166: Chapter 166 The King's Exploration
Myriad Demon Palace.
Mo Wen stood atop the skull of that gigantic skeleton, facing the eternal, gray, chilling wind of the Desolate Ruins, overlooking the Hundred Beasts Legion that had begun to take shape below.
The Black Rock Demonic Rhinoceroses were like moving black hills, quietly prostrate on the ground; every breath they took brought forth a dull, powerful sound of wind and thunder.
The Rotting Bone Hyenas were like the most diligent guards, patrolling back and forth beneath his "throne," vigilantly watching for any movement in the surroundings.
High in the sky, the White Bone Vulture King spread its massive bone wings, spanning over twenty meters, like an untiring reconnaissance plane circling beneath the clouds, taking in the scene for dozens of miles around.
Further away on the ground, it was like a surging black tide; those were tens of thousands of fearless Cave Worms. They were Mo Wen's most massive and most formidable... Engineer Corps.
All of this gave Mo Wen an extremely unreal feeling, as if he were playing a high-definition "real-time strategy game."
And he was the only player who had activated countless Golden Fingers.
"How does it feel, Your Majesty the Demon King?"
Lin Qingzhi's voice, carrying a faint smile, drifted softly from behind him.
She had changed into a clean, elegant white dress that appeared out of nowhere; although her face still bore a hint of sickly paleness, that poise of a female emperor who held the reins of strategy had already quietly returned.
Mo Wen turned his head, looking at her beautiful face that was still breathtaking under the gray sky, and couldn't help but pout, grumbling:
"It feels a bit unreal."
"I always feel like in the next second, these guys will collectively rebel because of unpaid wages."
Lin Qingzhi was amused by his grumbling, which was full of "modern" thinking.
Her phoenix eyes, shaped like the moon, curved into a beautiful arc.
"Rest assured, they dare not."
"To them, your will is the supreme oracle. Your glory is the only meaning of their existence."
Her voice, though soft, carried a certainty as if she were recounting some immutable truth.
Mo Wen looked at her confident expression and helplessly shrugged.
Fine.
Since you, this "HR Director," have said so.
Then I, this "hands-off manager," should also do some real work.
"We cannot stay here forever."
Mo Wen's expression became serious again.
"Although it is safe here for now, it is ultimately just a cage."
"We must find a way out of here."
"Or..." A cold glint flashed in his eyes, "find the thing that can completely restore you."
Lin Qingzhi looked at him, at those red eyes that were no longer "playing around," and her heart, which had long been stirred by him, uncontrollably rippled with gentle waves once again.
She nodded gently.
"What do you want to do?"
"Of course..." Mo Wen cast his gaze toward the vast Hundred Beasts Legion below, a smile full of "capitalist" exploitation curling the corners of his mouth.
"...Make them turn this entire place over, inch by inch!"
Following this first official instruction from Mo Wen, the "novice Demon King," which was full of "exploitation," the entire Myriad Demon Palace instantly began to operate with a roar, like a precise and massive war machine whose start button had been pressed!
"Roar—!"
"Screech—!"
"Hiss—!"
Countless roars and hisses, filled with "honor" and "fanaticism," resounded across the entire sky!
A three-dimensional, massive search network with almost no blind spots spread rapidly in all directions, centered on the Myriad Demon Palace!
The White Bone Vulture King, leading its equally numerous flock of White Bone Vultures, acted as top-tier "high-altitude reconnaissance planes," responsible for aerial surveillance!
Their eye sockets, burning with ghostly green fire, were like high-definition "thermal imaging" cameras, missing not a single trace of abnormal energy fluctuation!
The Rotting Bone Hyena legion and the Black Rock Demonic Rhinoceros legion acted like elite "ground armored forces," responsible for ground patrols!
They divided the entire area into countless grids by "squads," and then carried out a carpet-style search!
And the most terrifying ones were the Cave Worm legion, whose numbers were shockingly large!
Under Mo Wen's absolute "Bloodline Suppression," they had completely transformed into his most loyal and tireless "drilling engineers"!
Like the most advanced "tunnel boring machines," they thoroughly pierced through the hard rock layers and intricate caves beneath the ground, inch by inch!
High sky, ground, underground!
An unprecedented, true "three-dimensional" search network was launched in full swing across this Desolate Ruins that had been dead for eons!
And Mo Wen, like a brilliant "commander," sat quietly on his "throne," eyes closed, receiving real-time intelligence from his billions of "subjects"!
At this moment, his brain seemed to have turned into a "super quantum computer" with infinite computing power!
Countless "images" and "information" flooded into his Sea of Consciousness like a burst dam!
He "saw" a White Bone Vulture responsible for aerial reconnaissance shrink its ghostly fire-burning eye sockets as it flew over a seemingly ordinary canyon!
He "saw" that the air in that canyon was actually filled with invisible, slowly wriggling black cracks, like a broken mirror!
[Spatial Crack]!
The vulture was so scared that its soul flew away and its spirit scattered; it scrambled to mark this coordinate filled with the aura of "death," and then fled far away from that area!
He also "saw" a ground patrol squad consisting of ten Rotting Bone Hyenas pause their steps as they passed a black swamp emitting a faint bloody scent!
Their extremely keen sense of smell caught a terrifying aura from the depths of the swamp, filled with "destruction" and "ominousness"—an ancient aura!
That aura felt like the mere breath of an ancient demonic god who had been sleeping for billions of years!
Those ten, already fearless Rotting Bone Hyenas, felt their entire bodies trembling uncontrollably the moment they sensed that aura, to the point where they couldn't even stand!
[Ancient Battlefield Law Imprint]!
Lin Qingzhi's solemn voice sounded in his mind just in time.
"Supreme powerhouses of the 'Emperor Rank', or even the 'Emperor Realm', once fell there."
"After they died, their undying Law will merged with this world, turning it into an eternal... dead zone!"
"Let alone the current you."
"Even a true 'King Rank Level 9' powerhouse would only be ground to death by that undying Law if they dared to step into it!"
Mo Wen felt a chill in his heart upon hearing this!
He unhesitatingly marked that seemingly ordinary black swamp as a... "Forbidden Zone"!
Deadly spatial cracks, terrifying Law imprints, and various ancient ruins filled with unknown dangers hidden in the dark!
As the Hundred Beasts Legion continued its carpet-style search, the true terror and mystery beneath the iceberg of this death plane, known as the "Desolate Ruins," were revealed to Mo Wen bit by bit!