Chapter 808
The Sage's Gaze
The orcs were already used to their leader Blackclaw's volatile temper.
That night.
The deepest part of the Black Claw tribe, which was integrated by the Black Mountain tribe and the Big Knife tribe, is the settlement.
Black Claw sat cross-legged, circulating the orcish version of cultivation techniques modified by his original body, further utilizing the power of faith he had obtained.
Those orcs before didn't know any martial arts at all; they simply relied on a large amount of faith power to amplify themselves, simply increasing their strength, power, and physique.
However, those orcs stopped there, without practicing any techniques, or rather, simply acting on instinct.
Not bad.
Jiang Shu had already realized that these orcs' cultivation methods were almost ingrained in their instincts. In a sense, as long as their faith was strong enough, they would be cultivating at all times.
After operating for a while, Black Claw suddenly opened its eyes, its pupils filled with bloodshot veins, and then suddenly sprang up.
boom!
In the blink of an eye, the ground suddenly shattered, countless cracks spread out, and even the entire small house was directly destroyed.
The commotion was quite large and immediately attracted the attention of many orcs, but when they saw their leader, they all shrank back and dared not look any longer.
"call!"
After making his discovery, Black Claw let out a sharp breath, glanced at the small house he had destroyed, and casually walked into a small house next door.
boom!
The gate suddenly opened, and the orcs lying inside were about to retaliate, but upon seeing their leader's appearance, they immediately scurried out obediently.
Black Claw ignored the orc, his heart filled with rage. Then, with a glance, his true form Jiang Shu and the Mechanical Venerable Electric Current appeared before him.
"The body..."
Jiang Shu nodded slightly, raised his hand and pointed, then retrieved the memories of his clone Black Claw from this period of time.
In the blink of an eye, he gained some insight from that moment, and even though he was still in his physical body, he couldn't help but feel a little ripple in his heart.
This upheaval made him want to fight, to destroy, to start a war, and to vent his anger to the fullest extent.
However, this idea was suppressed in the blink of an eye.
However, just because Jiang Shu's main body can easily do this doesn't mean his clone can.
Something's not right...
Jiang Shu frowned even more.
“Extraordinary emotional impulses. If all orcs had similar emotional impulses, then logically speaking, these orcs should be fighting and killing each other all the time, and should have been extinct long ago.”
Jiang Shu murmured.
At this moment, the mechanical venerable Electric Current spoke up, "However, no. Apart from being very warlike, rather reckless, and unconditionally obedient to superiors and the strong, these weak orcs did not react excessively."
"Not quite good enough..."
Jiang Shu fell into deep thought for a moment.
He didn't know why, but only a wisp of his own primordial spirit would react this way.
"Or is it because my soul lacks certain corresponding characteristics? That shouldn't be the case."
To investigate this question, he and Electricity conducted some experiments, such as extracting the souls of some orcs and putting them into the bodies of some ordinary animals, or vice versa.
None of them caused the same kind of violent and manic behavior as their own clones.
The two even joined forces and used the laws of creation to forcibly create a pseudo-primordial spirit.
However, even after the object was inserted, there was no aggressive reaction.
"Strange, there must be some external force affecting a wisp of my soul, yet I didn't notice it at all..."
Jiang Shu's eyes narrowed little by little.
He began to vaguely wonder if he had stepped into some kind of trap, or if he was deeply involved in a larger scheme.
After pondering for a moment, Jiang Shu glanced at the mechanical Venerable Dian Liu beside him and then said, "Fellow Daoist, could you please make a trip here and send back all the information we have gathered about the Great Dao of Faith?"
Venerable Electricity nodded slightly, then turned and left.
After the mechanical venerable one left, Jiang Shu seemed to be deep in thought, and then raised his hand and placed it on his clone.
Snapped!
In an instant, the Tongtian Jianmu tree within his body trembled slightly, and the space rippled a little. Like a fish swimming, he and his clone Black Claw immediately fled far away and disappeared without a trace.
