Chapter 00242: Gunpowder Barrel (Part 1)
# Gunpowder Barrel (Part 1)
Chapter 242
Novel: AFK Game: Portal to Another World
Chapter 242: [color=rgb(255, 255, 255)]Gunpowder Barrel (Part[/color] 1)
Once Yang Yiyi had changed her clothes, she picked up a lit candle and walked step by step into the depths of the cave.
This cave seemed to be a naturally formed Karst Cave, possibly a former underground waterway, just wide enough for a single person to pass through.
But it had also undergone some man-made repairs, as one could see marks from chisels or digging on the surrounding walls.
The inside of the cave was damp, chilly, and cold.
Only the sound of Yang Yiyi's footsteps echoed all around.
However, this situation did not last for long.
As Yang Yiyi rounded a bend in the cave, she saw the light of a fire not far ahead.
Continuing forward for no more than about fifty meters, the view suddenly opened up.
Beyond the narrow cave was a vast, open, and large Karst Cave, which felt like a great hall.
Torches were stuck into the rock walls below, and one could vaguely see cave entrances leading in different directions.
It seemed there was more than one way in.
Directly in front was a large stone wall, about seven or eight meters high.
The wall seemed to have been cut by someone, making it exceptionally flat.
Torches were also placed on both sides to illuminate the wall, upon which were carved a series of diagrams illustrating palm techniques, with textual annotations below.
This was the ‘Fierce Sun Palm’ that Ning Xian'er had mentioned.
Yang Yiyi was not the first person to arrive here.
She could see about twenty-odd people below the stone wall, gesturing and practicing as they looked at the carvings.
Since Thunder Mountain had been opened many times, the locations of relatively easy-to-find martial arts secret manuals like this one had long been discovered.
It was not surprising that some people were already here trying to comprehend them.
Some of these people had previously fought over the Heart-Purifying Dragon Mallow.
None of them knew that Yang Yiyi had been the one to benefit.
Seeing her arrive, they even gave her a friendly greeting.
Yang Yiyi's attention was quickly drawn to the secret manual on the stone wall, and she stood at the end of the line and began to practice along with it.
Meanwhile, Li Chengxi saw a glowing ‘+’ appear on the ‘Teaching Box’ in the upper right corner.
He clicked it open and, sure enough, the Fierce Sun Palm had been added to the Teaching Box.
They had already obtained quite a few secret manuals since entering Thunder Mountain.
The Paired Flight Saber Technique, the Spirit Mechanism Finger Technique, and now this Fierce Sun Palm.
It was no wonder the younger generation from all over the martial world flocked to Thunder Mountain.
They had acquired three secret manuals in just three or four days.
If one were to rely solely on roaming the Jianghu, who knew how long it would take to learn so many skills.
Moreover, these were just the secret manuals at the foot of the mountain.
It was said that the higher one went, the more powerful the manuals one could find.
The martial arts at the foot of the mountain were merely trifles.
However, to sound a bit ungrateful, Li Chengxi would have preferred to find an internal energy cultivation method over these external skill manuals.
Yang Yiyi's current internal energy had already progressed beyond the basic Breathing Technique; she was now using the Green Mountain Heart Method.
But an internal skill from a minor sect could hardly be called good.
Its only characteristic was likely that it was balanced and gentle, making it difficult to suffer from Qi Deviation.
Its power was so-so, still stuck in the phase of simply having something versus nothing.
Many martial arts that required profound internal energy cultivation were impossible for her to learn, and even if she did, the effects would be poor.
For example, Black Bear's Three Pushing Hands, or things like the Lion's Roar Skill and Tiger Roar Skill.
Furthermore, the Fierce Sun Palm on the stone wall also looked like an exceptionally fierce and powerful palm technique, which would certainly have requirements for one's internal energy cultivation.
In the early stages, putting points into physique could ensure survival, but all the masters played with internal energy.
This was an aspect that absolutely could not be neglected.
As he pondered her future development path, Yang Yiyi still needed to stay in front of the stone wall for a while, so Li Chengxi decided to check on Viola's situation.
But just as he was about to turn his head to look at the other computer, he noticed a person at the very front of the group suddenly sit down cross-legged.
