence to storm in with their entire army?"

A thought flashed through his mind, and he felt that something was increasingly wrong.

Many thoughts connected into a line, and his expression became slightly strange. He had a strange guess: "Could it be that they don't have confidence at all, but received some kind of death order, and they had to break through this space... That's why they came in?"

Thinking of this, Su Lun instantly felt unwell.

He had seen the power of authority in old Lingdun. With an order from those nobles, countless wasteland hunters had to go to the wasteland one after another.

Although this Holy Judgment Army wasn't a slave group, under this autocratic system, the monarch's power was supreme.

It wasn't nice to say they were the queen's slaves, but it was also the truth.

Listening to the intensity of the battle in the distance, it wasn't the kind of crushing momentum.

It wasn't hard to deduce that the army was also having a difficult time.

Su Lun increasingly felt that his guess might be the truth, and he murmured in his heart with a sigh, "I came here because I saw you guys come in so decisively..."

Never before had he so strongly hoped that the other party's strength could be overwhelming.

At least if the other party could sweep through, he could follow along and slack off.

If they couldn't sweep through, he would follow this group of sharks and be swallowed by a bigger monster in one bite.

Oh well,

He had already come.

Su Lun felt a slight pain in the ass.

Looking at the black vortex above the distant palace, it seemed that going there would allow him to leave.

Being careful shouldn't be a big problem.

...

The battle in the distance became more and more intense, and the shockwaves of the battle even affected Su Lun here.

He felt that things seemed to be getting serious.

However, the benefit was that those guys had attracted most of the monsters in the ruins.

There was no other choice now. Su Lun carefully moved forward, with the black crow scouting the way and his senses fully open.

He didn't dare to explore those buildings, prioritizing survival above all else.

Fortunately, he had good luck and avoided the areas where there might be monsters. Although he also encountered a few wraith-type mutated monsters, perhaps because their bodies had corpse gas from eating carrion, they seemed to not notice Su Lun and floated away directly.

Before long, Su Lun had arrived near the city center.

The city scenery that he couldn't see clearly from the city wall was now clear.

It was a white stone square about the size of ten soccer fields.

At the end of the square was a staircase almost a meter high, a full hundred steps, leading to the highest point of the city.

A very huge palace rudely broke into Su Lun's view.

The palace was composed of hundreds of giant stone pillars and arched doors. There were two giant statues on the left and right of the entrance, one holding a giant sword and shield, and the other holding a long-handled axe.

However, there were many spatial rifts here, and they were unstable, appearing from time to time like lightning.

There were traces of battle all the way from the square to the palace.

The fierce battle had left collapsed and shattered stones everywhere on the street.

Su Lun didn't dare to get close.

The black crow flew closer, watching the Lu Ying people cleaning up the battlefield.

"Two thousand-man legions, and now there's only half left?"

Su Lun roughly estimated the number of troops in the Lu Ying army through the shared vision of the black crow.

Including the wounded, there were only about a thousand living people.

It was conceivable how tragic the battle was.

Blood flowed in the square. In addition to human corpses, there were also piles of monster corpses.

There were two-headed giants that Su Lun had encountered, as well as various bizarre undead creatures he had never seen before. A skinned humanoid Rank 5 overlord-level Glutton, a Rank 6 aberration Corpse Worm Aggregate formed by countless black earthworms, a mud-like Rotten God...

Seeing those monsters, Su Lun's gaze became more and more solemn.

Fortunately, these people were testing the waters. Otherwise, if he really encountered them, he didn't think he had the ability to clear these monsters.

Or rather, if the legions hadn't come, even a few Rank 7s wouldn't necessarily be able to do this.

However, to Su Lun's surprise, those people's purpose seemed very clear. After the soldiers cleaned up the battlefield, dismantled and stowed away the mechanical equipment, they walked directly towards the palace on the top.

Su Lun waited for a while, but there was no movement.

He didn't think those people had left. Most likely, there was something special in that palace.

Of course, usually, there was a big boss in that kind of place.

Su Lun naturally wanted to go and see, but he also looked at another building not far away that was shorter than the palace, which was the temple he had seen before.

After thinking about it, he controlled the black crow to fly in.

The black crow quickly flew around inside, and Su Lun also carefully looked at it again. "Huh... there are no monsters?"

He thought that the battle in the square had probably attracted all the monsters.

