All Gods: Starting with Two Families

Chapter 22 Invisible Stone Carving”As expected...” Zhou Zheng’s eyes narrowed as he desperately circulated the last trace of ”Omniscience” power, focusing on that distorted space.

His vision struggled to penetrate that invisible barrier, and the silhouette of a behemoth gradually became clear: it was a giant stone serpent coiled into a massive snake formation!

The snake’s head was held high, its cold pupils looking down upon the square, emitting an invisible sense of pressure.

And at the position of the left pupil of its raised head, a small, unremarkable dark green stone-carved Talismanic Incantation was embedded, yet it emitted a unique serpentine aura!

”The Talismanic Incantation... it’s in its left eye!” Zhou Zheng immediately relayed the information to the Serpent-person Leader. ”The statue is invisible, but it has a physical form. Climb up.”

Although the Serpent-person Leader could not ”see,” he did not hesitate in the slightest at the deity’s command. With a low growl, his body lunged forward, pouncing toward that patch of ”air”! The other Serpent-man Warriors watched tensely.

The Serpent-person Leader’s body seemed to hit something hard in mid-air, but he was well-prepared. His scaled claws and the horny protrusions on his snake tail gripped tightly onto the invisible, rough textures in the ”air”!

He began to climb upward with difficulty along that invisible, massive serpent body.

In the eyes of the observing Serpent-man Warriors, their leader was like an eerie marionette, making climbing and gripping motions out of thin air in the middle of the sky; the scene was indescribably strange.

Finally, he reached the position of the ”snake’s head” and reached out a trembling hand toward the location of the giant serpent’s left eye.

The moment his fingertips touched the cold stone!

Buzz—!!!

The massive coiled serpent stone carving seemed to be startled awake from a deep slumber, suddenly manifesting before everyone! Its cold snake pupils, looking down upon all living beings, seemed to instantly come to life!

”Hiss—!” Even though the Serpent-person Leader was brave, facing this suddenly appearing behemoth and those oppressive snake pupils at such close range terrified him. His scales stood on end, and he recoiled violently, nearly falling off the snake’s head.

The other Serpent-man Warriors on the square cried out in alarm, retreating repeatedly, intimidated by this sudden giant object.

The light of the Talismanic Incantation flickered slightly. That heart-palpitating ”living creature” aura of the giant serpent stone carving itself completely dissipated the moment it manifested, turning back into a deathly silent, massive stone sculpture.

That brief moment of ”coming to life” seemed to be merely an illusion of energy dissipation triggered by the Talismanic Incantation being displaced.

Zhou Zheng’s Divine Thought swept over the massive snake carving. The stone itself emitted a strange energy fluctuation and was incredibly hard in texture. ”Good stuff... can’t let it go to waste!”

With a thought, his majestic Divine Power, mixed with stored faith points, surged out, transforming into a massive golden net of light that instantly enveloped the enormous snake statue completely!

”Collect!”

The light net contracted violently!

The massive stone carving rapidly shrank and deformed in the blinding light, finally transforming into a palm-sized green card (C-rank)—neither metal nor jade, with a coiled serpent relief branded on the front—which fell into Zhou Zheng’s Divine Thought.

When exploring Planes, deities can consume Divine Power and faith points to convert unowned items within the Plane into portable ”Wonder Cards.”

Most of the cards exchanged with vouchers in the Plane Shop come from this process. Fortunately, this was a fragmented Plane, so the Divine Power and faith points consumed for ”plundering” were not too much.

Yet he still felt some regret, wishing he could move the entire maze back to his Divine Domain! However, the consumption for doing so would be too great and not cost-effective.

On the other side, the serpent-men had steadied their minds and carefully pried out the dark green snake-shaped Talismanic Incantation from the left pupil. It felt icy to the touch, and a strange power instantly surged into his body.

”This Talismanic Incantation...” the Serpent-person Leader said in surprise, ”it can make us... invisible!”

His figure, holding the Talismanic Incantation along with the incantation itself, instantly faded and vanished into the air! A few breaths later, he reappeared not far away!