diskusbooks Chapter 1913 Are you going on an adventure?
Chapter 1913 Are you going on an adventure?
Lingxu Zhenren walked to the projection and looked at the void. "I had a few encounters with Yueyao in the Holy Domain in my early years. Her most terrifying aspect has never been her cultivation or her methods."
"She knows too well what she wants."
"And he never deviates from his goals because of any emotions."
He paused, then looked at Mingchuan:
"She retreated just now not because she was afraid of this ruin, nor because she was afraid of you or me. It's because she calculated that if she launched a full-scale attack now, even if she captured Wan Chuan Sect, she would have to pay an unbearable price."
"But she didn't think she should take the fall for the Silent Zen Temple."
Upon hearing this, Mingchuan immediately chimed in: "So, by the next time she comes, she must have already found a way to deal with this ruin."
Master Lingxu nodded slowly.
"So what we've secured now isn't security."
"It's time."
Mingchuan exchanged a glance with him but said nothing more.
He turned to Chu Huai:
"How long can the energy of the Profound Water Abyss last?"
Chu Huai closed his eyes and sensed for a moment, and the blue light flowed around the Cangming mark between his brows.
"If we maintain the current minimum energy consumption, keeping only the core main hall running and the outer perimeter under basic guard, we can probably sustain it for seven days."
"Seven days later, the energy will be completely depleted, and the ruins will lose all active functions, leaving only the passive defensive material itself."
Seven days.
Mingchuan was silent for a moment, then asked:
"Is there any way to replenish energy from the outside? Spirit stones? Spirit veins? Or something else that can be converted and utilized by the ruins?"
Chu Huai searched for the inheritance information, and nodded after a moment:
"Yes, but the requirements are very high."
"The core energy system of Xuan Shui Yuan was designed to operate independently for a long time. It has extremely high conversion efficiency, but it is also extremely picky. The energy of ordinary spirit stones is too impure, and forcibly injecting it will pollute the core array base."
"There are only three types that can be used: high-purity star core fragments, innate water-based spiritual veins, or energy resonance transmission from other gatekeeper relics."
After he finished speaking, he fell silent.
Which of these three things can they obtain right now?
Star core fragments? The Seventh Observatory has them, but they are far away in the depths of the Chaotic Void Sea, and the few that Ye Yan brought back were already used up in the space jump just now.
Innate water-based spiritual veins?
Spiritual realms do exist, but they are all located deep within the ancestral lands of various sects. Unearthing them would be tantamount to severing one's own foundation.
The energy resonance of the other gatekeeper ruins... well, let's not even talk about that, they don't even know where the other gatekeepers are.
The atmosphere inside the main hall became heavy once again.
At that moment, a voice suddenly rang out:
“That…Chu Huai.”
Everyone turned their heads and saw Ah Xiong had already gotten up from the ground, scratching his head. "You just said that Senior Cangming threw three Void Beasts into that... Ruins of Returning to the Void Erosion Residue Zone 70,000 years ago?"
Chu Huai was taken aback: "Yes."
"What happened to those three giant beasts afterward? Did they really never come out again?"
“There are no further records in the inherited information.” Chu Huai paused, “But since the coordinates are marked ‘extremely dangerous, no way out,’ it’s highly likely that they perished.”
"Oh." Ah Xiong nodded, then scratched his head. "Before they died, did they still carry Senior Cangming's Xuan Shui power? Or some other kind of energy?"
Chu Huai's pupils contracted slightly.
He understood what Ah Xiong wanted to say.
"what do you mean……"
"I didn't mean to go find those three giant beasts, that would be suicide!" Ah Xiong quickly waved his hand. "I mean, since that Ruins of Return could kill three Void Beasts at the peak of the Nascent Soul stage, it means that the energy environment there is deadly to them."
"But on the other hand, isn't the energy in that place actually nourishment for Senior Cangming?"
"Those three giant beasts went in with the power of the Xuan Water and died inside. Did their remains, along with the residual power of the Xuan Water, also remain there?"
"What if... I mean, just in case, maybe there's still some energy left that this ruin can recover?"
After Ah Xiong finished speaking, he realized how outrageous it was and shut up in embarrassment.
But Chu Huai did not laugh at him.
He stood there, stunned, the blue light between his eyebrows flickering.
After a long silence, he whispered:
"...It's possible."
Everyone turned to look at him.
Chu Huai raised his head, his eyes filled with complex emotions:
"Among the information left by the senior Cangming, there is a very short annotation about that area of erosion remnants from the Ruins of Return."
"What he wrote was: The Way of Xuanshui does not coexist with Guixu, but it can endure on the banks of Guixu."
"I never understood the meaning of that sentence."
He paused, his voice somewhat hoarse:
"But if Ah Xiong's guess is correct, that remaining area may not be a simple dead zone."
"It is... the last well left behind by Senior Cangming."
Mingchuan stared at Chu Huai, his eyes sharp:
"You want to go?"
Chu Huai remained silent.
He did not answer immediately.
But the blue light emanating from the Cangming mark between his brows had never been so stable.
After a long while, he slowly raised his head and met Mingchuan's gaze.
Those eyes, which once held the weight of a vast ocean, were now calm and undisturbed, yet so deep they seemed to devour all light.
"I want to go."
He spoke, his voice not loud, but as clear as water dripping onto a stone.
Ah Xiong gasped, instinctively wanting to say something, but then swallowed back his words.
Ye Chuhan frowned, Lin Ruowei clenched her fingers slightly, and Mu Yaoyao bit her lower lip; none of them spoke.
Mingchuan stared at Chu Huai and said, enunciating each word clearly, "Do you know what kind of place that is?"
"The remnants of the Ruins erosion," Chu Huai said calmly.
“Extremely dangerous, there is no way out once you go in. The three void beasts that Senior Cangming personally sent in never came out again.”
“You know,” Mingchuan nodded. “Then tell me, why do you still want to go?”
Chu Huai remained silent for a few moments.
He then raised his hand and pointed to the coordinates in the projection that had been marked as extremely dangerous.
"Because this is the last well in the Xuan Shui Yuan."
"Senior Cangming guarded it for 70,000 years. During those 70,000 years, he couldn't possibly not have thought about what would happen if the energy were to run out one day. He also couldn't possibly not know that this ruin would one day welcome a new master, and that master would most likely not have the foundation and strength that he had back then."
"But he still left behind this relic, the Cangming Token, and the legacy."
Chu Huai looked at Ming Chuan, his eyes clear and firm:
"He won't just leave us with a dead end."
"That saying, 'The Way of Xuan Shui does not coexist with the Ruins of Return, but it can endure on the shores of the Ruins of Return,' I saw it when I received the inheritance. I didn't understand it then, but now... I think I understand it a little."
"The Ruins of Return to the Void Erosion Remnant Zone is the edge area where the power of the Ruins of Return to the Void collides, tugs at each other, and consumes each other. The energy there is extremely chaotic, extremely dangerous, but also extremely special."
“Ordinary cultivators who go in will surely die. Even void beasts that go in won’t come out. But if someone can withstand the whispers of the Void, and can guard their own path amidst the chaos…”
He paused, his voice lowering:
"That place is probably the place with the most concentrated Xuan Shui power in the entire universe."