Chapter 553

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Chapter 553: Found You

Jiang Yun didn’t know for sure if the Qing-zhu Desolate World was the world that the mysterious man entered into the Realm Beast’s body, but he believed his guess was probably correct.

Jiang Yun closed his eyes and continued to recall the following scenes in his mind.

With the departure of the mysterious man, the Shadow Spirit Realm Beast resumed its usual life, day after day, year after year.

After a very long period of time had passed, it suddenly felt a great shaking around it, causing it to stop again.

Before it could figure out what was happening, it saw countless black rocks rushing towards it like a flood.

Some even went straight into its mouth, causing it to panic and run in the opposite direction.

It kept running, not daring to stop, until it saw a group of people ahead of it.

Relying on its demon beast instincts, it sensed a human among the group that it was extremely afraid of – a top Demon Refiner. So, it immediately turned around again to try to avoid that person from a distance.

Unfortunately, the person was very fast and quickly caught up to it, then struck it with a handprint!

This is the series of experiences that Jiang Yun saw the Shadow Spirit Realm Beast go through!

Even though the Shadow Spirit Realm Beast’s experience had ended, Jiang Yun kept his eyes closed and murmured, "The shaking the Shadow Spirit Realm Beast encountered was actually caused by the tremors when I, in my dream, smashed that huge black stone!"

"As for the black stone that Yuerou gave me, in reality, it was the giant stone I was sitting on in my dream, breaking into pieces, and its original purpose…"

Jiang Yun remembered vividly that in his dream, the giant stone was also in the endless darkness, surrounded by countless faint orbs of light.

Now he understood that those orbs of light were actually different worlds!

From Bai Ze, he also learned about the Desolate World and Tao World being part of the worlds.

If the Desolate World cannot create Tao, over time it will become barren, and even be destroyed.

Like the dimming of the stars in his dreams, fading into nothingness!

And as the shining lights grew brighter and brighter, until a burst of light shone out, giving birth to the Tao World!

The light emitted from the Tao World that fell into the black stone, according to Jiang Yun’s guess, should be the Meaning of the Tao.

Because the black stone can only turn into water after absorbing the Meaning of the Tao, and then be used to mark objects.

"The black stone, its purpose is to absorb the Meaning of the Tao. However, when it’s intact, it does not turn into water. It’s only after it’s broken that it does."

"The Blood Robe finally used the Demon Sealing Seal on the Shadow Spirit Realm Beast. Although it’s unsure if it successfully tamed it, he should have entered the body of the Shadow Spirit Realm Beast and found the Qing-zhu Desolate World!"

"The Blood Robe entered the Qing-zhu Desolate World to seal Qing-zhu and stop him from following the wrong path."

"But why would he do that?"

"What special qualities does the Qing-zhu Desolate World have, that made him go to great lengths, even entering the Realm Beast’s body to prevent it from giving birth to the Tao?"

"Who is the mysterious man, and does he have any connection to Xiao Village?"

"Also, about my dream, if it was something that really happened in the past, was the person in the dream me, or someone else?"

With numerous questions swirling in his mind, Jiang Yun finally opened his eyes again.

Unable to find the answers to these questions, he decided to stop worrying and focus on returning to Mountain-Sea World as quickly as possible.

In front of him, the shadows still remained in the form of seated figures, undulating continuously, unaware that Jiang Yun had already slipped away from their midst.

Jiang Yun started to understand these shadows.

"The passage opened for me by Qingzhuo is still located inside the body of the Shadow Spirit Realm Beast, and these black shadows might be some kind of creatures born within the Shadow Spirit Realm Beast, like parasites."

"They can silently invade the bodies of living creatures, capturing their deepest memories, and then creating corresponding illusions."

"Therefore, without my awareness, they learned about my memories of Jiang Village, leading to my auditory hallucinations."

"Just now, what I saw were memories captured by the Shadow Spirit Realm Beast!"

"Now that I have lured them out and separated them with a Taoist spell, logically, I should have freed myself from the illusion."

Jiang Yun looked around, squinted slightly, and said, "But now, I am still in the illusion, does that mean there are actually these shadows inside me!"

This thought shook Jiang Yun, he took a deep breath, closed his eyes again, focused his divine sense, and carefully searched for these shadows within his body.

Before this, he had searched more than ten times, but had never made any discoveries.

This time was the same, he thoroughly looked through every corner of his body, but couldn’t see a single shadow.

"Where could they be hiding?" Jiang Yun frowned, starting to get anxious.

Because even though this illusion wasn’t dangerous, if he remained in it, he might be stuck inside the Shadow Spirit Realm Beast’s belly forever, unable to return to the Mountain-Sea World.

Just when Jiang Yun was about to give up, his eyes finally spotted something – a black stone!

The black stone only reacts when it absorbs the Meaning of the Tao or touches the essence of the Tao.

But shadows are invisible and intangible, entering oneself without any feeling. Can they also enter the black stone?

Thinking about this, Jiang Yun took out the black stone, as well as some spirit stones. He watched as the stone absorbed the Meaning of the Tao and turned into water.

In that fourth layer of water, he indeed saw a black shadow, swimming freely!

"Finally found you!"

Jiang Yun’s eyes lit up. Just as he was about to reach out and take out the shadow, he hesitated once more.

Because he didn’t know if he could touch these shadows or if they had other abilities.

In case of retaliation, though he wasn’t afraid, if he destroyed the stone, he would regret it.

After pondering a moment, Jiang Yun didn’t touch the shadow in the water, but looked at the shadows gathered together. He decided to test them first.

"Typical attacks, whether it’s elemental magic or other spells, or even Taoist spells, may not harm them."

"Once they are startled and flee, it’s very difficult to lure them out again, so I must make sure my attack hits."

Jiang Yun kept searching in his mind for various spells he knew, but ultimately decided to try using the Demon Sealing Seal.

Although he had no idea if these shadows were demons, he was certain they were not human!

Thinking quickly, Jiang Yun raised his hand and quietly created several Demon Sealing Seals, then slapped them towards the group of shadows huddled together!