Without a moment's hesitation.
Lynn leaped up, transformed into a raven, and soared into the air.
Carrying Zuo Zuo, he swiftly passed through the bottomless underground abyss and reached its upper reaches.
Darkness spread through the empty space.
Yet for some reason, Lynn felt a vague familiarity with this place. He couldn't help frowning, because he seemed to have seen it somewhere before.
He raised his hand.
A ball of light like a miniature sun floated above his palm, illuminating the entire Underground Space.
"This... this is..."
Zuo Zuo trembled, utterly stunned.
Massive monuments stood here, each hundreds of meters tall, arrayed row after row throughout the vast space, their surfaces covered in the traces of time.
Lynn's pupils widened sharply as an overwhelming sense of destiny thundered over him, forcing him back two steps.
He held the ball of light high.
He gazed at the names on those enormous stone monuments.
[God of shadows and scrutiny, Yafegemeng.]
[Keeper of faith for the blazing sun and stars, Sodros.]
And many, many more.
Lynn stared at those familiar gravestones and walked toward them step by step, his mouth hanging open as he moved through the immense, dim burial chamber.
Those gravestones clearly hadn't been here originally. Someone had erected them in a later age, and the entire Underground Space had been remodeled into something completely different from the other raven tombs.
Zuo Zuo's face paled as she said:
"Brain... is this the Flesh Dominator's lair? More than... two hundred thousand years ago?!"
Lynn said nothing.
He simply walked forward, step by step, like a lone traveler holding a torch high as he ventured through the darkness.
Only when he reached the very center of the burial chamber-
Did he stop.
In the light, reflected in his pupils amid all those gravestones,