klisemfg Chapter 1023: There's definitely a conspiracy here!
Chapter 1023: There's definitely a conspiracy here!
Chapter 1023: There's definitely a conspiracy here!
Gu Heng felt that the system definitely knew how to leave this place.
But she urged herself to go deeper into the area instead of leaving immediately... It seems that whatever is inside must be very important.
Talk about it.
If he hadn't been thinking about what would happen to Pu Yunyuan in the plane crash, he wouldn't have come to this godforsaken place, and naturally he wouldn't have contacted Gu Xitong for help. So whatever happened here would be none of their business, right?
Given this, the question arises.
Is this an unexpected consequence of his actions, or an inevitable path predetermined by fate?
Even the process of Pu Yunyuan encountering an accident and being witnessed by him could be considered a pre-ordained "accident"? That's too much of a conspiracy theory.
Gu Heng didn't think about it carefully. He was worried that his obsession would only get worse, so he decided to bury his head in the sand and not think too much about it.
He walked step by step through the murky, heavy blood mist.
Although Gu Xitong said it was "not far," Gu Heng had walked for several hours in this indescribably bloody world. He tried to talk to Gu Xitong, but she didn't respond. They walked until Gu Heng was almost numb.
Gu Heng was convinced that his nose would become extremely sensitive to the smell of blood from now on.
Until Gu Heng took his final step.
They had completely emerged from that thick, swirling blood mist.
Suddenly, the view opened up before me.
Stepping out of the blood mist, the world was still a crimson red, but even Gu Heng felt a sudden sense of refreshment. The guiding light in his eyes had disappeared, and the thick stench of blood was gone.
"There's even a lake here?"
He squinted slightly, surveying his surroundings. He was standing on the shore of a blood-red lake. The lake water was also blood-red, but not the kind of deep, turbid blood that made people nauseous. Instead, it was a pure, clear, scarlet red.
Moreover, tiny ripples continue to spread.
The land surrounding the Blood Lake had turned deep red, and even the strange plants growing on the soil were stained with blood...
but.
This place felt incredibly pure to Gu Heng, without a trace of impurity, as if it were an environment made of the cleanest "blood"!
Gu Heng had this thought subconsciously, and there was no pervasive stench of blood and gore here, so he even wanted to take a few more deep breaths.
“This is it,” Gu Xitong’s voice rang out.
"The source of the unusual energy accumulation, is it? It's up to you to observe it."
Gu Heng told Gu Xitong to watch without worry, while he himself looked around from the lakeside, but could not see any trace of human habitation.
half an hour.
Gu Xitong then said, "Something is being nurtured in this blood lake. I can't see through what's inside. Some powerful force covers the depths of this blood lake."
Upon hearing this, Gu Heng was startled.
"How powerful is it?"
"At least with my own strength, I can't quietly break that power restriction." Gu Xitong's tone seemed to carry a hint of regret. "Breaking the seal rashly could lead to bad consequences."
"You mean, this god-like place is the work of an epochal deity?" Man-made gods are still gods, at least in terms of power they are absolutely qualified to be called "gods." At least the great sages of the technological civilization firmly believed in this, and Gu Heng did not intend to question them.
But if even Gu Xitong's power isn't enough to crush them, then the answer is obvious!
"That's right, at least someone must have done it by using divine power."
Gu Heng frowned.
He knew this was definitely just the tip of the iceberg of some grand conspiracy, involving even the gods; it was no small matter.
"In any case, the energy gathered here is enormous, and it took a long time for the fresh blood and energy of cultivators to accumulate and settle to form this scale," Gu Xitong said.
"I know that. It's really ruthless. I wonder how many people have been taken in here."
Even an idiot would realize that this blood lake is so clear and pristine, and so vast, that it must be bottomless. So how could it have been filled in?
There must have been quite a few cultivators who were forcibly stuffed into the lake and dissolved!
There must be tens of thousands, if not more!
That's ruthless and decisive!
“Your thinking… is a little off.” Gu Xitong was still able to know what Gu Heng was thinking, so she said, “This contains only the purest blood energy, without any other impurities, and it is currently receiving a continuous infusion of blood energy.”
"Now?"
Gu Heng looked up at the blood-red sky.
Sure enough, there was a hole in the clouds that looked like an eye, like a vortex, but flowing downwards.
No wonder there are ripples in this blood lake!
“That’s a siphon source. The source of the blood energy must be outside. They are being continuously injected into this conceptually chaotic space. As for how wide the range is, I don’t know for the time being,” Gu Xitong said.
Looking at the empty space in the sky, Gu Heng suddenly remembered that the Eternal Beast Tide was raging in the nearby Junling Immortal Realm, and there must have been a lot of casualties!
Even if, as Su Jinxi said, everyone is prepared for such a disaster, bloodshed is still inevitable.
As long as blood is drawn to the surface, the blood energy might be absorbed here and injected into this blood lake!
It seems.
There is no connection between the two.
If one day the Immortal Dao civilization goes to war with someone else, and an invading army marches into the Junling Immortal Realm, the amount of blood and energy involved in the clash between the two armies will likely be no less than that.
And the fact that such a vast and deep lake of blood could be filled in like this, even the surrounding soil and exotic plants were "pickled" so thoroughly...
This place has probably existed for a very long time, perhaps more than a thousand or ten thousand years! Over a long period of time, countless traces of blood energy have accumulated here in a rather hidden way.
What kind of monster are they trying to raise that would require this method?
If something truly extraordinary is about to be born down there, Gu Heng would actually like to see it.
It's also a way of satisfying my curiosity.
“This isn’t the only place with this kind of spatial anomaly.” Gu Xitong hadn’t spoken for a long time, but suddenly raised her voice, startling him so much that his eyelids twitched.
"More?"
Gu Heng had a very bad feeling.
“I just discovered from the database that other civilizations also have these bizarre regions with disordered concepts, but the underlying principles are unclear and have never been explored in depth.”
"How many are recorded in the database?" Gu Heng pressed. "At least over ninety million, with no fewer than six million such places within the Immortal Dao civilization alone."
Upon hearing this number, Gu Heng felt a chill run down his spine.
Six million?!
Even if the immortal civilization is vast and boundless, this number is still a bit too frightening!
This is only what is recorded in the database of scientific and technological civilization. How many more are there that are not recorded?
Then I thought that even the power restrictions in this blood lake were caused by the power of the gods of the era... so the existence of such a place must mean that there are gods behind it!
"That Primordial Dao Ancestor is capable of anything behind the scenes."
Gu Heng sneered.
Just as the Ancestral Civilization wanted to tell the world, and as Gu Heng firmly believed, the Epoch Gods were indeed no good dogs. Except for Gu Xitong.