Three Pieces of Bad News
Inside the bubble, Gu Ding felt only a white blur before his eyes, unable to see anything at all, only able to feel the bubble moving rapidly.
He didn't know how much time had passed when Gu Ding felt his body fall down, and his feet finally touched solid ground. Only then did his vision return to normal.
Looking around, Gu Ding found no one, and the range of his soul power's detection was greatly limited, only about one kilometer in radius. Within a kilometer radius, Gu Ding couldn't detect any living creatures. He quickly asked, "Is the Sea Emperor here?"
"Of course I'm here, where else could I be?" The Sea Emperor was busy scanning information about this continent and searching for the locations of other members. When he heard Gu Ding's question, he just gave a casual reply.
"Although we don't know what's going on here, you should first guide Miko to find a safe place to hide. I'll head towards his location first, and then go find the others." Gu Ding was most worried about Miko because he was the weakest among the thousand people who entered, and his ability to protect himself was also the worst in this unfamiliar environment.
As for Liliath and the others, Gu Ding wasn't too worried, since they were only slightly weaker than him. Even if they encountered someone of his level, they could escape if they couldn't win; they weren't likely to be killed in one blow. Moreover, among the Human Race Camp who had entered this time, besides himself, only Oldas and Boyi could truly suppress Liliath and the others in terms of strength. Presumably, there were no more than five such powerful individuals from the Darkness Clan, so the chances of Lily and the others encountering them were slim.
After a moment, Sea Emperor finally spoke, "I'm already guiding Miko to hide in a cave. Also, I've found some information about this area; it's huge. It's almost the size of the surface area of more than three hundred Deep Sea Star combined."
"More than three hundred Deep Sea Star?!" Gu Ding frowned slightly upon hearing this. Although Deep Sea Star was a medium-sized planet, it was still three hundred times the size of Deep Sea Star. At his own pace, it would take him a very long time to travel all of them.
"There's a few more pieces of bad news. I'll inform Liliath and the others as well," the Sea Emperor continued.
"The first piece of bad news is that Miko very far from you, about five million kilometers away. Among the team, the closest person to you is Elsa, about three hundred thousand kilometers away, but she's heading in the same direction as Miko, so you can meet up with her before you go to find Miko. Liliath and Dokter are in another direction. I've already told them to head towards Miko's location as soon as possible. The closest person to Miko is Scarlet, about two million kilometers away, and I've already sent him to head towards Miko."
"The second piece of bad news is that, besides you humans and the Dark Race, there are two other extremely evil species in this Ancient Ruins ruin was actually within my expectations, but I didn't expect there to be so many of them, and with such immense power."
"Wraiths and Blood Demons? Could you explain them in more detail?" Gu Ding frowned. He had heard of them before; they seemed to be abyssal creatures, but Gu Ding didn't know much about them.
"If a living being harbors immense hatred or resentment that it cannot forget in the moments before its death, it will condense into resentment after death. If the amount of resentment is small, it will slowly dissipate over time. However, if the resentment accumulates in large quantities, it will affect some surrounding souls and slowly corrupt them into vengeful spirits. The longer they are corrupted, the stronger the vengeful spirits become."
"Moreover, vengeful spirits are extremely evil. They can possess the bodies of various life forms, invade the Soul Space, and devour the souls of those they possess. The more souls they devour, the stronger they become. Moreover, the bodies whose souls they devour will be controlled by them. They can even read the memories within the souls, disguise themselves as humans, and infiltrate crowds to kill more humans and hunt more human souls."
"As for Blood Demons, they are also extremely evil life forms. They are life forms formed from a large amount of blood, and usually only appear after more than a million life forms have died. If the blood and corpses flowing on the battlefield are not cleaned up in time, as time goes by, the death aura of those corpses will merge with the blood, giving birth to Blood Demons from the soil. The more blood and the higher the cultivation level of the dead, the more powerful the Blood Demons will be. The people who died in this Ancient Battlefield were all strong, and the Blood Demons that were formed are all extremely terrifying in strength."
"Blood Demons are very special life forms. They have no fixed form and exist entirely in a liquid state. This makes many physical attacks ineffective against them. If someone who doesn't understand Martial Dao Intent gets entangled with them, they're basically doomed. Blood Demons love to extract the life force and blood of living beings. In just a few seconds, they can drain a life form of equal cultivation level into a dried-up corpse. Their attack method is also very special. They produce many tentacles that shed blood. The number and shape of these tentacles can change at any time, making them impossible to defend against."
After listening to the Sea Emperor's introduction, Gu Ding couldn't help but ask, "How strong are these guys? Are there any who surpass the Peak-rank God?"
