"Who are you? Where are you?"
Yun Che stopped, turned around and looked around, then shouted. The voice just now was so close that it seemed to be right next to his ear.
Half an hour before the aura of the Ancient Profound Ark appeared, the space would experience increasingly strong vibrations. At the moment, the space of the Ancient Profound Ark was completely quiet, so Yun Che naturally did not need to leave in a hurry. Over the past six months, he had been trying to figure out where the voice that kept ringing and was clearly directed at him came from.
As usual, after he shouted, he received no response for a long time.
Yun Che began to scan the surroundings… He had heard it clearly just now, and the source of the sound was very close to him. Real sound would attenuate with distance, and the same was true for soul transmission. He was almost certain that the source of the sound was less than ten steps away from him.
Yun Che walked slowly to the middle of the platform, scanning every corner with his eyes. At this moment, a slight red light flashed across his eyes, and his eyes were fixed on the end of the platform against the wall. Yun Che had discovered this red light on the first day of entering the Primordial Profound Ark, and also found its source. However, since he had no ability to blast the floor tiles at that time, although he was curious and amazed by the red light, and vaguely felt that there seemed to be a hidden space below, he was powerless to explore it.
Yun Che walked over and stood at the position he had found at the beginning. He leaned down and saw a faint red light flickering out from the ground through the tiny crack under his feet, appearing and disappearing from time to time.
Yun Che pondered for a moment, then gathered his profound energy in his hand and punched the stone slab under his feet.
BANG!!
Yun Che's fist bounced up, and the feedback and sound proved that the stone slab didn't seem to be thick... at least it was much thinner than the stone door that he had spent half a year to blast open. He no longer hesitated, sat down, and concentrated his mind. In his left hand, Frozen End, in his right hand, Phoenix Flame... For the entire six months, he had spent more than 80% of his time repeating the fusion process, so the guidance and control of the power throughout the process was already handy.
Not long after, Icy End and Phoenix Flame merged into a slightly swaying ice-blue flame in Yun Che’s hand. As Yun Che’s palm turned over, the icy flame lightly landed on the stone slab below.
What surprised Yun Che was that the stone slab under his feet was much thinner than he had expected, almost as thick as a piece of paper. After the ice flame fell, the stone slab was like a piece of ice that was quickly melted and quickly disappeared in the ice flame. The ice flame spread to the surroundings and destroyed the stone slab until a nearly one-foot wide circular gap was created before it was completely extinguished.
Looking through the gap created by the icy flames, Yun Che saw that there was indeed a hidden space below, with red light flickering and swaying in the space.
What's down there?
Could it be that the sound came from the space below?
The one-foot-wide gap was barely enough for Yun Che to jump in.
After Yun Che hesitated for a long time, he finally moved forward and jumped down from the gap.
The space hidden under the platform was not very high. Yun Che only jumped down a distance of less than two feet before his feet touched the cold, hard, and flat ground. There was no dangerous aura around him, but Yun Che's nerves were still tense. He raised his eyes and looked forward.
This space was not big, only about ten feet long and wide. It was empty and spotless inside, except for a red ball of light standing on the ground in the very center of the space.
This ball of light was about as tall as Yun Che's body, and was in the shape of a standard circle. The red light it emitted was sometimes strong and sometimes weak, but overall it was relatively gentle and did not carry any aggressive aura.
This is……
Yun Che walked over and stood in front of the ball of light. Although the red light was not strong, it was very dense, so Yun Che could not see into the ball of light at all, but his intuition told him that there seemed to be something wrapped in this red ball of light.
What is this?
The ancient mysterious ark must have existed for a very long time. In Jasmine's words, it was "so long that you can't imagine". After such a long time, this ball of light was still emitting red light, which showed how extraordinary it was.
Yun Che stretched out his arm and tentatively reached out to the ball of light.
“Don’t touch it!”
Jasmine’s voice rang out in his mind, causing Yun Che’s movements to suddenly stagnate. He abruptly retracted his arm, and his body quickly retreated as if he had been electrocuted.
"Humph, you dare to reach out and touch it without understanding the situation. Do you want to die?" Jasmine said coldly.
“What exactly is this ball of light?” Yun Che asked. The ball of light that had not extinguished for countless years must have contained a power so strong that he could not understand it. He tried to reach out and touch it, but it was indeed a bit rash.
“This is not a ball of light, but an extremely strong protective barrier,” Jasmine said carefully. “It may not look aggressive, but if you dare to touch it, it will immediately counterattack… Even the most basic counterattack is enough to kill you tens of thousands of times!”
Being described by Jasmine as "extremely strong", one can imagine how terrifying this red ball of light is. Jasmine's words "its lowest counterattack is enough to kill you tens of thousands of times" are not alarmist. Yun Che's heart skipped a beat, and he took another step back.
"You...finally...came..."
A voice as ethereal as smoke slowly rang out in this underground space. This time, it was no longer a soul transmission, but a clear, incomparably real female voice. Not only Yun Che heard it, but even Jasmine could hear it clearly.
