"You... Oh, forget it." Luo Huaxin's expression flashed with complexity, and she sat down again, saying softly, "Actually... Xiaoxue, you shouldn't have come back."
Chapter 279 Tombstone
In every previous communication, Luo Huaxin had tried her best to persuade Luo Xue not to return to this world. Now, the scene she least wanted to see appeared before her eyes.
However, even at her level, she was unable to see through Luo Xue's current strength.
Not only that, she couldn't estimate Ling Ling's strength except for Su Yiyao.
... Is it because of the power used from another world
But even so... With the invasion of extraterritorial evil demons that even saints are powerless to resist, what's the point of returning with a few juniors who are at most at the Crossing the Sea Realm, most likely only at the Feathered Transformation Realm or the Jiexian Realm
It will only add unnecessary sadness.
Luo Huaxin looked at Luo Xue with complicated eyes. After a long while, she sighed and said,
"It was Xiao Yingzi who brought you back, right?"
"Um."
Luo Xue nodded.
"Are you trying to give me a surprise?" Luo Huaxin snorted coldly, "You know we can't sense your presence..."
Luo Xue was also surprised about this.
Ling Ling could explain it, because Su Yiyao and herself were obviously both part of the cultivation system of this world, so how could their auras be concealed
But thinking about it carefully, it seemed that she had encountered a similar situation before the ruins of the No. 1 ground tower. Later, Ling Ling said that she did not use any abilities at all, she was just standing there normally.
It seems... this is still a ranged passive ability.
"The elder sister has already told me everything that has happened during this period of time, but the only thing she doesn't know is..."
Luo Xue asked, and before she finished speaking, Luo Huaxin continued,
"Is it that mysterious silver-white figure? This is a matter of great importance, and only the Phoenix and I know about it. Even Zi Luan didn't reveal it... Oh, and there is also a Li Gui Jiao. After all, she had to show up in person to help you solve the problem with the Immortal Boat formation."
Feng Zun and Huang Zun are the only remaining forces in the universe that can suppress Emperor Dugu. Even if they are unwilling to cross the last chasm and enter the realm of the emperor, they can still fight against the emperor when they join forces.
No matter how powerful Emperor Dugu is, he can only reach the realm of the Great Emperor. The Great Thousand World, just like the Nine Provinces and Four Regions back then, also has an upper limit, that is, the Great Emperor who controls an entire avenue of laws.
The reason why the figure who shattered countless great ways is called a "God" is because He has indeed surpassed the Great Emperor and is a terrifying existence that cannot be understood by the world.
Feng Zun suspected that this silver-white figure was related to the "God", so he had been trying his best to prevent more people from coming into contact with Him.
If Luo Huaxin wasn't the first person to come into contact with this figure... I'm afraid even she wouldn't be qualified to know about this.
“Where is He?”
Luo Xue asked in a deep voice.
"I have placed Him in a fragment of the world. You can go with me." Luo Huaxin said, and her eyes turned to Ling Ling and Su Yiyao who were sitting quietly beside them, and said, "But you can't."
"Why?"
Ling Ling and Su Yiyao said in unison, with surprise on their faces.
Luo Xue also looked at Luo Huaxin in confusion, but Luo Huaxin shook her head and said,
"Even if you are both my daughters-in-law, I cannot agree to this... After all, the place where "He" is, even I can't go to on weekdays. Xiaoxue, you can go... because you are different."
"... All right."
Luo Xue frowned deeply, but still looked at Ling Ling and Su Yiyao with relief, worried that they would be upset because of this short separation.
Little did they know that after hearing Luo Huaxin's words, their faces turned red.
Su Yiyao lowered her head slightly, a little shy, while Lingling looked at Luo Huaxin generously.
"Understand, Aunt Luo, we will stay here and wait for Sister Xueer to come out."
"Yeah." Su Yiyao also nodded.
This is Ah Chou's mother! Even the mother admitted it herself!
Luo Xue completely ignored the previous words. She just thought it was Luo Huaxin's verbal teasing. After all, similar things had happened before... It was not surprising to pair herself with the senior sister.
"Still calling me auntie?"
