Chapter 182 The little girl's 'human amulet'
Time passes by minute by minute.
Chu Xuanyi's expression gradually changed from solemnity at first to surprise, and then to disbelief.
After a long time, he slowly opened his eyes and let out a long breath.
"How is it?" Xiao Yu asked immediately.
"It's a calamity, but also a fate..."
"Your Highness, we...may have underestimated this girl."
"Get to the point."
"The point is," Chu Xuanyi's eyes flashed with astonishing brilliance, "Ajiu, she turned a disaster into a blessing! After this overdraft, her bloodline power not only did not dry up, but... it broke through and then rebuilt, breaking through the shackles that all the ancestors of the Lin family had been unable to break through, and stepped into a whole new realm!"
"A new realm?" Xiao Yu asked, "Then why is she in so much pain?"
"That's the problem!" Chu Xuanyi sighed. "Your Highness, imagine Ah Jiu right now as a baby who has just learned to walk, but suddenly possesses the power to kill a cow with one punch. Her soul is that baby, and the power of her bloodline is the immense force that she cannot control at all."
"Her 'Qi-Observation Technique' has now evolved. It's no longer simply 'seeing,' but a comprehensive 'perception.' She can hear, see, and feel the fundamental aura of all things in the world. However, her soul is still too weak, like a broken sieve, unable to filter out useless and chaotic information. Therefore, this information attacks her soul like a flood, causing her unbearable pain."
Xiao Yu understood.
He looked at Ajiu again, his eyes becoming extremely deep.
"This is a calamity, but also a great opportunity." Chu Xuanyi's tone became extremely serious. "If she can't make it, at best she will become insane and turn into a fool who can only cry and laugh. At worst... her soul will be overwhelmed and her body will explode and die."
Xuan Yi took a deep breath when he heard this and subconsciously glanced at the little girl who looked weak and harmless.
This is... too scary!
"But if..." Chu Xuanyi changed the subject, "If we can let her hold on and control this power, and reforge a 'sieve'... then her abilities will far exceed anything recorded in the observatory! She will become our strongest and most accurate weapon to fight against the Netherworld Energy and find the remnants of the Black Bone Tribe!"
A person who can "hear" and understand the sounds of all things!
Perhaps she could "hear" where the core of the Netherworld Heart is directly from that "Netherworld Wasteland"!
Perhaps she could accurately "hear" out the noises belonging to the Wugut tribe from the noisy "voices" of millions of people in the capital!
"What are you going to do?"
"try to find!"
"I must go back immediately! The library at the Observatory, as well as those rare ancient books I brought back from the Lin family's ancestral land, must contain records on how to temper the soul and enhance spiritual strength! I need time!"
"How long will it take?"
"I don't know." Chu Xuanyi shook his head. "It could be a day, or a month. But before that..."
His eyes fell on Xiao Yu, and a hint of "embarrassed" expression appeared on his face.
"Your Majesty, I'm afraid I have to inconvenience you."
Xiao Yu raised his eyebrows.
"Until I find a way, Jiu... I'm afraid I'll have to stay with you for a while."
"Only the extremely masculine and yang Ziwei Dragon Qi in you can, like a magic needle, suppress the raging energy in her body, isolating her from most of the noise, allowing her to barely maintain her sanity."
"So... could you please... temporarily serve as this girl's 'human amulet'?"
In the capital, in a damp, dark cellar that smells of stale mold.
"Bang--!"
A chipped coarse porcelain tea bowl was smashed hard to the ground and shattered into pieces.
"Xiao Yu! Xiao! Yu!"
Prince Yu Xiao Jing paced back and forth. His originally luxurious brocade robe was now stained with mud and blood, and was tattered, making him look like a down-and-out gambler.
"I will kill him! I will chop him into pieces and grind his bones into ashes!"
"Just a little bit! Just a little bit! I could have succeeded! It's all because of him! He ruined my good deeds!"
He roared at the top of his lungs, venting his anger at defeat.
In the other corner of the cellar, there was a skinny figure sitting cross-legged on a straw mat.
It was the elder of the Wugut tribe.
He seemed completely unaffected by the outside environment. He took out a piece of dry and hard biscuit from his arms and gnawed it slowly.
Hearing Prince Yu's roar, he didn't even bother to lift his eyelids.
"Your Majesty, I advise you to save your energy."
“Anger is the most useless thing in the world. It will only burn your brain, but it won’t burn your enemies to death.”
"Saving energy?!" Prince Yu turned abruptly, glaring at him. "My confidants, my influence, were all gone overnight! The capital is under martial law, and that bastard Xiao Yu is arresting people citywide! We're like rats in a gutter, we could be found and trampled to death at any moment! How can you expect me to stay calm?!"
He gasped, pointed at the elder and said angrily, "And you! Didn't you, the Wugu tribe, claim to be able to communicate with ghosts and gods and be omnipotent? What happened? The altar was destroyed! The Nether Heart went out of control! Even I almost died in it! Is this your 'infallible'?"
The elder finally finished the last bite of the cake and patted the crumbs on his hands.
He slowly raised his head, and a cold light flashed in his cloudy old eyes.
"Your Majesty, you seem to have made a mistake."
"The ceremony was not a complete failure."
Prince Yu was stunned. "What nonsense are you talking about? That ghost thing almost swallowed us all, and it hasn't failed yet?"
"Hehe..." The elder let out a deep laugh that sounded particularly eerie. "Your Highness, you only see the surface. Can't you feel it? The Heart of the Netherworld... it has awakened."
"It's no longer a fleeting legend, but a truly powerful source of power, possessing its own will, existing beneath the Western Suburbs Mine! Although it's now violent, chaotic, and uncontrollable, this saves us the most troublesome step—awakening it."
"We have released the ferocious beast that has been sleeping for a thousand years from its cage."
"What Xiao Yu has to face now is not just a few political enemies in the court, but a huge evil spirit beneath the earth veins of the entire capital that may erupt at any time!"
"From this perspective, Your Majesty, far from failing, we have actually...greatly accelerated our plan."
After listening to the clan elder's distorted analysis, Prince Yu's head, which was overwhelmed by anger, finally cooled down a little.
He thought about it carefully, and it seemed... that was the truth.
Xiao Yu's current troubles are indeed much bigger than his own.
"So what?" He was still unwilling to give in. "That thing can't distinguish friend from foe now. We can't even get close to it, let alone use it! By the time Xiao Yu resolves the court's troubles and has time to spare, we'll still be dead!"
"Who said we were going to get close to it?" the elder said slowly, "The previous method was indeed too crude."
"Using the flesh and blood and resentment of thousands of mortals is like trying to light a fire with a pile of wet wood. Smoke billows and the noise is overwhelming, but the core of the flame isn't pure or strong enough. Therefore, we can only barely 'fumigate' it, but we can't truly 'ignite' it, much less control its intensity."
"Plus..."
The image of the girl standing in the center of the altar, covered in blood, emerged in the elder's mind.
"Plus, a 'fire starter' of extremely high purity accidentally broke in, completely disrupting our control of the fire."
Prince Yu immediately reacted: "You mean... the little girl in the observatory?"
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