Cultivation Kill

"what way?"

"Did you notice that as soon as one stone pillar appears, another immediately sinks into the lava, with an interval of about one second?" Shen Zige said. "We were looking for a pattern just now, but we don't need to rely on patterns to get through this lava zone. We just need to jump up when the stone pillar sinks, stay in the air for one second, and then jump to the stone pillar that reappears."

Di Zheng and Shi Yuan remained silent.

"I observed that the Flame Beast only attacks people or objects that are airborne for more than two seconds," Shen Zige added.

"Let's just honestly look for the pattern!" Shi Yuan said. "If we find the pattern, we'll know where the next stone pillar will appear, and we can get there with just one jump. Your method involves two jumps in mid-air, a double jump in the game, which is impossible in reality!"

Di Zheng nodded.

"I thought you two, a big boss and a detective, would know how to double jump in mid-air?" Shen Zige said. "Predict in advance, use the Golden Light Shield, jump onto the shield, and then jump over the stone pillar when it appears."

Shi Yuan and Di Zheng exchanged a glance. Indeed, it was possible to perform a fake double jump in mid-air!

“Great, it’s decided then. Who wants to try first?” Shi Yuan said.

He didn't want to be the first to try.

How about we play rock-paper-scissors?

The three played rock-paper-scissors, and Detective Di Zheng lost. He needed to be the first to pass through the lava zone.

Shen Zige recalled seeing news about rock-paper-scissors robots before. Those robots had a 100% win rate, and their secret was to analyze the opponent's movements when throwing a punch, and then throw a punch a few milliseconds later.

With his powerful divine sense, he could easily see what Di Zheng was planning to do.

Shen Zige didn't know how Shi Yuan won, but he was certain that Shi Yuan had cheated!

“I have a problem. I can only place a Golden Light Shield once for each stone pillar,” Di Zheng said. “There are still hundreds of stone pillars behind, which means I need to place at least a hundred Golden Light Shields to skip them. I don’t have that much spiritual power, and I can’t meditate to recover my spiritual power in the middle.”

It's true that people in the late stage of Spirit Condensation can't cast that many spells, and others aren't like Shen Zige, who has double the spiritual power!

It seems that I need elixirs or rare and precious herbs to quickly restore my spiritual energy.

Shi Yuan: "Find your own way, I don't have any pills."

When Shen Zige was at the trading market, she saw Shi Yuan find some pills that could replenish spiritual energy during battles. It seemed that Shi Yuan didn't want to give the good stuff to Di Zheng.

Di Zheng looked at Shen Zige and Shi Yuan for a while, and seeing that neither of them said anything, he could only sigh: "There's nothing I can do, you two are too stingy, so I have to take out my own Qi-replenishing pills and use them!"

"At my maximum strength, I can cast spells more than fifty times. If I take a Qi-replenishing pill to replenish half of my spiritual power, I can cast spells a total of eighty times. I'm still twenty spells short," Di Zheng said.

“You’ll pass if you take two Qi-boosting pills,” Shi Yuan said.

He had no intention of helping Di Zheng at all.

"All my assets amount to only one Qi-replenishing pill."

Di Zheng meant that if you two want me to go first, you must offer enough benefits.

“I have a way. My casting range is quite far,” Shen Zige said. “I’ll stand here and cast the first twenty golden shields for you. You can do the rest on your own.”

This is also a method, and it doesn't consume Qi-replenishing pills; you can recover simply by meditating and cultivating for a while.

Di Zheng could no longer find an excuse to refuse, so he could only instruct, "You must not make a mistake. If you do, I will fall into the lava and die, and then you two will be one less helper."

"Don't worry about my operation, I absolutely won't make any mistakes. Get ready to call me," Shen Zige said.

Di Zheng rested for a while, and then began jumping over the stone pillars.

As he leaped from the fifth stone pillar, Shen Zige precisely cast a golden light shield at his feet.

"Note that my Golden Light Shield only lasts for two seconds," Shen Zige reminded him. In order to increase the sturdiness of the Golden Light Shield, he sacrificed its duration.

“No problem, one second is enough, my reaction is very fast,” Di Zheng replied.

The sixth pillar rose from the lava, and its shape was slightly different from the previous five pillars.

Di Zheng nimbly leaped onto the sixth stone pillar, and then the pillar beneath his feet sank rapidly. He immediately jumped up, and a golden shield of light stopped precisely at his feet.

This was a perfectly coordinated attack!

This is a demonstration of the skills of two masters!

When Di Zheng arrived at the twenty-fifth stone pillar—

“The last golden shield is too far to reach!” Shen Zige said. “You can place the shield on the next stone pillar yourself.”

Di Zheng continued forward slowly...

Contrary to expectations, there were 115 stone pillars!

Di Zheng gritted his teeth and jumped over the last few stone pillars. He was still holding a second Qi-replenishing pill in his hand. Fortunately, he reached the other side of the lava area before his spiritual power was exhausted. Otherwise, he would have wasted another Qi-replenishing pill. These pills were hard to buy, so he was saving every one he could.

Shi Yuan walked to the edge of the lava.

"I'll go first, otherwise if you go to the other side first, you won't be able to help me."

“Okay,” Shen Zige said.

Shi Yuan also knew the Myriad Thoughts Technique, and his control over spiritual power was much stronger than Di Zheng's. His Golden Light Shield consumed half the power of Di Zheng's and lasted for only a little over a second, which saved spiritual power. In the end, he didn't use the shield and directly jumped over the position that Di Zheng had stepped on. He didn't need a Qi-replenishing pill and directly reached the other side.

"We're both transmigrators from Earth, so how come you two are better than me?" Di Zheng said jealously.

“Even though they are both carbon elements, some are diamonds, and some are coal,” Shi Yuan said.

Di Zheng didn't want to talk to Shi Yuan anymore, so he went straight through the archway to the next area.

Shen Zige rested for a while to recover his spiritual power, then jumped onto the stone pillar. He memorized the locations of all the stone pillars, and jumped to the other side without using a golden light shield.

"Wait for me--"

Just as Shen Zige was about to step into the archway, a person ran towards her from the opposite side of the lava zone and shouted loudly.

Shen Zige turned around in surprise and found that it was Cheng Dazhuang!

"How did you escape the formation?" Shen Zige asked.

"I used a secret technique to petrify my skin. The formation determined that I was rock, not human, and the suction disappeared, so I immediately fled," Cheng Dazhuang explained.

“You’re a bit slow, so just stand over there in the lava zone!” Shen Zige said. “Even if you come over, it won’t be of much help to us.”

After saying that, he walked into the rock archway.

Shen Zige arrived at a pool filled with bubbles.

Under the light of the spirit lamp—

Colorful bubbles continuously rise to the surface of the water, burst at the top of the wall, and turn back into water droplets, creating a continuous cycle.

“Without a doubt, these bubbles are poisonous,” Di Zheng said immediately when he saw Shen Zige approaching.

"Use the poison-avoiding talisman and cross by stepping on the water." Shen Zige thought of a way to cross the pool in a second.

"As expected of Shen Zige, an ordinary person would need to think for at least a few minutes to come up with this method," Shi Yuan said. "However, I think ordinary poison-avoiding talismans cannot pass through this poison pool."

Shen Zige recalled the day when Shi Dazhu was short of lizard grass; he had glanced at the list of herbs in Shi Dazhu's hand at that time.

"I'll name a few herbs, see if you have them in your storage bag?" Shen Zige thought that Shi Yuan's storage bag contained almost everything, and then named the herbs that Shi Dazhu needed to find.