The Ancient Ascension Array, southwest side.
Zhao Sheng's figure flashed, and he appeared out of thin air before the stone pillars of the ancient array.
He swept his gaze around and immediately saw a lustrous white stone sphere seven or eight zhang in diameter. Its surface was exceptionally smooth, clear enough to reflect a person's image.
But when he looked at it a second time, the surface of the stone sphere suddenly turned hazy and blurred, and a layer of faint black light emerged, as if some kind of force field existed there, twisting his perception and sight.
"This humble Daoist is Hunyuanzi, and requests that the Snail Ancestor appear for a meeting." Zhao Sheng's gaze fell upon the stone sphere, and he suddenly bowed with cupped hands.
As his words fell, the lustrous white stone sphere not far away abruptly trembled. Immediately afterward, the ground began to shake slightly.
Then the stone sphere rose more than a zhang, and densely packed ancient symbols like tadpoles abruptly appeared across its mirror-smooth surface.
Countless "tadpoles" swam and glowed over the sphere, as if they had come alive.
The next moment, a slippery head with two eyestalks growing from its top slowly poked out from beneath the stone sphere.
Two head-sized, deep-black eyestalks stared blankly at Zhao Sheng opposite it, the look in them carrying a trace of confusion.
At first glance, the legendary "Snail Ancestor" did indeed look bizarre—it was simply like a snail magnified a thousandfold!
After being bewildered for a while, the Snail Ancestor finally came back to himself, and then slowly transmitted, "Slurp. You... you want to challenge me?"
Me?
Zhao Sheng's heart stirred. Before he could respond, he felt his sleeve shake, and a crystalline pebble the size of a watermelon fell out from within.
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