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Chapter 521: Underground creatures

The momentum of the Elven Bank's development made the Elven King and the elven City Lords assured!

The Elven Bank announced the increase in deposit limit, while also deciding to increase the amount and scale of the banks. It was best to bring the bank to other cities, obtaining external deposits. It would increase the elves' influence while also using other people's resources to develop their own race. Just thinking about it filled people with excitement!

Want to expand?

They definitely could not forget about Miracle Commerce's technology!

The young miss made a direct move, selling another twenty Smart Brains at a friendship price of four hundred thousand. Isn't this very dark? The Smart Brain was their exclusive product, so wasn't the price decided by Chu Tian's group?

This price was not expensive at all! With the Elven Bank's influence and power, even if the starting price was double or triple what it was now, the elves would still buy it!

The young miss was thinking long term, so she disdained seeking a small advantage now!

The company could produce five-six Smart Brains each day, which was basically enough to satisfy their needs. The Smart Brains would become even faster in the future and they couldn't ruin it by trying to earn more benefits from their allies. This was a very important and very profitable business.

Miracle Commerce's current situation was on one hand, wildly selling firearms to cause headaches or the Savage Highlands and the Dragon Ridge, while also selling Smart Brains to help the Eternal Forest's elves quickly develop. This would restrict their enemies while helping their allies.

Whether it was the Source Energy Weapons or the Smart Brains, they could all bring benefits to Miracle City!

Once the elven areas were connected, Miracle Commerce's other products like the cell phone, the movie theater, the canned food, and etc. could triumphantly advance forward. Moreover, with the elves advancing to other places, this was business with great profit.

Not to mention that the Elven Bank had developed this quickly, so most of the money that couldn't be digested was redeposited into Miracle Bank. A part of this money was used to open up new factory and resource fields, creating stronger productive forces and distribution channels. Another part was given out as loans to form their own companies, quickly developing new products and technologies. The remainder was invested into the three countries to open up a new market.

The company would turn into a positive cycle!

Their influence would spread to more forest cities and even other kingdoms.

However the faster they developed, the more cautious they should be. The larger Miracle Commerce became, not only would it make the Forest of Chaos powers restless, it would even attract the attention of the peak powers on the continent. Things like the large scale empires were not things Chu Tian could resist!

The company had to become even stronger!

Miracle Commerce and Chu Tian didn't have much time!

Miracle City's people did not rest. Nangong Yun turned into a firearms dealer, selling firearms everywhere. Feng Caidie and Yun Yao went out to open the market. Meng Yingying, Vivian, and Delores went to the elves' territory. Chen Bingyu's group was developing the Great Zhou Country. Dongfang Haoran was busy training Miracle City's troops. There was no need to even talk about young miss Meng Qingwu!

No one was here and the young miss didn't have time to care about him, so Chu Tian felt bored. Therefore, he rode the elevator down to the underground base to see how work there was progressing.

The gnomes' underground research base had undergone a large change.

This was because the gnomes didn't need to manage to city, so all their people could focus on the laboratory. It was also because of large amounts of Yun Sect scholars coming in, bringing large amounts of top of the line Miracle Commerce technology, so it was much lively compared to before.

"Sir City Lord?" The city manager Zero had automatically informed Clark and he quickly came out to greet him after receiving the news, "Why are you here?"

Chu Tian casually looked around, "I'm here to inspect your work and see how the projects are going? Clark, is this place fine? Do you have enough research funds?"

"Enough, enough. Vice City Lord Meng Qingwu doubled our funds yesterday, our funding has never been as abundant as it is now."

"That's good. How is the strengthening of the Divine Servants?"

"Please come with me!"

Inside a secret research lab were the eighteen Divine Servants. They were all inside tanks and were prepared to be further advanced.

"Following sir City Lord's request, we have purchased and consumed large amounts of materials needed to advance the Divine Servants. These Divine Servants have a powerful energy instilled within them and I estimate that after another advancement, these Divine Servants will be able to reach the 6th True Spirit Layer!"

The 6th True Spirit Layer was considered an expert in the Forest of Chaos.

There had never been a puppet that had been refined to this level, not to mention that the Divine Servants weren't simple to begin with. If this transformation was successful, Chu Tian's strength would increase by a large amount having these eighteen Divine Servants with him.

"This does not matter! With money, resources, and time, how hard is it for them to grow?" Chu Tian was not pleasantly surprised at all, "What I want to know is how is the research on implanting consciousness going."

Clark gave a bitter smile, "City Lord, this is too hard. We can't do it in a short period of time!"

"The entire super Source Energy Computer research team has been brought here and you give me this kind of answer, how can I be satisfied."

Chu Tian was brought to another underground castle.

This underground castle was isolated, separated from the other castles. It had the highest defenses and secrecy because this was where the super Source Energy Computer research lab was. It was at a scale even bigger than the Great Summer Country.

The super Source Energy Matrix was one of the most important technology for Miracle Commerce. All of the Yun Sect's researchers had been moved here and adding in the gnome researchers, there were over five thousand people, with each one being an elite scholar!

This kind of investment was not available to all departments!

At this moment, the several hundred labs in the research center were all filled with bustling matrices. A super Source Energy Computer was made of several Source Energy Matrices, a single Source Energy Matrix was made of several hundred source energy arrays, which was the basis of the Source Energy Matrix.

"In the beginning, sir City Lord provided the main technology and the Yun Sect scholars worked hard for a long period of time before making a Source Energy Matrix. Only this matrix is not perfect."

"In the past few months, our lab has increased our investment. Our main goal was to separate the matrices and increase the processing power of each individual array of the matrix. This is very time consuming work, but luckily we have many people and also have the assistance of the Smart Brain, so our efficiency has increased quite a bit. We have upgraded Zero several times and now his processing speed has increased by forty times! However, this improvement is based on optimization and strengthening, not just qualitative change."

"The biggest breakthrough was the invention micro matrix chips and the array language."

Chu Tian already knew about these breakthroughs.

For Miracle Commerce's first line of cell phones, these cell phones had Miracle Commerce's newest core technology. The top of the line miniature matrices were added as central processor and it was known as a Computer Chip.

The miniature matrices were smaller, but the processing power was weakened and intelligence couldn't be added in. Without the core consciousness, how could this miniature matrix operate? Therefore, the research lab had created something new called the "array language".

The array language could allow the matrix to differentiate and with the array language, various functions could be added. The cell phone was functional because the research center had written a simple running system with the array language.

The array language had a large room to improve!

Even if the matrix did not contain artificial intelligence in the future, they could write complicated functions in with the array language. This was considered a large step for the computer research center.

These things being discovered was not for the cell phone at first.

Chu Tian wanted to find a kind of artificial intelligence that could be placed in the puppets?

Was this matter easy to do? The research lab had just discovered this general use Computer Chip, but with their current technology, they couldn't place it in a living being or a puppet yet.

Chu Tian asked, "What's the biggest bottleneck?"

"There are two main bottlenecks. One is the lack of accumulated technology, which can only be solved with time. The other problem is an issue of materials. To create a better, faster, and smaller matrix, we need to have a more perfect carrier."

Chu Tian went through the raw material room.

There were a large amount of crystals arranged neatly, each one being a single source energy array for the Source Energy Matrix. If these several crystal plates could be arranged in a three dimensional formation, turning into one array, with all these matrices working together, it would become a perfect super Source Energy Matrix.

It was complicated, very complicated!

Different materials had different carrying capabilities for source energy arrays.

If they could add a more perfect material, perhaps they could reduce the size by ten times This kind of material was very hard to manufacture and Miracle Commerce didn't have this standard right now.

When Chu Tian was thinking of a way.

The entire underground shook a few times!

Chu Tian was a bit stunned, "What is going on? Is it an earthquake?"

Impossible, this place wouldn't have earthquakes. When the gnomes constructed this underground research base, they used large amounts of shock absorption stones to stabilize the space. The vibrations in the earth would be sucked in by the shock absorption stones, so an earthquake wouldn't affect this place even if there was one.

Clark suddenly thought of something, "This is wrong! The vibrations seem to be coming from the Devil's Maw!"

Chu Tian instantly flickered away with Clark and the two were shocked by the situation. This was because it was unknown what happened there, but it was filled with chaos.

A giant python that was several dozen meters long kept slithering around.

Fierce and terrifying looking underground creatures were wildly charging out of the Devil's Maw one by one.

The gnome guards were caught off guard by this sudden invasion. Luckily Miracle City had prepared Source Energy Weapons, so the wild firing of these heavy weapons were barely able to keep them off.

"Large amounts of dark creatures are charging out."

"We can't keep defending!"

Chapter 522: Exploration

The underground creatures and the above ground creatures was like well water that didn't interfere with the river!

What was wrong with these fellows? They were wildly charging here like they were stuffed with aphrodisiacs.

But it wasn't important why these creatures came here. The dark creatures were very dangerous and it was unknown how many there were. This exit was linked to Miracle City's research facility, so once large amounts of dark creatures entered the research facility, it would cause a loss Miracle City couldn't estimate.

"Stop them!"

