Chapter 209 Remaining Divine Power

The gods who once slept in the depths of the cave disappeared.

The sudden appearance of the Zhongling dirty blood containing divine power in the border area is no coincidence!

More importantly, the Zhongling dirty blood is a contaminated existence in the description of checking for omissions and filling gaps, and it is infecting the beasts in the border area.

Although no catastrophic events have occurred yet, Yu Ke is particularly sensitive to such abnormal phenomena due to his recent experiences.

His intuition tells him that if this situation continues, it will sooner or later lead to a catastrophe.

In order to find out what kind of existence Zhongling dirty blood is, the place where the gods sleep in the depths of the cave is Yu Ke's only clue at the moment.

Using the Fubo quality to control the water flow, Yu Ke's figure keeps floating up until he rushes out of the water.

He habitually turns on the lights and cameras on both sides of the helmet.

The will of the forest spirit turns into dark green fluorescence, carrying the seeds of the lantern flower and flying out, ready to illuminate this area.

Yu Ke looked around and noticed that this should be an underground cave, and it was not small in size, at least half the size of the black copper mine cave. There were many jagged stalagmites protruding from the dark river nearby.

Walking slowly on the water, Yu Ke soon noticed the giant stone pillar soaked in the water in front of him on the left. The overall scale was larger than what he saw in the black copper vein, but it was broken and placed around the stalagmites in a mess.

Only a small part of it, the rest should have sunk into the dark river.

Such an obvious man-made building made Yu Ke wonder if this place was similar to the Forest Spirit Temple.

Just as he was about to ask Forest Spirit whether those people had built other temples in the depths of the Mirror Lake Forest, he suddenly caught a glimpse of a ferocious beast lurking in the dark!

Yu Ke, who was highly alert, immediately entered the combat state, took the black thorn longbow, bent the bow and drew the arrow to shoot it first, but until the arrow shot through the beast's head, it did not move at all.

The perception spread over confirmed that there was no breath of life in that area.

Lantern flowers took root and sprouted on the stalagmites, and the light blue light dispelled the shadows.

Yu Ke then discovered that the beast that seemed to be about to launch an attack stayed in place, and a thick layer of dust accumulated on its colorful fur. At first glance, it looked like a lifelike statue.

As the lantern flowers bloomed around and brought light, a large number of similar beings came into Yu Ke's eyes.

This cave actually gathered a large number of ferocious beasts, and without exception, they were all stiff in place, even though their races and forms were different, their bodies were all lifeless, and people's backs were cold.

A considerable number of them looked very familiar to Yu Ke, and he had hunted them personally when he was hunting in the secret realm of the cave not long ago.

After all, this is a cave hundreds of meters above the ground, and the beasts that can appear here can only be ferocious beasts in the secret realm of the cave.

Looking back and forth, Yu Ke walked to the nearest beast corpse, intending to find out why they appeared here in a state similar to "specimens".

As soon as he approached, he saw a crack on its back.

Because the distance was close enough, the helmet light was projected on the beast's back, and Yu Ke was surprised to find that there was a crack about half a finger wide extending from its skull to the tail vertebrae. Looking down from a high position, he could see that the flesh and blood in the body were missing.

Seeing this scene, Yu Ke immediately checked several other beasts nearby, and without exception, they were just empty shells.

No wonder none of these beasts could move, it turned out that their bones, flesh and internal organs had been hollowed out!

The first thing Yu Ke thought of was the soul-eating worm that caught his attention at the beginning.

Although the soul-eating worm's target is the soul of the fierce beast, they are just the split part of the body.

Through the investigation of the missing and supplementary characteristics and the subsequent tracking, it is enough to prove that the body of the soul-eating worm is in this cave.

The forest spirits patrolling nearby have not issued any warning information so far, and it is obvious that the soul-eating insects have already left.

‘If they are just for food, there is no need to cut open their backs and not even spare the skeletons. This does not look like a simple meal.’

Yu Ke, who noticed something unusual, stretched out his hand to pry open the crack and let the light in for better observation.

