Chapter 16

Time rewound two minutes.

As the Hero was thrown out of the Time Exile Zone by the Creation Mansion, a vine pierced through his chest and into his heart. At this critical moment, the jade slip given to him by his mother was passively activated, becoming his lifeline.

While the jade slip blocked the vine from piercing his heart, the main body of the vine sensed the extraordinary nature of the jade slip and instinctively developed a greedy desire for it. As the Hero was thrown out, the vine tightly wrapped around the jade slip, trying to strip it from the Hero's body.

The Hero had no strength to resist the vine, but the jade slip had already been recognized by his blood and had become a part of his body. As long as the Hero did not discard it, the only way to strip it out was to kill him. Forcing the jade slip out would be no different from killing the Hero directly.

In that instant, the jade slip burst with a powerful self-defense ability. A strange emblem appeared from the jade slip, and as the emblem glowed, it activated, generating a powerful defensive force that protected the Hero's life.

The jade slip and the vine, one defending and the other clinging on, were locked in a fierce struggle.

Under the strong repulsion of the Creation Mansion, the Hero was forcibly sent back to reality, but unexpectedly, the vine, along with its main body, was also pulled out by the jade slip.

The main body of the vine turned out to be the jade gourd coiled around the tombstone in the Burial Ground!

Upon returning to reality, they appeared in a valley within the fog zone, but there was no fog left.

Going in empty-handed and coming out empty-handed, and watching the meat fly away from their mouths, the Hero and Old Turtle roared in despair: "My forbidden patterned weapon! My Life Creation Pill!"

Old Turtle was particularly heartbroken. He had thought that with the divine weapon and the divine pill, even if the boy had ten barrels of courage, he wouldn't dare to make Old Turtle do the hard work.

It seemed that these two gentlemen were not destined to win the lottery; they could only watch as their wealth turned to water.

Then, something strange happened. They clearly sensed that the Creation Mansion in the Time Exile Zone was gradually disintegrating. As the Creation Mansion disintegrated, Old Turtle saw a man silently watching him.

The man's body gradually dissipated as the Creation Mansion disintegrated! In his eyes, Old Turtle saw the words "Cause and Effect Creation." This was a truly timeless dialogue! As the man's eyes faded, they transformed into a warm and kind gaze.

The man had spent the remainder of his life's strength to set up this timeless dialogue, just to let Old Turtle see his mother. When everything disappeared, the heartless Old Turtle fell silent, feeling increasingly listless, as if his brain had turned to mush.

The Hero's transformation was even stranger.

After the gourd, rooted in the Burial Ground, was pulled out of the Time Exile Zone, its power instantly dropped to the level of a fifth-level ability awakening.

It turned out that this gourd's original form was the jade gourd containing the Life Creation Pill. Over the long years, it had developed a spirit and consumed the Life Creation Pill, thus gaining creation and a new life, becoming a unique existence in the world. In the subsequent long years, it parasitized in the Burial Ground, with its roots spreading throughout the entire area, able to harness the power of the Burial Ground!

However, with the entire Creation Mansion exiled to the Time Exile Zone, there were no natural laws for the gourd to absorb and grow, so its growth rate became extremely slow. Although its growth was slow, it absorbed the power of time exile under the influence of the Life Creation Pill...

Once the gourd left the Burial Ground, its power was reduced to that of a fifth-level ability awakening.

Upon discovering itself in this unfamiliar world and its power suddenly weakening by countless times, the gourd was filled with infinite fear and quickly drilled into the Hero's heart. The Hero instinctively resisted it, but the gourd refused to be forced out of his heart, stubbornly resisting the jade slip, and finally firmly rooted itself in the Hero's heart.

This made the Hero suffer greatly. After being thrown out of the Time Exile Zone, he appeared in the valley, rolling on the ground in pain. The jade slip, which had a spirit, did not dare to force the gourd too much, as the gourd's roots had already extended into the Hero's body and flesh!

If the jade slip forced the gourd too much, the Hero would instantly be drained to a mummy.

Just as the Hero was being tormented by the gourd, the magnanimous black spider arrived.

The black spider looked at the Hero as if she wanted to peel his skin, break his bones, and fry him in oil. Seeing the world's greatest treasure slip away, anyone would go mad.

Seeing the Hero rolling on the ground, her expression became extremely fierce, and she sneered, "You seem to be seriously injured. Would you like me to sprinkle some salt on your wounds to make you more comfortable?"

The Hero had been in the hands of spiders before and knew their methods of torture were indeed effective.

In his current state, the Hero was no match for this killer. To avoid being played with by the magnanimous black spider, the Hero could only endure the intense pain and run.

The Hero's escape skills were indeed impressive, and even with his severe injuries, he managed to maintain a certain distance from the black spider.

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