Chu Tian flew into the abyss and his hands swept out, sending out two quick beams of sword qi. They instantly intertwined as they cut a giant centipede to pieces.

Before he even fell to the ground.

"Sword!"

His source spirit was released.

The Demon God's Sword was like black jade with a pattern carved into the handle. The inscription ran up the blade of the hilt, filling it with a destructive power, releasing waves of a horrifying aura.

Chu Tian reached out to grab this sword and pierced out at the entrance of the cave. Large amounts of sword qi turned into several hundred black swords, wildly bombarding the cave entrance like a storm, exterminating several dozen dark creatures.

"The City Lord is so strong!"

"This kind of cultivation base can have this kind of destructive power?"

The gnomes were very shocked by Chu Tian's strength!

The Phaseless Sword was very strong, but it wasn't very easy to use since it had a high consumption. It was very destructive, so it was suited to be used as a finishing move, not suited for group battles or prolonged battles.

While Chu Tian was cultivating the Phaseless Sword, he also studied large amounts of the Great Zhou Country's Heavenly Sword Sect's inherited sword art. There were several dozen first class sword cultivation techniques alone. He extracted the essence of these ancient sword techniques and finally created his own sword technique called the «Heart's Sword»!

Why was it the Heart's Sword? There was no sword in his hand, the sword was in his heart!

It didn't matter that Chu Tian lost the Netherworld Sword, now there was no need to rely on material items. Chu Tian had the powerful Vision Domain Divine Sense ability and with the Heavenly Sword Sect's combined sword art, the sword was in his heart and his soul was a sword. As long as his Divine Sense didn't run out, his sword would never break!

There were more and more dark creatures coming out.

Species that had never been heard of came out!

A strange insect with armour crushed the rock and drilled out of the stone wall. Even with the storm of Source Energy Bullets hitting its body, it could still crash into four-five gnome warriors as it charged forward.

Chu Tian sent out a slash.

The strange insect with armour was cut in half.

The destructive sword qi continued several dozen meter to cut apart a scorpion!

Chu Tian's right hand held the sword and a ball of flame appeared in his left hand. He suddenly threw it at a group of moths and the fireball instantly turned into a sea of flames. This flame was not like an ordinary flame, it made everything it came in contact with disappear with a flash. The powerful giant moth had actually disappeared without a trace.

"This is bad!" Clark shouted at this time, "There are too many monsters, we can't block them all!"

Giant centipedes, strange insects with armour, black snakes, and scorpions. The amount of underground monsters couldn't be seen, but they kept coming out without stop.

Although there were quite a few gnomes in this army, faced with this kind of intense attack, they actually couldn't hold on. These underground beings were quite strong and there were many of them. Even some of them were even at the True Spirit Realm!

Chu Tian knew they couldn't hold on like this.

The gnomes would have serious casualties.

Should they retreat?

Then the base would be in trouble!

While Chu Tian was weighing the advantages, the rock overhead suddenly broke and several dozen tree roots appeared. They had bore through the thick layer of rock to appear in this underground space. These tree roots quickly grew longer and finally turned into little Treants that were three-four meters tall.

"It's Cenarius!"

Chu Tian already knew that Cenarius was not weak, but he never thought he would be this strong. He could actually feel what was happening in such a deep space while being above ground and he could even summon several dozen clones to fight.

Cenarius was one of the peak experts of the Forest of Chaos, even his clones coming were strong reinforcements, reducing the pressure on the gnomes by a large amount. At this time, the elevators of the underground base quickly moved, as large amounts of Miracle City experts came out with Dongfang Haoran leading them.

Zero was very efficient!

When Zero learned of the situation, it immediately looked for support.

Chu Tian shouted, "Everyone came right on time, let's destroy these damn insects!"

Batches of Miracle City experts came. Although the monsters were very fierce, they couldn't gain an advantage in the end. After an entire half an hour of fighting, the Devil's Maw was covered in corpses. It was most likely the large amount of deaths scared them, so these fellows finally stopped coming.

Chu Tian first left a group of people to defend before going back to the city to discuss with Meng Qingwu.

This was not a small matter!

If there were a large amount of lizards and insects that drilled out of the ground, this would be too much of a threat for Miracle City!

Dongfang Haoran came to report, "We have an approximate calculation. Just now we killed over thirty thousand dark creatures and there were several dozen species among them."

"Several dozen species?" Meng Qingwu was a bit confused, "Why is there that many?"

Dongfang Haoran also couldn't understand, "What's the most strange for me is that these dark creatures, there are many of them that should be natural enemies."

Meng Qingwu tightly knit her brows together, "Could they be controlled by someone?"

"Controlled? I don't think it's too likely!" Chu Tian didn't find anything suspicious at all, "These creatures were all rushing forward, they should be escaping!"

"Escaping?"

"That's right. If my guess isn't wrong, some drastic change has occurred in the underground world, filling these dark creatures with panic. It made them disregard everything and wildly run away."

Meng Qingwu was a bit indecisive, "We don't know anything about the Forest of Chaos' underground world. This matter could be big or small, it seems like we can't ignore it. I feel we should gather a group of warriors and explore the underground world."

This was certain.

Otherwise they couldn't sleep soundly.

"Young miss is right, but there's no need to gather warriors. It isn't good to gather too many people, so I'll just personally take a trip underground." Chu Tian volunteered while knowing that the young miss would not agree, after all, the underground world was an unknown place. For an important person like Chu Tian to take this risk, this was not a smart choice. Therefore, he added, "Because of the mysteriousness of the underground world, I am the most suitable choice. My cultivation technique and ability are the most suited to keeping myself safe in this environment. If we recruit some dumb forest warriors, they would probably get lost before they even found any clues!"

Saying this was reasonable!

Meng Qingwu understood Chu Tian, so knowing that Chu Tian said this, he was not discussing this with her, so there was no use trying to stop him. She could only let out a sigh as she said, "Then you have to prepare properly. You have to bring the little fox and the City Return Scrolls."

"The young miss can be assured, without marrying Yingying yet, how could I let something happen?"

Meng Qingwu glared at him, "You only know to think of Yingying, you never think of anyone else."

"In front of everyone, why are you being so jealous for!"

Dongfang Haoran felt a bit awkward and immediately bid them farewell with cupped hands.

Meng Qingwu's face turned red and she snappily said, "I'm about to be angered to death by you, come with me!"

Chu Tian was brought to a secret room and Meng Qingwu took out two bottles of pills for him, "This is the company's newly refined True Spirit Pill. Although it is expensive, the effects are very good. As long as one is not past the True Spirit Realm, a single pill can instantly restore all your spirit energy. Other than that, this pill is filled with very precious materials, so eating it frequently can increase your cultivation."

The new technology and products of Miracle Commerce were too bright, it almost outshined the current market.

Actually the alchemy and talisman business were very lucrative businesses, Meng Qingwu never wanted to give them up. She took what she learned from Chu Tian and combined it with the gnomes' knowledge to create the talisman and alchemy research center. In the future, these traditional businesses would bring a large profit for Miracle City.

The True Spirit Pill was the newly made pill!

The cost to refine this pill was very high and each one would take up to ten thousand source stones. Not only did they use the best restorative herbs, the effect was not inferior to top grade Saint Pills. It had a gentle nature and didn't have any rejection, so it could be used for a long time.

It was because of how expensive it was that this pill was not suited to be sold in mass amounts. Meng Qingwu had only refined two bottles and were all prepared for Chu Tian.

Chu Tian was also very moved by this, "The young miss has done this much for me, I really can't repay you!"

Meng Qingwu gave a snort, "It's good that you know. You should be more careful from now on, a bowl of water needs to be held flat, do you understand?"

"Ah?"

"What are you being in a daze for, quickly go and prepare!" Meng Qingwu turned to leave with a snort and left a few spiteful words, "I still have many things to take care of!"

Chu Tian didn't know whether to laugh or cry.

The young miss was usually solemn, but there were times she was unreasonable, even more so than Nangong Yun. Only she never showed this in front of normal people and this should most likely be the real personality hidden underneath!

This underground world had to be explored.

Chu Tian was more clear than anyone that the space under the Forest of Chaos was a giant empty space. Therefore, the underground world here was perhaps far larger than anyone could imagine. This was a space completely different from the surface, what kind of style did the underground world have? How much had the underground civilization developed by? This was the question Chu Tian really wanted to know!

"Fox, prepare yourself. We're about to set off!"

He wouldn't bring anyone else this time, he would only bring the little fox along. The little fox had been sitting around eating all day in Miracle City during this period, its furry body had become a bit fatter, so he should take it out for some exercise to lose weight.

Chapter 523: Underground

The entire forest knew that there was a world rich in resources under the ground, but as for the details of this world, even the most ancient elves of the Forest of Chaos didn't know what it was like.

It's said that it was a world that never say daylight, having hundreds of millions of dark beings, as well as a large amount of ancient extinct races. It made the underground world a very dangerous place. It's also said that the underground world is a paradise. When the great ancient world's continent shattered, large amounts of gods and demons' treasures were buried under the ground. There were also legends that said that the underground world was linked to the world of death, with countless terrifying demons roaming around.

