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Meng Qi covered her mouth so that she didn’t scream. They began to fall like two stones.
“A no-flying zone!” Long Chen was startled. It was impossible to fly within this volcano. It seemed that there was a special law prohibiting their magical arts.
Long Chen grabbed Meng Qi’s waist and held on tightly as they fell.
They quickly entered the mist and became unable to see anything. Even their divine sense was restricted. The two of them felt like they had become ordinary mortals.
Long Chen maneuvered so that Meng Qi was sitting on his arms, while he stuck a leg out. Once they landed on solid ground, he could cushion their fall so that Meng Qi wasn’t injured.
However, they continued falling for a full incense stick’s worth of time without reaching the bottom. The two of them were both astonished. Just how deep was this volcano?
Finally, Long Chen felt his foot strike something. He was about to push Meng Qi up when he found that it was actually water.
What was beneath the immortal mist was actually a pool. They immediately sank into it, unleashing a huge wave. Long Chen did his best to raise Meng Qi up and soften the impact.
In truth, after going through the blood essence stone’s upgrade, Meng Qi’s physical body could not be compared to ordinary soul cultivators. This kind of impact was unable to injure her.
The two of them swam up. They looked around and couldn’t see the end of this lake. Above them was the immortal mist that blocked their sight to the outside world.
“This water…!” Meng Qi suddenly looked at the lake in shock.
Long Chen also felt it. This water made his pores open naturally and absorb the spiritual qi in the surroundings. It made him feel relaxed, and there was also a nourishing energy within this lake that cleansed his soul.
“It’s a whole lake of primordial life fluid! How is that possible?!” exclaimed Meng Qi.
“Let’s find out.” Long Chen swam downward. He felt like he had seen something deep within the water when they had fallen in.
The water was clear, allowing them to see up to three thousand meters away. At the bottom, he saw something white, but he didn’t know what it was.
Finally, after around another incense stick’s worth of time, Long Chen managed to see what that white object was.
It was actually a giant egg, and it was even larger than a mountain. It was covered in runes and emitted a frightening divine pressure.
“Meng Qi, take a look. Do you recognize this egg?” Long Chen sent a spiritual message.
Meng Qi slowly approached. She was about to touch it when Long Chen’s expression suddenly changed. He sensed a terrifying burst of energy, and he pulled Meng Qi behind him.
The giant egg’s runes shook ever so slightly. A wave of light struck Long Chen.
The entire lake shook, and huge waves crashed down. Long Chen coughed up a mouthful of blood. He was shocked to find that several bones in his chest had been broken.
Although he had helped Meng Qi block this attack, Meng Qi also suffered, feeling like her body was about to be crushed.
The two of them exchanged a look, seeing each other’s shock. Then they looked at the seemingly innocent egg. It actually knew how to attack.
Long Chen gestured at Meng Qi, telling her to get further back. He took out a dragon tooth and stabbed it at the egg.
BOOM!
The egg’s runes erupted with power. Long Chen felt like his body was about to explode, and a powerful wave sent him flying.
Chapter 1842 Strange Altar
BOOM!
Long Chen was directly blown out of the lake. He coughed up a mouthful of blood. Following him was the dragon tooth that he caught.
“Long Chen, are you alright?!”
Meng Qi came charging out of the water, swimming over to his side. Huge waves rocked the lake, which pulled the two of them further apart.
“I’m fine!” shouted Long Chen. He quickly recovered. In truth, that attack had almost destroyed his body.
“Meng Qi, do you know the origins of that egg? How is it so powerful?” asked Long Chen.
Those runes on top of it were nothing more than a passive defense, and yet their power was so immense.
“I’ve never seen or heard of such an egg. Those runes on top of it aren’t recorded in any of the ancient scriptures that I’ve read. There wasn’t even anything similar to them,” said Meng Qi.
Even though Meng Qi was a skilled Beast Tamer, she had never heard of anything like that giant egg.