This voice was much closer than before, as if it came from right in front of him. Yun Che quickly turned his head to look around and asked cautiously, "Who are you?"
As soon as Yun Che’s voice fell, a dim white shadow suddenly slowly appeared beside the red light… This was the figure of a woman, dressed in white, a short stature, half-white hair, and a slightly hunched body, proving that she should be an old person who had already entered her old age.
“You… who are you?” Yun Che was stunned for a moment, and spoke subconsciously. The figure of the old man in front of him was very blurry, as blurry as a wisp of floating white smoke, which seemed to be blown away by a breeze.
On the first day of entering the Primordial Profound Ark, Jasmine had told him that the person who summoned him was most likely a soul… a soul like Jasmine’s. However, if one looked at Jasmine’s soul, it was no different from a real girl. And because it was attached to his life, he could still feel her existence, just like touching a normal body. But the soul before him was vague and ethereal, like a candle in the wind.
"I am a guardian... a guardian of my little master..." The old woman spoke in a faint and old voice. It took her a long time to send a telepathic message, but she seemed to have no problem sending a telepathic message face to face: "I have been looking for you... I have been looking for you... for a long time... for a long time..."
“You…are looking for…me?” Yun Che pointed at himself, then glanced at his left hand and said, “Are you looking for…the Sky Poison Pearl?”
"That's right... I drove the Xuanzhou... across one space after another... just to find the Sky Poison Pearl..."
“Wait!” Yun Che’s face showed surprise: “The profound ark you are talking about is the huge profound ark I am in now? Is it controlled by you?”
"At the beginning... it was indeed under my control... but... at that time, I was also poisoned... every breath was destroying my life and soul... in order to retain the consciousness to protect the young master... I gave up my body and 80% of my soul... only a wisp of residual soul remained... and I was no longer able to control the Xuanzhou... the Xuanzhou followed the memory imprint I left at the beginning... constantly shuttled through a fixed space... over and over again... a cycle of three hundred years... the power of the Xuanzhou... has also been constantly depleted... today... its power... is also close to exhaustion..."
"Fortunately, God has mercy on me... At the end of my remaining soul... At the end of the destruction of the Xuanzhou... I finally waited for you..."
Yun Che opened his mouth slightly, quickly digesting the old man's gentle and yet shocking words. This huge Xuanzhou was actually controlled by someone... The old man in front of him was actually able to control such an amazing Xuanzhou before! And the Xuanzhou appeared in the Tianxuan Continent for a fixed three hundred years, and shuttled through fixed spaces for a fixed three hundred years... Was it also because of this old man?
“‘The end of the remnant soul’ is indeed correct.” Jasmine’s voice was filled with a hint of pity: “This remnant soul will soon dissipate… It won’t take more than a hundred breaths! Being able to find the person you have been looking for in the last hundred breaths before the remnant soul disappears… It seems that there is no need for pity.”
Within a hundred breaths? Yun Che's heart suddenly moved. He looked at the misty figure of the old man and asked, "Who are you? Why are you looking for the Sky Poison Pearl... What can I do for you?"
The old woman did not sense any ill feelings from Yun Che, which was what comforted her the most. She said slowly: "I am just a guardian... my little master... my race... has long been forgotten by the world... no need to mention it again... my little master... she has a terrible magic poison in her body... in the chaos... only the Sky Poison Pearl can cure it... in order to prevent the magic poison from spreading... my little master was sealed in the 'Axis of Eternity'..."
"The Eternal Nexus?"
The old man's voice became increasingly ethereal. "The primordial chaos... the gods and demons fought fiercely... the sky was overturned... the gods wept bitterly... I took the young master and drove the profound boat to escape... the 'Eternal Pivot' sealed the young master's body and soul... and made her aura disappear in the primordial chaos... thus allowing her to escape the catastrophe... as long as the Sky Poison Pearl purifies the demonic poison in her body... she can wake up again... I have suffered all my life, but in the end, I can reap the rewards..."
Demonic poison... Demonic poison!? The two words from the old man made Jasmine's breath in the Sky Poison Pearl slightly disordered... because she was also poisoned by a kind of demonic poison. Moreover, it was the most terrible of all demonic poisons - the God-killing and Sorrowful Poison! Only the Sky Poison Pearl could purify and eliminate it.
The old woman's voice became softer and softer, and the content of her speech began to sound a little confusing. She didn't want to reveal her and the "young master's" identities and origins, but she seemed to be involuntarily recounting past scenes and fragments. Her figure, which was already as thin as mist, became even thinner at this moment.
She was a guardian. For the sake of longer protection, she was willing to give up her body and 80% of her soul... She kept guarding until the last moment when her remaining soul was about to completely dissipate. Yun Che could not help but be moved. He glanced at the red ball of light and said, "Is your 'little master' being protected in this ball of light? The Sky Poison Pearl is indeed on my body. If it can really save your 'little master' and will not cause any harm to me personally, I will try my best."
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