136: Ancestral inheritance

At this moment, outside,

On the Flame Gold Platform,

Tara’s mutation had completely spiraled out of control.

Beneath her ribs, her flesh and blood tore open again, and three pairs of bloody wings burst forth from her body.

A total of six pairs of wings thrashed wildly behind her, stirring up a dense, almost tangible, purple mist of desire.

“Bang! Bang! Bang!”

Under the impact of this extreme desire,

all the twisted creatures in the laboratory went mad.

They struggled and crashed violently in their respective cages, with thick blood flowing from all seven of their orifices.

It seemed as if the flame of life within them had been pushed to its limit,

and soon, after a series of violent spasms,

they all exhausted their energy and collapsed, dying one by one.

“Crack… crack…”

Around the Flame Gold Platform,

the inscribed iron armor array runes,

finally succumbed to the strain, emitting a crisp cracking sound and disintegrating inch by inch.

“Flap! Flap! Flap!!!”

Tara’s completely mutated body shot into the sky,

circling back and forth above the laboratory.

Her face had already grown a bird’s beak, making her original appearance almost unrecognizable.

Yet, her naked body became even more curvaceous and alluring, filled with extreme temptation.

“Yaa… yaa…”

Tara let out a hoarse shriek from her mouth,

and an invisible, eerie fluctuation permeated the entire underground space.

Hatties’s eyes narrowed, and the black spirals in his eyes spun frantically.

His figure flickered, instantly appearing above the mutated Tara, and he slammed a palm onto her head.

“Spiral!”

“Crack… crack…”

A series of terrifying bone-twisting sounds rang out,

and the six pairs of flapping wings on Tara’s body were instantly twisted by an invisible immense force, contorting into a braided mess.

“Yaa yaa yaa…”

The intense pain caused Tara to let out a shrill shriek,

and her body fell from the sky,

but the mutation of her Physical Body did not stop at all; instead, it showed a tendency to intensify.

Beneath her flesh and blood, more and more greenish-black feathers continuously pierced out,

and the purple mist overflowing from her body became even denser, almost obscuring her entire form.

Even Hatties, standing nearby, felt a strong surge of Qi and blood.

At the same time,

beside the Flame Gold Platform not far away, Li Ke still sat cross-legged.

His eyes were tightly closed, and he remained motionless, as if his Divine Soul was no longer within this shell.

Barton had already stepped forward when the change occurred, shielding Li Ke’s figure behind him.

From his aged figure, countless indescribable grotesque auras ascended,

and some formless, shapeless things filled the surrounding space, preventing the intrusion of any power.

Even the external light, upon reaching the vicinity, inexplicably vanished, as if swallowed by something.

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In the Sea of Ancestors,

Li Ke’s consciousness was quietly observing Tara not far away.

Her Soul had already begun to show obvious signs of mutation.

This was because the mutation of her Physical Body in the outside world was too severe,

and it had begun to inversely corrode her Soul.

And Tara’s Soul seemed to have lost all consciousness,

still instinctively and frantically receiving the Legacy from her Bloodline Origin.

In Li Ke’s observation, her Soul form was peeling and stratifying,

the stable structure of her Three Ethereal Souls and Seven Corporeal Spirits was gradually disintegrating,

and one Ethereal Soul and two Corporeal Spirits had already completely transformed into shapeless purple mist, being assimilated little by little by the surrounding colorful seawater.

“Hmm?”

Just at this moment,

Li Ke keenly noticed that,

several currents in the seawater were silently surging towards him.

The aura of these currents subtly gave him a faint sense of familiarity.

He instantly understood that this might be the extremely thin extraordinary Bloodline circulating in the Bloodline of his original body.

These Bloodlines were originally too weak to meet the standard for entering the Sea of Ancestors.

But at this moment, because he had entered this place along with Tara,

these Bloodlines of the same Origin began to follow their instinct,

actively surging towards him, attempting to forcibly activate the extraordinary power within his body.

Li Ke’s mind stirred,

and his Soul instantly moved several meters in the current, dodging those currents.

He dared not accept such things that harbored unknown contamination.