In short.

The underground world was completely different.

Whether it was the living conditions or the environment, there was a difference like heaven and earth.

Therefore the underground world rarely participated in the surface world's battles and likewise, the surface world's beings weren't interested in the underground.

Without any supporting information and maps to guide him.

Chu Tian set off exploring a completely unknown place, this was just too reckless!

No one knew what was happening in the underground world, no one can be sure what he would meet in the underground world.

"City Lord, have you properly considered this?" Clark sent Chu Tian to the Devil's Maw entrance, "The gnomes have tried mapping the surrounding space, but we have failed each time. You have to know, the Devil's Maw is just the entrance to the underground, it might still be several hundred miles away from the real underground!"

That's right.

It was not altitude, but rather depth!

Who knows what it would be like several hundred miles underground?

Who knows if there was a way to the underground? The underground world was not just filled with unknown risks, the environment was also very bad, it was not something normal people could imagine. Even the most famous explorer or adventurer could be lost in this kind of danger!

"Relax!" Chu Tian patted his belt with a row of scrolls in it, "I have already made my preparation, I have to go this time. Stop fussing, relax!"

"Yes!"

An absolute beauty like the young miss couldn't stop me, so what is a small and ugly old man like you speaking for?

Clark had no choice, he could only let him go.

After the chaos caused by the monsters, the Devil's Maw defense had been increased by large amounts. Whether it was weapons or manpower, it was increased by several times, stopping something similar from happening again.

"I think we should also make an Undead Tower here to make it easier to monitor." Before Chu Tian entered the cave, he proposed, "Because the Undead Tower has a life form monitoring effect, we'll be warned if the monsters come again. Not to mention that an Undead Tower would mean tens of thousands of skeletons and these skeletons who don't fear death are the best guardians."

"Understood!"

It was very different inside the Devil's Maw.

Chu Tian knit his brows as soon as he walked in, "Damn, why is it so smelly!"

There were large amount so Evil Eyes active in this area, but now they were all hidden, even avoiding the skeletons all over the ground. Other than the monsters that already lived here, there were the corpses of many unknown monsters all over the ground.

It was simply like a slaughter!

When large amounts of dark monsters were in a riot, they would also attack and swallow each other.

The little fox sniffed all around like a dog, digging out many crystals from the corpses and swallowing them down like a snack.

Chu Tian was very impatient, "Stop eating, quickly look around. Where did these creatures come from? I want to find the source!"

The little fox shook its head.

"What, you can't find it?"

The caves were very messy and there were tens of thousands of life forms gathered here, as well the cave network was very complicated, so the little fox could not lock onto their scent to find where they came from.

It could even be said.

These monsters did not all come from the same place.

The little fox couldn't find the correct way just based on scent.

"You waste who only knows how to eat, you aren't even any use at this critical moment. With such a large cave, how do you expect me to find the exit to the underground?"

Chu Tian accused the little fox of being no use. This fellow had been with Chu Tian for a long time, so its face was already very thick.

After a while.

The fox ate another hundred beast crystals!

How was this exploring? This was simply coming to eat food!

Around four-five hundred meters under the Miracle City underground base, this depth did not affect this world much. This was still considered the surface layer of the continent, he needed to find a path to the underground in this complicated space.

Although the high energy minerals were releasing light, which was strong enough to nourish underground plants, the intense energy would have more negative effects, having a strong corrosive effect on normal beings. The powerful energy radiation was even strong enough to kill. The underground plants do release breathable air, but they also released poisonous gas that could kill people without them even knowing.

Not to mention exploring the underground world, even exploring this abyss would require a large amount of courage from a normal cultivator!

But Chu Tian had the intent to keep going!

Even if it was hard to find!

Chu Tian swallowed several personally refined pills and he released the fox as he began to move. Without a map and without the right path, he could only keep going deeper!

The entire space was filled with corroded stones, that were like honeycombs and also like ant nests, with complicated tunnels that didn't follow any rules. There were all kinds of precious ores, underground plants, as well as dangerous underground life forms.

Everyone would have one question they were curious about.

Why did this underground space not break apart after tens of thousands of years?

This was because there were two kinds of energy supporting it. The first was a kind of energy released from the core that continued to strengthen the ground, making the stones as hard as steel, forming a powerful material frame. The other reason was the energy field that covered the underground world, so even if this physical support broke, the energy field would be enough to support the underground space.

The little fox used its Divine Eye to scan the surrounding situation.

Chu Tian followed the little fox's guidance, avoiding dead ends. One man and one beast began heading towards the underground world. Chu Tian didn't know where he was and Chu Tian didn't even know if this place was connected to the underground world, but Chu Tian kept going deeper.

His spatial abilities played a very large role.

Chu Tian could easily pass through obstacles and avoid a few dangers, which increased his speed and efficiency.

"What the hell!" Chu Tian sat down on a large rock to rest as he took out a True Spirit Pill from his chest to quickly restore his spirit energy, "We've already been walking for a day, right? Why can't we find a single thing other than the scattered dark life form nests!"

Thirty thousand years later, Chu Tian had gone to the underground kingdoms of the continent several times, but Chu Tian had always been sent there by teleportation arrays, he didn't need to travel through the thick rock layer at all. Not to mention that the world thirty thousand years later was greatly changed, with most of the underground world being destroyed. Even the remaining underground kingdoms had also been greatly changed!

Chu Tian's body was covered in dirt and his hair was in a mess. Although with the little fox's Divine Eye and Chu Tian's spatial ability and Divine Sense, they could avoid the monsters nest they came across, there were several encounters they met on the way.

Basically any life form that could exist in this kind of environment was not easy to deal with.

The fights made Chu Tian feel very depressed.

The little fox was still manipulating the large eyeball to monitor the situation and the little fox's eyes lit up like it had found something special. It immediately jumped up and pointed in a direction with its claw.

Chu Tian went in the direction the little fox pointed out.

This was an underground canyon and there was a very rich dark energy in it. Various dark purple and dark red crystals covered the wall and path like bamboo shoots. Generally places like this were filled with dark monsters.

"You sure you didn't make a mistake? This place is not easy to travel through!"

The fox was very certain it didn't make a mistake!

Chu Tian didn't have a better choice. Since this fellow is this certain, then he would give it a try. Perhaps something would really come out of it!

Just as Chu Tian expected.

This was a space filled with strong energy and its intensity surpassed his expectations.

Under that rich dark energy, not only could Chu Tian not spread his Divine Sense, his entire person felt like it was covered in acid, constantly feeling a corroding feeling.

Chu Tian took out a purification pill, "We need to move quickly!"

The mountains to the left and right of the path was actually filled with thousands of large and small holes. This made Chu Tian feel this was bad. When Chu Tian arrived at the channel, the holes in the valley walls began to tremble.

Two meter long things began to drill out of the holes.

This being looked like an ant kind of living being, with bodies completely covered in firm dark armour. They had a pair of blade like forearms and a pair of translucent wings. Almost in an instant, thousands of these dark creatures came out from the holes.

"Demon Ants!" Chu Tian recognized this rare creature, "Damn, look at what kind of route you picked!"

Demon Ants looked like ants, but they were a kind of demon beast with demon bloodline. The Demon Ants were very quick and had strong attacks. The Demon Ants were covered in a rare and precious material because this shield had the ability to guard against Divine Sense. Even with Chu Tian's Divine Sense at the Vision Domain level, it was hard to find the Demon Ants.

What would Chu Tian use to deal with all these Demon Ants?!

He quickly teleported.

The energy here was very strong and Chu Tian's Divine Sense didn't have the ability to lock onto a place that far, therefore his teleport range was greatly impaired. He could only teleport a thousand meters away, appearing above where the ants gathered.

"Weng, weng!"

The thousands of Demon Ants made a strange sound at the same time!

This was the most dangerous attack of the Demon Ants. When they met their natural enemy or prey that was hard to deal with, the Demon Ants would connect up to thousand of individuals to release a fatal large scale spiritual wave.

This spiritual energy was strong enough that it shook the surrounding mountains!

Chapter 524: Demon Ants

The Demon Ants were already rare and precious spiritual attributed demon beasts. Although their individual spirit wave was not strong, only being able to hurt cultivators of the Awakened Soul Realm or individuals who didn't reach the Mind's Eye realm, if thousands of Demon Ants combined their spiritual waves together, the instant destructive might was not something normal people could imagine.

This kind of precious demon beast that could combine spiritual energy, it had already been extinct for a long time in the era Chu Tian transmigrated from. He never thought that he would have the chance to personally examine it!

The underground mountain range trembled!

The rocks on the ground jumped up!

Pure spiritual energy being able to affect objects, this was already close to the level of the Vision Domain realm!

Not to mention the spiritual energy was combined, having such a large influence range and scale. Even if several Vision Domain Realm Cultivators came together, they wouldn't be able to achieve this kind of result!

This was the combined spiritual energy attack of a Demon Ant tribe!

Even a peak expert like the Elven King without cultivating a spiritual energy defensive technique, he would find it hard to retreat in this kind of situation.