After several spatial jumps, Jiang Shu brought his clone to a distant place, where he was able to almost completely isolate himself from the faith power of that tribe.
"Let me see if the isolation is effective."
The Black Claw clone cooperated perfectly, but after several more days, the anger and rage in its heart became even more terrifying, to the point that the main body, Jiang Shu, had to personally intervene to suppress it, otherwise it would have to vent its anger.
This result truly made Jiang Shu even more surprised and suspicious.
Two or three days later, as Jiang Shu was pondering how to deal with his clone, a sudden thought struck him.
Looking up at his own clone, Black Claw had already collapsed and fallen into a coma.
Jiang Shu's pupils contracted, and he vaguely sensed that his clone's soul seemed to be leaving his body little by little, as if being pulled away by an invisible hand.
"what's the situation?"
Jiang Shu was startled and immediately took action, pulling the divided soul back into his body and isolating it from external influences.
However, just as he was about to make his move, he suddenly froze, and a roar suddenly rang in his ears.
The roar was like the spoils of war, carrying the resounding voice of ten thousand troops, shaking the mind and making it almost impossible to suppress.
Even now, Jiang Shu, in his physical form, needs to exert all his strength to maintain his mental focus.
In a state of dizziness and disorientation, the terrifying power of faith from the entire galaxy suddenly gathered together for no apparent reason, and then suddenly erupted, transforming into a terrifying figure with a body as large as a planet.
His figure was enormous, his skin was green, and his breath could cause turbulence in the universe. His appearance caused countless orcs throughout the galaxy to become agitated and roar, as if a god had personally descended at this moment!
The next moment, the figure vanished into thin air, taking with it nearly half of the faith power of the entire galaxy with it.
Nothingness!
……
"Where am I...?"
Jiang Shu slowly regained consciousness and suddenly realized that he was no longer in the secluded place he had originally chosen.
At this moment, all I could hear was a series of noisy and terrifying sounds, as if ten thousand people were screaming.
A piercing, ear-piercing scream rang out, and Jiang Shu suddenly turned his head, immediately noticing a figure rushing towards him.
The figure moved with incredible speed, its body covered in black light and radiating an aura of destruction. Everything in its path crumbled, as if plunging all things into annihilation.
"The Law of Destruction..."
Jiang Shu's pupils contracted sharply. He retreated while immediately retaliating. In the blink of an eye, he casually unleashed a strike, which hit the figure.
boom!
A terrifying force descended upon that body, and in the blink of an eye, it shattered into pieces, turning directly into dust.
Jiang Shu frowned, immediately realizing something was wrong.
The figure was enveloped in an extremely dense aura of destruction, which had even made him slightly panicked just now, yet he was destroyed with a casual strike.
For a moment, Jiang Shu felt a little unreal.
"All show and no substance?"
At this moment, Jiang Shu still had time to observe his surroundings.
"This……"
Jiang Shu's pupils suddenly contracted as he saw a vast expanse of scorched earth stretching for thousands of miles, with countless auras of destruction spreading around it. Heaven and earth were collapsing, stars were shattering, the sun and moon were losing their light, and everything seemed to be heading towards collapse.
Jiang Shu's pupils contracted slightly, and he was filled with shock.
And above that sky, there was a void from which countless dark things poured out, like a torrent.
Jiang Shu looked around and then realized that those things were the same kind of creatures that had just ambushed him. Their bodies were strangely twisted, surrounded by a dense aura of destruction, leaving a trail of scorched earth in their wake!
"How did I get here? Something's not right. My clone malfunctioned just now. Something was trying to pull his soul away, and when I tried to stop it and trace the source, things went wrong..."
Jiang Shu fell into thought.
He doesn't believe in baseless rumors; there must be a reason behind them.
buzzing...
Just then, the ground began to tremble and rumble, and countless black things surged in from afar.
Jiang Shu's pupils suddenly contracted. Within his divine sense range, he sensed thousands upon thousands of the monsters from before surging towards him, seemingly sensing his presence.
