Supreme Alchemist
Chapter 2058 - 2058 2048 Burn the Boats

2058: Chapter 2048: Burn the Boats 2058: Chapter 2048: Burn the Boats The cultivators were able to catch their breath only because of Long Yan’s help.

Long Yan formed the Mo Shuang Ancient Flame into a small circle, and the skeleton soldiers outside seemed to recognize the power of the flame, not daring to approach, but silently waiting in place.

“How are we supposed to handle this?”

Almost everyone had a worried look on their face.

They had just entered the Ancient Tomb and such a situation had already arisen; the periphery of the tomb was challenging enough to imagine what greater dangers lay ahead.

“Why don’t we just hold our ground here?”

A cultivator from the Seven-Star Hall suggested, reasoning that the opening of the Ancient Tomb lasted only two months, and now with Long Yan’s Strange Fire acting as a barrier, it wouldn’t be a problem to stand their ground for two months.

“What nonsense are you speaking?

If we just beat a retreat like this, what would our Senior Brothers think of us?”

A cultivator clad in the clothes of the Heavenly Gate Sect retorted.

“Then why don’t you go out?

Stop hiding inside the fire circle.”

“…”

The dispute between the two echoed what everyone was thinking; they were afraid of losing their lives like the first cultivator did, but they didn’t want to return home so easily either.

“My friends, I believe that the master of the Ancient Tomb would not have left us with an unsolvable enigma.

If it were just those groups of skeleton soldiers, even a Divine Emperor might be drained of life here.

There must be something we haven’t yet discovered.”

Long Yan looked up, the one speaking was Peng Wang, who now wore a convincing smile.

Long Yan had to admit that Peng Wang was making sense.

“I support Peng Wang’s view, but what exactly is the enigma?”

“Yeah, what is it?”

Everyone asked in unison, though Peng Wang’s words were like a Calming Pill, the solution remained elusive without its crux.

Long Yan was also deep in thought.

What could the solution be?

He remembered the initial scene of birds and flowers and compared it with the current one of Yellow Sand and skeletons scattered across the ground.

It was as if he had remembered something, but he also felt that something was not quite right.

However, if the solution was that simple, why was that first cultivator killed?

“Since Long Yan rescued everyone, perhaps we should let Long Yan answer this.”

Peng Wang wanted to shift everyone’s attention to Long Yan, so if he could not guess it, they would have a good reason to blame him.

“I haven’t thought it through yet, wait a little longer.”

Long Yan rested his right hand on his chin, pondering what were they all missing?

Seeing Long Yan deep in thought, the crowd hardly dared to breathe too loudly, while Peng Wang and the people of the Holy King Planet looked on with disdain.

They all had failed to find the answer; was it a joke to think that he alone could figure it out?

“…”

“If Long Yan can’t figure it out, don’t drag everyone down.”

After just a short while, Peng Wang grew impatient.

In his view, Long Yan was completely at a loss and was merely procrastinating.

“It’s been so long, if you figure it out now, it’s probably just made up.”

Peng Wang’s words made those who had initially believed in Long Yan begin to doubt, and the once silent scene was now filled with hushed whispers.

“Don’t disturb Big Brother Yan while he’s thinking.”

Lingxi couldn’t stand it any longer and scolded Peng Wang.

The latter responded with a cold, mocking smile.

“If I could have thought of it earlier, I would have already done so.

If he comes up with something now, I’ll eat shit.”

“You…”

Lingxi’s good upbringing prevented her from uttering such crude language, and all she could do was angrily turn her body away.

“I’ve figured it out.”

Long Yan emerged from his thoughts and spoke softly.

The discussion among the group came to an abrupt halt.

They should have trusted Long Yan, but Peng Wang’s words had shaken their confidence.

After all, no one wanted to gamble with their lives.

“You’ve figured it out?

Then what’s the answer?”

“Burning the Boats.”

He quietly uttered these four words.

The first level wasn’t as complex as they had imagined.

Long Yan had been pondering what the key to solving the puzzle could be.

“Burning the Boats” symbolizes absolute courage and sometimes even represents a situation where one is prepared to go down fighting.

He remembered carefully.

None of the Skeleton Soldiers had launched an attack first.

The initial battle began because some cultivators, too nervous, made the first move against the Skeleton Soldiers.

So, Long Yan deduced that the key to passing this level was two words: courage.

“Nonsense.”

Peng Wang couldn’t believe Long Yan was going along with his earlier mockery this well.

The answer seemed tailor-made for his statements.

He coldly spit out these few words and watched Long Yan with crossed arms.

“Suit yourselves.”

Long Yan took Liu Qingyue and Lingxi, diving into the crowd of Skeleton Soldiers.

The black Strange Fire surrounding the others slowly extinguished.

That was due to Long Yan no longer using his True Qi to maintain it.

The cultivators around gripped their weapons tighter, and once the flames went out, the previously still Skeleton Soldiers began to move.

“Big Brother Yan, it’s true.”

Lingxi curiously prodded one of the nearby Skeleton Soldiers, and all the Skeleton Soldiers ran past the three of them as if they didn’t see them.

Long Yan just smiled at Lingxi’s comment.

The group of Skeleton Soldiers were likely only there to test the courage of those entering the Ancient Tomb.

Being puppets, they would not stop until the True Qi infused inside them was exhausted.

“Then how did you think of it?”

Liu Qingyue looked at Long Yan’s profile and asked.

The closer she got to this man, the more confused she became.

Everything about Long Yan was like a puzzling enigma.

Just when you thought you unraveled a thread of the mystery, you found an even larger one waiting.

“What is the real you like?”

Liu Qingyue’s gaze held a touch of bewilderment, her heart filled with doubts.

“I just remembered the moment at the beginning when that cultivator moved.

They attacked before the Skeleton Soldiers.

In reality, even when more people fell within the Skeleton Soldiers’ range of attack, and they didn’t have time to react, they weren’t attacked.”

As they spoke, the three had reached the tail end of the Skeleton Soldiers.

In front of them was a woodland, an oasis in the desert.

The forest stood out starkly in this landscape dominated by Yellow Sand.

“What is this?”

Lingxi stepped forward, and the entire oasis seemed to be encased by a Protective Barrier, yet a hand could penetrate it with a simple reach, as if the whole forest was living in a bubble.

“Never mind that, let’s go in.”

Since they couldn’t figure anything out from the outside, Long Yan took the lead into the Protective Barrier.

As they entered the forest, their vision became obscured as if covered by a White veil.

The concentration of True Qi around them was beyond their imagination; it had even turned into White fog floating in the air.

“Brother Yan, we’ve struck it rich.

Cultivating under such dense True Qi, our Cultivation Base would have a hard time not improving.”

Lingxi was grinning ear to ear as she clung to Long Yan’s arm.

Indeed, in such an environment, Long Yan felt he could break through to God King Level Three in no more than ten days.

Yet, he had an ominous premonition in his heart.