"Yes, among those vengeful spirits, I can tell from their soul fluctuations that many are at the level of Half-Step True God, at least several hundred. As for those blood demons, they have all condensed into a Blood Sea, and I can't judge their individual strength, but theoretically speaking, they shouldn't be weaker than those vengeful spirits."
"Shouldn't we have been able to avoid it in advance?" Gu Ding then asked.
"It's not a big problem. These guys are all in the central area of this ruin, far away from us. Wraiths are irrational and crazed life forms. Judging from how they are currently floating around haphazardly, they probably don't know that any life forms have entered this area. If they did, they would definitely go into a frenzied attack mode. As for the blood demons, they are currently dormant. As long as we don't make a particularly loud noise, we shouldn't disturb them."
The Sea Emperor's explanation finally put Gu Ding at ease. Gu Ding wasn't worried about himself, but about Miko and Lily. If they got infected by this special life form, it would be very troublesome for them.
Meanwhile, Liliath and the others also received the two pieces of bad news from the Sea Emperor. Liliath and Elsa frowned as well.
Liliath is relatively weak in dealing with Blood Demons because she is not good at close combat and has not grasped the Martial Dao Intent.
Elsa, however, was reluctant to encounter vengeful spirits because her soul strength was relatively weak, and she hadn't cultivated any soul attack techniques to deal with them, only possessing some basic soul defense methods. But against vengeful spirits, those simple defensive techniques would likely be largely ineffective.
As for Miko, he didn't want to encounter either of them; if he did, it would likely mean instant death. However, he remained calm because Sea Emperor had assured him that their current situation was safe, and he trusted his companions. He also knew that his only task was to follow Sea Emperor's instructions, find the cave, and hide, waiting for Scarlet and Gu Ding to arrive.
While Gu Ding and his companions were on their respective journeys, something else was happening somewhere within the ruins.
Kabuli had always felt incredibly fortunate to have secured this spot, even at his peak, he was ranked outside the top 1000. If it weren't for the elimination of several members from the Ten Thousand Demons Holy Temple, he wouldn't have even had a chance to enter the ruins. Therefore, he felt it was simply a stroke of luck, one that couldn't be stopped.
Upon entering the ruins, he immediately spotted a silvery reflection in the distance, and his heart leaped with joy. He guessed that his opportunity had arrived; his day of soaring to great heights was finally coming, and he raced towards that direction at breakneck speed.
When he reached the silvery reflective spot, he looked at the source of the light with some surprise. It wasn't a building from the ruins, but an enormous skeleton. The skeleton was a single hand bone, entirely silver. Under the light, it reflected a dazzling white light, which was what had drawn Kabuli over.
"What a huge arm!" Kabuli exclaimed, looking up at the arm, which was thousands of meters tall. Even a single finger at the top was hundreds of meters long, making it a truly magnificent sight.
He couldn't resist reaching out and touching it. Although the bones were enormous, they didn't feel metallic; instead, they were warm and smooth like jade. Through touching them Kabuli could also sense extremely subtle energy fluctuations hidden within the bones, which delighted him even more.
"This is excellent material for refining weapons. It's a pity this hand is too big to fit in my Storage Space, but it's fine to fit a finger." As he spoke, he climbed up the arm, all the way to the top, to a joint of a finger. He took out a Four-Star Divine Object longsword and slashed down at the joint.
With a clang, the longsword nearly slipped from his hand, leaving only a barely perceptible white mark at the joint. Kabuli raised the sword and swung it down again, shouting, "I refuse to believe I can't cut you!"
After slashing three or four times, Kabuli suddenly felt a tremor beneath his feet, and a rumbling sound seemed to come from underground. "Is this an earthquake?"
Before he could react, the five fingers of the giant silver hand suddenly twitched twice, and he was immediately filled with utter horror, "This hand... it's alive?!"
As soon as he finished speaking, the giant hand suddenly clenched without warning and then opened again. A splash of blood appeared in the center of the silver giant hand, along with a pool of flesh and bones that had been completely shattered.
Kabuli ultimately didn't have time to escape and was instantly crushed into a pulp. Since he was a Body Refinement Cultivator, the giant skeletal hand was stained crimson.
After Kabuli's death, the tremors underground didn't stop; instead, they intensified. Finally, a massive silver head suddenly emerged from the ground, its black eye sockets, now devoid of pupils, looking down at its right hand. Seeing the crimson blood within its palm, feeling the red seep into its bones, and then witnessing muscles visibly growing in its right hand, it excitedly opened its massive mouth and roared towards the sky. Then, it slowly crawled out of the ground.
After that roar, the ground within a radius of tens of thousands of miles began to tremble, and one after another, silver-white and copper-green skeletons slowly crawled out from the ground.
Having witnessed what had just happened, the Sea Emperor spoke again with a hint of helplessness, "Now I have to bring you the third piece of bad news..." (To be continued...)