Chapter 165: The Soul Returns to the Deep Earth, the Mysterious Skeleton
The four of them buried the elemental detector separately, guarded it for a while, and then took it out.
Leave it to Sikong Wen to read the information. It didn’t take long for Sikong Wen to read out the survey information.
"I found the location of the soul seed. Fortunately, we arrived early, otherwise if we follow this trend, the soul seed will be completely mature and exposed, and then I will not be able to get it."
“So that fluid rock turtle must have noticed the signs and came here.”
Bai Mo turned his head and glanced at the dead Liuyan turtle.
Nodding, Sikong Wen agreed and said at the same time.
"I will absorb it on the spot, and there may be remnants of the soul seed dissipated by then. Please help me protect it."
Ye Xing nodded silently, with a firm expression and no words.
"Don't worry, we'll be watching from the outside for you." Bai Mo nodded gently, then flew up with Ding Yumian and sat on the back of the Liuyan Ground Turtle.
Sikong Wen moved quickly. It didn't take long for him to get through the location of the soul seed and start absorbing it.
Wisps of pure earth elemental energy also slowly rippled out, attracting the demons on the island, all of whom were slaves and warriors who only relied on instinct.
Bai Mo flicked his fingers, and arrows of sound penetrated a hundred meters, easily solving them.
He also used mind control to capture a few of them and stabbed them to death with a silver hairpin gun. Finally, he discovered that the spirits were indeed missing!
Like those demons who were killed by the silver hairpin gun from time to time, whether they were remnants or essences, they were all gone!
All the thoughts in Bai Mo's eyes, he remembered that before he came to this island, he could see the remnants of the killed monsters. First of all, rule out that your soul vessel is broken, because your vessel still contains soul.
Secondly, he remembered what Ding Yumian had discovered before, so he turned to look at Ding Yumian.
"The discovery you mentioned before meant that the spirits and remnants of these monsters will disappear?"
"Absolutely."
Ding Yumian nodded slightly and shook his head again. Shaking his head, "They have not disappeared. Although I can't see those spirits, I can feel the power of those souls."
"They didn't disappear, so where did they go?"
After Bai Mo said this, he suddenly reacted and stared directly at the ground beneath the two of them.
"I can feel that the soul power has been absorbed by the ground under our feet. There should be something special about this island."
Ding Yumian confirmed his idea and at the same time moved his hands A pale flame ignited on it, and with a flick of her hand, it burned a patch of grass in the distance to ashes.
“Furthermore, I discovered that the weak soul power of a very common plant like this after death will also be absorbed by the ground.”
"Could it be because of that soul seed?"
Bai Mo looked thoughtfully at the deep pit where Sikong Wen absorbed the soul seed, subconsciously asked, and then immediately denied it.
“No, the fluctuations emitted by that soul seed are of the earth type, and they can attract souls and absorb souls under my dead soul vessel. It should be the power of the undead type!”
After he finished speaking, his brows furrowed even more tightly, and another question arose, "How can this island have the power of the undead?"
"When we first landed on the island, I I noticed that the soul power of the demons you killed suddenly disappeared, but as we went deeper and killed the demons, I found that the souls of all the creatures we destroyed were absorbed by the ground."
Knowing that he might want to explore, Ding Yumian recounted her discovery, "This suspected undead power covers the entire island."
"I want to go underground and have a look." Bai Mo stared at his feet.
Ding Yumian showed an unexpected expression and nodded gently.
“Wait until Sikong Wen finishes absorbing the soul seed, I will join you.”
“Okay.”
It didn't take long for Sikong Wen to absorb it successfully. Bai Mo talked about his discovery, which immediately attracted the attention of the two.
When he heard that Bai Mo wanted to go underground to explore, Sikong Wen immediately said that they would come together.
"There are no tunnels on this island. Let me dig a tunnel for you, faster."
"No need, I can use ground waves to get down, but I can't bring too many people." "
Bai Mo refused. At the same time, dark golden earth elements gathered around him. A faint dark golden light spread upward from the soles of his feet to cover his whole body, and then spread to Ding Yumian's body.
"Ground Wave - Patrolling the Frontier!"
I saw the two people covered in dark golden light, sinking into the land like raindrops falling into the water, causing slight fluctuations in the land.
