Chapter 2056: The Ancient Divine Embryo! (1/2)
This is an Origin Spirit? Wang Chong thought.
The sensation of Psychic Energy breaking free of the body and condensing into an Origin Spirit was a very unique experience. Wang Chong felt himself floating in the air and looking down at 'himself', and he could also sense that he was not in the shape of a human.
Wang Chong carefully observed and slowly began to understand.
The 'Origin Spirit' was the maximal compression of Psychic Energy, resulting in a part of the soul essentially having the trait of a 'mental body' that, once free from the physical body, could freely travel the earth.
However, the High Priest's memories had been very clear.
The 'Origin Spirit' was merely a short-term searching art. While one was not restrained by the physical body, it did not mean that one was without limits.
The Origin Spirit could be away from the body for no more than four hours. Any more would cause extreme damage to the body.
”Four hours! Enough!”
Wang Chong's eyes gleamed, and then he streaked into the ground like a shooting star, vanishing from sight.
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Without the restraint of a physical body, Wang Chong's Origin Spirit could move at ten-some times his original speed, even faster than the Nightmare Beast. In the blink of an eye, Wang Chong passed the depth of two hundred thousand feet, going down to a depth of three hundred thousand feet and continuing even farther.
After the granite layer was the basalt layer. The rock would only get tougher and denser from here.
A few moments later, Wang Chong sensed unusual fluctuations coming from beneath the earth.
It's the magnetosphere! Wang Chong realized.
Besides rock, there was also an invisible and powerful magnetic field. This magnetic field covered the entire subterranean world and could affect one's mental state and rationality. If one weren't careful, it would be easy to lose oneself in the magnetic field.
Go in!
Wang Chong didn't hesitate, shooting right into the magnetosphere.
The resistance was noticeably much greater in the magnetosphere, and even the Origin Soul was having a hard time. The sensation was like trying to swim through an ocean wave. He was now four hundred thousand feet from the surface—one hundred and twenty thousand meters.
In normal circumstances, even with the power of the Subtle realm, Wang Chong would have found it impossible to reach these depths.
There was no air in this place, making it a forbidden zone for living creatures!
Without the Origin Spirit Art, martial artists would never be able to reach this depth!
Still nothing! Where is the divine embryo?
For a moment, Wang Chong even began to wonder if it was the first scenario, that his appearance had caused the divine embryo to no longer be here. Or perhaps it had never been here and there was some mistake in the information from his previous life.
But Wang Chong quickly shook off these thoughts.
If I don't see a trace of the divine embryo at six hundred thousand feet, it really might not be here! Wang Chong quietly said to himself.
The magnetic field had already dropped the speed of Wang Chong's Origin Spirit. Six hundred thousand feet was one hundred and eighty thousand meters. No matter what he found, Wang Chong would have to leave.
The Origin Spirit could only last for four hours. Taking into account the return time, Wang Chong had to go back once he hit six hundred thousand feet. Otherwise, the consequences would be unimaginable!
Five hundred thousand feet, six hundred thousand feet!
Finally, just when Wang Chong was about to give up, he sensed a powerful ripple of Origin Energy. This energy was so intense that even a Subtle realm expert like Wang Chong felt a storm of terrifying pressure.
Not only that, this lightless world that was originally calm was suddenly rife with intense rumbling as if waves were seething deep under the earth. At the same time, he could feel searing waves of heat sweeping out.
Magma?!
Wang Chong was delighted to sense this intense heat, and he suddenly felt enlightened.
In that tale from the apocalyptic era, the divine embryo had appeared together with an intense eruption of lava. But Wang Chong had never imagined that this magma had come from so deep under the earth.
Six hundred thousand feet!
One hundred and eighty thousand meters!
At this depth, even the luster and pressure of magma was different.
It's Pure Gold Magma!
This name passed through Wang Chong's mind.
Wang Chong remembered the Demonic Emperor Old Man talking about it before. It was extremely damaging and powerful, but the vast majority of people would never encounter it in their lifetimes.
In reality, Pure Gold Magma was extremely hard to find. There was an extremely small chance that Pure Gold Magma would erupt to the surface alongside regular magma, which was how people knew about it.
At a depth of six hundred thousand feet, the pressure is extremely strong. The divine embryo probably only reemerged because it was forced out by the Pure Gold Magma! Wang Chong quietly said to himself.
He now understood. The appearance of the divine embryo had clearly been due to an intersection of coincidences. It was no wonder that no one had found it before then.
A moment later, Wang Chong shot toward where the energy ripples were most concentrated.