Chapter 65 - Through The Sky (1/2)

Zhong Yue clenched his teeth, and he thrust his psyche once again at the Beast God Inner Core in his inner mind, causing it to release a tremendous amount of beast god essence into his body!

His Xiang Dragon Body was replete with a surge of unimaginably strong energy; his physique grew to forty feet long, and his speed was given another boost that allowed him to narrowly escape death's clutches!

This decision was extremely dangerous; if he could not refine the beast god essence in time, he would be assimilated into a Xiang Dragon, permanently!

"We are close, very close…"

Xin Huo mumbled, "We will reach it in another fifty miles… Second left!"

Zhong Yue's eyes brightened, and he rushed into the second tunnel on his left. As he made his way down the tunnel, it became narrower. Suddenly, the tunnel trembled as the beast behind him tried to enter, but the beast became stuck in trying to enter a hole too narrow for its colossal frame.

The giant beast released a muted roar, but its massive body barred it from entering the tunnel no matter how much it struggled.

Hua-la-la.

One after another, eyeballs rolled down from its eye sockets and muscles from its limbs peeled away. The zombie demons and eyes flooded the tunnel and sprinted toward Zhong Yue—it was a horrific scene!

Since the giant beast now had a slimmer frame, it was able to enter the tunnel, and with full speed, it charged right toward Zhong Yue.

"Oh shit, we've just stirred the hornets' nest…"

Xin Huo mumbled while he kept turning his head and looked behind, all of a sudden, he shouted out, "That's it! Brat Yue, I know what these devil souls are looking for! No doubt words like smart and brilliant were specially invented to praise me!"

Zhong Yue kept quiet. This was a moment of life and death, the crucial time of escaping from death, how could he allow himself to be distracted?

"They are the souls of the dead gods and devils, souls but not spirits!"

Even without getting any replies, Xin Huo kept on, "Soul and spirit, soul and spirit! Devil souls have souls but no spirits, someone had torn their souls and spirits apart, the souls were repressed underneath of Swords Gate Mountain, that's why whenever the Devil Soul Yin Effluvium erupted, the devil souls were all searching for their spirits!"

The little flame walked back and forth in the weathered lamp mumbling to himself, "Where are their spirits hidden at… definitely not underground, else they would've found it already… but if not underground, then where can it be? Surely not outside in the Swords Gate Mountain, they will give off surges of energy that would be hard not to notice. The spirits must have been sealed off inside something else!"

"Who killed these gods and devils, the purpose of gathering the spirits was not to repress them, there must be some other reason, some other uses for their spirits…"

The doubts from the little flame were unanswered, he once again trapped himself in questions that have no answers.

"Seems like there are a lot of secrets in Great Wilderness, the biggest of all is where are the spirits of these gods and devils… Brat Yue, you are getting close, 1,640 feet left!"

Zhong Yue was set astir, and his speed elevated once more.

Behind him, the white skeletal giant beast engulfed the zombie demon and peculiar eyes together. It then sprinted faster to catch up to Zhong Yue quickly!

"We are getting closer, very close…"

Xin Huo started mumbling again in his agitation, "Let's hope the seal isn't too strong now, or we will be trapped here for another nine years until the next eruption of the Devil Soul Yin Effluvium."

Zhong Yue mustered all his strength and hurried to his destination, a bright light appeared out of nowhere and suddenly, the surroundings expanded.

He raised his head and cast his gaze around. There was a pool of water floating in the air. The sky and pool, white clouds and blue waters. It was a stagnant pool suspended in the air with no water flowing down—they were contained by countless numbers of huge totem carvings beneath the pool.

From below, the view was as if someone was looking at the zenith, the totem carvings appeared in different forms, continually changing in patterns without any fixed permutations.

"Ever-changing totem carvings?

Zhong Yue was baffled, this was the first time he ever encountered such totem carvings. The totem carvings beneath sealed the whole pool without a single drop of water leaking out. One could tell how strong and robust the seal was!

Could this really be where the seal was getting loosened?

Behind him, the giant beast surged forward in great speed, rays that symbolized death started to glimmer in its eyes; watching as the giant beast was getting nearer, Zhong Yue gritted his teeth and leaped into the air, the Xiang Dragon stomped and he walked in mid-air toward the dangling pool and seal!

The weathered lamp in the hands of Sui Sovereign behind him emanated two rays of light piercing right at the totem carvings; once the light rays shone on them, cracks started to emerge on the totem carvings.

Time had ravaged the once unblemished totem seal left behind by the gods, and a flaw appeared in the totem carvings. Time had now rendered the seal incomplete.

But even so, the totem carvings still contained an unfathomable power within them that was meant to strike directly at the soul. After all, its purpose was to seal devil souls for an eternity; its power must never be underestimated no matter how much the totem carvings had degraded.

What was most horrifying was that the totem carvings were continually changing. It ebbed and flowed like water, without fixed shape or pattern, and with limitless transformations and permutations. Recklessly entering would result in irreversible consequences. A path that seemed safe could suddenly turn into a road to death the next second with the seemingly whimsical will of the totem carvings!

"This seal, although loosened and now very weak, it is still fairly strong…"

Xin Huo was troubled by the difficult situation, he said, "Normally this wouldn't be of any concern, but right now, time is not our friend… Brat Yue, do exactly as I say, never lay a wrong step, or your soul will perish!"