Chapter 322 Mending the Sky? Mending the Earth!
Zhou Jue looked at him, and Sun Jiuchou looked at her.
"How did you handle it last time you went?" Zhou Jue asked, needing to understand all the details.
"I used a very clumsy method."
Sun Jiuchou pushed up his glasses: "Physical isolation, plus energy blockade, built a... you can think of it as a stone coffin, and covered it up."
"And then what happened?"
“As a result, it grew even faster inside the stone coffin,” Sun Jiuchou said calmly.
Zhou Jue's heart skipped a beat: "Like a tumor?"
“A very apt analogy.” Sun Jiuchou nodded approvingly: “If you can’t cut it off or block it, it will absorb nutrients from the outside world and grow wildly.”
Zhou Jue remained silent, and without further delay, set off.
Soon, the two arrived in the airspace above Bermuda.
To Zhou Jue's surprise, there were no raging storms or thunderstorms as rumored.
The sea was as calm as a mirror, and the sunlight made it sparkle, creating a rather beautiful scene.
"Is this the place?" Zhou Jue frowned.
"The calmer the place, the stronger the underwater currents."
After Sun Jiuchou finished speaking, he jumped down first, followed closely by Zhou Jue.
As soon as she entered the water, she sensed the difference.
Her cultivation at the Nascent Soul stage, coupled with her skillful use of spiritual energy, allowed her to feel as if she had returned to her own domain in the water.
The water flowed around her affectionately, even actively removing obstacles for her.
She doesn't need any water-avoidance techniques to breathe freely and move around in the water.
Sun Jiuchou's body was covered by a thin film of air, completely isolating him from the seawater.
The two descended.
The further down you go, the dimmer the light becomes, and the water pressure increases exponentially.
Zhou Jue spread out his divine sense, cautiously probing his surroundings.
There is no life in the water here.
There were no fish, no shrimp, and you couldn't even detect any microorganisms.
A dead sea.
After descending to a depth of several thousand meters, Sun Jiuchou stopped.
He pointed to the deeper darkness below.
Zhou Jue looked in the direction he pointed, and his divine sense extended in that direction as well.
Ten thousand meters below the seabed, lies a colossal creature.
That's not a living thing.
It is a bizarre building that is entirely black and filled with an unnatural, non-artificial style.
It resembles an inverted pyramid, its base deeply rooted in the silt of the seabed, its surface covered with intricate patterns.
"What is this?" Zhou Jue asked telepathically. "Atlantis?"
“Much older than that.”
Sun Jiuchou's tone became somewhat solemn.
"A failed stargate, abandoned for countless millennia..."
The two slowly approached the underwater pyramid.
The closer Zhou Jue got, the more he could feel a sense of spatial distortion and disorientation.
At the base of the pyramid is a huge black hole entrance.
Sun Jiuchou swam in without hesitation.
Zhou Jue gritted his teeth and followed.
Once inside the pyramid, the sense of disorientation became even stronger.
There is no water here.
It's like a vacuum, where the concepts of up, down, left, and right become blurred.
Zhou Jue even felt his body being pulled by an invisible force, sometimes growing longer and sometimes being flattened.
She immediately circulated her spiritual power to protect her body, and only then did she feel a little better.
"Stay close to me, and don't use your divine sense to look around." Sun Jiuchou's voice rang out from ahead.
Zhou Jue did as instructed, suppressing his divine sense and observing only with his eyes.
The interior of the pyramids is like a giant labyrinth, with the walls also covered in those strange patterns.
Led by Sun Jiuchou, they traversed a series of twisted passages and finally arrived at the core of the pyramid.
It's very spacious here.
There was nothing there, except for a tiny, almost invisible black crack, about the thickness of a hair, suspended in the very center.
It just floated there quietly, without any energy fluctuations or sound around it.
But Zhou Jue only glanced at it and felt his primordial spirit being stung.
"This is... an anomaly?" She could hardly believe it.
“Yes.” Sun Jiuche nodded.
"I'll give it a try."
Zhou Jue didn't believe it. She separated a very thin strand of her divine sense and carefully probed towards the black crack.
The next second, her face turned pale and she let out a muffled groan.
That wisp of divine consciousness vanished the moment it touched the black crack.
It wasn't that we were defeated, nor that we were bounced back.
It simply vanished into thin air, completely erased, leaving not a trace.
"This thing is devouring divine consciousness." Zhou Jue was still shaken.
“It devours everything,” Sun Jiuchou corrected. “Matter, energy, laws, time… anything that gets close to it will be devoured and then completely erased.”
"So it can't be blocked."
"What I use to block it will only become its nourishment, making it grow faster."
Zhou Jue's expression changed completely.
"What should we do then?" she asked Sun Jiuchou.
Since he brought her here, he must have a way.
"We can't block it, we can only repair it," Sun Jiuchou said.
"repair?"
“Yes, mending the sky.” Sun Jiuchou’s gaze fell on Zhou Jue.
Mending the sky? This is the ocean, not the sky; at most, it's like mending the earth, Zhou Jue thought to himself.
What needs to be done?
"I need your space."
Zhou Jue felt a sudden alarm bell ring in his mind and instinctively took a step back.
"Don't even think about it!"
“I didn’t say I wanted your space.” Sun Jiuchou smiled, a hint of helplessness in his smile.
"All I need is for you to peel away a trace of the most primal aura belonging to your space."
"A beacon."
"Use it as a starting point to 'deceive' and 'stitch together' the chaotic and broken spatial laws of this area."
"It's like covering a huge wound with a piece of new flesh that induces healing. It makes the wound think it's healed, thus stopping it from getting worse."
Zhou Jue was confused, but she grasped the key point.
"What impact will this have on me? What impact will it have on my personal space?"
"I don't know." Sun Jiuchou shrugged nonchalantly: "It's possible that a small part of your space will be missing, or it might have no effect at all, since it's just the removal of a trace of aura."
“I won’t do it,” Zhou Jue immediately refused.
Her space is her trump card and her safe haven; two seniors also live there, and she absolutely cannot allow it to have any problems.
"Don't rush to refuse," Sun Jiuchou said, his tone slightly suggestive.
"Your space is not a product of this world either. Don't you want to know more about its secrets?"
"How about it? In return, I can tell you some secrets of the space."
Zhou Jue thought for a moment and asked, "What secret? What's it about?"
"Regarding evolution," Sun Jiuchou didn't hold back.
"Now that you've undergone trials, and your system is also undergoing trials, don't you want your space to evolve as well?"
Although Sun Jiuchou's words were very tempting, Zhou Jue still felt it was not worth it. After all, he himself said that he did not know what the consequences would be. What if, just what if, the space was damaged irreversibly or even shattered? Then even if he knew about evolution, there would be no use for it!
"Isn't there any other way?"
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