“Nether River?”
Hearing Shen Yun Yao’s words, Ye Feng and Xiao Xiao both looked at her with confusion.
“Yes!”
Shen Yun Yao nodded, “I carefully studied the things my father left behind. He used a game I played when I was little as a form of encryption. In a letter, he mentioned that the greatest danger in this ancient ruin is the Nether River!”
“According to my father, the water of the Nether River can cause everything to completely decay… The Nether River is used to protect the control core of the ancient ruins…”
“Judging from the situation of those explorers just now, the water of that suspended waterfall… that river connected to the suspended waterfall… is likely the Nether River…”
“There was no mention of the control core in the letter!”
As she spoke, Shen Yun Yao looked up at the suspended waterfall.
“The control core… is it in the suspended waterfall above?”
“Nether River?”
Upon hearing this, Ye Feng’s brows furrowed.
He tentatively threw some apples, braised eggs, knives, and handguns into the mist of the suspended waterfall. He found that they all decayed at an extremely fast rate…
Especially the apples and braised eggs, they were gone in just a few breaths…
“Sister Yun Yao, be careful, what are you doing?”
At this moment, Xiao Xiao’s worried voice sounded.
Because she saw Shen Yun Yao taking off the pendant around her neck and preparing to reach towards the mist of the Nether River.
“Back in Mech City, Old Ghost said that the Eye of Horus is the Eye of Protection for exiting the Nether River…”
“This pendant my father gave me has a magic formation that can activate the Eye of Horus…”
Shen Yun Yao said as she cautiously approached the mist.
“Buzz!~”
Just as the crystal pendant was about to touch the mist of the Nether River, it instantly emitted a golden light, forming a spherical magic formation with the Eye of Horus, protecting Shen Yun Yao’s hand.
The spherical formation grew larger and larger, finally enveloping Shen Yun Yao entirely.
Shen Yun Yao tentatively extended her index finger into the mist of the Nether River, then quickly withdrew it.
“It really works!”
Although it was only for a moment, Shen Yun Yao still noticed that the mist of the Nether River was separated by the spherical formation of the Eye of Horus.
Afterward, Shen Yun Yao tried a few more times and found that the spherical formation of the Eye of Horus could indeed separate the mist of the Nether River.
“Ye Feng, Xiao Xiao!”
Shen Yun Yao held Ye Feng’s hand with one hand and Xiao Xiao’s with the other, and the spherical formation of the Eye of Horus swiftly enveloped the two of them.
“Sister Yun Yao, are we going upstream along that flowing Nether River to that suspended waterfall?”
After the three of them walked a few steps, Xiao Xiao immediately understood.
“Yes!”
Shen Yun Yao nodded.
She had just tried it on the Nether River and found that with the protection of the spherical formation of the Eye of Horus, one could stand on the Nether River and move along the water.
“Splash! Whoosh!”
Ye Feng and the two women exchanged glances, then simultaneously stepped onto the surface of the Nether River. After a ripple of water, the three of them stood firm.
Immediately, under the protection of the spherical formation of the Eye of Horus, they rapidly moved towards the suspended waterfall along the Nether River.
…
“Big brother, there are so many treasure chests here~! Many of them are gold…”
Upon arriving on the land above the suspended waterfall, Xiao Xiao exclaimed in surprise as she looked at the scattered treasure chests.
Ye Feng and Shen Yun Yao did not respond. Both of their attention was focused on an ancient, dark door on the mountain body of the suspended waterfall.
“Let’s go up and take a look!”
As Ye Feng’s voice fell, the three of them held hands and cautiously walked towards the ancient, dark door.
“Uh, this door seems to require a key…”
“Big brother, don’t all doors require a key?”
“The key for this door should be quite large, and quite special…”
Ye Feng, Xiao Xiao, and Shen Yun Yao stared at the ancient, dark door, each saying something, then falling into an awkward silence.
Because none of them had the key… And that door was clearly not the kind that could be kicked open…
“Ye Feng, this ancient ruin is a highly developed arcane energy civilization. This door also has magic formation patterns…”
“I suspect the key might be related to arcane rune formations!”
Shen Yun Yao said after carefully observing for a while.
“Magic formations?”
Ye Feng frowned slightly and examined it carefully.
“Indeed!”
After a while, Ye Feng nodded and said, “This entire door is designed with a very special magic formation, a combination of multiple formations.”
“And the most crucial component… is that strange slot in the center of the door, which has been taken away. That is the key!”
“Without the core component, the magic formation on the door cannot be activated, and the door cannot be opened!”
“Wait… the magic formation on this door… also has a formation within a formation, designed for self-destruction, I almost missed it…”
At the end, Ye Feng became somewhat discouraged. He had been thinking about whether to try digging a hole in it with his Tang dao.
“Big brother, this slot looks a bit familiar! I feel like I’ve seen it somewhere~”
At this moment, Xiao Xiao’s voice sounded.
“Familiar?”
Ye Feng and Shen Yun Yao both turned their gaze towards Xiao Xiao.
“Yes!”
Xiao Xiao furrowed her small brows and began to think.
Suddenly, her eyes lit up, “It’s that fire seed called Cang Feng, big brother, Sister Yun Yao, it’s that fire seed we saw in Mech City that can turn into a door!”
“This… if you twist the slot, it really does look quite similar…”
Ye Feng recalled and muttered.
“Wait… the magic formation on this door… the missing part…”
With Xiao Xiao’s reminder, Ye Feng suddenly remembered something that had puzzled him when he was in Mech City.
“Yun Yao, do you have the fire seed Cang Feng with you?”
Ye Feng looked at Shen Yun Yao with anticipation.
“Yes… yes!”
Shen Yun Yao was slightly stunned, then nodded. With a flash of light in her hand, the fire seed Cang Feng instantly appeared.
Ye Feng’s hand glowed with arcane energy as he began to probe the fire seed Cang Feng.
“As expected!”
After a while, Ye Feng let out a long sigh, his expression quite pleased.
“Ye Feng, this fire seed Cang Feng… isn’t it the key to that door?”
Shen Yun Yao seemed to have realized something.
“It should be!”
Ye Feng let out a light breath, “Yun Yao, do you remember when I taught you how to turn the fire seed Cang Feng into a teleportation gate, I mentioned a seemingly superfluous magic formation inside?”
“Yes!”
Shen Yun Yao nodded, as she had pondered over this for a long time.
“That magic formation is incomplete, so it looks useless and its purpose is unknown!”
As he spoke, Ye Feng pointed to the dark, ancient door in front of them, “But if we piece together that seemingly useless, incomplete formation with the formation on the door… then the entire formation will be complete!”
“This fire seed Cang Feng… is the missing core component of this door, it is the key!”
At the end, Ye Feng sighed with emotion.
If Shen Yun Yao had not also come here and brought the fire seed Cang Feng, then his trip to the ancient ruin would likely have been…
“Zzzzzla~ Szzzzzla~”
Suddenly, a series of electrical crackles interrupted Ye Feng’s thoughts.