The sealed Moon-Slaying Demon Cave was filled with darkness.
For the first time in his life, Yun Che knew what true darkness was. The world he was in was like an endless abyss, without even a trace of light or life. In this absolutely dark world, he could not see anything, did not know where he was and in which direction, his brain felt extremely heavy, and he even felt dizzy.
“Yun Che… do you know what you are doing?” Jasmine’s gnashing teeth could be heard in Yun Che’s heart.
“Of course I know.” Yun Che took a deep breath and tried his best to calm down. In the Moon Slaughter Devil Cave, every time he took a breath, it was several times more difficult than outside.
"I have clearly told you that I have no way of showing up here to pick the Netherworld Udumbara Flowers. I have also clearly stated that with your ability, it is impossible to pick them, and you can't even get close to them. You..."
“I know.” Yun Che said with a serious face: “Of course I will not doubt what you said yourself. However, we have been searching for the Netherworld Udumbara Flower for seven years! In these seven years, we have never found even a trace of it in the Profound Sky Continent or the Illusory Demon Realm. And the one in the Moon Slaughter Devil Cave is very likely the only one in this world! Moreover, it is just on the verge of fully blooming… How can I be willing to give it up!”
“When I saw the Netherworld Udumbara Flower, I had an extremely strong feeling in my heart. If we leave like this, perhaps, we will never be able to find a second Netherworld Udumbara Flower, and we will not be able to let you be reborn.” Yun Che said heavily: “And… and to be honest, I feel that the Netherworld Udumbara Flower does not seem to be that scary. Before, I was less than thirty feet away from it. Although my mind was interfered by it, I was completely freed from it with a little concentration. It was not as serious as Xue’er and the others. This should be because I have the Dragon God Soul… If my Dragon God Soul is fully activated, maybe I can resist its soul-stealing. At least I can try.”
“Stupid!” Jasmine said bitterly, “Do you know how huge the difference is between the Netherworld Udumbara Flower that has not fully bloomed and the Netherworld Udumbara Flower that has fully bloomed? After the Netherworld Udumbara Flower fully blooms, its soul-sucking ability will be at least ten times what it is now!”
“…” Yun Che was immediately shocked: “Ten…ten times!?”
“From that day seven years ago until now, I have always asked you to find the Netherworld Udumbara Flower, and never told you to pick it. Because it is simply not something that people from your plane can touch!” Jasmine’s voice was filled with anger the entire time, and Yun Che could imagine her face filled with anger, gritting her teeth, and wishing she could slap him away a dozen miles away.
"What you are thinking is that if you fail in the end, you can use the Ancient Profound Ark to escape? You are too naive! After enduring the erosion of the dark aura for more than ten thousand years, and the dark aura is of an extremely high level, the laws of space here have long been distorted! Let alone getting out, it is almost impossible for your Ancient Profound Ark to even move within the range of this Moon Slaughter Devil Cave!"
Yun Che: “…”
"And! I just warned you that there is a living thing hidden in here! And its strength is at least at the sixth level of the Sovereign Profound Realm! It can survive in such a dark environment, it is very likely to be an extremely evil beast! Maybe, before you can get close to the Netherworld Udumbara Flower, you will have died under the claws of that evil beast! Even if you want to escape, there is nowhere to escape!"
"You are basically sending yourself to a grave! And it's a grave that even I can't save you from!" Jasmine said angrily.
“Hehe.” Yun Che suddenly laughed at this moment.
"...You can actually laugh." Jasmine said angrily.
Yun Che smiled and said, “I just suddenly remembered that there were many times when you scolded me for not caring about my life for a woman. And every time I would say that if it was for you, I would also be willing to risk my life, but you never believed me. Now, do you believe me a little bit?”
"You..." Jasmine's voice suddenly stopped.
