God of Pets

Chapter 975 The Secret of the Hanging Gardens

Chen looked at everything in the Sky Garden with surprise in his eyes.

Within this enormous, planet-like aerial garden, countless human cultivators were practicing.

However, the human cultivators remained motionless, like puppets, sitting among the plants in the garden.

However, Chen Guan could sense that those human cultivators were not dead, because the aura emanating from them was shockingly powerful.

The aura emanating from any human cultivator here is not much weaker than that of Long Yue.

There are probably millions of human cultivators here. Judging from the armor worn by most of them, one can guess that they are undoubtedly the million iron cavalry who followed the Emperor Ancestor into the Sky Secret Realm.

Besides the cultivators wearing the standard armor of the Qin Dynasty's Iron Cavalry, there were also many human cultivators with different attire.

Chen Guan's gaze swept quickly across the area, and soon he spotted a familiar figure—it was none other than the Heavenly King Gong, who had not long been taken away by the Devouring Spirit God.

The Heavenly King sat cross-legged under a large silver tree, which was as if it were made of silver, dazzling and radiant, and as smooth as a mirror.

Upon sensing this, Chen Guan's expression became somewhat strange.

The aura emanating from that Heavenly King was not much less powerful than that of Long Yue.

If Ji Tianwang has been in the Sky Secret Realm for quite some time, it's not surprising that he has reached that level.

However, this Heavenly King has only been in the Sky Secret Realm for a short time, yet he already possesses such terrifying power fluctuations, which is truly illogical.

In fact, Chen Guan felt that the entire Sky Garden was filled with an eerie atmosphere. The concentration of vital energy here was extremely high, no less than that of the Immortal Mountain Sect before Chen Guan drained it.

Each of those rare and exotic plants contains unimaginable energy.

Chen Guan even suspected that the energy explosion of any blade of grass here could destroy a small galaxy.

So many plants containing terrifying energy are concentrated in this sky garden, which is only the size of a planet. Where does the energy come from that allows them to survive here?

Plants with such explosive energy require a huge amount of energy to survive. How can such a tiny place provide so much energy?
Chen Guan moved swiftly, exploring the entire sky garden.

The human cultivators occupied different locations in the Sky Garden, sitting motionless as if in deep meditation.

In the center of this sky garden grows a black lotus flower. There is only this one lotus flower in the entire lotus pond, and even its petals are black.

The black lotus was as big as a house, emanating a black aura. Inside the lotus, a human was sitting cross-legged.

Chen Guanguan's mask was exquisite, exuding an indescribable air of nobility and domineering presence.

Although he was sitting there cross-legged with his eyes closed, he still exuded an aura of authority that made people dare not disrespect him.

Chen Guan had already vaguely guessed the man's identity; it was most likely that he was the Emperor Ancestor.

"Is this what you wanted to see?" The figure of the Soul Devourer God appeared beside Chen Guan at some point, looking down at the man in the lotus and saying. "Is this my human ancestor?" Chen Guan asked.

"That's right, that's how you humans should address him," the Soul Devourer God said calmly.

"What did you do to them?" Chen Guan's mind raced as he pondered what to do next.

Judging from this situation, most of the humans brought into the Hanging Gardens by the Soul Devouring God will likely become these sitting puppets.

Apart from exceptional cases like Ji Changsheng, it's unlikely that anyone could escape.

“I didn’t do anything to them. They chose to stay here themselves. Even if I tried to kick them out, they wouldn’t leave,” said the Soul Devourer.

“They can’t even move, so naturally they can’t leave voluntarily.” Chen Guan emphasized the word “voluntarily.”

The Soul Devourer God didn't seem to care, and simply said, "You need to hear a story first."

"Long ago, there was a powerful spirit born with immense strength, but he was never satisfied. He constantly sought to surpass himself, hoping to become even stronger. So he continuously challenged other spirits, wanting to grow stronger through battle..."

"But the battles didn't help him grow much until one day, he discovered a city with incredible energy. Just by staying in that city, his body could continuously grow and become stronger."

"The spirit was overjoyed and stayed in the city to cultivate continuously. However, he soon discovered a problem: the city's energy was almost inexhaustible, but energy doesn't come from nothing. So where did the city's energy come from?"

"The Mystic Spirit wanted to explore the origins of this city. As he continued to explore it, he slowly discovered many secrets. This city is not just a city; it is the heart of the world, and the energy of the entire universe flows through it..."

"This discovery made the mysterious spirit ecstatic, believing that he had discovered the core of this world and that as long as he cultivated here, he could become the most powerful and invincible being in the universe."

"If he hadn't explored further, things might have really gone in that direction. But he was a curious spirit, and he didn't stop exploring the city. In the end, he discovered a chilling truth: the city was devouring the world."

"You mean, Sky City is devouring the universe?" Chen Guan asked when he saw that the Soul Devourer God had stopped speaking.

"Yes, this city is devouring the universe. All the energy in this world must flow through this city to form a cycle and allow the world to function normally."

"However, as energy flows through this city, some of it disappears. As time goes by, the energy in the universe will become less and less."

"At this rate, all the energy in the universe will eventually be completely devoured by this city, and that will be the time of the universe's destruction."

"Didn't that mysterious spirit ever think about finding those lost energies?" Chen Guan asked.

“Of course I thought about it, and I did look for it, and I even found it.” The Soul Devourer God continued, “The energy that was swallowed by the city did not remain in the city, but flowed into another world, a world that is somewhat different from this one, but the two worlds are intricately connected.”

"If we had to define the two worlds, this world could be called the world of life, and the other world would be the world of death."

Chen Guan understood. The Realm of Life that the Devouring Spirit God spoke of was the Secret Realm of the Sky, while the Realm of Death was the Secret Realm of the Divine Continent and the Secret Realm of the Earth.

(End of this chapter)