1981 Energy Of Death On The Islands

A frown was hidden under the Saintess's veil as she gazed at the stone arch in front of her.

"Even if this shrine belongs to the demon tribes… This energy is not that of the Demonic Path… this is the energy of death." She muttered in surprise.

Such energy was rarely present on living worlds. And even if it was, it would appear in places where a lot of death had occurred. Battlefields, and graveyards were one of the common places for such energy to be present.

But even if the energy did appear there, it did not stay there for long.

It would only appear momentarily and fade away. After all, it was a negative energy and its presence was not a good thing for the world or its inhabitants.

As such, the world would actively try to get rid of it.

But if the energy could linger and stay for longer periods of time, it could start affecting the world.

"Even if this place once had a lot of death, the energy of death should have faded away. Why is it pulsing from here instead?" The Saintess was perplexed.

She hadn't come across something like this before. At least not in an Immortal world. 

'There shouldn't be anyone that can utilize the power of death in a world like the Rust Sky World. If it is not because of that, then there is some other source.' The Saintess thought to herself.

Wanting to explore more, she flew around the islands and observed all of the other shrines.

She realized that every shrine looked the same and had the same exact dimensions. This included the stone arch that was present behind all of them.

But even if every shrine was same, only one shrine seemed to be pulsing with the energy of death from time to time.

"Hmm… there are certainly ancient arrays here." The Saintess' could sense it around her.

Her senses could cover the entire archipelago in one go and quickly determined that there were hundreds of individual arrays here. Each of the array was set up on individual islands, and they too were of the same kind.

"Teleportation gates… so they lead to another plane." The Saintess discovered.

This only made her more wary about this archipelago as well as the stone arch that seemed to be pulsing with the energy of death.

'There's a Teleportation gate here too. But opening it is impossible for me.' The Saintess knew one needed a key to get in. 

Even with her power as a celestial, it was not something she could do. She was no spatial expert, and as such, she would not be able to force her way in.

Of course, that didn't mean she was fully out of options.

"Should I flatten this place?" She questioned herself.

Since the place was pulsing with the energy of death, it was best that no one came here. But she also had doubts as to destroying this place was right or not.

'If the gate is actually holding the energy of death back, me destroying it will only cause more damage.' The Saintess thought about it and chose not to do that. "It's best I let it be for now. If anything happens, it is the responsibility of the ruling powers of the Rust Sky world to handle it." She shook her head.

~SHUA~

But just as she had decided to leave, she saw the stone arch flicker. Runes started to glow on it and a flickering opening appeared.

"This…" The Saintess approached it and put her hand on the unstable portal.

~WHOOSH~

But instead of letting her in, the portal rejected her, pushing her hand back.

"Just as I thought… it won't let a Celestial in. The entire thing has restrictions inside it." The Saintess realized.

This only made her question more about what this place was and she decided to investigate it further in detail.

"I'll check all the places thoroughly, there's bound to be more clues." The Saintess muttered and got to work.

Lin Mu had no idea that the Saintess was on an exploration of her own while he continued to stuff his face.

The cooperation between the twin snakes and Little Shrubby had made it possible for a nonstop supply chain of food to be created for Lin Mu.

The twins would hunt and bring the beast corpses, while Little Shrubby would cook them. And by the time Lin Mu finished eating one batch, the next batch would have already been brought back and cooked.

Of course, the quality of beasts was not the same and varied quite a lot.

As the Yin Yang Twin serpents continued to hunt, the number of beasts around them had started to reduce. This didn't mean that they were running out of beasts in the Evergreen Pillars Forest.

That was simply not possible.

Rather than that, the beasts were simply going deeper into the forest now due to being afraid of two new predators that seem to be hunting nonstop.

As such, the time needed for the twins to hunt became longer the more Lin Mu ate.

With each trip, it took them several minutes more to bring the next batch as they needed to travel deeper. Plus the beasts they were now finding were mostly weaker, being at the second or first tribulation stage of the immortal realm.

This was due to the fact that these beasts were slower in moving than the stronger beasts, and as such, they were left behind.

Two days had already passed since the Saintess had left, and Lin Mu's meal was still running.

"Is this hunger ever going to be satisfied?" Lin Mu couldn't help but look at his stomach.

It still looked the same as before, and did not bulge in the slightest. No one would be able to tell that Lin Mu had eaten enough food that thousands of people could live on for years.

And all this had happened in just a few days time.