"Jasmine, you have given me so much, but I have never really done anything for you. Even the removal of your magic poison was simply dependent on the existence of the Sky Poison Pearl, and I never had to pay anything. And right now, this Netherworld Udumbara Flower is likely to be your only hope for a new life. In comparison, even if this hope is ten times slimmer and the risk is ten times greater, I will choose to stay!"
Jasmine: “…”
“Besides, I didn’t stay here out of sheer recklessness, but after careful consideration. Things may not be as pessimistic as you think. Although the Dragon God Soul in my body has become a part of my soul, due to my low soul power, even I cannot sense how powerful it is, and you, Jasmine, certainly don’t know. If my will is strong enough and I can stimulate more soul power from the Dragon God Soul, there is still hope for me to get close to the Netherworld Udumbara Flower!”
“Even if that thing hiding in the darkness is an evil beast, it is at the sixth level of the Sovereign Profound Realm, so I am not necessarily unable to defeat it. Fen Juechen was about the same strength two months ago, but he was still defeated by me, and I won a great victory!” Yun Che opened his eyes wide in the darkness and said confidently.
“…” Jasmine was silent for a long time before she said fiercely, “Idiot! The reason you were able to defeat Fen Juechen was entirely because of Hong’er! Do you really think you can defeat a Level 6 Emperor now?”
“Because… Hong’er?” Yun Che was stunned.
“Forget it.” Jasmine exhaled faintly, “Now that things have come to this, it’s useless to scold you a thousand times. The evil beast that survived in this environment must be a dark evil beast, and it will be restrained by Hong’er like Fen Juechen. If this is the case, you may be able to fight... but it’s just a possibility! Right now, the first thing you have to do is to make yourself survive in this environment and maintain a strong enough state!”
Jasmine's tone was still stern, but her voice had softened without her noticing. Although in her eyes, Yun Che's behavior of forcibly staying in the Moon Slaughter Devil Cave to wait for the Netherworld Udumbara Flower to bloom was extremely reckless and stupid, tantamount to digging his own grave, but this time, it was completely for her... completely.
Moreover, wasn't this man, the one she had been with the longest and the one she knew best, always of this nature...
"Do you feel chest tightness, dizziness, or difficulty breathing here?" Jasmine asked in a positive tone.
Yun Che nodded: “Yes. And this feeling is much stronger than when I just entered. Dark power can devour life and soul, so this feeling should be considered normal.”
"Hmph! The reason you can still maintain a sufficient state and willpower now is because your vitality is far superior to that of ordinary people. If it were an ordinary King Xuanxuan, after a hundred breaths, his whole body would have been weak and his consciousness would be dissociated. But even with your vitality, you can't hold on for too long here. Within an hour, you will..." Jasmine's voice suddenly paused, and then her tone changed slightly, and she said lightly: "It seems that I don't need to remind you. You dare to stay, you should have thought of it."
“Of course.” Yun Che puffed out his chest. “The source of all the power in the world is the energy of heaven and earth, and the dark power is naturally the same. Not to mention the fire element of the Sea of Death, the Great Dao Fu Tu Jue can even absorb the space storm of the Primordial Profound Ark and transform it into my own vitality. There is no reason why I can’t absorb the dark power here! The richer and more extreme the elemental environment, the stronger the weather vitality absorbed and transformed by the Great Dao Fu Tu Jue will be. It will definitely be able to offset, and may even exceed the erosion of my vitality by the dark aura here.”
Yun Che raised his eyebrows and suddenly asked, “Is the dark aura here really higher than your level? You said it would cause irresistible damage to your soul, so why don’t I find it that scary? At least it’s much weaker than the space storm in the Primordial Profound Ark! In the space storm in the Primordial Profound Ark, if I relax my mind for a few breaths, I will die. But here, even if I don’t use the Great Dao Fu Tu Jue, I can hold on for a long time.”
“Hmph, didn’t I say it? The level is extremely high, but the intensity is extremely weak. The dark aura here is like the aura released by an emperor who has exhausted his profound energy, life, and is on the verge of death. Although it is still at the level of an emperor, it is so weak that it can’t even kill a profound practitioner in the True Profound Realm.” Jasmine’s voice suddenly became heavy: “In fact, what concerns me the most is that this dark aura is clearly in an active state, and it is not permanently dormant.”
