Chapter 1113 - 803: The Gate Opens
Shen Li immediately wanted to erase the Blood Rose mark on Shen Tang’s neck, but found that the mark’s power was deeply imprinted in every strand of her blood, engraved on her soul, and could not be removed!
He could only suppress the urge to kill, hide the mark first, so that out of sight, out of mind!
[Host, I think I’ve figured it out, Necro left a companion mark on you when he self-destructed.] the system angrily said, [This pervert even in death has to leave a mark on you, making you unable to escape him forever! This trick is too ruthless, too vicious!]
Initially, the host didn’t like him and even hated him, yet this guy is still clinging to the host even in death, it’s nauseating!
But to be honest, except for the initial shock, Shen Tang became very calm.
No sense of disgust, but certainly not much joy either.
The person is dead, so whether the mark is there or not makes little difference to her.
She didn’t care about those superficial things.
Although Xiao Jin, Lu Xiao, and Shen Li were furious, they cursed that scumbag thousands of times in their hearts, indeed he is dead, and even if he left a mark, he can’t do anything; it’s just annoying them.
"By the way, where is the entrance to the clan’s land? How do we get in?" This is the crux.
"Please wait a moment."
A more burly and towering skeleton general bowed and then turned to lead the skeleton army back to the depths of the earth.
Immediately, the ground shook violently, yellow earth surged, and a sacrificial altar slowly surfaced.
The altar is covered with intricate and mysterious patterns, resembling murals, yet also like some ancient script.
In the center of the altar stands a towering stele.
The stele has already shattered, with traces of war remaining, and faint traces of blood spatter can still be seen.
Most striking is the giant vertical eye totem carved on the stele, its socket empty, and the pupil spot gouged out.
Su Jiu walked to the stele, reached out to touch the patterns, and slowly said, "This vertical eye is one of the ancient clan symbols of the Blood Clan, symbolizing ’gazing into the abyss’..."
Her fingers slowly moved downward.
The base of the stele also has a line of weathered Ancient Blood Clan text, meaning that when the Blood Moon ascends, the gate of slumber opens for the bloodline.
"The seed of the bone tree we obtained earlier is the key. When the Blood Moon comes, use it to activate the stele, and you can open the real entrance to the clan’s land."
Shen Tang was surprised, "The old city of the Blood Clan... is underground?"
Su Jiu said, "Yes and no, although the Blood Clan often moves during the night and avoids sunlight, they are not a subterranean race."
"The reason the ancient city is buried underground is that a thousand years ago, when the Blood Clan evacuated, they used some power to sink the entire city deeper into the ground, and the entrance above was completely buried by sand... But the Blood Clan didn’t entirely relinquish the hope of returning, so they left a way for the descendants to find, the clues are hidden in a ballad."
"When the Blood Moon night comes, the world’s energy undergoes some fluctuations, and some of these fluctuations resonate with the Blood Clan’s Origin Energy. Therefore, the ancestors set a secret technique, only on the Blood Moon night will the seal at the entrance temporarily loosen, revealing the stairs to the underground."
Su Jiu didn’t fully understand the events of the past, these are her inferences, but they should be fairly accurate.
It is more than a month until the Blood Moon descends.
This period is neither too long nor too short, to prevent further unexpected incidents, plus the desert, despite its harsh conditions, is sparsely populated, a good place to avoid Divine Hall’s pursuit, so they continued to stay in the desert.
The desert’s harsh environment became a trial arena to hone combat and will.
During this time, Shen Tang and the others were hunting mutant beasts in the desert, making their abilities more solid.
Shen Tang had already reached the Peak of the Primordial Beast Tier, feeling one step away from Breaking Yuan Rank, yet she couldn’t quite touch that door to cross.
Throughout the endless history of Beast World, countless strong ones have reached the Primordial Beast Tier, but very few truly entered the Legendary Realm.
This alone shows how difficult it is to breakthrough to Breaking Yuan Rank.
Even many strong ones deemed as geniuses might struggle to reach that true peak in their lifetime.
Breaking through Breaking Yuan Rank relies not only on power and luck but also on the strength of the bloodline. Even though Shen Tang had reached the Peak, if she couldn’t find that door, she might never step into that realm.
Shen Tang sighed, although she had the system’s support, compared to the beast husbands beside her with their overwhelming bloodline talent, her bloodline strength was still quite ordinary! Maybe she might never break through to Breaking Yuan Rank.
Time quickly passed, and the day of the Blood Moon arrived.
The sky was shrouded in darkness, even the air became icy and sharp.
The oppressive night was like a massive beast creeping down, bringing a great pressure. The surrounding air seemed to thicken, faintly smelling of blood, even breathing felt stagnant.
The crimson Blood Moon slowly emerged in the sky, and the thick black fog dispersed.
Different from the usual cool, gentle, and hazy moonlight, this time the moonlight was full of a strange eerie color.
As the moonlight pierced through the clouds and fell on the stele, Su Jiu swiftly embedded the bone tree seed into the empty pupil spot of the stele’s eye.
In an instant, as if some mysterious and ancient ritual was activated, the "eye" on the stele seemed to come alive, suddenly shining with spirit, eerily rotated.
Then, the stele’s engravings were instantly filled with the bloody energy, exploding with extremely powerful force.
Boom——
A red beam shot skyward, piercing into the Blood Moon above ten thousand miles.
At this instant, the world seemed pierced by this blade of blood! The powerful, terrifying energy rapidly spread like ocean waves!
Where it passed, weak mutant beasts instantly turned to dust, while powerful ones lay prostrate on the ground, even without intelligence, their instinctive fear and submission to great power deeply engraved in their bones.
In the Sand Worm Nest, the Insect Mother and its kin also saw the blade of blood penetrating the sky, leading its subjects to crouch on the ground in submission.
The Hunters traversing the desert had no time to detect where this power originated before being stunned into unconsciousness, sent out of the desert.
A primitive, thick stone gate slowly opened, inside a bottomless vortex, sucking Shen Tang and the others in.
Their figures instantly vanished without a trace.
Meanwhile, the massive energy fluctuations triggered by Sallos Desert not only shocked various forces but also caught the attention of the Divine Hall.
"This is... the Blood Clan’s power!"
"The long-lost Blood Clan has finally appeared again."
"I knew it, the Blood Clan couldn’t be so easily eradicated, indeed they have returned. This time, the Divine Hall must take them down completely." A tall and graceful Holy Seat appeared from the air, her black exquisite robe embroidered with a spider-feeding pattern, exuding a cold, arrogant aura, her aura was unfathomable, radiating the dangerous aura of a strong hunter!
Another tall and burly male hooked an arm around her shoulder, leaning to her ear, flirtatiously said, "With Vera taking action, we’ll surely succeed this time, uprooting the Blood Clan, never allowing them to escape again."
"You’re such a smooth talker; those former Holy Seats were wasteful! This time, no one will escape my web of the killing spider."
Zong Gao and Mansa also arrived.
Deploying four Holy Seats at once, this was unprecedented for a century!
Shu stood on the rooftop, seeing the energy fluctuations coming from the desert, a touch of worry flashed across his distinguished and ethereal face, he immediately declared to exit seclusion.