"Yes, Senior."
"Do you know what you need to pay attention to after going in?"
"Please give me your guidance, Senior."
"I have nothing much to teach you. Once you pour the soul beast blood in, the ceremony will naturally begin. You only need to pay attention to one thing."
Long Xiaoyao's gaze slightly changed. "People outside the ceremony must not get too close to the Holy Emperor statue."
"Understood."
"Mm, go ahead."
After Long Xiaoyao finished speaking, with a wave of his large sleeve, powerful soul power caused the surrounding space to continuously ripple and fluctuate.
Last time Lin Xiao had only seen the door appear out of thin air. This time, he clearly perceived how the space fluctuated and where the door had been hidden before.
However, his gaze quickly withdrew. He pulled Nana, who was behind him, and stepped into the stone chamber.
The countless candle flames in the air continued to flicker. Wisps of remnant souls kept moaning within them, and gray light illuminated the entire stone chamber.
Behind Lin Xiao, Nana's footsteps had already stopped. She could also sense the existence of souls and clearly understood what exactly was being stored here.
Although she had known long ago that the Holy Spirit Cult imprisoned souls, personally feeling the atmosphere here still made her whole body feel cold. An inexplicable fear rose from the bottom of her heart, as if those nightmares from before could become reality in the next instant.
There was nothing else in the stone chamber except for a tall statue standing in the center. The "Eighth Elder" beside her had already stepped toward the statue. Nana's mind went completely blank. She didn't know what would happen next and only hoped that the next moment could come a little slower.
After waiting for a moment, she suddenly felt as if her wish had come true. That "Eighth Elder" did not take the next step, but simply stood in front of the statue, seemingly in a daze.
The moment the stone chamber door closed just now, Lin Xiao held the bag containing the soul beast in his hand and kept approaching the statue. However, he had no intention of opening the bag. After getting close, he softly called out in his mind:
"Teacher, can you sense the presence of the divine sense fragment?"
"I can sense that the arrangement here indeed resembles my methods, but I cannot feel where the divine sense fragment is," Electrolux was also observing the outside through Lin Xiao's perception.
"Perhaps it's inside this statue. I'm afraid this statue is not only a container for preserving the divine sense fragment, but also the prison that imprisons it." Lin Xiao narrowed his eyes, his gaze sweeping over the statue.
Although he had seen a similar statue in the Extreme North before, this was the first time he observed one at such close distance.
"Teacher, what was your weapon?"
His gaze fell on the weapon held in the statue's hand. Just like all the other statues, the top part was carved unclearly, making it impossible to see exactly what it was.
"You mean that staff? That was the magic staff I personally crafted. Although I'm not very good at crafting such things, that staff contained a great deal of my effort."
"When I died, it probably lost its power over the passage of time and disappeared in my original world."
Hearing this, Lin Xiao slightly furrowed his brows, feeling a trace of strangeness.
The statue before him held the weapon in its right hand, but the indistinct pointed end was in front, while the long shaft was behind; it didn't look like it was holding a staff, but rather like it was grasping a long spear, ready to throw the weapon in its hand at any moment.
"Elder…"
Nana's soft voice sounded beside him, her tone trembling slightly.
Although she hoped the following events could come more slowly, Lin Xiao's continued silence made the fear in her heart grow even stronger.
Lin Xiao came back to his senses upon hearing her. In his mind, he recalled the feeling he had when he underwent the soul ascension ceremony before.
"Teacher, we probably need to wait until the ceremony begins and trigger the changes in this statue before we can know what kind of secrets this statue truly holds."
"Alright." Electrolux did not hesitate much either, "I already can't remember clearly, and I also want to see what kind of spell was set up here."
"Mm."
Lin Xiao suddenly turned his head to look at Nana. "Come closer."
Hearing this, Nana moved with stiff steps, approaching bit by bit. Then she heard a somewhat strange sentence:
"No matter what happens in a moment, do not make any sound. Do exactly as I say."
Nana's eyes widened slightly. Even though she had never been to the Holy Spirit Cult headquarters and did not know the specific details of the soul ascension ceremony Lin Xiao mentioned, at this moment, she vaguely sensed that Lin Xiao's purpose was probably not simple.
Lin Xiao did not care about what Nana was thinking. Since he had used the excuse of helping her undergo the soul ascension ceremony to come here, it was natural that she would notice some things.
As long as he could successfully obtain the divine sense fragment here, there would be plenty of ways afterward to ensure she wouldn't speak.
Having made his decision, Lin Xiao no longer hesitated. He opened the bag at his feet. A metallic silver-gray light flashed across his left arm, and a ferocious wound immediately appeared on the neck of the soul beast inside the bag. Blood continuously flowed out of it.
As the soul beast's blood flowed, its remnant soul also drifted upward, swaying as it entered the statue. A strange fluctuation emanated from the statue.
It's coming.
Lin Xiao's expression slightly changed.
Just like when he underwent the soul ascension ceremony before, the blood of one soul beast was far from enough to fill the blood pool in the stone chamber. Yet some blood-like liquid overflowed from the statue, filling the gaps in the blood pool.
Moreover, when he had undergone the soul ascension ceremony himself before, immense pain had instantly assaulted his mind, leaving him no time to think too much. But at this moment, he clearly felt a familiar yet strange sensation rising from within the statue.
It was familiar because it was unmistakably Electrolux's aura. It was strange because this power was different from the power Electrolux currently possessed.
Lin Xiao's soul power inside his body fluctuated slightly. A layer of faint gray light rose from his body, seemingly resonating with the statue.
However, right at that moment, a dragon roar suddenly sounded beside Lin Xiao's ear.
Before Lin Xiao could react, a patch of darkness instantly severed the connection between him and the statue.
Immediately after, a vast and mighty surge of soul power slammed toward him.
Lin Xiao's expression suddenly changed. His body instinctively flew backward. Six black and three red, nine soul rings rose around him. Seemingly endless soul power surged from the boundless soul core, flowing along his meridians and gathering in both palms.
"Boom—"
With a loud explosion, the entire stone chamber trembled violently. Lin Xiao's body was uncontrollably sent flying backward.
Raising his eyes, he saw that at some point, an additional figure had appeared in the stone chamber; it was precisely Long Xiaoyao, who was responsible for guarding the stone chamber.
Long Xiaoyao lowered his head to look at his right palm. A dragon roar came from his throat, and his entire right arm was instantly covered by layers of dragon scales.
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