Apocalyptic Flood: Sexy Beauty Neighbor's Midnight Plea for Food Chapter 1681 - 1013: The Situation in Starry Sky Ancient City

Liang Yuan heard this and merely chuckled softly.

With his caution, he had long been on guard against the other party playing this move.

That’s why he had the man from the ghost clan sign the soul contract on his behalf.

However, Liang Yuan was still curious about what means were hidden in this soul contract.

"How do you know there’s a problem? What’s the problem?"

Meng Hu hurriedly said, "Mr. Liang, I heard it with my own ears. They thought our souls were trapped in a false secret realm, but in reality, Han Xiangman, Captain Han, had already led us to break through that secret realm. We just haven’t dared to come out yet."

"Because we’ve heard that there are some old guys outside eyeing us fiercely."

"However, Wu Ying, Captain Wu, has already used his ’Shadow’ ability to infiltrate the Starry Sky Ancient City. Even though he’s currently in soul body state, the shadow ability still offers a very strong concealment effect."

"It’s thanks to Captain Wu’s eavesdropping that we know about these people’s malicious intentions."

"They planted the Starry Sky Wild Soul Poison in the soul contract. We don’t know the specific effects of this poison, but listening to their conversations, it seems that once you are poisoned, you will definitely be at their mercy."

Liang Yuan was surprised and turned to the old guys who had returned from the Starry Sky Ancient City, asking, "Do you know anything about this Starry Sky Wild Soul Poison?"

A man revived from the ghost clan replied, "I know, sir."

"This Starry Sky Wild Soul Poison must be from Xue Ming, one of the Ten Great True Monarchs; only he has it."

"The Starry Sky Wild Soul Poison is a poison that can infiltrate spiritual consciousness. Once it taints you, you become addicted, and if you can’t continue the poison intake, you will suffer endless agony."

"After taking the poison, not only does your spirit become excited, cultivation speed is accelerated, and the operation speed of soul consciousness can be increased several times."

"But all this is just killing the goose that lays the golden eggs; he must be trying to use this poison to control the master."

Liang Yuan sneered, "Surely that’s vicious enough."

He looked at the ghost clan man. Unsurprisingly, this man wasn’t injured. Instead, he appeared spirited, with a gleam in his eyes, and very active spiritual energy.

"What’s your name?"

"Sir, I am Bai Jinhai."

"Bai Jinhai, how are you feeling?"

Despite his abundant spiritual energy and lively spirit, Bai Jinhai was scared to death inside.

Because he knew this was the effect of the poison from the soul contract.

At this moment, he looked horrified and said, "Master, please save me. Although I feel full of energy, it’s because of the poison!"

Liang Yuan patted his shoulder and said, "Don’t worry, the ones who fell for the trap are those old guys. You just need to keep impersonating me and deceive them into releasing our people."

Actually, if Tu Long and the others could hold on, Liang Yuan wouldn’t mind tricking those old guys into coming over and putting them all into the Soul Imprisonment Rune. That way, he’d effectively have a hundred close-to-Star-God-level expert slaves.

However, Tu Long and his group’s souls evidently couldn’t hold out for long.

So Liang Yuan could only pretend to negotiate with these so-called Ten Great True Monarchs to first save Tu Long and others.

Liang Yuan asked, "Let’s see what else they plan to do next."

At the same time, Liang Yuan turned to the elder of the ghost clan and asked, "What’s your name?"

"Your loyal servant, Shihai."

"Shihai? Someone has the surname Shi?"

"Ah, this name was chosen by myself, it sounds a bit more impressive," the ghost clan elder said awkwardly.

Liang Yuan laughed and asked, "I ask you, are all those so-called Ten Great True Monarchs currently in the Starry Sky Ancient City?"

"No, the Ten Great True Monarchs have long entered the starry river, exploring the cosmic secrets. The current Ten Great True Monarchs all inherited their titles later, not the original Ten Great True Monarchs."

"As for the current Ten Great True Monarchs, their power is far less than those ten from back then; most are self-proclaimed, and many of us don’t acknowledge them."

"Who is in power in the Starry Sky Ancient City now?" Liang Yuan asked.

Shihai smiled bitterly, "You must be joking; the Starry Sky Ancient City has long become a ruin. There’s nothing there left to control."

"We are merely clinging to life; usually, everyone sleeps separately to avoid wasting any bit of Spiritual Power."

"It’s just that in the past two years, spiritual energy has recovered somewhat, so everyone is hastily cultivating to regain power. But without a physical body, it’s hard to reach our peak again."

"We can’t even leave the Starry Sky Ancient City; outside the ancient city, there are star-level demon beasts everywhere—we go out only to die."

"Being able to survive is already good, who would bother to fight for power."

Liang Yuan couldn’t help but frown after hearing it, "Is the situation outside the starry sky so grim? How has the Starry Sky Ancient City become a ruin?"

Shihai said helplessly, "Since the spiritual energy drained, the defensive formations of the Starry Sky Ancient City completely failed. The planet where the Starry Sky Ancient City is located doesn’t have the natural advantages of the human world; it lacks a rich atmosphere for protection, nor suitable vegetation for survival."

"It can be said to be a dead planet."

"Back then, all the great immortals pursued the truth of the galactic secrets, so the Starry Sky Ancient City had long been without experts. During the End of Dharma Era, star-level demon beasts went crazy, and attacked the Starry Sky Ancient City several times; we couldn’t hold them off in time and had to retreat entirely to the secret realm beneath the Starry Sky Ancient City to hide till now."

Liang Yuan was speechless after hearing this, "Since there’s nothing there, why put the Starry Sky Ancient City on that planet?"

Shihai replied, "The planet is rich in spiritual energy and holds plentiful spirit stone veins; this is why, back then, the Ten Great True Monarchs and other predecessors from all realms decided to build the Starry Sky Ancient City there."

Liang Yuan understood now; they chose a place filled with superpower energy to establish the base for the Starry Sky Ancient City.

Though abundant in superpower energy, it was not suitable for ordinary human survival.

Basically, only superpower users could survive in the Starry Sky Ancient City.

Liang Yuan asked, "Exactly how far is the Starry Sky Ancient City from the planet we’re on?"

Shihai thought for a while, "Back then, we had magic artifacts; our escape speed was as fast as lightning. Even so, it took several months to reach the Starry Sky Ancient City."

Liang Yuan’s heart skipped a beat: lightning speed? Isn’t that the speed of light?

Even at the speed of light, it still took months?

The Starry Sky Ancient City is built near the Starry River, meaning the Starry River is also that far from Blue Star.

Being so far away, it can even bring such heavy rainfall, almost enough to flood Blue Star.

Where did this Starry River actually come from?

Liang Yuan was quite intrigued, honestly, he couldn’t help but want to personally explore what exactly the Starry River was all about.

"The source of this great flood lies within this Starry River."

"Where did this Starry River originate? What kind of power manipulates this star river?"

"Where does it come from? And where is it going?"

One question often leads to countless others.

All of this seems to be linked to the core secrets of our cosmos.

Reaching Star God level, you can’t help but want to explore the starry sky.

That endless galactic river is a place humans have longed to understand since ancient times.

Just as he was pondering this, Liang Yuan sensed that a corpse at the bottom of the underground palace at Wangchuan woke up again.

And just as this corpse awoke, as Liang Yuan’s avatar there was about to take action, the corpse immediately shouted loudly.

"How dare you! I am Qin Guang True Monarch, stop!"