Light Fortress-Chapter 1405 - 178: Great Winged Sparrow King

"What’s going on?"

Qi Mo frowned and turned his head.

The assistant behind him looked as if he had seen a ghost, mumbling, "I just observed... a fluctuation in the Spiritual Link of the Divine Infant."

"A fluctuation in the Spiritual Link, how is that possible?"

Everyone around was surprised upon hearing this.

Could there be anything more absurd than saying that a brainless person has abnormal brain circuits?

"It’s true."

The assistant helplessly held his forehead, not sure how to explain, with a look of mixed feelings.

"Buzz...buzz..."

At this moment, the equipment beside Qi Mo suddenly started vibrating, and the previously stable, zeroed-out spirit data began to slowly climb!

Just as the assistant had said, a fluctuation appeared in the Divine Infant’s spirit!

While the researchers present were looking at each other, still unsure of what was happening, a call from Adam connected to Sector S12.

"Hello, who is this? This is Qi Mo."

Qi Mo immediately chose to answer.

He furrowed his brows, monitoring the Divine Infant’s data in real-time.

The life signs in the Spirit Sea began to climb from zero, getting higher and higher, surpassing the threshold of an ordinary person in just a few seconds... From the display screen of the experimental instrument, it seemed as if this little guy had suddenly awakened from slumber.

Is this considered an awakening of its own spirit?

No.

Qi Mo didn’t think so; it felt more like a "subconsciousness" hidden within its bloodline.

Because the child bathed in the life fluid was as expressionless as ever, with piercingly bright eyes, yet utterly hollow pupils.

"This is Adam."

A deep, barely concealed excitement came from the other end of the communicator.

Adam rasped, "Just now, the South Cave was hit by a Beast Tide!"

"Beast Tide?"

Qi Mo was startled; everyone was stunned.

Adam hastily asked, "Yes, a Beast Tide... how about your side, is the Divine Infant’s status stable?"

"The Divine Infant’s status... has fluctuated!"

Qi Mo’s eyes brightened.

Regarding the selection of the "God’s Favored Son," there hasn’t been any definitive conclusion thus far!

Because when the last Beast Tide was triggered, both Gu Xiaoman and the Divine Infant were in the Tanyao Core Area, either could be the God’s Favored Son who "summoned the Beast Tide"... In theory, another round of experimentation is needed!

But now, the strange spirit activity of the Divine Infant seems to resonate with the Beast Tide in the South Cave!

Could it be... the true God’s Favored Son is not Xiaoman, but this unconscious infant?

"Adam, you encountered a Beast Tide over there? Is everything okay?"

Qi Mo quickly asked, "The detailed information about the Beast Tide... can it be transmitted over?"

"Sizzle..."

The communicator began to malfunction.

Due to the heavy accumulation of volcanic ash, the connection to the Spirit Network became increasingly unstable!

...

...

"Hello, hello?!"

Adam frowned, vigorously tapping the communicator, but due to the impact of the Beast Tide, the connection to the Spirit Network was severed.

He did not receive a reply from Qi Mo.

Worse yet, the scale of the Beast Tide kept growing, the onslaught lasted for several dozen minutes, and it showed no signs of stopping.

"What on earth stimulated these beasts?"

Shen Li stood on the trunk of a giant tree, his expression grim.

In the past, the Beast Tide in [Tanyao] never erupted on such a large scale.

He vaguely sensed something amiss... because the continuous impact of the Beast Tide had caused the giant tree they were hiding in to begin trembling, and if this continued, their location would be exposed!

"Alert—Alert—"

Perhaps due to the complete covering of Sangzhou Cave with volcanic ash, this Beast Tide alert was delayed by nearly ten minutes before being issued.

"Disaster name: Beast Tide."

"Danger level: A+."

"Estimated arrival time: Countdown 2 hours 31 minutes 03 seconds."

[Deep Sea] released the captured images of the Beast Tide, and this time the images transmitted by [Heavenly Eye] to the Heart Lakes of all Transcendents were not as clear as the previous ones... the overall tone of the images was dim and gray.

"This time’s Beast Tide not only appeared in the South Cave..."

Shen Li felt his heart skip a beat.

"But also all over the entire Sangzhou Cave! Large numbers of Extraordinary Beast Spirits have appeared in the outer forest ring from all directions!"

This time the Beast Tide was defined as danger level "A+", and in [Deep Sea]’s rating system, it rarely gives an "S-level" evaluation, in Sangzhou Cave if a disaster were defined by [Deep Sea] as "S-level", then it would likely be a catastrophic disaster of the level of a Tanyao Volcano eruption, one that could obliterate the entire island.

No time for Shen Li to think further—

Crack!

The giant tree snapped!

A gigantic rhinoceros charged across the ground, its extremely sharp horn cleaving the giant tree that ten people could hug around in one swoop, this gigantic rhino had grown to a terrifying size of ten meters.

This level of Extraordinary Beast Spirit can no longer be considered low-level... in some sense, it is on par with the high-level beings like the "Empress Bird Wing Butterfly" that were slain by Gu Shen and Bai Xiu!

"Boom," a dull sound rang out as Adam plummeted towards the Beast Tide below, his face pale, but fortunately, he was only falling for a moment before Shen Li seized him by the sleeve, the [Iron Eater] behind the Little Iron Man faintly coalescing into a complete entity, with a tendency to separate from its host and act independently.

He was stationed on the Deep Sea Ninth Layer, at the stage of condensing the Domain Embryo.

The next step—

Is the completion of the Domain, allowing free movement!

The humanoid mimicry of the [Iron Eater] was a robust, dusky soul, clutching another giant tree branch tightly, where its fingers met the branch, a blue-iron, cold color spread and permeated... within seconds, it assimilated and infected this branch, turning it into ironwood!