Lan Jie dearly hoped the beast skin was in the imperial city.
The beast skin grew by absorbing souls, and the imperial city was densely populated, filled with experts, and home to countless living beings.
That place was practically the most perfect feeding ground prepared for the beast skin.
If the beast skin was in the imperial city, once the consciousness world within it opened, it would devour the souls of those living beings.
Those souls would be of tremendous help in strengthening the consciousness world inside the beast skin.
Although everyone in the imperial city was his clansman, that did not matter in the slightest.
In the Zhum Civilization's way of thinking, everyone's consciousness was one whole. Sooner or later, everyone's consciousness would merge.
Once he reclaimed the beast skin and combined it with the Heavenly Abyss jar in his hand, the two would complement each other. He was confident that within a hundred years, he could charge into the Ninth Level God King!
Perhaps... within a thousand years, he could break through the limit and reach the supreme Lord God Realm, or even higher!
At that thought, the pitch-black, twisted Zhum Mask on his face seemed to wriggle faintly with the wild joy in his heart, tracing an even stranger curve.
He took a deep breath, suppressed his turbulent emotions, and began to drive the Heavenly Abyss with all his strength.
"Buzz~"
The jar suddenly trembled. The strange little humanoid patterns on its surface seemed to come alive, hopping about merrily.
An indescribable, majestic force containing ancient laws awakened.
This force ignored the barriers of space. Following the connection of common origin between it and the beast skin, it stirred the beast skin awake.
Feeling the faint resonance returned by the Heavenly Abyss, Lan Jie's lips uncontrollably curled