It turns out that this luminous pearl is an ancient divine pearl with supreme magical power. It was passed down by the founding ancestor of the female protagonist's sect and has existed for tens of thousands of years.
After absorbing its energy, Dao Nian transformed into human form. She wanted to rekindle her past relationship with Zhou Cong, but the male and female protagonists had already fallen in love during their tomb raiding. Moreover, the female protagonist sensed the demonic aura emanating from her and concluded that she was not human. Not only that, the female protagonist also sensed the aura of the luminous pearl on her and concluded that she was the thief who stole the luminous pearl.
This led to several conflicts between the two women, culminating in a physical fight during a tomb raiding expedition. In a fit of anger, Zhou Cong expelled Dao Nian from his team and declared that he would never take her on any future missions.
However, Dao Nian was very persistent in her feelings for Zhou Cong. Even when she was prevented from participating, she would secretly follow him. During another tomb raiding expedition, Zhou Cong and the others triggered a mechanism, and a large amount of sulfuric acid appeared in the ancient tomb. In order to save the male protagonist, Dao Nian pushed him away, but she herself was sprayed with sulfuric acid.
Her metallic body was inherently most vulnerable to sulfuric acid. The sulfuric acid was extremely concentrated and produced in enormous quantities; when it was sprayed onto the original owner's body, it forced her to reveal her true form and then completely submerged her.
She turned into liquid, and her soul disappeared without a trace.
After being pushed away by her, the male protagonist was pulled out of the tomb by the female protagonist.
Dao Nian's death was the path she chose herself, and she had no one to blame but herself for. However, what she couldn't accept was that Zhou Cong was indeed the reincarnation of her first master, and that his original body and soul were those of her true first master.
However, he was later transported to another world by the male protagonist.
That's right, this is a male protagonist transmigration novel, and every woman in the novel falls in love with the male protagonist. The male protagonist is a top-tier immortal lord in the immortal realm, whose cultivation far surpasses that of the first master of Dao Nian.
However, he was not fortunate enough to be reincarnated. Because of the collapse of the Immortal Realm, his immortal body was destroyed. Furthermore, the collapse of the Immortal Realm caused a spacetime rift to appear. This immortal lord's soul happened to travel to the future world and enter the body of the first master of the Blade Spirit.
He devoured Zhou Cong's original soul, acquired Zhou Cong's memories, and took over Zhou Cong's body.
The one who bought the knife was Zhou Cong, the owner of Dao Nian. It was also Zhou Cong who initially spent several years with Dao Nian, constantly nagging and keeping it company.
However, although Yuan Zhoucong was an expert, he did not like tomb raiding. In his view, this not only brought endless danger to the living, but also disrespected the dead. Of course, normal scientific research and archaeological activities were an exception.
However, in later tomb raids, the female lead was encountered again, but this time it was the time-traveling male lead.
Dao Nian just couldn't accept that the one she had pursued for so long, and who had sacrificed himself to save her, was not the real Zhou Cong, but a fake Zhou Cong who had devoured the real Zhou Cong's soul. How could she swallow this insult?
She hoped to avenge her master and bring back the real Zhou Cong, preventing the guy who had taken over someone else's body and devoured the original owner's soul from continuing to be a winner in life.
Chu Nian's time travel was probably just before the earthquake. At that time, Dao Nian had not yet fused with the energy of the Night-Shining Pearl and could not yet take human form. Therefore, when Chu Nian traveled over, she could only maintain the blade, because the fusion energy of the blade was still very limited. She could not inject the energy she brought with her into the blade to make it take form.
However, the earthquake had already begun.
This wasn't a large-scale earthquake, but the tremors were enough to cause the luminous pearl to roll off its display stand and the sword to fall from its rack. In the original story, because the luminous pearl was round, it tumbled after landing and only stopped when it hit the blade.
However, this time, because Chu Nian had traveled through time, she moved the blade with her mind out of curiosity, and the blade fell to the ground first. So after the earthquake, although the bead rolled over here as in the original drama, the blade didn't fall because of the earthquake, so its position deviated from the plot, and the luminous bead didn't roll onto Chu Nian.
Chu Nian was a little annoyed. Did she really have to use magic to pull over a broken bead? The main problem was that the original owner's blade couldn't be integrated with her magical energy for the time being, so she couldn't retrieve things remotely. What was a freebie for the original owner was now a huge struggle for her.
She could only try to move the blade again: Clang! Clang! Clang!
After several jumps, she finally got close to the bead, but unexpectedly, the blade only lightly touched the bead on her last jump, and the bead rolled away again.
"That broken knife has no good intentions towards us."
"I noticed that too."
"It must have its eyes on the energy within us and wants to drain us."
"We'd better stay far away."
“I felt like I almost ran into that broken knife just now. There’s an energy in that broken knife, did you guys feel it? It’s the kind of energy that can absorb us.”
“Demon energy. I can sense it too, so we need to stay far away.”
...
"What the heck is this?" Chu Nian was a little confused. How come she felt that there were two guys inside the luminous pearl communicating with each other using brainwaves?
This method of communication belongs to extraterrestrials. Could it be that this so-called luminous pearl is actually an alien relic?
Chu Nian then tried to release her brainwaves to communicate with them.
"Have you noticed that the knife seems to be trying to communicate with us?"
"Don't pay any attention to her, lest she find a chance to devour our energy."
"Thank goodness my shell is hard enough, otherwise I would have been smashed to pieces after falling, and that broken knife would have absorbed all my energy."
"We should still think of a way to escape and get away from that broken knife."
"Yeah, I always felt that broken knife was eyeing us."
...
And so, the luminous pearl began to roll again.
Chu Nian was a little confused: Are there two or three in there?
She had secretly contacted the aliens, including Tuoba Hongyuan, inside the spatial artifact, asking them to help identify whether the luminous pearl was an alien relic.
Unfortunately, after looking at it for a long time, they could only come up with one guess: that thing might be the egg of some kind of creature.
As for what kind of creature it was, they couldn't say for sure, since the interstellar world they lived in was quite different from this place in terms of both time and space.
The luminous pearl had already rolled to the doorway; it was really going to escape from prison. Chu Nian used all her strength and it landed with a thud at the doorway, standing there. If the pearl continued to roll, it would only crash into the knife.
"This damn knife is determined to make trouble for us."
"What do we do? We can't use magic yet, are we really going to be devoured by it? I don't want to! Waaah..."
"I don't want to be swallowed either, boohoo..."
For a moment, Chu Nian felt a bunch of brainwaves that were manifesting as loud crying.
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