Continuing to guard the outer edge of the source of darkness, more and more dark creatures are emerging from it, and their strength is growing ever stronger.
Three months later, fourth-tier creatures finally began to emerge from inside. Although their numbers were small, they were enough to make Ye Chen take the situation seriously.
The passage between the source of darkness and the external plane is like a gap in a small world. The leakage of dark energy and the emergence of dark creatures will gradually alert the surrounding dark creatures and make more and more dark creatures aware of it.
So nobody really knows when the high-level dark creatures will appear. It might take several years or even more than a decade, or it might just happen that a breach is discovered and they emerge.
However, the appearance of fourth-order dark creatures at least indicates that this passage has begun to gradually come into the sight of higher-order dark creatures. Once the ruler discovers it, he will begin to tentatively emerge from it.
Of course, this source of darkness could also be a contingency plan left behind by the dark creatures. In that case, it's hard to say whether the other side will be able to escape so easily.
Since the first fourth-tier dark creature emerged, it was as if a switch had been flipped, and more and more fourth-tier dark creatures came out, only to be killed by Ye Chen and Jian Mengyi in the starry sky.
However, the deaths of so many dark creatures did not lead to a decrease in their overall numbers; on the contrary, they increased. At first, only a few thousand might emerge each day, but later the number gradually increased to tens of thousands, then hundreds of thousands, and now the number of dark creatures emerging each day has reached two to three hundred thousand. The pressure on Ye Chen and Jian Mengyi is also constantly increasing.
Fortunately, it's just a matter of quantity at present. Ye Chen's large flock of fire crows is enough to solve the problem. Moreover, there aren't many fourth-tier creatures, averaging only a few dozen per day, but their numbers are steadily increasing.
"At this rate, it doesn't seem like a premeditated attack by the Dark Source!" Jian Mengyi said, looking at the darkness in the starry sky with a puzzled expression.
If it were premeditated, the high-level dark creatures inside wouldn't have come out one by one to their deaths; instead, they would have already assembled a massive army and charged out with unparalleled strength.
"Could it be that the dark god inside hasn't hatched yet?" Ye Chen looked puzzled. The high intelligence of dark creatures starts from the seventh-order demigod level. At most, a sixth-order creature can rule its own race, but it is impossible for it to command all dark creatures.
Most importantly, although mid-level dark creatures possess intelligence, they cannot suppress their instincts and desires. As long as they sense a strong life force in the outside world, they will inevitably rush out if there is no dark god suppressing them.
"It's not impossible, but we can't just go in and take a look, can we?" Jian Mengyi thought about it carefully, and then said helplessly.
The source of darkness cannot withstand the spatial fluctuations they enter. Its self-protection mechanism will cause the entire space to collapse, at which point all the dark creatures will rush out at once, and that will be the real disaster.
"Let the clans wander around outside all the time, attract as many as possible. I don't believe those high-level dark creatures can sit still! Later, have Baozi and the others leave a group of goblins here as well. There are a huge number of low-level clans, let's see if they come out or not!" Ye Chen said irritably. He was torturing low-level dark creatures every day, and his merit points were pitifully low. It was a thankless task.
"good!"
The two sent out their respective Families to live around the Dark Source. They even borrowed a lot of goblins, red-crowned birds, and harpies from Fatty and Zhou Wenxuan. Tens of millions of Families surrounded the Dark Source, making for a spectacular scene.
Fortunately, there weren't many lords around, and even those who knew about it wouldn't interfere. At most, they would ask if he needed help. Ye Chen had been here for over ten years and still had the prestige he deserved. Moreover, the source of darkness was not a place that those low-level lords could reach.
If Ye Chen didn't possess the seventh-tier demigod-level Zhulong, Hua Xiyu wouldn't have dared to let him come here to fight; that wouldn't be a benefit, but rather suicide.
The appearance of a large amount of life force did indeed have a certain impact on the dark creatures in the Dark Origin. More and more dark creatures emerged from it, and the proportion of fourth-order creatures was also rapidly increasing.
A week later, the number of fourth-tier dark creatures emerging from it each day had reached over a thousand, and it was still growing rapidly. In just one month, tens of thousands of fourth-tier dark creatures were emerging from it every day. At the same time, the first fifth-tier dark creature finally emerged.
It was a fifth-tier ice demon spirit, a demonized elemental creature with extremely strong control over magic power. It was also extremely sensitive to all kinds of abnormal auras. It was precisely because of this that it was able to be the first to sense the life aura in the starry sky and emerge from the source of darkness.
Killing the Frost Demon Spirit wasn't too difficult for Ye Chen; a fifth-tier dark creature wasn't something he took seriously. But this was a beginning, or rather, a signal. In the following days, more fifth-tier creatures emerged, and their numbers gradually increased.
"Brother Chen, we've found it! We've discovered a hidden spatial node in the MY8554 star system. It's still uncertain whether the Dark Origin exists inside. There are too many spatial layers between us, so it's probably difficult to determine in the short term!" Fatty suddenly sent a message, along with the coordinates of a star system. He had indeed found the hidden spatial node.
"Difficult to determine? There must be quite a few hidden spatial nodes like this, right? Is there anything special about this one?" Ye Chen asked, puzzled. With layers upon layers of space, there are countless hidden spatial nodes. It shouldn't be necessary for an uncertain spatial layer to come and tell him about it.
“But we can sense dark energy within this spatial node!” the fat man said solemnly. The fact that dark energy could be sensed meant that this node must be related to dark creatures. Even if it wasn’t the origin of darkness, there must be something else involved.
Hearing this, Ye Chen remained silent for a moment before speaking again, "Slow down the exploration of other places for now, and try to find out exactly what's inside this spatial node. We have enough time this time, so we can explore slowly. Also, I'll go find Hua Xiyu and see if there are any other people who are proficient in spatial matters that we can borrow!"
The fat man nodded and hung up the communication. Ye Chen found Hua Xiyu and explained the situation. He learned that there was other dark energy hidden in the spatial nodes. Hua Xiyu was also very troubled. This could be said to be the most difficult thing to detect. Almost all the outbreaks of dark energy in the star field started from such spatial nodes.
“I will send a group of people back to you, but this thing is not easy to search, so just do your best!” Hua Xiyu said.
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