Exploring Secrets III

The wind in Great Abyss was still cold and thin, constantly whipping against Zhang Rongfang's face at high speed.

He flapped his wings and flew downwards at breakneck speed, constantly piercing through layers of invisible barrier membranes.

Before long, they returned to the border between the ninth floor and the realm Beyond Forgetting.

The Bottom Crawler was still eating and drinking in the same spot, looking very happy.

"You're back again? What's wrong? You look like you're in a hurry?"

Zhang Rongfang slowly slowed down, floated to a short distance in front of him, and quietly gazed at the other person.

"Who exactly are you? This isn't Great Abyss, the Interaction Zone where I was born. Yet I can still find you in the same location."

Different levels of the ninth layer of Great Abyss, all have you.

"Me too? How is that possible? What nonsense are you talking about?" Bottom Crawler confused. "I've been here all this time, for who knows how many years."

"You can't go up, and you don't want to go down, so you've never been anywhere outside of here, right?" Zhang Rongfang said.

"You mean? You also encountered me in Great Abyss in other Interaction Zone?" Bottom Crawler understood somewhat this time, and his voice became serious.

"I need to verify this. I'll come back to you later."

Zhang Rongfang closed his eyes, flapped his wings and hovered in the air, then silently counted in his mind.

Before long, he opened his eyes again. Before him was no longer Great Abyss, but a blurry, chaotic, and broken world of gray.

The sky and the earth are indistinguishable, and broken stones and mud float everywhere.

There seemed to be no air here, only some kind of gelatinous substance flowing around.

I can't breathe.

'Sure enough, this isn't the Great Ling Interaction Zone.' A realization flashed in Zhang Rongfang's eyes.

He flapped his wings and soared upwards.

Here, one can barely distinguish between up and down, sky and earth. This can be discerned from the density of the fragments and their floating speed.

Thud! Thud! Thud!

Huge chunks of rock were smashed to pieces by Zhang Rongfang's headbutt, scattering everywhere.

He moved faster and faster, almost turning into a red shooting star.

It quickly covered tens of thousands of meters.

Pfft!

He ripped through an invisible membrane, and the surroundings suddenly opened up.

He entered the intermediate layer.

Above us was a pitch-black Sky Curtain.

However, the Sky Curtain here was no longer moving; it was deathly still.

Zhang Rongfang flew upwards, getting closer to the Sky Curtain, and then looked around to the left and right.

Soon, a huge hole with a diameter of tens of meters was discovered in the Sky Curtain several kilometers away.

The Black Spirit Thread at the breach swayed in the wind, but had long since lost their vitality.

"An Interaction Zone that has long been destroyed," Zhang Rongfang concluded.

With a flap of his wings, he quickly flew out through the breach.

The Sky Curtain over this Interaction Zone is far less thick than that of the Great Ling Interaction Zone; it is only a few tens of meters thick before it bursts through the Sky Curtain and enters the outside world.

Outside was an endless expanse of gray clouds and sky.

The air was filled with the sulfurous smell of magma.

Zhang Rongfang flew into the air and looked back down.

There was a similar vertical pupil-shaped crack on the ground, surrounded by evil spirits that were slowly wandering around.

There are Evil Spirit Car, Evil Spirit Horse shaped like horses, and a few Evil Spirit Elephant that are two heads long.

Seemingly noticing his movements, the monsters, their bodies billowing black smoke, raised their heads and roared at him.

On the gray-black earth, dozens or even hundreds of the Ling Dynasty.

This scene involuntarily reminded Zhang Rongfang of the apocalyptic movies and games he had watched in his previous life.

He quickly looked around, trying to determine his location, but unfortunately, all he could see was the same gray-black earth, with occasional glimpses of dark red lava slowly flowing from cracks in the ground.

Those are the scars left on the earth by the falling Heavenly Light.

Unable to determine the direction or his location, Zhang Rongfang felt a growing anger rising within him.

Add to that the cacophony of shouts and yells coming from below.

"You guys are too noisy!"

He suddenly lowered his head and reached out his hand towards the evil spirit below.

With a whoosh, his hand suddenly split and deformed, turning into a large patch of blood-red tentacles that rapidly stretched downwards and shot towards the evil spirits.

Each of these blood-red tentacles resembled a sharp thorn or an arrow, moving with incredible speed.

In the blink of an eye, they traversed hundreds of meters.

Amidst the dense, gurgling sounds of flesh and blood bursting apart.

One after another, the evil spirits howled in pain, most of them with tentacles piercing their foreheads and chests.

All attempts to block are futile; the arm that was being forcibly pierced through will continue to penetrate vital organs.

Only the two Evil Spirit Elephant, with an agility completely disproportionate to their size, skillfully dodged the two tentacles, and at the same time swung their hands and struck the tentacles, severing them on the spot.

But apart from them, all the other evil spirits were now pierced through the body, kneeling on the ground, unable to move.

Zhang Rongfang's massive amount of essence blood was continuously injected into their bodies, rapidly eroding and assimilating them.

These evil spirits gradually turned dark red, and the black smoke on their bodies stopped emanating and was replaced by red blood flowing through the cracks under their skin.

Very quickly, three seconds later.

One by one, the evil spirits began to shrivel up and collapse to the ground.

