Chapter 00225: Each Showing Their Own Prowess
# Each Showing Their Own Prowess
Chapter 225
Novel: AFK Game: Portal to Another World
Chapter 225 Each Showing Their Own Prowess
There were quite a few clever folks, but the majority of people were still pushing forward.
The chaotic situation lasted for nearly half an hour before the path into the canyon finally became much clearer.
On Li Chengxi's side, he saw that the Heavenly Absolute Palace disciples behind Yang Yiyi had begun to move, so he told Yang Yiyi to follow as well.
This Thunder Mountain was truly bizarre.
The valley would periodically shift, making it impossible to enter the mountain at the wrong time.
Yet the exposed ground was flat and smooth, looking as if it had been constructed by someone.
It was hard to guess what kind of geological movement had created such a spectacle.
By the time Yang Yiyi entered the canyon, the people at the very front had long since vanished, their figures completely obscured by the floating, dense fog.
"Watch your step. Look and listen more, don't get distracted."
Seeing Yang Yiyi looking around as if she were sightseeing, Li Chengxi quickly reminded her in a low voice.
"It's rumored that the death rate in the Thunder Mountain Treasury is very high. It's probably not a groundless rumor. You must be extra careful, even just after entering."
It wasn't very obvious from the outside, but once inside, the towering mountain walls on both sides seemed to blot out the sky and sun.
Especially after entering the Thunder Mountain area, the sky above was thick with dark clouds, creating a pressure that made it hard to breathe.
Upon hearing this, Yang Yiyi immediately braced herself and carefully observed her surroundings.
But as she went deeper, aside from the fog getting thicker, there seemed to be nothing particularly special.
Mainly, there were many people around.
This kind of creature, humans, tended to feel quite at ease in crowded places.
But just as thieves specifically operate in crowded places like train stations and airports, the sense of security brought by a crowd was just an illusion.
It was precisely at times like these that one needed to be most careful.
Frankly, Li Chengxi felt that having too many people was a bad thing.
After all, in this place, everyone could be a competitor.
Even though Li Chengxi could see their character panels, he couldn't see into their hearts and didn't know who might be a bastard.
It was always right to be extra careful.
After walking like this for nearly half an hour, the people ahead were almost completely swallowed by the dense fog; only faint shadows could be seen.
The fog was incredibly thick.
The more Li Chengxi looked, the more he felt something was wrong, especially when he saw the Heavenly Absolute Palace disciples behind Yang Yiyi all place their hands on their weapons.
This ominous feeling reached its peak.
"Be careful, something's not right."
Just as Li Chengxi's voice fell, Yang Yiyi heard a scream from far ahead within the dense fog.
The sound was at least a hundred meters away from Yang Yiyi, and mixed with the constant thunder overhead, it could even be overlooked.
But it was definitely not an illusion, because Yang Yiyi then heard more and more screams coming from the front, accompanied by the sounds of people running and drawing their weapons.
However, due to the fog's obstruction, it was impossible to see clearly, and she had no idea what was happening to the people ahead.
Seeing this, the Heavenly Absolute Palace disciples who were originally behind Yang Yiyi immediately drew their weapons, activated their lightness skills, and leaped into the dense fog.
Soon, clanging sounds could be heard, as if weapons were striking stone.
Yang Yiyi felt even more panicked, just numbly following the people in front of her.
At this moment, Li Chengxi couldn't afford to stay hidden and quickly shouted a reminder.
"Watch your step!"
Yang Yiyi looked down and saw a palm-sized, shimmering blue scorpion crawling out of the soil, about to strike her foot with its poisonous stinger.
The hairs on the girl's neck stood on end.
She leaped straight up on the spot and stomped the scorpion flat.
Due to the crowd, no one noticed that Li Chengxi's shout had come from Yang Yiyi's direction, but his warning to "watch your step" made many people look down.
It was just that for some of them, it was already too late.
Yang Yiyi saw a female martial artist who had been to her right front fall down without any warning.
She foamed at the mouth and convulsed.
In less than two or three seconds, the person stopped moving, her lips turning a deathly blue.