Luo Huaxin pretended to be angry, and the two of them quickly changed their words,
"Okay, mother, we will be obedient."
Luo Huaxin nodded with satisfaction, and a familiar cunning flashed in her eyes when she looked at Luo Xue.
Look, everything is arranged clearly for you in just two sentences, without any further explanation.
Luo Xue was speechless. Even at this time, her adopted mother still liked to joke.
"Is this trip dangerous?" Su Yiyao asked with some concern.
"There's no danger," Luo Huaxin shook her head, her expression suddenly complicated, "Because that world fragment is... that's all. You'll all know when we get there."
"... us?"
Lingling frowned slightly.
"Although you can't touch the 'Silver Shadow', it's still okay for you to take a look outside." Luo Huaxin said, then stood up, "Let's set off now without further ado?"
"Um."
Luo Xue nodded, her expression becoming a little more serious.
... ...
On the black bone boat.
Luo Huaxin looked at everything on this immortal boat, and after a long while, she said with emotion, "So this is... an immortal boat."
"In fact, it is only a part of it. We dismantled the Mysterious Bone Boat and only kept a part of the core." Luo Xue said, "The real immortal boat is much larger than this Mysterious Bone Boat."
"I know." Luo Huaxin nodded and whispered, "Emperor Dugu controls five giant living immortal boats, and has transformed into the appearance of evil demons from outside the domain. I was unfortunate enough to witness the scene when they crushed the four regions of Jiuzhou."
Luo Xue was silent for a while. When she was lost in Guixu, she had already seen the Fallen Immortal Boat gradually coming alive. It was a pity that she was unable to pass on this important news until she fell silent.
Wei's best efforts were still useful at that time, at least it delayed the exposure of Emperor Dugu's plan.
If Luo Xue had managed to escape successfully, the Living Fallen Immortal Boat that had not been completed that year would have been impossible to complete.
Unfortunately, there is no if, the disaster has already happened.
"However, I always feel that there is something indescribably strange about this fairy boat..."
Luo Huaxin stretched out her hand slightly and touched the wall of the Xuan Gu Boat, then cast her gaze towards the core of the Xuan Gu Boat, frowning slightly.
"What's wrong?" Luo Xue asked.
"Nothing, maybe it's an illusion." Luo Huaxin laughed dumbly, "It feels very familiar, but I have never touched the Mysterious Bone Boat... I haven't even entered a normal Immortal Boat."
"Do you have the same feeling?" Ling Ling asked in surprise, "I had a similar strange feeling when I first explored many years ago..."
"So... A Ling, that's what she's called, right? Have you found the result?" Luo Huaxin asked with an interested expression.
Ling Ling shook her head and said regretfully, "Unfortunately, no."
"I just don't feel anything..."
Luo Xue muttered.
She even has all the authority on the Xuan Gu Boat, including the authority to directly dismantle it, but she does not have the same "feeling" as Luo Huaxin and Ling Ling.
"It's nothing, maybe just a sense of déjà vu." Luo Huaxin smiled, looked at the positioning beacon, and her face darkened slightly, "We're already here, just ahead."
The Xuan Gu Boat slowly stopped in Guixu and hovered above a piece of world fragment.
Hearing this, everyone looked curiously at the images transmitted by the surveillance formation, but they only saw an imperceptible darkness in the dead silence of Guixu. The deep darkness filled a piece of land, as if a corner had been dug out.
"This is... the fragment of the world you mentioned?"
Luo Xue was more direct. She did not use a monitoring formation, but used her spiritual sense to contact the fragments of the world.
Rather than saying this is a fragment of the world, it is better to say... this is a black hole, a collapsed world.
All existences that fill it will be devoured by it, and the flow of time in it will be slowed down to an unimaginable level, almost equivalent to being paused.
One second inside may be equivalent to... one epoch outside.
If Luo Xue were asked to imagine what the fragment of this world would be used for, there would only be one use.
—cage.
Could this be a cage specifically used to imprison “suspected gods”
Luo Huaxin saw the doubt in Luo Xue's eyes and said softly,
"It is not entirely for the purpose of detaining the 'Silver Shadow'. In fact... the 'Silver Shadow' was included in this world fragment purely by chance, because its real function... is to be a 'tombstone'."
