Chapter 221: High-Dimensional Energy Body

Master! You… you what did you say?

Li Hu's hand trembled; the top-grade magical artifact 'Gold Brick' he had just pulled from his storage ring almost fell to the ground and smashed his foot. He lifted his head, his face full of disbelief, his voice changing tone: 'Right, right… aimed at you?'

Zhang Mei and the two children were also stunned, foolishly staring at the black mountain blocking the Cave Entrance.

Use all attacking magic artifacts to bombard the Master?

This order is even more absurd than letting them fight to the death against a Golden Core cultivator!

Nonsense!

Wang Shan's frenzied thought, like a red-hot iron rod, stabbed straight into Li Hu's brain, scaring him into a shudder.

Do as I say! This is an order! If you want them to live, give me your all and blast open the rock wall behind me!

The pain and resolve contained in that thought admit no doubt.

Li Hu shuddered, hearing from that thought the Master's last remaining human reason, burning in some horrific way.

He gritted his back teeth, and his eye sockets instantly reddened.

Yes! Master!

He no longer hesitated, turning to shout at the still-dazed Zhang Mei: 'Girl! Quick! Take out everything that makes noise! Talismans, Magic Artifacts—whatever they are, aim them at the Master… the wall behind him!'

The last few words were almost squeezed out from between his teeth.

The cave instantly rang with clinks; Li Hu and Zhang Mei scrambled to set up, laying out gleaming Magic Artifacts and stacks of spiritually charged Talismans, forming a crude yet astonishingly powerful attack array.

And Wang Shan, taking advantage of this precious breath, sank his consciousness—about to be completely drowned by beastliness—deep into the sea of awareness.

Chaos, violence, and bloodlust surged like billions of ants gnawing at his soul, but he clung tightly to that sliver of clarity in his heart, as if guarding a bean-sized candle in a raging storm.

System!

He exerted all his strength, letting out a roar in his consciousness.

Analyze Wan Tiande's 'Star-Fixing Plate'! And that Black Jade Slip I obtained earlier! Extract all related information!

【Command received, beginning analysis……】

The system's voice was as icy as ever, yet it was the only driftwood Wang Shan could cling to at this moment.

His perception, or rather his 'domain' that had already merged with the entire cavern, immediately locked onto the ancient compass that Li Hu had casually tossed aside—the Star-Fixing Plate.

This thing had previously been used by Wan Tiande to track him; theoretically, it should be a Magic Artifact that locks onto living beings' aura.

But at this moment, as Wang Shan's consciousness immersed itself in it, he 'saw' something different.

The needle of the Star-Fixing Plate, having lost Wan Tiande as its target, did not stop but instead trembled ever so slightly.

An almost invisible illusory needle extended from the dial's center, passing over Li Hu and the others, piercing Wang Shan's massive body, steadfastly pointing at the thick rock wall behind him—no, deeper into the wall, to the area blasted open by Wan Tiande's self-destruction, where higher-grade contaminant energy surges, an unknown region.

What is going on?

A flicker of astonishment flashed through Wang Shan's chaotic thoughts.

This thing… isn't it only able to locate people? Could there be a living being behind the wall?

No, that's wrong!

What the needle points to transmits not a living aura, but a kind of… a kind of vibration that makes his soul's origin tremble, yet simultaneously feels incredibly 'intimate'.

It's as if the force within him that mutates him into a monster has found its 'home'.

【Analysis of the 'Star-Fixing Plate' complete.】

【The core pattern of this Magic Artifact is not for locating living beings, but for sensing same-origin high-grade energy fluctuations.】

【Warning: Detected a weak but continuous energy resonance emanating from the core area of the Whirlwind Trap Zone.】

【Energy source definition: High-Dimensional Energy Body.】

High-Dimensional Energy Body?

What the hell is this again?

Before Wang Shan could think it over, the system's next message, together with the analysis result of the Black Jade Slip, exploded in his sea of consciousness.

【Black Jade Slip information fragments reassembled……Beast Taming Sect historical archive fragments deciphered.】

【Revision of the sect's downfall cause: The core factor is not the backlash of the 'Ten Thousand Beasts Reversal' technique, but…… an failed attempt to guide the power of the High-Dimensional Energy Body, triggering irreversible High-Dimensional Contamination.】

Boom!

Wang Shan's consciousness felt as if struck by a heavenly thunderbolt!

Not a technique backlash?

The Beast Taming Sect's destruction, this ultimate mystery that has plagued the Wang Family for untold generations, actually has this answer?

They… brought it upon themselves?

Immediately after, more information surged like a breached flood, washing away his last stroke of luck.

