Soon after entering that secret world, all the Feys who were moving cautiously suddenly stopped, startled. They turned towards a distant area and saw the skies bending as if a god were ripping Yin from the world.
An oppressive death Yin surged into that world, and everyone felt as if it penetrated their bodies, sucking their lives away. It lasted only seconds, and then it all vanished.
In the whale’s group, everyone saw Rehvka standing amidst them, eyes closed. Around her, it looked as though she wore a long black dress like death itself, spreading over the ground for nearly five meters. On her forehead, the heroic rune had no trace of golden hue; the rune appeared as a dark and devouring void.
Upon activating her manifestation, Rehvka seemed like the incarnation of divine death. This power was almost fully complete; if she wanted, her manifestation would be ready. But like Ruri and Corin, she aimed to merge her manifestation with her Dao and complete it. Having just one manifestation was too small a goal for her; she wouldn’t allow herself to lag behind her master’s two disciples.
When she opened her eyes, they were like a black abyss. She turned to the whale, who nodded. Then her hands moved, and a dark cloak enveloped everyone around her. Immediately, they were shrouded in Yin, becoming completely hidden.
They couldn’t see each other, but connected to her, they could feel and communicate mentally. They moved together and swiftly reached the second region. These golems, even in the mortal realms, were difficult to handle. In the second region, with them at the divine level, if the group were attacked, they would have to retaliate with everything they had.
’Don’t be so pessimistic,’ Bruno mentally spoke to Alm, who was clearly furious. ’The sect clearly encourages disciples not to venture beyond the first region. Since powerful cultivators can’t enter this world, even the sect itself probably has no idea what lies deeper within. Maybe we’ll find something good and take it all without needing to negotiate.’
Alm snorted and focused on walking while sensing the surroundings. Kaiyka did the same. They couldn’t get too close to the golems; Rehvka was already making a tremendous effort to conceal twelve people. Faced with a divine golem, there was a risk of being detected if they got too close.
The first six hours within the Veiled Dunes passed slowly. The group was halfway through the second region when the whale stopped, his expression changing.
’That stone golem... yes, it’s Mana Fiber!’ Bruno excitedly spoke mentally.
It was a rare material that could be used in their equipment to fuse more than one runic seal. They sensed it from a distance, held by a golem moving towards the third and final region. At that moment, Alm and Bruno felt something was amiss.
’Why the hell would a Stone Golem want Mana Fiber?’ Alm said dryly. ’That material has no connection to it and hardly has the Qi to absorb it. If it weren’t for the Forge God’s Dao, it would be useless for cultivators.’
Alm and Bruno had detailed and meticulous information from the Forge God’s studies with this material. They could confidently assert that Mana Fiber had no hidden function that these golems could use.
Intrigued, they messaged Kaiyka. The two searched for golems, moving towards the last region. An hour later, Alm and Bruno were stunned. They found three more, and Kaiyka found two more, all carrying some Mana Fiber.
’Those golems we saw earlier were searching for this too?’ Bruno reflected thoughtfully. This material was rare anywhere. In this sealed world, much like everywhere in the divine realm, only a small amount should randomly appear.
’Let’s head to the final level quickly,’ the whale said to everyone. They quickened their pace, as they wouldn’t find answers there.
It took two hours for the entire group to reach the last ten kilometers of that sealed world. They had already lost nine hours that could have been used for cultivation and preparation; now, they had to find something worthwhile no matter what.
It didn’t take long for the whale and Kaiyka to sense dozens of stone golems moving; they were coming from all directions and converging on a single point. Everything was very strange, lacking in information. The group moved to the top of a dune, and the whale focused seriously. In a few minutes...
’All the golems moving have some Mana Fiber. There shouldn’t be so much of that material in this world, which is just thirty kilometers wide. And they are deliberately searching for and taking it to a specific point,’ Bruno said, thoughtful.
No matter what awaited them, there was no turning back now; they were going to the end. They headed straight for the golems’ convergence point.
As they walked, the dark desert surrounded by dunes seemed to grow much larger, and the dunes closed in, covering the entire horizon. The environment became heavier, and everyone felt their bodies becoming harder to move, as if gravity had doubled. A pressure from the ground put them on alert; they were approaching the core of the formation, and it seemed like a pure, terrifying earth entity was waiting for them.
After a while, the whale suddenly stopped, and everyone halted, looking ahead without understanding. In front of them was just something common, high dunes like mountains... suddenly, their eyes widened. All the hundreds of dunes seemed to move... then they saw pairs of yellow eyes passing by, scanning everything around.
The group shivered. They were Stone Golems as big as mountains, all at the peak of the Divine Origin Realm. With the power of earth laws, even a cultivator, a whole realm above them would find it impossible to easily take them down.
Except for the young Feys, everyone had seen the whale fighting with these laws; the whale’s defensive power using earth laws was so terrifying that, under suitable conditions, he managed to block even a divine cultivator three realms above him. It was just one strike from that enemy, using at most 5% of his strength. But even if it were 1%, no one would say they could come out alive and unscathed under the same conditions.
These golems were impenetrable shields, impossible to topple. Ahead of them, there were hundreds of dunes... all were golems arranged in a circle, protecting something in the center. There were many, all alert around like sentries. With Rehvka’s concealment power, advancing was impossible.
’We have to move forward...’ Alm quickly reflected. ’With everyone, it’s impossible, but... yes, this place benefits us.’
In this sealed world, only two laws existed. Normally, it would be impossible to advance without being detected by so many cultivators much more powerful than them. But under certain conditions, like the exact moment when the Gloom planet was almost entirely pure Yin, Rehvka alone could do it.
