The Human Emperor

Chapter 1917: The Voice in the Dried-Up Well!

Translated by: Hypersheep325

Edited by: Michyrr

The Arab noble lowered his head and respectfully said, “It really did come from here. On that day, we accompanied His Majesty here and saw it with our own eyes.”

Buzz!

The noble had barely spoken when Wang Chong sent a burst of Psychic Energy into the well.

The discovery of the ruins in the Sassanid had triggered a side mission from the Stone of Destiny, the ‘Riddle of Destiny’, but there had been no further progress on it.

Wang Chong sensed that he might find something this time.

But a few moments later, Wang Chong frowned.

“How is it so deep?”

After absorbing the High Priest’s Psychic Energy, he had reached a truly terrifying level of Psychic Energy, almost at the peak of the entire world. Yet even after sending his Psychic Energy down five thousand meters, he hadn’t reached the end.

In addition, the deeper he went, the greater the resistance he encountered, and the slower he could advance.

“What a powerful Psychic Seal!”

Wang Chong’s brows creased.

The mental domain was much more developed in the west than the east. At the very least, a civilization of Psychic Energy practitioners had flourished here once. Much of the knowledge on the mental domain Wang Chong had obtained from the High Priest had come from this civilization.

It was not surprising that this well’s bottom had such a powerful Psychic Seal, but if this was the case, Wang Chong could not find out what was within.

“Nightmare Beast, have you noticed anything?”

Wang Chong communicated with the Nightmare Beast’s core.

After a few moments of silence, the Nightmare Beast replied, “The distance is too great, so I can’t make out anything in detail. But I can sense that there really is something down there.”

After absorbing the Psychic Energy of hundreds of thousands of people in the war, the Nightmare Beast had become extremely powerful, but not even it could ignore the effects of that Psychic Seal.

“I’ll go down and take a look!”

His brows locked together, Wang Chong considered his options and quickly decided to go down.

“Wait!”

At this moment, Zhangchou Jianqiong called out and reached out to stop Wang Chong.

“We have no idea what the situation is down there, so don’t rush to go in! We need to at least investigate a little. You, find a few people to go down and take a look.”

Zhangchou Jianqiong turned to the Arab noble who had led them here.

Everyone immediately understood.

They were in a foreign land, and it was impossible to say what sort of schemes the Arabs might be plotting. Were they really showing them the way or just leading them into a trap?

Moreover, even if this really was the place, it was also a place that had contained the terrifying Ifrit. It was probably no heavenly paradise down there. There could be other dangers hidden within, so it was best to send a few people ahead of them.

The Arab noble did not have the right to refuse.

Whoosh! Whoosh!

A few moments later, two Arab generals dragging long ropes jumped into the well and began to descend.

The ropes were extended longer and longer. Everyone carefully listened, but the well remained quiet.

“It seems that there’s no problem!”

Zhangchou Jianqiong turned and glanced at the others.

As Wang Chong had ordered, both ropes had already gone past five thousand meters. The Psychic Seal had only been able to block out mental probing, and it had no effect on those two generals.

Given how long the pair had been down there, it was clear that it was safe inside.

“Ah!”

But Zhangchou Jianqiong had barely spoken when a miserable scream came from the well.

In the blink of an eye, the two ropes went slack, and the sounds from the well vanished.

The air almost froze, and everyone’s face turned grim.

The two generals had both been at the Imperial Martial realm, but they had been killed without the slightest chance to resist. The well was clearly more dangerous than they had imagined.

“I’m going down!”

Wang Chong’s eyes flashed as he prepared to go in.

“Wang Chong!”

“It’s fine! In this day and age, there are few traps that can hold me down! Even if there’s danger, I can react to the situation and promptly pull out!” Wang Chong indifferently said.

His casual words were tinged with a despotic aura. Wang Chong was at the Subtle realm, far above the Great Generals present. He had even killed the World-Destroying Ifrit.

There were truly few things in the world that could threaten him.

After a few moments of silence, Zhangchou Jianqiong gave up on his efforts to stop him.