NOVPUB790: Chapter 15: Journey to the Netherworld_2
790 -15: Journey to the Netherworld_2
Although he said this, the Xuan Bird was anything but slow.
When it flew at its full speed, it was even faster than Tang Feiji, and the huge storm created by the flapping of its wings prevented the bone dragons from getting close.
Tang Xian didn’t speak, just silently watched the scenery below the bird’s back.
An endless sea of bones.
Since a while ago, Tang Xian had a certain worry in his heart—Eden’s power seemed to only be effective against living entities, with no effect on mechanical objects and the dead.
Whether these monsters attacked him or he attacked them, there was no hint of resistance generated in his sea of consciousness.
It was the same obsession, yet these obsessions from the Netherworld seemed different from the monks beneath the deep sea.
The obsession of the Sea God seemed to have created a true life, whereas the obsessions in the Netherworld, after all, were still dead things. 𝖓𝔬𝔳𝖕𝖚𝖇.𝖈𝔬𝔪
Now, what he could rely on was the combat power he had fully strengthened over the past half-year, and the terrifying life force.
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After a lengthy pursuit, those skeletal warriors finally gave up the chase.
Yet the Xuan Bird and Tang Xian didn’t feel relieved because of this.
Just a few minutes ago, when the Xuan Bird was starting to feel a bit weary, the ancient dragons and the countless white-boned soldiers finally came to a stop.
The death fog grew denser as the Xuan Bird flew into a mountain valley.
Before entering this valley, the undead army chased them in a crazed fashion, but the moment they entered the valley, all the undead halted their steps.
The bone dragons pursuing the Xuan Bird in the lower airspace also came to an abrupt halt, merely staring with their empty eye sockets as Tang Xian and the others entered the valley.
The thick death fog should have given the entire space a pale green hue.
But what appeared before their eyes was instead a somewhat dim blue.
After flying into the valley, the Xuan Bird didn’t rashly proceed but just circled in the air.
Tang Xian looked down and furrowed his brows, saying:
“Why is it another pit?”
[What?] The Xuan Bird didn’t know about Tang Xian’s previous experience of jumping into a pit while searching for the Sea God’s inheritance.
That pit had glowed with fiery red light because of the lava.
And now, there was another pit, like the entrance to an abyssal hell.
A faint blue light emanated from the bottom, as if the bottom of the abyss was filled with blue crystal mines.
Tang Xian looked at all this and asked:
“Would it be safer if we entered from the Spiritual Purgatory?”
[Don’t even think about it.
It’s too dangerous for me to open the Spiritual Purgatory here.]
“Why?”
[You wouldn’t understand.
There’s a special suppression among Nether beasts.
If I open the Spiritual Purgatory here, the strong obsessions from the depths of this abyss would squeeze into my Spiritual Purgatory, and it might even be devoured.]
The Xuan Bird rejected Tang Xian’s suggestion and continued:
[The blue light comes from the Nether Springs.
Only in places where the aura of the Netherworld is strongest can a region of Nether Springs form.
The obsessions within the Nether Springs are almost as real as when they were alive.
However, weak obsessions can’t survive in the Nether Springs and will directly turn to ash.]
“So that’s why those skeletal remains dared not pursue to this place?”
[Yes, they’re just weak obsessive entities that need to cling to something else.
Tang Xian, I advise you again, it’s not too late to give up now.
The Nether Springs is a high-level Spiritual Purgatory that I can’t even form myself.]
“Don’t you want to see your master?”
[As you said, that’s just an obsession.]
“I don’t like to risk my life, but at the end of the game, you always have to stake it.
Besides…how strong is the Nether Phoenix’s Spiritual Purgatory?
You call this a small piece of Nether Springs?” Tang Xian’s tone was decisive.
The Xuan Bird said:
[It has already shrunk a lot.
The Nether Springs that Lord Nether Phoenix could form during his lifetime was not limited to just a chasm’s worth.]
Tang Xian curled his lip.
Even the deceased Nether Phoenix could do things far more powerful than living calamity-level creatures.
Just like a single obsession of the Sea God that could perform the unique moves of seven sea-controlling creatures.
“The disparity between Apocalypse-level creatures and Calamity-level ones is just too great; indeed, it is like stepping into the divine realm.”
Tang Xian fell silent for a few seconds before saying,
“Tang, cover me.”