Coincidentally, not far from where this person fell, there was a skeleton that looked as if it had been crushed flat.
Its dark, empty eye sockets stared at the newly fallen corpse, as if to say, 'Couldn't you have looked at me and learned your lesson?'
"Watch out for poisonous creatures! This place is full of them!"
"Use fire! Who brought fire!"
"Ah!"
"Quickly, take an antidote pill!"
"Mere poisonous creatures, let me, Gu Tao of the Thunderclap Sword… waah! Don't come near me!"
He vaguely seemed to hear a somewhat familiar name, but it might have been his imagination.
This was like a signal, and chaos immediately erupted in the surroundings as well.
Some people frantically fumbled with the bags on their bodies, some jumped from side to side as if breakdancing, and others coughed up blood and fell.
It seemed that many had died just upon entering.
The poisonous creatures that crawled out of the soil weren't just scorpions; there were centipedes, spiders, ants, and some things that were completely unrecognizable.
Due to the obstruction of the dense fog, many people couldn't see their feet clearly.
But Li Chengxi could see clearly.
As long as he pressed the ALT key, a large array of names like 'Variant Ice Scorpion', 'Corrupting Poison Centipede', and 'Fire Poison Spider' appeared in the canyon, so dense that they almost paved the road ahead.
"Stick to the rock wall as you walk, don't come down."
The dirt path in the middle was full of insects.
Hearing this, Yang Yiyi immediately leaped up and clung to the side of the canyon's rock wall, then proceeded forward by gripping the stones like she was rock climbing.
Yang Yiyi's physique and bones had been transformed by the Sky-Upholding Stone, giving her super high attributes.
Climbing by grabbing onto rocks with just her arms was not tiring at all.
But when others saw her moving like this and tried to imitate her, they often couldn't climb far before their hands gave out and they fell, only to be bitten by a poisonous creature in an instant.
There were also people who raised their weapons and smashed them on the ground like a game of whack-a-mole, trying to kill the approaching poisonous creatures.
But he clearly didn't know how many there were under the dense fog.
Before long, his entire body was submerged by several large centipedes.
Of course, besides clinging to the rock wall and climbing forward, others used different methods.
Not far to Yang Yiyi's left front, a person took out a paper packet from his clothes, opened it, and scattered the yellow medicinal powder inside onto the ground.
The nearby poisonous creatures immediately scurried away as if bitten by a dog.
He might have scattered realgar or some special insect repellent.
There was also someone who took out a water flask, took a big gulp, then pulled out a fire starter and sprayed, directly shooting out a large fireball.
The poisonous creatures on the ground were immediately roasted and burned, looking like a circus performance.
Of course, some used superb swordsmanship to protect their bodies and advanced by leaping quickly with their lightness skill.
Whether the creatures could burrow in the ground or fly, anything that got close was minced to pieces.
How to cross this road was like the Eight Immortals crossing the sea, each showing their own prowess.
Those who had no skills and foolishly rushed in were mostly killed on the spot, while the few who remained were just lucky not to have been bitten.
During this time, some people had already thought of retreating and ran towards the exit.
These were the ones who knew their own limits; their own lives were more important than taking a gamble.
But more people were still trying every means possible to quickly pass through this area full of poisonous creatures.
Yang Yiyi, relying on her high physique, climbed quickly along the rock wall.
The poisonous creatures generally couldn't catch up to her, and even if they did, Li Chengxi was there to warn her.
She soon surpassed many people who were entangled with the creatures and continued to advance into the depths of the dense fog.
About ten minutes or so later, the number of poisonous creatures began to decrease significantly.
But Yang Yiyi didn't see the people who had entered earlier, only some scattered corpses and skeletal remains.
Walking a little further, the people who were slower than Yang Yiyi also caught up from behind.
At this moment, everyone saw a huge, finger-shaped rock appear in the dense fog.
As they got closer, they found that the rock rested on the ground like four entrances leading in different directions.
Many footprints remained on the ground, as if telling everyone that some people had already gone in ahead of them.