Jiang Shu raised his hand and grabbed, his figure suddenly disappearing into the spatial interlayer.
However, as the black monsters surged forward, the surrounding space began to show signs of collapse. His spatial concealment array automatically failed, forcing him to step out from the spatial interlayer.
In an instant, a massive number of monsters surged forth like a tidal wave, as if Jiang Shu were some kind of unparalleled delicacy.
"roll!"
Jiang Shu frowned, then without further hesitation, suddenly attacked. The Law of Power stirred up a frenzy around him. Although he did not use his full strength, the immense power was like a raging tornado, easily crushing a large number of monsters to death.
“Their strength is extremely low, even much weaker than that of the Dao Lord. I could crush countless of them with one hand.”
Jiang Shu made a judgment in his mind, then stretched out his hand, and the vast energy above the sky gathered and then slammed down.
boom!
The heavens and earth were overturned and the land was torn apart. Nearly ten thousand black monsters were directly destroyed, and only a few remained, which were also easily killed by Jiang Shu.
"Where exactly is this place? We need to find a way out."
Jiang Shu soared into the air, concealing his aura and figure, and continuously surveyed his surroundings.
However, as his divine sense continued to expand and he saw more and more scenes, the sense of horror in his heart grew stronger.
Under his divine sense, there were oceans, mountains, canyons, and all sorts of landforms, but everywhere there were those monsters from before, probably more numerous than ants.
What is this place?
Jiang Shu was lost in thought, but just as his divine sense expanded to a certain extent, he suddenly turned his head, his pupils contracted, and he showed a look of horror.
At the edge of his divine sense's perception, tens of thousands of miles away, stood a figure that seemed like a giant god, stepping into the starry sky, currently engaged in a fierce battle.
It was an endless black tide, covering the starry sky, omnipresent, and constantly being generated!
"This……"
Jiang Shu was deeply shocked.
He could even sense the aura of a saint emanating from that colossal body!
saint!
The body was entirely green, its aura was wild and terrifying, and it was surrounded by an aura of faith; it was clearly an orc.
Jiang Shu immediately thought of a being—the orcs' holy figure of faith, the Eternal Slayer.
"Wait, those saints didn't just disappear without a trace, so how did they end up here?"
Jiang Shu immediately became alert.
He suddenly realized that a wisp of the law of time seemed to be rippling around him.
The Law of Time!
He slowly raised his head and sensed the aura of time emanating from his surroundings. He had felt a similar aura before, but it was the one that the Golden Crow Heavenly Emperor had emitted when he unleashed the killing move of the River of Time.
The laws of time are something that any sage or Dao Lord will inevitably master, although most of them are not as profound as the one at the end of the Great Dao of Time.
Jiang Shu raised his hand, and a faint aura of the Great Dao of Time slowly emanated from his body.
Just then, he suddenly realized that he couldn't move.
Do not!
Perhaps it's more appropriate to describe it as time frozen or stopped rather than as unable to move.
In the midst of this shock, Jiang Shu noticed a gaze suddenly directed at him from outside the planet.
Their gaze was incredibly expansive, landing on his body and staring directly at him as if he were right next to them.
In an instant, Jiang Shu seemed to hear a series of roars.
The roars seemed to piece together fragmented sentences of human language in his ears.
"Black Tide... Destruction..."
These words seemed to come from the distant past, falling directly into Jiang Shu's ears.
Suddenly, the devastated land before him, or the enormous orc saint, shattered instantly and collapsed into nothingness.
When Jiang Shu came to her senses, she found herself back in the same place.
"Is this...another world?"
"No, it shouldn't be the world, but a kind of memory!"
Jiang Shu realized what had just happened.
"I must have been trapped in some past time. There must have been some existence that forcibly dragged my will, soul, and even my physical body directly into a certain period of the past. That's why I saw what just happened."
Given his current level of cultivation, the only person capable of achieving this is that orc saint, the Eternal Slayer.
However, the question remains: what exactly do these sounds and images represent?
Did this orc saint truly notice him? (End of Chapter)