Chapter 1917: The Voice in the Dried-Up Well!
Translated by: Hypersheep325
Edited by: Michyrr
The Arab noble lowered his head and respectfully said, “It really did come from here. On that day, we accompanied His Majesty here and saw it with our own eyes.”
Buzz!
The noble had barely spoken when Wang Chong sent a burst of Psychic Energy into the well.
The discovery of the ruins in the Sassanid had triggered a side mission from the Stone of Destiny, the ‘Riddle of Destiny’, but there had been no further progress on it.
Wang Chong sensed that he might find something this time.
But a few moments later, Wang Chong frowned.
“How is it so deep?”
After absorbing the High Priest’s Psychic Energy, he had reached a truly terrifying level of Psychic Energy, almost at the peak of the entire world. Yet even after sending his Psychic Energy down five thousand meters, he hadn’t reached the end.
In addition, the deeper he went, the greater the resistance he encountered, and the slower he could advance.
“What a powerful Psychic Seal!”
Wang Chong’s brows creased.
The mental domain was much more developed in the west than the east. At the very least, a civilization of Psychic Energy practitioners had flourished here once. Much of the knowledge on the mental domain Wang Chong had obtained from the High Priest had come from this civilization.
It was not surprising that this well’s bottom had such a powerful Psychic Seal, but if this was the case, Wang Chong could not find out what was within.
“Nightmare Beast, have you noticed anything?”
Wang Chong communicated with the Nightmare Beast’s core.
After a few moments of silence, the Nightmare Beast replied, “The distance is too great, so I can’t make out anything in detail. But I can sense that there really is something down there.”
After absorbing the Psychic Energy of hundreds of thousands of people in the war, the Nightmare Beast had become extremely powerful, but not even it could ignore the effects of that Psychic Seal.
“I’ll go down and take a look!”
His brows locked together, Wang Chong considered his options and quickly decided to go down.
“Wait!”
At this moment, Zhangchou Jianqiong called out and reached out to stop Wang Chong.
“We have no idea what the situation is down there, so don’t rush to go in! We need to at least investigate a little. You, find a few people to go down and take a look.”
Zhangchou Jianqiong turned to the Arab noble who had led them here.
Everyone immediately understood.
They were in a foreign land, and it was impossible to say what sort of schemes the Arabs might be plotting. Were they really showing them the way or just leading them into a trap?
Moreover, even if this really was the place, it was also a place that had contained the terrifying Ifrit. It was probably no heavenly paradise down there. There could be other dangers hidden within, so it was best to send a few people ahead of them.
The Arab noble did not have the right to refuse.
Whoosh! Whoosh!
A few moments later, two Arab generals dragging long ropes jumped into the well and began to descend.
The ropes were extended longer and longer. Everyone carefully listened, but the well remained quiet.
“It seems that there’s no problem!”
Zhangchou Jianqiong turned and glanced at the others.
As Wang Chong had ordered, both ropes had already gone past five thousand meters. The Psychic Seal had only been able to block out mental probing, and it had no effect on those two generals.
Given how long the pair had been down there, it was clear that it was safe inside.
“Ah!”
But Zhangchou Jianqiong had barely spoken when a miserable scream came from the well.
In the blink of an eye, the two ropes went slack, and the sounds from the well vanished.
The air almost froze, and everyone’s face turned grim.
The two generals had both been at the Imperial Martial realm, but they had been killed without the slightest chance to resist. The well was clearly more dangerous than they had imagined.
“I’m going down!”
Wang Chong’s eyes flashed as he prepared to go in.
“Wang Chong!”
“It’s fine! In this day and age, there are few traps that can hold me down! Even if there’s danger, I can react to the situation and promptly pull out!” Wang Chong indifferently said.
His casual words were tinged with a despotic aura. Wang Chong was at the Subtle realm, far above the Great Generals present. He had even killed the World-Destroying Ifrit.
There were truly few things in the world that could threaten him.
After a few moments of silence, Zhangchou Jianqiong gave up on his efforts to stop him.
Swoosh!
Wang Chong jumped into the well.
