Chapter 477: Chapter 356: The Real Monster, the Dried-up Bone Marrow Cleansing Pool, the Giant Beyond the Saint Realm, Earth-shattering Mutation!

Time moves forward a bit.

Ximen Gu gazed at the tranquil figure stepping onto the Eighth Level stair, his eyes betraying an uncontrollable shock.

For a long time.

This person, ranked high on the Grandmaster List, a Demon hailing from the Sword Pavilion of the Martial Saint faction, took a deep breath after which he finally calmed his emotions a bit.

He had no idea why the stairs appeared before them, because the three of them had been directly caught up in it.

Perhaps only Su Mu might know.

Amidst his chaotic thoughts, an image suddenly surfaced in Ximen Gu’s mind — Su Mu calmly walking out of the Bone Marrow Cleansing Pool passage he had been in.

"Go and have a look."

Ximen Gu took another deep breath and headed towards his own Bone Marrow Cleansing Pool. Passing through a long, dark passage, his vision cleared.

However...

The sight before him whipped up another tidal wave in his heart that had just settled slightly.

The Bone Marrow Cleansing Pool in front of him was already dry, not a drop was left.

Where did the Bone Marrow Cleansing Liquid go?!

Could it be...

"Impossible, no matter how extraordinary he is, one person couldn’t possibly consume both pools of Bone Marrow Cleansing Liquid entirely!" Ximen Gu’s face shifted in expression, unable to comprehend what was happening before him.

But apart from Su Mu, was there anyone else in the stone chamber where the Bone Marrow Cleansing Pool was?

For a moment, this Demon from the Sword Pavilion fell into a long silence once again. During this time, he couldn’t help but wonder why, when the three of them were trapped in the staircase illusion, Su Mu had chosen this Bone Marrow Cleansing Pool of his.

Was it purely his own bad luck?

Having narrowly escaped death, still in shock, and having been shaken multiple times in a short period, Ximen Gu’s mind was a bit muddled at this point, completely ignoring an essential piece of understanding.

That is, the Bone Marrow Cleansing Pools within the various passages are interconnected.

Once one Bone Marrow Cleansing Pool is drained, the other three are inevitably close to being dry as well...

After a brief moment.

Ximen Gu planned to check on the other Bone Marrow Cleansing Pools. He couldn’t bear the burden of this alone, as the time they spent in the illusion shouldn’t have been too long.

In such a short time, Su Mu couldn’t have possibly spread his malevolent hands to all four Bone Marrow Cleansing Pools, and besides, he couldn’t have such a big appetite as to devour the Bone Marrow Cleansing Liquid from all four pools at once.

Thinking of this, Ximen Gu’s eyes regained a touch of their former calmness.

"Let’s check on Ye Wuhen’s side first!"

But this touch of calmness was once again shattered soon after.

Just because...

The situation with Ye Wuhen’s Bone Marrow Cleansing Pool seemed exactly the same as his own, and Ximen Gu’s pupils constricted the moment he saw the cultivation chamber moved outside of the Bone Marrow Cleansing Pool.

No, this isn’t possible!

He walked over briskly, then was completely stunned, this Bone Marrow Cleansing Pool was also utterly dry, not even a trace of golden marks remained, thoroughly devoid.

In an instant, Ximen Gu’s entire body trembled as he turned around, he glanced toward the last place, Qin Heng’s Bone Marrow Cleansing Pool.

"Could it be..."

He was left with only one thought, and that was to verify whether there was still Bone Marrow Cleansing Liquid in Qin Heng’s pool. If not, then wouldn’t Su Mu be too extraordinary?!

Could that guy Su Mu be a reincarnation of a black hole of energy?

As for cunningly storing the Bone Marrow Cleansing Liquid from several pools directly into a Space Ring, that was also unrealistic, because the same Bone Marrow Cleansing Liquid would lose ninety percent of its cleansing effect once it left the pool, maybe even completely, becoming just an energy fluid.

Moreover, to store such a potent liquid with powerful strength would require an extraordinary container.

In any case, besides making such an attempt in the initial excavation of the Bone Marrow Cleansing Pool, no one would squander it like this thereafter.

Immediately Ximen Gu walked out of the passage, and just as he was about to step into the passage where Qin Heng was, the darkness covered half of his body.

He suddenly trembled intensely, with violent currents surging inside his body, causing him to break out in goosebumps, and he looked down fixating his gaze on the stone floor of the cave he stood on.

This situation had occurred once not too long ago.

That was when he found the Will Jade Pendant his master granted him shattered, emerging after narrowly escaping death from the illusion realm.

At this moment Ximen Gu finally remembered that the Bone Marrow Cleansing Pools throughout were interconnected.

Three Bone Marrow Cleansing Pools were now empty, so was it necessary to see the last one?

"Might as well go and see with my own eyes..."

Ximen Gu was extraordinarily solemn as he walked step by step into the passage, finally standing at the edge of the last Bone Marrow Cleansing Pool, witnessing the truth firsthand, confirming one thing.

All four Bone Marrow Cleansing Pools were completely dry!

At this moment, Ximen Gu’s head was completely spinning, for a time his mind was in turmoil, thinking about a thousand things, so chaotic that he opened his mouth to say something but ultimately didn’t know how to phrase it.

A thousand words finally transformed into the simplest utterance.

"Damn!"

"Is that monster really still human?!"

...

Ximen Gu, entered the Sword Pavilion at ten, studied Sword Cultivation for five years, comprehending Sword Momentum before becoming a Martial Artist, even in the Sword Pavilion, he was hailed as a Sword Dao genius from a young age.

It was always others being shocked by his demon-like talent, amazed by the monster, the demon.

Before, Ximen Gu didn’t quite understand why these people would react with such expressions, thinking what he did was just commonplace.

However...

Today Ximen Gu finally understood the mindset of those around him when they showed such expressions.

The way of heaven has cycles.

Who would have thought that one day, he, Ximen Gu, would become one of the "people around," being amazed by someone else as a monster.