Xiao Jie was speechless for a moment, could someone have intercepted them?
Damn, such a rare elite over ten levels, definitely could have dropped some blue or green equipment, what a pity, such a pity.
But then again, this is, after all, an online game, and Luoyang Plain is a popular area for players to level up, so it’s not strange that someone got killed after so many days.
But since he had come all this way, Xiao Jie was not in a rush to leave and directly went to the Buddha Tower, wondering if there might be any special monsters or hidden quests inside?
This Buddha Tower has seven layers and looks very ancient and worn, with moss growing all over its body, and the stone doors tightly shut.
Xiao Jie walked up and tried to push the door.
System: You cannot open the door from this side.
Hmm? Indeed they won’t let me in.
No matter, if I can’t go through the main door, I’ll just fly up.
The tower has seven floors, and each level has a door, but the staircase seems to be inside the Buddha Tower, so he had to leap up to ascend.
Luckily, Xiao Jie’s Qinggong was quite remarkable; he found a good spot and calculated the distance.
Flying Cloud Chasing Moon—Wind Stepping! He leapt up to a height of eight or nine feet in one bound.
Flying Cloud Crossing! Another jump, and he easily landed on the fifth floor of the tower.
He tapped on the door.
System: You cannot open the door from this side.
This really is bizarre, could it be that all seven layers of doors are sealed shut?
He kept jumping up and down, trying each door, and eventually found that indeed all of them were sealed.
Xiao Jie jumped back down to the ground, looking at the Buddha Tower while contemplating the method to open the door. Logically, the game shouldn’t provide an inaccessible map; there must be a way to break in, there must be a clue around here.
Xiao Jie went back to the front of the main door, which had four lines of poetry engraved on either side.
The final cataclysm darkens the sky and earth, I alone hide within the stupa.
When Heaven and Earth lose their color, the stupa’s door will open towards the light.
Could it be that because of the great disaster, this person hid inside the Buddha Tower?
But that disaster happened hundreds of years ago, so wouldn’t the person inside the Buddha Tower have long since perished?
This made Xiao Jie even more eager to go inside. Perhaps he could find a monk’s corpse from hundreds of years ago, carrying some top-grade equipment or Buddhist Scriptures—right, maybe he could even find a Shariputra.
As for the last two lines, they seemed to be the method to open the Buddha Tower: when ’Heaven and Earth lose their color’... it must be some special mechanism that would open the door.
Could it be referring to the night time? ’Towards the light’ could mean the torch; maybe carrying a torch to the Buddha Tower at midnight would open the door?
But that doesn’t seem right either, as night is black, and that is a color too.
Moreover, there are Night Ghosts in the wilderness at night, so going there alone isn’t feasible.
After thinking for a while and yet having no clue, he could only suggest a few tentative ideas, but he wasn’t sure if any of them would work.
But this game does have a scenario destruction mechanism, so why not try to simply demolish the Buddha Tower?
Xiao Jie looked at the two blades in his hand, and decisively gave up that idea.
This task seems like one for I Want to Be Immortal; when he returns after completing his training, I’ll ask him to try breaking the door to see what’s inside.
Shaking his head, Xiao Jie set off again, and walking along a path through the woods, he eventually came to a three-way intersection. He opened the map to see that he was close to the deserted village where he had encountered the Wolf Essence Captain.
There was a signpost at the crossroads.
To the east—Fallen Buddha Forest, to the north—Cross Village, to the south—Upper Hidden Village.
Cross Village was the abandoned village where he had encountered the Mad Taoist, the Fallen Buddha Forest was likely the forest where the Buddha Tower was located, and he had never heard of Upper Hidden Village before.
Thinking of the time when he had encountered the Wolf Essence Captain near Cross Village, Xiao Jie was more vigilant.
The Wolf Demons of Hundred Wolves Cave and the mountain bandits of Black Wind Village, these two forces were the most widespread across Luoyang Plain.
The small troops they sent out could be encountered at any moment.
He still had to be fully prepared.
True enough, fearing precisely what might happen, it wasn’t long before he heard a terrible screaming sound from afar.
"We can’t escape, let’s fight them!"
Xiao Jie quickly hastened his pace and from a distance, saw a group of Wolf Demons chasing several players, each around level 14 or 15, with two already knocked to the ground, while the remaining three desperately ran with over a dozen Wolf Soldiers chasing them relentlessly and a Wolf Essence Captain riding a giant wolf at the back, not rushing to engage.
It was precisely the band of Wolf Soldiers he had encountered before.
If this had been in the past, Xiao Jie would have had no choice but to run, but now, with divine power in hand, he felt a surge of bravado and his killing intent boiled up.
He sped up to reach those players,
"Keep running, I’ll handle them."