“Let’s go back.” Long Chen once more descended into the water, slowly approaching the egg. This time he saw it clearly. It was truly like a giant mountain.
If it weren’t for the fact that it was round and smooth, Long Chen might suspect it really was a giant egg-shaped mountain.
Its body was like jade. The divine runes that had activated just now had calmed back down. The egg looked completely innocent again.
Just now, the two of them had been fooled by its outer appearance, resulting in them almost being killed.
This time, they were much more careful. They didn’t touch it again, instead swimming below it. As they descended, they noticed eight giant chains binding the egg.
These eight chains were thirty meters thick and had blood-colored runes on them. They emitted a fierce aura, like they were the bones of a devil.
The eight chains had astonishing Blood Qi fluctuations coming from them. As for where the chains were coming from, there was no way to tell. They stretched far beyond where they could see.
“What is going on? Is it absorbing the egg’s energy?” asked Long Chen.
“No, they’re not absorbing the egg’s energy. It’s the egg that is absorbing some kind of mysterious bloodline energy from the eight chains. These fluctuations are terrifying,” said Meng Qi.
Neither Long Chen nor Meng Qi could figure out what this egg was. They carefully went around the chains, continuing downward.
Finally, they saw that beneath the egg was actually a giant altar. The altar was so large that the giant egg was resting on top of it steadily.
“As expected, none of this is natural.”
Long Chen and Meng Qi exchanged a glance. The Yin Yang World was filled with oddities. Long Chen and Meng Qi already suspected that the nest they had come across had been arranged by someone to nourish those three things.
Now there was this mysterious pool with a giant egg and altar within. Just who had created all this? And what was their goal?
Suddenly, Long Chen thought of the mysterious coffin he had come across in Devil Spirit Mountain with Chang Hao and Bao Buping. Inside had been a sleeping man.
“There’s an image here!”
Meng Qi’s message interrupted Long Chen’s thought process. Long Chen looked where Meng Qi was pointing.
There was a giant carving on the lower portion of the altar. It was just that it was so big, and they were too close to see what it was. When they backed up a bit, they saw it was an image of a wolf.
A giant wolf looked up at the stars in the quiet night. Behind it was a full moon. It was a very simple stone carving, but when he saw it, an image of that terrifying wolf appeared in Long Chen’s mind. It was staring right at him.
“Careful!”
Long Chen suddenly heard Meng Qi shout into his ear, and he woke up from his stupor. He was shocked to find that at some point, he had walked right over to the altar.
There was a blood pool at the center of the altar, and this blood pool also had a band connecting it to the bottom of the egg. It looked almost like a baby’s umbilical cord. It was a startling and frightening sight.
“This image doesn’t have a formation on it, but just the will carved into it is able to make people form an urge to sacrifice themselves to the blood pool,” said Meng Qi, her face pale.
As a soul cultivator, Meng Qi had reacted quicker than Long Chen. The two of them had both been drawn over to the altar. Looking at the blood pool, they shivered.
> “It seems this egg is the young of a wolf race. It’s just that we don’t know which race,” said Meng Qi.
“Do wolves give birth to eggs?” Long Chen looked at her, dumbfounded.
“Fool, what wolf would have eggs? Don’t you see that umbilical cord leading from the blood pool to the egg? Clearly, the wolf fetus was inserted into the egg, while the blood pool should be the mother’s blood. As for the eight chains and the lake water, including the immortal mist at the top, they should all have been prepared to incubate this giant egg,” said Meng Qi.
“Meng Qi, are you saying…”
Long Chen’s eyes suddenly lit up. At the same time, Meng Qi’s eyes also brightened. She knew what he was thinking.
“Will it work?”
Meng Qi knew that Long Chen wanted to merge Little Snow’s crystal core into the egg so that Little Snow could seize the body of the embryo inside.
