Chapter 1236 - 1236 1235 Moon Goddess

Chapter 1236: Chapter 1235: Moon Goddess? Chapter 1236: Chapter 1235: Moon Goddess? Crossing the mountain road covered by clouds, all climbers were “isolated.”

Han Dong was no exception.

After continuing onward for a while, Han Dong stopped in confusion, sensing something unusual.

Although the road in front seemed to be “ascending.”

Yet, Han Dong felt a sense of discordance, specifically, a sense of discord delivered to his brain… He also felt as if he had walked this road before.

Han Dong himself greatly trusted his brain’s sensations.

“Could it be… that my sense of direction got inverted while I passed through the clouds?

Incredible, Moon God Mountain was able to deeply influence my brain… However, influencing my brain isn’t that easy; it must be related to the soup I drank upon entering the city.”

Recalling the time he drank the soup, a “Moon Seal” had formed on his skin.

He immediately lifted his clothes.

The “Moon Seal” located slightly above his right chest was now dyed with a white jade hue… creating a kind of illusion maze driven from within his body.

“At first, the white pollen absorbed during the forest crossing seemed to have hallucinogenic effects, causing the monsters to become delirious.

However, its actual function was to penetrate the body, constantly perfecting the ‘Moon Mark’ on the climber’s body.

Once passing through the clouds, the mark would be fully activated… With the mark as the core, the implanted high-level illusions would directly start, unavoidable by anyone.

It brings two illusion effects.

1. Visual isolation: preventing us from seeing other climbers who carry the ‘Moon Mark.’

2. Inversion of direction sense: making climbers think they are still climbing upwards while actually leading them back the way they came.

With these two effects combined, individuals unknowingly return to the mountain’s base, exhausted and falling asleep… Upon awakening, they find themselves in Under Moon City, having no memory of what happened during the climb.

No wonder very few people reach the ‘high places.’

The person who set up this mechanism must be a master.

If there really is a [Moon God] concept, finding them might trigger some kind of hidden plot, perhaps even advancing the main storyline.”

After analyzing the situation, Han Dong grew even more interested in the so-called Moon God.

Since he discerned the “inversion of direction sense,” he immediately changed his course to descend, reaching the cloud zone again.

However, during this passage through the clouds,

Strands of white substance hidden within the clouds rushed onto Han Dong’s body, all absorbed by the “Moon Seal.”

Snap!

A piece of jade separated from his skin, which Han Dong caught firmly—exactly the pure white jade transformed from the Moon Seal.

At the same time, all illusion effects vanished.

Han Dong, emerging from the clouds, had now reached the true “high place.”

The climb that followed encountered no obstacles, smoothly leading him to a hidden round stone platform nestled between the mountains.

Directly ahead was a cave sealed by a stone door.

“The cave, the stone door… there must be something I want in there.”

The surface of the stone door had a moon-shaped slot that perfectly matched the jade stone peeled from Han Dong’s body.

The two fit together seamlessly.

Boom! The stone door sank.

Flowing water, brilliance.

A crystal-clear stream moved slowly along one side of the cave wall,

The cave was adorned with dazzling crystal clusters where even a casually knocked-off piece would sell for a high price,

You could also see a “Moon Bug” with a crystal structure on its back crawling inside, non-aggressive, and immediately concealing itself among the crystal clusters when sensing the approach of strangers,

Soon, they reached a path similar to ‘select a reward’ crossroads—three paths.

The left path corresponded with gurgling water,

The right path was filled with crystal stones,

The middle path was crawling with moon bugs, and some murals could be seen on the cave walls.

“It seems like before the world went out of control, this place must have been a stage in a [Fate Event]. Clearly a choice of rewards…

Corresponding respectively to:

The ‘Moon Water’ that can heal any severe injury,

‘Crystal Stones’ possessing special ‘moon properties’ with material grades reaching unique, even epic,

The ‘Secret Room’ documenting the cultivation methods related to the Moon God,”

According to experience, once he chose a reward he would be forcibly sent back and unable to climb Moon God Mountain again.