They were like deflated balloons, with only a thin layer remaining as they drifted to the ground.

The howling quickly subsided, becoming less and less frequent.

The dense, fleshy tentacles continuously transported the nutrients obtained from the erosion and transformation back to Zhang Rongfang in mid-air.

Soon, only two Evil Spirit Elephant remained on the surrounding land, roaring angrily at him.

Poof! In an instant, countless fleshy tentacles transformed into sharp spikes, densely surrounding the two Evil Spirit Elephant from all directions.

In the blink of an eye, the two monsters were pierced into hedgehogs and stood frozen in place.

Accompanied by a chilling sucking sound, the two Evil Spirit Elephant, each over ten meters tall, were quickly drained, turning into two thin skins that collapsed to the ground.

Everything quieted down.

Zhang Rongfang raised his hand, retracted all his tentacles, and transformed them back into a palm.

He devoured these monsters, and the flesh and blood he obtained were enough for his Ultimate Primordial Body abilities to function.

The Ultimate Primordial Body's power is to plunder everything from the person they kill.

Whether it's ability, talent, or the resources and energy within the body.

They took everything from it completely.

Although there will be losses during transmission and conversion, the losses are not significant if the number of energy conversions is small.

At this moment, after these evil spirits devoured the creatures, a large amount of chaotic memories and evil energy were added to Zhang Rongfang's body.

These evil spirits are essentially powerful beings who have been corrupted by parasitic Spirit Thread.

Their essence is mostly Spirit Thread, with a small portion being their own physical body and flesh.

At this moment, after Zhang Rongfang absorbed the energy, his body began to slowly transform into an evil spirit.

Wisps of black smoke and malevolent aura involuntarily emanated from his body.

With a cold snort, his blood covered his body, quickly enveloping it and beginning to corrode the black smoke.

In a short while, all the black smoke disappeared.

Zhang Rongfang's body has returned to normal, but there have been some slight changes.

On the bat wings behind him, a faint black pattern had appeared.

My physical condition also seems to have improved somewhat.

After getting rid of all the obstacles, he felt much calmer and glanced at his Attribute Panel again.

In the Attribute Panel, more than forty attribute points have been accumulated. These were obtained by soaking in the blood pool at the same time to accelerate the process.

'It won't be long before I acquire new abilities. Hopefully, new bloodline talent combinations will emerge.'

He has already reached the peak of his physical strength, and can only use the Five Hearts Qi Gathering Art to train his mind and consciousness.

However, the mind and consciousness cannot exert much power on the external earth.

To be on the safe side, he needs more and stronger power while making contact with Instant Tower, in order to ensure he can control the situation.

Zhang Rongfang hovered in mid-air, feeling the enhancement in his body that he had just received.

The evil spirits he devoured increased his physical strength by at least 20%.

These methods seem quite effective.

Regarding the Bottom Crawler issue, I must first return to the Great Ling Interaction Zone before I can verify it.

Zhang Rongfang tried to sense the direction of the Great Ling Interaction Zone, but it was too far away to sense.

'Instead of wasting time here, we should sweep through, devouring all the evil life forms we encounter, using their memories to guide us, and transforming their flesh and blood into power.'

With that thought, he flapped his wings, found a direction according to his memory, flew forward, and disappeared into the horizon in the blink of an eye.

*** Instant Tower.

Inside the tower, in a wide and straight passageway.

Taki remained silent, watching the Evil Spirit Elephant walking outside as if observing an animal. Although it had no eyes, it seemed to be able to see everything clearly.

"My lord, why cooperate with such a weakling? Let me devour him, and I can acquire all his abilities just the same," Ming asked in a low voice from behind.

He represents absolute adaptability; whatever creature he eats, he will acquire all of its abilities.

"Ability is not important; what matters is memory, consciousness, and spirit. The body can be replaced, but the things hidden in the consciousness are difficult to determine accurately."

Taki answered softly.

"We need him to help locate the opening of the channel."

"Does that passage really lead to Qiankun Zi's hometown?" Ming asked with slight curiosity.

"Of course," Taki replied with a smile, "It's fake."

He smiled and turned around.

"What does the opening of his homeland mean for us? Only by unlocking the final lock leading to White Pupil, by opening the passage to White Pupil, can we complete the entire plan. Only then can we truly welcome our original homeland."

"Our hometown?" Ming suddenly realized. Yes, if they didn't use bait to lure the other party, how could Qiankun Zi, with his strength and speed, be willing to cooperate fully? "Then what about the scenery of the city that you had Latiye Lan release before?"

"That was just a picture of his hometown that was accidentally captured when the passage opened last time. The passage was too random; it was just an accident. How could we possibly reopen it so easily?" Taki said gently.

"Then why do we need his cooperation? Is he really that helpful in opening the passage?"

"You're right. His consciousness is very special, unlike any of ours. It's not subject to the restrictions imposed by many Spirit Eye Clan's strategies," Taki replied. "You can understand it as his consciousness appearing the same as ours, but their essence is different."

"I'm very curious. What exactly are the differences?" Ming asked, puzzled.

"If you're curious," Taki smiled, "You can do whatever you want with him once the passage opens."

"Thank you, my lord!" Ming immediately revealed a hint of anticipation.