Free Web NovelChapter 307: Chapter 41: The Aura of the Five-Color Divine Light
The demands from the black chasm were, in fact, quite simple: they told Garuda that it was their kin and that they wanted it to open the Seal for them, allowing it to return to the Beast God Realm—to its home.
To that end, they even offered many highly tempting conditions.
Hearing this, Su Zhou suddenly recalled the Evil Beasts that had been crushed by the aftershocks during his battle with Garuda. ’That sounds a bit like what it’s describing, doesn’t it?’
So he swallowed the roasted meat in his mouth, interrupted her, and asked gravely, "Don’t tell me you’ve already opened that passage to the Otherworld?"
"I haven’t."
In response to Su Zhou’s question, Garuda immediately shook its head vigorously. It said rather proudly, "I’m not so stupid as to believe whatever anyone tells me. Even a fool could see that those fellows from the Beast God Realm are only interested in my bloodline and the Kunlun Secret Realm."
"They thought that because I was newly born, I’d be easy to deceive. But the memories from my bloodline inheritance were specifically enhanced for this, allowing me to easily see through their deception!"
At this point, having answered all manner of questions, including those about its own origins, Garuda fell silent. It closed its eyes and waited for Su Zhou to pronounce its fate.
Su Zhou didn’t hesitate—and not to set up a grill, of course. He stood up immediately and said to Bai Canglang beside him, "Let’s go. We’re heading to the Central Mountain Range to have this young Golden-winged Bird transfer her authority."
"While we’re at it, we’ll check on the state of the Seal. We can’t have anything actually escaping from that black chasm."
These two tasks were indeed the most pressing, and Bai Canglang had no objections. Although he was the one who had just blasted Garuda in the head, capturing a Divine Bird alive was a boon for practitioners of the Mimic Dao.
And Garuda, having escaped the fate of ending up on a grill, was certainly not foolish enough to refuse. It immediately set off to lead the way. ƒrēewebnoѵёl.cσm
As they walked the path toward the heart of the Kunlun Secret Realm, Su Zhou pieced together Garuda’s descriptions and formed a theory about the nature of the black chasm—it was likely a Space-Time Passage leading to an Otherworld.
In the past, the Immortal Gods, sensing the impending end of Spiritual Qi, sought to travel to other Spirit Worlds. But even They couldn’t be so lucky as to find a suitable destination on their first attempt.
And the voices from behind the black chasm, the beings claiming to be from the Beast God Realm, were probably from a world passage that the Immortal Gods had accidentally opened long ago and never got around to closing.
「Meanwhile.」
「Far away, at Flat-top Mountain.」
Having gathered most of the remaining exploration team members, Tang Yuan took a headcount, a troubled look on his pale face. ’They’re still not all here? Shao Qiming’s team from Qinxing Academy still hasn’t shown up... Were they attacked, or are they just too far away?’
Neither guess was surprising. It was even possible they were simply late because they had discovered some ruins worth investigating.
For example, the team led by Elder Xuan Lu of the Xuan Family had been teleported to a palace at the foot of a mountain formed from the corpse of a Demon God, where they had accidentally discovered various inheritances stored within. freёwebnovel.com
The vast majority of mountains in the Kunlun Secret Realm were formed from the corpses of Demon Gods.
However, not all of them were the remains of Demon Gods who had starved to death before the end of the Spiritual Qi, like the Dragon King’s Remains at the bottom of the Pacific Ocean.
Quite the contrary—Kunlun Mountain itself was akin to an Elephant Tomb, a burial ground that numerous powerful Demon Gods chose for themselves as they neared death.
’The Ancient Mimic Dao is extremely dangerous. It requires controlling the very source of your own bloodline, your genes, even your cellular structure. One careless misstep, and you could die, your spirit utterly destroyed.’
Pondering the price the ancient Immortal Gods had paid to forge a path in Cultivation, Tang Yuan couldn’t help but sigh. ’Even Demon Gods on the verge of becoming Immortal could easily suffer a fatal deviation if they made one wrong move. This is probably the origin of the myth that the Demon Race is ill-suited for Cultivation and prone to falling into demonhood.’
The Ancient Mimic Dao was indeed fraught with peril. Therefore, to ensure their legacies were not lost, every Demon God, before choosing to pass away in Kunlun Mountain, would deliberately build a small hall of inheritance beside where their body would lie. These halls contained their bloodline and legacy, and within, they would detail at what stage of Cultivation they had perished, so that their successors would not repeat their mistakes.
These corpse-mountains didn’t just represent the numerous inheritances of the Mimic Dao Demon Gods... they were also unequivocal monuments of progress in the history of human Cultivation. From them, one could clearly observe how the Ancient Mimic Dao had evolved and been passed down through the ages.
The elder of the Xuan Family possessed the Black Tortoise Bloodline, but their lineage had only inherited the Water Control System, having lost the Demon-Suppressing Power. Consequently, they had to cultivate other Daoist Techniques to avoid being little more than glorified water carriers. Flat-top Mountain, however, was formed from the carapace of a Black Tortoise Demon God. Upon finding this hope of completing his family’s legacy, the old man was so excited he nearly fainted on the spot. And he wasn’t the only one who was thrilled. Gazing at the myriad mountains of Kunlun, many others felt their hearts stir with the hope that their own incomplete bloodlines and inheritances could finally be made whole.
"Professor Xuan," Tang Yuan stepped forward and asked politely, "should we set off now to catch up with Professor Su and Associate Professor Bai, or should we continue to wait for the first squad from Qinxing Academy?"
Professor Xuan was in an excellent mood and replied directly, "Let’s wait another ten minutes. If there’s still no signal, we’ll leave trail markers and go find Professor Su’s group."
They, too, had naturally sensed the fluctuations of Spiritual Power from Su Zhou smashing through a series of Arrays and getting into what sounded like a fight. In fact, quite a few of the smaller teams had also been attacked by Evil Beasts—all of which were, of course, repelled.
Not only that, but they had also received word through the exploration team’s internal communicators that Professor Su had overcome the danger and defeated all his enemies.
With that, there were no Demons or Demon Beasts left in the Kunlun Secret Realm worth mentioning. Even if Shao Qiming’s group couldn’t rendezvous for a while, they wouldn’t be in any real danger.
But just as the main body of the exploration team finished assembling, preparing to head to the center of the Kunlun Secret Realm and rendezvous with Su Zhou’s party...
Suddenly, all those who carried the bloodline inheritance of a Demon God felt an indescribable, deeply strange, and peculiar pull.
It felt as if something was calling to them from a far-distant place... calling to the very blood in their veins.
Not far away, the Qinxing Academy squad, rapidly marching while carrying the massive corpse of an avian Evil Beast, felt it too.
Li Hanshan, who was carrying the bird corpse with Guan Wanjing while simultaneously chewing on a piece of delicious roasted meat, suddenly felt it. He frowned slightly, his double-pupiled divine eyes gazing toward the center of the Kunlun Secret Realm as his expression slowly turned solemn.
"Five-Colored..."
He began to speak, his voice muffled by the meat in his mouth. But when the entire squad turned in unison to stare at him, he was startled into subconsciously swallowing his food. Only then did he say gravely, "I sense an aura..."
"Over there... it’s the aura of the Five-Colored Divine Light..."
