Chapter 205: Chapter 142: Tier Six Root Magic

But in terms of distance, it was far too great.

After they divided the spoils, Chi Cheng collected the rest.

He was the team’s Gatherer.

He was also responsible for collecting miscellaneous items, and he handled selling them and distributing the money.

"And now..."

"The second door."

Lu Cang placed his hand on the door. Mechanisms stirred within, and a few small souls drifted about inside.

RUMBLE—

With a dull roar, this door opened as well.

In the wall was a distorted passage.

It was impossible to tell where it led.

’This must be the path to receive the inheritance.’

Lu Cang had no intention of accepting this inheritance. ’Who knew what kind of traps it held...’

The inheritance of a Master of the Nest... leaving aside whether it had any harmful traps.

The mere fact that it belonged to a Demon was enough to ensure Lu Cang wouldn’t enter.

’A Demon’s inheritance, obtained by a human... who could say what kind of negative effects there would be?’

Lu Cang had calmly refused even the War God’s inheritance back then, let alone this thing.

Lu Cang simply extended his Mage’s Hand and retrieved a Ritual Array Map that had been dropped near the wall from afar.

He didn’t even enter the doorway.

Then, he pressed his hand against the wall and activated the Decryption Scholar’s "Transparent Breakthrough."

He sealed the already-opened door shut once more.

Finally, Lu Cang turned to the door that sealed the Submerged Land Level Demon.

"I’m opening it now."

Chi Cheng had already drawn his Heavy Sword. "Go ahead." 𝓯𝓻𝒆𝙚𝒘𝓮𝙗𝓷𝒐𝓿𝙚𝒍.𝙘𝓸𝙢

Lu Cang pressed his hand to the door.

He directly pried at the hidden Restriction inside, stirring the souls within.

This wasn’t actually the normal way to break it.

But the skills of a Decryption Scholar existed precisely to give them unconventional methods of breaking things.

The door rose and opened.

Lu Luwei’s Perception flooded in, and following it, the group saw an incredibly vast space inside!

’Is this... still inside the cavern?’

’Why is there an ocean inside this room?’

The group walked out through the doorway.

They looked back at the door.

Only to find it embedded in the side of a mountain.

Not far away was a beach, and beyond that, a dark, murky ocean from which countless souls were rising!

"What is this?"

Lu Luwei’s pupils contracted.

The group’s own Perception expanded along with Lu Luwei’s!

Her Perception spread out like a shroud, covering the sky and land like a rolling fog!

In a short time, it had already crossed several thousand kilometers, rapidly expanding to over ten thousand!

Then, twenty thousand, thirty thousand kilometers.

’That range... it’s already far greater than the radius of Earth from my past life.’

’Perception can actually extend that far?’

’I’ve heard that a Level 5 Observer’s Perception Range can see for hundreds of kilometers.’

’This is way more than just hundreds of kilometers, isn’t it?’

However, even after extending her Perception over such a vast area, she still couldn’t see the end of this Dungeon.

For a moment, the group didn’t know whether to be more shocked by Lu Luwei’s Perception or by the sheer vastness of the area.

"Are we... still inside the Dungeon?" Chi Cheng exclaimed in awe.

"I thought this was just a room with a Demon sealed inside."

Lu Cang was also dumbfounded after stepping out.

When he had extended his Perception from the other side, the scene here had just seemed like a very large room.

After all, Lu Cang had seen plenty of this world’s immensity.

But the sight before him now far exceeded his expectations.

"Lu Cang, that Submerged Land Level Demon you mentioned."

"You... you don’t mean this, do you?"

Lu Cang was a little confused.

’To be honest, I can’t see the Demon anywhere.’

But a sudden, horrifying thought struck Lu Cang.

’Wait...’

’Wait a minute?’

The endless ocean before him, with Soul Light constantly rising from it, an ocean whose edges were completely beyond Lu Luwei’s sight.

’No!’

He immediately adjusted his Perception to a top-down, panoramic view!

Looking down upon the entire Vast Ocean, his powerful Spirituality allowed him to feel the coalescing of a tyrannical will!

A Tier Six—Submerged Land Level Demon!

[Soul Sea]

This entire ocean was a single, gigantic Demon!

