In the chaos, after an unknown period of time, suddenly, in the somewhat broken space of consciousness, a soul that was invisible to the naked eye slowly gathered, and finally gradually condensed into a human figure. It was Xiao Chen.
Once Xiao Chen's soul condensed into form, he no longer dared to wander around in the space of consciousness. He slowly wandered towards Spirit with great difficulty. The skeleton was originally made of a pale yellow skeleton, but after being exploded by the power of lightning, it actually recovered its original form. Moreover, the entire skeleton's bones had turned into green jade. Standing there, it didn't have the ordinary and dim feeling it had before, but instead, it appeared noble and elegant, revealing an invisible mysterious attraction.
When did his spirit become like this? Xiao Chen was also surprised with a trace of curiosity. The change in the spirit was too great. If it wasn't for the fact that the spirit had a natural attraction to the host's soul, he would never believe that the noble and elegant jade skeleton in front of him was his spirit.
After his soul entered the jade skeleton, Xiao Chen's body shook. After a while, he slowly opened his eyes. What he saw was a small thatched cottage, and he was lying on a bed.
As soon as he woke up, Xiao Chen felt a burning pain in his thigh. It was as if his thigh was being baked on a red-hot stove. He wanted to sit up, but the pain made him unable to raise his strength at all. He could only lie on the bed.
"Where is this place? Why am I here?"
Xiao Chen's face, which was pale due to his injuries, turned red with nervousness. He muttered to himself," Wasn't I cultivating on the hillside when I was attacked by Lin Qianfan and his men, and was forced to feed me the Spirit Breaking Pill?" How did he end up in this thatched cottage in the blink of an eye? Moreover, the burning sensation on his thigh was tingling with a tinge of itchiness. It told him that his wound must have been treated by someone else and was slowly healing under the effect of the medicine.
Creak!
The wooden door of the thatched cottage was suddenly pushed open, making a sound that made one's teeth ache. At the same time, Xiao Chen's scattered thoughts were retracted and shifted to the old man in black who had entered the door.
"You're awake."
An old voice came from the old man's mouth. There was a hint of desolation in his calm voice, as if he had broken through the cycle of thousands of lives.
"Yes, may I know who you are? Where am I?"
It seemed that the old man's calmness had infected Xiao Chen. He sorted out his thoughts and asked the old man in black.
From the current situation, it seemed that this old man had saved him. Not only did he carry him to the thatched cottage to recuperate, but he had also helped him treat his wounds. Thinking about it this way, he should not have any ill intentions towards him.
"My surname is Yun. You can call me Elder Yun. You are at Sunset Slope outside Dark Night City. Last night, there was a loud thunder. I saw this strange phenomenon and went over to take a look. I happened to see you lying there, so I saved you.”
Old Yun's eyes flashed, but he smiled noncommittally.
"I just don't know why you're not sleeping at home in the middle of the night. Why did you come to Dark Night City? Wasn't he afraid of being taken away by some wild beast?”
When the old man mentioned this, Xiao Chen's heart couldn't help but darken. He could be said to have escaped this time, but what if he encountered such a situation again? He didn't think that he would be so lucky next time.
Although there was nothing to hide about this matter, Xiao Chen still omitted some parts that involved the Lin family. He only said that he was cultivating outside the city, but he did not know who attacked him. He even hid the fact that he was forced to feed the Spirit Breaking Pill.
Elder Yun rolled his eyes when he heard Xiao Chen describe what happened last night in a plain tone. He sneered and did not say anything. This child still dared to play dumb with him. Could it be that this old man was a vegetarian?
"Little fellow, let me ask you something. Do you want to become stronger?”
The old man in black interrupted Xiao Chen's description of the rain gear and said something full of temptation. Although Xiao Chen had already mentally prepared himself in advance that this old man in front of him was definitely not an easy task, his words still made his heart skip a beat.
"Yes, but is it useful to just think about it?"
Xiao Chen slowly took a deep breath. Of course, he understood how important it was to be strong, especially in a world like this. However, it was not so easy to obtain great power. Imagining it out of thin air was ultimately just an illusion.
"Yes, I can help you."
Elder Yun stroked his white beard and smiled with narrowed eyes.
"You can help me? Why are you helping me?"
It was impossible to say that he didn't want to become stronger. The experiences of these past few days had already told Xiao Chen that being strong was the most fundamental thing. However, there was no free lunch in the world. If you want to get something, you must pay something. It was not a rational decision to accept the kindness of such an old man.
"Of course I can help you. " As for why I'm helping you, I'll only tell you when you're strong enough.”
As soon as he finished speaking, a terrifying aura suddenly erupted from Elder Yun's body. His eyes turned blood red as he stared at Xiao Chen, causing him to involuntarily feel a chill.
When Xiao Chen inadvertently made contact with that almost tangible gaze, he suddenly felt something move in front of him. Elder Yun seemed to have suddenly turned into a demon god that crawled out of a mountain of corpses and a sea of blood. He could smell the nauseating smell of blood in his nose. His surroundings were also covered in blood, as if he was in a sea of blood.
"Not good!"
Xiao Chen's heart moved and he immediately wanted to break free from the illusion. Unexpectedly, the illusion in front of him disappeared. The cottage was still the cottage, and the old man was still the old man. Everything just now seemed like a dream, leaving no trace.
Cold sweat slowly trickled down his forehead. Xiao Chen didn't think that those illusions were just a bubble. Once Elder Yun really launched his spiritual pressure, he might not even have the chance to attack. He would be directly crushed by this extremely powerful spiritual power and truly become a retard.
