Chapter 64 Stirring Up a Hornet's Nest
That’s … devil souls!
Zhong Yue looked down, around the black coffins were giant devil souls levitating, they transversed across the coffins as they were non-physical entities, they were exactly the devil souls he once saw in the dark haze!
In the round pit, the numbers of devil souls of the gods and devils were as many as the number of coffins laid in it; Zhong Yue had a rough look and estimated that there to be at least two or three thousands of coffins in the round pit!
That meant, there would also be around over two or three thousand devil souls!
Thousands of gods and devils had died here and were sealed by the gods, what are all these about? Why is there a sword inside the Swords Gate Mountain, why is it piercing the heart? And whose heart would this be?
Zhong Yue was filled with questions that could not be answered, The eruption of Devil Soul Yin Effluvium, these devil souls were scrapping every single inch of land all around Swords Gate Mountain searching for something, what are they looking for? Surely not this heart nor the sword, what is it that is so attractive to these fallen gods and devils that they would turn their resentments, grudges and obsessions into devil souls to continue searching for it even after their deaths. That thing they are looking for must be very, very, very exceptional, but what exactly would it be?
Various kinds of thoughts fluctuated in his mind, but no one could have ever given answers to his questions.
Xin Huo was even more baffled than Zhong Yue, in fact, he was on the verge of going crazy, “Who can tell me, what the heck happened all these years when I was slumbering? Who buried all these gods and devils here, and what are they fighting for? How much fun stuff have I missed out on….”
This was the core of the Devil Soul Forbidden Land, countless flesh cars shuttling sixteen giant meatballs on it roamed around the massive blood veins. The flesh cars were large in number, there were at least a few thousands of them!
A few thousands of flesh cars, each shuttling sixteen meatballs which are actually corpse demons….
A shudder went through his body, other than the patrolling flesh cars, there was another peculiar looking being that came into his sights, it was a big and evil looking furry meatball hovering in the air.
It was around four feet in diameter but the furs on it were ten feets long, extending outwards like tentacles; all of a sudden, it’s skin split into half at the middle revealing an eye beneath the skins.
The furry meatball, it was actually an eye!
Zhong Yue was frightened, those evil eyes hovered in the air, when they opened and their eyeballs, laser-like death rays would shoot out and blast onto the giant sword, burning it red hot.
The evil eyes were innumerable, but in front of the massive blood veins, they were as small as dust in the air; and Zhong Yue, he was no bigger than petty dust.
The perilous flesh cars, horrifying corpse demons, and wicked evil eyes have filled the landscape, but the sources of true terror came from the giant beasts crouching beside the massive blood veins.
These giant beasts only had their skeletal frames and yet they move around like living beings, overwatching the patrolling flesh cars; from time to time, they would open their mouths and howl, but they were only hollow gestures that were devoid of the menacing sound.
One after another, when the flesh cars passed by the giant beasts, there would be meatballs falling off from the wagon. However, they did not turn into the corpse demons as usual but rather, these meatballs would attach themselves on the giant beasts’ bodies, forming part of the giant beasts muscles and blood veins!
While in mid-air, the hovering evil eyes would attach themselves to the giant beasts’ eye sockets, acting as the beasts’ eyes, they would roll around unnaturally and gaze vigilantly at the surroundings.
When the giant beasts shook their bodies, these meatballs would fall off from them and once again roll onto the flesh cars. The evil eyes would also hover through the air and whiz around.
These giant beasts, they were the mounts of the gods and devils, and are now the guardians of their masters’ coffins, if they spotted me….
Zhong Yue’s heart was palpitating, he whispered, “Xin Huo, if these beast skeletons were to be replete with muscles and eyes, how strong would they be?”
Xin Huo pondered for a moment and answered, “Without a doubt, their prowess will not be of the headmaster’s match, but they were, after all, the mounts of the gods, each and every one of them were equivalent to a pseudo-beast god. Even if they’re only left with their skeletons, but affixing these abhorrent creatures as their body parts, they may not be as strong as before but their prowess will still be incredibly strong! Swords Gate’s previous headmasters most probably died in their hands while trying to eliminate more of them.”
Zhong Yue forcefully suppressed the shock in his heart, the mounts of the fallen gods and devils were still active beneath the Swords Gate, with such great prowess, their existence turned this place into the paradise of the devil souls, any livings that dared to invade would have to face their deadly assaults!
Xin Huo once said that Swords Gate was established on top of an active volcano, he is indeed right. If this forbidden land ever erupted, the whole of Swords Gate, including the Great Wilderness will perish in no time!
Xin Huo whispered lowly, “Brat Yue, I can sense the position where the seal is cracked, be careful not to alert the flesh cars and evil eyes, also don’t be spotted by the giant beasts and the coffins, just sneak your way out of this place.”
Zhong Yue nodded, he followed Xin Huo’s instructions and scaled the flesh walls, taking the form of a Xiang Dragon, he could climb like a gust of wind and with great speed, he made his way towards one of the tunnels.
In mid-air, the evil eyes hovered in the air and floated around, they would intermittently open their eyes and blast death rays right at the massive sword.
“Strange, these devils soul are so strange, they don’t seem to be completed….”
Xin Huo measured them with his eyes, he pondered deeply; just right when Zhong Yue was on his way entering the tunnel, one of the eyes suddenly turned around and opened widely where Zhong Yue’s image clearly reflected on its pupils.
