Dimensional Hotel
Chapter 384: Bottom of the Demon Suppression Tower

Chapter 384: Chapter 384: Bottom of the Demon Suppression Tower

The circular platform inscribed with countless Immortal Talismans passed the main containment area of the Demon Suppression Tower, continuing to descend towards the cave at the base of the Tower, a cave so deep it gave the illusion of reaching the planet’s core.

Around the platform, deep within the rough and primitive stone walls, streams of light occasionally flashed. Between jagged protruding rock formations, bright and short arcs of electricity jumped. The further they descended, the more these light flows and arcs increased, eventually forming continuous "rivers" underground.

The so-called "rivers" of light flowed from the rocks, intersecting and coursing through the air, their light ebbing and swelling like pulse and breath.

Yu Sheng looked on in amazement at the spectacular and dreamlike scenery.

The flowing and pulsating rivers of light were silent, yet he had the distinct feeling that they were conveying some "sound" to him—staring at them, watching the flickering lights in his vision, he seemed to hear the thumping, like the sound of a heartbeat...

Deep, slow, gentle, the heartbeat of the planet’s depths whispered softly to Yu Sheng, speaking to him gently—

"It’s very healthy."

Yu Sheng suddenly broke the silence, muttering to himself as if talking to himself.

Sitting on his shoulder, Erin heard the mutter and was a bit puzzled: "Huh? What’s very healthy?"

"The planet," Yu Sheng smiled, for some reason feeling a bit happy, a subtle sense of elation spreading from the depths of his heart. It felt like the first time he returned to the purified Nightfall Valley and saw the tiny grass breaking through the soil. He simply sat cross-legged at the edge of the platform, watching the vibrant light streams weaving and dancing in the rock cave with delight, "It’s truly wonderful."

Zheng Zhi, watching nearby, was bewildered and couldn’t help but mutter quietly to Hu Li: "Do you know what Brother Yu is talking about?"

"No idea," Hu Li replied without thinking, "but the Savior is right."

Saying that, she crouched beside Yu Sheng, also gazing at the flowing "light rivers," happily squinting her eyes, "It’s truly wonderful."

Luna stood quietly behind Yu Sheng as always, the faint light from the earth veins reflecting off her smooth metal shell with a mesmerizing sheen. In the refracted light, no one knew what she was thinking at that moment.

True Man Yuanling stood nearby, stroking his beard, appearing to observe the rock cave environment, but his peripheral vision was consistently on Yu Sheng, yet he said nothing.

The Dao is to be realized, the more you ask, the shallower the "Dao" becomes.

The old man simply watched Yu Sheng with his "Heavenly Eye," contemplating the Dao, until his head started to spin, and he had to look away. Almost at the same time, he heard Yu Sheng break the silence: "Do all planets have ’earth veins’?"

"Not all," True Man Yuanling was startled for a moment and hurriedly replied, "Most of the still-active planets have earth veins. Some earth veins are strong and visible, with energy flows that can be seen by the naked eye like underground rivers flowing constantly from the mantle to the crust. The most famous earth vein phenomenon in this category is the ’Loka’s Touch’ on Terra Planet, and next are these ’Light Rivers’ beneath the Taixu Spirit Hub. Some earth veins are hard to detect with the naked eye and require arrays or spiritual artifacts to observe them.

"There are also some planets without earth veins, usually those whose deep-layer activities have completely ceased, and no life evolves on the surface either. Outsiders often call them ’dead planets’, ’deathly silent planets’, or ’cold stars’, and we call them ’Deserted Stars’...

"But there are exceptions. Some planets that have long been classified as ’Deserted Stars’ and clearly have no earth veins that can be detected by any means, have active interiors or even lush surfaces teeming with life such as mountains, rivers, and lakes. These planets often harbor strange phenomena, so some privately call them ’Corpse Stars’, mostly considering them ominous... but apart from some weirdness, there’s little basis for this ’ominous’ notion."

Yu Sheng listened with a sense of wonder at this incredible "knowledge," shaking his head after a while with a sigh, "I’ve never heard of such things before."

"That’s quite normal," said Zheng Zhi, who was nearby, with a cheerful tone, "Most people over there don’t really understand ’planets’, as the ’starry sky’ over Boundary City at night is essentially just a shadow formed when the real universe is projected onto the ’spatial shell’ of the Boundary Land."

Listening to Zheng Zhi, Yu Sheng did not explain much, simply smiling and shaking his head before standing up.

They had arrived.

The platform had reached the bottom of the rock cave, an incredibly vast area akin to an underground cavern. It was illuminated by the surrounding earth vein light flows, revealing numerous grand, man-made stone pillars standing at the bottom. These pillars were covered in profound ancient talismans and embedded with items like copper rings and crystals, exuding an air of solemn magnificence, clearly part of the Demon Suppression Tower’s foundation stone.

Among these magnificent "Demon Suppression Stone Pillars", there were countless chains.

These chains crisscrossed, hanging down from the tops of the giant pillars and connecting to the bases of each pillar. The iron locks formed a network, creating segments that seemed to harbor specific rules and "Daoist Techniques". And at the primary "focus" point among them, a massive body was tightly bound by the thick chains.

