As expected, this wasn’t a king tier, since it didn’t have bone patterns.
Everyone departed one after another, having great interest in this place and wanting to explore to the bottom of it all.
This place was very strange. They clearly came up from the first layer, but one side was now a golden wall, as if they’d come to one side of the divine temple. However, such a large place defied reason to begin with, so more strangeness wasn’t strange at all.
Since there was only one direction to go, the three followed behind everyone, advancing forward.
After walking for about twenty minutes, a building suddenly appeared before them. Its shape was exactly the same as the golden temple’s outside but much smaller, probably only three meters high. It was also completely black, with only one entrance.
Everyone halted. The sudden appearance of a building naturally made people want to charge in to have a look.
However, this place was quite strange, and everyone was worried about the danger inside. No one was willing to stand out, being the first person to enter.
Weng, weng, weng, a strange sound rang.
Ling Han’s expression instantly changed as he said, “Not good, there’re still blood-sucking bugs here!”
When his voice fell, a black cloud flew out from within the temple, as if to cover the sky and hide the earth, sweeping towards everyone.
“Not good!”
Everyone cried out. When they fended off the first swarm of bugs, they already used all of their trump cards, but now there was another wave… what could they do?
The swarm of bugs already stormed over as everyone hurriedly defended; they couldn’t simply wait for their death.
With only a moments effort, everyone retreated one after another. The swarm of bugs was much larger than the previous one and everyone’s strength dropped, so they could only fight whilst retreating.
“Go, let’s go into the temple!” Ling Han decided not to retreat but instead advance.
In this relatively narrow space, they could weaken the advantage the swarm of bugs had in numbers.
The three entered the black temple. There was only one layer and it was quite empty. In the middle area, there was a stone table with someone’s remains, which was now only a pile of bones, on top.
Was this an offering used to pay respects to gods?
What was that bug swarm all about?
“Master Ling, don’t you space out!” Yue Kai Yu shouted loudly. He and Guang Yuan were battling fiercely, but Ling Han was actually entranced by the remains, making their pressure instantly increase drastically.
“A bloody battle can increase your strength,” Ling Han said smilingly. He walked with large strides to the side of the remains, but without going near, he felt an indescribable pressure as if it were going to shatter his entire body.
How terrifying!
Ling Han revealed a shocked expression. The remains were definitely not ordinary when their owner was alive—at least a Shattering Void Tier existence. That was the only explanation why he’d feel as if his divine sense was being cut by swords and sabers.
It could even be a God Tier being!
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This was a set of divine bones. Although countless years passed, its divine nature still remained.
Moreover, they definitely weren’t the remains of a normal human.
There was a horn on the forehead!
It was very obvious that the horn was broken, leaving only a small half on its forehead. Moreover, legs and arms had winged bones, which were also broken. It could be imagined that when this god was alive, its arms and legs had extremely sharp blade-like bones that protruded.
‘This isn’t a human, but could it be a beast’s human transformation?’ Ling Han’s heart palpitated. He had read in ancient records that when beasts advanced into God Tier, they could exuviate their beast body and change into human form.
Some humans possessed the bloodlines of great ancient beasts—like Feng Yan—so it was very possible that it was after a beast became a god and transformed, having offspring with a human, which resulted in a trace of a beast’s bloodline to be inherited.
No matter what, these were precious bones!
Without another word, Ling Han was going to store the remains into the Black Tower, but he immediately discovered that his idea couldn’t be carried out.
What happened—could God Tier items not be stored inside the Black Tower?
No.
He immediately discovered a blood-sucking bug the size of a fist flying out from within the remains. It stared at him and emitted a shocking chill.
A Flower Blossom Tier existence!
Hiss!
Ling Han suddenly understood—could these blood-sucking bugs be born from the god’s corpse? That was why it could be unafraid of a god’s oppressiveness after death, and not worry about dying from having no food to eat. They normally resided inside the god’s remains, absorbing the god’s presence.
Damn it—what the hell was this place exactly, was it using a god as sacrifice?
“Mother!” Yue Kai Yu screamed in fright. They were giving it all to block the blood-sucking bugs from the outside and could barely defend relying on the narrow passageway; however, Ling Han attracted another bug king, one that was at the Flower Blossom Tier.
“Don’t be nervous. You guys keep dealing with the small ones, leave the big one up to me,” Ling Han said smilingly as he waved his right hand, summoning the rock spirit. At this moment, rock spirit had already completely recovered.
The earth was solid, and the rock spirit it birthed also inherited this strong point. Its defensive power was shocking, and its recovery power was also shocking. As long as it wasn’t annihilated on the spot, it would soon recover to as it usually was.
“Ang!” Once the rock spirit appeared, it roared at the bug king, the sound waves like blades.
The bug king was small, but its Flower Blossom Tier strength was bare to see. It wasn’t afraid at all and fluttered its wings. Weng, weng, weng, it swept up a whirlwind that greeted the sound waves. Pu, pu, pu, pu, the whirlwind and the sound waves collided, raising a shock wave.
The rock spirit’s sound wave clearly had the advantage; although it was weakened a bit, it still shattered the two whirlwinds, continuing to fire at the bug king.
