Free Web NovelChapter 276: Chapter 30: The Burial Ground of Myriad Demons
Meanwhile, Su Zhou was in a meeting at the Kunlun Camp.
The Kunlun Camp was a portable data center that was extremely easy to set up. Its components were transported by armed transport helicopters and assembled upon arrival.
The two Holy Seats, Math Saint and Artisan Saint, were stationed here, monitoring all the Spiritual Qi signals from within the ruins.
When Su Zhou arrived, the two Holy Seats were arguing, which made him eavesdrop out of curiosity. The result, however, was rather disappointing. It was nothing gossip-worthy—mainly, Math Saint was accusing Artisan Saint’s method of opening the ruins of being too forceful. He claimed it could damage the entrance to the Grotto Heaven or even cause uncontrolled anomalies.
But Artisan Saint, who specialized in all kinds of Spiritual Artifacts and Arrays, scoffed at the accusation. "Using a key on a lock damages the cylinder, too. It’s just a matter of degree. Or are you planning to drag this out for another couple of weeks? The sooner we get the data from the ruins and learn where the Immortal Gods went and what their plans were, the better we can prepare for what’s next."
"Every second we delay now might have to be paid for with blood later." freewebnøvel.com
Su Zhou’s arrival brought a temporary halt to their argument—though in truth, there wasn’t much to argue about. The plan had already been set, and the two were just venting their frustrations.
After all, the Holy Seats were only human, with their own emotions and biases. It was just that under the Saint Supervision System, their names were concealed, leaving only their sanctified titles. That was why they seemed so lofty and mysterious.
Math Saint was an ordinarily dressed middle-aged man, around forty or fifty, with a profound aura and deep, dark eyes. Artisan Saint, on the other hand, looked to be under forty. He had a rather carefree and unrestrained air and wore a pair of black-framed glasses, making him likely the youngest of the current Holy Seats—though if Su Zhou were to become one in the future, that title would fall to him.
Su Zhou’s report was clearly important. Taking the opportunity presented by his feeling that something was amiss with the Kunlun Ruins and the sudden, heavy snowfall, he directly proposed his theory: that Demons and Evils might be sealed inside.
"Perhaps they’re enemies that the Immortal Gods of old sealed within their own headquarters. Maybe they had to evacuate in a hurry and didn’t have time to finish off these sealed enemies—or maybe they believed the severing of Spiritual Qi would cause them to wither away naturally, which would be the cruelest punishment of all."
In the camp, Su Zhou continued eloquently, "Alternatively, the Spiritual Energy Revival might have caused some things inside the ruins to gain sentience, birthing new life—or it could be a combination of both. For example, just as my Dragon Blood attracts other Dragon Species, if a Great Demon is truly sealed inside, then with the ruins now gradually opening, demonic beasts of a similar bloodline are bound to appear in the vicinity of the Kunlun Ruins."
"That’s certainly possible. We should be vigilant."
Other professors had considered the theory Su Zhou proposed, but it carried far more weight coming from him. Besides, Su Zhou himself possessed Dragon Blood; who was to say there wasn’t some kind of mutual resonance involved?
But vigilance was one thing; the exploration still had to proceed. Now that Su Zhou had arrived, Bai Canglang took over the conversation to inform him of the Orbit and method for opening the ruins.
"Originally, the method the Daoist Discipline Bureau found in ancient texts was to use the inherited blood of ten different Dao Mimic Cultivators to form a key and slowly open all the sealed doors of the Secret Realm. This is the orthodox method, but its drawback is that it’s far too slow. For some reason, the Secret Realm’s verification process is nearly ten times slower than theoretically predicted, requiring almost a hundred days. It’s likely that after being sealed for millennia, the Array has grown sluggish."
"Artisan Saint doesn’t want to wait that long. He plans to use the access key we already possess to brute-force his way through and seize control of the entire Secret Realm’s Array permissions in the process. Theoretically, it’s not dangerous—after all, we already have a key and won’t trigger any countermeasures—but it could indeed damage the integrity of the Great Array."
Ten types of High-level Demon Blood with inherent legacies—in other words, Divine Beast Blood like that of a True Dragon or White Tiger—would have been easy to gather in ancient times. But in the modern era, where the Mimic Dao has withered, doing so is fraught with difficulty.
In particular, they couldn’t find a qualified source for the specified ’Dragon Blood.’ Fortunately, Su Zhou’s appearance solved this pressing problem. Otherwise, they would have had to see if Flood Dragon Blood would suffice as a substitute.
"I don’t have a problem with it, but what if it doesn’t work?"
It was just giving a bit of blood, so Su Zhou didn’t mind. The essence of a Transcendent was a condensation of Extraordinary elements; a mere blood sample would reveal nothing. He was just wondering, ’My blood doesn’t have any ’legacy’ in it. Does it even meet the requirements?’
Bai Canglang stared blankly for a moment, thinking Su Zhou was joking. "How could it not work, Professor Su? Just look at your current strength! How could it possibly be useless?"
"How dare you question the power of my blood?!"
Meanwhile, sensing Su Zhou’s internal doubt, Yara, who was curled up in his ear, puffed up with anger, making Su Zhou’s ear feel extremely itchy. "Let me put it this way: if that so-called Array dares to reject my blood, it only proves that it’s not on a high enough level!" freёwebnovel.com
’So you can’t be sure either!’
But even if it didn’t work, Su Zhou wasn’t nervous. Ten minutes later, he was on a helicopter, arriving next to the entrance of the Kunlun Secret Realm.
The entrance to the Kunlun Secret Realm was located on the summit of a peak within the real-world Kunlun Mountain Range.
Amidst the mountain range, thousands of meters above sea level, steep, treacherous peaks and majestic, snow-capped mountains clustered together. The very highest summit could be seen wreathed in white clouds and mist, as if its upper reaches had already entered the Celestial Realm, no longer a part of the mortal world.
