Extreme Path Nirvana Fruit

Yun Ming sat in Sea God Pavilion and set down the file in his hand.

"How long has Zhuo Shi been gone?"

Ya Li thought for a moment. "A little while. He should be back soon."

Just as she finished speaking, Zhuo Shi pushed open the door and entered.

Yun Ming looked up. "Did you give it to him?"

Zhuo Shi nodded. "I did."

"What was his reaction?"

Zhuo Shi thought about it. "No reaction, really. He's just sitting there spacing out. I remember that thing's medicinal properties are mild. It'll take time."

Yun Ming nodded and asked no more.

Zhuo Shi sat down beside him and poured himself a cup of tea.

After taking a sip, he suddenly said, "But that Solid Essence Fruit didn't look quite like the one in the illustrations."

Yun Ming's hand paused. "How was it different?"

Zhuo Shi recalled it. "The Solid Essence Fruit in the book was red and about the size of an apple. The one I gave Jing Heng was silvery white, only as big as a thumb. Its age probably wasn't sufficient."

Yun Ming set down what he was holding. "What did you say?"

Zhuo Shi froze for a moment. "Silvery white. There was a layer of fuzz on its skin, and it gave off a glow under the light. What's wrong?"

Woni Ma...

Yun Ming did not answer.

He stood and hurried out.

Zhuo Shi followed him. "What exactly is going on?"

Long Yeyue appeared at the end of the corridor at some point, leaning against the wall.

She saw Yun Ming's expression and suddenly spoke. "A Solid Essence Fruit remains the same size from the moment it grows until the moment it withers, and it can only ever be red."

Zhuo Shi was stunned. "That's impossible. I clearly took it from the storeroom—"

"Are you sure what you took was a Solid Essence Fruit?" Long Yeyue stared at him.

Zhuo Shi opened his mouth. "There was only one fruit in the storeroom. It was in that wooden box—"

Long Yeyue's expression changed.

Without another word, she turned and headed for Yun Jingheng's room.

Yun Ming had already arrived before her.

The door was closed.

Yun Ming reached out and pushed it, but it did not budge.

His brows furrowed as he added more force, yet it still did not move.

He was a Limit Douluo. The force of that push could have shattered steel, yet the thin wooden door did not even tremble.

He placed his hand on the door and sent his Soul Power inside.

Then his expression changed.

There was something on the door.

It was not a lock, nor was it a mechanism. It was a thin layer of light.

Silvery white, like moonlight.

It covered the entire door, the entire room, and the child inside.

The instant Yun Ming's Soul Power touched that layer of light, it was gently bounced away.

It was not a counterattack, but a refusal, just like the first time he had examined Yun Jingheng's martial soul. Moon had trembled lightly and pushed him away.

It was exactly the same.

Yun Ming withdrew his hand and stood before the door in silence for a long time.

Long Yeyue walked over and tried as well.

Her Soul Power was also repelled.

Zhuo Shi tried too. The result was the same.

When Cai Yue'er arrived, she tried as well, but she still could not enter.

Two Limit Douluos and two Super Douluos stood outside the room of a nine-year-old child, yet none of them could get in.

Ya Li was the last to arrive.

She did not try. She merely looked at the door, at that faint, nearly invisible silver light.

Then she turned to Zhuo Shi.

"What exactly did you give him?"

Zhuo Shi's expression was ugly.

"I don't know. There was only that one silvery-white fruit in the storeroom, inside that little wooden box. I thought it was a Solid Essence Fruit—"

"Solid Essence Fruits do not glow."

Long Yeyue cut him off. "Have you ever seen a Solid Essence Fruit glow?"

Zhuo Shi said nothing.

He had.

That fruit had indeed been glowing inside the box.

It was very faint, faint enough to be almost invisible. He had thought it was simply the fruit's natural luster.

But it was not. Solid Essence Fruits did not glow. They never had.

Yun Ming stood before the door, staring at it.

That layer of light was very thin, as thin as gauze.

He turned around. "Seal off Sea God Island. No one is allowed in or out."

Long Yeyue looked at him. "To what extent?"

Yun Ming fell silent for a moment. "Until I open this door."

Eastsea City, Eastsea Academy, the room at the far end of the Zero Class dormitory.

Inside the room, a girl sat facing the window. Her closed eyes suddenly opened, and her black hair slowly faded in color.