“…What do you mean?” Yun Che asked in doubt.
"That is to say, these dark auras are clearly generated from somewhere, and in this absolutely closed environment, they cannot escape. However, after ten thousand years, they are still so thin... It is very likely that some terrible thing hidden here has been releasing extremely high-level dark power, and there is another thing that is constantly absorbing this dark power! Therefore, even though this place has been closed for ten thousand years, the dark power is still extremely thin and there is no state of silence!"
"Otherwise, with the level of these dark forces, they are so dense that they cannot be blocked by the barrier of the Supreme Ocean Palace!"
Jasmine’s words startled Yun Che, and he whispered, “Could it be… that dark beast hiding in the dark?”
“Compared to a mere Emperor-level dark beast, I would rather know what exactly released these dark forces!” Jasmine said in a deep voice: “Since we have been blocked here, let’s take a good look at what secrets are hidden inside!”
"Just judging by the extremely high-level dark aura, the real things hidden here are far more terrifying and complicated than what the Supreme Ocean Palace knows!"
Jasmine’s words made Yun Che feel that the atmosphere of the entire Moon Slaughter Devil Cave had suddenly changed.
What could this thing be that is beyond Jasmine's level and that Jasmine calls "terrifying"?!
However, these were secondary to him. The first thing he had to do was to survive here, and then... he would do his utmost to obtain the Netherworld Udumbara Flower at all costs.
In the darkness, Yun Che sat down, calmed his mind and concentrated his soul, slowly running the Great Dao Fu Tu Jue, and then continued to speed up. Gradually, the fifty-four gates and all the pores on his body opened up, and strands of the purest and most refined energy of heaven and earth flowed into his body like a cool stream, turning into his strength and life force.
Above Yun Che's head, a small pale golden tower appeared dimly, spinning slowly.
In this world filled with dark forces, his vitality and profound strength were being rapidly deprived, and his soul was constantly under attack. But at the same time, the Great Buddha Technique also captured the far richer heaven and earth energy from the dark forces to quickly restore his vitality and profound strength... Gradually, as the golden tower rotated silently, erosion and recovery reached a delicate balance with ease.
Yun Che opened his eyes... Everything went even smoother than he had expected.
In this way, he could at least survive for a long time in this Moon-Slaying Demon Cave that everyone who knew about it would turn pale with fear.
Standing up, Yun Che waved his arm, and with a bang, the violent Golden Crow flames burned in his palm. The Golden Crow's blazing light tried its best to penetrate the extremely dense darkness, and barely illuminated a distance of about ten steps.
Yun Che raised his feet and slowly walked towards the depths of the Moon Slaughter Devil Cave. According to what Jasmine said just now, if the dark aura here was not absorbed by a certain existence and continued to accumulate, it could be completely destroyed... and it could easily destroy the Supreme Ocean Palace's so-called strongest sealing barrier in the entire continent. But the barrier has existed for a full ten thousand years, and there has never been any abnormality...
Could it be that the thing inside...deliberately kept it sealed like this! ?
Thinking of this, Yun Che suddenly felt a slight chill.
In the Moon Slaughter Devil Cave, even Jasmine’s spiritual perception was greatly restricted, let alone Yun Che. He kept approaching the depths, but apart from the endless darkness, he could not sense the existence of anything. If it weren’t for Jasmine’s reminder, he would not even know about the “living creature” that had been hiding in the dark.
The entrance to the Moon-Slaying Demon Cave was relatively narrow, but the further in, the wider it became. After the middle section, the height and width could no longer be sensed. As we approached the depths of the Demon Cave, the range of the Golden Crow Flame was drastically reduced. At this moment, the extremely strange purple light appeared again in front of us.
The netherworld purple light of the netherworld Udumbara flower!
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