Chapter 480 – The Remnant Soul

“Who are you? Where the hell are you?”

Yun Che stopped his footsteps, turned around and looked around and shouted. The voice just now was as close as if it was emitted in his ears.

Half an hour before the aura of the Taikoo Xuan Boat appeared, there would be increasingly strong tremors in the space, and right now, the space of the Taikoo Xuan Boat was quiet, so it was only natural that Yun Che did not need to leave in a hurry. In these half an hour, he had been trying to figure out where exactly that voice that kept ringing out and was clearly only directed at himself was coming from.

As always, after he shouted out, he did not receive a response for a long time.

Yun Che’s gaze began to scan his surroundings …… Just now, he had heard it very truly, and the source of the sound was very close to himself. Real sounds would decay with distance, and the same was true for soul transmissions. He was almost certain that the source of the sound should not even be ten steps away from himself.

Yun Che slowly walked to the center of the high platform, his gaze meticulously scanning every corner, when a slight red light flashed between his eyes, and his gaze was instantly fixed, landing at the end of the high platform leaning against the wall. This bit of red light, Yun Che had already discovered it on the first day he entered the Swire Xuan Ark, and had even found its source, but since he simply didn’t have the ability to blast the floor tiles apart at that time, he was powerless to explore it, despite his curiosity and amazement at the red light, and the vague feeling that there seemed to be some kind of space hidden below.

Yun Che walked over and stood in the same position he had sought out in the first place, his body bent down, and from within the tiny cracks beneath his feet, he saw the slightest hint of red light flickering and shooting out from the ground, appearing and disappearing at times.

Yun Che pondered for a while, then condensing Xuan Force in his hand, he smashed his fist into the stone slab under his feet.

Bang!

Yun Che’s fist was bounced up, and the sensation and sound that came back was proving that this stone slab didn’t seem to be thick …… or at least much thinner than the stone door that he had used half a year to blast open. He no longer hesitated, sat down his body, concentrated and meditated, his left hand ice razor, his right hand phoenix inflammation …… Throughout the entire half year, more than eighty percent of his time was spent repeating the process of fusion, and thus the guidance and manipulation of the power during the entire process was already at ease.

It wasn’t long before Bing Yi and Phoenix Flame fused into a slightly swaying ice-blue flame in Yun Che’s hands, and as Yun Che’s palms flipped over, the ice flame lightly landed on the stone slab below.

To Yun Che’s surprise, the stone slab under his feet was far thinner than he expected, almost only the thickness of a piece of paper, after the ice inflammation fell, this layer of stone slab was like a piece of ice that was rapidly melting, and it quickly disappeared in the ice inflammation, which spread out to the surrounding area, destroying the stone slab until it was completely extinguished by a nearly one-foot wide square circular gap.

Through the gap destroyed by the ice inflammation, Yun Che saw that there was indeed a space hidden below, and the space was flickering with red light.

What in the world was down here?

That sound, could it be coming from this space below?

The one-foot wide gap was barely enough for Yun Che to directly leap down.

After hesitating for a while, Yun Che finally moved his feet forward and jumped down from the gap.

This space hidden underneath the high platform was not very high, and Yun Che only leaped down a distance of less than two feet before his feet already stepped on the cold, hard, and flat ground. There was no dangerous aura coming from the surroundings, but Yun Che’s nerves were still tight as he raised his eyes to look ahead.

This space was not large, it was only about ten feet in length, and it was empty and spotless, with the exception of the ground in the center of the space, where a red ball of light stood.

This light mass was roughly as tall as Yun Che’s body, presenting a standard round shape, releasing a red light that was sometimes strong and sometimes weak, but overall it was relatively soft and did not carry any offensive aura.

This was ……

Yun Che walked over and stood in front of the light mass. The red light was not strong, but it was very dense, making it impossible for Yun Che’s line of sight to enter within the light mass for half a minute, but his intuition told him that something seemed to be wrapped within this red light mass.

What in the world was this?

The time in which the ancient Xuan Boat had existed must have been extremely long, in Jasmine’s words, it was “so long that you can’t imagine”. After such a long time, this ball of light was still releasing a red glow, so it could be seen how extraordinary it was.

Yun Che stretched out his arm and tentatively reached out to this ball of light.

“Don’t touch it!”

Jasmine’s voice resounded in her mind, causing Yun Che’s movements to stall, his arm fiercely retracted, and his body swiftly retreated like an electric shock.

“Hmph, daring to reach out and touch it without understanding the state, do you want to die?” Jasmine coldly said.

“What exactly is this light mass?” Yun Che questioned. A light mass that hadn’t been extinguished for countless years, what it contained was bound to be a power so powerful that he couldn’t comprehend it, and it was indeed a bit presumptuous for him to try to reach out and touch it.

“This isn’t a light mass, but an extremely strong guardian barrier,” Jasmine said cautiously, “It appears to be devoid of aggressiveness, but if you dare to risk touching it, it will immediately counterattack …… its lowest level of counterattack, which is enough to Let you die tens of thousands of times!”

Being able to be described by Jasmine with the word “extremely strong”, it could be imagined that this red light mass was something terrifying, and Jasmine’s sentence “Its lowest degree of counterattack is enough to let you die tens of thousands of times” would not be alarmist talk. Yun Che’s heart thumped, and his footsteps once again took a step back.

“You …… finally …… came ……”

The voice that was as ethereal as smoke slowly resounded in this underground space, and this time, it was no longer a soul transmission, but a clear, incomparably real woman’s voice. Not only did Yun Che hear it, even Jasmine, also heard it clearly.

