Chapter 258 - Divine Sense (1/2)

*Gulp*

Hao Xuan's throat dried up a little just from listening to Monk's explanation.

Demonic beasts were at the level equivalent to the Origin and Spirit realm.

After that were the Ether beasts, and after that were apparently Desolate beasts that had power levels higher than even Profound realm cultivators.

These realms were still so far away from Hao Xuan's reach that he couldn't imagine how strong those beasts were.

”Should we go back then...?” he mumbled with uncertainty.

”I think that would be a wise choice,” Ensis chimed in, in agreement with Hao Xuan.

Monk looked at moved a few steps forward to get a better view of the mountain.

”I think you should go in first.”

Ensis frowned upon hearing Monk's suggestion, his expression turning colder by the second. Hao Xuan noticed the change and patted his shoulder silently, calming him down.

He looked at Monk with a curious gaze, ”Why?”

”This place is home to some of the most vicious creatures on this side of the continent. With our strength, we wouldn't survive long if ventured too deep, but thankfully this is just the periphery of the graveyard,” he turned around to meet Hao Xuan's eyes.

”These beasts constantly fight with one another for supremacy, often killing each other in the process. The chances of there being a corpse of an Ether beast in there are pretty high. You can sneak in and take a few things. Wherever these beasts live, treasures of the earth start appearing due to the high density of energy around them. Who knows, you might find something good down there,” he said pointing at the pit that went straight into the ground at an angle of 60 degrees.

Ensis quickly walked up to Hao Xuan and whispered into his ear, ”Master, its extremely dangerous here. We don't know what's down there, and it could lead to certain death. Let us return.”

Hao Xuan rubbed his chin in deep thought, weighing the pros and cons of each option and decided on the most obvious one.

”We'll go in. Just for a bit. If there's anything strange we will turn back right there and then. Don't worry,” he assured the Sword God that was unusually worried for some reason.

Perhaps it was a sixth sense or just his imagination, but that pit gave off a feeling of absolute dread to him.

Having decided on the matter, they all jumped up on Bai and slowly made their way towards the giant pit.

Hao Xuan decided to keep Monk out as well since he was originally in the Spirit Realm and even though he was injured right now, his years of experience was still worth a lot.

The closer the got the bigger the pit became. They were looking at it from an angle before so couldn't see its actual size, but it was more than 500 meters in diameter up front. (pics in authors notes)

Whatever beast made it must have been stupendously huge.

Bai who was pretty big on his own seemed like an ant standing in front of the pit's entrance. With some hesitation, he jumped in, sticking closely to the cracks in the walls.

And like that the party slowly descended deeper and deeper into the dark pit whose base wasn't anywhere in sight.

At the start the surrounding area was made up of ice harder than diamonds as Bai's sharp claws didn't even leave a single mark on them, but it slowly changed to a brown earthy material a couple of kilometers in.

The trio dared not even breath out loud and held their breaths while looking around with squinted eyes, not missing a single detail.

20 minutes later the pit opened up into the side of a giant cavern, finally revealing the bottom.

The cavern was several dozen kilometers wide with a white grass covering the entire floor like carpet. There were blue crystalline rocks the size of small cars littered across the floor. Under and around each crystal were many different kinds of herbs and small animals roaming around.

There was no one source of light here and everything gave off a luminescent glow, including the creatures and the grass.

”It's there,” Bai spoke to Hao Xuan again, gesturing towards a crater in the middle.

Hao Xuan followed his line of sight and saw a gigantic cracked rock taking up more than 300 meters of space. The ground underneath it was caved in like someone had smashed it with a hammer.

”Do you detect any life signs?” he asked the part in a low voice.

Ensis shook his head, ”Nothing other than those small critters,” pointing at the numerous small beasts running around the floor.

”Alright, let's go down,” Hao Xuan patted Bai's fur.

Bai leaped and silently landed behind a crystalline rock. The trio got off from his back and carefully landed on the cavern floor.