Mystery: Survival from the Secret Doll

Chapter 317 316 The Raging Sea

The Raging Sea is the ocean that separates the northern and southern continents.

At the end of the Fourth Age, Death and the Primordial Witch launched the Pale Calamity to fight against the Seven Gods. Ultimately, Death was no match for the Seven Gods and perished in the sea between the northern and southern continents.

Afterwards, facing death and defeat, Death stirred up storms at sea before his death, creating an insurmountable barrier between the northern and southern continents. From then on, this sea area, known as the Raging Sea, became famous for its numerous natural disasters and treacherous currents, making navigation between the northern and southern continents impossible.

Emperor Roselle once attempted to expand the sea route between the North and South continents, but until his death, the route remained unconquered. Today, only a few people from the South have set foot on the land of the North for various mysterious reasons.

Rumors circulate that the raging sea holds a secret treasure left behind by the Grim Reaper. However, even the bounty hunters of the five seas dare not venture into the raging sea, given its unpredictable weather and treacherous conditions, to search for the treasure supposedly left behind by the Grim Reaper, which supposedly contains the most valuable possessions of this Grim Reaper.

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The pitch-black sky was reflected on the undulating sea, and only the lightning flashing across the sky illuminated this dark and turbulent sea in a world of pure blackness.

The turbulent seawater forms countless eddies. If any ship gets close to these downward-spinning whirlpools, it will be swallowed up by the icy water, leaving nothing behind.

For the islanders living in the waters surrounding the Raging Sea, this sea, shrouded in gloom year-round and almost devoid of light, is like the domain of death. All fishing boats that approach the Raging Sea are mercilessly swallowed by the sea, with no chance of survival.

Over time, no trace of human activity could be seen in this sea area anymore.

However, an uninvited guest arrived today.

"This is not a good place for people with thalassophobia."

Facing an abyss from which there is no bottom, the fear and anxiety are so intense that one cannot breathe... Staying in such an environment for a few days would likely cause illness even without psychological treatment.

Tang looked up at the raging sea and sky, which were completely obscured by the sky, and said, "If we were to build a prison here... ah, that would be interesting to think about."

Since the professional ritual magic level test in Tingen City ended, Tang had tidied up his messy equipment, throwing away what needed to be thrown away and replenishing what needed to be replenished. After dawdling for a few days, he arrived at the area near the core of the raging sea, which was said to have been formed after the fall of the Grim Reaper.

Next, we must fulfill our promise to the goddess, reclaim half of Azik Aegis's soul, take away Death's uniqueness, suppress the tributary of the River of Eternal Darkness, and cause Death Salinger to fall completely.

This is a long and meticulous task, so preparations must be thorough, and there are certain risks involved, since it is something left behind by the previous Grim Reaper and involves the source matter and the underworld.

Tang stood on the sea, gazing at this dark, turbulent, and chaotic ocean.

The turbulent sea around him calmed down as he approached Tang, the power of a miracle making the sea around him incredibly stable.

In the darkness, a faint, crystal-like glimmer appeared in Tang's dark eyes.

Thus, in the eyes of observers, this sea area is divided into three layers: upper, middle, and lower.

The first layer is the raging sea of ​​the material world, a forbidden zone of death where no one dares to venture before the fall of the God of Death.

This sea area harbors a deathly stillness caused by divine power and spirituality. The sea should be the source of many lives. In the sea area that has not yet been explored and polluted by humans, biodiversity is an inevitable development. However, here, not only can humans not easily set foot, but even the fish, algae and other life that originally lived in the deep sea, most of them died quickly. Only a small number of them survived in a twisted and bizarre way, in a way that ordinary people cannot understand.

The second layer is covered by the Raging Sea, which belongs to the Raging Sea within the Spirit Realm. It is equally chaotic and disorderly there, with the aura of death polluting the entire Spirit Realm area, making that area dangerous and impossible to teleport to.

