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Just as the violent energy was trying to stop Xiao Ling from rushing forward and pin him to the spot, the light blue light enveloping him suddenly changed without any warning.

The originally cold blue light with a hint of exploration, was like being thrown into hot magma, instantly burning from the inside out. In the blink of an eye, it turned into blood-red beams that fiercely hit Xiao Ling's body. The warning was obvious.

At the same time, the lifelike stone sculpture of the Heavenly Demon Phoenix on the altar, which had been standing as still as a mountain, suddenly reacted violently.

It was no longer a dead object, as if it was instantly injected with violent vitality. The entire stone sculpture began to shake violently, and heavy cracks spread and expanded wildly on its surface like a spider web at a speed visible to the naked eye! Those cracks were deep and sharp, and in the blink of an eye, they quickly covered every inch of the stone sculpture.

Seeing this sudden intensification of the crisis, Xiao Ling's expression changed slightly and became solemn.

Although he had never personally experienced such a direct and intense defensive counterattack, he understood it instantly.

This is by no means accidental, but a powerful protective mechanism set up by the ruins of the Sky Demon Phoenix clan itself.

It seems that this statue is not just a simple early warning device, but also a passive protective barrier that will counterattack with all its strength once triggered.

Any unauthorized intruder will trigger its complete outbreak, and may even directly destroy the entire space node, in order to warn or prevent subsequent invasions.

This sudden change made the already dangerous treasure hunt even more difficult.

However, just as Xiao Ling felt a chill in his heart due to the sudden escalation of the crisis, the familiar message from the spirit of the ancestral stone once again clearly entered his mind.

The voice was like a warm current that instantly dispelled the anxiety and uneasiness in his heart and relaxed his tense nerves a little.

"Don't worry, Xiao Ling," the voice carried a soothing force, "Leave this to me for the time being. Just concentrate and rush into the space crack with all your strength.

I think with your strength, it shouldn't be a big problem to break free from the restraints of this light."

These words were like a reassurance, letting Xiao Ling's heart rest. He took a deep breath, no longer distracted by the increasingly violent scarlet light, but instead put all his mind into sensing and breaking through the space crack.

The next moment, Xiao Ling's aura suddenly changed, and the fighting spirit in his body surged out like a raging wave.

He no longer tried to break free completely, but instead directed this powerful fighting spirit directly towards the violent scarlet energy that continued to suppress him.

The two collided violently in an instant, making a dull explosion. In an instant, the oppressive feeling that had been holding him down disappeared for the most part, and the suppressive force field formed by the scarlet energy was like being torn open, and was completely resisted and dispelled by Xiao Ling's surging fighting spirit.

Xiao Ling also knew that the opportunity was fleeting. While the scarlet energy was temporarily suppressed, he moved again and shot towards the space crack not far in front of the statue like an arrow.

At this moment, he no longer hesitated and plunged in. His figure was quickly swallowed by the crack until he completely disappeared without a trace.

At the same moment when Xiao Ling's figure completely sank into the crack, the statue of the Heavenly Demon Phoenix seemed to have received a fatal shock and began to shake violently again.

The cracks that had spread previously seemed to be injected with life at this moment, expanding and deepening wildly. New cracks continued to grow like spider webs, covering every inch of the stone sculpture's texture.

It looked shaky and like it would explode at any moment.

Seeing this situation, the spirit of the ancestral stone, which had been observing, also realized that it could not delay any longer.

He took action immediately, waving his hands quickly in front of him. Several complex and mysterious light patterns that seemed to contain the laws of heaven and earth were drawn out by him and shot accurately onto the statue that was on the verge of collapse.

As soon as these light patterns touched the statue, they burst out with a gentle but tenacious force, like invisible pillars, forcibly supporting the statue's most vulnerable joints, greatly slowing down the speed of its complete shattering. However, this delay did not stop it.

If you look closely, you can still clearly see those cracks in the gaps of the light pattern, still expanding inch by inch at a speed visible to the naked eye.

Obviously, even if the spirit of the ancestral stone intervened, the statue's internal protection mechanism would make it difficult to completely reverse its self-destruction or complete failure after sensing the invasion of outsiders. It would not take long for it to completely collapse at a speed far beyond the imagination of ordinary people.

The action of the spirit of the ancestral stone can only temporarily delay the situation at best, and the time it can buy is not very long.

There is no need to think too much about the consequences of the statue's collapse. Even the slightest abnormality will definitely not escape the perception of the powerful beings of the Sky Demon Phoenix Clan.