Ling Han nodded inwardly. The rock spirit wasn’t a beast, but a miraculous being birthed by heaven and earth. In terms of ranking, it was not only a king amongst beasts, but even a king amongst kings.
Similar to how one who cultivated seven flashes of Sword Qi could be called a king amongst sword users, and those who cultivated ten flashes were also kings, but could the two types of kings be the same?
The bug king flapped its wings as it charged at the rock spirit, extremely fast, obviously trying to take advantage of the rock spirit’s sluggishness.
The rock spirit’s movements certainly weren’t as fast as the bug king’s. Only when the bug king stung its mouthpart at its heart did it finally swat over.
The bug king already started to suck blood. As long as it drained its opponent’s blood dry, no matter how strong, the opponent would simply turn into a corpse. However, only when it sucked did it discover… damn it, where was the blood?
Peng!
The rock spirit’s palm already hit. Its speed wasn’t ridiculously fast, but when the attack was fired, coming to the peak of its speed, it was also ridiculously fast.
This was about the same as hitting a fly. The rock spirit loosened its hand and the bug king instantly fell down, but then it flew up again after falling halfway down. It stared at the rock spirit with hatred and confusion.
‘Can’t suck blood—could this already be a corpse? But how can a corpse be so alive and kicking?’
Limited by the growth environment, even if the bug king already advanced into the Flower Blossom Tier, its experiences and its intelligence were quite limited, so it w
as confused all of a sudden.
It was confused, but the rock spirit wasn’t, roaring loudly as thirty-six “hairs” grew on top of its head. Zi , the power of heaven and earth was drawn, and instantly, a dazzling white lightning fired out along with its fist.
Tiandu Thunder Star Array!
Unfortunately, this was only a fifth-tier formation, and its effects weren’t optimal against a Flower Blossom Tier bug king, but against normal small blood-sucking bugs, the destructive power was too great.
“All come here!” Ling Han yelled. Yue Kai Yu, and Guang Yuan hurriedly ran over; but when large amounts of blood-sucking bugs surged in, they suffered the bombardment of the power of lightning, being instantly electrified to ashes.
This was produced by a formation and relied on the power of heaven and earth, having no need at all for rock spirit to initiate it. The rock spirit only needed to control the lightning so that it didn’t strike the three of them.
“Zhi! Zhi!” The bug king was furious, sending out an ear-piercing screech. Immediately, countless blood-sucking bugs gathered around the bug king as their center, turning into a black-colored tornado.
It was gathering the power of the swarm, assembling parts into a whole. With it as the core, adjusting from the center, it fired out the swarm’s power as one.
However, a problem immediately appeared. The black temple was only three meters high, and for the rock spirit which was ten times shorter, this height was just enough to display its abilities, but for the swarm, it was too narrow.
The rock spirit took the chance to attack. The power of lightning erupted and had a powerful restraining effect against evil things. The “tornado” kept being weakened, while the power in the rock spirit’s punch was unaffected at all, continuing to fire at the bug king that was at the core.
Peng , a fist shot out and the entire swarm of bugs immediately dispersed. The bug king flew out and emitted strange squeaks, appearing extremely furious.
Ling Han smiled faintly and said, “Small Fire, come out to help.”
Hong , a flame flew out and turned into appearance of a small dog, circling Ling Han’s legs.
The corner of Ling Han’s mouth twitched involuntarily. He summoned Strange Fire to help fight alongside the rock spirit, not to let this guy mimic a dog and act cute.
“Go!” He threw a kick and the small dog that Strange Fire turned into was kicked towards the swarm.
A large swarm of blood-sucking bugs truly thought Strange Fire was food, so they dove at it one after another, but Strange Fire also cast off its “cute” mask, turning into a terrifying apocalyptic being.
Hong , the flame swirled pass, and instantly a large swarm of bugs was burnt into ashes.
The Strange Fire currently could even help Ling Han refine Heaven Grade medicinal pills, at least comparable to a Flower Blossom Tier, and Strange Fire was a natural nemesis for the swarm of bugs. With Small Fire’s eruption, the entire swarm of bugs hurriedly stayed far away from Small Fire as if they’d encountered their natural enemy; even the bug king revealed a look of fear.
All things had natural nemesis, and Strange Fire was definitely the natural enemy of the blood-sucking bugs; if the bug king wanted to fight against Small Fire, then it had to be at least five to six small tiers higher.
Besides, there was still another spirit of the five elements!
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The massive golem blocked the door, while the Strange Fire blocked the enemies’ retreat, extinguishing the army of bugs continuously.
After merely ten minutes, the bug king was a general without an army. The Rock Spirit and the Strange Fire charged up, and the former suppressed the bug king with brute force while the latter burned it.
After a few minutes, the Flower Blossom Tier bug king was utterly burned into ashes. Rock Spirit was only burnt black, recovering to normal with a gentle wipe.
… If the Rock Spirit fought with the Strange Fire, Strange Fire’s high heat would be useless against the Rock Spirit, but Rock Spirit’s attacks might not harm Strange Fire’s real body; the two were probably in a relation where neither one could do anything about the other.
