171: World Tentacles

Li Ke's figure silently hovered above Charles Manor.

He looked down, and as far as his eyes could see,

a dense forest had completely engulfed the entire manor.

During this period,

the Soul Summoning Forest was still expanding at a rapid pace.

Now, it had completely surrounded the entire Charles Manor.

If someone from outside the Oak Tree Territory were to come here,

they would probably only think that this was originally a vast primeval forest.

It would be hard to imagine that a noble manor was hidden deep within the forest.

“This also serves as a good cover…”

“Later, building a sect-protecting array based on this Soul Summoning Forest would make it even more secure…”

Li Ke smiled and descended.

...

After returning to the manor,

Li Ke did not act immediately, but meticulously rested for a few days.

He completely absorbed the last trace of amber flower nectar from the crystal bottle.

He felt that his state had been adjusted to an unprecedented Peak.

Then, he took out the white skeleton from his sleeve.

The skeleton was already covered with spiderweb-Li Ke fine cracks.

It probably wouldn't withstand many more times of him entering the Garden of Sentient Beings.

“I must seize this opportunity.”

“The opportunity to directly draw from the World Origin is rare and hard to come by.”

Li Ke calmed his mind and gave instructions to Barton and Hatties.

He was going into seclusion for a period and told them to guard the manor well and not allow anyone to disturb him.

Subsequently,

Li Ke sat down cross-legged, and his eyes turned into a deep, dark black.

Countless tiny black Qi human figures emerged from his body, Li Ke wisps of black smoke, swarming into the white skeleton on his lap.

In Li Ke's already transformed Divine Soul perception, he could clearly see.

Inside the white skeleton, an invisible passage was slowly opening.

Deep within the passage was a colorful and beautiful five-colored light.

Li Ke's Divine Soul left his body,

without the slightest hesitation, transforming into a stream of light and plunging into it.

...

Upon entering the Garden of Sentient Beings again,

before him was still that familiar yet strange environment.

The sky was a murky gray, Li Ke a dust-covered curtain.

The distant waterfall, defying all logic, poured upwards, rushing into the sky.

On the ground, strange flowers of various forms bloomed everywhere.

Li Ke looked up.

Above, mists swirled, preventing him from seeing the gigantic multi-faced, multi-armed idol.

His current position should be somewhat below the idol.

It seemed that the white skeleton could only fixedly open an entrance to this specific area.

“He’s here… he’s really here…”

Beside him, several eerie blue flowers,

were still emitting faint, dream-Li Ke whispers.

Li Ke knew they didn't possess true sentience, so he ignored them.

Whoosh...

He directly transformed into a black wind,

and rapidly fled towards the edge of the Garden of Sentient Beings.

However, even though he clearly knew that,

this entire Garden of Sentient Beings was constructed on one of the giant idol's hands.

But no matter how he flew towards the edge, he could never reach the end.

“It’s a field domain again…”

Li Ke muttered,

his Divine Soul body floating in mid-air, overlooking the entire garden below.

“It seems I still have to destroy this place.”

The next moment,

from Li Ke's mouth and nose,

wisps of black Qi began to emanate.

These Qi resembled twisting whiskers, continuously swirling around him and rapidly expanding outwards.

“【Calling Devil · Grand Supreme Divine Wind】!”

Boom!!!

The black Qi swirling around his body suddenly swelled madly,

instantly transforming into terrifying black winds visible to the naked eye,

Li Ke a divine punishment, violently sweeping towards the Garden of Sentient Beings below.

“Ah ah ah…”

Below, countless flowers simultaneously emitted strange, piercing, noisy sounds,

countless dark gold vines, Li Ke awakened snakes, surged from underground, covering the sky and obscuring the sun as they lunged towards Li Ke in mid-air.

However, these incredibly tough vines,

once they came into contact with the raging black winds, were instantly scraped, cut, and then completely pulverized.

Finally, they turned into dust filling the sky, dissipating into nothingness.

Li Ke stood still at the center of the storm, clearly feeling that,

a strange gray-white power was quietly accumulating and settling within his Divine Soul.

【Power of Slaughter】.

Under the blessing of this power, which was almost a Law,

the Devilish Qi he released, its lethality against these dark gold vines, was increasing bit by bit.

Without limit, without end…

Boom!!!

Soon, in the Garden of Sentient Beings below,

large swathes of dark gold vines were completely erased.

The Nightmare Flowers buried underground, along with the idols they carried, were also forced to break out of the earth.

In the raging black wind, they couldn't even last a single breath before being ground into dust.

Only their interiors, slippery, twisted octopus tentacles, writhed madly in the strong wind.

Looking at these strange octopus tentacles,

Li Ke's expression became slightly more serious.

He didn't want to easily come into contact with these strange existences, which were suspected of having contaminated the entire Sea of Ancestors.

Fortunately, as large areas of Nightmare Flowers were destroyed.

The entire Garden of Sentient Beings began to shake violently.

Large chunks of soil collapsed downwards, cracked, and fell.

Revealing the gray-white stone base at the bottom of the soil.

It was, astonishingly, a gigantic hand shape carved from stone.

A familiar, irresistible immense pulling force came.

Li Ke's Divine Soul body then also rapidly fell downwards.

...

Whoosh...

A sense of weightlessness enveloped Li Ke's Divine Soul,

he continuously fell through the air.

In his vision, one Garden of Sentient Beings after another, held up by giant hands, rapidly swept past him.

He was getting closer and closer to the vast ocean below.

In the seawater, that colorful hue became increasingly clear and distinct.

When Li Ke's figure was relatively close to the waterfall that flowed upwards,

his whole body's Qi surged, and he was about to directly merge into the waterfall.

Suddenly, Li Ke's pupils contracted sharply.

He caught a glimpse, in the Sea of Ancestors below,

beneath the colorful seawater, an immensely vast shadow,

seemed to be slowly approaching in this direction.

That dark shadow, at an unknown depth underwater, was so vast that its boundaries could not be seen at all.

A chilling sensation originating from the depths of his Soul instantly enveloped Li Ke's mind.

Countless black Qi suddenly surged from his body, and his figure slammed forward,

instantly merging into the nearby inverted waterfall.

Boom!!!

An unimaginably powerful Impact impact instantly struck Li Ke's Divine Soul.

Li Ke felt his consciousness, along with the turbulent water flow, Ascending upwards at an unimaginable speed.

Just then, he seemed to vaguely sense something,

and subconsciously, he looked down again.

Buzz...

His entire Divine Soul trembled violently,

only to see from the source of the waterfall, in that colorful ocean,

an immensely large, deformed octopus tentacle was slowly extending out of the seawater.

It was moving along the edge of the waterfall, inch by inch, groping its way upwards.