After leaving the Yaoguang Sword Sect, Guhan decided to spend the next day sorting out the matters regarding the Yaoguang Sword Sect's challenge.
Now, the most important task was to bring Yi Tian, the curious baby, into the dungeon.
Guhan estimated the time and estimated that he could play for another one or two hours, which was just about the time needed to complete a small dungeon.
Guhan arrived at the Yaoguang Sword Sect's dungeon transfer hub. This was a building unique to the Sword Sect. It could easily transfer the Sword Sect's players to the various dungeons. Players did not need to waste a lot of time going to the dungeon gates to enter the dungeon.
This was a very good benefit for the Sword Sect's players.
Clicking on the transfer page of the dungeon transfer hub, one would be able to see the dungeon tree page of "Sword Maiden Online" … "Sword Maiden Online"'s dungeon system was like a huge tree that reached the heavens. There were countless branches extending from the trunk, and on top of each branch, there would be countless branches.
These dungeons were all dungeons connected to one another. If one wanted to complete the later dungeons with richer rewards, they would need to complete the previous dungeons one by one.
So far, Guhan's dungeon tree only showed that Guhan had completed two dungeons. One was the initial dungeon, and the other was the Wudang Peak dungeon.
Some readers would ask, didn't he also complete the "King Arthur's Betrayal" dungeon?
It was true that Guhan had indeed completed the "King Arthur's Betrayal" dungeon. However, when Guhan first cleared the "King Arthur's Betrayal" dungeon, the dungeon was in a hidden state. In other words, it did not require any prerequisites. That was why Guhan was able to join the dungeon.
However, now that "King Arthur's Betrayal" had been added to the dungeon tree, it had become the top dungeon among the Famed Sword level dungeons. If one wanted to challenge this dungeon, one would need to clear all eight dungeons before this dungeon … Although Guhan was the first party leader to complete the "King Arthur's Betrayal" dungeon, it was useless. At that moment, the dungeon was still in an inactive state.
Ignoring the Famed Sword Level Instance Dungeon, which was still very far away from Guhan, Guhan's target was the few Instance Dungeons that he could clear.
The Instance Dungeon Tree was made up of six Instance Dungeons. They were the Ancient Sword Main Storyline Dungeon, "King Yue Jian Jian"; the Treasure Sword Main Storyline Dungeon, "Wudang Peak"; the Famed Sword Main Storyline Dungeon, "Yanjing Defense Battle"; the Spirit Sword Main Storyline Dungeon, "Alps Battle"; the Fairy Sword Main Storyline Dungeon, "Return to England"; and the Emperor Sword Main Storyline Dungeon, "Riding into the Heavenly Court".
In addition to these six main dungeons, there were a series of side dungeons that extended from the main dungeon. Each main dungeon was connected to two side dungeons, so Guhan had a total of five dungeons to choose from.
However, Guhan did not intend to challenge the Famed Sword-level main storyline dungeon, Defense of Old Yanjing, because this dungeon required a lot of time. It would take at least three days to complete, and Guhan did not have that much time.
These four Instance Dungeons and the Side Dungeons that were directly connected to the other Main Dungeons were known as First Round Side Dungeons. The Side Dungeons that were connected to First Round Side Dungeons were known as Second Round Side Dungeons, and so on until there were N Side Dungeons.
Guhan looked through the dungeon's information one by one. In the past twelve years, Guhan had spent most of his time researching the "King of Yue's Goujian Sword" dungeon. The rest of his time was spent researching the other main dungeons. Although Guhan understood these scattered side dungeons, he didn't know much about them. He was only slightly better than ordinary players who hadn't done their homework.
Originally, Guhan's attention had been focused on the two Treasured Sword Grade Dungeons. After all, the base rewards of a Treasured Sword Grade Dungeon were double that of an Ancient Sword Grade Dungeon.
However, when Guhan accidentally glanced at one of the Ancient Sword Grade Dungeons, he was shocked. "Eh? Is this a Side Dungeon?"
Guhan found an interesting Instance Dungeon in the Ancient Sword Grade Dungeon. The rewards of this Instance Dungeon weren't much, but to the Heavenly Reliance, it was a very interesting Instance Dungeon.
Originally, Guhan had thought that this Instance Dungeon would be in the fourth or fifth round. He hadn't expected it to be a Side Dungeon.
"There's nothing to hesitate about. This is it!"
Guhan made up his mind. He tapped on the Instance Dungeon, and a Instance Dungeon door opened. Guhan brought the Heavenly Reliance and the King of Yue and instantly disappeared into the Instance Dungeon door.
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"System Announcement: Player Military Governor, welcome to the" Heroes Rise From Insignificance "Instance Dungeon. Quest objective: Protect the youth Yi Qing and allow him to successfully reach the next Survivor Sanctuary.
Please note that the more Yuan Kou Yi Qing kills personally, the higher the Instance Dungeon's rating will be.
"System Announcement: Quest 1 has been updated: Skinny Youth: Find the youth Yi Qing, gain his trust, and become his friend."
"Is this the scenery of this world 700 years ago?"
