The collection of mission items went smoothly. Lu Mei first went to a side hall sacrificial site recorded in the intelligence records, which was a place previously designated by the religious sect for people to offer sacrifices to.
There, Lu Mei found an escaped insect cultist. After defeating the wild boar zombie he created, she successfully killed him and obtained the Piece of Time in his hand.
Then he successfully found another insect cultist in the big library in the city.
He used the fragments of time to successfully transform some living corpses into the state of insects. Then when necessary, he could gather these insects, merge with himself, and transform into a powerful insect swarm.
Lu Mei was also a bit tricky to solve. Fortunately, the opponent's sanity was almost worn away, and he had a strong smell of a living corpse. The fragments at that time could not be removed, and his mind was aging.
After conquering the Big Library.
Lu Mei found a defector from another religious sect in the nearby mountains.
He also stole the Pieces of Time and escaped here.
Unlike the other two people, they chose to use fragments of time as a medium to transform the living corpses.
This bug integrates the fragments of time into its own body. In this way, it interferes with its own body to the greatest extent, maintains its own activity, and prevents it from turning into a living corpse.
They are all half souls and half flesh. An aging mind will weaken the body, but a strong body will also replenish the mind.
So, Lu Mei saw a ‘normal person’ in this place for the first time.
The opponent was wearing a purple robe. There were no feet under the robe, but a large number of thick tentacles.
The tentacles protruding from both sides of the robe are intertwined, looking like a person holding his arms.
The top of the head is not empty holes and tentacles, but has a somewhat human appearance, but it is also full of the characteristics of various insects.
"I sensed the aura of the other two Pieces of Time on you." The normal bug looked at Lu Mei, but unlike other people who collected Pieces of Time, he didn't attack Lu Mei directly when he saw her, and even introduced himself: " Hello, I am the high priest of the Insect Cult, you can just call me Insect Priest."
“You want to complete the collection of ritual items and then reverse them, right?”
"I advise you not to do this. You will not get any results, but it will cause greater disasters."
“Otherwise, why do you think I would just leave with the Pieces of Time in the first place.” The insect priest said very seriously, and at the same time, he lifted up his purple robe slightly.
On his body, a transparent fragment was stuck on it. As the insect priest moved, it slightly exuded the breath of life, allowing the insect priest to become healthier.
“You see, the time power on the Time Fragments can only ensure that my body does not age.”
“There is no way for me to maintain my current state of health, or even feed back my mental state through a healthy body.”
“All this is because I discovered the true utility of the Time Shards.”
“The time bug we first designed, the ideal time bug that allows the human body to be undisturbed by time and gain eternal life, did not completely fail.”
“Fragments of Time are the raw materials for the Worm of Time.”
“I have mastered how to transform the fragments of time into real time insects.”
“Do you want to live forever?”
The words of the Worm Priest are extremely tempting.
In this eternal land, everyone knows that the Worm Cult's ritual failed.
However, it is precisely because of this knowledge, looking at the existence of the eternal land, that we can verify the authenticity of the insect priest's words.
The fragments of time, the things that this ritual peels off from the time realm, may really be able to achieve eternal life.
If an ordinary person were here, they might be really moved, but Lu Mei is not an ordinary person.
Although her current strength is only at the life level, her foundation is at the pseudo-Japanese level.
As long as she can build a reasonable power system and make the power system orderly and cohesive, she will naturally become a day-level player.
The so-called eternal life is just an incidental product of this process, and it is not worth the risk for her to merge into the Worm of Time.
"You should be different from me. You have not been contaminated by the common insects of time here, and you can still leave this eternal place."
“As long as you can help me do one thing, I will teach you how to create a real Worm of Time.”
"The Ring of Thorns among the holy relics is on the other side of the mountain at the moment. There is a guy hiding in it relying on that thing. Go and give the Ring of Thorns to me."
“When the time comes, you will leave this eternal land with the real Worm of Time and successfully gain eternal life.”
“Isn’t this bad?”
The insect priest thought that if he said this, Lu Mei, a foreigner, would agree to it no matter what.
Even if you are suspicious and wary, you will play tricks on yourself after getting the trading items.
However, Lu Mei did not expect that after hearing this, Lu Mei would take action directly.
The power of ethereal dreams quietly invades and is about to confuse the insect priest.
At the same time, Lu Mei's body flashed, and by removing the anchor of space, she was able to achieve a faster space jump than overlapping in the spiritual world.