This place didn’t have something like that, but the Behemoth bloodline was one with the earth. The whale could easily merge with the earth’s laws, but the environment’s Yin could give him away if he was alone.
’Ruri, use your mental power and hide everyone. Rehvka, you and I can move forward together,’ the whale mentally spoke to the group, and Ruri clenched her fists, nodding.
Rehvka smiled, took a step forward, and held the whale’s hand. He took a deep breath, and his eyes lit up with his bloodline being used. It took a few seconds for him to adapt and merge with the earth laws of the environment. This power extended to the woman holding his hand, and Rehvka’s aura also merged equally with the earth. She nodded and activated her Dao to the maximum; soon, the two were indistinguishable from the two laws of this place.
They moved forward alone, taking slow steps...
Everyone behind watched as they left, but in seconds, their senses and eyes stopped perceiving them; it was as if they had entered the void. Both became one with the place, and not even these vigilant golems could detect them.
It took two hours to pass through the gigantic guards. They reached a hidden area among the dunes. Soon after, they saw something intriguing: thousands of golems standing in a circle, silently waiting for something. They were very tall, and they couldn’t see or feel the center. They gritted their teeth, held their breath, and carefully stepped between the golems, advancing.
As they got closer, they felt an intense spiritual fluctuation. When their eyes glimpsed something, the whale stopped, stunned.
In the center was a sitting golem, surrounded by an anomalous aura. Alm and Bruno felt with their divine souls that its Earth Heart was beating frantically, the spiritual fluctuations emanating from it.
’The soul of that golem is being burned. It’s using a technique... no, this is a Divine Dao,’ Alm analyzed seriously.
The pair stood still, observing, and it took almost an hour for everything to stop. Alm and Bruno felt intrigued; two-thirds of the golem’s soul had been completely burned.
Suddenly, the golem bowed and began to move its arms and dig... it dug and dug... until it unearthed something buried deep. It was thirty centimeters long... it looked like a branch from a tree, but it was white and dry, giving the impression of being... a stone?
’Petricite!’ Bruno immediately recognized, surprised.
They had never seen this material; they only knew of it from the Dao of the Forge God. This name is given to the petrification of a high-level organic material with equally high-level earth laws. It was flexible and tough, perfect for forging armor or clothes, and it was the most advanced material known in their current Dao.
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Alm and Bruno suddenly understood. According to the Forge God, Petricite could only occur naturally in very, very rare cases. But these golems were using a Divine Dao and sacrificing two-thirds of their lives to create a bit of it.
’The soul is just the fuel for the Dao. The earth laws of the golem were used to corrupt this unknown wood and create this material,’ Alm pondered thoughtfully.
Bruno spoke, intrigued. ’Mana fiber isn’t here; they took it to another area. And now they’re also creating this terrifying material. Golems can’t use either of them, so why do they want these things?’
Alm sighed. ’There must be a purpose, but it doesn’t matter. For us, this is something exceptional...!’
Suddenly, the two realized something and almost jumped. They both desired mana fiber greatly and desired Petricite greatly. At the same time, without the Behemoth’s mastery and bloodline, they could never reach there. If they were alone and time wasn’t short, using the tattoos could create the same phenomenon that Rehvka did and would invade the place without problems. Everything seemed to have been done by the heavens for them to arrive and take advantage of these things.
The whale looked to a distant point and, holding Rehvka’s hand, pulled her. They moved for several minutes away from those golems. They arrived at an open region, contrasting with the rest of the place.
The ground around was very dark and dense, clearly hiding something beneath. They stopped in the center, and the whale let go of Rehvka’s hand. She startled and turned anxiously to them. The whale just nodded, and his entire body pulsed with his bloodline being used to the limit.
All the earth laws of the entire sealed world vibrated with his primal call. At that moment, the whale made a move; the entire area where they stood opened up. A colossal crater nearly a kilometer wide opened.
They descended gently, and Rehvka saw with shock countless trees below. They pulsated with a Yang completely discordant from the rest of this world. And around the trees, numerous small stone figures could be seen; they turned their gazes towards them.
Rehvka trembled, frightened and intrigued. These golems weren’t gigantic... they were humanoid in size, but their cultivations were at the maximum limit of the sealed world.
They landed on the ground. Rehvka just looked tensely ahead, feeling thousands of powerful figures slowly approaching. Instinctively, she clung to the whale’s arm and looked up, trying to meet his gaze. Then she saw him looking at a more distant point.
She followed his gaze and saw something enormous.
It was a gigantic golem... no... she didn’t feel life, it wasn’t a golem. She looked closely at the details, it was round... humanoid... and had something small...!
"Wait, is that a child on its shoulder? Wait!? Is that Master and Ruri?"
Rehvka exclaimed in shock. Indeed, despite being crude and lacking details, it was a statue of the whale very similar to the one that existed in his city. It was his image from the time when he walked with young Ruri on his shoulder. At that moment, thousands of golems reached them.
Both turned to face them, and Rehvka couldn’t understand or comprehend anything anymore. It was suddenly that she noticed the yellow eyes of the golems trembling... was that emotion? She thought in shock.
Then astral winds spread in all directions, and the bodies of the golems shimmered and changed shape.
"Metamorphosis..." Rehvka murmured; it was the method Beasts used to assume a smaller form.
But those golems were already at most two meters tall. Then they shrank and shrank, and their forms settled.
"This..." Rehvka was shocked to see the form they took.
"GREETINGS, EARTH KING!!"
Thousands of voices rang out simultaneously, bowing. The voices were high-pitched, thin, and...
’Well, look at that, your dreams have come true,’ Alm said sarcastically, but his face was contorted.
All the golems transformed into human-like female figures... very young... and extremely similar to Ruri.
"Motherfucker!!!" Bruno roared fervently with the whale.