Fragmented, blurry visions, through the resonance of the Black Jade Slip, were directly projected into his mind.

It was a grand underground stone chamber, countless intricate runes flowing across the floor and walls. A group of cultivators dressed in Beast Taming Sect Elder robes circled a constantly twisting light mass, fervently chanting ancient incantations.

They tried to draw in a strand of that light mass's power into their own bodies!

They hoped to thereby break through the shackles of cultivation and ascend in a single leap!

Then, the scene suddenly shifted!

Disaster struck.

That light mass merely trembled slightly; the wisp of imperceptible gray mist it leaked instantly caused the entire stone chamber's rune array to collapse completely!

In the vision, the Elders emitted wails so shrill they were inhuman.

Their bodies began to twist and mutate in a way that defied common sense.

Some grew countless eyeless eyes on their backs; some had their arms melt into writhing tentacles; some saw their heads split open, from which a bizarre flower of flesh and blood bloomed……

That scene was thousands of times more terrifying and bizarre than Wang Shan's own current mutation!

They were not killed, but 'remodeled,' twisted from the root of their life forms into another incomprehensible existence!

Wang Shan felt his whole body turn ice-cold.

So that's it... this is the truth!

Whatever Counter-Devouring cultivation method, whatever Ten Thousand Beasts Devouring Master, those are just appearances! It's the chain reaction triggered by this terrifying pollution!

"Then... what about the so-called Ancestor of Ten Thousand Beasts?" Wang Shan asked hoarsely in his mind.

【Based on current information inference: The will of the "Ten Thousand Beasts Ancestor" is a fragment of law leaked from the "high-dimensional energy body", which, under the special environment of the "Ten Thousand Beasts Origin", combined with the spiritual imprint of the beasts here, condensed into a secondary existence.】

Secondary existence...

Wang Shan's head buzzed.

After all that fuss, that so-called "Ten Thousand Beasts Ancestor" that sounds awesome and drives countless demon beasts crazy isn't even a proper incarnation; at most it's just a bit of "dandruff" that fell off when the "high-dimensional energy body" took a nap.

A Pandora's Box!

He instantly understood.

This so-called "Ten Thousand Beasts Origin", this mountain range that everyone regards as the Forbidden Zone and a treasure land, is actually a huge seal! A super prison used to imprison that terrifying "high-dimensional energy body"!

And those idiots of the Beast Taming Sect, who dared to covet the power of the gods, ended up bringing disaster upon themselves, burning themselves and the entire sect to ashes!

Now, that sneaky "Lord" and that damn Ten Thousand Beasts Gate, what they want to do is inherit the Beast Taming Sect's "last wish" and completely open this magic box!

And what about me?

Wang Shan felt the polluted energy within his body resonating with the needle of the Dingxing Pan.

He is not a key, then what could he be?

His flesh, polluted to the extreme, is precisely the power that shares the same source as that "high‑dimensional energy entity," and is the perfect "key" to unlock this prison!

This is both a curse and the source of his power.

"Master! It's done!"

Li Hu's shout pulled Wang Shan back from boundless shock.

Only see ahead, a dozen or so magical artifacts already glowing with spiritual light, poised for release, while hundreds of attack talismans fluttered without wind, emitting a heart‑pounding energy fluctuation.

Two hours…

Pursuers could arrive at any moment.

The time left for them is short.

Wang Shan's scarlet beast‑eyes deeply glanced at the two grandchildren huddled in the corner, looking at him with worried faces.

He can die, he can be sacrificed, but the bloodline he leaves behind must not walk this dead‑end path again!

He wants to leave them the truth, and leave them…… the right to choose!

"System!"

Wang Shan's thoughts, at this moment, are clearer and more resolute than ever.

"Record everything just now, all theories and data about the 'high‑dimensional energy entity' and the 'vortex trap zone,' into that jade slip of Zhize! Not a single word can be omitted!"

This is the most precious legacy he can leave to his descendants, far more important than any spirit stones or elixirs.

【Command confirmed, information upload begins……】

After doing all this, Wang Shan felt as if he had finally set down his last burden.

His consciousness, having passed over the rock wall about to be blasted open, ventures into a deeper, darker unknown.

He knows that fleeing solves nothing.

To fundamentally rid himself of this curse, to end this millennia‑spanning conspiracy, the only way is to delve into the core of this "prison" and confront the imprisoned, indescribable… "high‑dimensional energy entity."

The hunt has only just begun.

"Li Hu!"

Wang Shan's final thought exploded in Li Hu's mind like a landslide and tsunami.

"Attack!"