In fact, he had already made up his mind:

after he got out, he would immediately use the True Spirit Blood Fusion Secret Method to dissolve all the extraordinary Bloodlines within this body.

Only after thoroughly understanding the root cause of the Bloodline disease,

would he consider the path of refining extraordinary Bloodlines.

Whether he could benefit from the Origin of this world depended on whether he could figure out the source of the contamination within it.

However, as Li Ke dodged,

those currents relentlessly surged towards him again.

Seeing this, Li Ke tried to fly upwards, wanting to directly break free from the constraints of this ocean.

However, as soon as his Soul floated up,

he immediately felt an irresistible immense suction originating from the entire ocean,

firmly pulling him down, preventing him from escaping.

“Plop…”

In just an instant, his Soul re-submerged into the seawater.

“This is… a rule.”

Li Ke understood in his heart,

Legacy was the rule of this Sea of Ancestors.

Any Soul entering this place would passively trigger this rule.

Either activate one’s own extraordinary Bloodline.

Or accept the Bloodline Legacy from the ancestors.

This was a rule from the Origin of a world; ordinary beings were powerless to resist it.

Seeing several currents of extraordinary Bloodline continuing to surge towards him,

about to rush into his Soul and, following the subtle connection, enter his body.

Li Ke’s expression became solemn.

Since he dared to follow in, he was naturally not unprepared.

His Soul Origin was closely connected to the “demon-referencing tablet”,

any existence that wanted to trap his Divine Soul must first overcome the “demon-referencing tablet”.

Li Ke’s mind stirred,

the next instant, within his Divine Soul,

an ancient stone tablet trembled slightly,

suddenly releasing a terrifying black aura, pushing away all the surrounding colorful currents.

“Whoosh… whoosh…”

However, after encountering resistance, the Sea of Ancestors seemed to become even more violent.

The surrounding seawater surged violently, stirring up monstrous waves,

Li Ke a tsunami, pressing down on him.

“Rise!”

Li Ke let out a low cry,

his Soul, under an unseen pull,

suddenly broke free from the seawater and shot into the sky!

At the moment of flying up, he casually grabbed Tara’s Soul.

At this time, Tara’s Soul mutation was already very severe, with two Ethereal Souls and five Corporeal Spirits having lost their form, transforming into a dense purple mist.

However, under the terrifying suppressive force of the “demon-referencing tablet”,

the mutation of Tara’s Soul and spirits instantly stopped, as if frozen.

Whoosh…

Li Ke, carrying her Soul,

transformed into a black light, ascending straight upwards.

As his vision continuously rose, the visible range became wider and wider,

Li Ke finally saw the full scope of this Sea of Ancestors,

it was a vast and boundless colorful ocean, with no boundaries around it, only the infinite Chaos Void Realm.

Suddenly, Li Ke’s gaze sharply condensed.

As his field of vision expanded, he then saw that,

beneath this boundless colorful seawater,

there seemed to be an incredibly huge black shadow, Li Ke some colossal creature coiled at the bottom of the sea, motionless.

Its form… resembled an octopus.

It was just that this shadow was simply too enormous,

almost occupying half of the Sea of Ancestors’s area.

Therefore, after entering the Sea of Ancestors, one was already within the coverage of this huge shadow,

and thus would not be aware of its existence, only perceiving it as the original state of the entire ocean.

“What is this thing? Could it be the root cause of the Bloodline disease…?”

A trace of doubt flashed in Li Ke’s mind.

And at this moment, as his Soul ascended,

the Sea of Ancestors below became even more violent.

“Boom!!!”

A large amount of colorful seawater surged together, forming a high crest, chasing towards Li Ke’s direction.

“Let’s go!”

Li Ke no longer lingered,

his Soul was enveloped in a dense black mist, with an ancient stone tablet faintly visible within the mist.

The next instant, he, carrying Tara’s Soul,

brazenly crashed through a hidden barrier, disappearing into the Sea of Ancestors.

“Whoosh… whoosh…”

After Li Ke left,

the colorful seawater gradually calmed down.

Deep beneath the sea, that unimaginably vast shadow,

one of its tentacles seemed to move slightly.