This time, the Snake Goddess, Fuxi, and the others in the chaos didn't join Zen in his journey to the Jade Pure Realm.
Including Zen himself, there were a total of forty humans.
The second they stepped into the Jade Pure Realm, thirty three of them died on the spot. Only seven remained.
Everyone was shocked, but they couldn't say they were surprised.
"Well... Is this one of the techniques of the Snake Spirit King?" the Snake Goddess asked sadly.
"Yes, the Grand Supreme Elderly Lord said it was called the Space Devouring Technique," Zen answered in a low voice.
Just then, the Grand Supreme Elderly Lord's soul floated out from Zen's head. "This is the theurgy of a Holy Item named the Space Guiding Stone," he explained. "The Snake Spirit King has been prepared."
"Has the Snake Spirit King been hiding here all the time?" Fuxi asked, whipping his head alertly.
The surrounding environment was as quiet as ever. No one could sense the auras of Treacherous Beings.
The Grand Supreme Elderly Lord shook his head. "He doesn't even need to be here. With the Limited Omnipotent Stone, he monitors everything that goes on in the Jade Pure Realm, including our current conversation."
"Is the Limited Omnipotent Stone really so powerful?" Fuxi's eyes widened in disbelief.
The Grand Supreme Elderly Lord huffed, "I already mentioned this before we set out. You weren't listening carefully!"
He had found out about some of the Snake Spirit King's methods through Elder Xue. In addition, he had been lurking in the Jade Pure Realm for so many years, so it was only natural he learned about some of the Snake Spirit King's theurgies, but he didn't know them all.
"Before we had set out, I knew that this trip would be riddled with danger, but I didn't expect that we would have to suffer such heavy losses," the Primeval Lord of Heaven said with a pained expression.
The Grand Supreme Elderly Lord was much calmer. "Since their souls are kept in the Civilization Artifact, they would be onlookers like me now."
If the chaos was truly destroyed, or even downgraded, all the creatures in the chaos would be killed. The humans here had lived for a long time, so it didn't really make any difference if they died sooner or later.
Despite that fact, everyone still wallowed in despair. Just then, Eastern Emperor Taiyi noticed something stirring in the distance. "What's going on over there?"
When everyone turned to look, they saw the Monkey Spirit King waiting for the other Treacherous Beings to recover. As Cornelius's former companion in battle, how could he not know about the Space Devouring Technique?
Yet it didn't matter how powerful the Space Devouring Technique was, because it couldn't harm a Treacherous Being. Thus, the Monkey Spirit King only needed to wait patiently for the Monkey Masters to recover.
However, the Monkey Spirit King was looking straight at Zen with an unreadable expression. Then, he turned around abruptly and ran away, followed by the Monkey Masters.
His huge body should have made the earth tremble when he ran.
However, Zen and the others didn't feel the vibration. There was no sound or aura fluctuation. If Eastern Emperor Taiyi hadn't accidentally seen it, Zen and the others wouldn't have noticed them running away.
"What happened? Why is the Monkey Spirit King running away?" Gonggong asked curiously.
"Damn it, we have to catch up! Let's go!" the Snake Goddess cried in disbelief, poised to run after them.
It hadn't been easy, gaining the support of the Monkey Spirit Sect. They weren't going to let them go so easily.
Whoosh!
Whoosh!
Fuxi, Eastern Emperor Taiyi and Zen were already rushing towards the receding figure of the Monkey Spirit King.
Although Fuxi and Eastern Emperor Taiyi had consumed a large amount of bloodline power resisting the Space Devouring Technique, they still managed to rush after the Monkey Spirit King with incredible speed. At the rate they were going, they should have caught up to him in the blink of an eye.
However, even as they were dashing across the Jade Pure Realm, something strange happened.
The distance between them and the Monkey Spirit King did not close, but instead grew bigger and bigger, until the Monkey Spirit King had disappeared from their sight. Meanwhile, it looked like they were running in place.
"There is something strange about the space here..." Fuxi spoke, stretching out one hand.
Splash!
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