Moreover, to his delight, he actually saw a complete relief through the black crow's vision!

"Could this really be the origin of the All-Knowing Eye?"

Although the black crow's gaze swept over it, Su Lun clearly saw the complete version of the mythical story he had seen in the ruined temple of the giant tree.

A bearded man with a halo behind him riding a horse came to a spring and pointed at the spring, wanting to drink water.

The giant guarding the spring didn't agree.

Then the bearded man pointed to his arm, probably wanting to exchange it for the water.

The giant still didn't agree.

He took out gold again,

Still didn't agree.

Finally, the bearded man sacrificed his eyes and successfully drank the spring water.

Previously, most of the relief was incomplete, and Su Lun didn't know why the bearded man wanted to drink the spring water.

But looking at the details on the next few reliefs, he roughly guessed that after drinking the water, the bearded man was hung upside down there and obtained "wisdom"!

How similar this was to the awakening ceremony of the All-Knowing Eye.

Moreover, there was a sequel to this story!

The more Su Lun looked at it, the more he looked forward to it.

The bearded man left an "eye" by the spring!

Then one day, a giant thief came and stole the eye, installing it on his own head.

That thief became a one-eyed giant.

In the last relief, the giant-eyed giant jumped down from a palace full of clouds and landed on an island, breeding a race of one-eyed giants.

The mural ended here.

Su Lun looked at the mythical story and his thoughts flew.

Obviously, if what was carved in this giant temple wasn't made up, it was something that really happened in ancient times.

"So... I have to go find the one-eyed giant race, maybe I can know if this myth is true?"

Su Lun felt that even if the content on this mural wasn't the origin of the All-Knowing Eye, it had a great relationship.

However, the one-eyed giant race was recorded in ancient books as having existed, but was now extinct.

"Perhaps Mr. Jing should know?"

Su Lun raised his eyebrows.

This was the meaning of apprenticeship. Having a senior sister who knew all kinds of ancient secrets meant that he could ask questions if he had any.

Mr. Jing would arrive in two days, and he wasn't in a hurry to use the communicator to ask.

...

There was nothing valuable in the temple except for the murals.

Su Lun didn't want to cause trouble, fearing that he would trigger some other documents.

After the crow looked around, he prepared to go to the palace on the top.

But at this moment, Su Lun subconsciously made a finger-circling motion and murmured, "When I am in a dream, I will look at my fingers and then realize I am dreaming."

He had done it countless times before, and there was no abnormality.

But this time, his expression changed drastically!

"Am I under a hallucination?"

Su Lun was shocked in his heart, and the hairs on his back instantly exploded.

Before entering, he knew that there were many necromantic creatures in this cursed space, and he was always on guard against those mental attack methods and was always very careful.

But he didn't expect that he would still be hit.

"When...?"

A thought flashed through Su Lun's mind, but his movements weren't slow.

He drew out his fire gun like lightning, aimed it at his head, and pulled the trigger without hesitation.

Now he was proficient in various mental arts and knew that there was a very small probability that he was misjudging (or that his judgment was affected by other factors).

This shot might accidentally kill himself.

But he was very clear that there was a 95% probability that he had been hit.

He had to bet on this probability!

Although he didn't know when he had been hit, if he didn't quickly get rid of the hallucination, the consequences would be unimaginable.

With a "bang," Su Lun's eyes went black.

...

As if waking from a dream, his thoughts were blank for a moment.

Su Lun sensed the existence of his body again.

His super-high brain development and mental strength also allowed him to react in the shortest possible time.

The fragmented memories were instantly connected.

"I'm not dead!"

Su Lun immediately felt something. His left hand was still making a finger-circling motion, confirming whether he was still in a hallucination.

His right hand had already drawn out the Rune Leather Umbrella on his back. With a "poof," he opened it to cover himself, activating the black umbrella's Night Domain without hesitation.

Because Su Lun was very clear that his strongest mental defense method was this black umbrella.

The evil spirits sealed by the black umbrella surged around his body, but were suppressed by the surrounding necromantic energy and dared not drift out too far.

At the same time, Su Lun looked at the finger-circling motion of his left hand and was certain: "I'm out!"

But at the same time, even though he could control himself to be calm, his adrenaline surged wildly.

The great horror of being shrouded in death made his scalp tingle.

