By this time, 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. Rather, some turned one way while others turned another, one layer of bone spheres divided into no fewer than nine directions.
Xiao Hua cautiously urged his soul threads to touch Wang Zhengfei's mysterious dark cloud. "Rumble..." A great crash rang out as tiny lightning threads struck down. The Heavenly Pattern Earth Deed upon the dark cloud's surface flickered faintly as well, struggling with all its might to resist the bone spheres' entry!
Battered by the lightning threads, the bone spheres spun wildly with a "whirrr," their entire surfaces pressing against the dark cloud. "Crack..." Another faint sound arose. The outer layer of bone spheres suddenly came to a stop, and at the instant they stopped, both the lightning threads and the Heavenly Pattern Earth Deed vanished.
"Good!" Xiao Hua was overjoyed. Knowing the Soul Bridge was effective, he lightly pushed it with his soul threads. Sure enough, the Soul Bridge's outermost layer remained still, while a slightly smaller bone sphere within was pushed out and sank into the mysterious dark cloud. Seeing the lightning threads and Heavenly Pattern Earth Deed emerge once more from the dark cloud, Xiao Hua hurriedly urged his soul threads again. A different vibration spread forth, and the outer layer of the smaller bone sphere began rotating once more...
In this way, he advanced layer by layer, pushing all eighteen bone layers of the soul artifact inside. A bridge-like passage appeared within the mysterious dark cloud.
"Soul Bridge, Soul Bridge—it truly lived up to its name!" Xiao Hua could not help but exclaim. Though