I became a god by treasure hunting after arriving 500 years early

Chapter 85: Chapter 82: There's Always Someone Who Laughs Last

Lu Yuan's left hand was quickly burned through, with blood spraying out like water from a faucet, revealing even the stark white bones.

It was a strange sensation to observe his own left hand burned to char... Surprisingly, it wasn't very painful, as the nerves were blocked by his Extraordinary Fire, merely cooking his own flesh, which elicited an odd desire to taste it.

Lu Yuan braced himself and used the Extraordinary Spark to close the arteries on his shoulder.

Soon, the skin exposed outside was burned to a crisp, leaving only the bones visible, glowing red, and then starting to fracture.

Enormous power resonated from those bones continually, trying to pull him out.

"Different Space, hold steady!"

Lu Yuan firmed up his willpower.

His Different Space was independent from the normal world, fragile like a soap bubble.

With just a thought, he could dissolve it instantly.

Yet, this thin, soap-bubble-like membrane could still provide support…

But how much weight it could support depended solely on his spiritual power.

As the external world tugged fiercely, Lu Yuan was like a spider being squashed, his body, right hand, and both legs desperately spreading out, clinging to the thin membrane of the Different Space, not allowing himself to be pulled out.

Suddenly, his expression changed!

Because he sensed something rapidly climbing up his arm's bones through the spinal canal.

Clearly, the "black liquid" had made preparations: if Lu Yuan cut off his arm, it would escape from the vault using Dark Instantaneous Movement.

If Lu Yuan didn't sever his arm, it would climb through the spinal canal into the Different Space and forcefully take over!

"Damn it, this ghostly thing, has too many tricks."

A terrible crisis emerged in this confined Different Space. Lu Yuan was really giving it his all, beads of sweat the size of soybeans rolling down his forehead, but there was only so much he could do; despite racking his brains, he couldn't think of a better solution.

As one of the first warriors of the Ninth Epoch, his level of Extraordinary Spark was only Level 2.

Although the enemy was only Level 1... the gap in racial value seemed a bit large.

If he were to transfer the Extraordinary Spark into the spinal canal to block the black liquid, it would barely hold for a few seconds.

Once the Spark extinguished, his strength would drastically diminish, and he might even faint or die momentarily!

"Is there any other way... Would cutting off my arm now be enough?" Lu Yuan weighed his options internally, struggling somewhat.

If one arm wasn't enough, he would have to stretch out his legs as well...

He started to consider whether to sacrifice his left leg or right leg, or was it possible that neither would be enough, and he would need to chop himself into pieces to defeat this foe?

"Worse than a dog, do you really think I, Old Lu, wouldn't dare chop myself?"

"Da, da-da~"

Suddenly, Lu Yuan heard that sound of gears turning again.

"Da, da-da~"

He saw the skull cap of the donkey-headed monster actually jerked slightly in the fire?

"Da, da-da!"

The skull cap jerked again, rolling out a bright, shiny little metal ball.

Lu Yuan quickly used his Pioneer's Eye to examine this little metal ball.

[Mysterious Mechanical Sphere.]

[To combat the terrifying "Shadow Illumination," an unknown civilization created this extremely solid device, residing on "Shadow Illumination."]

[Whenever "Shadow Illumination" launches an attack, it emits a "da, da-da" sound to warn nearby intelligent beings that a crisis has arrived.]

[Though "Shadow Illumination" has changed bodies multiple times and tried everything to get rid of this annoying object, it has never succeeded.]

Lu Yuan took a sharp breath, suddenly enlightened.

"So that's it... There really are allies, and it's this little ball!"

"What does it want to do?"

Before he had time to think too deeply, the little ball suddenly leapt heavily under the donkey-headed monster's skull cap!

Almost simultaneously, high-temperature magma from the walls collapsed, burying the skull cap.

In an instant, Lu Yuan understood something, his face breaking into wild euphoria.

"This thing is damn clever."

He made a swift decision, no longer entangling with the black liquid. Raising his hand, he cut off his own left arm!

Immediately, an extreme sense of relief washed over him.

This time, that mass of black liquid had no more options.

It couldn't attack Lu Yuan who hid in the Different Space.

The sturdiest skull cap was also buried by the magma, unable to generate any shadows again.

All the other bones had cracked.

All its plans had failed…

It began to dig through the magma, trying to unearth the skull cap.

But the magma was too scorching; it lacked the strength.

The fearsome Purgatory burned everything within.

Only the "da-da" sound continued, seemingly a kind of barely there mockery.

As time gradually passed, in the fierce roasting of the flames, the mass of black liquid slowly turned into a solid, like a large black gemstone, emitting a dim black light.

Using Pioneer's Eye for Identification, Lu Yuan's eyelids twitched a couple of times: [Self-sealed Demon, Shadow Illumination, forced into its current form due to exhaustion of energy, waiting for the next rebirth.]

