ushernet Chapter 535
Chapter 535
"Three... thirty-three... non-human realm?"
The fat man repeated it with difficulty, his voice trembling uncontrollably:
"What the hell does this mean?"
Non-human realm?
Is this not a place for humans?
Thirty-three levels of hell?
He instinctively shrank his neck, as if the surrounding darkness had become even colder.
"Inhuman..."
Xie Xiaohua stared intently at the five giant characters, her brows furrowed, her face so grave it could drip water:
"Literally, it means the realm of non-humans."
But 'thirty-three'... this number is special.
According to Taoist legend, there are thirty-three heavens, the highest of which is the Great Luo Heaven.
Buddhism also speaks of the Thirty-Three Heavens...
But regardless of which one, they all point to an extremely high level or realm...
But here…
He looked around at the deathly darkness and the ominous giant monument:
"This is definitely not a safe place!"
"It's either heaven or hell."
Zhang Qilin's voice rang out coldly, as if stating an irrefutable fact.
He stood half a step to Zhang Hao's side, his gaze sharp as a knife, warily scanning the giant monument and the surrounding deep darkness. The illusion he had just witnessed had heightened his vigilance to its peak.
Huo Xiuxiu instinctively moved closer to Wu Tianzhen, her voice tinged with fear:
"Non-human... does that mean the things in here... are not human?"
Is it... a ghost?
still……"
She dared not continue.
Wu Tianzhen's expression was also very unpleasant. He forced himself to calmly analyze the situation:
The character '界' can be understood as space or world.
Could the "Thirty-Three Non-Human Realms" refer to a world composed of thirty-three layers of space, belonging to "non-human" beings?
Or... is this the thirty-third level, the 'non-human realm'?
He looked up at the endless darkness above the giant monument:
"Are we just standing at the entrance?"
Zhang Hao's gaze was also firmly fixed on the five huge characters that exuded an ominous aura. Deep in his golden-red eyes, there were turbulent thoughts and a trace of cold understanding.
He slowly raised his hand, a faint wisp of golden-red blood energy swirling around his fingertips, and with extraordinary determination, reached out towards the cold, heavy bronze stele inscribed with "Thirty-Three Non-Human Realms".
Just as his fingertips were about to touch the ancient, cold bronze—
hum! ! !
A faint yet incredibly clear resonance emanated from the depths of the boiling Qilin bloodline within his body without warning!
It was as if a sleeping behemoth had been awakened by a shared aura!
At the same time, the faint green light that had been seeping through the huge monument suddenly became several times brighter!
Especially deep within the five giant characters “Thirty-Three Non-Human Realms”, a ghostly green light, like ignited phosphorescence, suddenly flowed and flickered!
The light was no longer lifeless, but seemed to have come alive, rapidly flowing and flickering within those huge, ferocious strokes!
"careful!"
Zhang Qilin's eyes sharpened, and his hand was already on the hilt of the Black Gold Ancient Sword.
However, Zhang Hao's hands did not stop for the first time.
His fingertips, carrying a wisp of golden-red, resilient, and sacred blood energy, gently and steadily pressed onto the cold bronze tablet, landing precisely on the edge of a deep engraving on the huge character "界" (world).
boom! ! !
This time, it's no longer a silent resonance!
A deep, muffled roar, seemingly originating from the earth's core or exploding directly into the depths of everyone's souls, suddenly erupted!
The entire massive bronze stele seemed to have been completely awakened from an ancient slumber!
The monument emitted a teeth-grinding roar, like giant gears and chains being forcibly dragged!
All the eerie green light on the monument surface suddenly surged, no longer a faint phosphorescent glow, but transformed into a surging, icy green stream of light!
These streams of light surged and converged wildly along the huge and twisted engravings on the monument's surface!
Centered on Zhang Hao's fingertip, an extremely complex and enormous rune composed of countless flowing, eerie green rays instantly appeared, rotated, and expanded on the bronze stele, as if it were alive!
The structure of this rune is filled with an inhuman, twisted geometric beauty, and the energy fluctuations it emits are ancient and powerful, carrying a cold, spatial power!
The light was so dazzling that it briefly pushed back the thick darkness around them!
"Hold on tight!"
Zhang Hao's deep voice came through the roar and blinding light!
There was absolutely no time to react!
An irresistible and overwhelmingly terrifying suction force suddenly erupted from the huge, swirling, and expanding eerie green rune!
It was as if a cosmic behemoth had opened its invisible maw!
Everyone instantly lost their weight! Grabbed tightly by this violent suction force, like fallen leaves in a gale, they were dragged involuntarily and slammed hard into the huge bronze monument that emitted a cold green light!
There was no hard, cold impact as I had expected.
The moment the body came into contact with the surging, eerie green light, a strange sensation, as if passing through a viscous film of water, enveloped the entire body.
Immediately following was a soul-crushing dizziness and a sense of spatial dislocation! All light, sound, and perception were utterly distorted, stretched, and shattered in that instant!
Consciousness, like a lone boat on a raging sea, was instantly thrown into utter darkness and chaos amidst the turbulent spatial currents...
As the soul-wrenching dizziness and nausea of spatial disorientation slowly receded like the tide, and their heavy eyelids struggled to open again, they found themselves still in darkness.
But this darkness was different from the pure, deathly, boundless, thick ink outside the bronze monument.
The darkness here seems diluted, carrying a hazy gray hue.
The scent in the air had changed; it was no longer the pure dryness of dust and rocks, but a more complex and indescribable smell—like the slightly fishy smell of some metal slowly rusting over the years, mixed with a faint, almost imperceptible, cold, damp musty smell that seemed to come from the deepest part of the earth.
The ground beneath my feet still felt hard and cold, but it was no longer a huge, flat stone slab. The texture was rougher, covered with fine gravel.
"Cough...cough..."
The fat man was the first to speak. He struggled to sit up, rubbing his temples vigorously, as if trying to squeeze out the lingering dizziness from his head.
"Damn... I... I almost threw up my dinner from last night... This roller coaster is just too... too thrilling..."
He looked around, his voice gradually lowering, tinged with surprise and doubt:
"Where...where is this?"
Why does it still feel... pitch black?
The others gradually regained their mobility and got up.
"Look over there!"
Xie Xiaohua's voice carried a hint of solemnity as she pointed in one direction.
Everyone looked in the direction of the sound, and their flashlights were also pointed in that direction.
Against a gray, seemingly impenetrable backdrop, a huge, dark shadow stood about several dozen meters away from them.
The outline of that shadow was strikingly similar to the towering bronze monument outside!
But...it seems to have gotten much smaller?
Moreover, it doesn't stand there all alone.
Around it, indistinctly, seemed to be some lower, differently shaped shadowy outlines, like the base or annex of some huge building.
The entire area formed a relatively open space, but it was still shrouded in heavy darkness.
"The stone tablet...is it still there?"
Huo Xiuxiu's voice carried a hint of confusion and unease:
"We...we weren't teleported very far?"