By now, the layer of green atop the Soul Bridge had vanished. Only the white bones forming its outer layer could be seen slowly rotating. The rotation was exceedingly strange: the outermost bone spheres did not turn in a single direction. Some turned one way, while others turned another; a single layer of bone spheres was actually divided into nine directions.
Xiao Hua carefully urged his soul threads to touch Wang Zhengfei's mysterious dark cloud. "Rumble..." A tremendous crash rang out as fine threads of lightning struck down. The Heavenly Pattern Earth Deed on the dark cloud's surface flickered faintly as it struggled with all its might to resist the bone spheres' entry!
Under the strikes of lightning threads, the bone spheres spun wildly with a "whirrr," their entire surfaces pressing against the dark cloud. "Crack..." Another faint sound came, and the outer layer of bone spheres suddenly stopped. At the same instant, the lightning threads and Heavenly Pattern Earth Deed vanished as well.
"Excellent!" Xiao Hua was overjoyed. He knew the Soul Bridge worked. With his soul threads, he gave the Soul Bridge a gentle push. Sure enough, its outermost layer remained still, while a slightly smaller bone sphere inside was pushed outward and sank into the mysterious dark cloud. As the dark cloud's lightning threads and Heavenly Pattern Earth Deed reappeared, Xiao Hua hurriedly urged his soul threads again. Another kind of vibration emerged, and the outer layer of the smaller bone sphere began rotating once more...
He advanced layer by layer like this, pushing all eighteen bone layers of the soul artifact inside. A passage like a bridge appeared within the mysterious dark cloud.
"Soul Bridge, Soul Bridge—it truly lived up to its name!" Xiao Hua could not help praising it. Although he felt utterly exhausted, and