Not to mention a normal cultivator?

They would all be dead!

Because Chu Tian was not a normal person and his source spirit was special, being almost completely immune to spiritual attacks, Chu Tian was not afraid of spiritual energy attacks. Only the power of thousands of Demon Ants combined was too strong, so even if Chu Tian didn't lose his life, he would still be affected!

Void Escaping!

Chu Tian used the Void Escaping and prepared to teleport away, but he was a bit too late!

The spiritual attack was instantly released!

The Void Escaping could avoid normal attacks, but it couldn't block spiritual attacks. When the ant colony gathered enough energy, they instantly erupted their attack!

This was a spiritual energy explosion!

Chu Tian already didn't have any words to describe this attack!

Chu Tian's brain was like the surrounding mountains, showing signs of breaking instantly. That giant wave of spiritual energy poured forward like a river.

His eyes turned black.

He lost all five sense!

It was like his brain had been shattered!

Chu Tian's mind was not affected, but his physical body was greatly affected, losing all ability to move. His Void Escaping was even automatically released.

Not dead?

That wasn't important!

The Demon Ants charged forward like a dark cloud, charging at Chu Tian who couldn't move!

Once he was surrounded by these dangerous creatures, not even a single one of Chu Tian's bones could be found. Chu Tian wanted to teleport again, but the strong spiritual energy cut off Chu Tian's control of his spirit energy, so Chu Tian completely lost his cultivation base.

This is bad!

The little fox was also anxious. It also knew that its master did not fear a spiritual energy attack, so it took the risk to bring its master here, but it never thought that this would happen! The little fox's abilities were limited and although it could control a part of the Demon Ants, it couldn't control this giant cloud!

What should it do?

Chu Tian faced with the momentum of the ant cloud, he released his Divine Sense that passed through the ants. Although his Divine Sense was affected by the environment, from this distance, Chu Tian's Divine Sense could penetrate the ants and finally locked onto the goal Chu Tian wanted to find.

At the center of the thousands of black Demon Ants, there was a bigger golden Demon Ant. It didn't look that different from the other Demon Ants and although it was covered in the same firm armour, the wings on its back looked more demonic and its forearms were a bit different from the other bugs.

This is it!

The Ant Queen!

After the Demon Ants' spiritual energy gathered together, there was someone controlling it which was the Ant Queen that was different from the other ants. The spiritual energy explosion was sent out by it and the strange technique that cut off his cultivation base also came from it.

Chu Tian's cultivation was temporarily cut off, but his power Divine Sense of the Vision Domain was still there!

The Demon Ants' strength was in their cohesiveness, their individual strength was rather weak. Even the Ant Queen in terms of Divine Sense and Spiritual Energy was only at the peak of the Mind's Lamp Realm, not reaching the Vision Domain Realm yet.

Chu Tian's Divine Sense could directly take control of its body!

The Ant Queen was invaded by the Divine Sense and it put up a strong resistance, but its spiritual energy was too weak, so Chu Tian smoothly invaded the Ant Queen's mind. Chu Tian's Divine Sense fused with the Ant Queen's spiritual energy.

Chu Tian felt a terrifying fluctuation coming from the Ant Queen's mind.

It condensed the surrounding spiritual energy waves again, sending out the spiritual energy explosion and the cultivation sealing ability again!

This struggle didn't have any meaning at all. Chu Tian did not fear spiritual attacks and his cultivation being cut off temporarily did not affect his Divine Sense. When the Ant Queen released the spiritual energy explosion and the cultivation sealing ability, Chu Tian's Divine Sense copied it down.

This was a very precious secret technique!"

This secret technique couldn't be taught or written down, it could only be copied like this. Chu Tian was about to be ripped apart by the Demon Ants, but he still had the mind to copy the Ant Queen's secret technique!

"Spiritual Combustion!"

There was a large difference in ability between the two sides.

The Ant Queen couldn't block Chu Tian at all!

Chu Tian's Vision Domain power sent a portion of his energy onto the Ant Queen. When Chu Tian trapped the Ant Queen's mind, he could directly paralyze it or kill it, but just killing the Ant Queen did not have any use.

At most they wouldn't be able to use the combined attack once the Ant Queen died.

Chu Tian couldn't use his cultivation, so he would definitely be ripped to shreds by the angry ants.

What to do?

Chu Tian used a crazy spiritual technique to ignite his own mind. Because Chu Tian's mind was combined with the Ant Queen's, when he burned his mind, it also burned the Ant Queen's mind.

This secret technique was to burn one's mind to temporarily gain large amount of spiritual energy. The price was that once one's mind was burned, the body couldn't survive without any spiritual energy.

Because Chu Tian's source spirit was strong, as long as he stopped it quickly, it would only leave a bit of backlash and wouldn't threaten his life.

The Ant Queen gave a shrill cry, causing a scene that people couldn't believe to occur. The Ant Queen's cry passed through the entire mass and instantly affected the entire ant colony, causing them to break out in screams.

Burn!

Wildly burning!

The spiritual flames that couldn't be seen swallowed the entire ant colony.

Originally when the Demon Ants attacked together, Chu Tian found that their minds were all linked together. Therefore as long as the core was lit up, it would quickly spread across the connected spiritual energy, burning all the minds of the Demon Ants!

This was a divine move!

This ingenious attack instantly disintegrated the thousands of ants connected together. However, because all the Demon Ants' minds were burned, it made their spiritual energy temporarily explode. The second spiritual energy explosion was released and it was at least ten times stronger than before!

Hong, hong, hong!

The mountains all around cracked!

Chu Tian almost fainted from the intense headache.

This method of mind burning to destroy the ant colony was very good to use, but it was too hard to achieve and it couldn't be copied by anyone else. First not mentioning the spiritual energy burning at the Vision Domain level, just the spiritual explosion was not something normal being could block!

Chu Tian gradually recovered.

The corpses of the Demon Ants were all over the ground, not having any marks, but they were completely dead. Chu Tian felt dizzy, discomfort, and wanted to puke from disgust. This was the repercussion of hurting his mind, who told him to burn his own mind?

His control over his spirit energy gradually came back.

He couldn't recover in a short period of time, he had to find a place to rest first.

"Fox, look at what you did!"

Chu Tian angrily looked at the little fox. If it wasn't for the little fox's reckless guidance, would Chu Tian have almost lost his little life here? He raised the little fox by its tail and sent a heavy slap onto its butt, causing the little fox to cry out in pain.

The little fox quickly begged for mercy.

It signaled it wouldn't dare do it again!

It would be strange if Chu Tian believed this fellow!

It would become even more lawless if he didn't teach it a lesson this time. But when Chu Tian was prepared to make a move, the little fox pointed forward and chirped a few times, signalling for Chu Tian to look.

"Stop trying to distract me, today I….."

Chu Tian looked in the direction the little fox was pointing in, in the deepest part of the canyon wall. There was actually large amounts of glittering and translucent crystals that were the size of human heads.

Demon Ant eggs?

There's actually this many of them!

Chu Tian suddenly remembered, the Demon Ants were a very precious demon beast. The value of these eggs were very high, they were the perfect material to use to enhance his spiritual energy!

Although Divine Sense did not equal spiritual energy, there was a link between the two. Divine Sense cultivation mainly depended on meditating, with materials that increased one's spiritual energy, it made Divine Sense meditation even more effective.

Even if he couldn't comprehend a higher Divine Sense realm, as long as his spiritual energy was higher than normal experts, his resistance to spiritual attacks would be even higher!

The Demon Ant eggs did not just have a large value to Chu Tian, he could bring it back for the young miss and Yingying to use. This was definitely a precious material that couldn't be bought with money!

The little fox did not say a single thing as it wildly began to swallow the Demon Ant eggs.

"You bastard!" Chu Tian quickly took out his gourd, "You don't have much use in a fight, but you snatch the spoils faster than anyone after the fight!"

When a pet was raised like this, Chu Tian was also a part of the failure!

One man and one fox quickly swept through the Demon Ant eggs.

Not bad, not bad. With all these Demon Ant eggs in his hands, Chu Tian's Divine Sense would be raised again. Although it was very dangerous this time, the ending was worth it.

Other than over ten thousand precious Demon Ant eggs, Chu Tian found several rare spiritual attributed level three Saint Herbs in the valley. These herbs could help Chu Tian repair the damage to his mind.

Perfect!

When Chu Tian thought this, there was a sound coming from the entrance of the valley. There were the shout of intelligent life forms, as if there was an entire army charging in.

Chapter 525: Captured

The sound from the Demon Ants Valley was too loud, so it attracted the attention of an intelligent race. Chu Tian did not have any time to leave the valley before it was surrounded by thousands of completely armoured spirit insects. There were spiders, scorpions, ants, and etc., all kinds of races rarely seen on the surface.

This was clearly an elite troop from a large force.

The Demon Ant Valley was already filled with corpses, of course they were all Demon Ant corpses.

These spirit insects rushed right over. When they saw the scene in front of them, they were all stunned.

