Chapter 198

After thinking about it, for the sake of safety, Jiang Lan chose a Profound Heaven Iron Maiden to lead the way.

Even if they encountered danger, it would only be one Profound Heaven Iron Maiden, not enough to cause the entire exploration team to fall here.

Before long, that Profound Heaven Iron Maiden went in.

Don't let the fact that this was just a palace suspected to be a study fool you; the interior was actually very large, and what they saw outside was only the tip of the iceberg.

Through the shared network of the smart brain chip, Jiang Lan saw the perspective of this Profound Heaven Iron Maiden.

Everything here had long since decayed, but under the blessing of some mysterious power, it seemed to be frozen in time; even using violence, one could not destroy anything inside the palace.

Every step the Profound Heaven Iron Maiden took was extremely careful, fearing that she might trigger some mechanism.

After exploring for as long as ten minutes, it was a pity that they had gained nothing.

Jiang Lan raised her arm, looked at the little white snake coiled on her arm, and asked, "Are you sure it's really here?"

Bai Ling nodded, and the certainty in its eyes made Jiang Lan believe it.

After hesitating for a moment, Jiang Lan said, "Then we'll take you in to look around. You guide us, and remember not to run around."

As the strongest in the team, to ensure the safety of the little white snake, she couldn't just let one Profound Heaven Iron Maiden follow.

They could be resurrected if they died, but because Bai Ling was not a hero or troop type in the territory, it could not leave a reflection in the Magic Mirror; if it died, it was really gone.

Bai Ling was overjoyed; it could feel a very familiar sense of intimacy here, as if something very important inside was calling to it.

Surrounded by the Profound Heaven Iron Maidens, Bai Ling coiled around Jiang Lan's arm and entered.

The study was dim, with various messy furnishings old and faded, and dust everywhere.

Calling it a study, it was actually also like a library; the semi-cylindrical ring-shaped bookshelves were dozens of meters long, and a large number of books were not neatly arranged, but had fallen from their original positions at some unknown time, piling up into a small mountain of books at the bottom.

Under Bai Ling's guidance, Jiang Lan and the others walked into a room suspected to be a study and bedroom.

A bed was located in an ancient corner of the room, and the faded quilt on it was piled with books and notes.

Under Bai Ling's devouring, the toxins in the air were all devoured, and the room's air was filled with the scent of yellowed pages and ink, as if time had stopped here.

Suddenly, Bai Ling darted out excitedly, aiming for the direction of the bed, and was grabbed and pulled back by Jiang Lan.

"What's the rush?"

Jiang Lan snorted coldly in annoyance; she had promised Seeing Yun Shen, what would happen if this little white snake had an accident?

Bai Ling's head was still probing toward the bed, as if there was something there that it couldn't refuse tempting it.

Jiang Lan slowly approached, only then discovering that what was attracting Bai Ling was a crystal ball placed on the nightstand.

This crystal ball was too big to be fully gripped by one hand, and it had a flat white metal base. Inside the crystal ball stood a little white-haired girl.

Her eyes were closed tightly; observing carefully, one could see the pair of pure white eyelashes, her long hair falling like a waterfall, and her hands clasped together in front of her chest, as if she were praying.

"Hmm? This little girl..."

Jiang Lan felt something was wrong and subconsciously leaned in to look with suspicion.

Just at this moment, the little girl in the crystal ball suddenly opened her eyes!

They were a pair of pure blood-colored eyes, clear and cute while also slightly evil.

Jiang Lan only felt her palm go empty; Bai Ling, which had been tightly controlled, suddenly disappeared, turning into a white light that drilled into the crystal ball and merged into the little girl's body.

Afterward, black gas suddenly grew out of the crystal ball, not knowing where it came from, wrapping the little girl tightly.

Jiang Lan's face looked ugly as she picked up the crystal ball; she couldn't react to the abnormal change just now at all, and even if she had reacted, it would have been useless; she simply had no corresponding means to stop it.

And just now...

Why did she suddenly lean in?

Jiang Lan stared fixedly at the crystal ball in her hand, wanting to see something, but unfortunately, she couldn't see anything, only knowing that the crystal ball was devouring the surrounding toxic gas greedily, just like the Snake Pearl had been.

She didn't yet know that, at the same time, all the Lords had been alarmed by the changes on her side.

【Trial Announcement: "His Pearl" has undergone an abnormal change. This clearance method is cancelled, and the trial content is updated.】

【Primordial Era · Toxic Domain Survival (Simulation)】

【Theme Background: On the day of coronation, His territory turned into a toxic domain, and billions of living beings became poisonous creatures.】

【Trial Content: All the toxic gas and poisonous creatures here are strengthening every moment.

Killing poisonous creatures can obtain a special limited-time item: Detox Pill.

Every 24 hours, there will be a siege of poisonous creatures.

Surviving to the end in the toxic domain, that is, when only one Lord remains, is considered a pass.】

【Trial Restriction: Information cannot be probed.】

"What's the situation?"

Seeing Yun Shen, who was still working hard, suddenly paused. The message that popped up suddenly gave him a shock; he didn't know what had happened on Jiang Lan's side.

However, he hadn't received a notification that Jiang Lan and the others had died, so there shouldn't be a big problem.

Ten minutes later, after Seeing Yun Shen finished the battle as quickly as possible, he opened the trial channel and pulled the message to the very front.

"What's the situation? The trial content actually updated..."

"There's a problem; maybe someone got the clearance item."

"But if they got it, shouldn't they have cleared the level directly?"

"I guess there was an accident on the way; although they got it, the mission item was damaged or something."

"Now it's a competition of who has the most detox pills. The proud sons of all races, let's rely on our own abilities!"

Many Lords of various races who had never appeared before were also blown out by this news at this moment.

Everyone had a consensus, which was that the clearance item was ruined.

Even Seeing Yun Shen himself guessed the same; it must have been a mistake when Jiang Lan and the others were obtaining the clearance item.

"I hope Bai Ling is okay."

Seeing Yun Shen suddenly became a bit worried.

Because of the loss of Bai Ling's protection, the territory had been covered by toxic gas again, even if Seeing Yun Shen was hiding in the alloy safe house; the toxins in the air seemed to be able to penetrate the barrier of metal and transmit from the spatial level.

Fortunately, there were enough detox pills, and everyone in the territory didn't need to worry about poisoning.

Time passed quietly. When the trial time reached forty-eight hours, the second wave of poisonous creature siege arrived.

Because Jiang Lan and the others hadn't returned, all the troops stationed in the territory went out to fight, and the Profound Heaven Research Institute also fired at full power.

Although they couldn't probe the information of the poisonous creatures, from the feedback of the troops, the strength of these poisonous creatures was stronger than the first wave, and the quantity was also larger.

Up to now, of all the Lords participating in the trial, not a single one had left, and the number was still one hundred.

When the Profound Heaven Iron Maidens were dragging the corpses of the poisonous creatures, Jiang Lan and the others returned.