Chapter 165: Soul Returns to the Deep Earth, Mysterious Skeleton

The four of them buried the element detector separately, guarded it for a while, and then took it out.

The information was handed over to Sikong Wen for reading. It didn't take long for Sikong Wen to read the survey information.

"I found the location of the soul seed. Fortunately, we came early, otherwise, at this rate, the soul seed would have fully matured and been exposed, and by then I would not be able to obtain it."

"So the Rock Turtle must have noticed something and is coming here."

Bai Mo turned his head and took a look at the dead Liuyan turtle.

Sikong Wen nodded in agreement and said.

"I will absorb it right here. There may be residual soul energy emanating from it by then. I'll trouble you to guard it for me."

Ye Xing nodded silently, with a firm look on his face, without saying a word.

"Don't worry, we'll help you watch from the outside." Bai Mo nodded slightly, then flew up with Ding Yumian and sat on the back of the Liuyan Tortoise.

Sikong Wen moved quickly. It didn't take long for him to find the location of the soul seed and start absorbing it.

Strands of pure earth element energy slowly spread out, attracting the monsters on the island, who were all slaves and warriors who could only rely on their instincts.

Bai Mo flicked his fingers lightly, and arrows of sound penetrated a hundred meters and easily took care of them.

He also used telekinesis to capture a few and stabbed them to death with the silver hairpin gun, but eventually he discovered that the spirits were indeed gone!

Just like those demons that were killed from time to time by the Silver Hairpin Spear, both their residual souls and their spirits were gone!

Bai Mo was thinking about everything. He remembered that before he came to this island, he could see the remaining spirits of the monsters that had been killed. First of all, he ruled out that his soul vessel was broken, because his vessel still contained spirits.

Secondly, he remembered the discovery that Ding Yumian had mentioned before, so he turned his head and looked at Ding Yumian.

"The discovery you mentioned before means that the spirits and residual spirits of these demons will disappear?"

"almost."

Ding Yumian nodded slightly, then shook his head, "They haven't disappeared. Although I can't see those spirits, I can sense their soul power."

"If they didn't disappear, where did they go?"

After Bai Mo said this, he suddenly reacted and stared at the ground under their feet.

"I can feel that all the soul power has been absorbed by the ground beneath our feet. This island must have something special."

Ding Yumian confirmed his idea, and at the same time a ball of pale flame ignited in her hand. With a flick of her hand, a patch of grass in the distance was burned to ashes.

"Also, I discovered that even ordinary plants like this one, after death, their weak soul power would 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, asked subconsciously, and then immediately denied it.

"No, the vibrations emitted by that soul seed are of the earth element, and it can guide souls and absorb the essence under my soul vessel. It should be the power of the undead element!"

After he finished speaking, his brows furrowed even tighter, and another question came to his mind, "How can this island have the power of the undead?"

"When we first landed on the island, I noticed that the souls of the demons you killed suddenly disappeared. I didn't pay much attention to it at first, but as we went deeper and strangled the demons, I found that the souls of all the lives we destroyed were absorbed by the ground."

Knowing that he might want to explore, Ding Yumian recounted her findings, "This power that seems to be related to the undead covers the entire island."

"I want to go downstairs and take a look." Bai Mo stared at his feet.

Ding Yumian showed an expression of not being surprised and nodded slightly.

"Wait until Sikong Wen finishes absorbing the soul seed. I'll go with you."

"good."

It didn't take long for Sikong Wen to absorb it successfully. Bai Mo told them about his discovery, which immediately attracted the attention of the two.

When he heard that Bai Mo wanted to explore underground, Sikong Wen immediately suggested that they go together.

"There are no holes or anything like that on this island. I'll help you dig a tunnel. Hurry up."

"No, I can use ground waves to go down, but I can't take too many people with me."

Bai Mo refused, and at the same time, dark golden earth elements gathered around him. A faint dark golden light spread from his feet upwards to cover his entire body, and then spread to Ding Yumian.

"Ground Wave - Patrol the Frontier!"

