The Great Flood of the End of Time: Female Neighbor Comes to Borrow Food

Chapter 694 Brain Lake Remains
"clang!"

"Clang clang clang!"

Within the enormous underwater abyss island, in the vast inner chamber, a continuous clanging and clattering sound emanated.

The torches illuminated the entire ventricle, making it shine with golden light.

At first glance, it looks like there's gold everywhere.

Liang Yuan had already used the spatial rift to cut the metallic blood crystals inside the entire atrium into huge cubes.

At first glance, it looks like the giant stones of a pyramid.

Liang Yuan's efficiency was too high; don't be fooled by the fact that he was cutting the blood crystals all by himself.

However, with just one horizontal and one vertical rift, two spatial rifts could easily sever four enormous crystals.

If a few more spatial rift slashes are unleashed, the ground will be covered with enormous blood crystals.

Liang Yuan has now finished cutting all the crystals, and the rest will be handed over to the people of Lingyu Island to handle the transportation.

Liang Yuan greeted everyone and then continued exploring other areas.

While everyone was busy, he flew back outside the heart.

Then it flew swiftly through the gaps inside the giant corpse on the abyss island, searching for the location of its head.

"It's almost impossible to tell where the head of this abyss island is from the outside."

"It's also difficult to distinguish its organs from inside."

"However, some organs can be identified within this chest cavity."

While identifying organs such as the heart, Liang Yuan searched for the direction leading to the head.

The colossal corpse from Abyss Island was enormous, and it wasn't until half a day later that Liang Yuan located the Brain Lake.

However, the brain lake had long since dried up, revealing a large amount of spiritual energy blood crystals.

Without saying a word, Liang Yuan quickly began to collect the blood crystals.

Spiritual blood crystals are not as hard as metallic blood crystals, making them difficult to obtain.

In just a few tens of minutes, Liang Yuan cleared all the spiritual energy blood crystals from the dried-up brain lake.

"what?"

Just as he was about to leave, he suddenly stopped and saw a bloodline passage in a corner of the dried-up brain lake.

Liang Yuan's heart stirred slightly, and he couldn't help but think of Ling Yurong's ice crystal palace.

He swayed and quickly stepped onto the path of bloodline.

Inside the Bloodline Path, a considerable amount of spiritual energy blood crystals have accumulated.

Liang Yuan took the blood crystals without hesitation and then continued walking inside.

Before long, the path of bloodline ahead suddenly widened, revealing a huge cavern.

Inside that flesh-walled cave, there really was a strange building that looked like a small tower.

The small tower is about five or six meters high and has a small door that can only accommodate one person at a time.

Liang Yuan carefully examined the small pagoda and discovered that it was inlaid with a large number of complex pictures and texts around its perimeter.

These patterns are highly similar to, yet different from, the runes of special abilities.

Liang Yuan couldn't help but move closer and observe carefully.

These runes were found to be dull and lifeless, seemingly having long lost their original functionality.

"Could it be that the lack of energy from the power stones for so long has caused these runes to lose their function?"

After thinking for a moment, Liang Yuan finally activated the dark attribute gene, transforming into a shadow and heading towards the tower gate.

He crawled through the tower's entrance, where many colorful ribbons hung down.

The ribbons didn't look like they were made of cloth; they looked more like they were cut from the skin of some kind of creature.

Numerous runes were engraved on the leather, hanging down. Liang Yuan's arrival stirred up a gentle breeze, causing them to sway slightly.

Liang Yuan's gaze was not drawn to the belts, but rather to the mummified corpse sitting cross-legged in the center of the tower.

The mummified corpse was not in human form, but rather had a human upper body and a snake-like long tail lower body.

At this moment, its long tail was shriveled, but the scales on it were shimmering with golden light, exceptionally dazzling.

Liang Yuan looked at the upper half of the skeleton; it was a man's skeleton.

The muscles were shriveled and severely dehydrated, resembling a skeleton.

Liang Yuan dared not be careless. He knew that Ling Yurong had lived from ancient times to the present, so he wouldn't be surprised if he encountered any special circumstances.

"Destroy it first, then we'll talk about it."

Liang Yuan's heart stirred slightly, and he waved his hand!
Whoops!

A burst of vacuum flame erupted and instantly engulfed the skeleton.

The remains were immediately set ablaze, emitting a faint golden light, and surprisingly, they were not burned to ashes immediately.

Liang Yuan's gaze immediately sharpened: "Something's strange!"

He immediately increased the firepower, and the flames roared, continuously burning and scorching the mummified corpse.

Logically, a dehydrated corpse like this should be quite easy to ignite.

However, under the burning of the vacuum flame, it was not burned away, but instead emitted rays of golden light.

The impurities and ash on the surface of the corpse were burned away, revealing the golden texture inside.

Liang Yuan's expression darkened slightly: "Metal element?"

Clearly, although the skeleton was shriveled, its flesh and blood contained extremely powerful metallic elements.

Even a vacuum flash flame cannot burn it.

Liang Yuan was not in a hurry; he calmly continued to urge the flames on.

Logically speaking, even if this skeleton were entirely made of metal, it would be absolutely impossible for it to withstand the high temperature of its vacuum flash flame.

Sure enough, after about fifteen minutes, the skeleton, which had turned into a shimmering golden color, turned a bright red under the intense heat.

It looked as if a piece of steel had been forged at high temperatures and turned reddish-brown.

As it continued to turn crimson, the entire skeleton seemed to be melting.

Just when Liang Yuan thought it would turn into a pool of gold, the entire skeleton suddenly twisted slightly, and a voice came from within it.

"Stop, kid! Stop right now!"

