Yun Che turned around like lightning, and was shocked to see that Zi Ji, Xia Yuanba, and Feng Xue'er, who were staring at the purple light in the distance, all had dull faces and stunned eyes. Their pupils sometimes expanded and sometimes contracted, as if they had all lost their souls.
Yun Che was startled, and quickly rushed over to hug Feng Xue'er to his chest. At the same time, he blasted out with his left hand, and a wave of air blasted Xia Yuanba and Zi Ji far away. He shouted loudly: "Back off! Don't look at that purple light!!"
The three of them trembled all over at the same time, as if they had just woken up from a dream. Feng Xue'er immediately hugged Yun Che tightly, and buried her delicate head on his chest, not daring to look up again. Yun Che could clearly feel that her heartbeat was several times faster than usual. Zi Ji and Xia Yuanba stepped back even faster, with deep fear on their faces.
"This Netherworld Udumbara Flower is indeed worthy of its reputation... No! It is far more terrifying than the rumors say." Zi Jixin pressed his chest, his face turned blue, and his mind could not calm down for a long time. The purple light was at least thirty feet away, and it was so far away, but he could easily suffer this nightmare.
“There is actually such a terrifying thing in this world!” Xia Yuanba was still terrified: “Is it really just a flower?”
"What did you feel just now? Or what did you see?" Yun Che frowned and asked. He was also staring at the purple light just now, but apart from a vague feeling in front of his eyes, he did not feel any abnormality.
“Don’t worry about these things for now!” Zi Ji said in a deep voice. He leaned against the wall behind him and didn’t dare to look at the Netherworld Udumbara Flower. Even so, he vaguely felt as if a pair of devil’s eyes were staring at him from somewhere. His heartbeat was so wild that it almost seemed to explode at any time: “Yun Che! We only have a short period of a hundred breaths, and now almost half of it has passed! You are extremely lucky. You actually found this terrible Netherworld Udumbara Flower, and it is in an open state... Collect it as quickly as possible! If we can’t leave within a hundred breaths, we will be trapped here! And there is no way to survive!”
“I understand!” Yun Che nodded, and after pushing Feng Xue’er against the wall, he quickly warned her, “Xue’er, Yuanba, lean against the wall, and don’t look back. I will take down the Netherworld Udumbara Flower right away!”
“Brother Yun… be careful!” Feng Xue’er shouted without worry. She had heard rumors about the Netherworld Udumbara Flower from Yun Che many times before. But after just a short look at it, she realized that the horror of the Netherworld Udumbara Flower was far beyond her imagination.
"Don't worry, since I dare to come here, I must have a foolproof plan!"
As Yun Che spoke, he turned around the wall and walked a dozen steps towards the location of the Netherworld Udumbara Flower. He then stopped and was about to call Jasmine to pick the Netherworld Udumbara Flower, but he heard Jasmine sternly say, “Didn’t you hear what I just said? Leave here immediately! Don’t bother with the Netherworld Udumbara Flower anymore!”
Yun Che was stunned: "But..."
“No buts!” Jasmine’s voice was deeper than ever before. “Didn’t you notice that even though the Netherworld Udumbara flower has bloomed, it’s not completely open!”
Yun Che was stunned. He looked up at the flickering purple light.
In the extreme darkness, the full view of the Netherworld Udumbara Flower was extremely clear, as if it was right in front of us. It was about ten feet tall, with purple-black stems and leaves. In the dreamy bright purple light, a demon flower bloomed alone, and each petal was like a flowing purple jade, but the bud was slightly closed and the petals were slightly curled. Although it was already extremely beautiful, it had not yet fully bloomed.
The Moon-Slaying Demon Cave was completely silent, without a single breeze. However, the half-bloomed demon flowers were swaying slowly, emitting a faint purple mist that seemed to come from the underworld. From time to time, they emitted terrifying sounds that sounded like crying or laughing, so eerie that it could make one's soul tremble.
Just as Jasmine said, it didn't fully bloom!
But based on Yun Che's understanding of vegetation, although this Netherworld Udumbara flower is not fully bloomed, its shape has already blossomed more than 70%! Perhaps in a few days, or even a few hours, it will be fully bloomed!
At this moment, the purple light in Yun Che’s sight suddenly flickered, and the scene in front of him suddenly blurred, turning into a completely purple color.
The endless purple world was like stepping into a fairyland in a dream, which made him intoxicated. All the tension, caution, and anxiety in his soul... all the emotions and feelings completely disappeared, and the whole person became extremely relaxed, even his body became as light as a feather, making him want to fly lightly, fly to a deeper purple world, until he completely merged with the whole dreamlike world...
