1533 Searching One
“Look there! It’s Xia Fan and Traveling Buddha!”
As they were walking along the streets of Four Kings City, people quickly identified Xia Fan and Traveling Buddha. Everyone had big ttering smiles on their faces, nodding and bowing at them.
Life was so capricious at times; thest time Xia Fan and Traveling Buddha were here they were captives, but now they had be major figures in the hearts of everyone!
“I already guessed that you two would being over. The ck Egg is already repaired, and though it could not be made as good as new, it should have no problems being flight-worthy,” Luolin smiled and said the moment he saw Xia Fan and Traveling Buddha. He was wearing his sunsses like always, covering the scar he over his eyes.
“We’re about to see that huge secret you mentioned when we first met. The Four Great ns have informed us to depart for One in three days, and we n to leave right afterwards,” Xia Fan told Luolin.
“Luolin used a hand to lightly rub at a corner of his eye. He had once possessed a pair of unique eyes, the Yin-Yang Omniscient Eyes, but he was now a blind man because he saw something that he should not have seen.
“Please bring Jane with you if the two of you are about to leave,” Luolin asked them.
Xia Fan frowned, “Uncle, it is best if you join us too. If anything were to happen, we’ll be able to fly off on the ck Egg and leave this ce.”
Luolin shook his head and let out a bitter chuckle, “You have your n, and I also have my n, too. Go and investigate what you need to, and then bring the truth back to Ashen Moon.”
Luolin looked to have already made up his mind about the matter. He was once a famed warrior himself, a Legendary-ranked expert. That was especially true for his Yin-Yang Omniscient Eyes, a unique special ability that had allowed Luolin to force his enemies into a state of confusion if they unwittingly looked into his eyes.
That was until one day after he had been called to One, and had identally seen something that he should not have seen. After that, his eyes had been cruelly gouged out, and he was sent from God Metropolis to Four Kings City, bing a mere gardener.
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Xia Fan could not convince Luolin to change his mind, so he had no choice but to give up.
The three of them chatted in the study for a very long time. As they left, Xia Fan could see that Jane had already finished making dinner, and had even prepared a small set of luggage containing what few clothes she owned.
After learning that Xia Fan would be taking her away, Jane did not panic and was even slightly excited, on top of being slightly shy.
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When dinner was done, Xia Fan left Four Kings City that night and returned to God Metropolis, parking ck Egg at Hidden Wind’s training grounds.
“Oh its you, long time no see,” It seemed like Hidden Wind recognized Luolin. He was at first startled when he saw the sunsses-wearing Luolin, but then extended his right hand, the two men shaking their hands tightly, as if they were old friends.
Sitting in Hidden Wind’s little wooden hut, Xia Fan looked out and saw Hidden Wind and Jane hitting it off, the two girls chatting animatedly with each other.
Turning his head back, Xia Fan said in a serious tone, ” Since that’s the case, we should operate separately from tomorrow onward. Traveling Buddha and I will go to One, enacting the original n to investigate that. The two of you will remain in the periphery; be ready to respond at any time.”
“On top of that, we need to bring Dragon Dou with us as well. I’ve promised his mother to take care of him.”
Hidden Wind and Luolin nodded. Luolin had his own n: His eyes were buried on One, which had been his lifelong regret. He could never forgive the person who had done the evil deed, and though he did not explicitly state so, Xia Fan could guess that Luolin was taking this chance to take his revenge.
Additionally, Hidden Wind had already epted his fate. Given Hidden Water’s attachment to Traveling Buddha, even if thetter went to Hell, the former would follow him without a trace of doubt in her heart. Thus, Hidden Wind had no choice but to apany his only granddaughter.
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Three dayster, at the agreed-upon time, Xia Fan and the others warriors were gathered and herded aboard a destroyer that was bringing everyone to One.
God Metropolis was actually made up of two regions. The first was the outer region, which included God Metropolis and all the other big and smalls. Then, there was the interior region, which was where One was located.
After the destroyer passed through a space node, the surrounding scenery abruptly changed. The artificial sun of the outer region did not exist here, so it was very dark. In the distance was a dimly glowing, the rumored One.
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The warriors stered themselves against the ship’s windows, eximing loudly,”So this is One!” One was top secret, and outsiders rarely set foot there. It was practically everyone’s first timeing.
The destroyernded in a clearing in a forest. Everyone was dumbfounded when they disembarked, looking around in shock.
Though there was no artificial sun here in the interior region, there were still trees and flowers in the forest, all of them giving off a mild luminescence, so no one found it to be exceptionally dark. Aside from the flora, there were also various species that none of them had seen before.
A rose redder than fire boomed atop a palm tree, while Artemisia nts taller than an adult human bore kumquat fruits. Arge number of the organisms of One had mixed genes, and they could not be treated as normal, making the ce seem like a strange world from a fairytale.
“This way!”
Someone led the way, and soon, everyone arrived at a nearby red cliff. There was a cave under the cliff, and everyone bowed in its direction.
The elders of the Four Great ns lived in that cave, as well as the strongest existences of the sapient beasts. They were no longer recognizable, bing a group of monsters that could not face others. That was why they could only stay far away, and ry information through voice transmission.
*Whoosh*
While everyone was kneeling down on the ground, bowing toward the cave, Xia Fan grabbed Traveling Buddha and the two sprinted off into the forest. At the same time, Xia Fan pushed a red button on his belt, unleashing a shield around himself.
One old monster among the elders of the Four Great ns went by the name of Ashen Abyss. He was able to scan the entire with his mind alone, and was also the same person who had kept Xia Fan and Traveling Buddha spatially suspended thest time.
Nevertheless, his special abilities had a weakness; Ashen Abyss depended on his seventh brain region to differentiate between humans and beasts, so Xia Fan had ced a beast crystal inside his shield generator as its power source. In that way Ashen Abyss would be misled into seeing Xia Fan and Traveling Buddha as beasts, letting them be. It was a trick that Luolin had taught Xia Fan.
ording to the map Luolin had drawn for them, Xia Fan and Traveling Buddha traveled frantically across One, and in no time at all, arrived at the canyon marked on the map. The canyon was ten thousand meters deep, and there was a big river raging endlessly along the bottom.
“This should be the ce!” Xia Fan stored the map away and said to Traveling Buddha, “We’re going to go along the river, and we will arrive at the deepest part of One. Are you ready?”
Traveling Buddha nodded. All those years back, Luolin had entered from this ce to learn the elders’ secret, and lost his eyes as a result, paying a painful price for it.
The two leaped off and cannonballed down into the river below, sshing loudly. The water was ice cold, and the current was urgent. They were pushed along by the river and descending rapidly. It was like sitting on a rollercoaster, as the huge drops only made the river water rush ever faster and faster!
Pearl appeared, standing vigntly on Xia Fan’s shoulder, a cold glimmer of light radiating from her body, shining ahead for Xia Fan and Traveling Buddha.
“It should be just up ahead. Luolin left markings by the brick wall,” Xia Fan said.
They jumped out from the river. In front of them was a stone bridge, with a cave on each end.
“To the right is the living quarters of the elders, while the left leads to who knows where. Luolin went to the right, so we will be going left this time,” Xia Fan told Traveling Buddha and Pearl.