[You know that outside the Divine Ruins, there is a demon king waiting for you. You dare not leave easily and continue to explore deeper into the Divine Ruins.]
[Even though this is the outskirts of the Divine Ruins, you can't afford to be careless and remain prepared to take action at any moment.]
[One minute later, you encounter no danger and cautiously continue forward.]
[Two minutes later, after crossing a small hill, your luck takes a turn for the worse as you encounter a group of Soul-Eating Demons.]
[Among this group of Soul-Eating Demons, there are seven or eight of them, including three at the peak of Profound Level. Faced with them, you have to channel all your Qi and Spiritual Energy into your Divine Soul power.]
[Unfortunately, Soul-Eating Demons are composed of fragmented souls and possess strong immunity to Divine Soul power. Your Divine Soul power is still lacking, so you have to resort to the power of Elemental Manipulation and Physical Enhancement.]
[For these entities without physical bodies, the power of Physical Enhancement below the King Level has no effect, and only Elemental Manipulation can have some effect, although without the blessing of Elemental Power, the effect is not significant.]
[During the battle, your Divine Soul power is gradually consumed by the Soul-Eating Demons.]
[Three minutes later, you die, devoured by the Soul-Eating Demons.]
"Did I just die on the first prediction?"
Su Nan's heart sank.
In any other place, with the full enhancement of Qi and Spiritual Energy and the assistance of Elemental Manipulation, he could easily defeat Peak Profound Level demons. But here, he was the one who got killed.
He continued to predict.
[Outside the Divine Ruins, a demon king is waiting for you, and you dare not leave easily, so you continue to explore deeper into the Divine Ruins.]
[You know that by going deeper into the Divine Ruins, you will inevitably encounter Soul-Eating Demons frequently. You choose to release your avatar to lead the way and investigate the situation ahead.]
[You maintain a distance of a kilometer from your avatar. One minute later, your avatar encounters no Soul-Eating Demons.]
[Two minutes later, your avatar arrives at the foot of a hill. You realize that crossing this hill might lead to an encounter with Soul-Eating Demons. You decisively choose to detour to the left.]
[Three minutes later, you circumvent the hill, and your luck is good as you encounter no creatures ahead.]
[The first prediction ends. Do you want to continue?]
"Continue."
Next, Su Nan consecutively made four or five predictions.
In these predictions, his luck was still good. Although he encountered a group of Soul-Eating Demons each time, the strongest among them was only at the Spiritual Level Peak, which he easily dispatched. Moreover, without his Divine Soul descending, the avatar was just a tool, immune to the effects of the Soul-Eating Demons.
With the avatar, he acted as a human probe. Once the avatar detected Soul-Eating Demons, his main body immediately changed direction.
With the avatar assisting him, he smoothly avoided several groups of Soul-Eating Demons.
"It seems that the danger here is primarily concentrated in the Soul-Eating Demons."
"As long as I don't encounter them, there doesn't seem to be any other danger. But this situation definitely won't last."
"If the danger only comes from the Soul-Eating Demons, then this place is not worthy of being considered a life-restricted zone."
Despite several successful predictions, Su Nan remained vigilant. He understood that this was just the beginning.
Sure enough, in the seventh prediction, a problem arose.
[After crossing a small hill, through your avatar, you suddenly see, a hundred meters ahead, a dilapidated building made of blue stones.]
[The building has been there for who knows how long, with the surface of the blue stones severely weathered. You can vaguely tell that it's a temple.]
[The temple's style doesn't match the era you're in. You guess it must be a building left behind from ancient times.]
[Curious, you want to see what an ancient-era building looks like.]
[Controlling your avatar, you cautiously approach the temple. One minute later, you arrive at the temple and see that it is an Earth God Temple.]
[The Earth God Temple is in ruins, with half of it already collapsed, and even the statue of the Earth God inside has only half of its body remaining, covered in thick dust.]
[What puzzles you is that, through the remaining half of the statue, you see that it is significantly different from a normal Earth God statue. Unfortunately, the remaining part is too small for you to determine the exact difference.]