Because a very disgusting and terrifying monster appeared in front of him.

Abas Thousand-Eyed Meat Mountain

Details: Rank 5 Gold-level mutated monster, a mental mutated monster condensed from many biological organs; eroded by necromantic energy, this mutated monster has extremely powerful mental strength and is good at using visual hallucinations to control prey for predation; unable to move, extremely weak body;

"F*ck!"

Su Lun cursed in his heart as he looked at this monster.

This was the most disgusting monster he had ever seen since crossing over, without exception!

What was in front of him was a pile of scarlet rotten meat, with red tentacles like earthworms on the edges.

However, what made people's scalps tingle the most were the dense eyes on this pile of rotten meat.

They were irregularly sized, with the largest being the size of a washbasin and the smallest being like the compound eyes of a fly, numbering in the thousands. They were crowded on the rotten meat like fleshy tumors, as if they were spliced together from the eye organs of countless creatures.

It made people's hairs stand on end.

The moment Su Lun woke up, the monster seemed to be stunned for a moment, and thousands of eyes looked over in unison.

He closed his eyes without hesitation and flashed back. At the same time, he grabbed his hand in the air, and more than a dozen puppet swords and guns came out together, chopping the monster into pieces with a crackling sound.

As the identified intelligence said, the monster's body defense was extremely weak.

With this round of slashing and hacking, a stinky, dark green blood spurted out, and the sound of countless evil ghosts howling in pain before death was heard in his ears. That sound was more hair-raising than nails scratching a blackboard.

In this instant, Su Lun had retreated hundreds of meters, deactivated his armor, and dozens more puppets appeared, covering the pile of rotten meat with firepower.

Finally, the world was quiet.

The mental impact that surged wildly like a tsunami disappeared.

Su Lun knew that the monster was dead.

Only then did he walk over and look at the pile of rotten meat, which revealed the unique luster of cursed materials, and then he breathed a sigh of relief.

...

"Phew..."

Su Lun had a sense of relief after surviving a disaster.

He never thought that he was clearly outside the square, how he would suddenly wake up from a hallucination and come to this temple.

"Visual hallucination... I should have been hit when the crow saw this monster."

Su Lun guessed something, feeling lingering fear.

This monster was so powerful that he was hit without realizing it.

Not far from the pile of minced meat, there were still twenty or thirty human corpses that had not been completely eaten.

These corpses were wearing standard armor, naturally from the Judgment Army.

Su Lun's eyelids jumped.

He almost gg-ed.

If he hadn't reacted in time and killed this monster, there would probably be one more pair of eyes fused on this pile of rotten meat.

But fortunately, he killed it after all.

Gray mist had already floated on the corpses, and Su Lun calmed his mind and harvested the souls.

[You have obtained the soul fragments of the Abas Thousand-Eyed Meat Mountain, you have comprehended the mysteries of Visual Illusion...]

[You have obtained some violent and chaotic information: 'Maze, seal, corpse, danger...']

[Mental Strength +8.5]

"There is a maze under the palace above? Very dangerous?"

Su Lun peeled off the monster's soul and frowned.

After all, it was a mutated monster, and the information he got was very vague, only some thermal imaging-like scene fragments.

Su Lun's eyes were solemn, and he pondered for a moment.

At this time, a fist-sized crystal also appeared on the monster's corpse.

He also collected his thoughts and picked up the stone.

Thousand Illusion Magic Crystal

Details: A very rare cursed material containing a special mental matrix; wearing it can shield against mental illusions that are not higher than the item's law level; it can be used as a main material for the advancement of illusion-type professions, and to make certain alchemical potions that unlock mental resistance;

Su Lun looked at the material and put it away.

He also found a pile of stones like cat's eyes from the pile of rotten meat.

After identifying them, they could replenish mental strength, not bad materials.

...

Su Lun looked at the harvested materials, his eyes slightly complicated, "It's really full of deadly dangers everywhere..."

Before, he thought that everything would be fine with the black crow, but he encountered such a monster he had never seen before.

This cursed space gave him another lesson.

Su Lun didn't plan to stay in this evil place for long, nor did he prepare to explore.

He glanced at the relief that he had seen in the illusion, which was in the temple.

The content was exactly the same as what he had seen before.

However, this time he used the All-Knowing Eye to identify the mural, but he let out a light sigh.

This mural wasn't as simple as it looked.