She lowered her eyes slightly and continued, "Our 'tombstone'."
tombstone.
These two light words carry the weight of an entire brilliant world.
Luo Xue didn't say anything. She could feel the heaviness and sadness in her stepmother's heart when she said these two words.
"I have always wanted you not to return to this world, because both I and the Phoenix Masters know very well that this world will eventually be destroyed and completely destroyed in the vast tide of evil demons from outside the domain."
"In other words, this is a hopeless world, a world without a future. There will be no more reincarnation and past, only chaos and disaster."
Luo Huaxin looked at the fragments of the "tombstone" world, and her eyes suddenly became distant.
"We will die, everyone will die, and the world will cease to exist, but... at least we want other possible worlds to know that we once existed."
"The tombstone can preserve anything almost forever. We put items or wills that can represent ourselves into it. At the last moment of the destruction of the universe, we release it and let it wander across the world bubble barrier. It may directly encounter the existence that can interpret the 'tombstone', or it may drift forever in the ubiquitous Guixu."
She turned her head to look at the silent Luo Xue, and suddenly smiled, "Actually, Xiaoxue, the inspiration for 'Tombstone' came from you."
"Me?" Luo Xue was a little surprised.
"If it weren't for you, we wouldn't have realized that in addition to the vast world, there is such a wonderful and different world." Luo Huaxin cast her eyes towards Ling Ling, and softened a little, "Although it is small, it also exists."
Lingling sat dignifiedly, but because of Luo Huaxin's words, she sat up a little straighter, with a similar light in her eyes.
That's right, she was also on the Xuan Gu Boat. After seeing the communication between Luo Xue and Luo Huaxin, she finally accepted the existence of such a world outside the post-apocalyptic world.
"Oh, let's not talk about this anymore. It's a bit too sad. Although it is destined to be destroyed, at least we can delay it for a few thousand years." Luo Huaxin laughed a few times and continued,
"The reason why we placed the Silver Shadow here was because it would always run around in other places. If ordinary monks came into contact with it, it would be disastrous. So we had no choice but to choose this place."
The nearly eternal world solidification of the "Tombstone" can prevent the "Silver Shadow" from escaping forever. Even if it can escape instantly, outside the "Tombstone", it will be a distant future of nearly an era.
only...
"If that's the case, how can I get in and touch it?" Luo Xue said in embarrassment, "I can't come out and see that the whole world has been destroyed, right?"
“It seems like this might be a good idea.”
Luo Huaxin touched her chin and nodded thoughtfully.
"No, mother!" Luo Xue was startled, and so were Ling Ling and Su Yiyao beside her.
"Ahaha, it's just a little joke." Luo Huaxin patted his head and said cheerfully, "If that were really possible, we would have asked people to hide inside long ago, but it's a pity that it's not possible.
"Although the flow of time in the Tombstone is almost eternal, it cannot accommodate the existence of living beings. All living beings will be annihilated at the moment they enter the Tombstone... without exception."
"... I don't want to die like this." Luo Xue's eyelids trembled slightly.
"I don't want you to die." Luo Huaxin spread her hands and said, "Okay, I won't tease you anymore. If people can't go in, can't they take the things out?"
"Is this still possible?"
Luo Xue widened her eyes.
"Of course, otherwise why would we choose to throw the 'Silver Shadow' in? It's not like we don't need it." Luo Huaxin said as a matter of course.
"We'll fish it out every once in a while to see if we can receive any messages. All the messages you sent before will be stored in it, so we can still listen to the recordings even after we lose contact."
"...There is such a function?"
Luo Xue was really shocked this time. What kind of humanoid fully automatic communicator was this
"Anyway, I don't really know. I wanted to ask you why you sent something like this, but you don't know anything." Luo Huaxin pursed her lips, "I have already let the 'Silver Shadow' escape from the 'Tombstone'. It will appear in Guixu soon. You can go out and take a look."
Luo Huaxin already knew that Luo Xue could directly enter Guixu with her physical body. To be honest, when Luo Xue told her about this, she almost suspected that Luo Xue was actually transformed by illusion.