Poison God's Heritage

"I can\'t have them die, they\'re the only ones who made it that far into the Lightning Domain. I need to go and drag them out if I had to," she replied.

"If you do that, you\'ll collapse the entire thing on them, your mere presence might blow up the entire thing. Trust in them, also Shen has my treasure, and it\'s linked with my own soul, as long as he has that, he should not perish easily," the Lord of Lords added trying to calm down the Blue Sun.

The people in the arena were confused, no one knew what was going on. They were here after all for the competition. And now with this unexpected development, everyone was confused on what would happen next.

The commentator rose up to save the day, "It seems that something unexpected happened, sadly we can\'t follow after the competitors, we lost signal for now. Please stay tuned before we send some people over to check the situation."

The words of the commentator were pleasing to the ear, but they weren\'t anywhere near reality.

The lands of the Thunder Domain are forbidden for a reason. Because not anyone can easily access them. The people above a certain realm could not enter them since they\'ll destabilize the Qi structure. And those at the lower realms say, the Origin Realm could enter, but most of the capable ones are already in the competition.

The Dusking Sun rose up for an urgent meeting with the rest of the Suns.

"We can\'t just stand still, any ideas on how we should handle this?" the Dusking Sun said.

"Shen Bao has my pagoda, he should be safe if they enter it. But I don\'t know how we can get them out," the lord of lord said.

"I can send another avatar there," the Blue Sun said.

"And have it die, like most of your other avatars, you\'ll just lose a lot of your essence doing that. We need another way," the Lord of Lords said.

"There is no need for that," the Darkest Sun said.

"How so?" the Flamboyant Sun interjected, "As much as I would like to go there and bring them back, even I cannot change the laws of that place, what makes you think you can?" the Flamboyant Sun said.

"Because I am the Darkest One," the Darkest Sun smirked. Then one of his eyes rolled back for a second and came back down. It was different than his other eye.

The right eye of the darkest sun had a brimming red color to it, akin to that of a flaming eye. He then pointed his finger forward and a projection above the enter arena showed up.

The projection showed the point of view of a person who was in the depth of a dark tunnel.

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"ARGHHHH!!! AHHHHHHH!!!!"

A painful and soul wrenching yell woke me up from my stunned status. Looking at the source of the yell it was the Fire King.

"What\'s going on?" I asked. Worried that something happened to him and it might happen to us.

But I couldn\'t see anything, it was dark, and my divine sense was not able to go beyond a foot in front of me.

I pulled a small orb from my holding bag which lit up the area around us.

The first thing I noticed was the pained expression on the fire king, his entire being looked as if it was possessed.

And one of his eyes was suddenly flipped over and changed.

Suddenly he calmed down, breathing difficulty and gasping for air.

"Are you good?" Law asked.

"I\'m… fine," he said through grit teeth. "But I\'m blind in one eye." He said

I got closer to him and said, "Let me take a look," I said.

He wasn\'t trusting of my words, as he should, but seeing I was the only one with medical knowledge he couldn\'t help but allow me to.

"Oh… it\'s not that you\'re blind, but this isn\'t your eye at all," I said.

"What? Not his eye?" Law freaked out as he backed away, "Was he possessed?"

I shook my head, "No, this eye, I\'ve seen it before. I think I understand what happened," I said.

"Then tell us, I hate suspense especially in this dark damp place. It\'s freaking me out man," Law said.

"That pitch-black eye belongs to the Darkest Sun. He\'s using your eye to see what we\'re seeing."

"But I guess he can\'t communicate with us, he can only see," Zhang Tian said.

"Hmm, is that so," I said as I looked into the Fire King\'s eye and said. "Blink twice for yes, and once for no, can you hear us?"

Suddenly the Fire King\'s eye blank twice.

"Good, it\'s rudimentary but it is a form of communication," I said.

As much as I would like to teach him morose code to communicate with us better, it\'ll be a big hassle and I don\'t want to receive orders from other people.

