Chapter 289 Soul Spirit Continent The Soul Spirit Continent is an extremely divine...
The Soul Continent is a very mysterious place, especially for Lin Xiao and Ailiya, who grew up on the Sky Continent and the Magic Continent.
For them, the Soul Continent had always been a forbidden land of demons, as described by adults.
Arya and her brother were orphans. When she was young, her brother often used the Soul Continent to scare her, especially when she couldn't sleep at night.
For Lin Xiao, the Soul Spirit Continent was a story told by adults to coax children, just like how parents in Eastern countries on Earth used to scare children with a tiger-like grandmother who sucks her fingers.
Sang Zhitao described the Soul Spirit Continent in great detail in the original book.
This is a mysterious place, distinct from the other two continents.
It doesn't have the traditional Western fantasy style of Sky Continent, nor is it as full of fantastical technology as Magic Continent.
It is mysterious, gloomy, and full of the vastness and ruggedness of ancient times.
“I’m back…” Ying looked at the desolate land and sighed softly.
"Where are we now?" Sang Zhitao asked, frowning.
Ying crouched down, touching the ground with his hand, and after a long while stood up and said to everyone, "We are now in the Western Wasteland."
"Where is the World Fragment located?" Sang Zhitao nodded.
Ying lowered her eyes and thought for a moment, then shook her head: "I've reincarnated too many times, I don't remember."
"Will it be in the capital?" Aria asked.
Ying thought for a moment, then shook her head and said, "He shouldn't be here."
"You have absolutely no recollection of this?" Sang Zhitao pressed on.
Ying slowly shook her head: "No, in fact, if I hadn't seen the existence of world fragments on those two continents, I wouldn't believe that such a thing exists in this world."
"What do we do now?" Aria asked Sang Zhitao.
Sang Zhitao gazed into the distance.
This place truly lives up to its name as a wasteland; the earth is covered in ravines and yellowish-brown soil, yet not a single weed can be seen.
The silence was eerily profound; it seemed even the wind was unwilling to linger there for a moment.
“Go to the capital.” Sang Zhitao turned to look at Ying. “No matter what, there should be clues in the capital.”
Despite saying that, she still reached out and made a hand gesture in the air.
But the only response from Heaven here was silence.
"Okay." Ying silently agreed, then, after briefly determining the direction, pointed in one direction and said, "Over there."
Aria took out a teleportation scroll and said to Shadow, "Approximately how far? We can teleport directly using the scroll."
Ying glanced at the scroll in her hand, paused for a moment, and then said, "One estimate is not enough."
Aria couldn't help but raise an eyebrow, her chin slightly lifted, with a hint of smugness: "I've prepared a lot."
Ying glanced at the mechanical arm on her body with some surprise: "When was it modified?"
Aria, however, took a picture of the mechanical leg: "It was just replaced a couple of days ago, and it adds storage space."
"When will the Magic Continent be able to produce spatial artifacts?" Lin Xiao asked in surprise.
Aria stopped tearing the scroll: "If I remember correctly, the Academy of Sciences should have incorporated spatial items into the scroll."
Lin Xiao frowned and subconsciously looked at Sang Zhitao.
Sang Zhitao waved her hand dismissively: "I gave it to you."
Most of the items from other worlds cannot be brought to Earth, so they are not of much value to her.
After all, she already had a hidden space within her sleeve that could communicate with others, which was much more useful than spatial items with size limitations.
After hearing what she said, Lin Xiao nodded and didn't ask any further questions.
Aria glanced at Lin Xiao, her eyes slightly lowered, lost in thought.
Ying's gaze lingered between the two of them before finally settling on Sang Zhitao.
"What's wrong?" Sang Zhitao frowned slightly, looking at Ying with some confusion.
Ying chuckled lightly, a rare occurrence for her: "You almost dropped a powder keg in their hearts."
"Huh?" Sang Zhitao tilted her head and looked at him, completely misunderstanding what he meant.
Ying doesn't seem to intend to provide a detailed explanation.
He looked at Aria: "Let's go now."
Aria glanced at Lin Xiao, chuckled, and tore the scroll in her hand open.
A flash of white light, and the four figures were nowhere to be seen.
However, in the blink of an eye, the spot where they were standing was pierced through by a giant tentacle.
A black monster with tentacles crawled out of the yellow earth. It looked around and finally fixed its gaze on the direction of the capital.
"Hiss hiss hiss." It hissed at the sky for a long time before burrowing back into the earth.
Occasionally, one or two bulges appear on the yellow earth, much like the sounds of earthworms turning over the soil.
Before long, more than a dozen tentacles emerged from the ground and quickly entered the soil, following the first monster towards the capital.
They left behind gullies on this barren land, caused by the uprooting of the soil.
Those ravines were exactly the same as what Sang Zhitao had first seen.
Sang Zhitao was unaware that after her group left, they were discovered and followed by another group of creatures.
While she stopped to rest, she couldn't help but ask Ying curiously, "Everyone says that the Soul Spirit Continent is the home of monsters and a forbidden zone for life, so why haven't I encountered any monsters?"
Upon hearing this, Ying couldn't help but look around before shaking her head blankly: "I don't know either."