This wasn't particularly strange.
One might have an epiphany while practicing the moves from the diagrams and sit down to ponder it carefully.
But more and more people began to sit down, and some even fell flat on the ground, unable to move.
This was very abnormal.
Could there be a problem with this Fierce Sun Palm, like the Seven Injuries Fist, that causes internal injuries to its practitioners?
He immediately picked up the microphone and said in a low voice:
“Stop practicing for now, something's not right.”
Hearing this, Yang Yiyi stopped her movements.
Only then did she notice that many of the people standing in front of her had already collapsed.
“I think I smell something really pleasant…”
Just as she finished speaking, Yang Yiyi also crumpled to the ground.
Perhaps because her physique attribute was relatively high, she managed to sit down instead of falling flat on her face.
Li Chengxi quickly opened Yang Yiyi's character panel.
Below her HP and Mana bars, the word ‘Poisoned’ was written.
When he moved the mouse over it, it read ‘Two-Colored Datura Poison’.
What the hell was this? Was it the Ten Fragrances Soft Muscle Powder?
“Don't move. Someone has poisoned the air. Just play along and lie down, I'll think of something.”
The poisoned people's HP bars were not decreasing, but they were unable to move.
It felt like a paralytic toxin.
The first antidote that came to Li Chengxi's mind was the Potion of Neutralize Poison that Audel had left behind.
This potion could not only cure poison but also provide a short period of immunity to it.
Just as he was about to go upstairs and open the safe to get it, Li Chengxi saw two figures appear in the back-left of the screen.
Because it was too dark in the cave, he couldn't see their faces clearly, only roughly making out the figures of two men.
Li Chengxi used the mouse to click on them and saw a dialogue box pop up, which read:
“As expected of the divine medicine from our Cult Leader, they're all paralyzed!”
“Less talk, more work. Come give me a hand.”
Immediately after, Li Chengxi saw the two men pushing something into one of the cave passages.
From the shadow, it looked like some sort of barrel.
“If you must blame someone, blame yourselves for being Central Plains People and getting in the way of the Cult Leader's grand plan!”
Then, a spark of fire appeared on the screen.
Unlike a candle, it burned fiercely.
He then saw the two men who had just spoken duck into another cave passage and disappear in a flash.
Li Chengxi took one look and thought, "Fuck, is that a powder keg? Was that a fuse they just lit?"
It was too late to go upstairs, open the safe, and get the potion.
Li Chengxi's first reaction was to reach out his hand, wanting to pull Yang Yiyi over.
However, he immediately remembered that the Heart-Purifying Dragon Mallow also had detoxifying effects.
He quickly tore a leaf from the Sumeru Realm and stuffed it toward Yang Yiyi.
“Quick, eat this and run!”
Yang Yiyi's physique was quite strong, and she could still move her fingers.
Hearing his words, she immediately grabbed the leaf in front of her and put it in her mouth.
The Heart-Purifying Dragon Mallow truly lived up to its name as a spirit medicine.
The moment she ate it, the poisoned status on her character panel vanished.
It took effect incredibly fast.
However, Yang Yiyi did not turn and run as Li Chengxi had told her to.
Instead, she looked back at the sizzling fuse, then grabbed one of the people on the ground who was also unable to move.
“Run! Why are you worrying about others!”
“A great hero doesn't watch someone die and do nothing!”
He had forgotten that Yang Yiyi was a great hero fanatic.
There was no other choice.
Seeing this, Li Chengxi could only reach his hand towards the screen.
He touched something that was radiating heat, so hot that his fingers went slightly numb, but he did not let go.
Instead, he pulled with all his might.
Because the screen was too dark, Li Chengxi couldn't see clearly at all.
He didn't know if he had completely pulled the fuse off.
On Yang Yiyi's side, she saw the fuse sizzle to its end and then disappear into the darkness of the cave.
Seeing that there was no explosion, she let out a sigh of relief.
But just at that moment, a deafening boom echoed from the depths of the cave.
The terrifying smoke, carried by a shockwave, nearly knocked Yang Yiyi off her feet.
Evidently, there was more than one powder keg set up.
(End of this chapter)