Since the corpse has been dead for a long ti, even if there had been extraordinary power in the holy mark, it's now completely dissipated, leaving nothing to check.
Li Ang inspected the corpse's hands, then put down the arm and returned his gaze to the diary.
This diary is undoubtedly the key item most likely hiding clues,
After carefully observing the contents in the latter half of the book, Li Ang discovered a characteristic in Lisa's writing.
Before climbing the Sacred Mountain, Lisa often recorded certain goddess teachings in her diary, such as God loves humanity, people should care for each other, harbor good intentions, and be forgiving and kind,
Elaborating on the doctrines, supplenting her personal views.
Even when she started seeing hallucinations, her faith in the goddess wavered, and she was wanted by The Church,
This habit didn't change.
Clearly, at this stage, Lisa still held the goddess in reverence, often questioning whether the hallucinations she saw were false, believing her faith wasn't devout enough.
But after ascending the Sacred Mountain,
The latter part of the diary also contains similar text,
But these teachings and Lisa's inner monologue were often severely torn, cut by blades, or blackened with ink.
So pages were even thrown into the fireplace, burned into charcoal.
"Can't make it out."
Li Ang smacked his lips, sighed helplessly.
Buzz—
The walkie-talkie started vibrating, Li Ang pressed the button to connect, and Liu Wu Dai's voice ca through, "I saw your marker, heading your way now."
"So fast."
Li Ang was slightly surprised, turned and walked out the dark door into the corridor, "To prevent the markers from being modified by potential NPCs or monsters in the Sacred Mountain, I'll report the marker locations.
The first marker is in a room filled with nurous Iron Maiden torture devices, as a flower on the wall, shaped like a red arrow, with a barely noticeable triangular circle engraving at the middle of the arrow,
The second marker is...."
Li Ang quickly reported the locations and characteristics of these markers at a fast pace,
Liu Wu Dai listened silently, then asked, "What do you an by potential NPCs and monsters? Are there living beings in this area?"
"Yeah."
Li Ang replied, "I just encountered two. Didn't you all see any living creatures on the way over?"
"I didn't."
Ding Zhensi puzzledly said, "The Kui Ox cha's scanner swept the walls and ground, found so long-dried bloodstains, but didn't encounter any living creatures."
"Sa here."
Liu Wu Dai's voice calmly stated, "Li Rising and I have already grouped up, ending communications to conserve power."
As the words fell, Liu Wu Dai's figure erged from a wooden door, greeting Li Ang standing in the corridor.
"What's this?"
Liu Wu Dai stepped forward, gazing at the arm aggregation creature lying on the ground, her brows slightly furrowed.
"Should be so kind of artificial creature,"
Li Ang casually said, "Co in, I'll show you sothing."
He led Liu Wu Dai into Lisa's room, briefly introduced the situation, "We can basically confirm that the murals we saw on the Underground Palace walls,
are of Lisa and her teammates.
The current issue is figuring out what they exactly faced."
After that, Li Ang handed the diary to Liu Wu Dai, "Can you understand the contents at the back?"
Liu Wu Dai took the diary, acquired the charred paper fragnts, skimd through them, and lightly nodded.
She took a deep breath, her gaze growing fierce, clenched her right hand into a fist, softly shouted, and punched the diary.
[Skill Na: Beautify Myself Punch]
[Type: Fighting/Spiritual Energy]
[Special Effect: Restoration. Allows a damaged object to partially restore to its complete shape, with added beautification effect, a punch hit has a 50% chance to achieve effects like blemish removal, wrinkle and scar removal, dark circle elimination, teeth cleaning and whitening, nose enhancent, and face slimming]
[Consumption: At least 100 Stamina Points, 100 Spirit Energy Value]
[Cooldown Ti: 20 minutes]
[Usage Condition: General Fist Technique level reaches advanced]
[Remark: The larger the volu and higher the quality of the damaged object, the higher the consumption of Stamina Points and Spirit Energy Value. If the target's mysterious degree exceeds the skill user, skill release failure may occur. The greater the disparity, the higher the failure probability]
[Remark: We are professionals in costic surgery]
[Remark: The highest realm of fist technique is benevolence, is love, is non-killing. When the fist technique is no longer used for killing but for spreading love and peace, there will be no opponents, no enemies. The key is, the punch has no thod, how can the opponent break it? There's no way to break it]
Who knows how this skill takes effect, Liu Wu Dai punched down,
The dilapidated diary started to tremble and heat up,
The charred paper she held, with a "whoosh," flew back into the book layers, disappeared,
And the crack on the diary's cover also healed.