In an instant, Liang Yuan's pupils contracted, and his heart pounded!
"It's really weird!"

He quickly increased the heat and urged the spiritual flames to burn.

Not only that, he also unleashed his mental power, conjuring mental pulses that fiercely attacked the golden skeleton. "Bang bang bang..."

The mental pulses bombarded the area relentlessly, producing muffled booming sounds.

In an instant, screams of agony emanated from inside the skeleton, and the bones began to melt at an even faster rate.

"Wait, wait! Don't burn it! Don't burn it!"

"Young man, stop burning it! I have something to trade with you!"

Whatever you want, I have it all!

"I am an ancient being with supernatural abilities; I can impart to you the method of immortality!"

"Stop right now, young man! I can teach you how to avoid the flood disaster and how to deal with the extraterrestrial demons."

The voice inside the skeleton kept wailing and screaming, struggling desperately, and saying some tempting words.

Liang Yuan's eyes flashed slightly, and he suddenly took out a blue rune bone, shouting, "Sign this contract, and I can take back the flame!"

"Bone Pact! You...who are you?!"

The old man sensed the blue rune bone and instantly let out a shout of shock and anger.

Liang Yuan didn't answer, but shouted, "What nonsense are you spouting! If you don't sign, you're dead!"

After saying this, Liang Yuan suddenly activated his supernatural power and frantically burned the skeleton.

The bones immediately began to melt at an accelerated rate, and there were even signs that the gold was being evaporated.

Not only that, but Liang Yuan's immense mental impact continued to bombard him.

The consciousness within the golden skeleton immediately panicked and shouted, "Sign! Sign!"

"Stop burning! Stop burning!"

Within the golden light, fluctuations of spiritual energy appeared, followed by a voice asking, "What do you want me to do?"

"Acknowledge me as your master and do not disobey any of my commands."

His mental state fluctuated violently in an instant, clearly indicating his extreme reluctance.

A murderous glint flashed in Liang Yuan's eyes: "Unwilling? Then die!"

Without the slightest hesitation, Liang Yuan immediately prepared to unleash his full power to destroy this intent!

The spiritual thought hurriedly said, "Wait! Wait! I'm willing! I'm willing!"

That thought immediately touched the bone contract, and instantly a causal thread wrapped around it.

Liang Yuan focused his mental energy on the bone contract, and heard the mental thought swear: "I, Jin Peng, swear that I acknowledge the person before me as my master and obey his commands. This bone contract is my witness. Anyone who violates this will die a terrible death."

Liang Yuan sensed the causal thread winding around this wisp of spiritual intent.

Soon the runes on the bone contract lit up, indicating that it had been fully activated.

Upon seeing this, Liang Yuan breathed a sigh of relief.

Just in case, Liang Yuan took out another bone contract and said, "Sign one more!"

The mental entity was taken aback and couldn't help but say, "Hasn't it already been signed?"

"Stop talking nonsense! Will you sign or not?" Liang Yuan shouted sternly.

"Sign, sign!"

The spiritual entity seemed to know its own predicament and had no choice but to nod in agreement.

One bone contract is a sign, and two bone contracts are also signs.

It has a kind of "dead pig doesn't care about boiling water" attitude.

After signing the second bone contract, Liang Yuan sensed it for a moment and couldn't help but breathe a sigh of relief.

These two bone tokens are different.

The first one was a bone contract that Liang Yuan himself had carved, and the second one was a bone contract that Ling Yu Rong had given him at the time.

Liang Yuan wanted to test whether Ling Yu Rong had left any backup plan with this second bone contract.

Looking at the spiritual consciousness within these remains, it seems there's nothing amiss.

This relieved Liang Yuan.

Liang Yuan withdrew the Vacuum Flash at this moment, and by now, most of the corpse had melted away.

As the vacuum flame receded, the skeleton gradually cooled. Unfortunately, the parts that had melted into molten gold were deformed and their original shape was no longer visible.

The skeleton, which was originally a human body with a snake tail, now only has the snake tail left. The upper human body has cooled into a lump of golden material.

It looks a bit like the Chinese character '丁'.

Looking at the strange state of the remains, Liang Yuan suddenly felt a stirring in his heart.

"If this metallic skeleton were melted down, it might be able to be forged into a weapon."

Liang Yuan remained calm. At this moment, his focus was not on the skeleton itself, but on the spiritual intent hidden within it.

He looked at the spiritual entity and asked in a deep voice, "Your name is Jin Peng?"

Liang Yuan clearly remembered that when that spiritual thought made its oath, it called itself Jin Peng.

The spiritual transmission replied, "Yes."

"Is this your corpse?"

"Uh... no."

The answer from the mind was somewhat unexpected.

Liang Yuan thought it was its corpse, which is why he was so afraid of it being destroyed.

It turned out it wasn't its corpse, which piqued Liang Yuan's interest.

"It's not your corpse, why are you so nervous?"

The spiritual thought said, "Although these bones are not my physical body, they are the body I have parasitized. My consciousness has merged with the bones. Once the bones are destroyed, this part of my consciousness will also cease to exist."

Upon hearing this, Liang Yuan's heart stirred.

"Consciousness fused with bones? What does that mean?"

"It means exactly what it says; it's a shortcut to achieving immortality."

"The physical body cannot withstand the erosion of time and will eventually decay."

"If we, the chosen ones, cannot pursue physical immortality in the end, we can only pursue spiritual immortality."

"We disperse our consciousness into countless parts, integrate them into our bodies and blood, and pass them on to future generations."

"Waiting for a chance to recover, I had one chance once, but unfortunately..."

(End of this chapter)