[You control your avatar to enter the Earth God Temple, investigate the interior, and two minutes later, you find nothing and continue to control your avatar to move forward.]
[However, when your main body crosses the small hill and sees the Earth God Temple, you don't realize that the Earth God Temple you see is completely different from what your avatar saw.]
[In your main body's eyes, although the Earth God Temple appears ancient, it is not dilapidated. It is a complete temple, and you do not notice any anomalies, continuing to walk towards the Earth God Temple.]
[When your main body arrives at the Earth God Temple, you see a statue of a benevolent elderly figure inside the temple.]
[You can't help but step into the Earth God Temple and bow to the Earth God statue.]
[You die.]
"I died just like that?"
Su Nan was filled with doubts. The things his main body saw were completely different from what the avatar saw? It was clear that his main body fell victim to an illusion!
"Illusion!"
"I saw an illusion!"
Su Nan thought of a bold possibility.
Only this possibility could explain the discrepancies in the predictions.
Illusions were constructed by Divine Soul power, and the avatar, lacking a Divine Soul, was naturally immune.
His main body, on the other hand, was susceptible, which was the fundamental reason for the differences when the avatar encountered the illusion.
"But why did I die after bowing to the statue?"
Su Nan couldn't help but ponder.
Suddenly, he thought back to the situation in the City God Temple in Tianyun City.
In the prediction at the City God Temple, he had also died after bowing to the City God statue.
Now, he died mysteriously again, making him suspect whether there was a powerful Soul-Eating Demon in the Earth God Temple.
"One is the City God Temple, and the other is the Earth God Temple. Could there be a connection between the two?"
In a moment, Su Nan thought of a bold possibility.
Unfortunately, there was too little information, and he couldn't be sure.
"Places like this Earth God Temple are likely not the only ones in this Divine Ruins. If I can't figure out what's going on, I might fall victim again the next time."
After thinking for a moment, Su Nan decided not to avoid the Earth God Temple as he did with the Soul-Eating Demons but to find out what was going on in the Earth God Temple.
He didn't immediately continue predicting.
On his panel, he only had seventeen predictions left.
After a slight hesitation, he decided to approach the location of the temple as described in the prediction first.
He had just made seven consecutive predictions to reach the temple. Continuing to predict here, even though the consumption of predictions would be reduced due to retracing the same path, it would still take at least four or five predictions to reach the Earth God Temple.
Even if he still had sixty predictions, it would not withstand such consumption.
With his decision made, Su Nan controlled his avatar to lead the way, and he followed at a distance.
Chapter 209: The Unfathomable Earth God Temple
As soon as he released his avatar, outside the Divine Ruins, the White Water Demon King immediately sensed the mark on the avatar's body, a look of confusion in his eyes.
"Several more marks, from another outsider this time. Strange, how did another outsider suddenly appear?"
The White Water Demon King was puzzled and couldn't fathom how another outsider had obtained a divine weapon.
After a moment, he sensed that both outsiders were heading deeper into the Divine Ruins, and he couldn't help but sneer.
"Interesting. The young are fearless; they probably don't even know where they've entered."
"I want to see how far you can go."
...
Several minutes later, Su Nan stopped in front of a desolate hill. By now, he had advanced dozens of miles.
Once he crossed the small hill in front of him, he would be able to see the predicted Earth God Temple.
Afraid to proceed further, he began to predict.
...
[Controlling your avatar, you approach the temple, knowing that this ruined temple in front of you is not as simple as it seems, harboring unknown dangers.]
[You control your avatar to enter the temple and carefully search inside, hoping to find something unusual.]
[Two minutes later, you have searched most of the temple, but you find nothing out of the ordinary.]
[Three minutes later, you have combed through the entire temple, still finding nothing.]
[Unwilling to leave it at that, you decide to control your avatar to completely destroy the temple.]
[However, just as you're about to destroy the temple, something unexpected happens. The ruined temple undergoes a terrifying transformation, and a horrifying aura begins to emanate from it.]
[In the next moment, your avatar is obliterated, reduced to the most primitive essence of magic, returning to your body.]
[Just as your avatar is being obliterated, you hear a mechanical, emotionless voice.]
