Chapter 699: Hidden Formation (1/2)
”Looking at the dense presence of Darkness Profound Energy in this Eternal Night Secret Realm, I would say it belongs to a demon—or at least, a cultivator of the darkness attribute. Furthermore, he would have to be at the Divine King Realm or higher,” Aria speculated.
Divine Cultivators would have successfully formed their inner world at the start of Divine Origin Realm, but only at the Divine King Realm would the inner world become stable enough to sustain life.
”Divine King Realm, huh?” Leon muttered with narrowed eyes before he said, ”If the Eternal Night Secret Realm is the inner world of a fallen divine powerhouse at the Divine King Realm or beyond it, then this world could be anywhere.”
Just like an interspatial ring that could contain varying sizes of storage space inside depending on its grade, the Eternal Night Secret Realm could appear as a regular pill to the outside yet contain the size of an entire world not inferior to Gaia or greater within.
As such, Leon did not know how far they were transported to enter the Eternal Night Secret Realm and would not know where to begin searching for it directly the next time.
However, he suddenly recalled that the two seniors in the center of the world mentioned that Gaia was a prison world sealed by a Celestial Conqueror.
In that case, the location of the Eternal Night Secret Realm should exist somewhere within Gaia.
Although it could be any random pebble on the side of the road, Leon suspected that the object containing the Eternal Night Secret Realm was most likely hidden in the dark clouds of the Dark Continent somewhere.
Nevertheless, that was not important to think about all that.
Leon shook his head and said, ”Let's look for the tomb entrance.”
”Mm!” Aria and Darlene nodded.
Shortly after, Leon spread out his divine sense and attempted to sweep the area below the ground surface.
However, his divine sense was obstructed before it could seep through the ground, causing his brows to knit together.
”Is there a problem?” the attentive Aria quickly noticed.
”Not really,” Leon shook his head before casually replying, ”I was just trying to scout the ground, but my divine sense got obstructed by the Nethergrass's power of devouring.”
”It's not very strong, but with so many Nethergrass in this area, they basically form a barrier that interferes with any form of spying that tries to get past it.”
”Should we uproot all these Nethergrass then?” Darlene suggested while glancing down at the field of black grasses surrounding the tombstone.
”Logically speaking, that method would indeed resolve the inference problem. However, this Eternal Night Secret Realm is supposedly very dangerous. We don't know what trap could be triggered as a result of uprooting this field of Nethergrass,” Leon stated.
”Perhaps it will also trigger a mechanism to destroy the tomb itself. It won't hurt to be prudent in our action and look for the tomb entrance with alternative methods. Perhaps, this is also part of the trial to see whether we are worthy of the treasures.”
”But… hubby just plucked a few stalks of Nethergrass a moment ago, and nothing bad seemed to happen,” Darlene mentioned with a puzzled look.
”Un, I did,” Leon nodded and said, ”But that was quite careless of me. Luckily, I've only taken a few and not a lot. Otherwise, we would not have known what could hit us.”
”Treasures aren't usually left unguarded.”
”Only you would see these grass as treasures,” Aria giggled softly as she threw a jab at Leon for being too cautious.
”Aren't you being too cautious, Leon?”
”I would rather be too cautious than lose either of you due to a stupid of mine that could have been avoided,” Leon stated seriously.