pjbooks Chapter 1006 Strange Phenomena Within the Body
Chapter 1006 Strange Phenomena Within the Body
A wave of fluorescent blue light swept down, turning the faces of everyone in the hall pale. The pillar of light that pierced straight down from the dome landed in the very center of the hall, on the charred crater of the altar ruins, as if something had traversed endless void and finally made contact with this world.
Lin Qiye could feel that the power resonated extremely strongly with the Blood Demon Power within him—stronger than ever before, so strong that he could barely suppress it. His heart was pounding violently, not out of fear, but as an instinctive reaction to be forcibly pulled by external forces, like a giant dragon sleeping in the abyss suddenly hearing the long roar of its kind in the sky.
He understood. The "master" the Soul Summoner sought to summon, the power he possessed, and the Blood Demon power within him were likely of the same origin. Not similar, not coincidental, but from the same source. This was why he could sense the ancient beast's heartbeat while it slept, why he could suppress the sealing core of the Seventh Array Eye, and why the monster's crystal core energy couldn't truly harm him—because the power flowing within them was essentially a different branch of the same thing.
The monster clearly noticed this as well. Standing atop the altar ruins, it looked down at Lin Qiye, a genuine scrutiny appearing in its fluorescent blue eyes for the first time, instead of the previous contempt or fanaticism. The arcs of light that had condensed from the magma were originally converging towards the four people simultaneously, but as they approached Lin Qiye, they noticeably slowed down, with several smaller arcs even deliberately avoiding his position, branching off naturally like a stream encountering a reef.
"Interesting," the monster lowered its voice, a hint of inquiry in its tone. "Your power is even more unique than I thought. It seems that the return of your master has also brought you some benefits. Since you can be recognized by both the ancient beasts and the formation, it means that the bloodline within you originates from an even more ancient existence... Only a few monarchs under my master possess such a power essence."
He didn't continue his attack. Instead, he scrutinized Lin Qiye from head to toe with a critical gaze, as if assessing an item that had been previously overlooked but was suddenly discovered to be a genuine antique. After a moment, that eerie smile reappeared on his lips: "You are more suitable than this body. If you can be sacrificed to the master, the success rate of the descent should more than double."
As he spoke, he raised the short staff in his hand, and the light from the crystal core at the top of the staff surged once again. But this time, the arc of light did not bypass Lin Qiye. Instead, under the monster's mental control, it suddenly tightened, and countless strands of light wrapped around Lin Qiye's wrists and ankles from all directions, fixing him in place.
Mo Yuan roared, unleashing a thick, azure blade aura from his narrow sword straight at the monster's face. But the monster merely raised a finger, and a wall of light erected before it, silently swallowing the blade aura that could cleave a small mountain. At the same time, the magma surging from the ground condensed into several thick tentacles, wrapping around Mo Yuan's waist and pulling him to the ground. The azure blade light cut gashes into the tentacles, but the gashes quickly healed as they were replenished, like a tiger trapped in a swamp, the more it struggled, the tighter the grip became.
Ajiu struggled to stand up, but her injuries were too severe. She coughed up blood as soon as she managed to prop herself up halfway. She was then firmly bound to the bone pillar by another light tendril, unable to move even a finger.
In less than a few breaths, the three were completely suppressed by the Heavenly Soul-Guiding Array, and the power of the array continued to increase—the light slurry in the center of the altar ruins began to rotate, forming a huge vortex of light, and several purplish-black void rifts faintly appeared in the depths of the vortex.
That was a sign that the gate to the realm was about to open.
The monster ignored the trapped Mo Yuan and A Jiu, and disregarded the forming void rift in the altar ruins; all its attention was focused on Lin Qiye. It walked to Lin Qiye, raised its hand, and its fingertips, covered in a fluorescent blue light, probed towards Lin Qiye's brow. When the fluorescent blue light and the dark golden blood demon power that spontaneously appeared on Lin Qiye's body met in mid-air, they didn't repel each other, but rather merged—the two forces permeated each other, intertwining into an indescribable thread of light that slowly drifted between them.
The monster frowned. His original plan was for Lin Qiye's life force to automatically flow into the formation, and then be sacrificed to his master who had crossed the void. However, when his power penetrated Lin Qiye's body, he discovered that this person's body was like a divine treasure filled with ancient restrictions. Its exterior was unremarkable, but its interior concealed layers upon layers of power structures that even he couldn't fully comprehend. The sacrificial power he attempted to inject was silently blocked by a more domineering power field, and even the portion he had already injected vanished without a trace, like a mud ox sinking into the sea.
"What...is hidden inside your body?" the monster murmured, his tone more doubtful than wary. With the dual enhancement of the Heavenly Soul-Guiding Array and the crystal core, he could easily suppress even a grandmaster-level expert, yet he couldn't penetrate the foundation of a young man, which was illogical in itself.
Lin Qiye did not answer. He was suffering terribly—the sacrificial power forcibly injected by the monster had triggered a violent backlash from all the evil forces within him. Energy surging from the depths of his heart poured like boiling oil onto every meridian bound by threads of light. His body could no longer restrain itself from this resistance; cracks appeared on his skin, and dark golden blood demon power overflowed uncontrollably from these cracks, mingling and tearing at each other with the fluorescent blue array light, forming a rapidly spinning vortex of energy around him.
As his inner power erupted, he saw a city—no, a majestic throne that seemed to grow from the void, larger than the Azure Bone Mountains and more ancient than the arena. Beneath the throne stretched an endless sea of dark golden clouds, within which floated countless inverted peaks, each bearing a colossal creature as large as the ancient beasts of the Azure Bone Mountains. And upon the throne sat a figure.
The figure's face was shrouded in a dark golden halo, obscuring his features. All that could be seen was a head of long, jet-black hair that cascaded down to the throne, and two curved horns protruding from between the hair. The shape of the horns was exactly the same as the outline of the patterns that vaguely appeared on his forehead when the blood demon power within him erupted at its limit.
Then he saw another scene.
In the scene, the throne collapses, the dark golden sea of clouds burns into a sea of fire, and the colossal creatures lurking on the inverted mountain peaks let out mournful cries as they fall one after another from the sea of clouds. Meanwhile, the figure sitting on the throne is being pierced through by countless chains of light, slowly dragged from the throne, and pulled towards a deep blue void rift that has opened up in the depths of the sea of clouds.