This voice was much closer than just now, as if it was coming from right in front of his body. Yun Che quickly turned his head to look around and cautiously said, “Who the hell are you?”

Just as Yun Che’s voice fell, next to the red light, a dull white shadow suddenly slowly reflected …… It was the figure of a woman, dressed in white, with a slightly shorter stance, half-white hair, and a slightly hunched body, proving that she should be an old person who had long since stepped into her old age.

“You …… are?” Yun Che was stunned for a moment, and subconsciously let out a voice. The figure of the old man in front of him was blurry, as blurry as a wisp of fluttering white smoke that seemed like it could be blown away by a gust of fresh wind.

On the first day of entering the Taikoo Xuan Boat, Jasmine said to him that the person who summoned him was most likely a soul body …… like Jasmine. But, Jasmine’s soul body was no different from a real young girl when viewed with her eyes alone. And due to the relationship of being attached to his life, he could also touch her existence, no different from touching a normal body. But this soul body in front of him was as vague as a candle in the wind.

“I am a guardian …… guardian of my little master ……” The old man issued a light and pale voice. Soul transmissions, which she could only send out once in a long while, and face-to-face transmissions, which she didn’t seem to have any obstacles to, “I’ve been searching for you …… have been searching for you …… for a long time… . a long time ……”

“You …… have searched …… for me?” Yun Che pointed to himself, then glanced at his left hand and said, “You are searching for the …… Heavenly Poison Pearl?”

“There’s no mistake …… I’m driving the Xuan Boat …… across space after space …… just to search for the Heavenly Poison Bead ……”

“Wait!!!” Yun Che’s face revealed a shocked expression, “The Xuan Boat you’re talking about is this huge Xuan Boat that I’m currently in? It was harnessed by you?”

“Initially, …… it was indeed harnessed by me …… but …… at that time, I was also suffering from demonic poison . …Every breath was destroying my life and soul …… In order to survive the consciousness of guarding my little master …… I gave up my body and 80% of my soul… …Only a remnant of my soul is left behind …… and I am no longer able to steer the Xuan Boat …… The Xuan Boat then follows the memory imprints I left behind at the beginning …… and constantly shuttles through fixed spaces …… week after week. The space of the boat has been constantly shuttled through a fixed space,…… week after week,…… three hundred years a cycle,…… the power of the boat,…… has been constantly depleted. To this day …… its power …… is nearing exhaustion …… ”

“Fortunately, the heavens have mercy …… at the end of my residual soul …… the end of the destruction of the Xuan Boat …… I finally waited for you … …”

Yun Che’s mouth was slightly open as he quickly digested the old man’s words that were soft and gentle, yet alarming. This immense and incomparable Xuan Boat was actually controlled by someone ……This old man in front of him had actually had the ability to manage such an astonishing Xuan Boat in the past! And the Xuan Boat’s fixed three hundred years of appearing in the Tianxuan Continent, the fixed three hundred years of shuttling through a fixed space …… was also because of this old man?

“‘The End of the Remnant Soul’ is right.” Jasmine’s voice carried a faint pity in it, “This remnant soul will soon dissipate …… not more than a hundred breaths of time! To be able to find the person you’ve been looking for in the last hundred breaths before the remnant soul fades …… doesn’t seem to require pity.”

Within a hundred breaths? Yun Che’s heart snapped as he looked at the old man’s mist-like figure and asked, “Who exactly are you? Why are you searching for the Heavenly Poison Pearl …… What can I do for you?”

From Yun Che’s body, the old man did not detect any ill feelings, and this was the most comforting thing to her. She slowly said, “I’m just a guardian …… My little master …… My race …… has also long been forgotten by the world …… There is no need to mention …… my little master …… she is suffering from a terrible demonic poison …… between the chaos …… Only the Celestial Poison Pearl can cure it …… In order to prevent the poison from spreading …… My little master was sealed into the ‘Eternal Pivot’. ……”

“Eternal Hub??”

The old man’s voice became more and more ethereal: “Chaos is in turmoil……Gods and devils are fighting viciously……The vault of the sky has been turned upside down……Gods mourn and the heavens weep …… I brought my little master to ride the Xuan Boat to escape …… The ‘Eternal Pivot’ blocked my little master’s body and soul… …and also made her breath disappear between the chaos …… thus allowing her to escape that heavenly calamity …… As long as the Heavenly Poison Pearl is used to purify the demonic poison in her body… …she will be able to wake up again……I have suffered a lifetime of sorrow and misery, but I can finally achieve good results……”

Magic Poison …… Magic Poison! These two words from the old man’s mouth caused Jasmine’s breath in the Heavenly Poison Bead to be slightly disorganized …… because what she had been hit by was also a kind of magic poison. Moreover, it was the most terrifying of all the demonic poisons – the Deicide Absolute Gothic Poison! It is likewise only the Heavenly Poison Pearl that can be purified and eliminated.

The old man’s voice is getting lighter and lighter, the content, also began to seem a little confused, she did not want to say their own and the “little master” identity and origin, but also seems to be involuntarily recounted once the picture and fragments. And her figure, which was already as thin as light mist, also became even thinner at this time.

She was a guardian, and in order to guard for a longer period of time, she didn’t hesitate to give up her body and eighty percent of her soul …… until the last moment when her residual soul was about to be completely dispersed. Yun Che couldn’t help but be moved by this, as he glanced at the red mass of light and said, ”Is your ‘little master’, guarded within this mass of light? The Heavenly Poison Pearl is indeed on my body, if it can really save your ‘little master’ and won’t harm me personally, I will try to do my best.”