Master of Strange Dao

Chapter 1735 - 468: Earth Cage, Petrification (6k)_2

Moreover, the environment here is quite special; previously during battles, the ritual space wasn't damaged at all.Trying to destroy it might be somewhat difficult here.

I fear I won't be able to study it thoroughly anytime soon.

Once you arrive at the Southern Sea, just find Dadui's people, and they'll handle arrangements."

Peeling took the jade bottle, gave a slight nod, left a message of take care, and turned to leave.

Only Yu Ziqing was left alone. Yu Ziqing turned around, approached the entrance of the ritual space, and patted the wall.

The stone wall here, he didn't know what material it was made from, was incredibly hard and had extreme resistance to various magic.

If it were easily destroyed, it would not have survived until today.

This ritual space, used as an earth cage, was really too useful.

Once the sacrificial altar was activated, ritualing could begin without even needing a blood sacrifice. Just connect to a powerful deep sea strange, and it would actively help maintain the ritual.

Moreover, adjustments and repairs were already done by others before.

Yu Ziqing really wanted to study this thoroughly, but he himself admitted that thoroughly understanding this thing might take at least a year or two.

So what to do?

The only way to conveniently study it without affecting his matters was to directly excavate this ritual space and carry it with him for use.

Yu Ziqing extended a palm, using his hand as a knife, and retreated along the edge toward the passage.

Retreating, he thrust his palm toward the stone wall.

The wall material was extremely special, not only exceedingly hard, but after forcing his hand in, he could feel a toughness that surpassed its hardness.

The deeper he probed, the tougher it became, with increasing resistance.

Notably, at the edge of the ritual space, this force was at its strongest, but retreating down the passage, the peculiar toughness rapidly diminished.

After retreating three meters, he thrust again, and his entire hand could easily pierce the stone wall.

He immediately started working with both hands, constructing a three-dimensional model in his mind, plotting an excavation route.

From the ritual space as the center, radiating outward three meters, was his excavation path.

He continued bare-handedly excavating the stone wall, digging deeper, and unexpectedly, the excavation grew increasingly challenging.

Originally intending to carve out a three-meter thick shell to carry away the entire ritual space.

Unforeseen, midway through excavation, the structure grew more complex, the toughness of the bizarre stone walls increased, and some areas had hardness and toughness even higher than the ritual space's borders.

Moreover, upon digging into those areas, the previously emerging ominous aura gradually started to permeate further.

After forcibly digging several meters through the extremely hard area, a dense ominous aura surged towards Yu Ziqing.

A significant amount of ominous aura gushed like a fountain, continuously erupting.

Yu Ziqing frowned slightly; for someone else, being faced with such a dense ominous aura might result in bad luck for ten years.

Against the ominous aura, he continued to dig, simultaneously gathering the ominous aura and directly absorbing it as power.

When the fountain-like ominous aura gradually weakened, and his Yang God couldn't absorb anymore, his spirit platform twitched, seeming to hear something in the void.

He calmed himself quietly for a moment but heard nothing, thus resumed digging.

So, just like that, taking on a human form like an excavator, he dug persistently for half a month, wrapping the entire ritual space and directly excavating it out.

With a wave, he cast the foundational Sleeve Universe, watching the entire ritual space shrink rapidly, ultimately becoming a person-head-sized, irregularly shaped stone sphere, falling into his sleeve.

With the ritual space removed, Yu Ziqing saw clearly, apart from the passage he entered, several other passage entrances emerged.

One of them was continuously emitting ominous aura.

Facing the ominous aura, just as Yu Ziqing reached the passage entrance, the sensing in the void reappeared.

This time, the sound was especially clear.

A fragment of information entered his mind.

"Damn you!"

Yu Ziqing froze on the spot, gazing ahead at the entrance continuously spewing ominous aura. As he stepped forward, the sound echoed again.

"Damn, damn, I'll damn you!"

A string of simple, rough swear words exploded in his mind. Yu Ziqing, now entirely certain, realized indeed there was a conscious being here.

Yu Ziqing remained silent, retreating to the vast open space, continuing to absorb the ominous aura.

As time passed, the ominous aura diminished, and the voice cursing in his mind grew clearer, and the entity's consciousness seemed to increasingly awaken.

As the curse words evolved from repetitive phrases to an ever-expanding variety, without repetition for half a day.

This left Yu Ziqing in awe; the curses grew harsher, without repeating once for half a day, full of emotion; this consciousness was undoubtedly very clear and possessing substantial spiritual wisdom.

No need for excessive speculation; it was apparent the dense ominous aura suppressed the entity's consciousness, and its spiritual wisdom.

Once the ominous aura from the passage flowed like a gentle stream, Yu Ziqing ceased absorption.

"Have you cursed enough? If you keep cursing, I'll lose my temper."