There was no sound, no light, and the cave returned to silence and darkness.
Ding Meng squatted on the ground, quietly looking at the frog monster. Teacher Zhao Yue's spirit had completely disappeared, and the monster's aura was completely cut off.
After the Fifth Generation Frogman Warrior died, his body quickly withered and faded at a speed visible to the naked eye, turning into something that resembled tree bark. However, one could still vaguely see the outline of Zhao Yue's body.
Ding Meng's mind went back to more than ten years ago, when he followed Yu Man to Listin Academy. In that old classroom, he saw Teacher Zhao Yue for the first time. Elder Zhao's face was still vivid in his mind. "This student looks unfamiliar. I've never seen you before. Are you a new student …"
Now that he was dead, only the two swords, one long and one short, were left on the ground. Ding Meng picked up the two swords, and only then did he realize that the swords were shockingly heavy, but Teacher Zhao had shown him the true power of the Heavenly Sword Thirteen Styles.
Jun Ling also walked over. "Sorry, I didn't expect him to be your mentor!"
Ding Meng shook his head. "I don't blame you. Teacher Zhao might even be grateful to you because you helped him escape."
Jun Ling also stared at the corpse in a daze. She couldn't imagine how terrible it was for a human to be modified and combined with a frogman. Even their souls were controlled by monsters.
Ding Meng suddenly turned to look at the sky. "You must know what happened, right?"
Yuan Lie said calmly, "I only know that he was under the Hidden Front boss, but I didn't expect that there would be frogman warriors among the Hidden Front members."
Ding Meng didn't say anything, but looking at Ding Meng's determined expression, Jun Ling and the others knew that with Ding Meng's personality, he wouldn't let this matter rest. Ding Meng wouldn't let this matter rest. He had to find out how Teacher Zhao had been captured and transformed into a monster, and how he had joined the Hidden Front.
At this moment, Yuan Lie looked at Jun Ling with a strange gaze. The words that came out of his mouth were extremely shocking. "It seems that the legend is true. Shenguang Technology really exists in this place."
Jun Ling had just used a Divine Light ray. His identity as a Divine Light martial artist could not be concealed. Could it be that Yuan Lie had come for Shenguang Biotechnology?
Yuan Lie suddenly raised his right hand like Zhao Yue, as if he was holding an invisible object.
At this moment, the entire cave was filled with light, and a ball of energy appeared in his palm. The strength of the energy fluctuations could be said to be extremely rare.
"Stop!" Xian Yuan shouted, "What are you trying to do?"
Yuan Lie did not pay any attention to him at all. He slapped down with one palm, and a straight bright red ray shot out from his energy pupil into the bridge. All the poisonous black waves on the bridge were activated, and a dense fog rose. At the same time, the color of the fog was changing rapidly. He was obviously going to inject energy into the bridge himself to activate the final form of the Holy Lake.
"This seems to be the power of the Inverse Source Crystal," Eisendale said.
In fact, Ding Meng had also sensed that the energy that Yuan Lie was using was not pure Origin Energy. It was indeed similar to the Inverse Source Crystal's energy, but its purity was far greater. It seemed that Yuan Lie had come prepared.
However, Ding Meng did not stop him. To be honest, Ding Meng also wanted to see what kind of treasure the Holy Lake would create in its final form.
The bridge was still rapidly changing colors: red, orange, yellow, blue, cyan, green, purple …
The bright spot in the Holy Lake finally turned into a bright cross-shaped star, which then turned into a rotating, seven-colored pupil. The pupil suddenly shot out extremely dazzling light in all directions, illuminating the entire cave as bright as day.
Ding Meng had seen this scene before during the Starlight exam. The pupil began to change in shape. Sometimes it was like a planet, sometimes it was like a plant, sometimes it was like a tree, sometimes it was like a tree, sometimes it was like a dandelion, and sometimes it was like a pumpkin …
"It's the Phantom Tree!" Ding Meng murmured.
"No!" Celestial Core rejected him. "Definitely not. Although it looks like one, its shape is constantly changing."
Ding Meng took a closer look and discovered that the light pupil in the sacred lake was slowly disappearing. The powerful energy first activated the 16 pillars. Moreover, the activation this time was different from the sacred lake he had seen before. There was no energy in the lake. On the contrary, between every two pillars, the energy of the Devouring Realm formed a light screen. These light screens were the same as the intelligent light screens of the Human Race's starships. They displayed all the scenes they had seen before.
Everyone could not help but be attracted by the constantly rotating light screen. The picture was black and white. At first, there was only one dot, then it split into two, then into four, then into eight … and so on. These molecules gathered more and more, and then they formed an algae sea creature. At this time, they could see lightning and thunder on the surface of the sea, and the raging rainstorm. The creature was still evolving, and it seemed to have turned into a fish …
Eisendale seemed to understand something. "This is the origin of life …"
Jun Ling said, "No, it should be the evolution of the Demon Race."
The sixteen light screens spun faster and faster, and the picture became more and more complicated. There were many strange beasts and insects that no one had seen before, but in the end, the picture became blurry, as if it was greatly disturbed.
Celestial Core and Dou Yun muttered something, and then they both knelt down devoutly, bowing their heads to the Holy Lake.