The two people covered in dark golden light sank into the ground like raindrops falling into the water, causing slight fluctuations in the ground.

"Oh my god! Level 5 ground wave!"

Sikong Wen stared in amazement at the two people who merged into the ground, surprised at Bai Mo's generosity.

The effect of level 5 ground wave is similar to that of level 5 wind track.

Patrolling the frontier allows earth mages to blend into the rock and soil, moving freely underground. As long as the magic power is sufficient, this state will not be exited.

However, unlike the ground wave teleportation that can carry five or six people at a time, the border patrol can only carry one person at most.

Bai Mo took out a spirit from the vessel of the dead soul and let it fall into the soil, but found that it was not absorbed.

Instead, it continued to sink downwards. The border patrol had a perception ability called ground vision, which allowed it to find the spirit it had released.

So the two of them, guided by this spirit, went deeper and deeper. After reaching a sufficient depth, the overly dense rock and soil greatly weakened their ability to patrol the border.

Bai Mo could only maintain this state by continuously providing more magic power so as not to be thrown away by the sinking spirit.

Suddenly, there was a flash of light, and the spirit in front of him disappeared.

Hmm? Bai Mo was slightly stunned, then he accelerated and moved forward.

Suddenly, they felt that there was no space around them. The two figures became heavy, as if they had suddenly fallen into a pit, and they rolled to the ground without warning.

Bai Mo hugged Ding Yumian and stood up, but his hand that was not placed in the right place was slapped away.

He pretended to know nothing, turned his head and looked around, but it was all dark. He saw nothing, not even a spirit.

"Bang!"

A flame 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. There is only five meters of space for them to walk upright.

The surrounding land is black, and on an earth wall, a section of white stone protruding from the wall is particularly eye-catching.

Bai Mo and Ding Yumian looked at each other and went towards the white stone.

The space of the cave near the white stone was very low, and the two of them had already squatted down in the process of passing by. They took a few more duck steps before they arrived in front of it.

When they got closer, they saw that the white stone was not completely white, but had fine dark red lines on it.

When it first fell, neither Bai Mo nor Ding Yumian sensed any danger or life breath, so Bai Mo knocked on the white stone casually.

The stone has a cone-like shape, but the tip is very round and the whole thing is somewhat flat.

The sound produced by the knocking was carefully detected again by getting close to the white stone, but nothing was found.

"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 spirit and let it fall into the air.

As soon as this spirit appeared in the air, it seemed to be attracted by a huge force and merged into the white stone at lightning speed.

"The spirit was absorbed by it. It seems that this thing did it. But how could such a small stone cover the entire island?"

Bai Mo raised his eyebrows and touched the surface of the stone with some doubt. It felt cold, as if he was touching glass in winter.

Suddenly, an extremely faint stream of light, which seemed extremely inconspicuous under the illumination of the bright pale flames held by Ding Yumian, flashed across the stone.

The two of them looked at each other at the same time. After making sure that they were not dazzled, Ding Yumian said with some doubt.

"I just felt a faint mental fluctuation on it, which is similar to that of ordinary plants."

"I found that this doesn't seem to be stone. I don't sense any breath of earth element on it."

The two voices sounded almost at the same time. After hearing each other's words, both of them looked at the white thing, thinking about something.

"If it's not a stone, then..." Bai Mo was about to ask if it was 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 is glowing."

Ding Yumian also noticed the vibration of the totem device at this time, as if it was about to change. She immediately remembered the time when she took Bai Ze to see the hollow willow.

Instantly with a thought, the power of Bai Ze's Hundred Beasts Picture was activated.

Then the Bai Ze totem device slowly flew up, and at the same time a mysterious white light lit up on the ancient patterns, connecting to the thing that looked like a white stone.

The light continued for a long time and there was no sign of it stopping, but there was no change at all.

"What kind of creature do you think this might be?" Bai Mo guessed her thoughts and remembered what she said about the effect of Bai Ze's Painting of Beasts - it could materialize the scene before a living creature's death.

