Xuedie stopped.
Chen Lin immediately grew wary, afraid the two would attack him outright.
If Saintess Heqing had told the truth, these two had sought him out to make him the artifact spirit of the Soul-Breaking Clock. They could turn on him at any moment.
There was even another possibility.
He was also one of the "artifact spirit seeds" cultivated by the Star Lord, and his arrival here had been arranged. After all, the Star Lord had created the entire Seven-Star Realm. Steering his actions would be child's play.
Yet Xuedie did not attack.
Instead, she pointed toward the end and said, "There's no way forward, only a door. But it feels dangerous to me. Why don't we go back and examine the other two passages before deciding which one to take?"
Chen Lin looked closely.
Sure enough, in the dim area ahead, the passage was sealed off, with only a blue-white stone door.
There was a relief on the stone door too, but it was not a Suihan Beast. It depicted some highly abstract creature he had never seen in any text.
"Then let's go back."
Huang Yan spoke indifferently.
Xuedie looked at Chen Lin.
Chen Lin feigned hesitation before nodding as well, watching their reactions all the while.
Especially Huang Yan's.
If he was the reincarnated Star Lord Saintess Heqing had mentioned, he should have been familiar with everything here. What were the two hoping to achieve with this double act?
The most likely possibility.
They wanted him to willingly accept the role of artifact spirit.
As Chen Lin followed them back, he secretly pondered their intentions.
If his guess was correct.
The Soul-Breaking Clock could not forcibly fuse with an artifact spirit. It needed the willing cooperation of the person being fused. Otherwise, the two should have