There were close to ten thousand Demon Ants in the Demon Ant nest, it was definitely a forbidden area. They found it very hard to believe that something could happen here to let all these Demon Ants die.

Chu Tian saw that he couldn't leave, so he came out, "Hi, hello everyone!"

The several thousand spirit insect eyes all fell onto Chu Tian.

What creature was this?

These spirit insects lived their entire lives underground and had never visited the above ground spirit insect tribes. Over 90% of them didn't even know what humans were, so they looked at Chu Tian like they were looking at a new creature.

"Could it be that you killed all these Demon Ants?"

"You're talking about the insects on the ground?"

Chu Tian was not very familiar with the spirit insect language, especially this ancient spirit insect language, but he could still understand it a bit.

The Demon Ants were a very dangerous thing, so it must be a large disaster for them to occupy the valley like this.

Now that Chu Tian had taken care of this large disaster for the spirit insects, it wouldn't be strange for him to receive hero treatment!

"Right, that's right, that's right!" Chu Tian quickly replied like someone would steal it from him, "I was traveling by when I saw the Demon Ants running rampant, afraid that they would bring harm to those around, I used a secret technique to kill all these evil beings. Actually you don't need to thank me too much, I was just doing it for everyone's sake. However, I was a bit injured by it, so if you want to give me any Immortal Herbs or Divine Herbs to thank me, I won't reject it….."

Chu Tian spirit insect language was a bit bad and the spirit insects had to work hard to understand it!

"It's him!"

"Damn!"

"The Demon Ants we raised have all been killed by this bastard!"

The spirit insect language was very fast and pronunciation was very chaotic, so Chu Tian didn't really understand what they were saying, but seeing their aggressive appearance, Chu Tian could guess what was going on.

Fuck!

Damn!

Could it be the Demon Ants in this valley were tamed?

The hobbies of these underground races were truly strange, they actually raise a nest full of giant ants!

How rare were the Demon Ants? Chu Tian had all of sudden killed all the Demon Ants, causing loss that couldn't be measured, it wasn't hard to know what would happen next.

"Catch him!"

"Catch this bastard!"

Chu Tian didn't even have the chance to explain as rock spears and wind bladed arrows all flew at him, completely covering him.

"Damn! Such bad luck!"

"Is this how the spirit insects treat a foreign friend?"

"Father is still the first person to come from the surface in over a thousand years!"

Chu Tian's mental injuries and cultivation base haven't been healed yet, so how could he fight like this? Not to mention that the other side had overwhelming numbers, Chu Tian wouldn't suffer this loss!

The little fox saw the situation was bad and spat out a few soul bottles. These soul bottles exploded in the air, as a Dual Headed Giant, a Dark Gold Dragon, a Three Headed Demon Wolf, and a Silver Earth Dragon, these four level three demon beasts were summoned.

The four demon beasts used their giant build to block the waves of spirit insects.

Although these level three demon beasts were very strong, they couldn't hold on for long. Chu Tian ran away with the little fox and instantly teleported into the canyon. Chu Tian didn't have time to keep teleporting before his head became dizzy and he couldn't stand still.

Blood dripped down from his nose.

This is bad, his mind was seriously injured and his cultivation hadn't been restored yet. Forcefully making a move actually made his injuries even worse!

The pitiful cries of demon beasts dying came from in front. It was clear the demon beasts summoned by the little fox were taken care off.

This fast? These fellows were stronger than he imagined!

There were many experts among the spirit insects, floating through and flying in the sky. They moved very fast and only a few shadows were seen as Chu Tian was surrounded by several spirit insects.

"No!"

"Damn!"

"The eggs we've prepared as a tribute for her majesty the Spider Queen have all been stolen!"

"Damn, damn, these evil thieves. Cut them into ten thousand pieces, ten thousand pieces!"

The spirit insects found that the Demon Ant eggs were gone which filled them with rage. These were high grade items and if her majesty the Spider Queen was angered, their tribe and city would be implicated. Chu Tian was the main criminal here, so how could the spirit beasts easily let him go?

He needed to think of a way to kill his way out!

Chu Tian's source energy was summoned in the form of a black sword.

The spirit insects that approached and Chu Tian directly activated the Void Escaping, making their attacks fall through his body without any effect. The Demon God's Sword released several streaks of sword qi and the spirit insects who weren't strong enough were easily cut down.

The little fox summoned another dragon demon beast.

Chu Tian jumped onto the back of the dragon and prepared to ride the dragon out of the valley.

"Don't let him run!"

The spirit insects cast an unknown secret technique that made the rocks seem like they were magnetized as they were all sucked onto the dragon, making it weigh over ten thousand pounds. Large amounts of rocks entered its body, as a large force pulled the dragon back down.

Chu Tian's keen senses could tell that in each of these stones, there was a strong energy fluctuation coming from it. He immediately grabbed the little fox and jumped off the dragon.

Hong, hong, hong!

A series of explosions!

The dragon was instantly blown to pieces.

The other spirit insects attacked the airborne Chu Tian again. Chu Tian took out another True Spirit Pill and held the little fox by the scalp as he used his spatial energy again. He disappeared right in front of these spirit insects.

Where did he go now?

It's a rare spatial ability!

The spirit insects looked around and couldn't find a single trace.

"He seemed to be injured, he shouldn't have gone far!" A spirit insect who seemed like the leader angrily shouted, "You guys go back and call more people, we'll find him even if we have to dig three feet down!"

After a quarter of an hour, tens of thousands of spirit beasts were mobilized, searching over the entire area. These spirit beasts clearly wanted to dig up the ground to find Chu Tian, there were many tracking experts among them. Even if the little fox's Divine Eye could find the enemy from afar, but with Chu Tian's current situation, it would be hard to escape far away.

Chu Tian was hidden in a cave. His face was a bit pale and his body was covered in sweat. Although there wasn't any wounds on the surface, his mind injuries were much more injured than his body.

With such a heavy injury to his spiritual energy, only Chu Tian could still escape alive. Anyone else would have already become a vegetable.

"What to do?"

The little fox drew a large circle with its claw and then drew a smaller circle before clapping its paws. Its meaning was that the surrounding spirit insects were getting closer and they would be surrounded soon.

Damn.

He simply poked a hornet's nest!

Why were there so many spirit insects here?

But since he arrived at a location with intelligent beings, that meant he had made contact with the underground civilization. Although the spirit insects aren't easy to deal with, he should be able to send out some information.

If Chu Tian was in his normal condition, he wouldn't be afraid of being caught at all.

It wasn't the same now, he had to find a quiet place to recover first.

The little fox was monitoring the surrounding hundred mile area with the Divine Eye, telling everything it found to Chu Tian. It said that there is a spirit insect city not far away, but it wasn't big, only having a few million people.

Chu Tian said with a nod, "That should be their nest!"

The little fox felt something and immediately put away the Divine Eye. It called out a few times and pointed at Chu Tian's scroll at his waist.

The spirit insects will surround you soon.

Quickly use that Transport Scroll and escape!

Escape? It was hard for Chu Tian to come here, how could he escape like this?

Chu Tian considered his scrolls and items before letting the little fox swallow it all into its space. The little fox didn't know what kind of damn idea Chu Tian had.

"I'll pretend to surrender to investigate the spirit insect city, you will follow beside me secretly to wait to make your move, understood?"

Chu Tian didn't have time to slowly explain his plan.

This was because there was voices that came from outside. The spirit insects surrounded him as soon as possible and the leading spirit insect called, "Outsider, you cannot escape. If you don't want to die, come out and surrender!"

The spirit insect never thought this fellow would surrender.

Who would have thought that at this time, Chu Tian would actually come out. His hands were high up and he said in the spirit insect language, "Surrender, surrender. Don't kill me, I'll tell you everything!"

Several spirit insects charged forward.

Chu Tian was knocked to the ground with one palm and black crystal chains tied up his hands. Chu Tian could feel that there crystal chains sealed the spirit energy flowing in his body, making Chu Tian unable to use any strength at all.

"Where are the Demon Ant eggs? Quickly speak!"

The spirit insect's killing intent surrounded him. If it wasn't for the large amount of Demon Ant eggs missing, they would have cut this damn outsider to pieces already.

"I'll talk, I'll talk! They are all in my comrade's hands!" Chu Tian looked like he was filled with fear, "We didn't know these were tamed Demon Ants! Don't kill me, I'll bring you to recover your Demon Ant eggs, alright?"

The spirit insects half believed him.

They didn't find anything on Chu Tian and couldn't find anything where he was hiding. The large amounts of Demon Ant eggs couldn't have just flown away, right? A person of this strength couldn't fight the large amounts of Demon Ants alone, perhaps he really did have comrades!

"Commander, what should we do?"

"First lock him up in Nikello. We'll talk after reporting it to the Lord!"

Chu Tian was carried off by the spirit insects tied up like this.

These spirit insects didn't pay attention to the inconspicuous fox, following them not that far away as they returned to the underground spirit insect city.

Chapter 526: Purgatory World

Nikello City.

The spirit insect's underground city.

There were around three million spirit insects living in the city, with several different tribes. It could be considered a large underground city.