The light spread over the dark red flesh and blood shell, and Yu Ke saw some sticky liquid in it, as well as brown shell fragments scattered among the flesh and blood, which looked out of place.

Just as Yu Ke pulled out the dragon tooth dagger and wanted to take out the fragments for further observation.

The dark environment in front suddenly bloomed with green light.

The forest spirit that found the key clue reminded Yu Ke in this way. When the latter cast his eyes on the position where it was, the lantern flowers bloomed in large numbers, illuminating the area that was originally shrouded in darkness.

At this time, Yu Ke discovered that the cave was not entirely a pool of water. There was also a piece of land close to the inside that was as large as a football field.

Looking around, the ground was full of ruins formed by the collapse of buildings, with bricks, stones and tiles scattered all over the ground. In the center of the ruins, stood a five-meter-tall statue with a dragon head and a horse body.

Its presence was extremely strong. From the moment he noticed it, Yu Ke could not move his eyes away.

This statue gave Yu Ke the same feeling as the bronze statue of Sen Ling in the temple. In addition, its location and specifications made it the core of the entire cave.

Not only that, after returning from Shanqing City, Yu Ke often used the Mirror of Imagination to visualize the dragon. In this process, his familiarity with the dragon's might continued to increase, and he sensed a similar dragon's might on the statue in front of him.

"The statue still has the breath of the gods. It was sleeping in this statue before."

Sen Ling returned to Yu Ke's side and gave the information he had just obtained.

"I can feel the specialness of this statue. Since it is a god in the Mirror Lake Forest, do you know it?"

Yu Ke stepped onto the land and walked towards the dragon-headed and horse-bodied god statue, and couldn't help asking,

"Or is the breath here related to the Zhong Ling blood we found in the banyan tree area?"

"I don't know. In my era, I should be the only god in the Mirror Lake Forest. Maybe I have forgotten some memories. I have no impression of it, but I can feel that some divine power remains inside the statue. It has not completely disappeared. It is not fallen, it was killed."

The messy word order reveals that the forest spirit is now in a daze. The fragments of divine power have been plundered, which inevitably weakens it in all directions. It can only try its best to perceive and then pass on the information it has obtained to Yu Ke.

The god was killed, and some energy remains?

After capturing the key information revealed by the forest spirit, Yu Ke hurriedly quickened his pace, and at the same time connected the intelligence obtained at this stage in his mind.

Although it is not clear which god the dragon-headed horse-body statue represents, combined with the situation in the cave and the clues given by the forest spirit, Yu Ke speculated that when the god was sleeping, an uninvited guest invaded the cave.

This uninvited guest is most likely the soul-eating insect itself.

It took advantage of the special environment of the cave secret realm to continuously plunder the soul energy of the beast with the soul-eating insect and devour flesh and blood to accumulate strength.

In the end, it turned the tables and not only successfully killed the sleeping god, but also plundered its divine power, causing the Zhongling foul blood to appear at the junction.

This is the most reasonable explanation Yu Ke can think of.

The fine cracks all over the surface of the dragon-headed horse-body statue are the best proof, especially there is a dark hole at the center of the statue's eyebrows, as if something has drilled out of it.

"Can you help me draw out the divine power it retains?"

Yu Ke stood under the statue and asked again. He wanted to obtain more information through this part of the divine power.

"It's inside the statue. To be exact, it's integrated with the statue. I can't peel it out."

The divine power that the soul-eating insect that invaded this place couldn't take away was obviously not easy to obtain. Yu Ke could only reach out to the statue and try to obtain information by relying on the characteristics of checking for leaks and filling in the gaps.

Unexpectedly, the moment Yu Ke's palm touched the statue.

He was like being cast into a spell, and suddenly froze in place. The forest spirit floating next to him wanted to come closer to check, but was bounced away by an invisible force.

The next second, a low dragon roar began to echo in the cave.

The khaki airflow gathered from the four rock walls of the cave and surrounded Yu Ke.