Chapter 110: Mysterious Runes

Lin Yifan now urgently needs various advanced materials, so he doesn't hold back and puts them all into his bag.

As for those Treasure Chests, they didn't waste them either; after all everyone has a Space Ring or storage bag, only the storage capacity varies.

Lin Yifan let Ruan Qingtan and Hong Shaoqiang each take a portion, then he packed all the boxes they couldn't carry into the Space Ring.

Fortunately, before arriving, he had emptied his storage space completely, otherwise he couldn't fit so many boxes.

Although these boxes show no sign of what material they're made of, their appearance alone is quite extraordinary; if we take them back to disassemble, they might yield a lot of good materials.

At present, this Instance hasn't yielded much so far, although the Advanced Cast Iron needed to upgrade to a Level 4 Shelter has been gathered.

But compared to the preciousness of the Instance's teaching scrolls, this haul is somewhat shameful.

These Treasure Chests are also part of the loot, so they naturally can't be wasted.

After the loot is fully divided, the three of them—Lin Yifan, Ruan Qingtan, and Hong Shaoqiang—each lie down in the Water Pool and begin piecing together the fragments.

The number of fragments is truly huge, and they vary in size and shape, making the assembly genuinely difficult.

Fortunately, Lin Yifan, Ruan Qingtan, and Hong Shaoqiang are all fairly patient.

After dividing the work, each is responsible for assembling a portion of the fragments.

Although the fragments are numerous and varied, the three are experienced cultivators, whose patience and meticulousness far exceed ordinary people.

Lin Yifan was the first to piece together a small complete pattern, about the size of a palm.

Once correctly assembled, the fragments instantly become a seamless whole, with no trace of breakage.

Consequently, what now appears before Lin Yifan is a complete Black Jade Fragment.

On the jade fragment, dense patterns spontaneously appear, forming one mysterious symbol after another, as if alive; a single glance makes one feel dizzy and nauseous.

"This thing can actually restore itself automatically? And these golden patterns—what exactly are they, why do they feel so weird?"

Beside him, Hong Shaoqiang and Ruan Qingtan stare at the Black Jade Fragment in Lin Yifan's hand, their faces shocked and expressions solemn.

Ruan Qingtan even reaches to rub his temples, saying with a pained face:

"Just looking at these golden runes gives me a dizzy, nauseous feeling, as if I want to vomit; this can't be some curse, right?"

Lin Yifan examined the golden patterns closely and found them somewhat familiar.

Wait!

The bottom of the Water Pool he visited before had runes that were extremely similar to these golden runes.

However, these golden runes are more arcane, which likely explains why they cause discomfort when seen.

Lin Yifan thinks it's not serious; it only causes some dizziness at first, and after looking longer it becomes normal.

In fact, he still can't figure out what these runes actually mean.

Maybe… if we piece the whole together, we can understand the meaning?

Anyway, we've come this far, so we have no choice but to do it!

Lin Yifan rubs his temples and says to the two:

"Let's not worry about that for now; let's first piece this thing together completely."

Lin Yifan, Ruan Qingtan, and Hong Shaoqiang continue assembling the mysterious fragments in the water.

With their effort, more and more fragments join, and the whole Black Jade Fragment takes on an octagonal flower shape.

It's just the flat kind!

And the golden runes on the Black Jade Fragment gradually reveal a complete pattern.

These runes aren't placed arbitrarily; they follow a specific rule, combining like a single rune.

"What on earth is this? I look at it for a couple of seconds and my brain feels like it's about to explode," Ruan Qingtan says, covering his eyes, stepping back several paces, his face full of pain.

Hong Shaoqiang had been standing far away; upon hearing this, he glanced at the runes from a distance, then quickly stepped aside, honestly saying:

"I don't understand this, but just looking at it for a couple of seconds makes us feel so uncomfortable; this thing is definitely not simple."

When that was said, Ruan Qingtan couldn't help but twitch his mouth corner.

Xiao Hudie, standing beside Hong Shaoqiang, indeed unabashedly says in a babyish voice:

"Dad, I feel you just said useless nonsense!"

Hong Shaoqiang, hearing this, instantly flicked Xiao Hudie's head with his finger and said irritably:

"You little brat, how can you talk like that about your own dad!"

Xiao Hudie instantly sticks out her little tongue and says: "Lue lue lue lue……"

……

Lin Yifan ignores them; at this moment, his eyes contain only that rune.

Because the moment the rune is fully assembled, a long string of characters spontaneously appears in his mind.

These characters are exactly what the mysterious runes consist of.

He cannot read the characters, yet he can comprehend their meaning!

【Forbidden Curse: Flooding the Heavens (The great mage Keluositin created it)】

【Casting this Forbidden Curse can mobilize the forces of heaven and earth, summon a deluge that engulfs everything. This technique is immensely powerful and must be used cautiously; otherwise the backlash can cause the caster's soul to scatter.】

Forbidden Curse!

This thing is actually the legendary Forbidden Curse belonging to the magical world!

Lin Yifan feels a great shock; he had previously seen Forbidden Curses in Western fantasy novels.

But he always thought they were fictional creations of authors, impossible to exist in reality.

He never expected that Forbidden Curses could actually exist!

Lin Yifan takes a deep breath, strives to calm his excitement, and then continues to peruse the information in his mind.

【Casting Conditions: Requires one's own refined blood as a conduit, combined with heavenly and earthly spiritual energy to activate the curse. The caster must possess strong mental power, otherwise cannot endure the backlash of the Forbidden Curse.】

【Precautions: Once this Forbidden Curse is cast, it cannot be reversed. The flood will devour everything; if among the devoured are sentient beings, the more there are, the more severe the backlash, fully consuming the caster's mental power, after which the spell will cease.】

Indeed, just as described in the novel!

The Forbidden Curse is powerful, but correspondingly, it is also full of danger!

After Lin Yifan finished reading the information in his mind, the golden runes on the jade fragment in his hand slowly fell silent, becoming a grayish mass.

"Huh? Why have the runes on this Stone Slab dimmed?" Ruan Qingtan, who had been standing at a distance observing, asked with a puzzled expression.

Hong Shaoqiang, hearing this, couldn't help but turn his head toward the Black Jade Fragment, furrowing his brows as he said:

"It really has dimmed! And earlier I felt the golden runes on it were like a living thing, but now that feeling is gone."