Ding Yumian nodded slightly, his eyes fixed on the totem device.

A long time passed, maybe an incense stick, maybe two hours, maybe half a day.

The light of the totem was still connected to the white unidentified object, but still nothing happened.

Just when Ding Yumian thought that he had made a mistake and was about to take back the totem, he saw the Bai Ze totem suddenly glow with light!

The strong flowing light turned the totem into a two-foot-wide scroll. The light of the scroll continued to connect to the stone while slowly unfolding.

A faint white light mist like a fairy cloud spread above the fully unfolded scroll, and the two of them stared at the surface of the scroll intently.

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 blurry, and only the silhouette of the bird soaring in the sky is relatively clear.

It can be seen that the bird is about five meters tall, with a graceful body. The long feathers on its head, whose face cannot be seen clearly, are flying like long hair.

It was falling downwards, as if it was losing its strength and was about to fall into the sea, or as if it was fighting a life-and-death battle with the endless ocean.

The image only showed this scene for a few seconds before it suddenly shattered. There was no change in perspective like the last time when the hollow willow was printed.

The two could only conclude from this that the white thing exposed in the underground space should be the skeleton of the mysterious bird.

And why her bones appeared here.

"It seems that it possesses the power of the undead."

Bai Mo's gaze fell on the dark red lines on a piece of white bone in front of him. The dark red also represents the undead, but he had not thought about it in this regard before and had ignored it.

He just continued:

"Absorbing souls may just be the power it had before it died. However, I don't know how long ago this creature died. Its power after death can still cover the entire swamp island through a hundred meters of ground. I think it must have been very powerful when it was alive."

Ding Yumian nodded slowly, his eyes moving slightly as he added.

"There is another possibility. It is not dead. It is using the power of the undead to restore itself. It is accumulating strength and trying to wake up."

Bai Mo's face froze slightly, but he recovered quickly. Thinking of the scene before the creature died, he looked at Ding Yumian.

"Do you think this could be a totem beast?"

"I don't know. This bone doesn't emit totemic light." Ding Yumian shook his head.

"It may also be that it has been dead for too long and can no longer react. It can only rely on absorbing soul power to survive. After all, the soul power dropped by natural death on this island is not much."

"Maybe we can look for it." Bai Mo looked at the bone, thoughtfully.

"This exposed bone is very complete. There should be other parts of its body buried in the ground. Let's look for them one by one. If it is a totem, there should be totem marks or patterns or something like that."

"good."

So Bai Mo used the Patrol Technique again, and he hid in the rocks and soil along the direction of the protruding bone. During this time, he found that where these bones were, his Patrol Technique could not pass through at all.

This undoubtedly reduced a lot of work, and as they gradually explored along the bones in the rock and soil, the two of them used the image just now to outline in their minds the image of a divine bird that sank powerlessly on the seabed.

Gradually, Bai Mo discovered that the bone they first found should be the location of the wings of this mysterious bird, and they went around counterclockwise for a long time before finally finding the head of this ancient creature.

When they looked at the projection of Bai Ze's Beasts, they thought the bird was not very big. But after some exploration, they found that the ancient creature was about 20 meters in size.

Although birds' heads are not large, even if only the bones were left of this dead creature's head, its huge appearance was enough to compare to the small villa they lived in.

On the ancient creature's head, slightly above the center of its window-like eyes, Bai Mo finally saw an almost invisible pattern.

Bai Mo used his earth-related abilities to open up a small space in front of the pattern and copied it.

This pattern looks very much like the flowing feathers like long hair in the image, neither too big nor too small, about two meters.

Apart from these lines, the two did not gain anything else, so they planned to return to the surface.

Now it can be confirmed that this corpse should be that of a bird totem.

Just based on the simple and blurry image and the patterns, it was difficult for them to determine what this totem was, but it should have something to do with the undead.

Before leaving, Bai Mo gave it all of his remaining five slave-level spirits.

I hope this divine bird can really live again by absorbing souls.

(End of this chapter)