"Oh no!"
Ding Meng found that at this moment, the Holy Lake was emitting a large amount of energy. This energy was actually composed of the Demon Race's energy of the Devouring Realm, the Holy Light's energy of the Holy Light, and the Yin and Dark Demons' energy.
"Stop!" Ding Meng also shouted at Yuan Lie in the sky.
Yuan Lie really stopped. He stopped injecting energy, and stared coldly at the top of the central part of the cave.
In fact, everyone could feel that deep above the cave wall, there was a mysterious force swimming rapidly, like a pangolin, constantly breaking through the ground. Its speed was really amazing.
"Hualala" A muffled sound was heard, and the ceiling was indeed penetrated by something, revealing a hole with a diameter of two meters. A cloud of demonic black fog rushed down, and the black fog circled around the central bridge before stopping. After a burst of smoke, the black fog transformed into a human form.
It was indeed a person, and it was a woman. She was wearing a set of black galactic clothes that outlined her seductive curves, but her face was not seductive because she looked very ordinary.
"Just in time!"
The woman looked around and said, "Ding Meng, long time no see. The Fifth Lord and Miss Julie miss you very much!"
Ding Meng took a deep breath. "So it's you!"
This woman was none other than the Widow, a general under the Fifth Lord's forces. Ding Meng had seen her before on Yulin Planet.
The Widow's appearance here meant that the Black Handprint's influence had also reached deep into the palace. This Black Handprint was really haunting them.
"You're not the Widow!" Ding Meng suddenly said.
The Widow was stunned. "Oh?"
Ding Meng said in a deep voice, "You've become a Demon!"
The Widow smiled. "I have to thank you for that, Ding Meng!"
"Oh?" This time, it was Ding Meng's turn to be stunned.
The Widow said, "Thanks to you and Xin Jie for lifting the seal, the super battleship can be released. The Fifth Lord can see the light of day again, and my strength has also increased by leaps and bounds."
The aura she was exuding now was at most at the Warrior-level. It was just that the aura of the Demons was too cold, so it gave people a very ominous feeling. However, in terms of aura alone, the Widow was inferior to anyone present.
Yuan Lie sneered, "You call this strength 'leaps and bounds'?"
The Widow next to the sacred lake turned around and looked up at him. "Yuan Lie of the Holy Grail Federation. I've heard a lot about you. I've heard a lot about you."
Yuan Lie snorted and said, "Who are you?"
The Widow smiled again. "Is that important?"
Ding Meng frowned and said, "What's important?"
The Widow turned her head again and said seriously, "Ding Meng, this isn't the first time my lady has dealt with you. She also admires you a lot. Now it seems that you're also a Protoss warrior. I don't want to make things difficult for you. You can leave now!"
Ding Meng said, "Since you know about Shenguang Technologies, you shouldn't have come down here."
The Widow looked at the rotating light screen of the sacred lake. "We've taken over this place. No matter who tries to stop us, don't blame me for being merciless."
"I'd like to see what you can do!" Yuan Lie laughed disdainfully.
"Then I'll let you see the power of the Demons!"
The Widow revealed a slender finger and gently flicked it toward the sacred lake. A black dot flew into the light screen.
Everyone's expression changed. They didn't know what the black dot was. After it was flicked into the sacred lake, the light screen immediately dimmed. What was more shocking was that two of the three energies were rapidly weakening. They were the energy of the Shifter race and the energy of the Protoss race, while the energy of the Demons was increasing.
The black dot seemed to be a catalyst. It was boosting the power of the Demons. For a moment, Ding Meng seemed to understand something. No matter what the sacred lake would eventually give birth to, the Widow wanted to turn it into something that belonged to the Demons. This was the real purpose of the Black Handprint coming to the Flame Star.
Ding Meng suddenly realized something. He had a general understanding of the process of this incident. Everyone was looking for the sacred lake in the palace, but the specific location of the sacred lake could not be found by the masters of the various forces using the old method of perception. It had to be determined by the exploration team.
The function of the sacred lake in the palace was that whichever force controlled it would give birth to the treasures that force wanted. The Widow wanted the power of the Demons, the Xian Yuan wanted the power of the Shifter race, the Hidden Front wanted the biotechnology of the frogmen, and Yuan Lie wanted Shenguang Technologies.
Ding Meng finally understood why Fang Yihui had said that the officials had lied to them. The officials must have sent the exploration team to their deaths.
Ding Meng suddenly looked at Yuan Lie. "So you're here on behalf of the higher-ups of the Federation."
Yuan Lie ignored him and said sternly to the Widow, "How dare you tamper with the things of the Holy Grail Federation?
You're courting death! "
As soon as he finished speaking, he slapped his palm downwards. A golden wind of origin energy rustled like rain falling from a maple forest, covering the sky and covering the earth as it rained down on the Widow.
He finally made the first move. This wind was mainly composed of thick and solid origin energy, supplemented by pure and hot thermodynamic energy. When his palm fell, it was as if a rain of metal with a temperature of more than 100,000 degrees Celsius had fallen from the sky above the cave. It was enough to extinguish and melt any obstacle.
The Widow looked at him with a cold smile. "It seems that you know nothing about true power!"