Chapter 966 Return Journey

Once he finished organizing the memories of the Outer God fragment, there was nothing left for him to do in this mind space.

So Lin Fan exited the mind space and appeared outside again.

When the three others saw him, they immediately raised their guard.

They had felt the fluctuations coming from Lin Fan, so they knew that whatever he had absorbed wasn't simple or weak. It was even at a level that they were threatened by, which meant that it was most likely…related to a god.

They knew that the master of the store was someone in the God Realm, so it wasn't strange that whatever Lin Fan had been sent here to get was related to a god.

But they didn't think that Lin Fan would be able to refine the energy of a god…

So they were worried that Lin Fan had been taken over.

Lin Fan immediately raised his hands when he saw this and said, "It's still me."

None of them relaxed their guards, but Angela took a step forward and asked a few questions in a small voice, making sure that the other two wouldn't hear.

Once Lin Fan answered the questions, she put her hands down and went forward to hug him.

As for the questions that she had asked, they were intimate questions that only the two of them should know which was why she had spoken in such a small voice.

Seeing this, Yuki and Momonga relaxed a bit, but they still maintained their guard just in case it was a trick.

Lin Fan didn't mind this and just explained what this place was to them.

After they finished listening to the story, they couldn't help turning to look at the giant corpse with shocked looks.

Momonga was the one that went over to it and started looking it over with an interested look.

This was a corpse that had once held a fragment of an Outer God, it was without a doubt precious.

If it wasn't for the notification that suddenly popped up when he approached it, he would have wanted to take it away with them. However, it seemed like the master of the store wouldn't allow them to take it.

The master of the store most likely had his own plans for this thing, so Momonga could only give up.

But that didn't mean that he would give up looking it over while he was still here.

Now that they had finished the mission, there wasn't a time limit anymore, so he could spend as long as he wanted looking at this thing.

Of course, they didn't want to spend too much time on this place since it was still filled with undead creatures.

Now that Lin Fan had absorbed the Outer God fragment that controlled these undead, it was unknown how they would act. The most likely outcome was that these undead would go crazy and start attacking whatever came near them, instead of just lying there waiting for prey to come.

So it was best if they left this place as soon as possible.

As for why they had to leave, it was because the system was giving them the task of heading back to where they started.

They had to follow the same path as before and reach the location where they first arrived on this cultivation realm before being sent back by the system.

That would mean that they would have to go through all the places filled with undead that they had to go through before. They could avoid it, but they didn't know what dangers hid on this world outside of this path, so the safest way was to take this path back.

After spending around half an hour letting Momonga investigate the statue, they pulled him away with an unwilling look on his face out of this altar.

As they left, Momonga couldn't help saying, "Just give me another few minutes, I almost have something."

But that was what he had been saying the entire time and they had finally gotten tired of hearing it. So they dragged him away even if he didn't want to leave.

When they came out, they were surprised to find…

The rain of thunder bolts that fell down was gone.

The sky had completely cleared and there wasn't a single trace of the lightning clouds from before. There was now a bright sun that was high up in the sky above them.

But this made sense since what most likely attracted the thunderbolts in the first place was the Outer God fragment that had been here.

Now that Lin Fan had absorbed this fragment, it made sense that the thunderbolts stopped.

However, they could also see some bird like creatures flying through the air because of this.

This meant that all the creatures that had been hiding out from the thunderbolts were now out and about. It was unknown if these creatures were friendly or hostile, but this added a new degree of danger to their return trip.

If they had gone earlier, then perhaps there would be less danger.

But now that they had spent all that time in the altar studying the giant corpse, they had given the animals time to come out.

So it was unknown how many animals were out and about, but it did mean that there was now hidden danger all around them.

The three of them couldn't help looking at Momonga with looks of blame.

Momonga just faced those looks and showed a look that didn't have any regret.

He would never regret using this chance to find out more about the Outer Gods, even if he didn't find anything from the corpse.

It was too late for regret, so the only thing that they could do was move through the forest like normal.

To their surprise though, they found that not a single animal approached them.

It wasn't that there weren't any animals in this forest, but rather they all went out of their way to avoid them. They could sense the animals all around them, watching them as they made their way down the mountain.

Many of these animals were in the World Realm and there were some that were even Rulers.

If they really wanted to attack them, they would be quite troublesome.

But in the end, not a single one of them attacked.

Lin Fan's group was surprised by this, but they didn't dwell too deeply on this. After all, they were now trying to escape this cultivation realm, so they didn't have time to care about this.

When they reached the bottom of the mountain, they quickly went the same way that they went before.

It didn't take them long to reach the canyon.

In front of them was the same stone bridge without anything around, but they knew that there were those skeleton fish hiding inside of the canyon.

Now there was a choice that was placed in front of them.

They could either follow the path laid out by the system and test the unknown waters to see if it was safer, or they could use the same path that they used before and use this stone bridge.

But if they used the stone bridge, that would mean getting attacked by the skeleton fish.

No, in the first place, they didn't know if the skeleton fish were still here.

After all, they had been controlled by the Outer God fragment before and now that the Outer God fragment had been absorbed by Lin Fan, it was unknown if they even stayed here.

They could have already left this place before they came here.

That would be good for Lin Fan's group since that would allow them to travel across this stone bridge without any danger.

But it was all a gamble in the end since the skeleton fish could still be here.

After debating it for a long time, they still decided to take this stone bridge since it was unknown what kind of danger was on the other path.

In a worst case scenario, they would be able to rush forward with Yuki's snow barrier. Now that they knew how long it was, they were certain that she would have enough life energy to get them across.

As for what would happen after they crossed, that was for them to worry about afterwards.

So they took the first step onto the bridge.

As if on cue, there were clacking sounds all around them.

As soon as they heard this, they immediately knew what this meant and didn't hesitate at all to charge forward.

The skeleton fish soon quickly caught up to them and surrounded them.

When Yuki had raised her hands and was about to use her snow barrier, Lin Fan stopped her.

He raised his own hand and gathered the strange energy from before.

While he didn't know if it would still work, he decided to use this to see if they could distract the skeleton fish.

The strange energy orbs were quickly released all around him, but the reactions from the skeleton fish were strange.

Instead of being distracted by the balls of strange energy like last time, they just froze there in the air and stared at them.

It was as if they had noticed something strange about these balls of strange energy.

Lin Fan also felt a strange feeling when these skeleton fish did this.

It was as if there was some kind of resonance with the skeleton fish when he released these balls of strange energy.

After a daze, the skeleton fish started moving towards the balls of strange energy and then they…