"Phew...."
Liu Wu Dai sowhat exhaustedly exhaled a stale breath, the [Beautify Myself Punch] she used, even if placed in the entire skill library of the killing field ga, counts as one of those very special skills,
That can directly repair damaged objects,
From automatic pencils to fighter jets and tanks, even so broken equipnt items, there's a certain probability of complete restoration.
In critical tis, it can also be used to compress wounds, staunch bleeding and recover.
No doubt it's a hidden god-level skill.
anwhile, this skill has many other attributes not explained,
For example, the 100 Stamina Points and Spirit Energy Value, practically exist only in the skill description, in reality, no matter what object it's used on, the consumption far exceeds this figure,
Moreover, using the skill on objects with damage exceeding 50% will greatly reduce repair efficiency, if the damage exceeds 80%, it basically equals complete unrepairability, skill consumption will be appallingly high.
Additionally, the skill's description is "repair and nd," not creating sothing out of nothing,
If placing the components of the damaged object nearby, the repair probability can be effectively increased and consumption lowered — like now, those charred paper pieces automatically returned to the diary.
"Take a look."
Liu Wu Dai handed the diary to Li Ang, who took it and opened it,
After discovering the content following the date July 16, 1035, there have been substantial additions, and so passages are readable and comprehensible.
"..."
Li Ang raised an eyebrow in surprise, glanced at the slightly fatigued Liu Wu Dai, nodded, and carefully flipped through the later passages.
[...This is our second day camping on the Sacred Mountain. The trials on the Sacred Mountain are much harder than we imagined. Fatal dangers hide in every room. Especially with everyone in the team injured, I don't know if the magic potion and healing bandaging supplies can last until we reach the peak of the Sacred Mountain. I hope to encounter other hero teams tomorrow to barter and exchange so supplies...]
"This should be the content after July 16, Theresa's team began climbing the Sacred Mountain and faced a situation similar to ours."
Li Ang said, "The diary ntions, 'hoping to encounter other hero teams tomorrow', um... implying that the trials of the Sacred Mountain are open and different hero teams can enter the Sacred Mountain simultaneously.
This is very strange."
"Strange?"
Liu Wu Dai's brow furrowed slightly, imdiately understanding Li Ang's point, "Are you saying this setting is unreasonable?"
"Yes."
Li Ang nodded and said, "If multiple hero teams can enter the Sacred Mountain trials simultaneously, then cooperation between teams should easily occur.
If a single team cannot survive, having more helpers might allow them to survive and pass through smoothly.
And the Sacred Mountain trials do not have clear rules, like only one wish can be fulfilled within a few years—hero teams are not in zero-sum competition.
Unless there's a rule we don't know, like if a certain number gather, they face a trial penalty, or sothing similar."
Liu Wu Dai thought for a mont and said, "It's also possible that hero teams are indeed in zero-sum competition, where only one wish can be made within a certain period.
The village chief of the Guardian Village did not tell us this,
perhaps because this rule is lost, or perhaps he felt there's no need to ntion this rule to our batch of adventurers."
"Possible."
Li Ang nodded and said, "Aside from this, there's another strange point.
The diary ntions, 'This is our second day camping on the Sacred Mountain'.
When we were teleported in, we were scattered and didn't know the location of other companions, requiring a walkie-talkie to contact each other.
But the diary doesn't describe the team reuniting.
