The Underwater Palace (1)
"Ughhhhhh", The pain from Luke's belly had just disappeared, and he was on the ground in some place, he hadn't figured it out yet, because when he was planning on looking around another blue panel showed up in his vision.
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Congratulations host, you have exceeded your limits.
You have exceeded your limits and now can get to grand mastery in every one of your qi elements.
As a present for your successful transformation, you will be temporarily teleported to the beginner danger zone, 'The Underwater Palace'.
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'What.'
'3'
'WAIT I NEVER SAID I WANTED TO!'
'2'
'SYSTEM I'M YOUR HOST NOT THE OTHER WAY AROUND PLEASE DON'T!'
'1'
Luke's body then dissolved and disappeared like it was never there before.
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Luke woke up on a hard floor and it took a second for him to remember what happened before he got here, and when he realized where he was he immediately tensed up.
'This is a danger zone right, so what kind of danger zone is it? The system said it was the underwater palace...well I have no other choice now other than figuring out how to get out of here.'
Luke then looked around and saw that around him was a long hall, behind him and in front of him. he couldn't see the other side in either of the halls, so he just started walking into the hall behind him.
He was on guard the whole time he was walking, yet nothing jumped out at him like how he thought would happen. Instead, Luke eventually saw that the hall was a dead end, 'Great. I just happened to choose the wrong path, sometimes I can't tell if I have good luck or bad luck. Nothing else I can do except go the other way.'
Luke started to walk the other way, he thought about running to go faster, but he decided against it because he didn't want to trigger anything.
Eventually after walking for a long time, almost double the amount of time it took to reach the dead end on the other side, Luke reached the end of the hall but what he saw wasn't what he was expecting. It was a dead-end, 'Are you serious? What kind of hallway has no way out!? There can't be, think logically. There must be some kind of trick or puzzle going on right now, I just have to figure out what is happening. I was scared to hit the wall before, but now that I'll die if I can't get out, I don't care anymore!"
Luke then hit the wall with a water blade as hard as he could, but when it hit the wall the blade did nothing, not even a scratch.
'I guess I should have expected that right? The whale told me that danger zones scale to a person's power, so I probably won't be able to get out of here with brute force alone, I'll have to use my head.'
'So what could be going on here? Both ways are a dead end, and I can't break the walls. I must have missed something, I'll look at the ceiling, the walls, and the floor. There must be a way out of here.'
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Back in the cave where Luke was training.
'Hmm? Where did that baby dragon go? Mabey he just went out to play, he is a kid after all. When he comes back though, I'll teach him a lesson in why he shouldn't launch at me again.'
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Luke had run around the halls for hours, looking in every nook and cranny, but still nothing, 'Oh no, am I not gonna be able to get out of this place after all? I knew the system would come after me one day! No, it's too late to give up on hope, let me think...wait. This long hall is just one straight line, right? Hehehe, I'll show this danger zone that they're messing with the wrong dragon!
Luke then ran all the way to the end of the hall, then he got to work. He started to use his water gun skill, and get all of the components in place. He was able to do it more easily this time since he already had done it before, and his mental defense upgraded.
He did the same things as last time, except for one thing. This time he made the gun a lot bigger! He wanted to be extra sure that his idea worked, he didn't want to end up a rotten corpse in the sea, or skeleton. After letting the string gain tension for a minute or two, Luke pulled the trigger.
BOOOOOOM!
As the firing pin hit the near-explosion water qi, they went off like fireworks, and the gas they produced was a lot more and stronger than last time. He went even faster than a bullet, even more than 10 times as fast. But he still had to wait a couple of seconds for him to reach the other side of the hall.
Right when he was about to engage in a head-on collision with the dead-end, something changed. From the middle of the dead-end wall, it spread apart and a room was exposed. Luke was surprised he was not expecting this to happen, he thought he would be able to bust throw the wall with overwhelming power and hope that the danger zone wasn't able to know that he had a skill way above his cultivation level. He never expected the wall to open on its own though.
"AHHHHHHHHH!"
Luke zoomed through the gap made and then slammed against the wall on the other side, he was very dizzy but luckily he was able to make another layer of spirit armor before hitting the wall, or he was afraid that his brains would have splattered all over the place.
Luke started to look around him, and when he did he saw that he was in the middle of a room, to his right was another hall, and to his left the same. In front of him were two staircases leading to a lower floor and to the side of the stairs leading down were stairs leading up. When he looked behind him he only saw a solid wall.
'Looks like I need to choose a path.'