" With that unranked skeleton of yours, if you continue to cultivate like this, unless you have some great luck and eat natural treasures like the Crimson Cloud Fruit or the Danqing Leaf, you'll at most be a Spirit Grandmaster. It's simply a joke to think that you can dominate the entire continent with the strength of a Spirit Grandmaster.”
Elder Yun, who had retracted his spiritual power, looked so ordinary. It was as if he was walking on a crowded street. If one did not pay special attention, one would not be able to find him. However, his casual words made Xiao Chen's heart tremble.
It was not surprising that Elder Yun could see through his spirit. Perhaps he had secretly used his spiritual power to probe it while he was asleep. However, the strength of a Spirit Grandmaster was nothing in his eyes. One had to know that Lin Potian, who had the highest cultivation in Dark Night City, was only at the peak of the Spirit Grandmaster realm. Could it be that this seemingly ordinary old man had already reached the Spirit King realm or even above the Spirit King realm?
"Then why did you choose me?"
Xiao Chen was not stunned by the huge pie in front of him. He calmly and rationally analyzed the problem. His spirit was an unrated skeleton. Elder Yun had also said that his cultivation potential was at most a Spirit Grandmaster. With his strength that was very likely in the Spirit King Realm, he could not find a disciple with amazing talent. What reason did he have to help him?
"Why did I choose you? This involves a secret. However, as long as you acknowledge me as your master, I will tell you."
Looking at Xiao Chen, who looked like he was only six or seven years old, but was as meticulous as an adult, Elder Yun was stunned. He didn't know whether to laugh or cry, but he still kept him in suspense.
After carefully considering the gains and losses, Xiao Chen decided to take a gamble. In any case, if he continued to cultivate like this, no matter how hard he worked, he would not be able to achieve much. It was better to trust this mysterious old man in front of him once and gain that slim hope. After thinking through this, Xiao Chen could only respectfully bow to the old man.
Seeing that Xiao Chen had done all the necessary etiquette, Elder Yun nodded in satisfaction. His gaze towards Xiao Chen could not help but become much more cordial.
"Since you have already acknowledged me as your master, let me tell you first that your spirit is not a skeleton without potential.”
Upon hearing this, Xiao Chen suddenly raised his head and opened his mouth wide. He had actually long since begun to doubt his own spirit. From the various clues revealed by cultivating the "Lightning Controlling Spiritual Art", all of them pointed to a problem, and that was that this seemingly simple spirit was actually not as simple as it seemed on the surface.
"However, even though they are not skeletons without potential, they are still skeletons.”
Elder Yun seemed to admire Xiao Chen's shocked and ecstatic expression. He stroked his beard and continued.
"It belongs to the skeleton family? Could it be a Diamond Skeleton or an Undead Lord?”
Xiao Chen had some understanding of the skeleton spirits. The Vajra Skeleton was a low-grade spirit, and after it was connected to the spirit, it could make the body of the spirit medium as hard as Vajra. As for the Undead Lord, it was a middle-grade spirit, the best among the skeleton spirits. Its special ability was to control skeletons and other monsters.
" How can those trash spirits compare to your jade skeleton? Let alone Undead Lords, even the Chaos Jade-Armored Corpses, Three-Headed Hellhounds, and Dark Night Demon Kings, which are all considered sacred spirits, can't compare to a single bone of the jade skeleton.”
Looking at Xiao Chen's small face that was filled with doubt and surprise, Elder Yun chuckled and slowly said to him.
Chaos Jade-Armored Corpse? Three-headed Hellhound? Dark Night Demon King?
Xiao Chen's young mind was completely stunned by these three terms. Even the most ignorant person in Dark Night City knew that these three spirits were definitely priceless treasures. It was even more precious than priceless treasures. In this world, there were many priceless treasures, but to possess one of these three spirits, one would become a legendary figure without exception, forever left in the long river of history.
Ye Tiannan, the former Great Elder of the Council of Darkness, was a naturally born three-headed hellhound. When the Sea Tribe invaded the mainland 150 years ago, he had killed 100,000 soldiers of the Sea Tribe by himself, thus repelling the Sea Tribe…
Three hundred years ago, the "Butcher" Chen Jin was born as a Great Dark Night Demon King. He had once massacred twenty thousand elite soldiers and a hundred Spirit Ancestor level Spirit Mediums who had attempted to encircle and suppress him on the Endless Prairie in the eastern part of the Jia Ma Empire. In the hundred years after that, the Endless Prairie was listed as a forbidden area by the various large organizations in the empire. The originally powerful Jia Ma Empire had also turned from prosperity to decline and never recovered…
One by one, their glorious names were left behind in various legends and sung by people. When Xiao Chen thought of this, he couldn't help but feel a little dizzy. His skeleton, which was known as an ungraded skeleton, actually had a stronger spirit than these dazzling names. This was simply…simply unimaginable.
"Little fellow, don't be in disbelief. Have you heard of this ancient proverb?”
When he said this, Elder Yun's expression was extremely serious, as if he was telling the biggest secret.
"The Water Charm Qilin, the vast wilderness, the heavenly demon god spirit, the heartbreak of the human world. The Jadeite Phoenix had not died for ten thousand years. Who would be the king of the Netherworld Realm? Your emerald skeleton is the 'emerald' that was born from nirvana in this ancient prayer!”
An old man with white hair and beard, a child who had yet to shed his innocence, a thatched cottage swaying in the wind and rain, and a flickering lamp. No one knew that inside was a legend passed down from ancient times...
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