Either this part of the content is lost—the first half of the diary is yet to be restored,
or they didn't encounter the random teleportation issue, entering the trial with everyone still together and safely spending the first day."
"..."
Liu Wu Dai frowned, recalling carefully, "When passing through the teleportation circle, I didn't feel any anomalies."
"Neither did I."
Li Ang said, "This point is quite peculiar. It could be that after the Holy Mountain Gate Stone was taken, the Sacred Mountain trials had an error, or it might be another reason.
In any case, let's continue reading."
He kept flipping through the diary, coming across the next entry with an unknown date,
[...Soon, soon we can leave here! After days of a grueling journey, we finally found the passage to the upper level, needing only to defeat the Sacred Beast guarding the passage, we can complete the trial... The situation for others is not optimistic, even to the extent of being very bad. Fortunately, through earlier exchanges with other hero teams, we know this area isn't dangerous, so we can recuperate here. We plan to set up camp and rest for two days, and once everyone regains—at least so degree of combat capability, we'll enter the passage to face the Sacred Beast. Oh, Lady Goddess, if you are still watching over your people, please bless ...]
"Hmm... This diary entry seems to follow the previous one."
Li Ang mused, "Theresa's hero team successfully passed the previous challenges, arriving at the final – face the Sacred Beast.
As long as they defeat the Sacred Beast, the trial is complete, and they can receive the wish fulfillnt reward."
"According to the earlier diary content, they likely needed Theresa to achieve her wish about answers to illusions."
Liu Wu Dai slowly said, "In the Guardian Village, the village chief ntioned,
that when a hero team completes the trial and fulfills a wish,
they will be directly teleported from the mountain summit to the foot of the mountain, avoiding having to pass through another trial on their way down.
This teleportation effect is probably mandatory; once a wish is made, they will inevitably be teleported away..."
"But Theresa's body still lies here."
Li Ang glanced at the wooden bed, stating blandly, "Either they failed and were stuck here,
or they succeeded, and their final wish involved remaining here."
Li Ang and Liu Wu Dai discussed various possibilities, only to hear the walkie-talkie vibrate again—Ding Zhensi had also seen the marks left by Liu Wu Dai and was heading over.
The trial of the Sacred Mountain had so issues, and on Ding Zhensi's way, many traps did not activate due to old disrepair,
allowing Ding Zhensi to pass without hindrance, quickly arriving in the corridor, eting up with Li Ang and the others, and completing the reunion.
The three briefly exchanged notable information,
Li Ang asked Ding Zhensi, "Do you have photos of the initial room you were teleported into?"
"The room filled with statues?"
Ding Zhensi nodded, took out a few photos, and handed them to Li Ang.
The photos displayed a heap of human-shaped stone statues, numbering in the thousands,
with most damaged and only about four hundred remaining well-preserved.
The statue carving wasn't exquisite; even those not severely damaged barely distinguish specific shapes, leaving facial details unclear.
Li Ang imdiately recognized the statues of Theresa's team—they were still wearing their underground palace attire, placed at the forefront of all intact statues.
"An elf archer, two magic scholars, a priest, and a warrior."
Li Ang paused, staring at the six statues, narrowing his eyes, "If that room's statues commorate all hero teams passing the final trial, things get interesting.
Ken Jones, heavily injured in the underground palace, didn't appear in the list during the Sacred Mountain ascent..."
"There's also this one."
Ding Zhensi's Kui Ox cha, from a distance, pointed at another photo, "Besides these, there's another set of statues, also depicting them."
Li Ang looked at the photo Ding Zhensi indicated, seeing Theresa and the others' statues in the middle of the statue array.
They were slightly different in attire, but from so form and clothing details, it was evident they were Theresa and her team.
Only this ti, the team had more mbers,
Ken Jones reappeared on the statue list.
"What does this an? Two sets of statues?"
Li Ang furrowed his brow, ticulously reviewing these photos,
finding no such situation depicted in the photos besides Theresa and her team.
"Could it be that after completing the first trial, Theresa and her team returned to the Sacred Mountain?"
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