Even spirit beings are constantly moving away from that area. Divination and prophecy concerning the Raging Sea are completely silent. Divination and prophecy conducted in the spirit realm within the Raging Sea almost always end in failure.

The third layer is a rather special space, which is related to the underworld. It is sealed and cannot be opened unless certain conditions are met.

This layer is the arrangement left behind by Death Salinger before his fall, a mausoleum left by a Sequence 0, which is also the treasure left behind by Death.

The location of the unique path of death.

"If it were the normal way to open it, it would require the bloodline of a direct descendant of the Grim Reaper, the ring left behind by the Grim Reaper, and my father's bronze whistle. Only by combining these three, and having an extraordinary being at least at the level of an angel on the path to the Grim Reaper, could one successfully and relatively safely open the tomb left behind after the fall of the Grim Reaper."

Owen emerged from the spirit world, clad in dark light armor, and gazed upon this same space.

"How do we get in?" he asked Tang.

“Well, under normal circumstances, our bloodline is relatively pure and meets the requirements of direct descendants. As long as we add the ring and the bronze whistle, we can successfully walk the normal path and enter the mausoleum relatively safely. However, this time we came here to disrupt the overall stability of the mausoleum and make all the arrangements left by the Grim Reaper ineffective. So we will not take the normal path and force our way in.”

Tang's lips curled slightly. "After all, the arrangements left behind by the Grim Reaper Salinger include the element of resurrection. What do you think would happen if a high-ranking member of the Grim Reaper's path entered the tomb of the former Grim Reaper through a normal route?"

Irving pondered for a moment, then carefully asked, "Possessed?"

This is a term that appears in some of the novels of Emperor Roselle. In layman's terms, it means resurrection, something similar to the spiritual remnants left behind in extraordinary traits.

"More or less." Tang pulled out a lantern from the mists of history. "I analyzed the layout here before. It's a very interesting ritual. What Death passed down through 'bloodline' is not only Death's bloodline, but also a very small part of the spirit of this deity."

"This kind of lingering spirit may not have much of an impact on ordinary days, but at specific moments, through special arrangements, it may achieve unexpected results."

When a high-ranking member of the Grim Reaper path enters the Grim Reaper's mausoleum with offerings, isn't he essentially offering a sacrifice to the previous Grim Reaper?

Of course, this high-ranking member of the Death Path is not a sacrificer; he too will become a sacrifice.

"So, once a high-ranking member of the Grim Reaper path enters that mausoleum and sees that thing, it becomes a vessel for the Grim Reaper's resurrection?" Owen was speechless. "That's really..."

"For extraordinary individuals on the Death Path, those in higher positions exert absolute suppression over those in lower positions. Even the Pale Emperor, when facing the source of death, the destination of the soul, and the end of eternity, cannot gain the upper hand, let alone those connected by blood."

They were alright, at least there was a generation gap; their fathers were in the same situation and got infected right away.

In the original story, the Goddess of Night controlled the artificial Grim Reaper beforehand—that is, the combination of the unique path of death and half of Azik Eggers' soul—which rendered the arrangements made by Death Salinger at the mausoleum ineffective. Otherwise, once Azik Eggers entered the mausoleum, Salinger's spiritual will would inevitably be revived within him, thus allowing Death to complete the "miracle" of resurrection.

Miracle workers have the authority to bring the dead back to life. How could a god who controls death not have the ability to bring the dead back to life?

“So we can’t let Dad come, and you have to be careful too.” Tang shrugged and said casually, “This is a pretty dangerous place for extraordinary people with the Death Path, but it’s not a big problem for me.”

He is a diviner, so what does the suppression of the death god's path and the pollution of the death god's bloodline have to do with him?

Is this really more difficult to handle than dealing with Zun Zun Bao?

After making some minor adjustments, Tang carried the lantern and let its light illuminate his surroundings, like a lighthouse in the night, dispelling the darkness.

"Ready? Let's go in."