The haze lasted only for a split second before Yun Che suddenly came back to his senses. The purple world before his eyes instantly fell apart, transforming into a pitch-black world with only a hint of strange purple light remaining.
Such a terrible soul erosion... Yun Che's forehead was covered with sweat, and he was horrified. At a distance of nearly thirty feet, the Netherworld Udumbara Flower, which had not yet fully bloomed, actually caused him, who had the soul of the Dragon God, to temporarily lose his soul!
If you get closer, you can’t even imagine it!
Jasmine had said that if he came within ten feet, he would be in great pain, and within five feet, he would be seeking death... He was now certain that it was not an exaggeration.
“Although it hasn’t fully blossomed, it’s also about 70% to 80% open! Could it be that the effect is very different from fully blossoming?” Yun Che turned his gaze to the side and asked in a low voice.
“There is a world of difference!” Jasmine said sternly, “Only the fully bloomed Netherworld Udumbara Flower can allow my soul to merge perfectly with my reshaped body. The power level of the Netherworld Udumbara Flower that has not fully blossomed is not enough. Even if I pick ten thousand of them, it is impossible to achieve a perfect fusion. If I force the fusion, I will be like Fen Juechen now. I will suffer all the time because of the rejection of my body, power, and soul, and I will die in just a few years!”
Yun Che: “…”
“No…” Yun Che clenched his hands, gritted his teeth, and looked unwilling: “We finally found the trace of the Netherworld Udumbara Flower… It is right in front of us now, and it is only a little bit away from fully blooming…”
"If you miss it, it will take a full twenty-four years for it to open again... and this Moon-Slaying Devil Cave can only be entered after five hundred years..."
How could he let go of the Netherworld Udumbara Flower that he had spent seven whole years to find!
“Yun Che, listen carefully!” Jasmine said calmly, “I want to get a complete Netherworld Udumbara Flower more than anyone else! However, don’t say that the Netherworld Udumbara Flower is not fully bloomed. Even if it is fully bloomed, we can’t get it at all! What you have to do now is to leave here as quickly as possible!”
“…Why?” Yun Che asked in confusion, while his body showed no sign of wanting to return… He could hear the unwillingness in Jasmine’s voice, and he was equally unwilling!
"The horror of this place is far beyond your imagination! The dark aura here is weak, but the level is so high that even I have never seen it before. If I were a complete body and soul, the dark aura here would not affect me at all. However, now I only have a soul body without the support of a body. Facing the residual devouring of this level of dark power, I have no power to resist at all! If I show my soul body here, I will suffer heavy damage in a short period of time, and even my soul source will be greatly damaged!"
Yun Che: “…”
"My soul has been corroded by the devil poison for several years. Although it is now completely free of the devil poison, it is still several times weaker than in its complete state! Only after rebuilding the body can it slowly recover. And if my soul in its current state is devoured by the dark power again... the consequence will be that it will never be able to recover! It may even dissipate!!"
Every word Jasmine said was extremely solemn, and Yun Che was completely stunned.
“So, even if it was a fully blossomed Netherworld Udumbara Flower, I would not be able to show up to pick it, and it is even more impossible for you.” Jasmine’s voice became heavier, “Not a single word of what I said is an exaggeration! To be able to continuously release such a dark aura for ten thousand years, somewhere in this Moon Slaughter Devil Cave, there must be something so terrifying that it far exceeds your cognition! Even now, even in the Sky Poison Pearl, I feel a chill I have never felt before. Even my spiritual perception has been suppressed to the point where I can only…”
Jasmine’s voice suddenly stopped, which also made Yun Che’s heart tremble. At this time, Jasmine suddenly shouted: “Hurry up! There is a living creature hiding right above the Netherworld Udumbara Flower... Its sights are on you, leave now!!”
“What?” Yun Che was startled and subconsciously raised his head to look at the cave ceiling directly above the Netherworld Udumbara Flower, but he could only see a dark patch.
At this moment, Zi Ji’s roar also sounded from behind him: “Yun Che! What are you doing! There are less than thirty breaths left. If you don’t leave now, it will be too late!”
Yun Che no longer had time to hesitate, and quickly stood up and turned back, shouting at the same time: “Let’s go!”
“But, that Netherworld Udumbara Flower…” Xia Yuanba hesitated for a moment, because the purple light was still there, which meant that Yun Che did not pick the Netherworld Udumbara Flower.
