Treasure-hunting: Into the Unknown

While Zachary and the other two were enjoying the peaceful moment in the Peach Blossom Forest, the other warriors were struggling to hold their grounds all around the Holy Cloud Mountain. Despite all their effort, casualties kept mounting up.

But this was also within their expectation. Otherwise, they would not have sent warriors of Sage Level to help their disciples, most of whom were still at the Imperial Level and could not survive even for several hours in this kind of situation.

In the end, after ten hours of suffering, a beam of powerful sunlight suddenly shot down from the sky above the Holy Cloud Mountain and dispelled the black mist, allowing the mountain to once again glory in the glow of the sun.

At the same time, the martial beasts seemed to come to their senses. They stopped going berserk and fled hastily in all directions. When they ran away, they also let out extremely terrified cries as if they sensed something.

The warriors were relieved to see that the beasts stopped attacking and fled away. Nevertheless, they still could not let their guard down because they knew very well that the Dark Devouring Day would come any moment now. Thus, almost simultaneously, warriors on the Holy Cloud Mountain raised their heads to look at the sky that had just cleared up.

Bit by bit, darkness gradually spread on the round, brightly shining sun. The sun looked like it was slowly being devoured by it. Before they knew it, the whole sun was already dyed black.

In an instant, the Holy Cloud Mountain was completely shrouded in darkness even darker than the night. It was as if the mountain had fallen into a dark abyss. All living beings quieted down all at once as if someone had pressed a pause button and time had stopped ticking. Everything was devoured by endless darkness and utter silence.

Right after the whole Holy Cloud Mountain fell into an abyss of darkness, however, a ray of light suddenly appeared between two lofty stone mountains at the south side of the Holy Cloud Mountain. It was just like the ray of a rising sun, so bright that it reached and illuminated the entire Holy Cloud Mountain.

While people all over the Holy Cloud Mountain did shiver at the sight of this scene, they also could not hold back the surging excitement inside their hearts. Many of them, who came here for the first time, opened their eyes wide in shock. They could hardly believe that the strange scene in front of them was real as this was the first time they ever saw something as bright as the sun.

But soon, the warriors all rushed towards the source of that light.

On the other side, Zachary and the other two left the sy

two had arrived for a while, but they did not show up. They just stood in the dark, waiting and watching.

"Where is Father? He should have been earlier than us." Polly was puzzled when she didn't see her father here.

"Maybe he got delayed by something," Pollard replied.

"Harley, you're here. I've been looking for you." Just then, Goliath suddenly appeared in front of them.

"We've just arrived." Zachary nodded his head in greeting.

Pollard and his sister were surprised to see Goliath. Especially because from the way Goliath and Zachary talked to each other, they could tell that the two seemed to be very close.

"Goliath came with me," Zachary explained at once, seeing their confusion.

Pollard and his sister also nodded at Goliath but said nothing.

"I don't know if your father could be here in time or not, but the show is about to start." As Zachary stared at the Sun-swallowing Beast floating between the two stone mountains, he could sense that something was about to break out of its body.

Just after Zachary finished his words, the Sun-swallowing Beast suddenly raised its head and roared to the sky. The loud roar spread instantly just like a raging storm. The warriors around the stone mountains hurriedly covered their ears and then activated their martial energy and weapons to protect themselves against the sound. Except for those warriors of Sage Level, everyone turned ghastly pale. But even the warriors of Sage Level obviously had a hard time to remain composed.

Zachary, Goliath, Pollard and his sister were no exception. However, with a wave of his hand, Zachary took out the Ice Water Bead, changed the ice power into water power and created several layers of water which enveloped them and snuffed out the sound wave.