“I don’t know either. But I want to try it.” Long Chen couldn’t suppress his own heartbeats. The lifeform inside this giant egg definitely had a terrifying origin. If Little Snow could take control of it, no one would be able to know just how powerful it would become.
“Meng Qi, I’ll use my own essence blood to form a blood rune, but my control over my Spiritual Strength isn’t tight enough. Help me out. The first thing we should do is take a look at what’s inside.”
“Alright.” Meng Qi nodded.
Long Chen paused for a moment to calm himself down. Then the space between his eyebrows split open, and his purest essence blood condensed into a dragon-shaped rune. This rune contained his qi, his essence, and his spirit.
Seeing him do this, Meng Qi formed consecutive hand seals, summoning one spiritual rune after another that stuck itself to the essence blood.
Both of them were solemn. They didn’t dare to be the slightest bit careless. The blood rune slowly entered the blood pool.
When it approached the blood pool, as Long Chen had expected, a powerful suction force drew it in.
A sharp pang of pain stabbed Long Chen’s head, but he bore the pain with gritted teeth. His divine sense continued to stick to the blood rune.
This was definitely extremely dangerous. Long Chen was having his own mind enter the blood pool, and through there, enter the giant egg.
His Spiritual Strength clung stubbornly to his essence blood. Suddenly, a fierce howl rang out in his mind, and his whole body shook. That was a howl that could shatter stars. It was something that should never exist in this world.
Blood poured out of his nose, eyes, ears, and mouth.
“Long Chen!”
“I’m fine. Continue!”
That terrifying howl seemed to want to shatter his soul. He knew that this was the leftover will of the owner of the essence blood in the pool. It wasn’t targeting him, but just this leftover will was enough to almost shatter his soul. Long Chen was unable to imagine just what kind of existence the master of this pool had been.
After a while, before his essence blood had even fully merged with the blood pool, he felt like his soul was being torn apart.
However, he still persevered, protecting the blood rune. Meng Qi’s own soul was hidden within it, but she couldn’t expose herself. Long Chen wanted her to be in charge of examining the changes throughout this process, but his focus was on protecting the blood rune and making sure it didn’t dissipate.
Originally, Long Chen had been thinking of sneaking his blood rune into the cord connecting the blood pool to the egg, but it was actually automatically sucked over there.
“My essence blood contains the green dragon’s essence blood. The blood pool isn’t rejecting it, so as expected, this egg isn’t here to just absorb spiritual qi from heaven and earth. It is absorbing other things as well.”
This had just been a guess, and if it hadn’t succeeded, he would have thought of some other way to enter through the eight chains, but it had actually succeeded. His essence blood slowly flowed through the cord.
Through his essence blood, he sensed terrifying pressure from all directions that might shatter his essence blood. Fortunately, his Spiritual Strength was strong enough, or this drop of blood would have been crushed at the start.
Eventually, his mind shook. He felt like his essence blood was being crushed. His expression changed, and his Yuan Spirit appeared as he pushed his Spiritual Strength to his limit.
“Alright, you can pull back your Spiritual Strength!” shouted Meng Qi.
Buzz.
Long Chen immediately pulled back his Spiritual Strength, and in that instant, his blood rune exploded. Long Chen felt the world spinning around him. He almost fainted.
Having pulled back his Spiritual Strength, he had lost his connection to his drop of essence blood. His face was a bit pale, and he had exhausted most of his Spiritual Strength.
Long Chen summoned his divine ring, absorbing the endless energy within this lake water. He rapidly recovered his Spiritual Strength.
“How was it? Did you see what was inside?” asked Long Chen urgently.
“I saw it. Here.” Meng Qi pressed a finger against his head, and a scene appeared in Long Chen’s mind.
Chapter 1843 Mysterious Lifeform
While Long Chen had opened the path inside, it had been Meng Qi who had managed to see and record the situation inside. While he was confident in his powerful Spiritual Strength, his technique was not refined enough, and he couldn’t be distracted by doing two things at once.