The hanging corpse he had encountered before hadn’t been large; it was even much smaller than some King Level Demons.

This had led Lu Cang to subconsciously assume that Submerged Land Level beings weren’t necessarily that big.

Perhaps it was because he had insta-killed the previous one.

So Lu Cang hadn’t felt the true danger of the Submerged Land Level. Plus, he had been one-shotting everything on his way here and could handle even King Level threats with ease.

Lu Cang had even started to feel that Tier Six Demons were nothing special.

But at this very moment, Lu Cang finally realized.

Nation Destruction, Submerged Land... these two Levels... were never in the same damn league as King Level.

This was the kind of Demon that even Iz and the others had to face with utmost seriousness.

Lu Cang subconsciously took a step back.

"Soul Dominator" also had a limited activation range, which was currently about 50 kilometers.

It could harvest all qualifying souls within a 50-kilometer radius.

But this ocean was so vast.

’I can’t harvest them all.’

WHOOSH!

The waves roared, and a tornado of souls and water rose toward the sky!

BANG!

A clap of thunder exploded in the sky!

The entire horizon was suffused with a faint purple Soul Light, and the twisted faces of souls were reflected in the distorted, gloomy black sky!

The howling soul-wind shrieked mournfully as it swept past the ears of the group.

Lu Cang could see countless souls streak past him. At the same time, he absorbed the massive number of souls in his vicinity into his body.

All external souls were his to command.

"Iz, it’s time to fight!"

Iz pressed down on his Magic Hat, his expression excited, yet showing not a single trace of fear.

"Haha... what an interesting Demon. This is the first time I’ve ever seen one of this type!"

"And this world, too, is completely different from an ordinary Dungeon."

"It’s full of surprises."

BOOM!

A Giant Wave carrying countless souls had already risen into the air. The terrifying, several-hundred-meter-tall tsunami seemed to form a continent of water and souls, crashing down toward Lu Cang and the others!

But at almost the same instant, a crimson light burst forth!

BOOM!

A single sword strike blasted out!

A massive hole was blasted through the island of waves!

BOOM!

Another wave of crimson Qi erupted!

The immense tsunami was instantly vaporized!

Chi Cheng had vanished from his spot!

Immediately after, the entire ocean began to tremble and roar!

BOOM!

From Lu Luwei’s top-down Perception, they could see that a two-thousand-kilometer-wide stretch of the sea had been carved into an empty clearing!

The seawater released endless souls, which evaporated into the sky in a dense swarm!

It was as if they could hear the entire ocean letting out a pained, wretched scream!

’This is...’

’A Level 6 Warrior?’

’A single blow, punching straight through a two-thousand-kilometer-wide section of the ocean?’

The seawater was rushing back in to fill the void!

Their Perception could barely catch an extremely swift streak of crimson light, racing across the Soul Sea!

"Qi-Cleansing! Sky-Leveling! Slash!"

BOOM!

A fan-shaped slash swept out!

Like a bulldozer, the single strike tore across the ocean, vaporizing the seawater that boiled with countless souls!

SWISH!

His figure flickered and weaved!

He effortlessly dodged the siege of countless souls, smashing apart the layers of water and soul that rushed toward him.

He blasted one astonishingly massive crater after another into the sea!

’So strong...’

’So this is a Level 6 Warrior.’

’He can actually suppress an entire ocean?’

And just as Lu Cang was marveling at Chi Cheng’s performance, Izparut also raised his Magic Staff.

"Lu Cang, didn’t you want to see the Root Magic I just comprehended?"

"I never thought I’d have the perfect opportunity on this trip."

WHOOSH—

Beams of colored light could be seen coalescing from all corners of the world and flying forth.

They then gathered at the tip of Izparut’s Magic Staff.

During this process, Lu Cang felt as though the fundamental essences of the world were being stripped away, one by one, but he couldn’t tell what exactly was being stripped.

Even with his current Spirituality, he couldn’t see it.

He only knew that Izparut was brewing an incredibly terrifying spell.

"Chi Cheng."

"Just leave this Demon to me."

"The next time we encounter a Submerged Land Level Demon, you can have the kill," Iz said.

An incomprehensible, condensed substance rose from the tip of his Magic Staff.

"Tier Six Root Magic."

"Source Material Stripping."