The spirit insects were different from the normal underground or surface race. The spirit insects could gnaw on energy rich minerals to survive, so this energy and metal were a part of their life and even cultivation that they couldn't lack. The energy was not just for the consumption of the spirit insects, the metals could also harden their carapaces and give them stronger defenses.

This was why while the spirit insects were one of the stronger powers, they didn't attack the surface world. This was because the underground world had enough resources for them to use and they wouldn't be too adaptive to the environment of the surface world. This is just like why the surface's spirit beasts and humans didn't attack the underground world.

There were also several influences in the underground world and they were ruled by several powerful leaders.

The most famous one was the Spider Queen Alexis.

Alexis controlled a third of the territory and population of the spirit insects and she was the only spirit insect leader trying to establish a foothold on the surface world. This current Nikello City as a city under the control of the Spider Queen.

Chu Tian was tied up as he walked forward, "I am warning you, if my companions see that I am missing a single limb, you won't be able to see a single egg!"

"Stop talking!"

Chu Tian looked at Nikello City and his eyes were slightly stunned as he looked at the underground city for the first time. The appearance of Nikello City was like a giant appendage that was covered in tumours inside a giant beast.

There were large empty spaces around the city where the spirit insects opened breeding farms and fields, raising dark beings and dark plants. The spirit insects didn't have a high dependance on them, but they still needed them a bit.

Nikello City was reached as high as three thousand meters, looking like an irregular funnel. The top was big and the bottom was small, where it was connected to the ground, being completely empty on the inside. When one entered into it, there would be transport networks stretching in every direction, just like a honeycomb.

Perhaps even the most complicated labyrinths couldn't compare to this.

Chu Tian entered the nest to appreciate the insect clan's life. The spirit insects didn't have order and didn't even have an army or officials. Other than the one lord ruling above, the entire city was divided into clans, making it very chaotic. However, there was a tacit understanding in this chaos.

The tacit understanding of the spirit insects came natural, just like a group of ants or bees. Even if there was laws, the inferior submitted to the superior and each person finished their duties, having something that they were required to do.

Too complicated.

Escaping from here was harder than ascending to heaven!

If Chu Tian didn't have the Space Scroll, he wouldn't have dared take this risk!

The spirit insect city was as complicated as blood vessels, but there was a giant tunnel in the middle of the city, or accurately speaking, it was heavily guarded tunnel. There were large amounts of elite spirit insect warriors as if they were worried about enemies appearing.

Chu Tian released a bit of Divine Sense to investigate.

At the end of the tunnel, there was a large space and a giant tunnel leading down.

The spirit insects locked Chu Tian in a prison built out of crystals, so firm that even Spirit Transformation Experts couldn't destroy it and Divine Sense was completely trapped inside. Even with Chu Tian's Vision Domain Divine Sense, he couldn't investigate the outside world.

A dark elf was suffering all kinds of tortures inside the cell.

"What goal did you have in coming here!"

"Quickly talk!"

This young dark elf boy was scarred all over from the spirit insects. Several spirit insects had cut the skin on his back and then applied large amounts of pain inducing medicine on the wounds.

The dark elf was exceptionally unyielding.

No matter what kind of torture it suffered, it didn't even give a grunt.

A spider soldier bringing Chu Tian in asked, "What is going on?"

"A spy from Purgatory!"

"What are you leaving the Purgatory people for? Just kill them!"

"The lord said to keep the spy and get news about Purgatory from his mouth, so we can't kill hi yet!"

"Humph, a spy from Purgatory and a thief from the surface, lock them up together."

The dark elf fainted from his torture and was finally locked in the same room as Chu Tian. This was the most strictly guarded cell, after all, these two were the two greatest criminals of the city.

After around ten minutes.

The dark elf woke up from his pain.

Chu Tian looked at him with curiosity and asked in the elven language, "Hey, are you alright?"

"Human?"

"You know about humans? That's great." Chu Tian felt he could communicate with this fellow, "You are someone from Purgatory? How were you caught."

"How do you know about the Purgatory World?" The dark elf seem to quickly forget his pain and revealed a look of surprise and disbelief, "Aren't humans a race that live on the surface? Why were you caught by the spirit insects of the Subterranean World!"

Subterranean and Purgatory.

Two very strange words.

Chu Tian could guess their meaning.

The underground world was separated into layers. The Purgatory World was the lowest underground layer, mainly where ancient creatures, devils, or dark elves lived. The Subterranean World was above the Purgatory World. Although the Subterranean World was still an underground world, compared to Purgatory, it was much closer to the surface.

The representatives of the Subterranean World were the spirit insects.

Basically the spirit insects ruled the Subterranean World.

This dark elf from the Purgatory World was caught by the spirit insects because the relationship between the Subterranean and Purgatory Worlds weren't good. The Subterranean World wanted the Purgatory World's resources and the Purgatory World wanted to control the Subterranean World. The two sides drooled after each other more than they drooled over the surface world.

Chu Tian didn't have the tone of someone condemned to death and crossed his legs as he leaned against the wall, "I am the City Lord of a surface forest city. Because the underground dark creatures have created a riot that has caused my city a bit of trouble, I came down to investigate. Who would have thought that I would accidentally kill the ants raised by these insects and were finally brought here by them."

The dark elf was very surprised.

He had reason to be doubtful and surprised.

The surface world wasn't considered far from the Subterranean World, but there were large amounts of dark creature nests, volcanoes, natural disasters, and all kinds of bad environment, so there weren't many paths that could be taken.

This person can come alone from the surface world?

The dark elf even suspected that this human was a trick the spirit insects were using to obtain information from him.

Chu Tian asked the dark elf while he was thinking, "Do you know what is happening?"

"The underground demon beast were stirred by the Purgatory World's Devil's Gate. This matter doesn't occur frequently, so there is no need to give up your life. Now that you are caught, you have no chance to escape. Just prepare and wait for death."

"There is no need. I can see that you know quite a bit, how about you escape with me."

"Humph, can you still move like this? Do all the surface dwellers like talking big like you?"

Chu Tian let out a soft whistle.

The little fox appeared in the cell with some black smoke.

The dark elf revealed a shocked look, "This is..."

Without saying anything else, the little fox gnawed through the chain and spat out a scroll for him.

Chu Tian untied the shackles of the stunned dark elves and took out another scroll for him, "This is a spatial transport scroll. You'll be able to return to the surface as long as you open it, so now come with me."

"You….."

"I have saved your life, so you will tell me the information I want, it's very fair. Don't talk, let's go!"

The dark elf hesitated a bit before giving the scroll back to Chu Tian, "No, I can't leave. I need to return to Purgatory!"

"Return to Purgatory?"

"Nikello City's invasion plan, I need to bring news back."

Damn, is his idiotic brain broken? Does he not see how serious the Nikello City defenses are!

Not to mention you, even if it was your master Chu Tian, even I wouldn't dare try to escape from here!

"If your excellency can help, we the people of Purgatory will be filled with gratitude to you!"

"Forget about the thanks." Chu Tian rolled his eyes, "How do you want me to help you?"

"Nikello City has one of the main Purgatory tunnels in the Subterranean World, there is a Purgatory channel at the bottom of Nikello City. As long as we can reach that pass, we have a chance to enter Purgatory."

Actually it wasn't easy for Chu Tian to come here and he didn't want to return to Miracle City just like this.

The problem now was the strict defenses of Nikello City and Chu Tian's condition was not good. How can a fish in troubled waters run away from this tightly guarded prison and pass through the channel?

The dark elf saw that Chu Tian was quiet, "I can see that this matter is hard for your excellency. Since it is like this, I'll go alone. We'll say goodbye now."

You're going?

Was there any difference from killing yourself? You might as well just kill yourself in this cell right now!

Chu Tian had the Transport Scroll, so he could escape even in the worst scenario. Now that he had found a guide to the underground Purgatory World, why not just take this chance to see the Purgatory World?

The little fox volunteered itself. It was also very interested in the Purgatory World, so it gave Chu Tian a plan.

"Do you have a way to stall for time?"

The little fox blew on the ground and the inside of the cell began to change. Two people appeared out of thin air and were tied up inside the cell.

Illusion Substitute? Small trick!

The little fox used its demonic technique and this time its target was Chu Tian and the dark elf. The two of them felt an energy enter their bodies and their appearances changed until they looked like spider people.

This move wasn't bad!

The little fox ate many things, but it wasn't like it was no use. This demonic technique seemed ordinary to Chu Tian and it was very likely to be broken if one looked carefully, but this was more than enough to use for now for these trapped fishes.

"Good! I'll give this plan a try!" Chu Tian's eyes turned white and he released his spatial energy, instantly taking in the dark elf as well, "We're leaving!"

Chapter 527: Entering Purgatory

After ten minutes or so, Nikello City was stirred.

"Someone, someone come quickly, the Purgatory Spy and the surface thief have run away!"

This news spread through Nikello City like it had grown wings, as various regions of spirit insects began to search.

The surrounding area was turned upside down.

They actually couldn't find a single thing!

