Divine Beast Creator-Chapter 1108 - 1109: Continuous Advancement

"With these things in the way, why would this still happen..."

Veronia looked up puzzled at the path they had come from, where dark branches were constantly extending from below towards their previous direction, with new branches emerging sporadically.

"It seems they can no longer be stopped. Even worldly barriers can be broken, let alone this one."

Feng Yuan spoke helplessly. Though the hexagonal crystal barrier isn’t corrosive, it couldn’t prevent destruction. Those dark branches were extending through the broken areas, and it was unknown what might be waiting for them below. Feng Yuan thought with a headache, considering the branches above were already troublesome, the things below might be even more so.

Continuing forward, they stopped in front of the hexagonal crystal barrier. Guo Huai reached out to gently touch the barrier. The azure hexagonal tiles felt icy cold, similar to touching crystal itself. However, how could they pass through it? Although the barrier had many gaps created by the dark branches, these gaps were filled by the branches. Unless Agunas performed Time Stop again, it would be difficult to get through this area.

Placing a hand on the barrier that blocked their path, Feng Yuan closed his eyes, a black light flickering in his palm. Before Guo Huai could inquire, the barrier gradually became transparent. Feng Yuan looked at the constantly writhing branches on the other side and said,

"Now it’s up to you two, Xiao Ji, don’t hold back, use your most powerful move directly!"

With a loud eagle cry, Xiao Ji unleashed a huge ghastly blue fire that continuously scorched the advancing branches. The branches attempted to reclaim the burned space, but they retreated in the face of the relentless flames.

Lorna scoffed coldly and waved her hand as Xiao Ji ceased launching flames. A colorful light instantly formed a light membrane covering the burned edges of the space. The branches trying to reclaim the space shattered continuously upon collision with the light membrane.

"Let’s go, hopefully, this path won’t be too long."

Feng Yuan spoke somewhat helplessly. Although Xiao Ji and Lorna had made moves, the path they cleared was only a short distance. As they progressed, Agunas and the other Divine Beasts took turns using their ultimate moves to bombard the dense branches. Even so, their advance was exceedingly slow. Lorna seemed to have discovered something and said,

"No need to confront it head-on, move in this direction."

A white sphere floated above everyone’s head. Although it was strange why Lorna would say this, given her previous display of capabilities in the underground sewers, no one objected. Feng Yuan, Guo Huai, and Big Cat, along with other non-flying Spirit Beasts, boarded the warship.

Guo Huai looked at Big Cat, who quietly followed Feng Yuan, and said,

"Speaking of which, what are you planning to do by bringing it here?"

It was one thing for Xiao Ji as he was both a Beast Tamer and an evolving Divine Beast, but there wasn’t anything special about Big Cat. Or rather, with Big Cat’s capabilities, it was as clueless about what it could do as he was. Feng Yuan handed Guo Huai a strange metal cylinder and said,

"It was originally here anyway, and I’m not comfortable leaving it above. I might as well take care of it myself, no need to worry about anything."

Big Cat cringed a bit, feeling embarrassed. Although it had its own special ability in the Data Domain, it had no way of dealing with those dark branches at all. Feng Yuan patted Big Cat’s head, looked at Guo Huai, and said,

"I’ve already given you the weapon, are you planning to slack off?"

"Is this thing really effective?"

Guo Huai looked at the metal cylinder in his hand in surprise. He recognized this object—it was a famed Personal Heavy Cannon in the Federation. Though it vastly differed from terrifying weapons like the Star Destroyer Cannon, its lethality was among the top for personal weapons.

"How could it not be effective? I spent half a day deciphering to create this thing, what do you think?" Right then, Feng Yuan seemed to remember something, clapped his hands, and placed an old lantern on Big Cat’s head, saying,

"Come on, help decipher the data here."

Looking upward, Big Cat seemed puzzled about why Feng Yuan placed the lantern on its head, but before it could inquire, it sensed something and hummed a few times, closing its eyes as if busy with something.

"Hehe, who says Big Cat is useless; it’s being helpful now~"

"What exactly is that lantern you’re carrying for?"

Guo Huai looked at Feng Yuan somewhat speechlessly. He didn’t quite understand what the purpose of that lantern was, or rather, what the lantern in Feng Yuan’s hand was meant for, mysteriously smiling, Feng Yuan said

"In places like this, it can analyze all the data rules and modify those rules by interfacing with them. Just think of it as a kind of virus~"

"Data virus? You really have everything."

Guo Huai looked at the lantern on Big Cat’s head and sighed; he didn’t expect that the other party would even possess such a thing. Although he knew Guo Huai misunderstood, Feng Yuan had no intention of correcting him. The warship quickly passed through the blasted corridor, with Guo Huai’s joining, it had now become Guo Huai and Xiao Ji blasting through the corridor, while Gitalien maintained that corridor from being squeezed by those black branches.

After a long walk, suddenly, there was a void ahead, and everyone quickly drilled out from that hole, only to see a huge black pillar constantly trembling and moving in a certain direction. This black pillar, made up of black branches, was also continuously expanding in size. Above, a brilliant blue hexagonal crystal barrier simply blocked the space above, but, that crystal barrier seemed utterly unable to completely stop the black pillar.

"This really is..."

Feng Yuan observed the black pillar with an indescribable expression, he thought this thing would occupy all space, but unexpectedly, it merely stretched upwards like the trunk of a huge tree.

"It seems a bit off, if we continue forward, might we leave the Data Domain?"

Looking at the abyss below that was unfathomably deep, Guo Huai asked somewhat anxiously, glancing around at the sparse grid and the occasional visible line models. Feng Yuan thought for a moment and said,

"It’s possible, but normally, the Data Domain shouldn’t have a ’depth’ to speak of."

After all, it’s just a domain covering the real world, where does the depth come from? Moreover, the region below gave him a feeling, that seemed somewhat different from the Data Domain, that chaotic and unordered feeling, seemed... really like what he guessed.

"Leaving the Data Domain? It doesn’t seem like there’s a spatial boundary ahead."

Gitalien looked down with some confusion, at least it had not noticed any abnormalities in the space below, or rather, there’s still a long distance to the boundary walls of the domain. Big Cat seemed to have discovered something, opening its eyes and meowing.

Agunas listened to Big Cat and looked towards the abyss below unfathomably deep and said,

"Big Cat says, there indeed are changes below, at least, that place is accumulating a large amount of erroneous data, which is even disrupting the operation of the Data Domain’s rules."

"A large amount of erroneous data... Perhaps it’s the region where Chaotic Data Clusters are born. However, that’s not quite right either..."

Looking at that black gigantic tree trunk, Feng Yuan pondered something. Veronia swung her parasol and said,

"Whatever it is, we still need to get past it, don’t we?"

"That’s true, let’s go."

Scratching his head, Feng Yuan smiled and said as he maneuvered the warship down. The grid lines around them became fewer and fewer until they disappeared, leaving only the continuously expanding black trunk and a dead silent darkness.

Big Cat meowed, reminding Feng Yuan as he noticed that the warship had become unstable. Feng Yuan looked at Gitalien and asked,

"Could you carry us for a while?"

Gitalien had naturally also noticed the increasing instability of the warship, after a brief thought Gitalien moved its head under the warship, Feng Yuan looked at Guo Huai and was the first to jump down landing on Gitalien’s head, after they transferred to Gitalien’s head, the increasingly unstable warship didn’t follow them for long and disintegrated into blue blocks and vanished.

"I didn’t expect the data rules here to be this unstable."

With a sigh, Feng Yuan looked down somewhat helplessly. However, there seemed to be occasional flashes of red light below, as if, they were nearly at the bottom?