152: Tier 6 Nest - Heart of Darkness

"Not bad defense." Lin Yuan was slightly surprised. The physical defense of this Soul-Devouring Beast seemed much stronger than other exotic beasts of the same tier.

Just then, more Soul-Devouring Beasts lunged out from the shadows! At the same time, countless Brain-Devouring Slugs on the ground writhed and surrounded him, spraying viscous, mentally paralyzing acid from their mouthparts! The school of Soul-Absorbing Jellyfish in the air launched another mental shock!

Facing the encirclement, Lin Yuan no longer held back.

"heaven swallowing pagoda!"

A phantom image of the small pagoda appeared, and a heavy gravitational field expanded, suppressing the speed of the approaching Soul-Devouring Beasts and slugs.

"Soul Devouring Seal!"

Lin Yuan formed the seal again with his left hand, and a black mark appeared, increasing his power by 3 times! 38.1 million feathers of power gathered in his palm!

Instead of striking at the Soul-Devouring Beasts, he pressed his palm fiercely down toward the dense swarm of Brain-Devouring Slugs surging on the ground!

Boom—!!!

The terrifying Soul impact and power of death and wither, mixed with physical palm pressure and the damage bonus from the heaven swallowing pagoda's Devouring Origin, crashed into the slug swarm like an invisible meteorite!

Within the palm print's coverage, hundreds of Brain-Devouring Slugs didn't even have time to scream before their translucent bodies and the brain-like tissue inside were completely crushed and annihilated!

A huge palm-shaped crater, filled with mucus and minced flesh, was left on the ground!

Having cleared away the troublesome fodder, Lin Yuan locked his gaze onto the few Soul-Devouring Beasts that were bound by the heaven swallowing pagoda and whose speed had been greatly reduced.

The chaos heavenly extreme sword was unsheathed with a fierce force!

A greyish sword light lit up in the dim underground space, like the sigh of the Grim Reaper!

The sword light streaked across, containing 12.7 million feathers of power plus the 12.7 million feathers bonus from the heaven swallowing pagoda, striking precisely at the relatively fragile necks and joint connections of the Soul-Devouring Beasts!

Puchi! Puchi!

This time, the sword edge met no resistance! Amidst their terrified shrieks, the heads of the few Tier 5 Soul-Devouring Beasts flew off, and their massive bodies crashed to the ground!

【Killed Tier 5 Exotic Beast · Soul-Devouring Beast x4, merit points + 120,000!】

Having cleared the exotic beasts in this area, Lin Yuan, guided by a few Puppet jellyfish, continued deeper underground in the direction where the energy was most concentrated.

The passageway became increasingly narrow, and the mental pollution grew stronger, even beginning to manifest phenomena of spatial distortion—one would clearly be moving in a straight line, yet feel like they were going in circles; distances that should be close required a long time to traverse.

Finally, after passing through a narrow fissure covered in pulsating tumors, the view suddenly opened up.

This was an indescribably huge underground space! It was as if the entire mountain had been hollowed out.

The center of the space was not ground, but a bottomless "Black Pool" churning with viscous, gloomy liquid.

Above the Black Pool, a heart-palpitating nest was suspended!

It was not made of flesh and blood, but constructed from countless greyish-white, twisted, and entangled skeletons of humans and exotic beasts!

Covering the skeletons was a membrane that constantly pulsated and flowed with a dark purple halo, like the skin of a living creature.

The entire nest resembled a huge, constantly pulsating heart made of skeletons and dark purple membrane!

Every pulsation was accompanied by a low and grand "Thump... Thump..." sound, like a funeral bell from Hell!

A suffocatingly massive amount of gloomy Mental Energy, accompanied by intense spatial distortion fluctuations, radiated from this "Heart"!

Tier 6 Nest — Heart of Gloom!

Surrounding the skeletal heart nest, nine slightly smaller Tier 5 mental nests, constructed from pure Mental Energy and resembling dark blue crystals, were suspended.

Nine thick "umbilical cords" made of dark purple energy connected the sub-nests to the main nest, continuously transporting pure Mental Energy to it.

And beneath the skeletal heart nest, in the churning gloomy Black Pool, three huge figures slowly rose!

They were over fifty meters tall, their entire bodies covered in pitch-black, heavy bone armor inscribed with mysterious runes!

Their forms were like ancient giants clad in heavy armor, but their heads were smooth bone plates, lacking any facial features!

Only at the chest position was a huge, constantly rotating, multi-faceted crystal embedded, emitting a dark blue light!

In their hands, they held huge war halberds condensed from pure gloomy energy!

Just by standing there, the pressure they emitted caused the surrounding space to ripple constantly!

Tier 6 King-level exotic beast, Abyssal Guardian! combat power estimate: 50 million feathers.

Three! Three whole Tier 6 Abyssal Guardians! Guarding the central Tier 6 main nest — Heart of Gloom!

Meanwhile, on the intelligence screen at the center of the base, the light spot representing Lin Yuan's position had already penetrated deep into the deep red area, representing extreme danger.

His merit points and glory points were still growing crazily at the top of the list, but the speed of the numerical increase seemed to have slowed down.

Xing Li of the Destiny Temple stood before the intelligence screen, watching the light spot of Lin Yuan deep in the crimson area, her delicate brows slightly furrowed.

Her slender fingers moved rapidly in the void, and nine threads of destiny shimmering with starlight appeared and disappeared around her, attempting to deduce the danger of that area.

However, the moment the threads touched the crimson representing Lin Yuan, they trembled violently and snapped!

"Pfft!" Xing Li's face turned pale, she let out a muffled groan, and a streak of blood spilled from the corner of her mouth.

Her eyes were filled with incredible shock. "Origin... unfathomable... unpeekable... What a terrifying screen!"

She dared not attempt to deduce again, only watching that light spot deep in the crimson, her eyes looking extremely complex.

Underground abyss, before the skeletal heart.

Lin Yuan looked at the three Abyssal Guardians emitting terrifying pressure, and the pulsating Heart of Gloom in the center, his eyes extremely grave.

This was the real challenge! A Tier 6 Nest, worth 100,000 glory points! Its guardians were Tier 6 Abyssal Guardians with combat power as high as 50 million feathers! This was already close to the limit burst of top Prodigies like Luo Hou and Luo Shen.

The dark blue crystals on the chests of the three guardians lit up simultaneously, locking onto the intruder, Lin Yuan!

They did not roar, they did not shriek; only a suffocating, dead silence of killing intent permeated the air!

The huge war halberds of gloomy energy in their hands were slowly raised, the tips pointing at Lin Yuan!

The great battle was on the verge of breaking out!

Lin Yuan took a deep breath, and the power within his body began to surge. The nine remaining uses of the Myriad Heavens Life and Death Wheel for today would be the key to conquering this place!

"Come on!" Battle Intent surged in Lin Yuan's eyes, and his Origin Dharma Body's light flared, like a grey sun in this gloomy subterranean space!

The chaos heavenly extreme sword emitted an excited hum, pointing straight ahead!

Facing the terrifying pressure of the three Tier 6 guardians, Lin Yuan launched his attack fiercely!

"Myriad Heavens Life and Death Wheel!"

Without the slightest hesitation, he directly used this strongest amplification secret technique!

Hum—!

The phantom image of the wheel of life and death appeared and rotated within the Origin Dharma Body! Twenty dao patterns of Law shone brilliantly! Lin Yuan's total combat power instantly soared to 127 million feathers!

"Slash!"