Chapter 24: Blood Curse Totem

The Ring Bombardment, with unstoppable momentum, charged straight into the Transcendent Gate.

The blood-colored liquid that was crushed let out a violent hissing sound.

After the wheels passed, the crushed blood-colored liquid completely lost its vitality.

“Woo… roar…”

The blood-colored behemoth within the Transcendent Gate seemed to sense the threat of the Ring Bombardment’s wheels.

Six thick tentacles turned into a blur of shadows, piercing toward the Ring Bombardment.

Each of these six tentacles was much thicker than the one that had attacked Gune earlier.

If those tentacles had been used to attack Gune just now, his injuries would likely have been far more severe.

Bang bang bang bang…

The six tentacles violently struck the main body of the Ring Bombardment spell.

Boom—

An indescribable explosion roared and rippled violently.

In an instant, the entire underground trembled fiercely.

Rubble and dust fell in showers, and the shockwave surged violently.

Under the intense blast, everyone’s ears rang with a deafening roar.

“The power of this spell is terrifying!”

At that moment, the same thought surfaced in everyone’s mind—both relief and fear.

Unlike the others, who felt the shockwave and the ringing in their ears,

the strange creature behind the Transcendent Gate bore the full force of the Ring Bombardment.

Although Gune could not see the pitch-black scene beyond the Transcendent Gate,

from the large splashes of blood that surged out with the blast,

that strange creature was definitely not having an easy time.

This fifth-rank low-level Transcendent spell was far more ferocious than ordinary high-level spells.

Even if that strange creature was at Transcendent third-rank, or even fourth-rank, it would suffer heavily.

“Woo… ho ho…”

The liquid blood-colored strange creature let out a series of peculiar hisses.

But clearly, these were not cries of plea; they sounded more like heretical curses and anger.

Then the second Ring Bombardment, following the wheel ruts left by the first, rolled in unhurriedly.

Boom—

Then the third.

Boom—

The fourth.

The fifth.

…

One after another, the Ring Bombardments surged into the Transcendent Gate.

The art of explosion bloomed continuously.

Each strike made the interior of this Void Source Land tremble violently.

Fortunately, the Void Source Land, being a self-contained realm, was far more solid and sturdy than ordinary underground mines or caverns.

Gune was not too worried about a collapse from the bombardment.

Only after the tenth Ring Bombardment had exploded did

Gune stop casting the Ring Bombardment spell.

By then, beyond the Transcendent Gate, all was dark and silent.

Everyone looked at Gune with rather strange expressions.

This relentless bombardment had refreshed their understanding of Gune.

This Gune had far more hidden tricks up his sleeve than they had anticipated.

And his strength was even harder to fathom.

With a wave of his hand, Gune began to condense Fire Arrows.

Swoosh swoosh swoosh swoosh…

Dense clusters of Fire Arrows, used as torches by Gune, were continuously thrown beyond the Transcendent Gate.

In an instant,

Gune had cast over thirty Fire Arrows into the space beyond the Transcendent Gate.

These Fire Arrows, blazing with red flames, illuminated the entire space behind the gate with bright clarity.

Gune had specifically condensed these Fire Arrows to last longer.

Burning for over ten minutes was no problem.

Now, the scene beyond the Transcendent Gate came into everyone’s view.

It was a cellar-like chamber about the size of a room.

Its rock walls, floor, and ceiling seemed to have been reinforced by special means.

The Ring Bombardment had rolled across the outer rock ground ten times, leaving a half-leg-deep, awe-inspiring trench.

Yet the space inside the chamber beyond the Transcendent Gate, despite ten rounds of rolling and blasting from the Ring Bombardment, remained unscathed.

“The methods of a Transcendent Master are truly extraordinary,” Gune thought to himself as his gaze swept over the undamaged floor.

The Transcendent chamber was perfectly fine.

But the blood monster, formed from blood and possessing powerful tentacles, had vanished.

No… perhaps it hadn’t vanished.

Standing at the entrance of the Transcendent Gate, everyone looked into the chamber.

What drew the most attention was the totem pillar in the center of the chamber, about three meters high and as thick as a stone roller.

Carved on the pillar were strange creatures the size of a washbasin, with fangs, wings, and scales.

Around the totem pillar was a blood pool three meters in diameter.

The totem pillar stood erect in the blood pool.

The strange blood that had splattered everywhere—on walls and ceiling—now dripped down.

Then, following the etched channels on the ground, it converged into the blood pool.

Gune felt uneasy.

Swoosh swoosh swoosh swoosh!

Four Fire Arrows swiftly shot into the blood pool that had gathered the blood.

Gurgle gurgle gurgle gurgle…

The power of Transcendent flame made the blood pool bubble and seethe, but there was no anomaly.

“It seems… it should be dead,”

Gune thought to himself.

“But I can’t be completely at ease. After all, some means of feigning death, resurrection, or hiding in other ways are not impossible.”

Rubbing his temples, with caution in mind, Gune stepped inside first.

A moment later, all six of them stood by the blood pool.

“Blood Curse Totem!”

Gazing at the three-meter-tall stone totem pillar before him, whose lower part was buried unknown depths, and scanning it back and forth,

Gune felt a surge of genuine delight.

The reason was that this Blood Curse Totem, the second fortuitous encounter point, was a true Transcendent artifact.

It was a precious treasure that could guide an apprentice Transcendent to become a true Transcendent.

Gune’s goal was to become a Curse Caster.

And the guidance of this Blood Curse Totem—the “Blood Curse Master”—was a special Transcendent profession within the Curse Caster system.

Yes.

“Blood Curse Master” was not a simple, ordinary Transcendent profession.

Rather, it was a special Transcendent profession.

This was far rarer and more powerful than an ordinary Transcendent Curse Caster.

“It’s a Blood Curse Totem!”

In the silent Transcendent chamber, Black Luo, who had spoken little and said almost nothing along the way, spoke softly.

Blood Curse Totem?

Everyone turned their gaze to Black Luo.

Gune also looked over.

Through the system, Gune knew that the Blood Curse Totem was a special Transcendent artifact that could provide guidance for a Transcendent profession.

But as for the specific details of the Blood Curse Totem and the characteristics of the profession, Gune was truly unclear.

And Black Luo seemed to know quite a bit about this “Blood Curse Totem.”

Black Luo, her body wrapped in a black robe and cloak, began to speak unhurriedly.

“Speaking of the Blood Curse Totem, one cannot avoid mentioning a powerful Blood Curse Master from three hundred years ago—‘Gewu.’”