Chapter 861 - 385: Land of Divine Fall (2)

"Good!"

Everyone nodded. At this moment, the place where they were was less than two hundred miles from the center region. Although this distance would be a long journey for ordinary people, for them, it was less than half a minute.

On the way, everyone concentrated their attention to the limit, with layers of spiritual light shields surrounding them, alert to every possibility.

However, even when they arrived at the wound of the large pit at the center, they still had not encountered any attack.

Looking down from above, it was like a black hole devouring all light, unable to see anything. It seemed there was an invisible force field below that even Chu Xiu’s divine sense couldn’t penetrate.

Everyone exchanged glances, all somewhat hesitant, and Mu Tuo spoke directly and bluntly, "Miss Xie has never contacted us. Could it be that she is already... dead?"

His concern was also the concern of others. If Xie Xuanzhao were still alive, there would be no reason for the lack of contact unless something or someone was confining her. But whichever it was, it proved that the place below was extremely dangerous!

Although everyone had already decided to explore, no one was willing to go first.

Zhu Jiu pondered for a moment and then said, "Brother Mao, you’ve battled Miss Xie’s replica, but still don’t know what kind of ability her fate divine technique truly is? What do you think?"

Mao Qi’s form transformed for a moment, eventually turning into a large insect with a sharpened mouthpiece. His emotions seemed a bit stirred as he said, "From the form of expression, Miss Xie’s divine technique is equivalent to foresight."

"Predict the future?"

This ability indeed had some similarities with her divination method.

"But..." Mao Qi spoke again, "But I always have this feeling that it’s not her predicting the future, but rather we act according to her prediction."

This statement made everyone’s complexion change slightly.

"Brother Mao, do you mean you’re being controlled by her?" Mu Tuo asked.

"Not exactly," Mao Qi shook his head, "It’s a very strange feeling. Every action I take is made from my own free will, but for some reason, there’s an inescapable feeling of predestined fate."

Tuoba Shou said, "Maybe Brother Mao is overthinking it. I don’t have such a feeling."

"Perhaps." Mao Qi responded casually and said no more.

But no one dared to dismiss Mao Qi’s words lightly. Everyone more or less speculated that he was probably a Tenth-level Civilization Envoy from the Divine Domain of Thousand Fantasies! For a civilization envoy of such level, whose spiritual sense wasn’t extraordinarily sharp?

And whichever way, it was clear that Xie Xuanzhao should have an extremely strong survival ability. Yet, such a civilization envoy had been untraceable, which was self-explanatory.

Finally, Tuoba Shou broke the silence and said, "I’ll take the lead. With this divine artifact and my Law of Growth, even if there’s danger, it should be sufficient to cope."

Everyone present was a paragon and knew that shirking responsibility was meaningless. After speaking, Tuoba Shou leaped down, and the others promptly followed.

But again, surprisingly, until they landed smoothly on the ground, they still hadn’t encountered any attacks.

Even the force field that everyone had sensed outside had not affected them at all, as if it merely served a simple communication interference function.

Nevertheless, no one relaxed a bit; instead, they each furrowed their brows tightly.

"This is..."

Where they stood seemed to be a gigantic altar. At this moment, the central part of the altar was pierced by an energy beam, allowing them to probe down to the hard rock layers.

These rock forms were peculiar, as if the beam had originally penetrated down to the bedrock and after the long geological movements, it was refilled.

This indicated that the Star Jumping Ship had likely crashed here tens of millions of years ago.

Of course, this wasn’t enough to make all civilization envoys lose composure. What truly shocked them was the countless stone sculptures surrounding the pierced altar!

These sculptures varied in forms, some human, some beast, but without exception, all bore expressions of fear mingled with reverence, facing the altar as if awaiting some mysterious, mighty existence beyond comprehension to arrive.

This existence made them fear yet uncontrollably from the depths of their hearts, they felt an awe for it!

But if it were only this, it wouldn’t amount to much. Fanatical cultists weren’t few; what truly made all civilization envoys change countenance was that these stone sculptures were not ordinary sculptures but were once living beings!

These creatures had all their life force drained and thus turned into stone sculptures!

And the most terrifying part was...

"Bang!"

Zhu Jiu swung a punch, blasting several spiderweb-like cracks on the stone statue before him. He looked up, his expression extremely grim.

"This body’s strength... This is a demigod!"

"It’s not just him, all the stone statues present are demigods!"

At this point around the altar, there were at least a thousand stone sculptures! In Chu Xiu’s divine sense, further away, within a radius of dozens of miles, in every corridor of the Star Jumping Ship, there were numerous stone sculptures!

"Over two thousand demigods, the others are heroic spirits! Ten thousand? No, maybe tens of thousands wouldn’t suffice!"

The more Chu Xiu calculated, the more thrilled he became. This was only within the range of his divine sense coverage; elsewhere, who knew how many drained stone sculptures remained!

With so many powerful beings, how enormous would their collective life force become? And what kind of existence could instantly drain such vast life force?