The progenitors all sensed the heavy mockery in those words, yet none of them could say a thing.
Even Loneliness himself was dumbfounded. Aside from Soul saying that they could not find the Hongmeng Crystal, he had not understood anything else!
He had clearly been the first to discover the Hongmeng Crystal, yet now it seemed that he knew less about it than Soul did.
It was as though Soul had discovered the Hongmeng Crystal long ago.
"Soul, tell me the truth. Did you discover the Hongmeng Crystal a long time ago, then deliberately let me find it?"
A chill rose in Loneliness's heart. Although this was not the first time, every such experience still left him shaken, as though someone had seen through everything about him.
"Relax. You really were the first to discover it. A few days ago, I merely took the fragments of information you gave me and pieced them together to arrive at this answer."
"Follow me from here."
Soul glanced at everyone, took over Loneliness's position at the head of the group, and began leading the way again.
In truth, Loneliness had already come very close. However, quite some time had passed since he discovered the Hongmeng Crystal. Though the surface of the Chaos Sea was calm, it was actually flowing.
The Hongmeng Crystal had therefore shifted from its original position. That was why Loneliness had led them around for days without actually finding it.
As for why Soul had only mentioned this now, it was because he had only just determined the patterns of the Chaos Sea's movement and located the Hongmeng Crystal's approximate position.
Elsewhere, upon the vast Chaos Sea, Xu Tong walked slowly by himself, his awareness already submerged in the sea beneath him.
As he walked, he also contemplated the