Chapter 973: Meeting Sark
The energy operates in an extremely different ways in Void style, Ripple style and the Repel style. The Void style creates a void that will not stay stable for even a fraction of second and create an explosion because of the impact of the energy particles trying to fill the void.
The ripple style tries to spread every energy particle that is present in a certain range creating a curtain rippling continuously.
The repel style tries to shift the energy particles in a bulk to a single direction.
All three styles have some similarities and differences at the same time. But one thing they have in common is that they move the energy particles. And when these three type of energy flows happen in the same body, at the same time starting from the same point. One must wonder what would happen if the energy from a single area is forced into different directions.
The person who experienced it would be in extreme pain as the energy parties that are attached to his body will try tear themselves from that very body.
And even if that person is a Middle-stage Transcendent stage cultivator of Astral Plane, it would still be painful. Not as life threatening or excruciating, but painful enough for the Saber Monarch and the Five elemental King to make another move and this time, the Saber Monarch stabbed the pole at the heart of that elder.
He knelt on the floor as he held his heart tightly and trying to pull that pole out of it. But it was not an easy task to do. Not when all the team mates came out.
Since the weaker elder was also effected and more injured than the other elder, Five-Elemental King alone was sufficient to deal with him. The remaining whole team went after the strong elder. Two shadow assassins, one crazy saber butcher and a Solar Fragment. That was enough to take that guy down after the poles did their job.
After making sure that he cannot attack them and laid unconscious and the weaker guy already dead, Sam came out.
He didn't ask the strong elder any questions, instead he used the chessboard to directly throw him in and go through the chess games so that he would mellow down.
Later he used the soul necromancy with the help of Specter and extracted the information from the dead elder.
As he did that, he felt extremely shocked for a moment trying to digest the information.
When the team members are asking him what happened, he didn't even bother to reply and calm down as he ran towards the path and knelt on the ground to use the observation ability on the road.
The first layer is normal compact soil and bed rock and the second layer is the mixture of normal soil and blue colored soil and the bedrock, the third layer is blue colored soil and fourth layer is what made him shocked.
He moved to a different position and checked the soil there and repeated the whole process in three different places.
Sam suddenly had a horrified feeling in his heart.
He is actually a quite cold person. He didn't think twice when he made swords out of the blood of three hundred members, he didn't even blink when he made a throne out of the bones of the people that annoyed him.
But even he felt horrified at what he saw.
The fourth layer is actually a mixture of blue colored soil and blue colored crystalline bones.
He never saw any bone like it. They are definitely crystalline bones and from the looks of it all kinds of bones from a skeleton are used.
And this went on through all of the forbidden paths leading to the forbidden zone.
In fact, the reason why these beasts do not attack the people travelling on the forbidden path is because of these bones and the blue colored soil.
Sam couldn't help but think deeply for a moment and when his team mates are getting anxious, he finally got out of the daze and reassured them that he is fine. But when they insisted, he told them the information he gained from the elder.
The forbidden zone and the forbidden paths didn't have a forbidden status from the start. In fact, the forbidden zone used to be the core headquarters of the Azure blood demons and the forbidden paths are the paths led the people from that headquarters to their different properties among the mountain that are full of resources.
And this changed around two hundred years ago, when the Azure mountain region opened up for the rest of the world and a city was constructed.
Before that, the Azure blood demons have two branches between them which is not a common knowledge among the other races. But as the time passed and generations went away, the difference is starting to become too apparent.
The first branch of the family who have the crystal bones and marrow along with Azure blood are becoming more and more powerful.
The second branch were getting jealous. So, when someone came and offered some help. The help was originally to make the second branch as powerful as the first by using a method, but the helper failed to mention the exact way he was going to do that and by the time they asked it was already too late.
The mysterious helper conducted a weird ritual in which he killed all of the first branch. The ritual was conducted in the core headquarters which is now a forbidden zone. Because the ritual was failed and something untoward happened, the area was forbidden to enter.
The mutant beasts on the forest surrounding the forbidden path and the forbidden zone are a result of the failure of the ritual.
So to protect themselves from extinction because of these beasts, they created an invisible barricade. The presence of the blue soil and bones, which are the soil soaked in the blood of the first branch members and the bones of the first branch, under the paths made the beasts not enter it which created a safe zone.
The Elder doesn't have more information on what is present in the ritual site. All he has is that the ritual site still holds the darkest secret of the Azure blood demon family and only family head and three of his trusted aides have access to that place.
Even though it is forbidden for the rest of the clan, the four of them can go and use some hidden power there to save the family from emergencies.
As he said all of this to the team, even the team felt horrified.
Just how many people has to be killed to lay the route with their bones and there are fifteen routes approximately.
Sam hurriedly dug the layers of the soil and took out a crystalline bone from underground and closed the hole. He need to know how this works and why this works to do something.
Then, they started their journey to the forbidden zone.
The route is luckily not so long and by evening, they managed to reach an area with one stone house in the middle of it and apart from a circle around the house, the rest of it is covered with the trees which have Azure leaves.
As they walked forward, they could hear the beast roars coming from the different sides of the forest and couldn't help but be nervous.
"Don't worry, we can just escape with the dimensional drifter if push comes to cover."
Only after that did they feel relieved knowing that they do have some escape means.
They went into the stone house, but there was nothing inside the house. It is just a normal empty stone house.
Just when Sam wanted to check every nook and cranny, they noticed some presence around them and when they came out of the house, they could see a bunch of beasts surrounding it. Except for a circular gap between them, the beasts surrounded them, even the return path was blocked.
But it was not completely safe, because the beasts can do some ranged attacks and Sam and his team went back in and got ready to leave.
There are too many beasts and at the rear they could feel some extra strong presences that is making them nervous.
They decided to visit the place once again after they got some new information, but right after Sam took the dimension drifter, the beasts started retreating.
When they came out once again and watched, they saw the beasts clearing a path for Sark to come forward and when he reached the stone house and looked around the beasts left.
Sark looked at the group of people and grew vigilant, but when he saw Gran who is in her cloaked outfit and Sia standing right beside her he let his guard down a bit.
"Why are you guys here?"
He asked weakly before he fell unconscious.