Chapter 765 - 764: Beneath the Ice and Fire Yin Yang Eye, A Whole New World
Chapter 765: Chapter 764: Beneath the Ice and Fire Yin Yang Eye, A Whole New World
Chu Sheng had thought it would at most absorb some of the Five Elements Law from the Ice and Fire Yin Yang Eye.
But as the system’s notifications began to ring out in its mind like a string of firecrackers, it finally understood that it had greatly underestimated the value of Heavenly and Earthly Treasures.
[Ding! Congratulations, Host, for absorbing 200 points of Divine Blood. Estimated digestion time: eight minutes. Estimated Divine Essence gain: 20 points.]
[Ding! Congratulations, Host, for absorbing 200 points of Divine Soul.]
[Ding! Detected a large amount of the Power of the Five Elements Law. Now automatically comprehending...]
[Ding! Detected a large amount of the Power of the Law of Life. Now automatically comprehending...]
[Ding! Congratulations, Host, for absorbing 1000 points of Essence of Origin.]
[...]
The notifications continued for a full three minutes before finally fading away.
"Awesome!!!"
Chu Sheng burped contentedly and flew out of the Ice and Fire Yin Yang Eye.
As it left, the red and blue waters of the Ice and Fire Yin Yang Eye turned completely turbid and dim.
It resembled a pool of stagnant water, having lost all its luster and energy fluctuations.
It would be impossible for the Ice and Fire Yin Yang Eye to regain its vitality by absorbing the earth’s essence in anything less than a hundred thousand years.
Gu Yuexi saw that Chu Sheng was finished and looked away.
"Let’s go."
With that said, she turned to leave the Land of Burial.
But Chu Sheng stopped her.
"What’s the rush?"
Gu Yuexi stopped and turned her head, looking at Chu Sheng in confusion.
"This is the end of the Land of Burial. There are no other treasures. Why are we still here?"
In her Perception, this cavern was the deepest part of the Land of Burial.
"Heh heh."
Chu Sheng laughed mysteriously.
"Who told you this was the end of the Land of Burial?"
Gu Yuexi froze, confused.
She had just carefully scanned the entire cavern with her Divine Thought, even probing the cracks in the stone walls.
Other than the Heat Wave Passage and the Ice Passage they had entered through, there was no third passage, nor were there any hidden chambers.
But she understood Chu Sheng’s personality; it never made baseless claims.
Since it said so, it must have its reasons.
Gu Yuexi didn’t press the matter, just watched Chu Sheng calmly, waiting for an explanation.
Chu Sheng extended a foreleg, pointing to the withered Ice and Fire Yin Yang Eye below.
"As a naturally formed, support-type Heavenly and Earthly Treasure, can the Ice and Fire Yin Yang Eye attract Guardian Beasts?"
Gu Yuexi shook her head.
"Unless the Ice and Fire Yin Yang Eye is nurturing another Heavenly and Earthly Treasure, it holds no attraction for any Demon Beast."
Chu Sheng pointed to the Cold Ice Passage and the Heat Wave Passage and continued.
"Before the little boy put the Frost Bone Dragon in, the Cold Ice Passage had a Guardian Beast."
"It was just killed by the little boy."
"So, it’s clear that before the little boy arrived, both the Cold Ice Passage and the Heat Wave Passage had Guardian Beasts protecting the Ice and Fire Yin Yang Eye."
"This was obviously done intentionally by someone."
"If someone went to the trouble of capturing Demon Beasts to guard the Ice and Fire Yin Yang Eye, why was there nothing inside it before the little boy placed the Dragon Egg in the Ice and Fire Yin Yang Eye?"
At Chu Sheng’s reminder, Gu Yuexi’s brow furrowed as she quickly understood.
According to the Frost Bone Dragon’s earlier description, when it was placed here by the little boy, a clone of the Hell Three-headed Dog was already standing guard in the Heat Wave Passage.
In other words, before the Frost Bone Dragon moved in and before the little boy placed the Dragon Egg, someone had already arranged for Guardian Beasts to protect the Ice and Fire Yin Yang Eye here.
But before the little boy placed the Dragon Egg in the Ice and Fire Yin Yang Eye, there was nothing here besides the eye itself.
The Ice and Fire Yin Yang Eye is a support-type Heavenly and Earthly Treasure. It can only nourish the Divine Soul and physical body; it has no other function on its own.