Lu Mei appeared behind the insect priest in the blink of an eye. The blade in her hand turned into an anchor at this moment. Once it was stabbed, it would completely anchor the insect priest.
The fog of the dream is of little use to the insect priest. After he notices Lu Mei's move, he will squirm quickly and avoid the anchor, but his body will be scratched. Physical injuries can be recovered as quickly as possible in just one or two breaths.
But the insect priest cast the curse of the insect in the process.
These futures flashed by, and Lu Mei waved the sharp blade in his hand. Although the insect priest did not expect that Lu Mei would take action, he still sensed the danger. His body squirmed quickly, and the power of time acted on him, allowing him to show the ability to stay away from time to time.
However, Lu Mei's blade was swung too fast, and his pause did not really have any effect, as if the tentacles of his arms had been scratched by Lu Mei's knife.
The anchoring power on the blade invaded instantly and anchored its tentacles, and the entire tentacles suddenly lost their sensitivity.
Then the Insect Priest will distance himself and cast the curse. This is the ability that the Insect Cult is based on.
The so-called Worm of Time was initially regarded as a curse.
However, before the Insect Priest’s curse could even begin, the dream power that had previously acted as a disturbance changed at this moment.
The power of dreams, which was originally just a confusing effect, turned into a substantial substance at this moment, instantly covering the head of the insect priest.
The curse of the insect priest was interrupted instantly, and at this moment he seemed to have fallen into a dream, becoming confused and no longer able to resist.
Lu Mei’s power of dreams is naturally not that powerful, but she still has the ‘power of her true self’.
The power of her true self is still very weak, but she discovered that any power can be continuously strengthened and become more powerful as long as it is blessed by the true self.
This kind of push can even be like a snowball, which can continuously strengthen the strength.
Lu Mei then blessed this true self with the power of dreams.
The power of dreams will be rapidly strengthened.
Lu Mei used this to control and kill the insect priest.
After successfully obtaining the Pieces of Time from him, the Insect Priest's body seemed to be unplugged. His body quickly receded and turned into debris and dissipated.
Obviously, he was already a living corpse, but it was the fragments of time that made him a living corpse.
On this piece of debris, Lu Mei found traces of some insects.
The fragments pierced the side of the insect priest's body, and something like a blood vessel grew out.
At this moment, these blood vessels are still beating, like little bugs trying to return to the insect priest's body.
Lu Mei completely removed the blood vessels of these insects, and then she completed the collection of the fragments of time.
Subsequently, according to the insect priest's description, he went to the other side of the mountain and found traces of a holy relic.
Three holy relics, namely the Time Table, the Ring of Thorns and the Bloody Leaves.
The time pocket watch is the power of the time side and has been transformed by Hollander into the key to the small portal.
The whereabouts of the Bloody Leaf are unknown, and no traces or clues have been found from the Insect Cult.
Instead, it is the Ring of Thorns, information obtained from the Insect Priest.
This is a man-made cave, the entrance of which is covered with thorns.
If the thorns at the door had not been cleared away, no one would have known that there was such a hole behind it.
Behind the entrance of the cave, Lu Mei saw a long driving light.
Obviously, she was in the right place.
At the beginning, civil strife broke out among the people in Hollander because some people were able to leave and some were unable to leave.
Two of the groups took out the two remaining holy relics and disappeared without a trace.
According to intelligence, these two groups of people both master the manufacturing method of the exorcism lamp.
Lu Mei is more interested in this thing than the so-called Worm of Time.
Continuing to go deeper, Lu Mei was attacked by a beetle-like creature.
These beetles are extremely numerous and not too small, about the size of a fist. They have a hard shell and the most important thing is that they can fly.
If they were not in this cave, the trouble level of these beetles would skyrocket.
Lu Mei also had to rely on the group control power of the dream to completely solve them and enter the 'main room' inside the cave.
With the arrival of Lu Mei, her eyes first focused on a coffin placed in the main room.
At this moment, the coffin was shaking slightly, the lid was slowly pushed open, and a human sat up from it.
This is the first human being that Lu Mei saw after entering this place.
His body was tied with **** thorns, and the red color from the thorns was particularly dazzling in his eyes.
After the other party got up, his expression was a little dazed, and then his eyes became clearer, and then those clear eyes fell on Lu Mei.
“Is the Eternal Land unlocked?” he asked.
Second update, sorry.