74: Chapter 74 Ghost City! The Entrance to the Tripartite Singularity!
Chapter Seventy-Four: Ghost City! The Entrance to the three-yuan singularity!
We didn't look back.
The earth-shattering roar behind us, along with the energy fluctuations filled with anger and shock emanating from the Dragon Soul Bureau base, became the background music to our desperate flight.
It wasn't that we were cold-blooded, but that we knew clearly that in our current state, turning back would mean nothing more than adding two more corpses; it would be utterly meaningless.
"He's gone mad."
Lin Qingzhi's voice rang in my mind through the Symbiotic Bond, carrying a trace of icy solemnity.
"We've pushed him to a dead end, and he's starting to act regardless of the consequences. He'd rather risk an all-out war with the Dragon Soul Bureau just to keep us here."
"We must reach the 'Ghost City' immediately!" Her tone was full of determination. "That is our only chance of survival!"
Guided by my Swarm Eye, we wove through the city's intricate underground pipe network like two nimble fish, temporarily shaking off the overwhelming waves behind us.
Half an hour later.
We finally crawled out of an abandoned sewage outlet.
A cold wind, desolate, deathly still, and filled with the scent of decay and ruin, blew against our faces.
Before us, under the pale moonlight, stood a cluster of unfinished buildings, standing silently like the skeletons of prehistoric giants.
This place was what the locals called the "Ghost City," the largest urban scar in Jiang City.
It was also the final destination of our journey.
"This is it."
Lin Qingzhi looked up at the oppressive cluster of buildings, a complex light flashing in her cold phoenix eyes.
There was vigilance, there was solemnity, but more than that, there was a kind of... fated certainty.
I activated Spiritual Energy Perception and carefully scanned the area.
On the surface, there was nothing unusual; the spiritual energy was thin and deathly still, no different from any ordinary abandoned site.
However, when I extended my perception deep underground, I "saw" it!
Deep underground, at a depth of about a hundred meters, there was an enormous energy void shrouded by an invisible "membrane" filled with the power of spatial distortion!
Within that void, three distinct types of energy were colliding, intertwining, annihilating, and being reborn in a chaotic yet profound manner!
The golden energy, filled with an overbearing and predatory aura, was the energy of the Xuan Realm.
The gray energy, filled with death and chaos, was the energy of the Desolate Ruins.
And the blue energy, filled with gentleness and life, was the source power of our "Blue Star"!
That was the entrance to the three-yuan singularity!
"Found it." I transmitted my discovery to Lin Qingzhi.
Lin Qingzhi nodded. Her spiritual sense as an empress had clearly perceived that hidden, chaotic, and majestic energy as well.
"Follow me."
Without a moment's hesitation, she led me into the deathly silent Ghost City.
Our goal was the core coordinate marked on the map we had obtained from Ghost Shadow's storage bag.
It was an unremarkable-looking, three-story abandoned building.
When we entered the building and reached the center of the first-floor lobby, Lin Qingzhi stopped.
She slowly closed her eyes, as if sensing something.
A moment later, she snapped her eyes open, and two brilliant beams of divine light erupted from her cold phoenix eyes!
At that moment, she pushed the Ice Phoenix Bloodline within her to its limit!
*Buzz—*
I saw a lifelike Ice Crystal Phoenix mark, composed of the purest energy and emitting a faint golden halo, slowly emerge on her jade-white forehead!
As soon as the mark appeared, it created a profound resonance with the chaotic energy deep underground!
"So... that's how it is."
Lin Qingzhi murmured to herself, her lips curling into an understanding smile.
"The so-called 'token' isn't a physical object at all."
"It is... My innate and unique... Ice Phoenix soul mark!"
She slowly raised her hand and gently pressed her jade hand, which held the phoenix mark, against the empty air in front of her.
"Open!"
With her soft shout, a miracle occurred.
The space in front of us rippled like a calm lake after a stone had been thrown into it, creating visible waves.
Then, that space was slowly torn open to both sides, like a curtain being pulled back by an invisible hand!
A rotating energy vortex, shimmering with three different colored halos and filled with an aura of the unknown and danger, appeared before us!
This was the true entrance to the three-yuan singularity!
However, just as we were about to step into the vortex—
"Jie jie jie jie..."
A sinister, cackling laugh, full of endless malice and cruelty like the screech of a night owl, suddenly rang out from behind us.
"You've truly... made this seat search long and hard!"
I whipped my head around!
At the entrance of the abandoned building, a figure shrouded in a wide black robe, looking like a god of death, stood silently.
His body was still stained with dust and blood from the battle with the Dragon Soul Bureau, and his aura was slightly disordered.
But his eyes, hidden in the shadows of his hood and filled with greed and killing intent, were locked firmly onto us and the slowly rotating energy vortex before us!
Ghost Hand!
He actually managed to track us down!