Chapter 145: Cause and Effect

Chapter 145: Cause and Effect

Zhanyue felt his entire body submerged in water, jostling along, his mind hazy.

When he regained consciousness, he found himself tied to a wooden frame, bound by chains made of flowing water. Was his captor an expert in water control?ViiSiit novelbi/n(.)c/(o)m for latest novels

As he opened his eyes, he saw a tall figure in a black robe standing before him, speaking in a deep male voice.

“Don’t move. Don’t struggle.”

“Who are you?” Zhanyue pretended to be panicked.

“Kid, you did well on Ghost Island,” the black-robed figure said.

Zhanyue’s body tensed. The other person knew about his activities on Ghost Island? Was it someone else from there? Mad Blade, who had tried to capture him before, was also someone he had encountered on Ghost Island.

“Sir, let’s talk this over,” Zhanyue pleaded.

“Hehe, you think you disguised yourself well, but you can’t fool us. Those treasures couldn’t be taken out without some ability,” the black-robed man said calmly. “Enough talk.” The man began placing formation flags and strange objects around Zhanyue, clearly setting up a formation.

“If you’re going to kill me, at least let me die knowing why!” Zhanyue said.

“I have no obligation to explain your death to you,” the black-robed man was very cautious, unwilling to reveal his identity even with 100% confidence.

“This formation is the Soul-Stealing Memory Search Array? Wasn’t it lost?” the Illumination Goddess was surprised. It seemed this black-robed person wanted to search Zhanyue’s soul to obtain information from his mind.

“Sister, you know this formation?” Zhanyue was surprised. He wasn’t worried about his safety because the Illumination Goddess was nearby.

“I’ve read some formation texts. These special tools are definitely materials for the Soul-Stealing Memory Search Array. This formation will suppress your soul power, allowing him to directly search your memories through your soul,” the Illumination Goddess explained.

“What should we do?” Zhanyue asked urgently.

“Don’t panic. Although the formation text I read didn’t include setup instructions, it did have breaking methods. Let me think... if your soul power is higher than his, you can reverse the formation and obtain his memories instead,” the Illumination Goddess said.

On Ghost Island, in a secret chamber, Ghost Shark Elder Meng Ao’s face showed great alarm.

“Not good, the formation has reversed. He’s searching my soul in return!” Meng Ao knew his plan had backfired, but he acted decisively, immediately severing all connections with his external incarnation and abandoning that body. A hundred years of effort, wasted. As he abandoned the external incarnation, the soul fragment in that body returned to the main body, escaping Zhanyue’s continued soul search.

The water chains binding Zhanyue’s limbs instantly dissipated. Zhanyue looked at the fallen black robe on the ground with regret. “The soul search was interrupted.”

“Yes, this black robe was that person’s incarnation. He abandoned it to save himself. How much knowledge did you obtain?” the Illumination Goddess asked. Their souls had now separated.

“Quite a bit. At least I know who he is and why he wanted to capture me,” Zhanyue sat cross-legged, beginning to organize the new information in his mind. The ‘person’ under the black robe had turned into a section of purple divine wood, clearly no ordinary object.

In the memories, Zhanyue saw a huge turtle. Its head had been cut off, its limbs bound by massive chains. On its back was a piece of land – the legendary ‘Ghost Island’. The true name of Ghost Island was actually ‘Turtle Island’, named after the island on the divine turtle’s back.

As the memories unfolded, Zhanyue saw a magnificent golden palace deep under the sea, all its structures incredibly huge. Inside the palace, countless Ghost Shark clan members were busy working. Deep within the palace was an exceptionally powerful aura that the memory’s owner both respected and feared greatly.

“Is this the Ghost Shark clan’s lair? That aura is terrifying, even... even not inferior to sister’s. The Ghost Shark clan has such formidable foundations,” Zhanyue pondered.

Then, the memories took him above the sea surface to a vast, boundless world – a world not belonging to the Myriad Spirits Realm.

“This... is this the real world?” Zhanyue knew he was seeing the world outside the Myriad Spirits Realm, the complete world. The Myriad Spirits Realm was just a remote corner of this complete world.

In the memories, Zhanyue also obtained a cultivation technique called “External Incarnation”, as it was one of the Ghost Shark elder’s deepest memories. However, when he tried to search further, it suddenly stopped, yielding nothing more.

Zhanyue looked at the mysterious purple wood on the ground, revealing a smile. “The difficulty in cultivating an external incarnation isn’t the technique itself, but the materials for the incarnation. This Ghost Shark elder’s hundred years of effort has ultimately benefited me, haha.”

“Don’t be too happy yet. Aren’t you afraid of his revenge?” the Illumination Goddess reminded.

“Sister, you don’t know. He violated the so-called Patriarch’s rules by secretly coming out with an external incarnation. Now that I know many of his memories, which are secrets the Ghost Shark clan absolutely cannot reveal, if this gets out, he’ll be the first to die without a burial place. I think he can only swallow this bitter pill and pretend nothing happened. After all, outsiders don’t know he cultivated an external incarnation, and his main body never left Ghost Island. Any leak from Ghost Island would be unrelated to him.”

“Is that so? Quickly tell me, what did you learn?” The Goddess was extremely curious about Ghost Island, otherwise she wouldn’t have let Zhanyue take such a great advantage.