Chapter 461: Divine Power Seal
In the dim void, a giant white slit filled with blood light, like an eye, slowly opened wider.
Suddenly, a giant hand with pale, corpse-like skin, connected to three red lines on the back of the hand, thrust out from the blood light within the rift.
This colossal hand, resembling that of the Buddha, instantly descended upon Xia Feng.
Xia Feng’s expression shifted slightly, and he retreated into the Holy Knight Space. However, the space shattered like a cracked mirror with a crackling sound, instantly breaking apart.
In an instant, it was as if death had descended. His nerves tightened, knowing he was powerless to resist. Yet, his mind raced, weighing whether to retreat directly into the Evil Dragon Space.
Ultimately, he decided to take a gamble, not using any further means, and was grabbed like a chick by the Buddha-like hand, beginning to ascend.
He was drawn back into the spatial rift along with the giant hand.
He Jianzhu, standing by, looked up at the scene. Her beautiful eyes narrowed slightly, but she did not appear overly flustered. Her expression was calm as she took a step and leaped into the spatial rift.
At the same time, the Faceless Ones on the battlefield were sucked into a white vortex that appeared behind them.
Although Bai Nuo was confused, he, carrying the Bone Snake Man and the Spider Man, also jumped into the vortex and disappeared.
The void was instantly restored to darkness and silence, leaving only scattered debris floating serenely.
Xia Feng’s vision went black, and after a while, it gradually cleared. He saw a hellish scene of undead struggling and wailing in an endless sea of lava.
Xia Feng looked down and around, only to discover he was standing on a cliff.
However, this was not the main point. The crucial thing was that the beating of his heart suddenly quickened without warning. The rapid “thump-thump-thump” caused his ears to ring, and his mind became disoriented.
As if sensing something, he turned to look. A towering, almost endless giant tower stood in the void. It was thousands of meters tall, its walls as dark as ink, carved with bizarre, mysterious, and majestic patterns.
In addition, countless bronze-like chains crisscrossed the tower, weaving upwards in circles like a cage, reaching into the clouds.
“Dong dong dong—” Xia Feng’s heart tightened, and his breathing grew rapid. He clearly sensed that this giant tower before him was the Refining God Tower and that it had a very strong connection with the Calamity Demon Heart.
Although he desperately wanted to enter the tower immediately, Xia Feng suppressed his excitement, lowered his gaze, and looked down.
In front of the base of the tower was a majestic throne made of blood. A Mysterious Existence, clad in a long black robe, sat casually. His messy, pale hair cascaded down his back, and the ferocious Nuo mask on his face slowly lifted.
Xia Feng clearly felt a bizarre gaze sweep over his entire body. It felt as if countless soft whispers erupted around his ears, mixed with sharp, chilling laughter that made his hair stand on end.
“Ri Nuo, have you now stooped to bullying a junior to show off your power?” a woman’s soft voice sounded. Xia Feng felt a hand gently pat his right shoulder from behind, and the eerie sounds and terrifying pressure in his ears instantly vanished.
He turned to look. He Jianzhu had somehow followed him in, her gaze warm.
“Oh?” The ferocious Nuo mask obscured the man’s expression, but his tone was one of amusement. “Yue Ji, you’ve been fleeing in the Calamity Demon Sea for so many years, and now you’ve walked right into a trap for a human? What, is this ant your son?”
“You guessed it~”
He Jianzhu smiled, her delicate hand ruffling Xia Feng’s hair, her gaze tender. “He is indeed my son.”
“?” Xia Feng’s eyelids twitched, and he swatted her hand away.
“Fine, since he’s your son, then it’s easier,”
Ri Nuo said indifferently. “If you are unwilling to unseal it for this King, then your son can do it in your stead. It’s not impossible.”
Xia Feng couldn’t tolerate the title and threw an arm around He Jianzhu’s waist. “Let me correct that, I’m her husband!”
“First son, then husband?” The man’s Nuo mask tilted. “Yue Ji, after all these years, you’ve certainly managed to have some fun.” He Jianzhu: “.?!”
Yue Ji? Xia Feng mused inwardly. Didn’t this woman just say that Ri Nuo was sealed here by Yue Ji?
So Yue Ji was her?
According to the official information, Ri Nuo and Yue Ji were both disciples of the Second Gate Pillar, both being near-god entities at the Sage level.
However, Xia Feng always felt that He Jianzhu’s identity was more than just that.
After all, He Jianzhu possessed the bizarre ability of clones. It was hard to say whether the identity of ‘Yue Ji’ wasn’t also one of her clones.
A Sage-level clone, if that were the case, then He Jianzhu’s origins would be truly terrifying.
“Plop, plop—”
The continuous sound of falling water attracted Xia Feng’s attention. He turned to look.
Centering around the base of the tower, nine chains formed a high bridge, extending outwards in a ring.
Below the bridge was the continuously boiling, churning blood-red lava. On the bridge were scattered Nightmare Clan beings captured by the Faceless Ones.
These beings carried the Heart Calamity Blood Mist. Although its healing effect was not as good as Heart Calamity Demon Blood, as long as the quantity was sufficient, the effect was the same.
!
According to Xia Feng’s observation, the bodies of the beings pushed into the lava melted, but their souls did not disintegrate.
After their souls struggled and wailed briefly, protected by the Heart Calamity Blood Mist, they drifted in the lava, converging towards the base of the Central Tower.
The base of the tower was already crowded with dense, transparent spirit bodies. Their faces were ferocious, and they overlapped densely, looking somewhat terrifying.
It gave Xia Feng a touch of trypophobia.
Moreover, Xia Feng keenly observed that among them were a few familiar faces, likely some of the Nightmare Clan beings he had encountered by chance while tracking the Refining God Tower earlier.
No wonder he hadn’t encountered many living things after entering the Calamity Demon Sea. It turned out they had all been captured and brought here.
“Ant, do you know what those beings are for?” Ri Nuo’s indifferent voice rang out.
Xia Feng looked up and glanced at the man on the throne. “You went to all this trouble to drag me here, you must want something. Just say it, Your Excellency, what do you want to do?”
“Very good, you are much more sensible than that clone.” The masked man leaned lazily on his throne, tapped the armrest with his knuckle, and waved to Bai Nuo beside him.
Bai Nuo’s spiral eyes on his face narrowed and rotated clockwise, and he explained:
“Over a thousand years ago, Father was ambushed and sealed here by Yue Ji using divine power. Heh~ She thought Father would never have a chance to rise again, but she didn’t expect Father to have obtained the God Relic, the Refining God Tower, in his early years.”
“Although this tower is damaged, it still has a miraculous effect against divine power, even primordial divine power. It can easily break the divine power seal set by Yue Ji—”
“Dong dong—” Ri Nuo tapped the armrest and looked up indifferently, “Bai Nuo.”
Bai Nuo knew his Father disliked his rambling, so he decided to get straight to the point.
“But it’s not easy to activate or even use the Refining God Tower! Not only does it require a large amount of Heart Calamity Demon Blood, but also a large number of high-quality spirit bodies. To fulfill these conditions, the difficulty is no less than—”
… He mumbled on. Xia Feng listened silently for a long time, only to find that the guy still hadn’t explained what he wanted to do by going to such great lengths to capture him.
