Divine Beast Creator
Chapter 661 - 662: Mechanism_1

Chapter 661: Chapter 662: Mechanism_1

Seeing the Illusory Sound Parrot randomly mimicking various sounds, Guo Huai didn’t know whether it genuinely couldn’t speak or was just playing dumb. Suddenly remembering something, Guo Huai pointed at the Illusory Sound Parrot and said,

"Speaking of which, weren’t you going to teach it some special move?"

"Haven’t I been teaching it?"

"Really?"

Guo Huai looked at Feng Yuan skeptically and nodded as Feng Yuan said,

"I teach it during our breaks. It can practice on its own while we’re traveling."

"But..."

Guo Huai glanced at the Illusory Sound Parrot preening its feathers. Why hadn’t he noticed it practicing?

"Anyway, there’s no need to worry~"

The Illusory Sound Parrot suddenly fluttered its wings and flew up. Feng Yuan pointed his staff towards the dark passage and shouted loudly,

"Who’s there!"

In response to Feng Yuan, a ghostly blue Energy Sphere came forth, and a lush green Barrier stopped the Sphere. Delong Tower charged forward, and soon, a water column blasted an ancient oil lamp in front of everyone. Looking at the lamp that still burned with ghostly blue flames underwater, Feng Yuan said with surprise,

"A Ghost Fire Lamp? Is there anyone else around?"

Delong Tower shook his head. When it charged over, it hadn’t detected any other creatures. As to the possibility of something evading its detection? After all, it was a Divine Beast, and ordinary tricks were useless against it. Only beings like Gitalien, who could directly leap through space, might be able to avoid its detection.

"What’s the matter? Is there a problem?"

"Why would a Ghost Fire Lamp appear here?"

Feng Yuan looked puzzled at the lamp lying in the puddle as Yao Yin glanced at the Ghost Fire Lamp and said,

"It looks like it belongs to a Ghost Series Spirit Beast, doesn’t it? Isn’t it quite normal for them to appear in ruins like this?"

"Normal my ass, the ruins aren’t haunted houses; where would Ghost Series Spirit Beasts come from."

"Generally speaking, at best, Earth System Spirit Beasts would make a completely plundered, harmless ruin their home; it’s practically unheard of for Ghost Series Spirit Beasts to do the same."

Feng Yuan continued, looking around puzzled,

"Because aside from normal feeding, Ghost Series Spirit Beasts can also sustain their bodies through the soul energy dispersed by living beings, which makes inhabited human towns actually the most suitable habitat for them."

"It’s just that, due to misunderstandings and other factors, they’re unable to congregate in large numbers within human towns."

Guo Huai glanced at Feng Yuan and said irritably,

"That’s stating the obvious, who would want to live with a bunch of wild Ghost Series Spirit Beasts for no reason, if not to freak themselves out?"

Mo Li smiled awkwardly and did not refute, although it seemed like Feng Yuan’s point was that Ghost Series Spirit Beasts wouldn’t threaten the living, Mo Li was skeptical about this.

"So what you’re saying is that this is pure prejudice against them," Feng Yuan said discontentedly. Agunas’s phantom swished its tail and said,

"Can’t help it, who makes most of them like to linger around places like graveyards?"

"Although they go there to guide wandering souls to the Netherworld, to those who don’t know the truth, that doesn’t seem like benign behavior."

"And besides."

Agunas’s phantom stared at the Ghost Fire Lamp on the ground and said,

"If they actually attack, it’s fine if they use their special moves upfront, but those that secretly sap the soul’s energy..."

"To be honest, from a human perspective, it’s understandable that they wouldn’t want wild Ghost and Death-type Spirit Beasts near their living areas."

"It does seem to be the case..."

Guo Huai thought for a moment and couldn’t help but agree with Agunas’s phantom. Even nowadays, Beastmasters who’d choose Ghost Series Beasts were a minority, not to mention Spirit Beastmasters; unless necessary, no one would choose a Ghost Series Spirit Beast.

The protagonists of those horror stories were all kinds of strange Ghost Series Spirit Beasts. As for Death Series Spirit Beasts, their situation was slightly better. It seemed people weren’t particularly averse to them, but because of the difficulty in incorporating them into teams, few Beastmasters chose them.

"Wild ones shouldn’t appear here, but who would be so absurd..."

Feng Yuan poked the Ghost Fire Lamp on the ground with some confusion, while Guo Huai said with some astonishment,

"Did Delong Tower just retract the water?"