It was so dark in the well that if one stretched out their hand, they would lose sight of their fingers. And it was still unknown just how deep the well was.
Wang Chong spread out his Psychic Energy and then began to jump between the walls of the well as he swiftly made his way down.
Five hundred meters! Eight hundred meters! One thousand meters!
Wang Chong descended very quickly, and he had soon reached a depth of more than two thousand meters, where light could no longer reach.
After some thought, Wang Chong took out a luminescent pearl, holding it in his palm as he descended.
Three thousand meters.
“So hot!”
Wang Chong turned serious. He could feel an intense wave of heat coming from deep underground.
Four thousand meters!
Five thousand meters!
Wang Chong finally reached the ends of the ropes. The temperature of the air had increased by forty-some degrees. This was where the two Arab generals had disappeared.
Wang Chong could clearly sense the Psychic Seal disrupting his mental senses.
The power of a formation!
Wang Chong slightly frowned.
This was the most troublesome of situations. Undoing the Psychic Seal would require destroying this entire underground region, which meant that Wang Chong could not continue downward.
Wang Chong used the Great Yinyang Heaven Creation Art to attach himself to the wall. While attached to the wall, he warily watched his surroundings while focusing his Psychic Energy on the ends of the two ropes.
With the light of the luminescent pearl, Wang Chong could still see within the darkness.
The knotted fibers of the ropes had completely come apart at the end.
It was like a sword had neatly cut right through the ends of the ropes.
Buzz!
Wang Chong’s pupils constricted, an intense danger welling up in his mind. Even if there were another Ifrit in this well, Wang Chong would not have found it strange.
But it was clearly a weapon that had sliced the ropes.
Creee!
A piercing and deafening shriek suddenly came from the depths of the well, the source beginning to rapidly approach Wang Chong.
“Master, be careful!” the Nightmare Beast nervously cried out in his mind.
Swish!
A moment later.
The shriek still sounded far away, but only two to three feet away from Wang Chong, there was a cold flash of light hat silently slashed at Wang Chong like a lightning bolt.
The power of this strike was so great that even Wang Chong felt danger. It was far above that of a Great General.
Wang Chong could sense that this was because some special method had been used to focus all of this heaven-rending energy onto the edge of this weapon.
Not even Wang Chong and all his Stellar Energy could block it. Being struck would result in the instant separation of his head from his body.
“Greater Void Step!”
Without the slightest hesitation, Wang Chong used this movement technique to disappear.
At the same time, Wang Chong turned his palm and unleashed a wave of Stellar Energy at the weapon.
Bang!
But despite the close distance and Wang Chong’s cultivation, the attack missed. The energy slammed into the wall of the well and caused countless bits of stone to fall down from above.
“So fast!”
Wang Chong’s eyes widened, his gaze turning grim.
At Wang Chong’s level of cultivation, he had an exquisite control over every strand of his energy. For his foe to dodge Wang Chong’s counterattack at such a close distance meant that his opponent was even faster than him.
It had been a long time since Wang Chong had faced such a frightening foe.
Buzz!
On the surface, Zhangchou Jianqiong and the others were all startled by the massive shock.
“What intense vibrations!”
“Wang Chong’s encountered a strong foe!”
“Let’s go down and help him!”
Everyone became nervous.
“Hold on!”
A firm and steady voice stopped them.
“These are just vibrations. If he needed help, the King of Foreign Lands would send a signal. Moreover, the King of Foreign Lands is the strongest of us. I am confident he has the strength to deal with the situation below.
“If we carelessly descend, we might hold him back instead of help him,” Wang Zhongsi sternly said.
Everyone fell silent.
It was true. They did not know the situation, and in the narrow confines of the well, trying to help Wang Chong might only add to the chaos.
……
At this time, the air was also tense within the well.
There was a shower of sparks as that sharp blade slashed against the wall, clashing with the formation energy in the well and leaving behind a long scar.
Roooar!
There was a roar, and then a flash. That energy rapidly vanished from Wang Chong’s senses, moving with incredible speeds.
“Mark! …Bring it…”
Wang Chong heard a hoarse voice coming from underground, as if it had not spoken in some time, and then it faded away.