396 Five Elements Jade Disc (2/2)

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Upon entering the group of immortal tombs, Wang Lu once again saw the familiar vast galaxy. After one month of clearing more than a dozen chains, Wang Lu had developed an aesthetic fatigue towards the scene in front of him. However, thinking that he would soon face unprecedentedly complex difficulties, Wang Lu immediately cheered himself up. Then, he used the fragments from the last chain that he cleared as a guide to open the next chain.

The endless galaxy was shattered and twisted into a huge whirlpool which sucked him in. This process has been experienced by Wang Lu more than a dozen times, so this was nothing new to him. However, this time, Wang Lu clearly felt that, on the other side of the whirlpool was a huge network whose many of the content were connected together.

Sensing this, Wang Lu's heart could not help but turn cold because previously, looking at the map, there was a hazy blur on this chain that did not allow him to clearly see it. However, this time, when he was deep inside it, Wang Lu felt that there were a lot of hidden mysteries, far different than the previous more than a dozen chains.

And before he could think too much of this, his vision of this immortal dream land ended and this major plot was finally opened to him.

However, when Wang Lu was ready to greet this new world, he found out that there was only darkness.

”Tsk, unprecedentedly difficult indeed, from the beginning, it has already become different.”

In all of his past more than a dozen immortal dream lands, the scene happened so quickly that people almost have no response time. But now, there was darkness, meaning that some things were brewing.

A moment later, a bit of light lit up the darkness. Wang Lu went towards the light and found a piece of jade disc that gave off a faint light.

Wang Lu could not help but muse: could it be that this is a good luck jade disc?

However, very soon, five rays of light emerged out of that disc. And Wang Lu found that these five rays of light were the pure force of the five elements. At the same time, an insight suddenly flashed through his brain. This jade disc was not a treasure granted for him, but rather a display option where he needed to choose one of the five elements first before he could continue to explore the plot.

And because of this insight, Wang Lu became even more surprised, because this immortal dream land had actually made a direct hint. Previously, Wang Lu had never received any hint from the immortal dream land. After entering the immortal dream land, what exactly the cultivators had to do and how to do it were all decided by the participants.

For example, in the Peach Garden Village story, instead of saving the villagers, Wang Lu could have joined the demons and monsters of Black Wind Mountain to wantonly rape and ravage the women of the village. The only problem was that, this action would not lead to the clearance of the story, and that decision also contained unpredictable risks. In fact, in the past one year of the exploration of the group of immortal tombs, there were plenty of people who were unclear of their mission goal in the immortal dream lands and had to ultimately come back with nothing. And the biggest reason why Wang Lu was able to clear more than a dozen chains in just one month, compared to one year of hard work from the other same-level elite disciples, was that each time he could accurately determine the mission goal, and this was also not without relationship with the map in his hand.

But now, for the first time, the immortal dream land gave off a clear guidance. This undoubtedly meant that either the story in this chain was extremely complex that without the hint no one could clear it, or the story was extremely simple and the focus was not on the plot at all.

Before the jade disc, Wang Lu pondered for a moment, ”I need to choose one of the five elements? Of course it's gold.”

The five elements have generating and overcoming interaction between each other, which basically made none of them have relative superiority over the others1, but since gold was in the option, why would he want to choose earth?

However, before Wang Lu's hand could reach the golden light, the golden light on that jade plate was suddenly extinguished! Wang Lu was suddenly startled. He then repeatedly poked that spot in the jade plate, with no response.

”Um… the gold can't be chosen in this five elements?”

With a hint of helplessness, Wang Lu reached out for the fire light. However, just like the previous, before he could touch it, its light went out.

”Tsk, gold is forbidden, and fire can't be chosen, fine, I'll choose wood… huh? Can't even choose wood either? Do I have to choose water? I'm a big man, why would I want to play with water… Damn it! Even water is forbidden? Doesn't this mean I can only choose earth?”

One after another, the five elements rays of light on the jade disc were extinguished, until finally, a brown glow shone alone.

”Are you kidding me… at the beginning, it said to let me choose for myself, but in the end, it simply has no choice at all! Ah well, country bumpkin is earth, new rich is also earth2, fine I'll take it.”

With that, Wang Lu put his hand on that jade disc. The next moment, darkness engulfed everything, and when the light shone once again, the scene has already changed.

In the midst of the light, a young woman with a determined look who stood upright in front of him quietly asked, ”I ask you, are you my follower?”

”What?”

…because there would always be an element that counters another elementIn Chinese, the words ”country bumpkin” = ”tu bie” and ”new rich” = ”tu hao” both have the word ”earth/soil” = ”tu” in it