[Destroyer of the temple shall die!]
[The first prediction ends. Do you want to continue?]
"My avatar was obliterated?"
Su Nan was shocked. His avatar was formed from the indestructible power of the Blue Crystal, virtually invulnerable.
Even when faced with the King-level Sacrificial Demon God's blade in the City God Temple, it could only inflict serious damage on his avatar, not obliterate it.
But now, simply because he was about to destroy the Earth God Temple, it had been obliterated! He couldn't imagine how powerful the force unleashed by the Earth God Temple at the end must have been.
"It can't be destroyed by the avatar, and the main body can't see it either. I can't provoke it, so can I still avoid it?"
He chose not to continue predicting and gave up on the idea of understanding the Earth God Temple's mysteries for now.
He decisively chose to detour.
[You know that there may be unknown dangers ahead, so you decide to take a detour. You control your avatar to move to the left, intending to bypass from the left side.]
[One minute later, you encounter no danger.]
[Two minutes later, through your avatar, you unexpectedly see a dilapidated building made of blue stones about a hundred meters ahead.]
[This building has existed for who knows how long, with the surface of the blue stones severely weathered. You can vaguely tell that it's a temple, an Earth God Temple.]
"Another Earth God Temple? Why are there so many Earth God Temples here?"
Su Nan was puzzled and continued to read.
However, the information in the next prediction changed his expression drastically.
[Curious about the Earth God Temple, you control your avatar to approach it. After a moment, your avatar arrives at the Earth God Temple.]
[The Earth God Temple is in ruins, with half of it already collapsed, and even the statue of the Earth God inside has only half of its body remaining, covered in thick dust.]
[What's strange is that through the remaining half of the statue, you can see that it is significantly different from a normal Earth God statue. Unfortunately, the remaining part is too small for you to determine the exact difference.]
"Could this Earth God Temple be the same as the one just now?"
Seeing the identical prediction as before, Su Nan's face turned grim. He suddenly had a bad feeling.
[You choose not to enter the Earth God Temple, resolutely controlling your avatar to retreat and change direction.]
[Three minutes later, you return to the small hill where you started. This time, you choose to bypass from the right side.]
[The first prediction ends. Do you want to continue?]
"Continue!"
[One minute later, you encounter no danger.]
[Two minutes later, through your avatar, you unexpectedly see a dilapidated building made of blue stones about a hundred meters ahead. It's an Earth God Temple!]
[The Earth God Temple feels strangely familiar, and from the external appearance alone, it's identical to the one you encountered earlier!]
[You have a bad hunch, but to confirm your suspicion, you still choose to control your avatar to continue forward.]
[You quickly arrive at the Earth God Temple, and through your avatar, you see that the Earth God Temple is in ruins, with half of it already collapsed. Even the statue of the Earth God inside has only half of its body remaining, covered in thick dust.]
[This Earth God Temple is unmistakably the same as the one you encountered earlier, and you are now certain that you haven't encountered similar temples but the very same one.]
"I knew it!"
Seeing this, Su Nan took a deep breath, trying to calm himself.
What he had hoped wouldn't happen had indeed occurred. He wasn't encountering similar temples; it was the exact same one.
What did this mean? It meant that he was ensnared by this bizarre Earth God Temple!
It had its sights set on him and had no intention of letting him leave.
[You control your avatar to enter the Earth God Temple once again, attempting to destroy it.]
[However, just as you're about to destroy the temple, something unexpected happens. The ruined temple undergoes a terrifying transformation, and a horrifying aura begins to emanate from it.]
[In the next moment, your avatar is obliterated, reduced to the most primitive essence of magic, returning to your body.]
[The second prediction ends. Do you want to continue?]
"What in the world is happening with this Earth God Temple? How can it appear in different locations?"
"Could everything I've seen, including what my avatar saw, be illusions?"
The current situation was too strange, something Su Nan had never encountered before.
"I wonder if the Grand Princess inside the Qiankun Ring knows what's going on?"
Su Nan thought of the Grand Princess within his Qiankun Ring.
She had also entered this place, and maybe she knew what was happening now.
(End of this chapter)