Of course, this was a situation where the two were at the same tier; otherwise, the Strange Fire could also boil rocks into ash, and the Rock Spirit could also extinguish the flames.
“Master Ling, you truly have heaven-defying fortune. A powerful puppet on top of the ball of the Strange Fire, you could do whatever you want amongst Flower Blossom Tier beings.” Yue Kai Yu highly praised, revealing a look of admiration.
Flower Blossom Tier creatures surpassed mortals, and even though he was not far from the ninth layer of the Spiritual Pedestal Tier—maybe about two or three years’ time, advancing from the ninth layer of the Spiritual Pedestal Tier to the Flower Blossom Tier might take five years, ten years, or even twenty years wouldn’t be rare.
Ao Feng was Winter Moon Sect’s strongest genius in a hundred years, but wasn’t he also over forty when he advanced into the Flower Blossom Tier? Yue Zhen Shan was now still at the half-step Flower Blossom Tier, and crossing that other half a step might take him until tomorrow, or he might not take it for another twenty years; perhaps, there might be no hope in this life.
Ling Han smiled faintly and said, “Brother Yue can just call me by name or Master Han. Master Ling and whatnot makes me seem old.”
Yue Kai Yu obviously didn’t dare to call Ling Han by name. This was a Heaven Grade alchemist who had astonishing means, killing even a Flower Blossom Tier bug king. He would rather be prudent. “Then Master Han it is.”
Ling Han laughed inwardly; if Yue Kai Yu knew his true identity, would he be angered from embarrassment?
He walked towards the remains again, and resisted the soul spirit severing pain with great difficulty, enveloping the remains to store it inside the Black Tower.
“Ah!” he yelled tragically as blood gushed out of his mouth, nose, ears, and eyes. He appeared extremely tragic. However, the divine bones were stored inside the Black Tower—it wasn’t to no avail.
He slumped onto the ground, breathing heavily.
“Master Han, how are you?” Guang Yuan and Yue Kai Yu both asked. They naturally saw the remains disappear, but that simply storing a corpse could make the seven apertures bleed was truly strange.
Ling Han wiped the blood on his face and said, “I’m fine!”
The three circled around the black temple, seeking for anything that might be left. Nothing was found, but the surrounding walls were carved with many characters, or rather symbols.
They understood nothing.
The three of them felt like they’d never learned to read, looking at the wall full of words and being unable to recognize even a single one.
‘Were these characters from the god realm?’ Ling Han said inwardly. He knew something others didn’t: this mystery realm was most probably severed from the god realm, so the words that appeared here could also be divine words.
Wasn’t it normal that mortals couldn’t understand divine words?
“Whatever, let’s go.” They left the black temple and the world had already reverted to its brightness. Even the bug king was eliminated, so as the remaining bugs were limited, they were very soon extinguished thoroughly.
However, the battle was just now as a bit chaotic, and the people could no longer be seen in the surroundings. It was unknown where they ran off to.
Ling Han didn’t care. The three continued onwards. Advancing for about five thousand meters, another black temple appeared in front of them.
“Don’t tell me there’s another swarm of bugs in there?” Yue Kai Yu said with lingering fear.
“Then that would be too great!” Ling Han said smilingly. With a swarm of bugs, it meant that there should be another divine skeleton inside just for him to take.
Yue Kai Yu couldn’t help but roll his eyes. How could there be such a strange person—that temple didn’t have any treas
ures… did you really like fighting with those bugs that much?
Guang Yuan gave him a sympathetic look. Following Ling Han for a while, he knew just how much Ling Han loved to adventure.
They entered the black temple, and as expected, encountered a nest of bugs. Ling Han summoned the golem and the Strange Fire once again, smoothly extinguishing the bugs; but this time, the bug king didn’t fight to the death and ran away.
Ling Han didn’t think of chasing it and just took away the divine bones on the sacrificial table, naturally bleeding from seven apertures; his divine sense 1was like it was being cut, almost tearing him into pieces.
‘I can’t stand any more.’ If he took another corpse, his soul would definitely be scattered, turning him into an empty shell.
Ling Han felt deeply regretful. These were divine remains, and even if it had no divine essence remaining, the bones alone had huge research value.
He could only wait until his divine sense recovered to take it again.
The three continued on. This space of this layer was huge, and every five thousand meters would be a black temple. They avoided it from afar, so no swarm of bugs stormed at them. After walking for five hundred thousand meters, they finally reached the layer’s end. Ahead was a grand golden wall, and on the side were stairways to the next layer.
They weren’t the first to arrive. Amongst those who were separated earlier, one-third came here—about twenty people or so.
No one recklessly headed towards the third layer, because they already had a hard time in the second layer and wasted many spirit talismans and even law decrees, obtaining nothing in return. If it were the same in the third layer, and with even greater danger, then they definitely wouldn’t want to go up.
Ling Han was naturally unafraid. However, when he was about to enter the stairway, he was startled, turning his head to look into the distance.
Influenced by him, Yue Kai Yu and Guang Yuan also followed his gaze, but saw nothing.
…They didn’t cultivate the Eye of Truth, so their eyesight couldn’t be compared to Ling Han’s at all.
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