Chapter 3595 Black Lamps

As he hovered in the sky above the desert, Zen looked around but still failed to find anything special.

He flew past the circular desert bordered by grassland without stopping. Soon, he came across another similarly shaped terrain.

This time, the circular area was the grassland being surrounded by a desert.

Without any hesitation, Zen flew past it as well and arrived at the end of a third circle.

"I bet the temple must be around here!" Zen exclaimed.

After going over the area, he was certain they were on the right track.

Elvinia gave her surroundings a confused look. "Why would a temple be located here? There's nothing but sand for miles," she complained.

The third circular piece of land was a vast expanse of flat gobi, including the end of it. If the temple was here, they should've been able to spot it by now.

Once they landed, Elvinia lowered her head to carefully tread across the ground they stood.

"Huh?"

Her eyes suddenly lit up in surprise. She pointed to the ground and yelled, "Zen! Come and have a look!"

Directly beneath her feet was the long outline of what remained of some sort of foundation. Most of it was buried underground.

Zen walked up and down the foundation's remains, tediously observing it alongside Elvinia.

An idea suddenly popped up in his mind. Swiftly, he flew towards the sky and hovered before looking down and narrowing his eyes.

As expected, everything was much clearer from a bird's eye view.

He hadn't paid any attention to the ground upon arriving.

But now seeing it from up here, he could clearly see the frame of a huge temple beneath him!

"Do you see anything?" Elvinia bellowed from below.

Zen nodded as he made his slow descent from the sky. "Yes. The foundation of the temple is buried underneath the gobi," he replied.

"Then that means… the temple we've been searching for is right beneath our feet?" Elvinia asked.

"It's possible." Suddenly, Zen shook his head from left to right as he recalled something. "However, something's still off here. This is the temple's foundation. If we can see it from here, then that means the temple is erected at this spot and that we should've been inside its walls by now,"

Zen raised his hand to point at their surroundings.

"So you're sayin

hat…what the hell is this place?"

"The only way to the temple entrance," Zen replied calmly, his voice free of any fear.

The high priest from the Elephant Man race had warned them of the dangers this place held.

In fact, three purified beings that possessed great power had met their end here. Zen never expected them to enter this place easily.

"Wait here. I'll go have a look first," Zen ordered her.

The lamp stands were arranged in such a way that they were at equal distances apart from each other. All lamps had wicks long enough for the shadows to move in a hundred-foot radius around the stands — leaving no space to go around the shadows.

Realizing that there was no shortcut, Zen had no choice but to break through the terrifying path before him.

He slowly approached the nearest lamp stand to which the shadow of a dog was tied. It dozed off, snoring and lying motionless on the ground.

Once Zen entered the area bathed in lamplight, however, the dog woke up and immediately pounced on him ferociously.

Zen subconsciously dodged to the side, but the shadow's speed was surprisingly fast.

Realizing he couldn't avoid the attack, Zen outstretched his hand to defend himself. The dog bit deep into his arm.

However, something odd happened. Zen didn't feel the slightest bit of pain from its teeth. His Chaotic Source Spirits received no damage. As it turned out, the shadow was just like a ghost that could easily pass through his body. All that it left was a vague bite mark on his arm.