Chapter 608: New Crisis and Exploration of Ancient Ruins

After successfully solving the conspiracy of the mysterious forces against trade routes and residents, the Wuhun World and the Star Realm enjoyed a brief period of peace. But Ah Fu and other young elites knew that this calm was only the calm before the storm, and the mysterious forces would never give up.

One day, when Ah Fu was discussing with several friends how to further strengthen the defenses of the two worlds, a soul master in charge of intelligence gathering hurried over.

"Afu, we have discovered a very suspicious situation. Near the border between the Martial Soul World and the Star Realm, there have been some abnormal energy fluctuations, which seem to come from deep underground." The intelligence soul master said breathlessly.

Ah Fu frowned, "Deep underground? That's a bit strange. We have to go check it out."

Therefore, Ah Fu led a team of soul masters and celestial beings to explore the border area. When they arrived at the area where the energy fluctuations appeared, they found that it was a barren desert with nothing but sand around and the scorching sun baking the earth.

"This place doesn't look like there's anything special, but the energy fluctuations are coming from here," said a team member.

Ah Fu closed his eyes and tried to feel the energy around him. "Everyone, spread out and look around. There might be some hidden entrance or something."

The team members began to search the desert carefully. Suddenly, an astral creature shouted, "Come and see, the sand here seems to be a little different!"

Everyone gathered around and saw that the sand in a patch of sand was spinning slightly, as if there was a small whirlpool underneath. Ah Fu squatted down and touched the sand with his hand, and felt a strong suction coming from below.

"There must be something here, we have to find a way to get down." Ah Fu said.

They began to try various methods to open this hidden entrance. A soul master who was good at earth attribute soul power used his skills to try to move the sand away, but the sand quickly filled back as soon as it was moved away.

"It's like this sand has its own consciousness and doesn't want us to go down." The soul master said helplessly.

Just when everyone was at a loss, Ah Fu discovered some strange rune marks on the sand. These runes looked very ancient and had some similarities with the runes seen in the mysterious force base before.

"These runes may be the key to opening the entrance. Let me try to decipher them." Ah Fu said.

Ah Fu studied the runes carefully and found that these runes needed to be injected with soul power in a specific order to be activated. After some exploration, Ah Fu finally found the correct order.

He slowly injected soul power into the rune. As the soul power was injected, the sand began to tremble violently, and a huge hole appeared in front of them. The hole exuded an ancient and mysterious aura, accompanied by powerful energy fluctuations.

"We don't know what's hidden down here, so be careful," Ah Fu warned, then led the way into the cave.

After entering the cave, there is a long passage with various murals carved on the walls. These murals depict wars, peaceful exchanges and some mysterious rituals between the ancient martial arts world and the star world.

"These murals are so beautiful, just like a history book," exclaimed a team member.

However, they did not have much time to admire the murals, because the further they went in, the stronger the energy fluctuations became. Suddenly, a low roar sounded in the passage, as if some huge creature was lurking in the dark.

"Everyone, be alert, there is something ahead." said Ah Fu.

They continued to move forward cautiously, and after turning a corner, they saw a huge sand beast. This sand beast was huge, made of sand, and its eyes were shining red.

"Wow, this big guy doesn't look like he's easy to mess with." A soul master swallowed.

When the sand beast saw them, it immediately attacked. It raised its huge claws and slapped the team members. The team members quickly dispersed to avoid the sand beast's attack.

Ah Fu used his light attribute soul power and shot it towards the sand beast. After the light attribute soul power hit the sand beast, the sand beast's body shook slightly, but soon returned to its original state.

"This sand beast doesn't seem to be afraid of light-attribute soul power. We have to change our attack method." Ah Fu shouted.

An astral creature released a powerful astral energy wave. After the energy wave hit the sand beast, some cracks began to appear on the sand beast's body.

“Its body is made of sand. We can try to break up its body structure.” said the celestial creature.

The team members began to concentrate their efforts to attack the sand beast's body, and various soul powers and star energy continued to hit the sand beast. Although the sand beast continued to fight back, under everyone's joint attack, its body gradually became loose and finally turned into a pile of loose sand.

"Huh, we finally got rid of this guy." A team member breathed a sigh of relief.

Continuing along the passage, they came to a huge hall. In the center of the hall was a round stone platform, on which was placed a crystal ball emitting a faint blue light. The crystal ball was surrounded by some small energy devices, which continuously transmitted energy to the crystal ball.

