Chapter 419: Testing (1/2)

Chapter 419: Testing

The explorers from the Realm of a Hundred Battles didn’t have much difficulty killing the local Qi warriors from the Realm of Dark Underworld.

Even Nie Tian was able to cut down a few lost members of the Flame God Sect with his Flame Star.

However, many of them failed to destroy their enemies’ discarnate souls immediately after killing them, with the Worldly realm experts and Gu Haofeng being the exceptions.

Once they failed to do so, the discarnate souls would rapidly fly out of the heads of the deceased and join the sea of Specters above the lake.

The odd thing was that both the Specters above the lake and the Phantasms hidden behind them turned a blind eye to the fact that they were killing the possessed local Qi warriors.

Not a single Specter or Phantasm rushed over to attack or stop them.

The massacre ended in fifteen minutes.

Each and every possessed Qi warrior from the Realm of Dark Underworld was killed, most of whose discarnate souls escaped and joined the army of Specters.

Not the slightest joy could be seen on Dong Mingxuan’s face as he looked down at the scattered corpses. Instead, he said, “I have a feeling that those Phantasms are using us to kill those local people for them.”

“I have the same feeling,” Shen Zhong said with a low voice.

“Something is different. The Phantasm relic in the lake is slowly floating closer to the surface of the lake. I didn’t find it like this.” Cao Qiushui no longer dared to hold any information back. He went on and explained his findings and the changes that had taken place during the past few months in detail.

Qin Yan was taken aback. “What?! You mean that you came here five years ago, but didn’t discover anything in the lake. All these changes have taken place over the past few months? And you were only able to discover the relic because it started to slowly float up from the bottom of the lake?”

Cao Qiushui nodded and answered with a bitter smile, “Yeah.”

OWWW!

At that moment, spirit beast roars suddenly echoed out from a dense forest on the other side of the lake.

Startled, everyone subconsciously gazed off in the direction of the sources of the sound. However, due to the exceedingly long distance, most of them failed to see anything.

Only Dong Mingxuan, Shen Zhong, and the other Worldly realm experts seemed to have discovered what was happening after unleashing their soul power.

On the other side of the lake, a large number of spirit beasts were madly attacking one another. Eyes narrowed, Shen Zhong said with a grim expression on his face, “It seems that spirit beasts can also be influenced by the Phantasms’ secret spells. Many spirit beasts are fighting one another to the death on that side of the lake. The discarnate souls of the dead spirit beasts are also flying out and joining the army of hovering Specters above the lake.”

With powerful experts like Shen Zhong there, Nie Tian didn’t feel the need to unleash his seven Heaven Eyes.

From his description, Nie Tian learned of what was happening on the other side of the lake: numerous spirit beasts were killing each other, giving birth to many more Specters.

A streak of lightning suddenly flashed across his mind.

“The Phantasms are doing this intentionally. They must somehow need a large number of Specters!” Nie Tian gave voice to his speculations.

Almost at the same time, Dong Li, who was standing right next to him, exclaimed, “The Phantasms must be trying to build up an army of Specters!”

Qin Yan also seemed to come to a sudden enlightenment as she blurted in a loud voice, “Perhaps it was the Phantasms’ intention for the Qi warriors from the Flame God Sect, the Spirit God Sect, and the other sects to discover this place! I even suspect that it’s the Phantasms that have secretly manipulated and guided those spirit beasts to this place!”

Nie Tian, Dong Li, and Qin Yan spoke almost simultaneously.

However, since both Dong Li’s and Qin Yan’s voices were higher than Nie Tian’s, Nie Tian’s voice was practically drowned in theirs.

Dong Mingxuan, Shen Zhong, and the other Worldly realm experts seemed to have long since thought of this possibility, but they didn’t simply feed it to the juniors. Rather, they seemed to be waiting for these youngsters to figure it out on their own.

After hearing Dong Li and Qin Yan’s speculations, they all shot approving gazes at the two of them, nodding gently.

A faint smile appeared on Dong Mingxuan’s face. “Good. It seems that you two have located the problem.”

Since Nie Tian had practically whispered his speculation into Dong Li’s ear, his voice was easily drowned by Dong Li’s loud exclamation.

Although nearly everyone missed his voice, Dong Mingxuan and Shen Zhong’s somewhat surprised gazes briefly stopped on his face as they openly praised Dong Li and Qin Yan.

Nie Tian immediately realized that they had both heard his voice, indistinguishable as it was.