Tang nodded, his skin quickly turning pitch black as ghostly horns sprouted from his forehead.
Then his entire body became extremely flexible, enveloping Tang Xian.
Once the strongest shield was put on, even the strike of the Sea God could not affect him.
Tang Xian felt somewhat relieved and said,
“Let’s go down and see what the inheritance of the Nether Phoenix really is.”
The mysterious bird spoke no more.
With a dive, it plunged into the blue abyss with Tang Xian and Tang.
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The mysterious bird realized it had miscalculated.
It had originally thought that the abyss was not large because the blue light could shine through, possibly indicating that this Nether Stream was not deep.
But after diving into the cave, the bird realized it had greatly underestimated the strength of the obsessions from its master’s death.
This abyss was more than just unfathomable.
After diving for a long time, Tang Xian and the mysterious bird still couldn’t see the end.
As for the blue light, it was nothing more than Netherworld aura so dense that it had crystallized into crystals.
These blue crystal-like objects, like streetlights in the Land of the Dead, made them feel as if life was slipping away bit by bit under their illumination.
On top of the inherent characteristics of Spiritual Purgatory.
Tang Xian could feel his life recovery being significantly weakened, but up to now, this thick aura had not managed to affect him or Tang.
The mysterious bird was even immune to these auras.
However, a sense of fear was beginning to rise slowly in everyone’s heart.
Because the larger the Nether Stream, the stronger the enemy they had to face.
Among the creatures of the calamity level, the mysterious bird was considered one of the strongest beings in the first sequence, but even it was incapable of condensing a small part of the Nether Stream.
The blue crystals were becoming more numerous, but the deathly fog was becoming thinner.
After diving for who knows how long, Tang Xian, Tang, and the mysterious bird all heard some sounds – the calls of myriad creatures, clearer now than before from outside the abyss.
Finally, Tang Xian and the mysterious bird arrived at the bottom of the Nether Stream.
It was like falling from a huge chimney into a great hall.
The size at the bottom of the abyss far exceeded Tang Xian’s expectations, even vast enough to be described as an underground plain.
Blue crystals, like thorny spikes, grew haphazardly from the ground.
Some crystals seemed to have absorbed an excessive amount of Netherworld aura and had grown quite large, like pillars supporting the abyss.
The change in the environment was secondary.
What Tang Xian was now seeing was something far more terrifying than any environmental change.
The Gold-Breaking Beast, Sin Bone Spider, Gorgon, along with Qing Jiuye, Taowu, and several other powerful creatures whose names were unknown, all seemed to sense a certain atmosphere, turning their gaze toward Tang Xian.
“It’s him!
That damned human!”
“Such glorious life force, I can feast again!”
“The smell of flesh, it’s really delicious.”
“Give me…
give me…
vitality!”
The voices of the creatures were rising one after another.
Along with their own and Tang’s overwhelming life force, apart from the few big creatures in front of them, there were many other terrifying, and even more terrifying, beast obsessions slowly approaching.
“Heh heh heh, Tang Xian, you deceived me!
You cheated me!
I will kill you!
Kill you!”
Qing Jiuye still maintained the form of a human, only her skin looked abnormally pale, and the blue eyeshadow on her lips and an infected wound on her arm, which should have been smooth and supple, all indicated she was no longer among the living.
Defeating a former opponent once more wasn’t difficult, but if it turned into an undead, the power of Eden was rendered ineffective.
At the moment, Tang Xian, relying on Tang, felt invincible, but also began to lose confidence internally.
As more powerful creatures approached, Tang Xian found that these obsessions had indeed materialized; he could even smell them.
At the end of this battlefield, Tang Xian sensed an extremely terrifying aura.
If Qing Jiuye and these creatures were already the top tier of the mining combat forces, then compared to the owner of this aura, monsters like Taowu, Gold-Breaking Beast, and Jiuye were simply insignificant.
An extraordinary phenomena occurred anew.
Just as Tang Xian was shocked by the powerful presence behind this aura, the Netherworld aura behind him suddenly solidified into a crystal, sealing off the entrance and exit of the abyss with a terrifying speed.
Tang Xian turned his head to look back and said with a wry smile,
“I hope this inheritance is powerful enough; otherwise, it wouldn’t justify this grand spectacle.”