It was a "stone sphere".

Yu Sheng could only describe it this way—because it looked like a gigantic stone sphere. The surface of the stone sphere was extraordinarily rough and pitted, as if struck by a meteorite, or simply put... it resembled a miniature "planet". This "planet", about the size of a house, was wrapped in layers upon layers of iron chains, and the gaps between the chains were filled with various talismans, which looked bizarre and carried a faint sense of horror.

Even more horrifying was that when Yu Sheng and his companions stepped down from the platform, the stone sphere gradually floated up, its surface rapidly showing numerous fine cracks. Those cracks moved around, in the blink of an eye, forming a grotesque face.

Two hollow, empty eyes, a mouth riddled with jagged sharp teeth, seemingly smiling.

"What a mess, Yuanling," the stone sphere rumbled, its mouth opening and closing, dropping a lot of gray-white stone powder, "At this time, you still have the time to see me?"

"Of course I must come, especially at times like this, I am more worried about what’s ’down below’," True Man Yuanling looked at the stone sphere at the center of the Demon Suppression Array with an expressionless face, "But now it seems that you’re even more well-behaved than them."

"Of course, I have always been well-behaved, because I am smarter than them," the stone sphere laughed hoarsely, "When the top cracked open, ’Nest Goose’ was the first to rush out, bringing along those fools from the upper layer—they all thought that the collapse of the Demon Suppression Tower would mean the chaos of Qianfeng Ling Mountain. Only I know that if this Demon Suppression Tower were to truly collapse one day, it would only be when you Qianfeng Ling Mountain start a massacre... This tower is just a bit of dignity and opportunity you leave for the ’enemies of humanity’."

"’Enemies of humanity’... I haven’t heard that term in a long time." True Man Yuanling stroked his beard, his tone filled with reminiscence.

"It’s said that you have now categorized the ’enemies of humanity’ into many kinds, gave them a lot of fancy names—demons, fierce beasts, evil spirits, entities, oh, and various ’Evil Demons’, all messed up," the stone sphere rambled on, as if having a casual chat with True Man Yuanling, "In the old days, it was simpler, one sentence summed it up: ’Enemy of humanity, kill without mercy’, tsk, things were more straightforward back then."

True Man Yuanling ignored the sarcastic tone in the stone sphere’s voice and turned his head to introduce Yu Sheng and the others, who were full of curiosity: "This demon creature is called ’Omen Wandering Star’, originally a bizarre existence in the star sea, capable of traversing the void by leveraging subspace, disguising itself as a meteorite to fall to the ground and gnaw on the earth veins for sustenance, causing harm to many beings back then.

"Three thousand years ago, it landed on the Taixu Spirit Hub, was subdued by many powerful beings working together, and has since been suppressed underground.

"It deserves this fate; it gnawed on countless earth veins, but this Taixu Spirit Hub’s earth vein turned out to be poisonous for it."

Yu Sheng listened in astonishment, gaining a deeper understanding of how many wicked things this world could harbor, while the stone sphere slowly rotated its massive body, its terrifying face turning towards Yu Sheng and his group, pulling up its mouth: "Pleased to meet you—Yuanling, not going to introduce us? You usually don’t bring outsiders here."

"It has nothing to do with you, these are guests of my Qianfeng Ling Mountain," True Man Yuanling said sternly, "I am here to show them to inspect the situation of the Demon Suppression Tower—you just stay put."

"Alright, inspect it, it’s dreadfully boring here anyway," the stone sphere shook, the chains wrapped around it clanking noisily, "By the way, Yuanling, is ’Nest Goose’ really dead? It never came back after it charged out."

"Dead," True Man Yuanling said indifferently, "An A-class containment subject, locked on this layer as a fierce beast, going out is punishable by death, certainly to be killed without mercy."

"Tsk, I said it had no brains," the stone sphere’s tone was mocking and gleeful, "At least one less annoying fool. It’s a pity though, with its death, Eight Gates Star might run into some trouble. I remember that’s your Qianfeng Ling Mountain’s colonized star? Or is it Yaolan Sect’s... Want my help? I have some insights into adjusting planet states, won’t ask for much, just a small ’bite’ will do..."

True Man Yuanling stared quietly at the "Omen Wandering Star": "What do you think?"

The stone sphere slowly landed on the ground, wrapping the surrounding chains around itself a couple more times: "...No means no, why the fierce look."

Meanwhile, Yu Sheng also stopped paying attention to the stone sphere and accompanied Zheng Zhi to the side of a huge stone pillar.

"The fissure goes down from here," Zheng Zhi held onto the stone pillar beside him, even though in front of him was just solid, flat ground, his movements seemed as if afraid of falling into some big hole, "It penetrated right through the ground here."

Yu Sheng was shocked when he heard this: "...Still going down?!"

"Yes, still going down," Zheng Zhi hesitated for a moment, his expression particularly tense, "It’s as if it’s going all the way to pierce into the core of the Earth!"