World Within the Orb

As the five stood there in a daze, the mother and daughter vanished from before their eyes like Gui Mei.

It had all happened in an instant. After a moment of darkness, Bibi Dong regained her vision. When she saw the scene before her again, she too froze.

With a blink, the entire world had changed. A quick glance told her that she was at the foot of a mountain. Clouds and mist curled around the slopes, milky white fog dancing like gauze, while quite a few pheasants darted among the hills and trees.

Beside them, a crystal-clear stream babbled along. Its water was like lively crystal, leaping between the stones, and the splashes it kicked up glimmered with rainbow light—the radiance of spiritual energy taking physical form.

With just one deep breath, the primordial energy of heaven and earth flowed through her nose and into her organs, leaving her entire body refreshed and comfortable, as though both body and mind were rejoicing. The concentration of primordial energy here was terrifyingly high!

Her spiritual power instantly emerged from her sea of consciousness and spread outward.

Yet the more clearly she saw, the more horrified Bibi Dong became. Where exactly was this place? With her Level 98 spiritual power, she could only exert one-tenth of its usual effect here. Even so, she roughly grasped her current situation.

Although her spiritual power could not extend beyond the mountain, she was still somewhat confused. Logically, with such dense primordial energy of heaven and earth, the soul beasts here should have been extremely powerful. Yet her spiritual power had not detected any high-level soul beasts.

On the contrary, it seemed that there were only pheasants on the mountain.

Well, the strongest among them had only around a hundred years of cultivation.

That was rather absurd.

All of this seemed to take a long time, but only a few breaths had passed. After a brief moment of thought, Bibi Dong turned her gaze toward Ye Xinyu and spoke with a faint, teasing smile.

"Aren't you going to give me an explanation?"

Hearing that, Ye Xinyu suddenly blurted out.

"Mom, take a guess. If you guess right, I'll tell you."

The moment those words left her mouth, Bibi Dong's face darkened. In the next instant, she reached out her fair, jade-like hand and pinched Ye Xinyu's tender cheek.

"Hm? What did you just say? Mommy didn't hear you clearly. Say that again."

With her cheek pinched, Ye Xinyu begged unclearly.

"Mom, I was wrong, I was wrong. Let go first, I'll explain right away."

Once her mother released her, Ye Xinyu rubbed her aching cheek and lightly bit her cherry lips. What was coming could not be avoided. After taking a deep breath, she slowly opened her palm.

"This should be the Inner Space of my martial soul, right?" As she spoke, a Stone emitting an unusual glow slowly appeared in her hand.

Calling it a martial soul, she was not actually certain. After all, this thing did not feel much like a martial soul to her, and she had never heard of a martial soul possessing such a vast Inner Space.

Though she had wanted to keep it as her trump card, given what had happened just now, if she kept hiding it, someone might really die.

The instant the Stone appeared, Bibi Dong was drawn to it. The strange patterns covering its surface and the aura around it sent a chill through her. Could this be a legendary divine artifact?

She raised her hand, intending to touch it, but just as her hand was about to land on it, the system's voice suddenly sounded.

"Ding. Warning, warning. Host, please move away immediately."

Upon hearing the system, Bibi Dong instinctively withdrew her hand.

She had been bound to this system for six years, and this was the first time something like this had happened. Frowning, Bibi Dong asked the system.

"What is this? Why can't I touch it?"

Several breaths later, the system's voice answered.

"Ding. According to the system's analysis, this object should be the Chaos Pearl."

"The Chaos Pearl?" Bibi Dong's brows furrowed slightly.

"Is it that powerful? Why can't I touch it?"

"Ding. The Chaos Pearl contains the laws of three thousand Great Daos, as well as Chaos qi. It is not something the host can come into contact with at her current stage."

Bibi Dong frowned, then asked indignantly.

"Why? She can hold it, so why can't I? Are you looking down on me, a Level 98 Titled Douluo?"

"Her soul is bound to the Chaos Pearl, so she will not suffer backlash. Her strength is simply too weak to use it. However, if anyone other than her touches it without permission, it will trigger the Chaos Pearl's counterattack. The host's current body cannot withstand it."

Mm, not just now. She would not be able to withstand it in the future, either.

A single wisp of Chaos qi could crush the heavens, sun, moon, and stars. That was not merely an exaggeration.

Imagine compressing a Great Thousand World into a sphere the size of a fist. Who could possibly lift such a weight?

Only after recognizing a master did the Chaos Pearl restrain itself to protect its owner, without revealing its terrifying weight. Otherwise, its weight alone would crush this planet into collapse.

Hearing that, Bibi Dong felt a little better.

"I see. Then, System, compared to the Rakshasa Scythe, which one is stronger?"

At those words, the system actually froze for a moment.

Seeing that the system remained silent for so long, Bibi Dong could not help sighing.

"Looks like it must be inferior to the Rakshasa Scythe. Still, even if it is inferior to a divine artifact, it possesses the inconceivable ability to hold an entire plane. I wonder just how powerful my future Rakshasa Scythe will become?"

System: emo.

After thinking for a moment, Bibi Dong asked again.

"By the way, System, how large is this space? Why can't I sense its boundaries?"

The system: I don't want to talk to an idiot.

After waiting a long time without receiving a reply, Bibi Dong frowned. This system was useless. Why did it know nothing?

She then came back to her senses and asked her daughter.

"Alright, put that away."

"From the looks of it, you should have come here several times already. How much do you know about this place?"

Ye Xinyu thought for a moment, then said awkwardly.

"Well, Mom, I don't know. I only sensed this thing when my martial soul awakened. Back then, I used Soul Power to activate it and came here. As for the rest, this is only my second time here, so I don't really know the details."

Bibi Dong's face darkened again.

"You don't even know about your own possession?"

Ye Xinyu shrank back.

"I-I don't."

She was not lying. She did not know how to use this thing either. The only thing she knew was that she could enter this space. Even though she was the Orb's owner, she had no special privileges. She still had to walk once she came here. With such a huge place, why would she come here to climb mountains when she had nothing better to do?

Seeing that her daughter did not seem to be faking it, Bibi Dong could only sigh helplessly.

"Forget it. If you don't know, then you don't know."

Strictly speaking, Ye Xinyu had only formed a slight connection with this thing and could barely use it.

After all, Ye Xinyu was currently no different from an ordinary person. Though she possessed Soul Power, it was not particularly strong. Directly becoming the master of a treasure of this level was basically impossible. Even a trace of the aura feeding back from it could burst her apart.

Although officially recognizing her as its master was still far off, with this connection, as long as she gradually grew stronger, becoming its master in the future was inevitable.