Despite the reward being right in front of him, Han Dong fell into deep thought… and did not head directly to the left passage to search for the “Moon Water” that Governor Wang Shiheng needed.

He pondered for about five minutes.

Suddenly, Han Dong turned around and headed out of the cave… without making any choice regarding the reward.

Such an action was incomprehensible to anyone, but Han Dong had already made up his mind.

Upon returning to the platform outside the cave,

He looked up at the seemingly endless heights of Moon God Mountain.

There were no longer any paths at the upper end, and the overall structure resembled a stone column that stretched straight to the heavens, the difficulty of climbing it was imaginable. In combination with the clearly visible stone door passage and reward choice, it was as if it was telling mountaineers, “The reward is right before your eyes, no need to continue climbing.”

“Let’s see if I can fly…”

He activated the [Floating Corpse Internal Classic].

Only two meters above the ground, he found he couldn’t float, feeling a strong sense of suppression over his entire body, as if he was carrying a stone column on his back.

“I’ll have to climb up the hard way…”

Creak, creak~

Several tentacles grew from between his arms and legs, simultaneously mimicking Nicole’s ‘suction cup trait’ to allow the tentacles to adhere better to the rock face.

Just as Han Dong pressed his entire body against the rock wall, preparing to climb, he unexpectedly found his feet ‘energized’.

His feet could easily step on the vertical wall to carry most of the weight while moving swiftly upwards with his body.

“Is there such an effect too? Heaven is also helping me…”

The shoes on Han Dong’s feet were the dead equipment used by Governor Wang Shiheng, the “Zombie Shoes.”

The description was simple.

The shoes were only for use by the dead, capable of changing and enhancing the efficiency of corpse energy in the leg area, achieving the effect of travelling thousands of miles in a day.

With that in mind.

Han Dong hastened his climbing speed, moving towards the peak.

Why choose the “Moon Water” reward directly and return according to the original plan? Because Han Dong knew, Swollen Doctor could also see through illusions and head to the reward choice area to obtain Moon Water.

And he wanted to try finding opportunities based on intuition and fate.

Since no one had ever reached the top of Moon God Mountain, he would be the first.

The height was much higher than he had anticipated.

This climb took [two days and two nights], during which he injected monster necro-element previously extracted several times to replenish his energy, yet he still couldn’t catch sight of the mountain top.

“The height I’ve reached now should be about higher than the height of [Corpse Country]… Keep going.”

Even though several of his fingers had broken and the suction cups on the surface of the tentacles were largely worn down, Han Dong still persisted, his eyes growing more determined than at the beginning.

The third day.

Dusk fell.

When the bright moonlight showered over Han Dong, his climbing palm firmly gripped the edge of a rock.

He made it!

His mouth curled into a smile and he immediately propped his body up.

Huff… huff!

In an instant, a strong sense of fatigue swept over his body, forcing Han Dong to collapse on the ground… He hadn’t felt such fatigue for a long time.

It was as if he had fought several strong opponents consecutively at a [fight club].

“Damn! Too tired, I wasn’t paying attention, how am I breathing?

But… why is there no discomfort when breathing?”

The air he breathed was very fresh, it even alleviated some of his fatigue.

“Could it be that the altitude here is beyond the effects of loss of control?”

“Yes, this place is unaffected by [Tomb Lord]… That young man and I had an agreement earlier; no matter what nonsense he gets up to, he is not allowed to affect this place.”

A serene and profound voice came from beside him, startling Han Dong as he immediately sat up.

His gaze followed the source of the voice.

He saw a mysterious figure wearing a mask, sitting on a cliff edge, holding a fishing rod.

Han Dong was perhaps too exhausted, but it seemed that the fishing line on the rod was hanging among the starry sky, fishing among the vast stars.