If they discovered any signs of outsiders entering, they would definitely send experts to investigate. By then, Xiao Ling's situation would become truly dangerous, and he would probably be hunted by the entire Sky Demon Phoenix Clan, causing unimaginable trouble.

However, at this moment, Xiao Ling, who had already entered the depths of the space crack, had no time to care about the crisis in the outside world.

At this moment, all his attention was focused on the unknown passage before him and the unknown area he was about to face.

And the spirit of the ancestral stone outside the crack was trying its best to maintain the statue of the Heavenly Demon Phoenix to prevent it from completely collapsing.

He maintained the complicated and mentally taxing movement, but his eyes were cast towards the place where Xiao Ling disappeared.

The space crack seemed to be pulled by an invisible hand and began to close slowly. The light at the edge gradually dimmed, and the passage was like an eyelid that slowly closed, closing little by little until it finally disappeared completely, leaving only silence in its place.

Looking at the completely closed space passage, the Ancestral Stone Spirit was silent for a moment, then murmured to himself in a low voice, with a hint of imperceptible worry and expectation:

"Xiao Ling... I hope nothing unexpected happens to you on this trip. Otherwise, I may never have the chance to return to the Profound Sky Continent again."

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As soon as he stepped into the crack, Xiao Ling was immediately enveloped by a violent and unfamiliar spatial force.

This force seemed to have life, squeezing and tearing his body madly, bringing about a strange feeling of being infinitely torn apart and reassembled.

He immediately calmed down and tried his best to mobilize his control over the force of space, as if looking for an anchor in the stormy waves, trying to control this chaotic force and gradually approach the stable spatial coordinates at the other end of the crack.

Xiao Ling's actions soon paid off.

He paid attention to the spatial coordinates sensed in his mind, and his body moved quickly like a gust of wind in the chaotic space turbulence.

"Boom!"

A slight sound seemed to penetrate the barrier of space, spreading ripples in the void.

Immediately afterwards, Xiao Ling's figure emerged from the slightly rippling waves.

After standing firm, Xiao Ling immediately slowed down his movements and began to carefully look around. The scene before him made him feel a little nervous.

This place seems to be an independent space that has been completely stripped away from the laws of heaven and earth.

There was no sun, moon, or stars above my head, no familiar sky, only an endless, mirror-smooth void with no visible edges, as if I was in a huge, static container.

And at this moment, he was standing on the bottomless pool of blood below.

The liquid in the pool was a thick dark red color, like solidified blood, or some kind of sticky liquid gem, emitting a disturbing smell.

The most peculiar thing was that, although there was a seemingly soft liquid under his feet, he clearly felt an extremely solid sense of "being down to earth", as if the surface of the blood pool was really a piece of solid land, supporting his weight, and there was no sign of sinking when he stood on it.

Noticing this strange sight, a hint of surprise flashed in Xiao Ling's eyes.

He tentatively raised his foot and took two cautious steps forward.

As he moved, fine ripples immediately appeared on the surface of the blood pool beneath his feet, starting from his footsteps and spreading out in circles like the surface of water after a stone was thrown into it.

These ripples spread slowly and clearly in the dark red liquid, outlining strange circles. The whole process was silent, but it revealed an inexplicable sense of weirdness.

Although this strange scene was really puzzling, Xiao Ling had no time to explore it further at the moment.

The situation is urgent now, and every minute and every second may result in missing a critical opportunity.

Thinking of this, Xiao Ling no longer looked at the strange blood pool and the void space. He immediately focused his mind and released his perception like a big net, which quickly spread and explored the surroundings.

He needs to locate the target as quickly as possible.

The vast perception swept over him like a tide, and almost in an instant, he captured a source of extremely powerful energy fluctuations, which was exactly what he had been expecting on this trip.

The target has been set. The next moment, Xiao Ling no longer hesitated. His body shook violently and turned into a dazzling stream of light. Like an arrow shot from a bow, he shot straight towards the location where the energy fluctuations were the strongest in his perception. His speed was so fast that only a blurry light and shadow were left behind.

Soon, Xiao Ling arrived in front of his target. He sank his body and landed steadily on the blood pool again.

At this moment, what appeared before him was an incomparably huge Sky Demon Phoenix.

It was not flying as swiftly as it had been in life, but was lying quietly above the pool of blood in an almost crouching posture.

The huge body almost occupied the center of the entire space, and its wings were like two solidified dark golden clouds, spread out obliquely.

The raised head tilted back slightly, and the sharp beak tip flashed a cold light.