“Holy shit! Level 5 ground wave!”
Sikong Wen stared at the two people blending into the ground in stunned silence, surprised by Bai Mo’s aura.
The effect of the fifth-level ground wave is similar to that of the fifth-level wind track.
Patrolling the territory allows the earth mage to blend into the rock and earth and travel freely underground. As long as the magic energy is sufficient, this state will not exit.
It’s just that unlike ground wave movement, which can take five or six people at a time, Xinjiang Xinjiang can only take one person at most.
Bai Mo took out an essence from the dead soul vessel and let it fall into the soil, only to find that it was not absorbed.
Instead, it keeps sinking downwards. Xunjiang has its own perception ability called ground vision, which allows it to find the essence that it has released.
So the two of them traveled deeper and deeper under the leadership of this spirit. After reaching a sufficient depth, the tight rock and soil greatly weakened their ability to patrol the border.
Bai Mo could only maintain this state by continuously providing more magic energy, and was not thrown away by the sinking spirit.
Suddenly there was a flash of light, and the spirit in front of him disappeared.
Huh? Bai Mo was stunned for a moment, then accelerated and moved forward.
Suddenly, I felt that the surroundings were empty, and the two figures suddenly fell into a pit, and they fell to the ground unexpectedly.
Bai Mo hugged Ding Yumian and stood up, but his hand that was not in the right place was swatted away.
He pretended not to know anything, turned around and saw darkness. Nothing was seen, not even the spirit.
"Peng!"
A firelight rose from Ding Yumian's hand, and the bright light illuminated the entire surrounding environment.
This is actually an underground cave!
The overall scope of this underground space is not large, only about ten square meters, and its shape is irregular. The space that can accommodate them walking upright is only five meters.
The surrounding land is black, and on top of an earthen wall, a section of white stone protruding from the wall is particularly conspicuous.
Bai Mo and Ding Yumian looked at each other and then walked towards the white stone.
The space in the cave near the white stone is very low, and the two of them had already squatted down when they passed by. After walking a few more duck steps, I arrived in front of it.
As they got closer, they saw that the white stone was not completely white, but had thin dark red lines on it. When it first fell, neither Bai Mo nor Ding Yumian sensed danger or life, so Bai Mo knocked on the white stone casually.
The stone is shaped like a cone, but the tip is rounded and the overall shape is somewhat flat.
The sound produced by the knocking was carefully detected against the white stone, but there was no gain.
“Do you think this thing is causing trouble?” Ding Yumian looked at Bai Mo.
"I don't know, let's give it a try." Bai Mo shook his head and took out another slave-level essence and let it fall in the air.
As soon as this essence appeared in the air, it seemed to be affected by great gravity and merged into the white stone like lightning.
"The essence was absorbed by it. It seems that this thing did it. But how can such a small stone cover the entire island?"
Bai Mo raised his eyebrows and touched the stone with some doubts. The surface feels cold to the touch, as if you are touching glass in winter.
Suddenly, an extremely weak stream of light, which looked extremely inconspicuous under the bright pale fireworks held by Ding Yumian, streaked across the stone.
The two people stared at each other at the same time. After making sure that they were not dazzled just now, Ding Yumian said with some doubts.
“I just felt weak spiritual fluctuations up there, similar to ordinary plants.”
"I found that this does not seem to be a stone, and I did not feel any earth element breath on it."
The voices of the two people sounded almost in no particular order. After hearing each other's words, both of them focused on this On something white, thoughtfully.
"It's not a stone, then..." Bai Mo was about to ask if it could be some strange treasure from heaven and earth, but his eyes were attracted by the light on the tip of Ding Yumian's neck.
"Your totem device is glowing."
Ding Yumian also noticed the trembling of the totem device at this time, as if it was about to make some changes. She immediately remembered the time she took Bai Ze to see the hollow Willow situation.
In a flash of thought, Bai Ze's ability to activate the Hundred Beasts Chart was activated.
Then I saw the Baize totem device slowly flying up, and at the same time a mysterious white light lit up on the simple lines, and the white light connected to what seemed to be a white stone.
The light lasts for a long time and has no intention of stopping, but there is no change at all.
