Chapter 3307 The Purified Being

Flamine lowered her eyes. Softly she said, "I have been to the Dark Region. I know how dangerous it is. Maybe it's too much to ask you to protect Elvinia, but I hope you will do your best."

"You've been to the Dark Region?" Zen said, raising his eyebrows.

Flamine smiled. "It's not the Dark Region of Stage Thirteen, but the one of Stage Twenty."

As one reached higher and higher stages on the Other Shore, the likelihood increased of encountering the Dark Region.

Powerful warriors like Flamine, however, had extremely powerful Souls of Light, and were equal to the challenges of the Dark Region. Flamine, for instance, would have no trouble overpowering the creatures on the Other Shore and in the Dark Region that Zen and his companions had faced in Stage Thirteen.

"Have you ever heard of the light column in the Dark Region?" Zen asked.

At the mention of the light column, Flamine's eyes flashed. Elvinia noticed and shot her mother a questioning look.

Earlier, when Elvinia had told her mother about the light column in the Phoenix Palace, Flamine had also reacted strangely. What did she know about the valley?

"I've already heard about it from Elvinia," Flamine said solemnly. "The appearance of a light column in the Dark Region, well, generally suggests the presence of a purified being."

"What do you mean by a purified being?" Zen said, looking interested.

"Some creatures can break through the restrictions of the Dark Region and become the strongest. We call them purified beings, and no one can match them in the Dark Region," Flamine explained. "Of course, they are also extremely powerful even outside the Dark Region."

Many years ago, Flamine had witnessed the birth of a purified being.

She had been in the Dark Region of Stage Twenty. She clearly saw a white light shoot up into the sky, pierce through the darkness, and freely fly within the Dark Region.

In response, the powerful creatures in the Dark Region had surrounded the light and launched an attack on the purified being. Even the other creatures outside the Dark Region had tried to stop the purified being from leaving the confines of the Dark Region. Some powerful Souls of Light had also joined the battle.

But no one could defeat the purified being. Within its light, it was impervious to the attacks of creatures in the Dark Region. The other creatures outside the Dark Region also failed to defeat the purified being.

At that time, Flamine recalled, the most powerful group in Stage Twenty was the Heavenly Element race. They had ruled over at least seventy percent of the territory of Stage Twenty. However, the purified being had engaged them in battle. Alone against the strongest members of the Heavenly Element race, the purified being had driven them into a small corner of Stage Twenty.

e of the fruits to Zen.

They each bit into their fruits. As Zen swallowed the Darkness Fruit, he felt energy spreading throughout his body, and the darkness that obscured his vision seemed to lighten. He looked around him at their surroundings and instantly felt stunned.

To his shock, he and Elvinia were surrounded by several pig-faced monsters standing just outside the edge of the circle of light. Their ferocious fangs were bared. They were staring at Zen and Elvinia, and looked ready to fight.

Elvinia let out a small cry of astonishment as she saw the monsters around them.

She stepped closer to Zen, feeling uneasy and afraid.

"Don't worry. They can't come into the light," Zen said calmly.

The pig-faced monsters leaned forward and roared, taking care to stay in the darkness.

"Get out of here, you filthy humans!"

"You are trampling the holy tomb!"

The pig-faced monsters roared and threatened them, but they couldn't step into the circle of light to attack the humans.

Zen smiled, shaking his head. "You know, if I were them, I would be kind and gentle instead of loud and threatening. I would try to lure us out of the light and into the darkness, where we could be slaughtered like fish on the chopping block."

Elvinia scowled. "Luckily, they don't have someone who thinks like you. Be quiet. Don't give them any ideas."

Zen shrugged. "My point is that these pig-faced monsters do not seem to be very intelligent. The black monkeys are smarter. So I don't understand why one of their own would become a purified being."

As he spoke, he bent and carefully studied the holy tomb of the pig-faced monsters.

According to Flamine, there was a purified being buried within.

Zen placed a hand carefully on the tomb. He glanced around him at the pig-faced monsters and asked them, "Is one of your clansmen buried inside this tomb?"