Although the feathers on its body have lost their luster, one can still vaguely see the gorgeous and complex patterns it had in life.

It just "sleeps" quietly, as if it has just closed its eyes temporarily, waiting for the moment of rebirth.

However, when Xiao Ling probed his perception into his body, he only felt a dead silence, without even a trace of life.

Obviously, this sleep is the end of eternity.

Just looking at its lying body, it already looked extremely huge. If it stood up completely, Xiao Ling estimated that it would be at least nearly a thousand feet tall.

In comparison, Xiao Ling at this moment looked like an ant standing at the feet of a giant elephant, appearing extremely small.

Looking at the corpse of the Sky Demon Phoenix before him, Xiao Ling's eyes flashed with shock, but more than that, he was filled with unconcealable joy. He was finally going to get what he needed for this trip.

Chapter 624: The Remains Move

Xiao Ling stared at the corpse of the ninth-rank Heavenly Demon Phoenix, his eyes moving over its huge and silent outline.

At this moment, he seemed to be vaguely aware that the remains that had been silent for who knows how many years seemed to be aware of the intrusion of him, the uninvited guest.

The corpse, which had completely lost its life force and was as solid as ten thousand years of ice, suddenly seemed to come alive and showed an indescribable, imperceptible reaction.

Although Xiao Ling was unable to clearly capture any specific abnormalities, and his keen perception was unable to interpret any exact information, an intuition, a very strange feeling, made him clearly "see", or "feel" that this huge corpse did move slightly.

Xiao Ling has always been extremely confident in his perception, which comes from countless life-and-death experiences. Therefore, when he felt the slightest strange feeling just now, he almost instantly ruled out the possibility that he was sensing it wrong.

His mind raced, and he was certain that the corpse of the Sky Demon Phoenix must have had some kind of indescribable reaction. What frightened him the most was that his intuition told him that this reaction was probably caused by his intrusion!

Almost as an instinctive reaction, Xiao Ling's body suddenly shook, and he lightly jumped back, creating some distance between him and the huge corpse. At the same time, he soared into the air from the heart-pounding blood pool below, and stood firmly in the air.

At this moment, his eyes had become sharp and vigilant, fixed firmly on the corpse of the Sky Demon Phoenix, as if he wanted to re-examine the outline that had been silent for endless years.

On the Douqi Continent, life and death are not uncommon, but "complete destruction" is not an absolute outcome.

As long as the strength reaches a certain level, even if the body is damaged, the soul or some kind of power imprint may not completely dissipate.

The example of Venerable Skyfire flashed through Xiao Ling's mind. That senior had been dormant in the magma world beneath the Canaan Academy in the form of a soul for countless years. He was eventually found and rescued by Xiao Ling, and was able to refine a body again. Now he was serving as an elder in the Xingyun Pavilion, living a carefree and happy life.

The corpse of the Sky Demon Phoenix in front of him was a genuine ninth-rank expert when he was alive! Even if such an existence was truly "dead", Xiao Ling would never believe that its power or some trace of existence would completely disappear from this world.

He vaguely felt that this seemingly completely dead corpse might still be hiding some means left behind by its owner during his lifetime.

As soon as this thought flashed through Xiao Ling's mind, the next moment, his eyes were suddenly fixed on the corpse of the Heavenly Demon Phoenix.

The huge body that was originally frozen like ten thousand years of ice suddenly trembled violently without any warning! It was not the imperceptible tremor before, but a real "movement".

It was like a volcano that had been dormant for thousands of years suddenly awakening. At the same time, an indescribable amount of energy, like a prehistoric beast that had broken free from its shackles, erupted from the corpse!

This energy did not dissipate, but turned into an extremely condensed white beam of light, spreading straight into the vast blood pool below that seemed to have no end in sight.

"Om-"

A low and distant humming sound did not come from the ears, but vibrated directly in the depths of Xiao Ling's soul.

Immediately afterwards, the surface of the blood pool was no longer dead silent, but instead began to show circles of huge ripples visible to the naked eye.

The ripples were not ordinary water waves, but were composed of pure energy, like transparent rings, with an ancient and wild rhythm, starting from the center point, spreading in all directions at an almost constant speed at an extremely fast speed.

They cut through the viscosity of the blood pool, and wherever they passed, the color of the blood pool seemed to fluctuate, emitting layers of strange, dim light.

Circle after circle, layer upon layer, as if there is no end, as if it wants to explore every corner and every inch of skin in this bloody abyss, until it touches the final edge of the unknown, and then stop.