Meng Qi’s Spiritual Strength had been protected by Long Chen within the essence blood. Now, she allowed Long Chen to see what she had seen.
It was a world of creation, like they really were inside an egg. There were even egg whites and egg yolk. However, the yolk contained a giant figure floating within it.
There were nine openings throughout the egg from which chains condensed of blood runes merged into the yolk.
Long Chen felt like he could see blood flowing within the chains, entering the egg yolk.
Of the nine openings, one was connecting the egg to the blood pool, while the other eight were the chains from the lake.
The nine openings had an unending flow of energy entering the yolk. The young was three thousand meters long. It was still an embryo, looking like the young of a dog. It was furless and still not fully opaque, so it was possible to see its giant heart beating.
Long Chen realized that the huge pressure he had felt squeezing his essence blood had actually been the result of this heartbeat.
Other than the nine main chains, countless translucent chains were sending surges of energy into its body. Although it wasn’t even fully developed, the pressure it gave off made Long Chen’s hair stand on end.
“Just what kind of existence is this? It’s just an embryo, but the pressure it gives me is even greater than that of the four Grand Elders!”
Meng Qi removed her finger, and that image faded. The two of them exchanged a glance, both seeing each other’s shock. The existence within this mysterious egg was absolutely terrifying.
“Should we still continue?” asked Meng Qi. This egg was probably related to heaven-shaking secrets. Who could predict the consequences of getting involved?
“Yes, we’re going through with it. The embryo still hasn’t formed a consciousness, so Little Snow’s soul should be able to easily take control,” said Long Chen. This opportunity was not one he could pass up. “But before we go through with it, we need to rest. I used up a great deal of my Spiritual Strength and essence blood. We only have one chance to send Little Snow’s crystal core in, so we have to be in peak condition.”
This time, there could be no mistakes. If Little Snow’s crystal core was destroyed during the process, it would completely vanish from this world.
Six hours later, Long Chen and Meng Qi finally approached the egg again. Long Chen now gathered a fist-sized sphere of his essence blood.
This was his purest essence blood, and taking out so much of it made him pale. Meng Qi looked at him with
worry, but she didn’t say anything. Opening her hand, a fiery-red crystal core floated in front of Long Chen.
This was Little Snow’s crystal core. It had been nourished by the Myriad Spirit Diagram this entire time. It was now much smaller than before but contained great power.
“Little Snow, we’ll have to take a risk this time. If it works, we’ll never have to part again.” Long Chen gently kissed Little Snow’s crystal core.
The crystal core brightened slightly as if responding to him. He knew that Little Snow’s will and memories were locked within the crystal core.
Back when the Eastern Wasteland Bell had sealed Little Snow’s soul inside the crystal core, it had said that Little Snow’s soul would enter a kind of hibernation.
“Little Snow, we’ll be able to fight alongside each other again soon.”
Long Chen hardened his heart. Wrapping the crystal core with his essence blood, he slowly sent it toward the blood pool.
Meng Qi was also completely focused, her arms tightly wrapped around Long Chen’s back. Her Spiritual Strength was helping Long Chen endure this difficult process.
They didn’t know if it was because of the previous experience, but the blood pool didn’t reject his essence blood. It directly absorbed and channeled it into the egg.
Once inside the egg, that terrifying heartbeat rang out once more. It was like divine thunder, shaking Long Chen’s soul. Fortunately, he had Meng Qi helping him share the burden this time, so it wasn’t as bad as before.
He slowly sent Little Snow’s crystal core over to the embryo. The closer it got, the more dangerous he felt that lifeform to be.
Long Chen almost started to regret it. He felt that he had been too decisive this time. Could such a terrifying lifeform really be taken over by Little Snow? It felt like it could wipe away Little Snow’s soul with a single thought.
However, the arrow had been loosed from its bow now. There was no turning back now. Having his essence blood enter had been difficult, but pulling it out was impossible.