After saying that, Tang snapped his fingers in mid-air without holding the lantern, as if he were fulfilling his own wish by making a wish to himself.

"I hope that the seal on the Death Mausoleum will crack a little."

Under the lamplight, Tang Gu calmly expressed his wish.

The surrounding space began to distort and deform, and tiny, faint lights began to appear around Tang and Owen. The whole world seemed to have been shattered by something, and everything was blurred and difficult to see normally, as if viewed through frosted glass.

This wish is a miracle that a miracle master cannot grant; even if it could be fulfilled, it would definitely be achieved in a distorted way.

He merely used the miraculous master's voice, taking advantage of the strong observability and inclusiveness of Euclidean space, and the grafting ability of the mysterious servants, to forcibly connect the first and third layers together.

Euclidean space began to reduce its dimensions, attempting to contain and invade that tomb belonging to the Grim Reaper, which could not be entered by ordinary means.

Soon, the state of being unable to see or perceive anything clearly, as if looking through frosted glass, disappeared.

The process of grafting two worlds in different time and space through Euclidean space began quickly and ended quickly. Using the mysterious servant as a bridge, Tang and Owen easily passed through the seal outside the mausoleum that blocked the entrance and exit of any extraordinary beings who did not follow this path.

They successfully entered the lowest level of the Raging Sea, the third level, through unconventional means.

The surroundings remained dark, appearing no different from the usual state of the raging sea.

However, they are fundamentally different.

"If we don't enter through normal channels, hmm, let me think, what might we encounter..."

Before they could finish speaking, something seemed to be rapidly approaching them from beneath the dark sea.

Tang lowered his eyes, using his observer's authority to ignore the fact that nothing could be seen on the deep, lightless ocean. Looking at the endless, massive, and seemingly endless corpses beneath the surface, he let out a soft "Ah."

"Yes, these are the vengeful spirits and monsters that people who believed in the God of Death died during the Fourth Epoch, when the God of Death ruled the Byron Empire."

There are many of them, and because of the death of the Grim Reaper, after the fall of Greta Garley, the progenitor of the Phoenix, and Salinger, the Grim Reaper, the two masters of the underworld, the underworld could no longer function properly.

Until Owen became the Pale Emperor and rebuilt the new Underworld in the Southern Continent, most of the dead souls, except for those who remained in place as vengeful spirits or dissipated, were gathered here after death, as long as they had once believed in the God of Death.

This number is quite large.

Suddenly, Tang's spiritual premonition was stirred.

He looked into the distance in the direction of his premonition, and there was a black mausoleum hidden at the end of the darkness. Its structure was similar to that of a pyramid, but it was upside down and embedded into the black sky in the distance, as if it were buried, surrounded by countless black mists and death.

"The target is there."

Tang Gang tried to move, but his gaze swept downwards and he saw some white bones that had somehow crossed the surface of the sea and grabbed his feet.

Tang glanced down and saw that the endless rows of corpses that had been not too close to them were like martyrs who had been buried with the emperor, faithfully guarding his tomb and expanding his territory even after his death.

More and more corpses are rising from the seabed, pulling at all the intruders on the surface, trying to drag them all into a darkness from which they will never see the light again.

These are all souls that obey Salinger; they are highly aggressive and not easily suppressed by other high-ranking members of the Death Path.

Tang clicked his tongue and looked at Irving to the side.

Owen looked at the corpses at his feet, his light brown eyes gradually turning into a bottomless, deathly void.

The bodies of those who were pulling at his corpse, the vengeful spirits and monsters, began to disintegrate, heading towards the end they were meant to reach after death.

Seeing that there were no problems, Tang slowly took out a three-meter-long dark gold scepter from the historical gap image.

The scepter is engraved with countless symbols and patterns. Each symbol and pattern trembles and wanders as it appears in the real world, as if it may detach from the surface of the scepter at any moment and spread its madness in all directions.

The Sun Scepter, the madness of knowledge.

"Then, let's—"

"Praise the sun."

(End of this chapter)