Survival at Sea: I Became Number One by Growing Mushrooms

I don't know what the first fire god was like. A god can exist for at least several thousand years, not to mention there are more than just one or two. According to the records of this fire god, there have been at least three.

The history of that deity is so ancient that it's unimaginable.

The last deity has existed for tens of thousands of years. If a deity has been passed down for more than a dozen generations, it would also have existed for tens of thousands of years. But on Earth, at that time, it was still the origin of humankind, while here, humans had already become gods.

Xu Jiawei couldn't imagine what the Dark God was like; was he also a successor?

Not daring to think too much, she focused her attention on the god of fire, gazing at the statue with undisguised admiration.

The murals also record how the god of fire died. In ancient times, the world experienced a severe meteorite disaster, and the god of fire sacrificed himself to resist a meteorite powerful enough to destroy a country. This temple was built by his followers.

Xu Jiawei has great respect for these selfless people.

But this raises another question: if that's the case, then which generation of deity is the "God of Alchemy" mentioned in the apothecary's notebook that she obtained?

Xu Jiawei thought for a long time. This god may have appeared in a very ancient era, because the potions that can increase the chance of becoming a god were all made by her. She is definitely not the last generation of gods.

Will she have the opportunity to discover the temples of even more ancient gods in the future? For example, could she look for the temples of other gods of light and see if there are any useful items?

Xu Jiawei bowed to the statue and then began to explore.

The temple was very simply furnished; apart from candlesticks and statues, there was nothing else.

No, Xu Jiawei seems to have discovered something unusual. Why is there no sign of contamination here? Where did that mechanism teleport her to?

Or does this temple have something to prevent it from being eroded?

Xu Jiawei observed more carefully this time. Was it the candles or the statue? Xu Jiawei thought for a moment. Rainbow had also been polluted and had not yet been purified. She could try using Rainbow as a radar. She released Rainbow from her pet backpack.

As soon as she came out, Rainbow looked around and then looked at the statue, saying, "Master, there's a very comforting aura there."

So Rainbow moved closer, and in Xu Jiawei's perception, the pollution on Rainbow's body became lighter and lighter.

It seems she is still in the contaminated area, and has not been teleported to a special place.

Xu Jiawei looked at the statue again. The problem was with the statue, but no matter how she looked at it, she couldn't see anything special about it.

She could only move closer again, examining every part of the statue carefully, until she flew onto its hair. (Yes, she could fly again once she arrived at the temple.)

There is a small bump in an inconspicuous place in the hair. You can't see it unless you look closely. The bump is less than the size of a mung bean.

When Xu Jiawei first saw it, she thought it was just a small flaw on the stone statue, but then she thought, this is a statue made for a god, how could it have any flaws?

The small bump was hidden in the shadow of her hair, and Xu Jiawei had to search for it three or four times before she could find it.

She tensed up, pressed her hand down, and then heard a "click," as if a mechanism had been activated.

Xu Jiawei immediately looked around warily. It wasn't that she was paranoid; if you heard that sound in the passage, you would have reacted the same way, because it was the sound of those deadly traps being activated. Xu Jiawei was on edge and instinctively stepped back after hearing the sound.

However, apart from the "click" sound, no trap was activated. Xu Jiawei glanced around and finally discovered that there was a very small door on the lower leg of the statue, a door that Xu Jiawei had to crouch to squeeze through.

Xu Jiawei first threw an ordinary material into the doorway. Seeing that no trap was triggered, she then confidently crawled inside.

After squeezing through the door, the environment in front of you suddenly opens up and becomes very spacious, forming its own space. The length of the statue's lower leg is no more than two meters, so the space in front of you is far too large for the lower leg to fit in.

Is this some kind of spatial magic? Xu Jiawei was a little envious, wondering when she could learn it too. If she learned this magic, wouldn't she no longer have to worry about her backpack and could make her own spatial equipment?

The small door behind her slammed shut, plunging the entire space into darkness. She immediately became alert and quickly pulled a flashlight from her pocket—the one Li Ming had given her on the upper island.

She was able to run through the long, dark passage only because of this flashlight.

Upon arriving at the temple, she casually slipped the flashlight into her pocket.

It was just about time to use it, but before Xu Jiawei could turn on the flashlight, a light appeared ahead, blinding her. She squinted at the light and saw a statue standing in front of her. This statue was not as large as the ones outside; it was only the size of a normal person and was colorful, making it more lifelike than the stone statues outside.

Is this a wax figure?

She squinted and leaned closer. When she got close, Xu Jiawei was shocked. This was not a stone statue at all, but a remnant soul. Its entire body was semi-transparent. She only noticed it when she got close because the light was so dazzling. From a distance, Xu Jiawei could not see it clearly.

Xu Jiawei found it hard to believe how this remnant soul had survived. The state of the fire god in her family was similar to that of this remnant soul. The god of agriculture was almost gone, let alone this fire god who had been around for who knows how many years.

As she approached, the remnant soul raised its head, and Xu Jiawei finally saw the remnant soul's eyes clearly—cold and empty, like a machine.

His voice was equally cold and hollow; Xu Jiawei even felt that the survival system itself was more emotional than the man's voice.

"Welcome, Inheritor, to the Trial Grounds. Successfully complete the trials to receive rewards. Failure to pass will result in immediate expulsion from the temple. Begin?"

Before Xu Jiawei could recover from the incident, the rough male voice completely shut her down.

What is this? A trial? And what is this?

But she seemed to have no other choice; how could she give up a reward just because she saw it? So Xu Jiawei immediately agreed.

Just as she finished speaking and was ready, she heard a noise behind her. Xu Jiawei turned her head and saw that the lights had come on again behind her, and a figure was standing there with his head down, seemingly unconscious.

"First challenge: Defeat the puppet doll." The remnant soul didn't say much, while Xu Jiawei assumed an attack stance.

For dealing with enemies that are not dark creatures, parasitic spores are more effective. And for some reason, this enemy seems to be resistant to light attributes, meaning it doesn't seem to be afraid of light attributes.

Therefore, Xu Jiawei used mushroom-type skills to deal with the puppet. The puppet was very fast, and its movements were very unnatural. It was obvious that it was being controlled, and its movements were also very exaggerated.

But Xu Jiawei was no pushover either. After all, she was no longer the weakling she used to be, only level 10 or 20. At level 70, she could easily handle a level 50 puppet.