Looking at the countless black figures around him that resembled himself, Saul calmly used his mental power to detect the pollution levels in the surroundings.

“This is the Storm Eye’s sealing point, but the most important anchor point inside the Storm Eye seems to no longer be here. However, my experiment just now still attracted pollution that exists underground.”

Saul had originally wanted to try whether he could obtain another anchor point here, but this attempt had clearly failed.

Not only had it failed, it had also provoked a violent pollution reaction.

“No meaning? Is it saying that my actions to resist the Black Tide are meaningless, or that searching for anchor points is meaningless?”

Saul closed his eyes and opened them again.

The black human faces on the surrounding walls turned back into black water drops.

Everything just now had been an illusion.

“The pollution affected my perception.”

Although Saul quickly recovered, in this short time, large quantities of water drops had condensed on the surrounding walls and the ceiling and floor.

These black water drops gathered together and, under gravity’s influence, became streams flowing down or dripping from above Saul’s head.

More and more black streams accumulated into pools, gradually spreading toward Saul’s position.

Looking at the surrounding pollution, Saul didn’t immediately flee.

He unhurriedly took out the Chaos Realm Compass, opened the dial, and watched the pointer spinning continuously.

Previously, when Storm Eyes appeared, he couldn’t use the Chaos Realm Compass to escape because the Storm Eye’s distortion prevented the compass from stably opening spatial transmission portals.

But now, Saul had deliberately arranged space-stabilizing formations before experimenting. Even though extremely polluting Black Tide was appearing around him, it hadn’t disrupted the compass’s stability.

Under Saul’s control, a pulling force from another dimensional space appeared.

He didn’t immediately enter the Chaos Realm but waited a while longer. Only when the nearest black pool submerged his shoe soles did Saul’s figure suddenly disappear.

After a bout of dizziness, Saul landed on the black desert.

He had activated the compass the instant the Black Tide pollution touched him, coming to the Chaos Realm.

And along with his feet touching the ground, the black water drops attached to his shoe soles also came to this world.

Saul looked down, staring intently at the water on his shoes.

The water drops representing the black tide actually sank into the soil below the instant they touched the black sandy ground.

The speed was so fast it almost exceeded Saul’s visual dynamic tracking ability.

“Active Black Tide pollution disappeared the moment it arrived in this world.”

Saul crouched down and touched the ground with his hand.

As dry as always, showing no sign that liquid had seeped in just a second before.

Saul again sent his mental power underground.

The result was the same as before—mental power could hardly penetrate deep underground for exploration. And the limited range he could perceive gave feedback of complete deathly silence.

No trace of Black Tide pollution at all.

“It’s because the amount of Black Tide that entered was still too small. Like a drop of ink dropped into the ocean, it was quickly completely diluted and became invisible.”

His black bone hand slid gently across the ground.

“If during a Black Tide eruption, all the tide water was diverted into this world, could it still be diluted?”

The diary’s warning clearly indicated that the Black Tide would completely explode someday in the future. Although this time shouldn’t be very near, Saul had already begun thinking about how to deal with a fully erupted Black Tide.

After all, he couldn’t bring everyone to the Chaos Realm.

This place was completely unsuitable for wizard life.

But if Black Tide entering here could be immediately inertized, then he could at least use the Chaos Realm Compass to preserve the Purity Wizard Tower and surrounding areas.

This was the second survival plan Saul and Byron had prepared after being unable to develop large-scale inertization reactions.

“This Black Tide pollution is still too little.” Saul withdrew his hand and shook it, flinging off the sand stuck to his finger bones. “The Sighing Wall—Black Tide tsunamis erupt there at intervals. I could contact Master Gorsa to steal some pollution.”

Saul was pondering his schemes when he suddenly noticed the ground beneath his feet beginning to vibrate.

He immediately flew into the air, staring at the ground.

“Such a strong reaction doesn’t seem like the beasts hiding in the sand from last time. Could the penetrating Black Tide have triggered some reaction?”

“If that’s really the case, there must be some special existence hidden beneath this black desert.”

Initially, only the patch of ground beneath Saul’s feet was vibrating, but soon this vibration spread in all directions, as if the entire world were trembling.

Saul quickly spread his mental power, searching for Noah.

But Noah wasn’t nearby.

He didn’t know where he had run off to.

With no time to notify Noah to leave, the ground had already been broken through by some massive object.

The ground was pushed up into a slope, with stones and sand tumbling down.

Not far away, the massive architectural portico Noah had built was also tilting, seeming ready to collapse soon.

“What is…” Saul was originally staring at whatever was breaking through the ground below when he suddenly felt his left hand trembling uncontrollably.

He quickly gripped his left palm with his right hand, then discovered that what was really trembling was the white bone attached to his left index fingertip.

“The anchor point is moving?”

Realizing that whatever was underground had caused an abnormal reaction in his internal anchor point, semi-transparent gray tentacles immediately appeared on the surface of all of Saul’s bones.

These tentacles covered Saul’s entire body in the blink of an eye, then continuously tightened and changed.

A Saul with blood, flesh, and skin reappeared.

When the anchor point at his fingertip was wrapped by newly grown skin, the violent trembling stopped.

Although, the trembling in Saul’s palm had stopped, whatever was underground was still drilling upward.

Finally, a white object broke through the black sand.

It gradually emerged from underground, and the mud and withered root stems that had once covered it fell like a waterfall.

When all the covering material had fallen away, Saul finally saw clearly what had emerged from underground.

It was actually an incomparably massive… biological skeleton.

It was entirely pale white, with a head-to-tail length approaching a hundred meters.

From the bone structure, this creature’s body shape somewhat resembled a giant lizard.

But at the same time, its back was also connected to two enormous wings.

Also nothing but bones.

This massive creature with only bones could move without relying on flesh connections, just like Saul.

But no magical power fluctuations emanated from it.

After completely breaking free from the earth’s constraints, the massive white skeleton flapped its wings and actually flew straight toward Saul.

Seeing such a massive creature, Saul was also extremely shocked.

But what surprised him even more was…

Saul looked down at his left hand.

“If judging only by color and the bone surface texture… this skeleton is almost identical to the anchor point on my hand!”

Seeing the white skeleton about to crash into him, Saul immediately flew to one side, dodging its impact.

But it nimbly turned in the air and flew toward Saul again.

It seemed to have locked onto Saul, but he had already used the Soul-Devouring Resin processed by the stars to seal his left hand’s anchor point.

Why was it still pursuing him?

“Could it be… could it be that the so-called anchor points are actually the bones of this kind of creature?”

“Then, does a creature’s skeleton also exist beneath the Abyssal Eye under the Black Tide?”

“Did the Abyssal Eye kill this kind of creature, or is it itself the Abyssal Eye?”

Watching the white skeleton charging toward him again with relentless determination, Saul narrowed his eyes.

“It shouldn’t be able to sense the anchor point in my hand, but it’s still attacking me. So what if I let it discover the anchor point in my hand?”

When the white skeleton was less than five meters away from him, its skull raised and massive upper and lower jaws opened, Saul suddenly raised his left hand.

The skin and muscle on his palm receded again, revealing the finger bone.

The massive white creature skeleton trembled violently, came to a sudden stop, and halted in front of Saul.

Looking at the massive skeleton that had suddenly quieted, Saul couldn’t help but murmur to himself.

“Are you… treating me as the same species?”

(End of Chapter)

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