When Guhan entered the Instance Dungeon, he saw endless yellow sand. Countless ruins were buried by this yellow sand. If Guhan hadn't known that this was the Jiangnan River Town, Guhan would have thought that he had arrived at the edge of the Sahara Desert.
Yes, this place filled with yellow sand used to be the Jiangnan River Town where birds sang and flowers bloomed.
It was located near the former suburbs of Suzhou.
Unfortunately, this water town had become a desert. When the wind blew, the yellow sand would fill the sky.
It was said that this was one of the most intense battlefields after the apocalypse. A few Egyptian deities wanted to transform this area into a desert like their hometown. In the end, halfway through the transformation, they were killed by Jiandi, who was passing by.
Unfortunately, after the transformation of Suzhou, even Jiandi did not have the ability to restore this place to its original state.
It was only after Yuzhang City was established that technology was used to slowly transform this desert back to its original state.
However, before Yuzhang City was established, this area had always been a desert. However, this was the benefit of the desert. Even Yuan Kou could not stand such terrible living conditions.
Other than the freaks of the Egyptian deities, there were probably not many Yuan Kou who would like to live in the desert.
Therefore, this place had become a paradise for human survivors.
Because it was too far away from the new Yan Jing City, the survivors here did not have the mood or the ability to travel all the way to the new Yan Jing City in search of some paradise. Instead, they chose to live in this place that even Yuan Kou did not want to stay in, struggling at death's door.
According to the quest description, Guhan's first task was to find the young NPC Yi Qing. At this time, he should be living in a tribe nearby … Finding this tribe was not difficult. After all, this was only an Ancient Sword Mode Instance Dungeon. It was a Instance Dungeon for players who had just completed the initial Instance Dungeon to further improve their abilities.
Therefore, this kind of Instance Dungeon was relatively simple. The system did not set up so many traps like in King Arthur's Betrayal. As long as players obediently followed the Instance Dungeon's instructions, this Instance Dungeon would be very easy to complete.
Finding Yi Qing's tribe was not difficult. This was because there were a series of footprints near where Guhan had appeared. In a place like the desert, all kinds of footprints would disappear without a trace with a slight breeze.
The footprints that Guhan saw were very clear, which meant that the owner of the footprints had not been here for long.
As expected, following the footprints, Guhan saw a group of humans walking forward with their heads lowered. Their bodies were almost completely naked, with only a few rags wrapped around the important parts of their lower bodies.
According to common sense, people living in the desert had to wrap their bodies tightly. Even if the temperature outside was 40 degrees Celsius, they still had to do so.
This sounded a little unbelievable. Shouldn't people not wear clothes when it was hot?
Why did they have to wrap themselves up? Wasn't this contradictory?
The person who asked this question must have not been exposed to the sun for a long time.
Human skin could not be exposed to the sun for long periods of time. Once exposed to the sun for too long, the skin would dry out and shrink, increase wrinkles, decrease elasticity, dilate capillaries, pigmentation, white atrophic spots, rhomboid skin, actinic granulomas, and star-like spontaneous scars.
Otherwise, why would people who basked in the sun on the beach have to rub sunscreen on their bodies?
In a place like the desert where the sun was hot every day, if they didn't cover their skin, they basically wouldn't live past the age of 10. Their tender skin would dry up and crack, and finally their whole body would fester and die.
However, the desert that Guhan was in was different. This was not a normal desert, but a desert that was formed by magic.
In a place like Suzhou where it was constantly raining, how could it be exposed to the sun for a long period of time? Therefore, these survivors didn't have to worry about the problem of their skin.
Fortunately, the gods of the Egyptian pantheon only completed half of the magic transformation. They only changed the land into a desert, but they didn't have time to change the surrounding climate.
Once the transformation was completed, this place would not be suitable for humans to live in.
Because these humans couldn't find cloth at all, the surrounding areas that weren't part of the desert were all Yuan Li, and the few oases in the desert were also used to grow food. There was no place for people to grow flax.
"Hello!"
Guhan quickly caught up to the group of walking survivors. These survivors looked at Guhan and Yi Tian with envy and suspicion.
They were envious because Guhan was wearing a full set of clothes, shoes, and hat. This was what they had dreamed of in their lives.
What they were puzzled about was why Guhan and Yi Tian would appear here.
This group of survivors had about a dozen people. Among them, there were a few brave, young, and strong fellows who couldn't help but lick their tongues.
The clothes of these two humans that appeared out of nowhere were too beautiful. If they could take them off and wear them, how good would that be!
And that woman, she was really too beautiful. Compared to her, the other women in the tribe seemed to have been dried out. They were practically no different from dried beans.
"Little bastards, lower your heads! Lower your heads!"
The middle-aged man who was leading the group fiercely scolded the few youths who had bad intentions. He was a knowledgeable person, and knew that there were still sword bearers in this world. When he was young, he was fortunate enough to talk to a sword bearer … At first glance, he felt that Guhan was like a sword bearer. Because other than sword bearers, no one could live so comfortably. Moreover, he even had a beautiful woman following behind him … This was the treatment that only sword bearers could enjoy.