Chapter 981: Chapter 981: In the Tiger’s Mouth, the Wolf’s Den
Watching the iron water trickling down the metallic wall, Qin Sisi knew her idea was correct. She clenched her teeth, her expression serious, as the Fire Attribute Magic Power constantly poured out. The Magic Flame Melting Gold was like a high-temperature smelter, melting the copper iron wall smaller and thinner by the moment.
Twenty minutes later, the first metallic wall was finally completely melted, revealing the situation behind it.
To Qin Sisi’s disappointment, this wall wasn’t an escape exit. Behind it was a pile of huge stones, completely blocking the hole so there was no possibility of getting out.
Moreover, there were no other stones in the secret chamber, so she couldn’t use the Thousand Wind Swirls technique to smash the door; she could only continue melting the other metal walls.
This time, she chose a wall adjacent to the one that was already melted. She stood in front of it, gathered strength, formed seals with her hands, and pushed her palms forward, as golden flames once again roared out, encasing the front wall within them.
Another twenty minutes passed, and the second metal wall was also melted. By now, Qin Sisi was beginning to feel a bit exhausted.
The power of Divine Fire was much greater than ordinary flames, but her magic level wasn’t high, and the magic power inside her body couldn’t support such intense activity for too long.
Regrettably, behind the second metal wall was yet another pile of huge stones, leaving no path forward.
Qin Sisi was frustrated. The black card had mentioned it was all about luck, and it seemed her luck this time wasn’t very good.
She rested briefly, then started melting the third wall. With her physical strength declining, the power of the Magic Flame Melting Gold was weaker, and the speed of melting the metal slowed down as well.
It took half an hour this time to completely melt the third wall, and Qin Sisi’s condition had become utterly spent.
What made her despair was that behind the third wall were still a pile of large stones, an unsurmountable dead end.
Qin Sisi helplessly fell silent and sat down on the ground, gasping for breath. She took out the last First-level Rejuvenation Pill and put it into her mouth.
Her magic power was nearly exhausted, and she truly lacked the strength to melt the remaining walls.
Using the magic power restored by the First-level Rejuvenation Pill she had refined herself, Qin Sisi spent half an hour melting the fourth wall.
Looking at what was behind the fourth wall, she was almost petrified. Behind the fourth wall was yet another pile of large stones that tightly blocked the path.
Qin Sisi was stunned for a long moment and suddenly felt it difficult to breathe. A sense of alarm immediately struck her heart.
The black card had warned from the start that the air in the secret chamber would only last for two hours. She had melted four walls, taking up much time, and now only ten minutes were left.
The ceiling or the floor?
Qin Sisi looked up, then down, eventually opting for the floor.
If she didn’t have the Wings of Rainbow, even if there was a way out through the ceiling, she wouldn’t be able to escape. Apart from Li Li, who could ride the winds and fly, no one else had the ability to fly yet.
She positioned herself in a corner of the secret chamber, mobilizing the last bit of her Fire Attribute Magic Power to release the Magic Flame Melting Gold.
This time she intentionally reduced the attack range, focusing the main attack force on a one-meter square area, just like when she melted the iron weights during class.
With the attack range reduced, the consumption of magic power was also lessened.
As the ten-minute mark approached, the metallic floor finally melted to reveal a hole less than a meter in diameter, exposing the brownish soil underneath.
Seeing the soil, Qin Sisi felt a surge of joy—she could now burrow escape from this place.
Enduring the suffocating sensation, she walked over, just about to burrow into the soil, when out of the corner of her eye she caught sight of a white flower blooming on a pitch-black wall.
The black backdrop with the white flower was very striking, and Qin Sisi immediately halted in her tracks.
If she was not mistaken, this must be the reward for passing the fire magic trial!
Qin Sisi had never seen this white flower or the previously encountered Spirit Grass before, but she could feel the thick Spiritual Energy they emitted. Using them for restoring her magic power would be much more effective than using Spirit Revitalizing Pills.
Qin Sisi hurried over and plucked the white flower, with petals white like frost and snow, pure and elegant, and untainted, like a white lotus before the Buddha.
The feeling of suffocation grew stronger, and she dared not delay any further, devouring the white flower in large bites.
Then she swiftly returned to the patch of soil, concentrated Earthen Attribute Magic Power, and burrowed in, successfully escaping the metallic chamber that had been quite a blow to her.
After eating the white flower, she could feel her body’s magic power rapidly restored to its most abundant state, and the Spiritual Energy of the white flower even had some surplus, which began to meander through her meridians.
Qin Sisi felt as if her insides had been cleansed, every part of her body was particularly comfortable, filled with strength.
This great physical condition actually made her eager to try the upcoming assessments, filled with confidence.
However, she soon realized that this burrow escape was a bit odd. Normally, there would be almost no obstacles underground, allowing free movement, which is why their teachers trained them to have a sense of direction underground, to prevent getting lost.
This time, as she burrowed, she kept running into hard barriers that blocked her path, forcing her to change direction, and this happened quite frequently.
Gradually, Qin Sisi sensed that someone had tampered with the underground in advance, and she was following the path set by others.
She thought she had escaped one pitfall by passing the fire magic assessment, only to find she had fallen into another pit.
Fortunately, she knew she was in the Tianyi Mountain’s trial tower undergoing an end-of-term assessment; otherwise, such a situation would certainly have frightened her.
With an attitude of ’since I’m here, I might as well relax,’ Qin Sisi moved neither too fast nor too slow through the underground soil.
Finally, she encountered a hard barrier again, and not just in one direction, but three.
In other words, other than the way she came, there was no other way for her to go but upwards, back to the surface.
Given the circumstances, Qin Sisi didn’t hesitate. She jumped up and immediately exited the soil, returning to the ground level.
She thought she would see the bright sun and the azure sky, but the scene before her made her legs go weak, and even her breathing nearly stopped.
She had actually entered a wolves’ den!
She was in a dimly lit cave, and while the location didn’t much matter, the key point was that this cave, nearly two hundred square meters in size, was filled with dozens of wolves that struck terror into the hearts of those who heard of them.
These wolves were large, with beautiful silver-grey fur, and their turquoise eyes glimmered with a ghastly green glow. Qin Sisi felt their eyes were like Soul Chasing Lamps coming straight from hell.
Dozens of "Soul Chasing Lamps" stared at Qin Sisi, the outsider who had appeared abruptly; some were sitting, some lying down. They made no significant movements, but their gazes were ultimately calm and cruel.
