Let’s Squander A Billion First!

Chapter 998: Chapter 998: Prehistoric Overlord (26)

The mist is thickest in the morning and evening, and thinnest at noon.

When you enter the mist, you can hardly see anything.

Hong Jiu used a thin rope to bind the three of them together to prevent them from getting separated.

After entering, the whole world turned silent, and they could only hear each other’s breathing.

Chuzheng held Tu Yan’s hand tightly.

They hadn’t walked far when Tu Yan suddenly started to feel unwell.

”Tu Yan?”

Tu Yan groaned, his body sliding downward.

Tu Yan wanted to say something, but the power surging within his body prevented him from speaking.

Hong Jiu heard the commotion and followed the thin rope back: ”His curse has flared up.”

Of all times to flare up, why now...

”Can he still walk?”

Tu Yan was limp in her arms, unable to walk at all.

Chuzheng lifted him up: ”Let’s go.”

Her voice was calm and indifferent, with no hint of emotion.

The mist concealed the strange expression on Hong Jiu’s face, wasn’t she worried?

-

With Hong Jiu leading the way, Chuzheng felt many things underfoot, but couldn’t see or tell what they were.

”What exactly is in this mist?”

Chuzheng asked Hong Jiu ahead.

Hong Jiu’s voice came through the mist: ”There’s nothing.”

”??”

As if sensing Chuzheng’s confusion: ”There’s nothing in the mist, but ordinary beasts can’t cross this mist. The ancestors of the Prehistoric Era knew the danger of this mist, so they spread rumors of Demonic Beasts inside to prevent people from entering blindly and losing their lives.”

Chuzheng: ”...”

So, this rumor was for future generations?

Hong Jiu: ”The truly useful things are inside, and what you’re looking for is also inside.”

”What’s inside?”

”Relics.”

Chuzheng: ”??”

-

With Hong Jiu leading, nothing unexpected happened, and they quickly crossed the mist.

The light before them gradually became clear.

However...

What presented itself was an almost impassable abyss.

The other side of the abyss was still covered in mist, but quite thin.

They could vaguely see something standing in the mist.

Chuzheng first looked at Tu Yan, who was leaning against her shoulder, face pale, brow tightly furrowed, looking pained.

Hong Jiu stood at the edge of the abyss, looking toward the other side: ”This abyss can’t be crossed by ordinary beasts, and birds can’t fly over it.”

They couldn’t reach the other side of the abyss.

Chuzheng quickly surveyed the surroundings: ”So?”

Hong Jiu turned back: ”You are a Divine Beast Phoenix, maybe you can fly over.”

Chuzheng: ”I’m not the only Divine Beast.”

”But among the Divine Beast birds, there’s only you in the Prehistoric Era now.” Hong Jiu raised an eyebrow: ”You’re different.”

You’re different.

Tu Yan had also said those words to her.

Dammit, because of being different, the beasts of the Prehistoric Era coveted her! Each one wanting her blood.

”If it can’t be crossed, then where did the Teng Snake Clan’s things come from?” Chuzheng voiced her doubt.

Hong Jiu chuckled lightly, pointing to the mist they had just passed through: ”You stepped on quite a few things in there, right?”

Chuzheng nodded.

Hong Jiu said: ”It’s those things, but they’re fragments, incomplete.”

So the Teng Snake Clan’s inability to break Tu Yan’s curse was due to poor skills?

If the Teng Snake Clan knew that their revered Holy Artifact was just trash, what a scene it would be.

”How do you know so much?”

Hong Jiu gave Chuzheng a flirtatious glance: ”Secrets.” In the Prehistoric Era, with so many beasts, who doesn’t have a few secrets.

Chuzheng: ”...”

Chuzheng glanced down at Tu Yan.

She lowered her voice, tinged with coldness: ”You’re certain there’s what I need inside.”

”What good would it do me to lie to you?” Hong Jiu brushed back her hair near her ear, eyes seductive: ”It’s okay if you don’t believe me, but from the looks of him... he’s about to give out.”

Chuzheng’s eyes deepened.

Hong Jiu implied she should return to her original form to see if she could fly over.

Hong Jiu seemed to suggest it as an attempt, not entirely confident she could make it.

More like an attitude of preferring to be wrong than to miss a chance.

Chuzheng set Tu Yan down, holding him with one arm.

”Want me to watch over him for you?”

”No need.”

Chuzheng declined Hong Jiu’s help.

She wasn’t sure of Hong Jiu’s intentions, and they were merely using each other now.

How could she hand Tu Yan over to her at this moment?

Hong Jiu chuckled and stepped aside.

Chuzheng had no intention of reverting to her original form. She raised her palm slightly, and silver light flew from her sleeve, landing at the abyss’s edge, spreading upward across the abyss at a speed visible to the naked eye.

Hong Jiu’s eyes shimmered with silver light, and above the abyss, a silver light bridge gradually took shape.

Hong Jiu’s heart was shaken by the silver light.

This is...

The power of the Divine Beast Phoenix?

No!

She had never seen any Divine Beast with such power.

In the time it took Hong Jiu’s thoughts to turn over, the silver light bridge was already completed.

”This of yours...” Hong Jiu called out as she saw Chuzheng preparing to step on, ”Is it okay?”

”If you’re scared, you don’t have to come up.”

Hong Jiu: ”...”

Hong Jiu clenched her fists, then released them, and clenched them again.

Finally having such an opportunity...

Hong Jiu immediately followed Chuzheng, and upon stepping on, her heart seemed to sink with the bridge.

But soon, her foot found solid ground.

It was no different from the ground.

Hong Jiu looked up, and Chuzheng had already walked a distance. Where she stepped, the silver light rippled out, creating beautiful waves.

Hong Jiu carefully took a few steps, confirmed there was no problem, and then caught up.

This supposedly impassable abyss was so simple for her.

Reaching the middle, Hong Jiu clearly felt a force pulling.

Trying to drag her down, but standing on the silver light bridge, she couldn’t fall.

Just walking took some effort.

Hong Jiu glanced back, and at that glance, she nearly lost her soul.

The bridge was disappearing.

At an extremely fast pace.

Hong Jiu hurried to catch up with Chuzheng, landing on solid ground just as the bridge vanished.

She took a few steps back, watching the last of the silver light fade into the air.

Almost...

-

Hong Jiu took a few deep breaths, calmed her mind, and turned to look at Chuzheng.

Seeing her surveying the surroundings, she spoke to explain.

”There’s nothing here, you don’t need to be so cautious.”

The danger here is the mist and this impassable abyss.

Chuzheng looked into the mist: ”Is this mist the same as the outside mist?”

”This mist is just regular mist.” Hong Jiu resumed her flamboyant and charming demeanor: ”No need to worry.”

Though Hong Jiu said this, Chuzheng still protected Tu Yan.

What if this was a trick?

Chuzheng headed into the mist.

Hong Jiu followed her.

In the thin mist, the first looming shadow gradually became clear.

It was a stone monument.

Irregular, as if it had fallen from the heavens and lodged here.

The stone monument was very smooth, with a perfectly aligned gap in the middle, and nothing else.