Chapter 76 - God in the Moon (1/2)

At the bottom of the volcano, Gu Hongzi, Lang Qingyun and the other monsters were staring at the teleportation portal in stupefaction. The volcano had just cooled down; a split second before this, they could feel an unearthly strength siphoning away all of the energy from within thousand miles radius of volcano!

And when the array was activated, such a force of energy beyond imagination was entirely consumed in an instant!

"The ancient god's treasure ... it flew away by itself?"

Over hundreds of monsters lost their composure, some started laughing out loud, and guffawing to the extent that tears rolled down their cheeks as peals of chagrined laughter sounded throughout the bottom of the volcano like discordant cries. "We monsters spent so many years trying, sacrificing lives and time, and yet, in the end, it was all in vain, all in vain!"

The face of the Jinxiu Island Lord and Sulphur Island Lord darkened, their limbs quivered, their hearts seemed to suddenly lose direction, and they were bewildered.

What had just happened ... was out of their comprehension.

The monsters had spent ages and countless lives on the seal, driven by the high hopes and anticipation that one day, the prospect of acquiring the god's treasure would finally come to fruition. But the ending took a sharp turn for the worse, no one could have foreseen that the treasure would 'fly' away on its own!

A sad and sorrowful ambience inundated the monsters, no one expected things to turn out this way, and yet the reality continued to contemptuously stare at them in the face. All the efforts the monsters had poured down on the seal and the trials and tribulations they suffered through were completely in vain.

I think I just saw someone dashing into the stone array....

The Jiuxiu Island Lord, Xiutian Chen, squinted his eyes and thought, My injuries are so severe that I kept seeing figments of my imaginations, I have to heal up as soon as possible.

"This is bad, the Swords Gate's four young successors have sealed the volcanic crater!" One of the monsters shouted.

"We will fight our way out!" The monster ace cultivators turned the acrimony of their sorrow into a raging fire of strength as they bellowed.

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On the moon, Zhong Yue's mind was utterly blank, he took a few moments to regain his composure, and he shouted in shock, "What did you just say? The moon, stolen? Who is capable of snatching it away?"

Xin Huo leaped down from Zhong Yue's shoulder and hovered in the air, pacing back and forth and exasperation, "Not all of it, but the most crucial and essential fragment, which is the moon's core! The moon spirits come into being from the moon's core, and whoever did this, took the moon's core and the moon spirits away from the moon!"

"So, the moon is only left with the crust, it's empty in the core?"

The fact was too hard for him, in fact, for anyone to ever accept, Zhong Yue cast his psyche into the crust and seeped into it. The psyche was an intangible and abstract facet of his prowess, unencumbered by a physical body, his psyche could extend all the way into the depths of the moon's mantle.

He could not tell how much time had elapsed nor how deep the mantle was, Zhong Yue's psyche was on the verge of reaching its limit when all of a sudden, the pressure on his psyche was alleviated and he came to a vast space swallowed in emptiness,

The moon was literally empty, there was only a stratum of rocks that formed the shape of the moon.

Zhong Yue could not believe it, the crust was all that was left of the moon, while the entire core went missing!

Zhong Yue never knew how massive the moon was. When he was young, he would often look up to the sky and think that the moon was only the size of a dinner plate, ignorant of the nature of optics. But ever since he started cultivating, especially after he began practicing the Sui Sovereign Flame Order Palace Visualization Art, his psyche turned stronger and his sights grew sharper than ever before – he could see things clearer and became cognizant of the often forgotten details that escaped the sight of many.

That was when he knew that the moon was bigger than what he imagined it was.

But now, he arrived on the moon and was standing right on it, he realized the extent of his hubris when he thought he could measure the size of the moon with his imagination – its size was something far beyond the limits of his psyche.

And yet, as of now, the moon which was of a size beyond his imagination had its core stolen away!

Who would have such a ghostly ability?

Who would be able to sneak onto the moon and snatch away its core under the nightly watch of the innumerable living beings that lived under its light?

Countless nights passed and no one had ever realized that the moon, robbed of its essence, was now only an empty husk!

"Who did this?"

It was right at this time where Zhong Yue discovered a surge of a holy and saintly aura inside of the moon as if there were a miniature sun hiding within it. A golden radiance shined in all directions and instantly wiped his psyche away!

Zhong Yue was shocked, and he quickly withdrew his psyche back into the recesses of his mind. The moment when his psyche moved, he could 'see' the figure of a god towering inside the moon – it was the source of that saintly aura.

The figure was so huge that it that the whole moon seemed to circumscribe it, it's arms extended outwards and pushed against the moon's crust from the inside as if it holding the moon so that it would not crumble!

"A totem spirit!"

Zhong Yue was shocked, and he quickly recovered his psyche back into his psyche ocean. This godly figure was a totem spirit, one that was also the same the those worshipped by the human tribes; they were all spirits.

But this godly figure was not the moon spirit; a thief stole the moon's core away and placed his spirit here, forcibly taken over the moon so that when the living worshipped the moon, it was his spirit that they were inadvertently worshipping!

Right when his psyche returned to his psyche ocean, the aura also followed behind and transmuted into a godly figure in his psyche ocean!

Right away, the saintly aura engulfed his psyche ocean, pulverizing his psyche and crumbling the space around; and later, the aura emanated from the godly figure started to reach out to his soul!

"Soul Sovereign!"

Zhong Yue gravely murmured, his soul transmuted to the form of the Sui Sovereign and sitting down solemnly, he was like a Heavenly Emperor sitting in the midst of the endless void accepting the supplication from the gods, emanating a burst of strong rays.