Chapter 88: Frightening Eyes
Proceeding onwards, the area become more and more devoid of vegetation. Further still, small trees became rare until only towering ash-gray trees remained, their numbers sparse. The further he walked, the thinning trees became increasingly darker and more withered.
“A single person was the cause of the transformation this place underwent—the Cursed Woman! She alone had slowly tainted this forest in the span of twenty years. Moreover, she neither ate nor drank in that time, but is obviously still alive to this day. Is she really human?” Ye Wuchen asked, puzzled.
“Surely not! Maybe she is a god who escaped to Heavenly Star Continent. Maybe even a god who controls the power of death.” Nan-er gracefully answered.
“God? Escaping to Heavenly Star Continent? What do you mean?” Ye Wuchen furrowed his brows when he asked.
“Yes, Nan-er never lies. Heavenly Star Continent is the human world and outside it, there is still the God Continent—the territory of the gods. Where the gods dwell, every one of them is more powerful than the god-level masters of the Heavenly Star Continent.”
“!!”
“Nan-er, how did you know this?”
“It is part of my memories. It emerged when I thought of it.”
“Continue what you were saying.” Ye Wuchen asked, brows lowering. He suddenly realized that this world was very simple just from hearing of the existence of this so-called “god” as described by Nan-er.
“Oh…Master wants to hear more? Then Nan-er will continue. Whether it was Heavenly Star Continent or the God Continent, all of them were formed from the massive explosion of power that resulted from the battle of the Southern and Northern Empires. The God Continent was formed at the height of the chaos of the spiritual powers, while Heavenly Star Continent was born from latter portion of the chaos. The inborn physique of the people who populated the two continents vastly differed. Those who were born in the God Continent naturally possessed the power of a god, and were much stronger than those who were born in the Heavenly Star Continent. So as not to cause imbalance between the two continents, the clan leaders of the Southern and Northern Empire established certain rules and regulations before their disappearance. If there was no particular reason, people from the God Continent were not allowed to enter the Heavenly Star Continent, else they would suffer from a cruel curse! And if the Heavenly Star Continent encountered great catastrophe, the God Continent would have to provide assistance or the king of the God Continent would suffer a curse.”
“...... What kind of curse?”
“I’m…… not really sure. Seems like all kinds of curses are possible. For example, losing all of their god power, or not being able to return, or being unable to see and speak again, or a man might become a woman, or be transformed into a rock, or into a rabbit...... in short, all the scary stuff.”
“Do you know the location of the God Continent?”
“Let me think…… I don’t. Master wants to go and have fun?” Nan-er asked.
Ye Wuchen shakes his head, “Just out of curiosity.”
If the gods and the God Continent existed, Grandpa Chu and the children’s legends might have been real then. Their faces did seem like they were recalling something at that time. The white winged angel and the black winged angel from the Kingdom of God... … Kingdom of God could be the God Continent. The white and black winged angels could be inhabitants of this God Continent. Based on what Nan-er had said, when they stayed in the Heavenly Star Continent too long, could they have been cursed?
Curse!?
White winged…
Ye Wuchen’s brain felt a slight prickling. He halted his steps, cradling his head in his hands and held a his breath tight. A thought had started to form, some really important message. Despite how hard he tried to recall it, expending all his efforts searching for that specific memory that flashed momentarily, it was to no avail.
“What did I think of just a while ago?” He asked himself absent-mindedly.
He vaguely recalled Long Zhengyang’s statement before: “Based on a legend, the Kingdom of God has a device that surpasses the power of god……” Could the existence of the God Continent already be a well known fact in the Heavenly Star Continent?
Apparently, he unintentionally missed out on a lot of things.
He continued to advance while chatting with Nan-er. Like a metallic lock, Ye Wuchen was repeatedly left speechless after speaking to Nan-er……. Nan-er had a penchant for fantastic stories that nobody else seems to know, yet she was totally clueless of things that even a three-year-old would know.
At this moment, not a single tree could be seen. All other trees had withered at a crooked angle, leaving behind dead and shriveled trunks. In their line of sight was a thin image of their ultimate destination, after a hundred more meters, they arrived in front of the pitch-black pagoda.
Before their eyes was a fifty meter pagoda, the floor size of which was not overly large, yet it was still the cause of the desolation within a hundred meters. The density of the air of death in this place had reached frightening levels. A normal person would feel exhausted, limp and be in pain. Within an hour, or two at most, their life force would be snatched away.
The pitch-black door of the pagoda was tightly closed, not even a tiny sliver of its interior could be seen. Ye Wuchen calmly stood before the door approximately ten meters away, looking cautiously ahead while simultaneously releasing his power to magnify his spiritual awareness, permeating through the door ahead. Carefully and slowly, he explored the inside.
“Nan-er, are you aware of the pair of eyes staring at us? Like the eyes of a viper.” Ye Wuchen focused his mind, his voice staying tranquil.
“Huh? There’s none. Nan-er doesn’t see anything. By the way master, what is a viper?”
Ye Wuchen remained silent, simply closing his eyes, striving to expand the scope of his spiritual awareness, searching for any living being.
But no matter how hard he tried, there was no response. Unwilling to give up, he took a step forward…… and another, until he was only one step away from the stone door.
Trying one last time, he completely released his spiritual powers. Still nothing. Just as he was about to give up, his mind suddenly produced a pair of dark eyes.
Very, very dark eyes, so deeply black, so frightening, the flickering black rays could cause people to shudder. Similar to the eyes of a demon, they carried a frightful air that seemed as if it would engulf his entire body.
He suddenly felt a sharp pain in his arms. Ye Wuchen was overwhelmed with shock to find that his arms were moving of their own accord, twisting as if being forcibly snapped off. His internal organs suddenly began to twinge, his viscera trembled from the pain of being twisted…… he turned pale with fright and withdrew his spiritual powers in an instant. The terrible feelings disappeared at the same time and his arms eventually dropped back down…...
Ye Wuchen turned around, escaping at the fastest speed possible until he was a hundred meters away. Only then did he turn around, eyes firmly fixed upon the pitch-black tower. Ever since he arrived in this world, aside from the time Ye Ning Xue had risked her life to steal heavenly beast eggs for him, this was first time he felt frightened. His heart was beating violently, even his back was wet with cold sweat.
No wonder she could still kill people even when trapped, her eyes were deadly. If not for his spiritual powers, had he faced her eyes directly, he might have been turned into ground meat by those eyes. This power… A Cursed Woman. What kind of person was she, a god?
Translated by: Fatty_Uncle
Edited by: seriouspotato and Johnny Clune