A bizarre resurgence begins with a pact made by a weasel.

"Young Master Xie Qing, are you referring to the Spirit Realm?"

Unlike Xie Hong's ignorance, Su Mo quickly realized what was happening.

His tired face was filled with shock.

Before Xie Qing could reply,

Rumble!

The ground suddenly collapsed.

Whoosh!

A dozen or so thick stone pillars broke through the ground.

follow closely,

A faint red glow emerged from the dark pit, converging to form a lid that covered the surrounding area. The invisible force field shimmering on the stone pillar caused Xie Qing and the others to freeze for a few moments.

But as the red light disappeared, the invisible force field also quickly vanished.

Xie Qing leaped into the pit, where it was pitch black everywhere.

He lit a candle, and the dim light illuminated the surroundings, revealing that an ancient ruin was indeed buried in the pit.

The passageway was filled with various pottery shards and stone utensils. His gaze swept across the wall—the engravings, eroded by time and reduced to shallow pits, still faintly discernible as twisted arcs, like some kind of strange sketch or some kind of hieroglyphics.

Xie Qing stretched out his fingertips and gently stroked the wall. Before his fingers could even touch the surface, the rough stone was quickly destroyed by the airflow, and a layer of debris peeled off, revealing the deeper ochre-red rock beneath.

Not long after, Xie Hong and his group also jumped down.

"This is truly a spiritual realm!!"

Su Mo looked at the mural anxiously and urged:

"Young Master Xie Qing, hurry inside. There might still be a Holy Grail deep within this spiritual realm."

Upon hearing this, Xie Qing pulled the man with the broken leg out of Xie Hong's arms. Xie Hong was still somewhat reluctant, but under Xie Qing's intense gaze, she had no choice but to release the slippery tentacles. She was a little sad, so she grabbed Leo and stuffed him into her mouth.

"Senior, stop! No, shut up!!"

Amidst screams,

Xie Qing shoved the candle flame into Su Mo's hand, then carried the man inside as if he were a lantern.

"What is a spirit realm?"

"Lingjing was the place where ancient apes worshipped spirits. Legend has it that the apes pleased the spirits here and received their rewards in return."

"You know about spirits too?"

"Yes, I heard my elders mention it years ago."

Have you seen them?

Su Mo shook his head, somewhat hesitantly saying, "That comes from an ancient legend; I doubt anyone in the world has ever seen it."

"What is the Holy Grail?"

"That is a container that holds the offerings that the ape-men made to the spirit. It contains special intentions and power. It is said that the Holy Grail held by the Freemasons was made from a container in the spirit realm."

Xie Qing stopped in her tracks.

"So, spirit realms aren't uncommon?"

"That's right. Over the past hundred years, more than a thousand spiritual realms have been discovered one after another."

The earliest sacred site was discovered by priests of the Church of Abundant Sun, at a time when the Taiping Heavenly Way had just begun its uprising.

From then on, the excavation of the Spirit Realm became unstoppable.

Not only the locals of Linzhou, but also the foreigners are very interested in this Holy Grail.

Years ago, Hong secretly smuggled the Holy Grail for a big shot in the neighboring county.

"If you offer the Holy Grail to the Freemasons, you can not only directly obtain a membership, but also choose any branch and become a disciple within it."

Xie Qing understood.

It's likely that Xie Lan was able to join the Guangtu tribe precisely because of the Holy Grail within this spiritual realm.

Although he had given up hope, he continued to walk inside.

Not long after,

The two then arrived at the deepest part of the passageway.

There was a huge stone chamber.

Huge murals are engraved on the walls, and although they are mottled, they are much clearer than the patterns on the outside.

In front of the mural were three empty stone platforms.

After a moment's thought, Su Mo understood the cause and effect, and he sighed softly:

"This spiritual realm is probably the one Xie Lan explored before; he had already offered the Holy Grail to the Freemasons."

Xie Qing nodded and carried Su Mo closer to the mural.

At the very center of the mural is a huge, blurry black shadow, standing in the center of the earth. Its face and outline are indistinct, and only its hair, which falls to the ground, can be seen as surging rivers spreading in all directions.

Scattered along the riverbank were many strange and unusual creatures, mostly birds and beasts, with a few humanoid beings among them. They were bowing their heads to drink the river water, and some were even bathing directly in it.

The group of apes were closest to Him.

These ape-men were fighting in pairs.

Some were wrestling, some were fighting each other with weapons, and others seemed to be competing in strength by pressing their palms together.

The closer the ape-men got to Him, the more intense the struggle became.

The outer perimeter may still have some playful elements, but casualties have already occurred on the inner perimeter.

Xie Qing stared intently for a long time, and then he became certain of one thing.

This wasn't a fight or infighting; it was more like a ritual.

"Outside the circle of the struggle, many onlookers, their outstretched hands waving, seemed more like cheers and shouts, encouraging the fighting apes."

"This is probably similar to the game of pitch-pot; the apes found pleasure in struggle."

"He may be the Spirit."

Xie Qing's body suddenly trembled.

A sense of terror and horror inexplicably welled up in my heart.

He turned abruptly, and in the dim candlelight, Xie Hong was carrying a werewolf as she crawled in. She glanced at Xie Qing, somewhat puzzled, and said:

"What's wrong?"

"I wasn't bothering you, was I? I just wanted to see Su Mo."

The young man being held quickly tried to cover it up:

"Young Master Xie, Miss is only affected by the transformation, so her mind has changed a bit."

Xie Qing lowered her eyelids:

"Don't you find it strange?"

Su Mo shook his head.

In his eyes, it was just an ordinary mural.

Xie Qing turned around in silence, and the patterns on the rock wall had changed.

He still stands in the heart of the earth.

But the creatures around the river underwent a drastic change.

The birds and beasts bathing in the river transformed into enormous and peculiar monsters, while those that drank the water shed their fur. Although their complete forms were not depicted, the dynamic movement of them emerging from their fur made Xie Qing even more uneasy.

Just looking at their figures, it felt as if something was about to be squeezed out from my heart.

"The pattern has changed."

Xie Qing looked down at Su Mo.

The man remained completely bewildered, oblivious to anything amiss.

then,

Xie Qing turned around again, and the moment he turned back, the pattern changed again.

The river has disappeared, and the monsters have vanished without a trace.

The majestic being bent down, and three white dots appeared in its dark face, seemingly mouths and eyes. It gazed down at the being below—an altar made of piled-up ape-man corpses, on which an ape-man leader held up his head and roared to the sky.

Xie Qing's gaze was firmly drawn to the other person.

suddenly,

A beastly roar rang in my ears.

Jia held him in his arms and roared wildly at the mural.

Xie Qing suddenly came to his senses and realized that the imposing figure had unknowingly bent over again.

Do not! !

wrong!!

He wasn't looking at the altar; He was looking at me!

Those empty eyes were staring intently at him.

His body drew closer and closer, his bent head almost bursting out of the frame, peeking out from the rock face.

"Thunderbolt!!"

Xie Qing suddenly threw a punch.

Boom!!

The mural, which had existed for an unknown period of time, was instantly reduced to dust.

In the instant it shattered, the figure changed again.

He drooled, and a white column of water fell from the round hole, splashing onto the ape-man. His smug figure melted into the water and disappeared without a trace along with the altar.

"Walk!"

"Let's leave here."

Xie Qing picked up Su Mo and turned to leave.

Can you hear my voice?

Xie Qing suddenly turned around.

Inside the stone chamber, there was nothing but Xie Hong scolding Leo.