Chapter 363: Chapter 255 Lily’s Ingenuity (6k)_3
Zhang Ze’s plan to play everyone to death seemed to have failed.
But it wasn’t a complete failure, because he had made a new discovery.
Zhang Ze looked up at the indecent statue of the Great Mother Goddess for quite a while, then flipped it off with his middle finger before turning and leaving.
Zhang Ze made a new discovery there, but Old Ascender didn’t.
Each couple went their separate ways to search for clues, one staying in Wind Chime City to continue the search.
The territory of Wind Chime City was still covered with yellow sand, although there weren’t any sniper rats, there were plenty of Earth Worms.
To achieve the best possible search results, the Sect Leader concealed all his aura to eliminate interference, resulting in Zhang Ze’s Golden Core becoming the brightest egg in Wind Chime City.
Those Earth Worms, who usually channel Spiritual Qi and gnaw on rocks for fun, attacked incessantly like moths to a flame, wanting to seize that Golden Core.
After Chen Qin controlled her sword to pierce the last Earth Worm, she flicked a sword blossom, looked up at her father floating in the air, and suddenly thought of something. She asked a question.
"Dad, you’re definitely stronger than these worms, right?"
Upon hearing this question that would easily provoke a punch, Chen Qianhu descended from the sky and wasn’t angry, "What do you mean?"
"Before senior brother was sucked into that Secret Realm, a swarm of Earth Worms attacked us, and that swarm was driven by that Secret Realm."
"There’s no reason those Earth Worms could detect the Secret Realm, but you couldn’t, right?"
"So I think whether that Ghost City above ground is just an appearance, maybe something else is driving the Earth Worms?"
"I was negligent, let’s go check the place where it all started." After Chen Qianhu finished speaking, he took his daughter and instantly moved to the place where Zhang Ze was sucked in by the exploding storm.
The flowing desert had already covered the scene of the battle that day, and the Sect Leader looked at the desert beneath his feet and swung his hand downward, slashing even deeper this time.
As the sword light fell, Chen Qianhu took his daughter to another place.
A thousand meters underground, it was pitch black.
The Sect Leader raised his hand, and the place lit up like daylight.
Their location was a cavity shaped like a giant’s body, something suddenly appeared here and expanded to create this space after a brief stay.
"Wait for me," Chen Qianhu said, then left an ordinary-looking Flying Sword beside his daughter before his figure flickered and disappeared.
This time he captured the location of that thing in an instant, but...
That thing was in the west.
In Central Continent.
The thing that lurked underground and appeared in the image of the Ghost City Secret Realm came from Central Continent.
It was likely a very troublesome thing.
It roamed this underground realm, suddenly appearing forty years ago, then vanished without a trace, reappearing again last year...
He didn’t pursue it but returned to his daughter’s side, looked down at her, and suddenly felt a headache.
Zhang Ze, that kid, was too good at stirring up trouble. How would the future days go on?
"Let’s go back first, to the Celestial Sect." Chen Qianhu sighed and ruffled his daughter’s hair.
...
Meanwhile, Zhang Ze.
His concept of time had also started to become somewhat fuzzy; this place seemed to have a magical atmosphere that could isolate people from time.
Luckily, he had a mirror beside him that was detoxing from Internet addiction, and many Magical Artifacts that could keep time.
So he wasn’t truly forgotten in the Returning Void of time like the Wooden Fish Taoist and others.
During this period, he also attempted to use the break-through ability of the Profound Identification Treasure Mirror to find an exit, yet he didn’t find the slightest gap.
The Wooden Fish Taoist hadn’t come out; he locked himself in a stone chamber, probably relying on the ’spell’ of the Great Mother Goddess, and that stone house was completely sealed. No one knew what the Wooden Fish Taoist was doing inside.
The downside was that he couldn’t get any more tidbits from the Wooden Fish Taoist, but the upside was that he had more time to wander in the Secret Realm, verifying his guesses without being disturbed.
"Profound Identification, did you check over there?"
[Checked, I confirmed it again, looks identical.]
Upon receiving Profound Identification’s response, Zhang Ze suddenly felt uneasy standing in the corridor.
Because Zhang Ze confirmed his earlier guess.
That this Secret Realm, or rather this presence, was a person-shaped entity, and he and those thousand people were inside this thing.
The priest area was the stomach.
The places where the slaves and priests lived were the lungs.
And that giant room where he, as the Holy Son, stayed was naturally the heart.
Of course, if this entity truly followed a human-based principle, that would actually be good news. Based on human anatomy, leaving the stomach, whether upward or downward, one should be able to get out.
However, reality was not like this. A divine statue blocked the upward exit.
The downward exit was likewise blocked, and it seemed this aunt or uncle had some kind of intestinal obstruction.
An indestructible statue was stuck in the duodenum.
No way to squeeze through.
Returning to the priest area, today’s rituals were completed, and those Assistant Priests had already sensibly placed their mud-broken companions on the assembly line...
Zhang Ze watched it all, suddenly feeling something amiss.
After confirming that this thing might be a person, he suddenly felt that what was happening in the stomach resembled digestion?
Perhaps the purpose of this ritual was not birthing, but actually digesting something?
It seemed he had become a Gastric Health and Digestion Tablet?
Thinking of this, Zhang Ze immediately stepped forward and raised a vine staff, attracting the attention of the priests.