Chapter 1298 - 656: Nine Offspring
He walked along the high walls of the temple for a while before seeing another equally impressive building.
This hall was only slightly smaller than the temple, reaching a height of seventy meters and covering a significant area. On the ground floor, there was a black door three meters tall.
The door was tightly closed, and the thick walls only had decorative fake windows, so—
This building was sealed, and the only door for entry and exit was not open.
Yuan Hou walked to a position three meters in front of the door, stood, carefully observed for a while, then said in a low voice: "Even until now, do you still want to keep me out?"
The black door before him looked extremely simple without any patterns, decorations, or even a door ring. It was flat and imposing, almost like a red wall, if not for a thin gap in the center.
He was only a door away from what he desired. This was also the last defensive measure of the entire inner palace. Could he pass easily? With his eyesight, he could naturally see that the entire hall was actually a single magic artifact. If he didn’t pass through this door, he couldn’t enter through any other means.
But if he resorted to forceful break-in, would it cause the hall to self-destruct?
Yuan Hou chuckled, took out a beehive the size of a fist from his chest, weighed it in hand, then threw it directly at the black door with a clang.
The abrupt sound echoed for a while in the silent and deserted inner palace, followed by a loud "buzzing" noise.
The beehive naturally contained creatures, and the bees inside were surprisingly similar to the venomous bees usually raised by Ning Xiaoxian but larger, with black and red stripes, clearly unfriendly. Each bee was larger than a ping pong ball, and they flew up in droves under Yuan Hou’s command, crazily crashing into the door.
The bees looked small but flew fast. When they hit the door, it made a dull thumping sound, like mischievous children persistently kicking a ball against the door. With such an aggressive knocking method, if there was a mechanism, it would surely activate by now.
Sure enough, there was a reaction from the black door.
First, there was a scream that sounded like a ghost’s wail. On the originally pitch-black door, many red dots suddenly lit up, initially looking like small burning flames. Then, a massive figure directly "emerged" from the door, like a fish jumping out of water, blocking Yuan Hou.
This entity stood ten meters tall, surrounded by swirling black aura that refused to dissipate, as if captured by it, unable to escape. It had a bloated and obese body, at least seven meters thick, like a mountain of flesh. More terrifying was that all over its body, continuously, many heads wailed and moaned, all appearing like child boys and girls, their faces twisted as if subjected to the torture of boiling oil. The red light on the black door just now emanated from the eyes of these heads.
This mountain of flesh had arms and legs, seemingly made of a hundred human bodies pieced together, but the central head was a pale female face, almond-shaped, lips scarlet like blood, with features that would seem charming if not magnified seven or eight times, making it look bizarrely frightening.
Upon seeing this entity, a hint of surprise appeared on Yuan Hou’s face: "Made from a hundred thousand vengeful souls, is it actually the Nine Sons Ghost Mother? No, looking at its form, it has transformed into at least a hundred children."
The bees flying in the air lacked intelligence and did not feel fear toward the entity before them. They circled once in the air, then dived down to sting it. In no time, the entire mountain of flesh turned black and red.
The Ghost Mother opened its mouth and laughed eerily: "Living things!" Immediately, it parted its red lips and sucked hard, and more than ten bees got sucked in, then chewed with crunching sounds, as if eating fried wontons. Other bees rushed forward, ready to extend their stingers, but every black-red bee instantly had a child’s head appearing beneath it, biting it hard, dragging it into its mouth to devour. Watching them feast joyfully seemed like they had been starved for countless years.
Over a thousand black-red bees, one after another, were devoured clean in less than twenty breaths.
After the underground palace was completed, tens of thousands of mortals forcibly conscripted as laborers, along with their kin, were buried in the Human Sacrifice Pit that Changtian and Ning Xiaoxian entered first. The builders of the underground palace didn’t feel the bodies sufficiently appeased the barbarian ancestor; they also extracted these hundred thousand vengeful souls from their bodies, along with a Nine Sons Ghost Mother, attaching them to this Black Gate as a means of deterring tomb robbers.