AWB Chapter 225 The Legacy of the Ascended
Chapter 225 The Legacy of the Ascended
The voice was soft and familiar, like a memory from the depths of her heart. She couldn't help but take a few steps forward and saw a familiar face emerge from the lake.
"Sister?" In an instant, countless sorrows welled up in her heart, and two lines of tears immediately slid down her cheeks.
"Is it really you, sister? I miss you so much."
"Did you come to see me? Why don't you come closer?" The emotion in the voice blurred Sun Miaoke's vision, and even the warning screech of the Spirit Wood Falcon was automatically blocked.
But the moment her shoe touched the lake water, the tranquil surface suddenly boiled, and "Sister" revealed a hideous and eerie smile, transforming into a twisted demon's face.
Countless female ghosts, only their upper bodies visible, emerged from the lake, their arms bearing strangely long joints. They swiftly reached out towards Sun Miaoke, attempting to drag her into the water. Lingmu Jun screamed, dispelling some of the ghostly figures, but with each strike of light, more evil spirits sprang from the water.
Sun Miaoke realized that the scene ahead was always an illusion. She closed her eyes and acted entirely according to the direction and senses guided by the spirit falcon. After a long time, she finally crossed the terrifying lake.
As she watched the psychedelic, painting-like scene twist and crumble behind her, a smug smile appeared on Sun Miaoke's lips.
However, what she didn't know was that a black shadow had already attached itself to her while she was immersed in the joy of reuniting with her sister, but she never noticed it from beginning to end.
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After Song Yufei stepped into the "Rest" passage, everything fell silent. There was no light, no sound, not even the heavy footsteps of the jade lion were swallowed up.
An extreme sense of loneliness and darkness permeated the passage, like an endless void. Only the ground beneath one's feet would emit a faint blue light when one stepped on it, but the light was extremely brief and could not illuminate the walls on either side.
When her hand touched the wall, she felt a sticky texture. She jerked her hand up and found that her palm was covered with a layer of wet, black liquid, which seemed to be seeping from the wall and had a musty, rotten smell.
As they ventured deeper, the space seemed to gradually descend into a deathly silence.
Song Yufei tried to call out to the Jade Lion, but found that her voice was completely swallowed up by this strange area.
Just as she was about to tentatively take a step, she suddenly felt a chill. Her steps seemed to be frozen by some kind of cold air, and pairs of eerie green eyes appeared ahead of her.
Those eyes were not human, but belonged to some unknown being. When those eyes stared at her, she felt a chill run down her spine, and waves of suffocation washed over her.
The jade lion roared beside him, trying to dispel the chill, but shadows surged in from all directions, eventually coalescing into several entities resembling mist demons.
These ghostly figures possessed extremely strong disruptive abilities. They suppressed the power of the Jade Lion like an invisible swamp, while simultaneously casting a nightmarish illusion on Song Yufei.
She even felt her body contorting, her soul being squeezed into the void by some force. Although she held onto her composure to prevent herself from collapsing completely, the passage behind her began to collapse the moment she hesitated, forcing her to continue forward.
The chill, the nightmare of time and death haunted her. Only by concentrating all her strength and relying on the roar of the Jade Lion to orient herself could she see a glimmer of light at the exit ahead.
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After Liang Dongshan entered the "open" passage, the Iron-Backed Giant Ape followed closely behind. The passage was vastly different from the ones the others had taken; there was no eerie atmosphere or abstract scenery here, but rather an extremely direct sense of oppression.
Thick stone pillars lined both sides of the passage, each bearing the mottled marks of battle—cracks, craters, and even bloodstains. The air was thick with the smell of gunpowder and the lingering vibrations of impacts.
The ground beneath their feet resembled an abandoned arena, its depressions filled with sharp pebbles, while a distant rumbling sound could be faintly heard, as if some enormous creature were slumbering.
Soon after, a huge stone door appeared at the end of the passage, with a dazzling crimson light emanating from the crack, giving the impression that some extremely violent power was hidden behind it.
As Liang Dongshan approached the stone gate, it opened automatically, and a gust of wind whipped up sand and gravel, revealing a vast battlefield behind it.
Three enormous stone statues stood on the battlefield, each with a different appearance: a stone tiger with astonishing strength, a stone giant in human form, and a giant wolf with three heads.
Each stone statue is seven or eight meters tall, covered in hard rock armor, with a faint red glow in its eyes.
Just as Liang Dongshan was cautiously looking around, the stone tiger suddenly moved!
Its rocky armor made a "crackling" friction sound, as if it had broken free from the constraints of time, and began to roar as it charged towards him.
Meanwhile, the other two stone statues slowly revived, and even more violent air currents appeared on the battlefield. The Iron-Backed Giant Ape immediately leaped in front of Liang Dongshan, letting out a deafening roar, and confronted the Stone Tiger.
Shi Hu was incredibly fast, each leap stirring up a sandstorm. Liang Dongshan reacted swiftly, rolling away in an instant to dodge, while simultaneously ordering the Ironback Giant Ape to attack.
The giant ape's strength was no less than that of the stone tiger. It punched the stone tiger's head, but found that the rock armor was more solid than it had imagined and could not be broken with a single blow.
Immediately afterwards, the three-headed wolf and the stone giant also joined the battle.
They each have different attack patterns. The giant wolf mainly uses ferocious pounces and tearing, while the stone giant seems clumsy but has overwhelming power, and every punch it throws down is like an earthquake.
Liang Dongshan had to quickly adjust his strategy, using the terrain to his advantage to dodge and find an opportunity to strike.
As he observed the battlefield, he discovered that the power of the statue did not come from the statue itself, but from a huge stone pillar on the battlefield.
Under the cover of the Ironback Giant Ape, Liang Dongshan desperately rushed to the stone pillar and smashed the runes beneath it with his fists, finally causing the three stone statues to stop moving and the battlefield to return to silence.
Then, the stone pillar suddenly shrank, and the moment Liang Dongshan touched it, a voice suddenly rang in his mind, "Do you accept the inheritance of the Ascended Sha Kui's stone statue and complete his task?"
He was overwhelmed by this unexpected surprise, exclaiming, "I accept! I accept!"
Then, a flood of information rushed into his mind, and he became the first among them to know the origin of this ruin.
A cold smile curled at the corner of his lips. "Senior Sha Kui, rest assured, one day I will find and eliminate the Four Demon Lords one by one to comfort your spirit in heaven."
"This world actually has such a history, how interesting! It seems that I, Liang Dongshan, am the true chosen one, hahahaha!"