"When I left, the wasteland was teeming with monsters, and even outside many cities."
"There's also an unwritten rule here: all cities must be sealed off at dusk and protective magic activated to prevent nighttime monster attacks."
"Were all the monsters killed?" Aria used a water scroll to conjure water and took a sip.
Ying shook her head: "I've been gone for too long."
“Probably not,” Lin Xiao suddenly said. “I remember that these monsters sacrificed many high-level combatants from two continents to barely keep people outside the two continents.”
"Moreover, when we were guarding the tower, we could see that the monsters around the Soul Spirit Continent, which is across the sea, were constantly trying to break through the blockade."
"With the strength of the people of the Soul Spirit Continent, they shouldn't be able to wipe you out completely, otherwise you wouldn't have fled in batches back then."
"That doesn't make sense. If the monsters haven't been eliminated, why haven't we encountered them yet?"
Sang Zhitao looked at the forest not far away, with the soft chirping of insects and birds in her ears. It was a peaceful environment, showing no signs of being ravaged by monsters.
Ying also looked towards the forest. After a long while, he frowned and looked at Sang Zhitao with a somewhat unpleasant expression: "I feel like something's not right."
Sang Zhitao nodded: "Something is wrong."
The soft cracking sound of fallen leaves and dry grass being crushed reached their ears.
Ying reacted quickly, tearing off the bandages from her hand.
Ailiya jumped directly in front of Sang Zhitao to protect her.
Lin Xiao realized what was happening and quickly activated his earth magic to create a personal fortress for himself.
"You should also hide inside," Aria said, glancing at Sang Zhitao.
Sang Zhitao directly refused, "No, I don't need it."
Before Aria could react, birds in the forest ahead suddenly flapped their wings and took flight into the sky, each flap of their wings filled with the urgency of fleeing for their lives.
“They’re here.” Sang Zhitao couldn’t help but take a few steps back.
They completely ceded the battlefield to Shadow and Aria.
The trees in the forest fell to both sides as if they had been bulldozed.
Two ten-meter-tall monsters with tentacles appeared before everyone.
"It looks familiar..." Sang Zhitao looked at the black monster with a human body and octopus legs, and had a sense of déjà vu as if she were seeing the real thing.
She couldn't help but sniff, the familiar scent filling her nostrils, making her click her tongue in disapproval.
"Your Excellency, step back!" Aria tore two fire scrolls from her waist and threw them over.
When Sang Zhitao saw that some people in the Magic Continent wore magic scrolls around their waists, especially when she saw the demolition workers of the museum wearing them, she became curious about where Aria usually kept her scrolls.
She became even more curious after learning that the other person did not have any spatial items.
When she saw her take a regular-sized scroll out of her mechanical leg, she thought Arya didn't usually carry scrolls.
But now I finally see what the scroll she used looks like.
If the scrolls of the Magic Continent are adults, then their specially made scrolls are teenagers, and Aria's scroll is a newborn baby.
In the Magic Continent, regular scrolls are generally around 20 centimeters long, while the special scrolls that people usually carry are around 10 centimeters long.
Some fashion-conscious women even use these mini scrolls as bag charms.
But Aria's scrolls were miniatures, each less than ten centimeters long, only the size of a little finger and about the size of a AAA battery.
Arya usually wears a belt around her waist, which has many small pouches about the thickness of a thumb.
Sang Zhitao had always thought these things were batteries for the robotic arm, since they looked so similar.
But to everyone's surprise, these things were scrolls.
In just a short while, Aria had already pulled out more than a dozen fire-type weapons from her waist and thrown them out.
The series of explosions made Sang Zhitao feel as if she had encountered a barrage of rockets.
"I have this feeling of having a fear of insufficient firepower..." She gently pressed her teeth against her cheek.
A dozen or so explosions not only blasted trees into wood chips, but also sent plumes of smoke billowing into the air.
Soon the smoke cleared, and a dozen more monsters appeared behind the two monsters.
Seeing a dozen pairs of eyes, like light bulbs, staring intently at them, not to mention Sang Zhitao, Ying and Ailiya were so shocked that they took a few steps back.
"What's going on?!" Aria looked at the monster in front of her without a single scratch, and her face turned extremely ugly.
"I don't know, it's never been like this before!" Ying's usually calm expression cracked at this moment.
"Evolved?" Sang Zhitao looked at the dozen or so monsters in front of her, her eyes shining.
As soon as she spoke, Aria instinctively turned to look at her.
Why are you drooling, sir?!
Sang Zhitao quickly raised her hand to wipe the corner of her mouth, and when she felt that her hand was a little wet, she couldn't help but blush.
What were monsters that would be difficult for others to deal with were a veritable feast for her.
The last time she ate a fresh true clone was in the world of cultivation; ever since then, she has only been eating her own clones.
The hidden world in her sleeve was not a time stopper after all, and the remains of her clones were no longer fresh.
How could she not drool when she saw a fresh, living clone?
"No, there's not a scratch!" After throwing a few more lightning scrolls, Aria found that the monster still had no wounds and couldn't help but shout.
"They have evolved!" Shadow's mind flashed with images of the capital and people she used to know, and her face turned pale.
The monster before us has become so powerful. Do those cities and people who survived back then still exist?
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