"What do you mean, retract the water?"

"The puddle on the ground."

Guo Huai pointed to the stone floor beneath the Ghost Fire Lamp, which had already dried, causing Feng Yuan’s expression to change as he said,

"It’s not retracting it, everyone quickly gather around the White Wolf Deity, we’re leaving!"

After speaking, Feng Yuan grabbed the Ghost Fire Lamp, picked up Xiao Ji and placed Xiao Ji on his head, glanced at Little Green Snake who was driving away Pomiti, scooped up Little Green Snake with one hand and said,

"Hurry!"

However, they were a step too late as the sound of gears turning rang out, and the ground beneath everyone’s feet abruptly vanished into thin air. The Illusory Sound Parrot, flapping its wings in alarm at this sudden change, couldn’t ascend an inch no matter how it beat its wings, due perhaps to some change in gravity or some other reason, it even began to slowly fall towards the bottomless dark pit below.

From the mouth of the Illusory Sound Parrot came a jumble of words, as it desperately flapped its wings, but its descent only quickened.

Delong Tower extended several arms made of water from the energy sphere to catch everyone and place them on the enlarged White Wolf Deity. Feng Yuan caught the Illusory Sound Parrot delivered by Delong Tower and placed it on the White Wolf Deity’s back, saying,

"You better not run around, it’s relatively safe here."

The White Wolf Deity howled long and loud as barriers formed around it, with Mo Li protectively holding Mo Ling, nervously asking,

"What do we do now?"

"Wait for now, let’s see what happens, and if there’s no danger, we’ll figure out a way to leave."

At this moment, the pull from the darkness below grew even stronger, so much so that not even the White Wolf Deity and Delong Tower could break free of it with their physical strength alone.

"Looks like your tricks aren’t so great after all, I told you the Divine Lord ghosts can escape easily."

Back in the hall where Feng Yuan and the others had been before, two individuals dressed like adventurers ran in, but by then the hall had returned to its original state, and they detected nothing amiss.

"No choice, I can’t let my companions test for dangers, can I?"

"And who knew it’d actually be able to run away? These stone walls are supposed to stop the Divine Lords from phasing through, didn’t you encounter that on your side?"

The two of them complained to each other, with one of them calling towards another corridor, a somewhat muffled voice responding,

"I didn’t see anything, it must not have run this way."

"Strange, where else could it go?"

"Are you sure your trick will work? Although ghosts are a bit terrifying, if they really can protect us it would be great. But what we’re doing now..."

"Regret it? The Divine Lord’s sensitivity is much higher than ours, they’re more likely to find hidden things. I just don’t know if it sensed something and sneaked away..."

Just then, the muffled voice came again,

"Anyway, we’re only cooperating with it and haven’t done anything harmful to it, I believe it won’t retaliate against us."

"Really? ..."

Recalling how they had forced it earlier, one of them muttered resentfully.

"Where exactly is this?"

Poking his head out from the White Wolf Deity’s back, looking down at the huge pale blue dome-shaped barrier beneath the White Wolf Deity, Guo Huai quietly asked Feng Yuan, as Agunas’s phantom swished its tail and said,

"Why would that water activate the mechanism?"

"I don’t know."

Feng Yuan spread his hands helplessly and said, unable to comprehend it either. After a period of falling, they now found themselves atop a massive energy sphere. Runes occasionally drifted from the sphere outwards. The White Wolf Deity took a few steps on the curved surface of the sphere only to meet solid rock. The space they were in, sensed by Feng Yuan’s spiritual power, appeared to be cone-shaped: wider at the bottom and narrower at the top, with a spherical shell beneath the paws of the White Wolf Deity.

Of course, whether it was truly a sphere or a hemisphere was something Feng Yuan couldn’t confirm, because his spiritual power couldn’t penetrate the surrounding rock walls, preventing him from ascertaining the exact shape.

"Strange, what’s wrong with this mechanism?"

Feng Yuan was puzzled, Hua Yiyou, equally puzzled, said,

"Logically, there shouldn’t be such a mechanism, it should either trap people to death or have deadly traps, what’s with this neither here nor there situation?"

After all, with no apparent danger, the White Wolf Deity naturally led everyone around. Aside from the energy sphere underfoot, they only knew of the hole they had fallen through as a possible passageway.

Watching the runes chains that kept drifting upward, Liu Wenli seemed to have an idea.