158: Bizarre speculation: The Celestial Beast is trending.

Jian Wuxie found a key from the spot where the woman poisoned by Quan Wudi had died. He turned it over in his hand, and seeing nothing special, he checked its attributes.

[Duchy's Vault Key]

Quest Item

Jian Wuxie wondered, "Strange, what's the deal with this vault key?"

Xiao Hongyuan thought for a moment and said, "Let's show it to Sharan when we get back to the city. Put it away for now; it should be for a quest!"

Jian Wuxie nodded and put it away.

The woman in the room was dead, but there were still many light Elemental Spirit around. Seeing them, Xiao Hongyuan suddenly remembered something. She turned to Quan Wudi and said, "Brother Quan, whatever you do, don't use Nen Qi Wave. These light Elemental Spirit will target us; that's how Brother Lin and the others died!"

Quan Wudi laughed. "Don't worry, my Nen Qi Wave isn't even as big as a quail egg! Besides, you forgot what Master Feng Zhen said—I have a passive skill called Qi Deviation. Using Nen-type skills has a chance to stun me!"

Xiao Hongyuan finally felt at ease.

Jian Wuxie and the other two stepped forward to fight the light Elemental Spirit. As they fought, he said, "These Elemental Spirit don't have much ability; they're easy to deal with!"

Xiao Hongyuan nodded. "A Fei, don't forget to pick up the Dazzling Crystals Sharan wanted!"

A Fei nodded and said, "Don't you worry, I won't miss a single one!"

Soon, the Elemental Spirit in the room were cleared out, and the door to the next room opened.

After tidying up, the four continued forward. As soon as they entered the new room, their attention was drawn to the shattered floor tiles.

The tiles were shattered because a mass of dark red, flesh-like matter had protruded from the ground.

“Look!” Quan Wudi pointed toward the sky not far away.

Several round, balloon-like things were floating in the air, moving slowly.

“Where are the monsters here?” Jian Wuxie asked in confusion. He poked the dark red flesh on the ground with his sword and said, “This thing can't be a monster, right? It doesn't move and doesn't seem like a threat!”

Xiao Hongyuan thought for a moment and said, “Are those things flying in the sky monsters? I remember Ophelia mentioned Airships or something; could it be those?”

A Fei looked up and said, “They're so high up, how are we supposed to hit them?”

While the four were discussing, an Airship happened to pass over their heads. It suddenly stopped and then dropped down at a very high speed.

None of the four were paying attention and were hit directly by the falling Airship, all of them knocked down by the massive force.

They had just scrambled back up, not even checking their HP, when the Airship slowly rose back into the air.

“This... what should we do? Deliberately lure it down to fight?” Jian Wuxie suggested.

“That seems to be the only way!” Xiao Hongyuan said.

A Fei didn't join the discussion. Instead, he crouched on the ground studying the mass of dark red flesh. He had clearly seen the flesh wriggle twice when Jian Wuxie was poking it earlier.

A Fei raised his long blade and stabbed the mass of flesh.

Seeing the flesh begin to wriggle and its color seem to darken, he simply raised his blade and started hacking at it.

After a few strikes, although he hadn't even cut through the skin of the flesh, the color grew deeper and deeper.

A Fei struck it again, and suddenly the earth shook violently. He could barely stand, and a massive howl echoed from the distance.

The shaking wasn't just on the ground; even the entire Ruins trembled.

The Airships in the sky were affected and actually fell straight down.

“What's going on? What happened just now?” Jian Wuxie shouted.

“Never mind that, those Airships are down! Attack, quickly!” Quan Wudi shouted while throwing projectiles.

Quan Wudi's poison bottle and poison needle pierced through the Airships, directly corroding their hulls, and two Airships fell apart and disappeared.

“These Airships have low defense and HP! Strike quickly!” Xiao Hongyuan keenly noticed and shouted immediately.

Jian Wuxie rushed forward, activating Dual Swords and hacking away frantically.

Soon, all the Airships were dismantled by the four of them.

“What happened just now? What was that howl? Why did the Airships fall down on their own?” Jian Wuxie asked.

“It was that mass of flesh!” A Fei pointed and continued, “I think that flesh is actually the flesh of the Sky Curtain Great Beast. I hacked it a few times and didn't even leave a scratch, but the Sky Curtain Great Beast felt it and howled.”

Jian Wuxie leaned in curiously and saw the color of the flesh had reverted. He raised his Greatsword and tested it with a few strikes. Sure enough, the color changed. He hacked it a few more times, and as expected, the entire Ruins trembled again as a howl came from the distance.

“Hey, I'll be damned, your guess might actually be right!” Jian Wuxie laughed.

Quan Wudi asked, “Given the Sky Curtain Great Beast's size, can it really feel pain from this little mass of flesh?”

Jian Wuxie laughed, “You'd feel pain if someone pulled out one of your hairs, wouldn't you?”

Xiao Hongyuan chuckled, “But this bit of flesh is much smaller than a hair compared to the Sky Curtain Great Beast.”

Quan Wudi rubbed his chin and said, “Do you think this could be a Pimple on the Sky Curtain Great Beast?”

As soon as he said this, the other three fell silent.

The more Quan Wudi thought about it, the more he felt he was right. He continued his analysis, “Think about it, these Ruins are built on the back of the Sky Curtain Great Beast, right?”

The three of them nodded in unison.

“And this mass of flesh burst through the floor, which means it wasn't there before, right?” Quan Wudi continued to ask.

The three thought about it and nodded again.

“Exactly! That is to say, this flesh suddenly bulged out and burst through the floor of the Ruins. Besides a Pimple, what else would grow out so suddenly?” Quan Wudi analyzed proudly, looking like he had seen through everything.

“Analyzing it like that... Brother Quan, are you saying the Sky Curtain Great Beast has Internal Heat and is breaking out in Pimples?” Jian Wuxie asked, intrigued.

“Exactly. Didn't they say that Rotus guy is parasitizing the Sky Curtain Great Beast? Think about it, if you had a parasite on you that you couldn't reach, wouldn't you be so stressed you'd get Internal Heat?” Quan Wudi countered.

“That... makes sense!” Jian Wuxie had to admit.

Xiao Hongyuan's expression grew darker the more she listened. She interrupted them, “Alright, stop the blind guessing and let's keep moving!”

After speaking, Xiao Hongyuan called out to A Fei, who was searching all over the room, “A Fei, stop looking, let's go!”

Only then did A Fei walk toward the door to the next room, looking back with every step and muttering, “This shouldn't be right, how can there be nothing in this room?”

Xiao Hongyuan was on the verge of a breakdown. Who on earth sent these three idiots to torture her!

The four of them cleared room after room. Many rooms had masses of flesh that had burst through the floor, and Quan Wudi and Jian Wuxie continued to discuss how to clear the Sky Curtain Great Beast's Internal Heat!