He began to drift towards the depths of the sea of consciousness, his movements eager and greedy.
He was going to find the soul core of Qin Tiexin, crush it, and replace it.
"Boy, you ruined my life and delayed my recovery for at least a few hundred years." His voice was gloomy, echoing on the empty sea.
"I will not let you die easily. I will grind your soul bit by bit and make you taste the greatest pain in life!!!"
Before he finished speaking, he suddenly stopped.
Ahead, on the gray-blue sea, a figure appeared at some point.
Xuanli raised his head.
The figure was extremely tall, huge. So tall that it was beyond normal. It was so tall that his mind went blank for a moment. His mouth was open, and it was like a ball of cotton was stuffed into his throat, and he couldn't squeeze out a single word.
He saw the giant's feet.
The feet stood on the gray-blue sea, like mountains protruding from the bottom of the sea.
The sea only covered the shallow insteps of its feet. The insteps were big enough for Xuanli to lie on them. He raised his head and looked up along the legs, as if looking up at a towering mountain peak.
He didn't know how to describe that thing.
It was in human form, but not human-like.
It stands in the depths of the sea of consciousness, like an ancient god who has stood there since the beginning of the world. It is filled with Elder Gu's vast aura, which is Elder Gu and richer than any existence that Xuanli has ever seen.
Demon Lord, Buddha, old monster Nascent Soul, those top figures he has ever seen, are nothing in front of this thing.
The being's face was hidden behind the gray-blue mist, and neither its facial features nor its expression could be clearly seen.
But Xuanli could feel that the other party was looking at him calmly with his head lowered.
"You... what are you?!" Xuanli asked sharply, as if this could make him look stronger.
His voice buzzed and echoed in the empty sea of consciousness, but it seemed so weak.
The being had no answer.
It just stretched out a hand.
The hand dropped from a high place, slowly and calmly, like a cloud covering the sky pressing down from the sky.
Xuanli's soul struggled wildly, trying to break out of this sea of consciousness. But the vast aura of Elder Gu was suppressed, like the whole earth was pressing on his head. He couldn't move, not even a finger.
The hand gently scooped it up.
Xuanli's soul fell into that palm. He wanted to scream, to beg for mercy, to say something. But his voice was completely swallowed up, not even a trace came out.
Then, the being slowly raised his hand and brought the gray-black thing in his palm to his mouth.
Swallow it in one gulp.
It was as light as swallowing a grain of dust. It didn't even chew. It just moved its throat and made no other movements.
Xuanli's soul is just gone.
The gray-blue sea surface is still calm and the fog is still flowing. Everything is the same as before, as if nothing happened.
After swallowing, the existence slowly retracted its hand, lowered its head again, and slowly disappeared.
Qin Tiexin opened his eyes suddenly.
He felt that his consciousness had just seen the sea of consciousness and was being dragged back the next moment.
His body was still bent and reaching out, and his fingertips were only half a foot away from the bracelet.
He lowered his head and looked at his left hand. The hand was still tightly clenched into a fist, and the nails dug deeply into the palm, leaving a few bloody crescent marks. This was caused by the instinctive tightening of the body when the soul of Xuanli was invaded. He slowly loosened his fingers, and his palm became sticky.
The cold feeling disappeared without a trace, as if it had been uprooted by something, without even a trace remaining.
He could even feel that his sea of consciousness was calmer than before, as if it had been thoroughly cleaned.
He didn't know what happened, but he knew that the danger was completely over.
He stretched out his hand towards the bracelet again. His fingertips touched the golden-white bead, and a warm touch came, with a hint of warmth. He was about to pick it up when his movement suddenly stopped.
Not far away, there were footsteps.
Qin Tiexin slowly straightened up and turned his head.
Xiao Rou.
She didn't know when she came out of her hiding place, and now she was standing only a few feet away from him. Her steps were very light, and she made almost no sound when stepping on the thick bone powder.
Qin Tiexin The first time he looked at her, he noticed something was wrong.
Xiao Rou is still Xiao Rou, but her shadow is divided into two lines on the ground.
The two shadows were close together and slightly separated, like two people fighting for the same body. The gray skylight shone from behind her, and the two shadows fell on the ground, one was thicker, the other was lighter, and the overlapping area was as black as ink.
Her face also began to change.
The left half still looks like Xiao Rou, pure and weak, with wet tears on her face. But the right half has changed little by little, with higher brow bones, raised eye tails, and golden light flowing deep in the pupils.
The temperament of that half of the face was completely different from that of a different person, cold and bright, with a sense of oppression without anger and self-power. The two halves of the face were put together, as if two completely different people were embedded in the same face.
Immediately afterwards, her body shook, and when Qin Tiexin saw it clearly again, Xiao Rou had fallen limply to the ground next to her, unconscious.
A woman stood there, standing where Xiao Rou had been.
The woman stood among the ruins, like a Bodhisattva emerging from the lotus.
She was extremely beautiful, and her appearance was 90% similar to that of Xiao Yan, but even more beautiful. She was not as beautiful as a mortal. Her facial features were all exquisite, but there was an alienation between her eyebrows. A little cinnabar mark between her eyebrows, like a drop of Blood Bead falling on the snow, was so bright that it was dazzling.
She was wearing a plain white dress, which was spotless and incompatible with the bone powder and ruins scattered all around. The aura around her body was Heaviness, far above Foundation Establishment. There was a faint outline of a pill spinning at Dantian, and Spiritual Qi overflowed, making the surrounding air slightly distorted.
False Core Stage.
Xiao Wan.
Qin Tiexin This name popped into mind almost instinctively.
Xiao Yan's sister, Brahma Sound Valley Buddha Maiden, the genius known as Buddha Sound Physique. He had never seen her before, but he recognized her after just one glance.
"Xiao Wan." Qin Tiexin slowly stood up and retracted his palm from the top of the bracelet, "That's it."
Xiao Wan did not deny it. Her expression was very calm, compassionate yet distant.
"My Buddha's Premonition is indeed correct." She spoke, her voice completely different from Xiao Rou, cold and distant, "The bracelet will eventually fall into your hands. You are indeed destined to be my Buddha."
Her eyes fell on Qin Tiexin, and then moved to the string of bracelets. There was no fluctuation in her eyes, as if she was looking at something that was already destined to belong to her.
"Those things ultimately belong to me, Brahma Sound Valley."
Qin Tiexin also looked at her.
When Void Spirit Python met Xiao Rou for the first time, he noticed the problem.
But Xiao Rou never took action or had any killing intention, which made him doubt his own judgment for a while.
Only now did he understand a little bit. Of the two Jade Slip that popped up on the second floor, the first ordinary one was for Xiao Rou, and the real Jade Slip was for Xiao Wan.
She has been hiding in this body from beginning to end, watching this journey through the eyes of Xiao Rou.
He thought he was protecting a weak woman, but in fact he was just leading a wolf disguised as a sheep.
"Premonition? What Premonition?" Qin Tiexin asked.
"You don't need to know." Xiao Wan's voice was as light as a gust of wind, "Give me your string of hands and take refuge in my Buddha, and I will grant you the position of protector. Otherwise, you will die."
Qin Tiexin Take a step forward.
He pressed his right hand on the Edgeless Saber handle and slowly tightened it. The dark golden Qi Gang on the blade had faded, but the blade was still cold, reflecting half of his face.
"Want it? Then come and get it yourself."