65: Cause and effect, Red Moon Space

Reading up to this point, the text on the wall came to an end.

Ye Xiao's heart sank with the content of the text.

The doubts in his heart grew more and more.

He also obtained the crimson moon token only after killing Snow Phoenix.

The owner of this text also obtained the red moon eye by killing Mixed-bloods.

It seems that the Red Moon and the Mixed-bloods have some kind of connection.

However, Ye Xiao had already read various documents, and before this, he had never seen any records related to the words 'Red Moon'.

He also didn't know whether humans were unaware of this matter, or if information about the Red Moon was deliberately erased from the documents.

Thinking of this, Ye Xiao sighed softly.

"It seems there are still many unknown secrets in the Eternal World."

Then, Ye Xiao walked around the walls of the cave.

After reading through everything, Ye Xiao suddenly understood and finally knew what had happened to Jiang Wei.

This guy was quite lucky; after collecting the wind elemental essence,

he consulted a large number of ancient books and gathered a lot of related information.

Finally, half a year later, he unexpectedly found this underground palace.

By this time, Jiang Wei's level had completely fallen behind.

His family had also completely given up on him because of this.

But Jiang Wei didn't care; he knew that if he could collect a complete Dark Element Essence, he would sooner or later surprise everyone.

However, after entering the underground palace,

Jiang Wei successfully found five fragments of the Dark Element Essence.

But just as he was confidently preparing to go all out,

the Skeleton King buried deep within the underground palace awoke.

Facing the Skeleton King's Death Domain, Jiang Wei quickly lost.

Fortunately, he found a cave that the Skeleton King could not enter, which was the cave where Ye Xiao currently was, thus saving his life.

The rest was simple.

Trapped in the cave, unable to leave or log off, Jiang Wei eventually could not bear the mental strain and completely broke down.

Then he went mad.

But after going mad, Jiang Wei did not completely lose consciousness; instead, he became incredibly deranged.

And somehow, he mastered a dark-type method.

He began to use the obtained Dark Element Essence fragments to cultivate his own dark creatures in the underground palace.

The three bosses Ye Xiao had dealt with earlier were cultivated by Jiang Wei over these decades.

And after going mad, Jiang Wei was actually able to communicate with the Skeleton King, and then he traded the wind elemental essence.

He had the Skeleton King command his dark creatures to increase the intensity of the monsters in the Path of Exile every year.

This was to make more newcomers die on the path of trial.

The Skeleton King gave the grievances of these dead newcomers to Jiang Wei in exchange for the wind elemental essence fragments on Jiang Wei's body, to strengthen himself and his dark army.

As for those grievances, through twenty years of nurturing, they eventually cultivated the three bosses Ye Xiao had encountered earlier.

Seeing this, Ye Xiao suddenly thought.

Casualties in the Path of Exile used to be very rare.

But starting about twenty years ago, for some unknown reason, the intensity of the monsters inside directly increased by a level.

This led to a sharp increase in the casualty rate for newcomers in the first few years.

Now, the reason has been found.

At the same time, through Jiang Wei's records,

Ye Xiao also learned Jiang Wei's true purpose in doing this.

His goal in cultivating his three bosses was to defeat the Skeleton King.

Because the Skeleton King was the ruler of this underground palace.

Jiang Wei speculated that perhaps only by defeating the Skeleton King could he find the exit of the underground palace.

Unfortunately, Jiang Wei was too impatient and couldn't resist making a move several years ago.

As a result, the three bosses were no match for the Skeleton King, who had been strengthened by the wind elemental essence fragments.

This outcome caused Jiang Wei and the Skeleton King's transaction to completely terminate.

For the next ten years or so,

the Skeleton King attacked Jiang Wei and the three bosses at all times.

Jiang Wei could only hide in this cave with the three bosses.

But Jiang Wei had no intention of giving up.

For these ten years, he constantly used the three bosses to absorb the dark energy in the underground palace to increase their strength.

Until before encountering Ye Xiao, Jiang Wei's three bosses' abilities were already close to the Skeleton King's.

But having learned from the previous lesson, Jiang Wei forcibly endured this time.

He waited until the strength of the three bosses increased another level before making a move to kill the Skeleton King.

The subsequent events were not recorded in the diary.

But Ye Xiao naturally knew.

That was his appearance; he killed the Skeleton King and Jiang Wei's three bosses.

Finally, Jiang Wei also died completely at Ye Xiao's hands.

After reading all of Jiang Wei's diaries,

Ye Xiao quickly organized his thoughts.

He soon felt relieved.

Jiang Wei's guess was actually not wrong; killing the Skeleton King could indeed lead to leaving the underground palace.

Because Ye Xiao entered the underground palace through the ground broken by the Skeleton King.

He just needed to return the way he came.

But there was one point: Jiang Wei's level had already exceeded 90.

However, the Path of Exile only allows new Professionals to enter each year, and their level cannot exceed 90.

Once a Professional above level 90 forcibly breaks into the Path of Exile, they will be completely annihilated by the rules within.

This had been tested by Human Job Holders in the very beginning.

However, Ye Xiao didn't need to worry about this at all.

After all, he was currently exactly level 90 and hadn't done his advancement quest yet.

And through the diary on the wall, Ye Xiao also learned why there was an unbreakable forbidden door deep within the cave.

It was made by Jiang Wei using the red moon eye.

This was somewhat beyond Ye Xiao's expectations.

He hadn't thought that the red moon eye could also create forbidden spaces.

What about his crimson moon token? Did it also have the same effect?

Shaking his head, Ye Xiao first suppressed this doubt in his heart.

Then, he came to the dilapidated door.

He used the red moon eye according to the method described by Jiang Wei.

The next moment, the pupil of Ye Xiao's left eye instantly turned into the shape of a red moon crescent.

A beam of red light emanated from his eye, shining on the broken door.

"Creak!"

As the red light shone, the door indeed slowly opened.

Ye Xiao looked at the familiarAlien Space(different dimension) in front of him, hesitated for a moment, then walked in.

The next moment, Ye Xiao reappeared in a strange space with a Red Moon above his head.

However, this space seemed somewhat different from the one he had entered before.

Ye Xiao didn't have time to look around.

The pale yellow light sphere that had disappeared earlier had already appeared in front of Ye Xiao.

Ye Xiao did not hesitate at all and took the light sphere into his hand.

At the same time, the long-awaited message popped up.

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【Ding! You have collected 6 wind elemental essence fragments. All your wind elemental skills' damage is increased by 60%, wind elemental resistance is increased by 20%, and you gain a new ability: Storm Rush.】

【Storm Rush: Each time you cast a wind-type skill, the projectile speed of all your skills will increase by 10%, lasting 10 seconds, with a maximum stack of 100. The duration resets after each stack.】

【Ding! 10 wind elemental essence fragments have been synthesized into a perfect wind elemental essence.】

【Ding! You have fused the perfect wind elemental essence and gained Blessing of Wind.】

【Blessing of Wind: You can infuse pure wind power into equipment. Equipment attributes that receive Blessing of Wind will gain special effects.】

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At the same time, the Fusion Mage's class advancement quest also changed.