Chapter 273: Viscount Gua Wa!_2
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"As long as you don't make a move, he won't see through your true identity!"
Shen Ye pocketed the Vial of the Blood Origin Curse Seal and nodded,
"Rest assured, my lord, I will try my best to coax him."
"Excellent! Coax him! That's right! Now I'm off to Hell. As long as I become the strongest, Baxter, you will reap your benefits."
After saying this, the Nine Aspects couldn't wait any longer and plunged into the void, disappearing in front of Shen Ye.
The head of the Invisible Sorcerer was taken along too.
After all, its main body was preoccupied with hunting prey and had nothing else it could do, leaving it with no choice but to follow Shen Ye and deal with some trivial human affairs.
It would have been discovered by Mo Ga Ru if it stayed.
Better to take it away.
Shen Ye was the only one left in the grand hall.
Not until then
did he finally relax and let out a breath.
With gain comes loss.
Where the Giant Ymir died, the place was filled with strangeness and danger,
even the Sect Leader's Precious Tactic stated that it was not suitable to linger there for long.
If the Nine Aspects were to explore...
What would happen?
He needed this intelligence.
As for dealing with Mo Ga Ru—
He would have to play it by ear.
"Someone, come!"
Shen Ye called out.
Several attendants and sword-carrying guards stepped into the grand hall from outside.
"Let's go to the Royal Collection Room."
"By your command, Your Majesty."
Shen Ye, with a group of people in tow, made a grand entrance to the Royal Collection Room.
The doors were already open.
The royal custodian stood respectfully to the side.
"Stay and guard the outside!"
"Yes!"
Shen Ye entered the collection room alone, beginning his search for the book the Underworld Lord had mentioned.
He quickly found his target—
a dusty book with a tattered cover.
On the cover was written "Era Prediction, author: Yan—".
Was this the one?
Shen Ye hesitated, then reached out to pick up the book.
No sooner had he touched it than it instantly disintegrated into dust, accompanied by several piercing screams, and vanished completely in the blink of an eye.
Shen Ye was stunned.
What just happened?
It seemed best to consult with the Underworld Lord.
"Dharma Aspect, Lunar Palace."
With a thought from Shen Ye, the grand and imposing Dharma Aspect unfolded at once.
The Underworld Lord, Miket Tikaxiwa, was seen sitting on the palace wall, leisurely sipping a glass of red wine under the glow of the Frostfire Moon, taking pleasure in the fine drink.
"..." Shen Ye.
It figured.
She was a Divine Spirit, who knew how many treasures she had on her.
What was a glass of wine to her?
"Seeing my mother this content, I can rest easy," the voice of the great Skeleton suddenly intruded.
"Fei Lun! You're cultivating too slowly. If I see you next time and your strength hasn't improved by a level, I'll scorch your skull with the Frostfire here!"
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Miket Tikaxiwa spoke sternly.
The giant skeleton dared not make another sound.
"Something the matter?" Miket Tikaxiwa turned to Shen Ye and asked.
"Underworld Lord, I found that book, but as soon as I picked it up, it completely disintegrated," Shen Ye said.
"Was there also a scream?" Miket Tikaxiwa inquired.
"Exactly!"
"Then that's correct. What you found was a pirated copy, which was suppressed and cursed by the genuine version. The pirate's soul shattered and perished—that's the phenomenon you witnessed."
"And the genuine one—"
"Is here, search carefully."
"Thank you."
Shen Ye searched through the Royal Collection Room, from east to west, when suddenly he saw a book floating above a pile of dazzling gemstones.
On the cover of the book was written "Era Prediction, author: Ynhuo Chengcheng."
It must be this one!
Shen Ye took the book in his hands and opened the cover, only to find another title written on the inner pages:
Doomsday of All Realms Online.
Tucked inside the cover was also a gold leaf.
A faint light quickly emerged, coalescing into words:
"Earth Gold Seal."
"Token."
"Description: Only those recognized by the Earth Mother know the location of the Gold Seal, and only beings who have never harmed the nightmare divine spirits can use the Gold Seal."
Shen Ye picked up the gold leaf, only to see it transform into a circle of golden light, enveloping him.
"It's done, the emissaries of the earth will sense the fluctuations emanating from you and will soon come forth," Miket Tikaxiwa said.
Shen Ye quietly felt the power indeed continuously sending out some sort of signal.
—This was a technique already imbued with ample strength.
One Breath.
Two Breaths.
Three Breaths.
The fluctuation of the technique subsided.
Yet the gold leaf still possessed power and kept rising into the air.
Perhaps it had nowhere to go—
All the remaining golden light fell onto the book in Shen Ye's hands.
The book suddenly shook.
"Your Excellency, what is happening?" Shen Ye couldn't help but ask.
"Not quite sure... Originally, I just felt it would be safer to place it with the 'lone copy' of the Era Prediction; who knew such a thing would happen?" Miket Tikaxiwa murmured thoughtfully.
Under their gaze, the book suddenly rose into the air, turning into specks of golden light.
A faint female voice followed:
"What I am speaking of is the irresistible Black King."
"It lurks at the Tip of the Crown of Stars, picking out those prosperous and powerful planets, devouring everything clean."
"For thirty thousand years, everything in this era has bowed before it."
"There's no escape."
"The universe contracts around it as its center, every existence must face it, and it picks everything, enjoying everything, destroying everything."
"—Seek out those inconspicuous Death Planets."
"In this way, you might avoid its selection, eking out a meager existence until the arrival of the next era."
"The next era—"
The voice didn't continue; instead, it grew softer and softer until it was barely audible and then completely vanished.
A sense of trepidation inexplicably rose in Shen Ye's heart.
A certain void power from deep within the sky, or even from the endless cosmos, had quietly descended.