A Sorcerer’s Journey

Chapter 1173: Chapter 1174: Seal Summoning

A month later, past the metal forest, Green arrived once again at the boundless Skeleton Land.

”How large is this Dimensional Esophagus?”

Riding on the Golden Lion, Green asked while relying on the Face of Truth, incessantly studying a scaled armor creature specimen in his hand, which was a strange little creature obtained unexpectedly in the Ruins World that could sense Green’s Robe of Appearances.

Soon, Green discovered that this small creature was able to see through the mystery of his Robe of Appearances.

It was actually the variation of gravity, which made Green, who inherited Peranos’s Repulsion Attraction Dual Force, a bit embarrassed. In the Endless World, there’s nothing unheard of. With Green’s understanding of the Repulsion Attraction Dual Force, solving the problem of the Robe of Appearances was rather simple.

And the key to this perception secretly planned by Green as the twelfth-phase project of the Face of Truth, lay in these scales.

”Vast and boundless, without end; space and time bear no meaning here.”

Simba spoke, but then added: ”However, although the Dimensional Esophagus is boundless, this corridor of debris does have its end. But in the case of obstructive temporal fault not allowing high-speed progress, it cannot be crossed within a few hundred years. I once reached the edge of the skeleton corridor when I was first sealed here.”

While the two talked, suddenly, Green sharply sensed something unusual. At Green’s signal, Simba stopped quickly, assuming a battle-ready posture, with golden mane standing on end with intimidation, growling lowly while looking around in all directions.

After a while, Green breathed a sigh of relief.

”It’s already gone.”

Simba evidently did not notice the hidden presence observing them. Hearing Green say this, he also relaxed a bit.

”What did you detect?”

As Simba spoke, he actually walked around nearby and threw out a long metal sword from the ground, which, although its power had diminished, was still feared to be greater than the Ninety-Nine Unity Sword being nurtured by the Ancient Giant Chi Demon Body within Green. The Golden Lion threw it to Green, as per Green’s prior instructions.

”A Level Six Creature, it should exist in the form of an Elemental Body. I think it hasn’t been here long, just like me, hence being so cautious.”

Saying this, Green admired the sword in his hand, which also effectively resisted temporal erosion. After playing with it for a while, Green stored it in the Dimensional Gap.

In case of leaving later, every artifact found here could exchange for astonishing wealth.

Green did not intend to replace the Ninety-Nine Unity Sword within the Ancient Giant Chi Demon True Body with it. With the Ancient Giant Chi Demon’s continuous weapon nurturing ability, Green valued weapon functionality over level. Given ample time, every weapon nurtured within Green would be astonishingly powerful.

And with the help of the Philosopher’s Stone, this goal was not distant.

”Let’s go. Over time, one will encounter many such beings, and those worthy of being sealed in this Dimensional Esophagus are at least World Master level creatures.”

After speaking, the Golden Lion carried Green, continuing to run toward the direction indicated by the Hope Light Shroud.

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Three days later.

Endless giant insect carcasses and jet-black shells appeared as numerous pieces of dark gold. Congealed into a mass by the passage of time, Green and the Golden Lion Simba stopped on this barren, empty land.

Feeling the strange fluctuations from the gray sky, Green looked at Simba, puzzled and uncertain, ”What’s going on?”

The converging rules of these gray mists in the high sky—Green’s Truth Mask could see only a few hundred meters through them to a point, beyond which was all illusion.

”Lucky, we stumbled upon a Sealing Skill crack. Let’s wait here for a while, and see if the Caster over there will perform a sacrificial summoning.”

Sacrificial summoning!?

Only then did Green remember, during the warfare in the radiation grand world, when he used the Self-sealing Technique Burst State to perform the Forgotten Truth Spatiotemporal Sealing Technique, to perfectly seal that Trick Crystal Terminator into the World of Oblivion, he had performed a sacrificial summoning, summoning a terrifying Forgotten Illusionary giant over, which was directly put into the World of Oblivion.

Could it be that the giant he summoned back then was like what he and Simba are facing now!?

After a while, Simba, who understood the Phantom Rules here better, brightened his eyes, and said softly, ”Oh? It seems the Sealing Skill isn’t going smoothly; the subject is resisting fiercely; let’s go take a look!”

Whoosh! Whoosh!

Green and Simba bolted into the gray sky together, flying toward the strange energy fluctuation they sensed.

Gradually, a crack appeared in Green’s vision, stretching hundreds of meters long.

Looking to the other side of the crack, it was a vibrant plant world full of endless charm and vitality, like peeking over a bottleneck or the detection in the screen of a crystal ball. It vaguely revealed plant sprites the size of palms swarming around a massive, black-scaled monster over a hundred meters long after starting its true body.

These small sprites had two green leaves as wings, constantly flapping them, with the life energy released from one another achieving a flawless connection. This required more perfect cooperation compared to the Demon-Hunting Bright Wizard Formation.

However, the Level Five giant monster was simply too powerful, and though these perfectly connected webs can continuously bind the monster, they were constantly torn apart by the monster relying on brute force.

And the Caster of this Retrogression of Flowing Light Sealing Skill or Dimensional Esophagus Sealing Skill was indeed more than twenty pinnacle Level Three Leaf Sprites!

These Leaf Sprites encircled an ancient tree altar, continuously inviting strands of gray mist from the World of Retrogressive Luminance, under the feet of Green and the Golden Lion Simba, desperately trying to drag the monster into the crack.

Despite the monster’s brute struggle, the sealing skill plainly wasn’t quite sufficient.

”Oh, it seems it’s our turn to take action. Hurry and perform the sacrificial summoning!”

The Golden Lion Simba murmured excitedly and lowly, with eyes locked onto the twenty-plus Leaf Sprites on the altar.

Sure enough, only moments later, these pinnacle Level Three Leaf Sprites all screamed, and accompanying this scream, a vast number of berries on the altar burst into pieces, while they themselves visibly aged rapidly. Quick as lightning, Green and Simba each collected a portion of the Strange Energy.

As this Strange Energy penetrated Green’s body, instantly, it was as if his soul shuddered. Green felt his Saint Trace Soul slightly restored and the influence of the inherent illusion from the Retrogression of Flowing Light reduced a bit, lowering the temporal erosion, and even his skin became somewhat rejuvenated.

”What happened?”

In response to Green’s inquiry, Simba let out a roar of excitement.

”Though this doesn’t hold much meaning for us trapped in the Dimensional Esophagus, living a few centuries longer could still offer a longer hope of escape. Who knows? We might just find a way out one day! Now, our task is to drag that creature in; otherwise, not only will this sacrificial energy dissipate, but powerful temporal erosion will also follow.”

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This volume on the Dimensional Esophagus is exceptionally difficult to write, mainly due to the involvement of too many phantom clues to underscore the absurdity and vastness, while also accommodating distinctions that may depict dimensional gaps later, thus drastically reducing coding speed. Coding was slow to begin with.

As a result, it now takes over four hours to write a Chapter, with the majority of time spent in deep contemplation. Adding to that, Bai Lu is undergoing a 4.0 final revision for the previous free Chapters, encompassing thirty thousand words, leaving no exaggeration in working fourteen hours a day.

It might also be that with the writing time too prolonged, learning and leisure time reduced, along with decreased exposure to the amount of information, vitality is nearing exhaustion.

This kind of imaginative exploration in online fiction is really hard to write, as the author needs to continuously learn, express it fantastically, which is far from just understanding readers’ emotions for plot and character conflicts, creating satisfaction and achievement.