Lin Tian didn't hesitate and pressed his bloody palm onto the barrier. The originally transparent barrier suddenly flashed and absorbed Lin Tian's zombie blood in the blink of an eye.

After absorbing the zombie blood, the barrier calmed down again, returning to its transparent state. Lin Tian was dumbfounded. What was this? It took the zombie blood, flashed a few times, and that was the reaction?

"Maybe... maybe you didn't bleed enough, or perhaps it has a big appetite," Sword Spirit said quietly, unsure himself.

Lin Tian, displeased, replied, "Do you think I'm a cow, and my blood is cheap? My zombie blood is precious; it takes months of absorbing lunar essence to replenish it."

"You can't catch a wolf without shedding some blood," Sword Spirit mumbled, not even convincing himself.

"I'll trust you one more time. If it doesn't work, I'll absorb you to replenish my energy," Lin Tian threatened deliberately.

Sword Spirit shivered and quickly said, "Don't do that; I'm old and don't taste good."

"My teeth are good; I'm not afraid," Lin Tian retorted in a scare tactic. After saying that, he pulled out a dagger to cut himself once again.

But before he could act, the surrounding water suddenly shook—the entire ocean eye was trembling. Then a vortex appeared in the center of the barrier, quickly enlarging to cover the ocean eye completely.

Inside the cavern, Zhang Lingyu and Charlotte were quietly watching the ocean eye. Suddenly, the cavern shook as if a bomb had been thrown, and the spring water exploded upwards with a "boom."

Strangely, the spring water didn't spread out. As it sprayed more than two meters high, a vortex appeared on the surface, as if it produced a suction force, pulling the expelled spring water back.

The sudden change startled Zhang Lingyu and Charlotte, causing them to quickly retreat. They both felt a terrifying aura envelop the entire cavern the moment the vortex appeared. But the aura came and went quickly.

When they came to their senses, the vortex on the water surface had already disappeared. Zhang Lingyu turned around and stared at Charlotte: "What just happened?"

She was very anxious. The aura was too frightening, and Lin Tian was below. Who knew if something unexpected would happen?

Charlotte blinked innocently. "I don't know either; nothing like this has ever happened before. I think maybe Lin Tian opened the barrier below, who knows?"

"Is there anything else you're hiding from us?" Zhang Lingyu asked angrily.

"How can you call it hiding? I don't know much more than you about the zombie matter. But you can rest assured, since Lin Tian and he are of the same kind, it should be fine, right?" Charlotte replied irresponsibly.

Zhang Lingyu's expression relaxed slightly, but her fists were still clenched, and her anxiety didn't subside.

As the two women stared at each other, eyes wide open, Lin Tian encountered real trouble underwater.

Since the vortex appeared, the buoyancy underwater vanished, replaced by a powerful suction force originating from the vortex's center. Lin Tian fought against this suction force desperately, barely avoiding being sucked in. The change was too sudden, and he hadn't figured out what was going on.

"Kid, stop resisting; the barrier passage must have opened. Just go in now or you'll regret missing the opportunity," Sword Spirit reminded him in his mind.

Once such a defensive barrier is opened, it can't stay accessible indefinitely. Once the timing passes, it might really close again, and whether it could be opened again remains a big question mark.

"Damn it, if I die, I die," Lin Tian shouted internally, abandoning all resistance.

With a swooshing sound, he got pulled rapidly toward the vortex's center under the suction force. Once in the vortex, Lin Tian spun along with the water flow, his insides almost getting displaced.

"If I turn any more, I'll get dizzy," Sword Spirit's voice rang.

"You're just a mass of energy; why would you get dizzy? If anyone should be dizzy, it should be me," Lin Tian retorted disdainfully.

"You're just a mass of flesh. If you can get dizzy, why can't I?" Sword Spirit argued back, leaving Lin Tian momentarily speechless.

It was unclear how long it had been, only that he was constantly being pulled deeper by the suction force. Suddenly, all the suction disappeared, no buoyancy either, and Lin Tian felt weightless.

With a "plop," Lin Tian felt himself fall into water. Once the dizziness in his head cleared, he calmed down and found himself in a pool.

Pool? Lin Tian was puzzled, thinking he might have been transported outside the ocean eye. If that's the case, this trip was for nothing.

He quickly looked around and saw an amazing sight. It was an underwater cavity surrounded by rock walls. At the top, there was a hole as big as the ocean eye. Through this hole, Lin Tian could even see the water inside gently flowing. However, some force blocked the hole, preventing the water from flowing down.

But that wasn't the most shocking thing to Lin Tian. The most incredible thing was that the pool's water defied Earth's gravity, flowing upwards into the rock ceiling's gap, and then disappeared.

Lin Tian was certain the pool's water wasn't spraying upward due to a fountain. It genuinely defied Earth's gravity, flowing upwards!

Damn it, this is crazy. What world have I arrived in? Could it actually be the Gui Ruins Country? Lin Tian couldn't help but curse internally.

"Little Ya, you're knowledgeable; what's going on here?" Lin Tian asked Sword Spirit in his mind.

"I don't know; it's understandable for the Blood Clan to fly, but this water flying upwards, I've never seen such a thing," Sword Spirit said, seemingly shocked, his voice filled with wonder.

"However, I sense that this pool is filled with strange energy, immensely dense, boundless, like the ocean," Sword Spirit added.

In fact, Lin Tian felt it too. Not just the pool, but the whole underwater cavity was filled with this energy. With a slight shift of his mind, he absorbed a large amount of energy, which flowed comfortably within his body.

Suddenly, the long silent Taiyin Xuan Qi trembled, releasing a massive devouring force. The newly absorbed energy hadn't completely spread throughout his body before it was swallowed into the lower abdomen Dantian.

"Oh my god, kid, what are you doing? You know the energy inside you is terrifying. Letting it out almost swallowed me too!" Sword Spirit shouted, trembling, clearly frightened terribly and shaken.

"I told you, I can't control what it wants to do. Be grateful you can still talk to me now," Lin Tian responded helplessly.

All along, he only knew it was called Taiyin Xuan Qi, which benefited zombies. Beyond that, he knew nothing; it was more like a ticking time bomb, as Taiyin Xuan Qi was uncontrollable.

Lin Tian disliked this feeling of having his fate dictated by an unknown force.

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