"Anyway, we\'re inside an unknown place, the walls are high and steep, and they\'re full of those strange symbols." I said explaining to the group and the Darkest Sun too. "Let\'s head back to the entrance first and see if we can open the door again," I said to the party.

The area around us seemed to extend forward. Thankfully the Ship was also with us and it was not damaged in the least.

"I don\'t think we can use the exit," Zhang Tian said.

"Why not?"

"Flight is forbidden here, and the exit is up there," he said as he pointed up.

He was right, the door was up there. Far high up from where the light could shine the door that took us in was there.

What kind of dumb engineer would make a door lead to a massive fall…

I called one of the puppets to come out of the ship, I own and ordered it, "Fly up, see if you can get to the door."

"I mentioned that flight is forbidden here, even I can\'t fly." Zhang Tian said.

"Cultivator flight is different from a puppet that uses jet thrusters," I said as the puppet simply flew up using the thrusters on the sole of its feet.

But before it could even reach halfway, the puppet was smashed against the wall in less than the time it takes to blink. Turning to a metallic painting squashed as thinly as a sheet of paper.

The preparator was a square platform that emerged from one of the sides of the tunnel path we were on. The platform slowly went back and seamlessly joint back into the wall. One couldn\'t even tell it wasn\'t a part of it anymore.

I gulped hard.

"I guess we\'ll have to not fly then…" I said.

There are traps here, and deadly unnoticeable to traps.

"This is pretty dangerous," Law said.

"My divine sense is limited, I can barely sense beyond my skin. But I can still smell death here. Something is lurking in this darkness, and I don\'t like it. It feels…like a predator," Dao Shen said.

Law was clearly scared out of his wits, but he still put up a brave front, "I\'ll go up ahead then, I shouldn\'t trigger any traps," Law said.

I grabbed him by the shoulder and said, "Remember, your luck was the very thing that got us into this mess, please stay behind me. Also why are you going to sacrifice yourself when I have my puppets?"

"Oh true…you\'re right," Law said.

"I\'m always right, now," I said as I pocketed the ship inside my Poison God\'s book.

I then began summoning puppets, one after the other. Until I had about twenty puppets. They were all geared up and armed to the brim with shields and swords and fire arms under their belts.

I then threw several black metal balls that opened up into the shape of a black beetle.

"Go forward, map the place," I ordered and the hundred or so critters shot forward as fast as possible.

"We\'ll need to wait for them to come back and give us a detailed map, for now I\'ll be studying these symbols and figure out what the hell is going on here," I said.

No one seemed to disagree with me, after all, I was the only one with any semblance of reason here. Dao Shen and Zhang Tian would follow anything I suggest, while Law will not say no to any of my requests. But The Fire King is different, he isn\'t an ally.

And right now he has the Darkest Sun spying on us.

The help of one of the Suns would have been appreciated, but since the storm outside is so volatile, it could end up blowing the entire place. So I\'d rather them not directly interfere. But we could still use some help if they\'re willing to give it.

"Shen Bao," the Fire Lord said. "The Darkest Sun wishes to speak with you," he said.

I was surprised that he would want to talk to me, but how is he going to do so.

Suddenly another pained groan emerged from the Fire Lord\'s mouth and soon his lips curled up, "That was slightly difficult," he said and coughed.

The voice was definitely not the Fire Lord\'s.

"Darkest One, how may I be of help?" I said.

"Stop with the flattery, I know you don\'t like me. And I also know about your relationship with Fu Tian.

That caught me off guard… since Old Fu wanted to keep himself hidden from the Darkest Sun. It was now too late for that.

"Worry not about that for now. Anyway, the Blue Sun wishes to inform you that she wants you to record everything you see there. As for me, just bring back my disciple out. We\'ll both reward you handsomely," he said.

"Sure thing," I said. I was planning on leaving this place alive anyway. Also this stuff here is worth noting anyway. After all, the entire thing is made from Soulsteel. Every single piece of it.