"This crystal ball looks very important. Maybe it is related to those abnormal energy fluctuations." Ah Fu said.

Just as they approached the crystal ball, the surrounding energy devices suddenly activated their defense mechanisms, and beams of energy shot out from the devices and shot towards the team members.

The team members used their defensive skills to resist the attack of the energy beams. Ah Fu discovered that these energy beams were emitted according to a certain pattern, with short intervals in between.

"Everyone, pay attention to the intervals between light emissions. We can use this time difference to get close to the devices and then destroy them," said Afu.

Following Ah Fu's instructions, the team members quickly approached the energy device during the interval between beam emission, and then used their skills to destroy the device. As the energy device was destroyed, the defense mechanism around the crystal ball was also lifted.

Ah Fu walked forward and looked at the crystal ball carefully. He found some images flickering in the crystal ball, showing some blurry scenes, which seemed to be scenes of mysterious forces performing some kind of ritual.

"The ritual in this video looks evil, what on earth are they doing?" a team member asked puzzledly.

Before Ah Fu could answer, the crystal ball suddenly released a powerful energy wave that enveloped them all. In the energy wave, they saw more details about the ritual of the mysterious force.

It turns out that the mysterious forces are trying to awaken an ancient evil force that was once sealed deep underground in ancient times. If awakened, it will bring disaster to the martial arts world and the star world.

"We must stop them!" Ah Fu said firmly.

However, they did not know where the mysterious force was performing the ritual, nor did they know how to stop it. At this moment, the crystal ball released energy again, and this time the energy formed a map image, marking the location where the mysterious force was performing the ritual.

"This crystal ball is really helpful. Let's go to this place quickly." Ah Fu said.

According to the instructions on the map, they set out for the location where the mysterious force was performing a ritual. This location was located deep in an ancient ruin, which was surrounded by a powerful dark energy.

When they arrived at the ruins, they saw members of the mysterious force carrying out the final steps of the ritual. In the center of the ritual was a huge dark vortex, from which came bursts of evil roars.

"What are you guys doing again?" Ah Fu shouted.

The members of the mysterious force were not panicked when they saw them coming. "You came at the right time. Today is the day for you to witness the awakening of the great evil force."

Ah Fu led the team to launch an attack immediately and rushed towards the mysterious force. The mysterious force was not to be outdone, they used various dark skills and launched a fierce battle with the exploration team.

During the battle, Ah Fu discovered that the ritual of the mysterious force was maintained through a huge energy formation. As long as this energy formation is destroyed, the awakening of the evil force can be prevented.

"Everyone, concentrate your strength and attack that energy formation!" Ah Fu shouted.

The team members began to attack the energy formation. However, the defense of the energy formation was very strong, and their attacks could only cause some ripples on the surface of the formation.

"This won't work. We have to find the weakness of the formation." said a team member.

After careful observation, they found that there were some special runes in the four corners of the formation. The energy fluctuations of these runes were relatively disordered, which seemed to be the weak link of the formation.

"Concentrate your attacks on the runes in the four corners!" Ah Fu shouted.

The team members changed their attack strategy and launched a fierce attack on the runes in the four corners. Under the joint attack of everyone, cracks began to appear on the runes.

As the runes were damaged, the energy formation began to crumble. The leader of the mysterious force saw that the situation was not good and personally tried to protect the formation.

He unleashed a powerful dark skill and attacked the team members. Fuku stepped forward and started a one-on-one battle with the leader of the mysterious force.

Ah Fu used his strongest light-attribute soul skill, which collided with the dark skill of the leader of the mysterious force in the air, causing a huge energy explosion.

Under the cover of the explosion, the team members continued to attack the runes of the energy formation. Finally, the runes were completely destroyed and the energy formation collapsed.

As the energy formation collapsed, the dark vortex began to gradually disappear, and the awakening of the evil force was also prevented.

Seeing that their plan had failed, the mysterious forces began to flee in all directions.

"Don't let them get away!" Ah Fu shouted.

The team members chased after them and started another pursuit with the mysterious forces. During the pursuit, they successfully captured some members of the mysterious forces, who might provide some important information about the subsequent plans of the mysterious forces.

Although the crisis was resolved, Ah Fu and his team knew that the threat of the mysterious force still existed. They returned to the Wuhun World and the Star World with the captured members of the mysterious force, ready to pry more secrets from these members in order to better deal with the next attack of the mysterious force. At the same time, they also realized that there may be more unknown secrets and dangers hidden deep underground in the two worlds, which require further exploration and research.