Of course, Chu Sheng was an exception.
And the person who came before went to so much trouble—setting up Guardian Beasts, opening passages, and even creating a folded space.
Yet they didn’t use the Ice and Fire Yin Yang Eye.
It was like kidnapping a beautiful woman and bringing her home, only to tie her up in a room, do nothing, and have people guard her.
Does that make any sense?!!
The only explanation was that the Ice and Fire Yin Yang Eye was just a decoy, or perhaps just the surface layer of something more.
Beneath this Ice and Fire Yin Yang Eye, something more important was hidden.
That was where the real treasure was.
Or, something else entirely.
And that was the real reason the person before them set up the Guardian Beasts.
Once Gu Yuexi thought it through, she looked down thoughtfully at the Ice and Fire Yin Yang Eye.
"You mean, there’s something underneath the Ice and Fire Yin Yang Eye?"
"What else could it be?"
"You don’t go to all this trouble, setting up such an elaborate scheme, just to guard a pool of spring water, do you?"
Chu Sheng chuckled, a mysterious light flashing in its compound eyes.
"What’s down there is guaranteed to surprise you."
Gu Yuexi hadn’t paid it much mind, but hearing this, her curiosity was piqued.
Neither the Ice and Fire Yin Yang Eye nor the True Dragon Egg had caused much of a stir in Chu Sheng.
Even after absorbing all the essence of the spring, it had only casually exclaimed, "Awesome!"
But for the thing hidden beneath the Ice and Fire Yin Yang Eye to make Chu Sheng deliberately build suspense... it clearly wasn’t just an ordinary treasure.
She had always been decisive and didn’t waste time asking questions.
"Let’s go down and see."
As her voice fell, Gu Yuexi unhesitatingly activated her Divine Thought Cage.
A faint blue, intangible barrier of light enveloped her and Chu Sheng on her shoulder.
Gu Yuexi tapped the edge of the stone platform with the tip of her foot and leaped into the turbid, dim water of the Ice and Fire Yin Yang Eye.
Although Chu Sheng had drained the Ice and Fire Yin Yang Eye, its foundation remained.
As soon as Gu Yuexi entered the water, two completely different forces coiled around her.
One was bone-chillingly cold, the other scorchingly hot.
The two forces intertwined; an ordinary Cultivator who entered would probably have their physical body torn to shreds in an instant.
Gu Yuexi’s Law Mastery Power was extremely strong.
The Divine Thought Cage steadily blocked all corrosion as she dived deeper.
The deeper she went, the stranger the surrounding Space felt.
The patterns on the stone walls became increasingly unfamiliar, not at all like a naturally formed spring channel.
After diving for about a hundred meters, a faint black glow could be vaguely seen through the darkness ahead.
It was saturated with a deathly aura, the complete opposite of the Vital Energy of the Ice and Fire Yin Yang Eye.
Gu Yuexi’s heart stirred, and she accelerated her descent.
Soon, she felt herself pass through a thin, membrane-like barrier.
It was like passing through a Space Barrier.
The next second, the water pressure around her instantly vanished.
She looked up.
She saw the water of the Ice and Fire Yin Yang Eye suspended upside down above her head.
It formed a circular, shimmering water curtain with a radius of about five meters.
It was like a mirror embedded in the sky.
Beyond the water curtain was a dark sky filled with black fog.
The sun, moon, and stars were nowhere to be seen, and there was no visible horizon.
A thick aura of death rushed towards her, chilling her to the bone. A single breath made her Divine Soul shudder with cold.
"This isn’t the bottom of the Land of Burial?!"
Gu Yuexi said in surprise, her brow furrowed slightly.
This was clearly an independent Space, even deeper than the Land of Burial.
Chu Sheng flew up from her shoulder, flapping its wings and circling a few times in mid-air.
"If I’m not mistaken," it said.
"This should be a passage connecting the Netherworld to the Spirit Realm, a liminal space between the two realms."
Hearing this, Gu Yuexi immediately spread out her Divine Thought, carefully sensing the surrounding aura and Law fluctuations.
The air was filled with a pure aura of death and the Yin-Cold Law.
It was identical to the Netherworld’s aura she had seen in Immortal Venerable Shi Xi’s memories.
"It really is a passage connecting the Netherworld to the Spirit Realm."
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