The spirit insects felt this was very strange. One was a dark elf and one was a surface dweller, they would be very eye catching no matter where they went. It was impossible for them to not be spotted when escaping from prison, so why was there not a single trace of them?

"Commander, that fellow from the surface seems to have spatial energy. Perhaps they have already..."

"Shut up!" The commander coldly snorted at the officer, "Nikello City have many Divine Sense shielded areas, he can't lock onto a position outside, so he can't teleport out. Not to mention that that fellow is injured, so he can't have gone far. Search, search for me! If you can't find him, don't come back to me alive!"

"But this….." The spirit insects saw the commander releasing a strong killing intent and they didn't dare go against his order, so they could only buck up and search, "We'll immediately block up the exits and search from inside the city to outside."

"Wait!" The commander suddenly thought of something, "The Purgatory spy might try to return to Purgatory. Bring some more people and strengthen the defenses round the channel, don't give them a single opportunity."

The commander did not even get to finish.

Several beetle spirit insect soldiers quickly flew over and threw themselves on the ground, "Reporting to the commander. The Purgatory channel has just been attacked and several unknown people have entered it."

"What?!" The commander was filled with rage, "The entire channel has over ten thousand elites guarding it, how could they be attacked by a few people?"

The beetle warrior gingerly said, "One of them had the rare spatial energy, so our channel's defenses and fortifications had no use at all. When we noticed them, they had already entered the Purgatory channel."

"Waste, all of you are waste!" The commander immediately roared out, "Quickly, quickly, chase for me! We can't let them return to Purgatory!"

Nikello City gathered twenty thousand elites as quickly as possible, gathering at the Purgatory channel as soon as possible. With a giant noise, the channel was slowly opened.

Several dozen spirit insect commanders gave the order.

Twenty thousand elite soldiers wildly charged forward like a wave.

......

Chu Tian thought the Purgatory channel would be a long channel, but it was not like this at all. After they entered the channel from Nikello City, they didn't walk far before they reached an underground space. The terrain was very complicated, not inferior to the channels between the surface world and the Subterranean World.

What was even worse was that both of them were in a very weak condition. Chu Tian didn't have any bodily injuries, his main injuries were to his spiritual energy, but this had a large effect on his strength. The dark elf had been trapped for several days and suffered all kinds of torture, so his body was heavily injured, cutting his battle strength down by a large amount.

Chu Tian felt his head becoming dizzy and he stopped to take several breaths as he said, "How long do we still have to go?"

"There are several hundred miles between Purgatory and the Subterranean Worlds. With our current speed, if we don't get lost, it'll take over three days."

"What? Three days! What kind of joke is this!"

This was under the condition they didn't get lost.

The Subterranean World was an underground world and the space between the Subterranean and Purgatory Worlds was an area the surface dwellers could not imagine. This place was filled with strange creatures, many of them that Chu Tian couldn't even name.

The dark elf saw Chu Tian didn't move and very anxiously said, "The Subterranean lackies will find us soon. If we are caught by them, we shouldn't think of going to Purgatory! Quickly move!"

"No, moving like this is like being a headless fly. This kind of terrain is this complicated, we'll reach a dead end sooner or later."

"There is still hope now, but if we just stand her, we will die without a doubt!"

"Only you will die, not me. Father can leave this place whenever I want."

"You..."

Chu Tian was too lazy to waste words, so he looked down at the little fox. The little fox understood Chu Tian's meaning and immediately called out a Thunderbird with its demonic technique. Chu Tian jumped onto the back of the giant bird and held the bird's feathers as he shouted to the stunned dark elf on the side, "What are you in a daze for? We need to leave!"

The Thunderbird let out a sharp bird's cry and charged into the bottomless world as fast as lightning. With this incredibly fast Thunderbird as transport and the little fox with the Divine Eye guiding them, this combination could be considered perfect. The probability of escaping would increase significantly.

However, the dark elf and Chu Tian didn't let their guard down.

The Thunderbird didn't carry the two of them far before suddenly several large moths caught up. These moths were several meters long and each one had a spirit insect expert on their back. It was clear they had already locked onto Chu Tian and the dark elf.

"Damn, they caught up this quickly?"

The little fox didn't transform, but its eyes turned a demonic green colour as it used its technique on the moth demon beasts. The moths were soon all controlled and one spat green flames at another, instantly burning half of its body. The other moth demon beasts began to fight each other.

While this was happening.

Several moths came from the passages around them, as well as some riding giant bats. The little fox's demonic technique was useful against demon beasts, but there were too many of them and the little fox couldn't deal with them all.

Chu Tian forcefully pulled the Thunderbird's feather and shouted, "Move quicker!"

Several dozen spirit beast controlled demon beasts came close and several moths spat out a green demonic flame. This flame was very strong and if the Thunderbird was hit, it would lose the ability to do anything. The little fox was controlling the Thunderbird to dodge the flames while also using its demonic technique to deal with the moths coming forward to attack them.

But right at this time.

Several high frequency energy waves came over. When the energy waves hit the rock, they instantly turned it into powder. There was one wave that hit the Thunderbird's abdomen, creating a blast of bird feathers. The Thunderbird gave a pitiful cry and turned a few times in the air. It became slower and there was blood that came out of its mouth. Although it didn't look that injured on the outside, quite a few of its internal organs were blasted.

Chu Tian had no other way, he suddenly called his main source spirit. His eyes turned the green colour of life energy and a green light poured into the Thunderbird, instantly healing the heavily injured Thunderbird by a half.

The Thunderbird quickly charged forward again with a cry and the continuous rocks came to an end. There was a giant abyss that appeared in front of them that spread tens of thousands of meters wide, with a lava waterfall hanging over it, looking very grand. The Thunderbird suddenly dived down like a meteor, instantly charging into the abyss.

There were several black bats that chased after it. The space around the bats fluctuated as it released the strong energy wave attack again.

The dark elf stood up seeing this and it was surrounded by black spirit energy, which finally condensed into a giant black bow. A dark attributed source spirit in the form of a bow, it looked like he was a long range attack expert.

The black elf gathered three dark arrows.

The three arrows disappeared as soon as they were fired.

Three bats gave pitiful screeches, taking one arrow each into their body.

Although these monsters with strong vitality didn't die from an arrow, they were still heavily injured and couldn't keep attacking the Thunderbird.

The black elf's cultivation was not weak!

It was most likely in the 7th True Spirit Layer!

This strength whether underground or on the surface was considered a first class expert!

Not to mention the black elf had a rare dark source spirit. His arrows couldn't be tracked once they were fired, so they had a strong deterrent force.

The pursuing spirit insect soldiers spread out.

Chu Tian found a strange phenomenon, it was like gravity suddenly disappeared. He felt like his body was floating and the surrounding rocks were also floating in the air.

Weightless level!

Chu Tian had studied the continent's dimensional structure before and the weightless level was a gravity free zone formed by an energy field. There were two known weightless zones on the continent, one at several hundred kilometers in the sky and one at the the place where the depth couldn't be seen. There was no gravity in these places, so all materials floated there.

Because of this, Chu Tian saw something very incredible.

Countless giant peaks were all floating. Large amounts of lava flowed into the bottomless pit and spread out in front of him like mist, just like it was forming a giant sea.

Chu Tian was getting closer and closer to the sea of fire, "This is..."

The dark elf loudly shouted, "This is the border between the Purgatory and Subterranean Worlds. We have to find a way past this layer of flames and we'll be able to approach the Purgatory World."

These words sounded like an irresponsible joke, how could a person jump into an ocean formed out of large amounts of lava? This was no different from seeking death!

The dark elf knew that the surface dwellers would find this hard to believe, so he was thinking about how to explain it.

Who would have thought that Chu Tian wouldn't ask anything. There was a blue and white flame that came from Chu Tian that quickly surrounded the Thunderbird, including the dark elf and the little fox. The Thunderbird turned into a flame bird. It threw itself into the sea of rocks and charged into the red world of flames.

The sea of flames was formed by the current of energy of the weightless layer. The sea of flames seemed very terrifying, but actually the energy was very unevenly distributed. There were places that could even burn a Titan or a Behemoth, but there were also places where the protective energy of the True Spirit Layer could block it.

Therefore as long as one had enough strength or found a suitable place to charge in, finding a way to enter, one could pass through it.

The little fox used the Divine Eye to guide them, guiding the Thunderbird through the flames.

The sea of flame was deeper than Chu Tian had expected. When they were half through it, Chu Tian felt it was very strenuous. When he was two thirds of the way through, Chu Tian already felt like he couldn't hold on. When he was four fifths of the way through, the Netherworld Flames quickly disappeared and it couldn't cover the Thunderbird anymore.

The Thunderbird was burned by the high temperature of the flames, immediately wincing it pain. It could only use its own energy to block the flow.

"Charge out!"

"Charge out!"

Peng!

When they passed through the other side, a large bird that was completely burned black fell from the sky onto the ground like a falling star. It finally made a large boom as it entered the forest.

Chapter 528: Rare species

The layer of flames was several hundred meters deep, Chu Tian naturally didn't have the strength to support his way through.