When she turned around, she already had silver hair and purple eyes.

Gu Yue—or rather, Gu Yuena.

A shadow emerged in the corner.

"Lord, I succeeded."

"Oh~? That smoothly?" The corners of her lips curved upward.

Di Tian lowered his head. "No one noticed. The child has already consumed it and is now in deep meditation."

"What about Shrek?" she asked.

"Yun Ming has already ordered Sea God Island sealed off."

Di Tian paused. "But this subordinate believes he has probably guessed something."

Gu Yuena nodded. "So what if he has? He cannot find any evidence, nor can he enter that door. All he can do is wait."

With the medicinal power of the Extreme Path Nirvana Fruit, along with Moon's guidance, it would be enough to completely transform him.

"Wait until he wakes up."

She spoke softly. "It will be very interesting."

That night, the moon changed.

It did not change gradually. In an instant, a full moon like a silver disk hung in the sky. Its light was several times brighter than usual, so bright that it no longer resembled moonlight, but more like a lamp.

That moonlight did not scatter. Instead, it condensed into pillars of silvery-white light that fell straight from the sky onto Sea God Island, onto the child's room, and onto that tightly shut door.

The entire Shrek City saw it.

Some stood in the streets and looked up. Some opened their windows to watch. Some climbed onto their rooftops.

No one knew what had happened, but everyone knew something was wrong.

The next day, the moon did not change.

It was still full, still just as bright, still casting all its light toward Sea God Island.

On the third day, it remained unchanged.

On the fourth day, it still remained unchanged.

A month passed.

The moon was still full.

Qiangu Dongfeng stood atop the Spirit Pagoda and stared at the moon that never waned, remaining silent for a long time.

"Investigate it."

He spoke to the person behind him. "Find out what exactly happened on Sea God Island."

They could find nothing.

Shrek City was under martial law, Sea God Island's defenses had doubled, and three lines of security had sealed off the entire island so tightly that not even water could pass through.

Yun Ming had personally issued the order. No one was allowed in or out.

Everyone who tried to inquire hit a wall. The people of Shrek said nothing—not because they did not want to, but because they truly did not know.

Cai Yue'er stood at the edge of Sea God Island, watching that moonlight.

She had watched it for thirty days.

The moonlight fell onto that child's room and then vanished, as though something had swallowed it.

She had tried to approach, but with every step she took, the oppressive feeling grew stronger.

It was not that someone was stopping her. The moonlight itself was rejecting her.

She stood outside the security line and did not go any farther.

Two months passed.

Three months passed.

Half a year passed.

The moon had never changed.

The discussions across the continent gradually died down, but the eyes fixed on Sea God Island did not lessen.

All the major powers were waiting, waiting to learn what had happened.

The Spirit Pagoda, Tang Sect, War God Hall, Star Luo Empire, and the major clans—all eyes were focused on Shrek City, on Sea God Island.

But they could uncover nothing.

Every day, several Title Douluos with their martial souls activated floated above Shrek Academy's Sea God Island.

At night, there were Limit Douluos and Super Douluos.

No one dared approach Shrek Academy at such a critical time.

Every day, Yun Ming stood before that door for a while.

The door had not changed. The light had not changed. The aura inside had not changed.

He could sense nothing. The moonlight was still falling, which meant he was still alive.

Sometimes Ya Li stood there with him for a while. Sometimes she did not.

She came less and less, not because she did not want to, but because there was no point.

She simply made extra food every day, poured it out, then made more.

The child would be hungry when he woke up.

The ninth month.

The moonlight began to fade.

It was not growing weaker. There was simply less of it.

The pillars of light falling onto Sea God Island slowly narrowed, from as thick as buckets to as thick as arms, then as thick as fingers.

The moon also began to change, gradually waning from a full moon, bit by bit, as if someone were flattening it.

The eleventh month.

The moon returned to normal, but every night, a thin ray of moonlight still fell onto that window.

It was very thin, like a silver thread hanging down from the sky.

Eleven months and twenty days.

The moonlight broke.

It did not break gradually. In an instant, that silver thread snapped, the moonlight scattered, and it spilled across the entire Sea God Lake.

Everything returned to normal.

The moon was full when it should be full and waned when it should wane, just as it had before.

Then the door opened.