Star River Path.
The dragon bone keel of the Gods and Demons Black Ship squeezed through the silt, giving off a friction sound that set one's teeth on edge. Chu Qing stood at the prow, his bare soles pressed tight against the cold bone deck.
He lowered his head and looked at the soles of his feet.
Dark Gold dragon patterns were throbbing violently beneath his flesh, their rhythm extremely fast, as if a red-hot iron wire were boring through his soles and up into his spine.
Boom—!
The entire black ship shuddered violently.
This was not a collision.
It was a resonance from deep within the Earth Vein, separated by layer upon layer of void.
A faint muffled groan slipped from Chu Qing's throat. He felt the Purple True Blood at his heart suddenly turn scorching hot, even stirring up a faint rumble of thunder.
"My lord, Stone Ridge Mountain... is moving."
Nangong Xue hurried closer. Her fingertips were clenched hard around the edge of the Array Disk, her knuckles turning deathly pale from excessive force. She lifted her head and looked into the distance, her pupils shrinking to pinpoints, her breathing growing short.
From deep within that viscous Gray Fog came a sound.
It was the sound of something heavy grinding.
Creak—creak—
The sound overlapped in layer upon layer, like a colossal millstone spanning the star regions was gnashing together in a frenzy.
Chu Qing examined the vibration, the muscles at the corners of his mouth twitching slightly. This was not resonance. This was a demand.
Shang Xie, this archaic demon god he had personally fed until it grew, was crying out to him across the Chaos Sea.
That sound transformed in Chu Qing's sea of consciousness into an incomparably hideous infant's wail.
It was crying that it