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The girl's blurted words were both involuntary and deliberate, for when the name "Yi Danjun" reached their ears, the human and the chi, who had only heard her account, gained the key that roughly linked everything together.
"...Can the Heart-Transmitting Candle defeat it?" Pei Ye's voice was hoarse with anxiety.
Black Chi fell silent for a moment. "She hasn't mastered the Candle Sword yet. She can only search using the words on the altar, and her own mind has long since burned through its last drop of oil."
Pei Ye gritted his teeth, struggling to rein in his thoughts. He still remembered how Glaze's thrust straight at the forehead had thoroughly awakened the flood dragon shadows filling the sky-what exactly did it fear?
But just then, a stale human smell reached his nostrils first. He turned his head, and only then did the place where he had fallen shock his eyes.
This was the back of the high platform. No purple bamboo grew here, nor was the ground paved with white stone. Instead, there was an enormous Circular Void.
An enormous, regular, incongruous circle, as though that shape had been cut out of a painting.
Chapter 304: Edict Diagram
Pei Ye suddenly felt that he had left the Purple Bamboo Realm. The poisonous flames that constantly pressed upon his mind were gone, as was the feeling of being unable to distinguish reality from illusion. The mist and purple bamboo had vanished entirely here. Never had the outside air smelled so pleasant or felt so easy to breathe.
And here... were traces of more than a hundred people having occupied the place.
Compared with the bamboo grove's emptiness, so clean it verged on desolation, these traces were so numerous that the eye could hardly take them all in, let alone