“Don’t worry about these things for now, let’s go!!” Yun Che pushed Xia Yuanba far away with one palm, held Feng Xue’er’s hand tightly, and with the help of the Phoenix flames, he walked towards the exit of the demon cave as fast as possible.
"Did that 'monster' catch up with us?" Yun Che asked anxiously. As he had just walked from the entrance to the depths, he was still familiar with the path, so his speed of returning was much faster than when he came.
"Not really." Jasmine responded.
“…” Yun Che breathed a sigh of relief and thought to himself: Could it be that the living creature hidden in this Moon-Slaying Devil Cave is the legendary Moon-Slaying Devil Lord?
But, didn't the Moon Slaughter Devil Lord die more than 6,000 years ago? It was impossible for a Tyrant Mystic Beast to survive from ten thousand years ago to the present!
Furthermore, Jasmine’s hurried tone also indicated that the monster hiding in the darkness must be so powerful that he could not contend with it… and it was even less likely to be the Moon Slaughtering Devil Lord who was only at the Tyrant Profound Realm.
What on earth!?
“What kind of monster is that? Have you found out its strength level?” Yun Che asked.
“Its body is much larger than a human. As for its strength… it’s roughly at the sixth level of the Sovereign Profound Realm! This assumes that my spiritual perception hasn’t deviated from being suppressed!” Jasmine’s words were somewhat hesitant.
The sixth level of the Sovereign Profound Realm… Yun Che’s pace was increasing, and a complex light flashed in his eyes.
“There are still ten breaths left. Don’t worry, we’ll definitely make it.” Zi Ji’s voice eased a little, but he was still afraid… He had previously told the Sea King that he would force Yun Che out when the time was up to fifty breaths, but he had never expected that it would drag on until such a dangerous situation. If they hadn’t been able to leave within a hundred breaths, the four of them would all have died here.
“It’s just that my brother-in-law didn’t get the Netherworld Udumbara Flower.” Xia Yuanba said somewhat frustratedly.
“This can be said to be a matter of course. Given the terrifying nature of the Netherworld Udumbara Flower, even if the Four Saint Lords joined forces, there is absolutely no way they could pick it alive.” Zi Ji sighed. Although Yun Che’s purpose on this trip was not achieved, the Ocean Palace’s promise to Yun Che was fulfilled.
With only a few breaths left before the gap in the barrier closed, a dim light finally appeared before his eyes.
"We're at the exit, get out quickly!" Zi Ji, who was at the front, shouted softly, and his figure flashed and he rushed out in an instant.
“Brother-in-law, hurry!” Xia Yuanba followed closely behind Zi Ji. As his body passed through the barrier exit, he turned around anxiously and looked back, fearing that Yun Che would be a little slower.
The exit is right in front of you. After leaving, it will take at least five hundred years to enter again.
Moreover, even if I come in again five hundred years later, I may not be able to see the Netherworld Udumbara Flower like I do today.
Yun Che slowed down his pace, and with both hands he supported Feng Xue’er’s shoulders and pushed her hard, pushing her far out of the barrier gap. However, he himself stopped in front of the exit.
“Yun Che! What are you doing… Get out right now!” Jasmine guessed his intention at once, and her little face immediately turned pale with horror.
“Brother-in-law!!”
“Brother Yun!!”
After a moment, Yun Che still did not come out of the gap in the barrier. Xia Yuanba and Feng Xue'er realized something was wrong at the same time. Xia Yuanba's face changed drastically, and Feng Xue'er's face turned pale. The two of them rushed towards the gap in the barrier at the same time.
“Don’t worry about me!” Yun Che roared, and with all his strength, he pushed his arms towards the exit of the barrier, knocking Xia Yuanba and Feng Xue’er, who had just approached and were caught off guard, away by a hundred feet.
"I have to wait until the Netherworld Udumbara Flower fully blooms, so I have to stay inside for a few days... You don't have to worry about me. Don't forget, I have the 'Xuanzhou'!"
“Brother Yun…don’t!!” Feng Xue’er’s crying voice could be heard from outside the barrier.
“Go!!!” Jasmine’s anxious and even angry voice shook Yun Che’s heart and soul. “The laws of space here have long been distorted by the dark aura. Even the Primordial Profound Ark…”
Hiss!!!
With a thunderous roar, the gap in the barrier that had been open for a hundred breaths completely closed in an instant. The entire barrier was flowing with blue light, and it was seamless. Not to mention a gap, there was not even a tiny crack. The inside and the outside were divided into two completely isolated worlds.
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