The big evil eye was stunned for a second, then it released a shrill and sharp noise.
All of the evil eyes suddenly stopped moving and countless eyeballs directed their freezing stares at Zhong Yue in unison.
“Run!”
Zhong Yue shuddered in fear, he mustered all his strength and burst out with immense speed. The next moment, the Xiang Dragon had entered into the tunnel as countless death rays interweaved into a portentous net that blasted right at him!
Zhong Yue ran with all his might, the death rays behind him pierced through the flesh walls and melted the mountain rocks into magma!
Chui-chui-chui!
The mountain rocks were littered with tiny perforations as if they were created in the heart chamber. From the holes, burning hot and viscous lava trickled down in rivulets!
Although they were described as small, it was only in comparison to this gargantuan underground world. Each hole was in fact, at least as big as a water bucket; any one of them could punch a gaping hole in Zhong Yue’s body!
Zhong Yue sprinted deep into the tunnel along the way when all of a sudden he reached a junction. Behind him, countless evil eyes hovered in the air and flooded into the tunnel.
“Xin Huo, directions! Which way?”
Xin Huo was getting anxious, the Sui Sovereign behind Zhong Yue held onto the weathered lamp, the little flame stuck his head out of the lamp and said, “Third from the left!”
Zhong Yue sped up and rushed into the third tunnel, he accelerated again and again – Krong! A loud deafening boom was audible as he broke through the sound barrier and bolted away!
Behind him in the tunnel, the evil eyes swung their tentacles and fluttered in, they followed along the way while incessantly blasting out laser rays of death!
At the same time, the massive heart in the middle of the heart chamber thumped, one after another, the meatballs on the flesh cars fell off onto the ground and turned into corpse demons, they set off with a fast gait and leaped around towards the tunnel!
The tunnel was wide and spacious, the corpse demons ran on the ground and crawled around the walls, but their speed was great, not any slower than Zhong Yue!
They were equivalent to Qi Practitioners that only cultivated the physique-refining arts. One could tell how swift their speed was, even Zhong Yue could not shake them off.
In contrast, the furious evil eyes were a degree slower; but all of a sudden, the evil eyes gyrated their tentacles in the air and flew towards the corpse demons, landing on the corpse demons head and hence, making these corpse demons look as if they had large peculiar eyes growing on their heads!
At the same time in the heart chamber, a giant beast crouching on the massive blood veins rose and trotted off, it was heading towards the tunnel Zhong Yue was in!
The white skeletal giant beasts had its bones engraved with totem carvings, while it was running, the totem carvings glimmered brightly, catapulting its speed to a higher point!
Along the way, the corpse demons jumped down from the flesh walls onto the giant beast, they weaved themselves into the thigh muscles of the white skeletal giant beast!
On the other hand, the tentacular evil eyes crawled along the giant beast’s bones and entered its eye sockets, innumerable eyeballs clumped together into a lump and formed the giant eyes of the giant beast!
As the giant beast broke off into a sprint, the corpse demons that were littered around it would crawl and jump onto its bones. Its muscles grew more complete and its limbs eventually took form. Its speed rocketed as its legs grew with every grotesque augmentation offered by the corpse demons it subsumed.
The giant beast’s four limbs were fully covered with muscles, with a sudden burst of strength, Krong! It also broke through the sound barrier and was quickly catching up to Zhong Yue with great speed!
“Brat Yue, faster, a little bit faster!”
Xin Huo turned and looked back, the tunnel was quaking, it was clear that an unimaginably massive creature was on their tail, even the corpse demons could not maintain their position and were shaken off from the flesh walls, Xin Huo immediately knew that things were quickly devolving into as his situation approached dire straits, he quickly said, “A big guy is coming!”
The white skeleton giant beast came into their sights – Hong! It rammed into the flesh wall crushing countless corpse demons in between and stomping those beneath its feet into mashed meats!
While at the same time, corpse demons continued to jump down from the wall onto the giant beast as its muscles.
Zhong Yue hastened up without sparing any precious time and energy to even turn his head over. Lightning could be seen crackling beneath his feets and he bolted out forwards. Every burst of lightning would bring with it a small increase in his speed, the winds gusted directly on his face and chafed his dragon scales creating metallic ringing sound, the friction between the dragon scales and the air ignited sparks of fire!
His speed was at its peak, he could not go any faster, but behind him, the giant beast was still closing in, its massive eye shimmered and galvanized its energy to form a massive destructive light beam blasting towards Zhong Yue!
“U-turn! First right!”
Zhong Yue mustered all his strength, the dragon scales around his limbs bristled up like blades, abruptly he forcefully changed his inertia and rammed into the first tunnel on his right.
Behind him, the light beam that was capable of pure and wanton destruction liquefied the mountain rocks, scorched the air and ignited a huge conflagration that thirsted to engulf the world!
As the tunnel trembled and quaked vigorously, the giant beast dashed out from the curtain of flames, it howled fiercely but there were no sounds, it was because its vocal cord had yet to be formed by the corpse demons, rendering it incapable of audibly expressing its mad insanity for slaughter.
It was at this time, the other massive eye on the giant beast started glimmering, another beam of death rays was on the verge of blasting out!