[However, to force a demon to this extent is enough to be proud of. It must have been a powerful civilization that accomplished all this.]

Lu Yuan: I guess I'll take that as a joke.

[Shape: 21]

[Qi: 0.1]

[God: 0.2]

[Extraordinary Level: Level 1.]

"He's still not dead?"

"Comrade, my mysterious comrade, did you get burned to death following me?"

The oxygen inside the vault was depleted, and the roaring flames gradually extinguished.

Because the environment inside resembled hell on earth, he had to stay in the Different Space for several hours.

In his Storage Space, there were still about 6-8 cubic meters of air left.

By keeping his body calm and not moving intensely, theoretically, he could breathe easily for 12 hours, and at most endure for 24 hours.

Since the vault door was not entirely heat-proof, its heat dissipation was quite efficient.

Thus, Lu Yuan was opening the Storage Space to release oxygen while eating pomegranates to replenish the excessively consumed Life Energy.

About 12 hours later, the ambient temperature had dropped to around sixty degrees Celsius.

This temperature was bearable.

"Ao! Aowu!" He heard Old Wolf howling outside.

With time running out, Lu Yuan once more wore the Fire Lizard Suit and leapt out of the Different Space.

"It's still your master who has the last laugh! No enemy can defeat me!!"

"Ao! Ga!" Through the metal door, Old Wolf kept howling.

Lu Yuan used a Superior Level dagger to carve into the black gemstone.

Unexpectedly...he couldn't carve through it!

The Superior Level dagger was simply not enough!

"When I get out, I'll grab a hydraulic press of ten thousand tons and crush you into powder."

He threw down those harsh words and turned to carve the metal door instead as a second option.

"The oxygen content is insufficient, I need to hurry."

Lu Yuan carved very carefully; no one knew just how high the durability of this dagger was, and if it broke, it would be heartbreakingly painful.

He then took out a slightly lesser-used pair of Superior scissors from the Storage Space and began, from the bottom of the door, to cautiously try to create a gap.

This was where there had originally been a seam, only it had been welded shut by melted iron.

The entire process took far longer than Lu Yuan had anticipated.

He eventually took out a hammer from the Storage Space and forcefully hammered and carved at the same time.

The Donkey-headed Monster of the past hated this door so intensely; now, Lu Yuan felt the same hatred.

After the flames were extinguished, the inside of the vault was pitch black.

He used the light emitted by the Fire Red Crystal Stone for illumination.

He had underestimated the thickness of this door and overestimated the speed at which Superior-quality weapons could dig holes; he felt like he was about to suffocate due to the oxygen problem.

"When was the last time I encountered such a dangerous situation?"

After reaching the extreme limit of oxygen deprivation, he would open the Different Space and then open the Storage Space to release some air.

But having breathed for so long, the air in the Storage Space was also muggy and contained little oxygen.

Lu Yuan could only frenziedly eat pomegranates, letting a large amount of Life Essence support his increasingly muddled thoughts.

Then he sped up the digging action; the scissors were less useful than the dagger, even some wear and tear was worth it.

Surviving was the key!

Finally, it's hard to say how much time had passed.

In his blurred consciousness, a very small crevice was forcibly carved through!!

Fresh air from outside came in, bringing with it a trace of freshness and coolness!

Lu Yuan covered the crack with his mouth and greedily took a few breaths.

Fresh oxygen filled his nostrils, nourishing his heart and lungs, every cell craving for energy was eager to act.

This sensation... was like a man about to die of thirst suddenly discovering an oasis!

He felt revived in an instant!

"That feels amazing!"

"No difficulty can defeat me! Be it demon or ghost!"

In his excitement, he noticed a pink object on the other side that once again blocked the crack.

After recognizing what this thing was, Lu Yuan couldn't help but burst out, "Old Wolf, get your lowly maid's tongue away from there!"

"Are you trying to suffocate your great master by blocking that crack?"

"Aowu?" Old Wolf frantically licked, trying to push his tongue through.

"Scram! I'll feed you when I get out."

Next, there wasn't such a rush; Lu Yuan took a few breaths at the gap and then dug for a while.

This door, having been melted by high temperature and then cooled again, was completely welded to the ground, and it was impossible to open by brute force.

Even if one wanted to use a dagger or scissors to dig a passage large enough for a person, the wear and tear would be too great.

Lu Yuan was really reluctant to do so; he had already won the battle and couldn't afford to lose his Superior equipment.

After pondering for a long time, he had a flash of inspiration and thought of a good method!

First, he allowed enough air to come through the small hole he had carved.

Then he scraped a bit of the still unburned Fire Lizard Fuel from the ground and stuffed it into the crevice.

Using the sparks produced by metal collision, he ignited the fuel.

The high temperature generated by the burning fuel would cause some of the metal on the door to melt again.

Once melted, cutting through the metal was as easy as slicing through liquid, making it much simpler and more convenient.