What filled Chu Tian with joy was that when his spirit energy was about to run out, he finally passed through the endless sea of flames. Although he avoided being turned into coal like the Thunderbird, he still fell onto the ground like a falling star.

Hong!

A large part of the forest was burned by this sudden strike, creating a large hole like a meteorite falling down. Chu Tian was in the center of this hole and felt that he couldn't move his body.

The little fox drilled out of the burned ground with a dusty face and looked very sorry, but it wasn't affected too much. It ran in front of Chu Tian and grabbed at Chu Tian who couldn't move.

"The dark elf?"

The little fox looked around and couldn't find the dark elf. It didn't know it he was burned up when they passed through the flames or if it fell a hundred miles away when they were falling.

Chu Tian turned his neck with difficulty and looked all around himself.

Purgatory World, this was the Purgatory World!

Perhaps even someone on the surface with the greatest imagination wouldn't be able to think that there was such an incredible space over a thousand miles underneath the continent!

The Purgatory World didn't have a sky.

Therefore, when the Purgatory World residents looked up, they could only see a colourful dome above them. This was not just rock, it as a layer formed of different rare crystals, that was like the stars of the surface world.

If one thought that the underground world would certainly be jet black, they would be wrong.

The Purgatory World was not black, rather it had just enough light, like the surface world at dusk. Although it was dim, it was enough for people to see. Some people would be doubtful, where did this light come from? It was impossible for there to be a sun in the Purgatory World.

It was a large mistake thinking like this.

The Purgatory World did have a sun.

The Purgatory World didn't just have one, it had several hundred, several thousand, several tens of thousands of suns.

When the living beings of the Purgatory World looked up, other than seeing large amounts of complicated and beautiful rocks, they could also see large groups of differently shaped lights. Some were round, some were polygons, some were lines, and some even changed shapes.

That's right.

The sea of flames!

Chu Tian had just passed the same flame layer to enter the Purgatory World.

Actually the layer above the Purgatory World was very densely distributed, with large amount of energy and light being shined down onto the Purgatory World. It could be imagined what the roof above the Purgatory World was like. Countless little small suns and stars crossing each other, in a surprising coexistence. It was different from the surface world's sky and was a magnificent sight.

The underground world had to be bleak?

Of course not!

There was light, heat, and energy gathering for tens of millions of years. It created an ecosystem that was different from the surface world, but it was just as complicated. Where Chu Tian crashed in was a giant forest.

Of course.

The Purgatory World's forest was different from the surface world's forest, most of the plants here were underground dark plants that couldn't appear in the surface world. It was hard to find Purgatory plants similar to each other because the plants here lived in different environments. Even if there were two seeds that were the same, when they grew up, they could become two different things.

The entire Purgatory World was surrounded by a faint haze. There were bamboo shoots in the ground and water flowing off glowing crystal algae. If it was not close to the dark world, people would feel they had entered a fairytale world!

Chu Tian didn't have time to admire the strange style of the Purgatory World.

The little fox did a simple search and couldn't find that dark elf.

"Forget it, who cares about him. We're already in the Purgatory World, we'll think of a way ourselves."

"However, my situation is bad. I have to enter a period of deep cultivation to recover my spiritual energy, protect me during this time."

The little fox spat out the spiritual energy herbs Chu Tian found in the Demon Ants valley. Chu Tian didn't have the ability to make any pills and he had the Netherworld Flame, so he directly swallowed it and used his body as a furnace to refine it. Although this was wasteful, what other choice did he have?

After Chu Tian ate several stalks of spiritual herbs, he immediately felt a strong weariness.

When people slept, their minds were active, but this was an ineffective way of recovering one's mind. Sleep was a kind of natural defense system, so Chu Tian needed to go into a period of deep sleep before he could completely recover.

The little fox called out a few times.

You can't fall asleep here!

Chu Tian was already asleep and no matter how the little fox pushed, the current Chu Tian was like he was dead and he wouldn't wake up at all. When the little fox was feeling depressed, its furry ears suddenly perked, like it had heard something. It immediately drilled into Chu Tian's clothes to hide.

Some people appeared out of the forest.

These people were very discrete, watching from afar the entire time. After watching for a quarter of an hour and seeing that there was no movement, these people slowly came over flapping their wings.

"There's a strange being that fell from the Subterranean World!"

These beings looked very strange. They were clearly intelligent beings, but they had wings like butterfly wings. They looked like elves on the surface, with the same pointy ears, but their skin were different. Some had green skin, some had blue skin, some had yellow skin, and some had white skin. They also had a long and thing tail on their behind, with a point at the end of it. This was the normal tail of a demon.

This meant that these beings were demons or perhaps subraces of the demon race. It was a dark race that had the demon bloodline.

This was a Butterfly Demon.

Butterfly Demons were a relatively weak dark race and couldn't be considered a large race of the Purgatory World. They could only exist in the cracks of large races or rely on a more powerful race to survive.

But the Purgatory World couldn't compare to the surface world. A race that could survive here, it was impossible for them not to have their own advantages. The Butterfly Demons had weak attacks, but they could use confusion, hypnosis, and poison. There were times where they were hard to deal with.

The Butterfly Demons surrounded the sleeping Chu Tian in the pit and pointed their fingers at him.

"Just what is this?"

"A spy sent by the Subterraneans?"

"But he doesn't look like the Subterranean spirit insects. Rather he looks like an elf."

"He can't be a spy just because he doesn't look like it? Even if it is a dark elf, they don't all live in the Purgatory World. There are elves living in the Subterranean World. I think this is a Subterranean spy and we should just suck his blood dry!"

"No, whether he is a Subterranean spy or not, we can't easily take care of him. He is a being that fell from above, I think we can sell him for a good price. Tie him up and take him away!"

The Butterfly Demons were very timid.

But Chu Tian didn't have the ability to resist. The Butterfly Demons were a weak and impoverished race, now they had discovered this never before seen rare and precious being. If it was a spy, the information he had was valuable. If he wasn't a spy, it was still a rare and never before seen creature, so it could be sold to the dark gnome merchants for a large amount!

Several Butterfly Demon men and women towed Chu Tian away.

Thirty miles away, a cliff was covered in strange ancient trees. The ancient trees were covered by ganoderma, but it had already been half petrified. These Butterfly Demons made their nest on the trees growing from this cliff. The entire Demon Butterfly village had several thousand people, which was not considered a small force in the Purgatory World.

The Butterfly Demons bringing back a creature that had never been seen before, it created quite a stir in this little village.

"I feel like it is definitely a half blood elf."

"No, no, how could it be an elf? The smell of his blood is completely different from that of the elves, so he is completely different race than the elves."

"Then what is he?"

"Who knows? He doesn't have a demon smell coming from him and doesn't have a spirit insect smell."

The Butterfly Demons excitedly discussed this.

"Stop arguing already!" A female Butterfly Demon that didn't seem too old came out. She was the smartest person in the village and her snow white skin represented the best Butterfly Demon bloodline. The Butterfly Demon placed a large importance on bloodline, so once she spoke, most of the Butterfly Demons closed their mouths, "Now isn't the time to discuss. This fellow is heavily injured right now, if we don't cure him and he dies, he isn't worth anything!"

The Butterfly Demons finally realized.

That's right, he had no value if he died!

The Butterfly Demons inspected this strange being's body and found that the other side's injuries weren't as heavy as they imagined, making them feel it was very strange. An old Butterfly Demon said at this time, "Perhaps, his injury is to his mind or his soul. Go and take a look."

Although the Butterfly Demons weren't strong, they normally had some spiritual energy, so they could investigate the status of his mind. In the end the Butterfly Demons were shocked when they looked.

"His spiritual energy is actually this heavily injured!"

"What kind of being could withstand this kind of wound!"

"It's already a miracle he can survive this, it seems like he won't wake up!"

The Butterfly Demons reached this conclusion and they all revealed looks of disappointment. A person that was basically a vegetable, it would be discounted by a large amount no matter how precious he was.

"How do we take care of it now?"

"Whether he is a Subterranean spy or not, since we can't wake him up, there is no valuable information at all." The young white Butterfly Demon said, "Since it's like this, we can sell him to the gnomes. Our village is having less and less products, so we hope we can sell him for a good price."

Right, right.

They could only do this.

The Butterfly Demons didn't have any income. This strange being fell out of the sky and since he has the skills to pass through the Subterranean World, this meant he wasn't normal. Perhaps they could sell him for a sky high price!

The gnome merchants were all rich.

Even if they only took out a bit, it would be enough for the Butterfly Demons to spend for a long time.

The Butterfly Demons sent the news of a never before seen being to the gnome merchants which caught their attention. They immediately sent several merchants to this tree valley village.

The dark gnomes were very astute and were famous in the Purgatory World.

However, when even the experienced gnomes saw the being the Butterfly Demons were trying to sell, their eyes opened wide in disbelief.

Just what was this thing?

This being was very strange, the Purgatory World had never seen it before!

The Butterfly Demons saw the dark gnomes had this kind of heavy expression and their hearts jumped up. Could this being that they picked up bring riches to the village?