“What kind of creature do you think this might be?” Bai Mo guessed what she was thinking, and remembered what she said about the effect of Bai Ze’s Beasts Picture—it could represent the scene before death of a living being.
Ding Yumian nodded slightly, looking at the totem device.
After a long time, maybe a stick of incense, maybe two hours, maybe half a day.
The brilliance of the totem device was still connected to the white unknown object, but nothing happened.
Just when Ding Yumian thought that his judgment was wrong and planned to take back the totem device. But I saw the Baize totem device suddenly glowing with light!
The strong stream of light turned the totem device into a two-foot-wide scroll. The light of the scroll continued to connect to the stone while slowly unfolding.
Like a fairy cloud, a faint white light mist spread over the fully unfolded scroll. The two of them stared at the surface of the scroll attentively.
After the wave-like halo passed by, a somewhat broken picture appeared on the small scroll.
It can be seen that the location should be above the sea. The sky above the sea is blurred, and only the figure of the bird flying in the sky is relatively clear.
You can see that this bird is about five meters tall, with a graceful figure, and long feathers flying like long hair on its head whose face cannot be seen clearly.
It is falling downwards, as if it has lost its strength and is about to fall into the sea, or as if it is fighting to the death with the endless ocean.
The scene only appeared on the screen for a few seconds, and then suddenly collapsed. There is no change in perspective like the last time I took a photo of a hollow willow.
The two of them could only know from this that the white thing exposed in the underground space should be the skeleton of the mysterious bird.
And why her bones appear here.
"It seems that it possesses the power of the undead."
Bai Mo's eyes fell on the dark red lines of the white skeleton in front of him. The dark red also represents the undead. I didn't think about this aspect before, so I ignored it.
Just listen to him continue:
"Absorbing souls may just be the power it had before death, but it was a creature that died a long time ago. Its power after death can cover the entire swamp island through a hundred meters of ground. I think it must have been very powerful during its lifetime."< br>
Ding Yumian nodded slowly, his eyes moving slightly as he added.
"There is another possibility. It is not dead. It is using this undead power to restore itself. It is accumulating strength and trying to wake up."
Bai Mo's face froze slightly. , but recovered quickly. Thinking of the scene before the death of this creature, he looked at Ding Yumian.
“Tell me, is it possible that this is a totem beast?”
"I don't know, this bone does not emit totem light." Ding Yumian shook his head,
"It may be that it has been dead for too long and can no longer react at all, and can only rely on absorbing souls. Take a breath of strength, after all, there aren't many souls dropped by natural death on this island."
"Maybe we can look for it," Bai Mo looked at this bone thoughtfully.
“This exposed skeleton is very complete. There should be other body parts in the ground. Let’s look for them next to each other. If it is a totem, there should be totem marks or patterns.”
“Okay.”
So Bai Mo used Xunjiang again, and followed the direction of the protruding bones to escape into the rock and soil. During this period, he found that where these bones existed, his Xunjiang could not escape at all.
This undoubtedly reduces a lot of workload, while gradually exploring along the bones in the rock and soil. The two of them used the images just now to outline in their minds the image of a divine bird that was unable to sink to the bottom of the sea.
Gradually, Bai Mo discovered that the skeleton they originally found should be the location of the wings of this mysterious bird, and they circled counterclockwise before finally finding the head of this ancient creature. .
When looking at the projection of Bai Ze's picture of beasts, the two thought that the bird should not be big. But after some detection, they found that this ancient creature was almost twenty meters in size.
Although the heads of birds are not large, even if only the skeleton is left on the head of this dead creature, its huge appearance is enough to compare with the small villa where they live.
At the position of this ancient creature's head, a little above the center of its window-like eyes. Bai Mo finally saw an almost invisible pattern.
Bai Mo used his earth ability to carve out a small space in front of this pattern and imprinted it.
This pattern is very similar to the long hair-like feathers in the image, not too big or too small, about two meters.
Except for these lines, the two of them had nothing to gain. So he planned to return to the surface.
Now it is certain that this skeleton should be that of a bird totem.
Just based on the simple and blurry image and the lines, it was difficult for them to determine what this totem was, but it should have something to do with the undead system.
Before leaving, Bai Mo gave it all his remaining five slave-level spirits.
I hope this magical bird can really live another life by absorbing souls.
(End of this chapter)