
The clash of the two sides caused an incredible explosion and pressure so heavy that the damage spread everywhere.
Even Xie Ruo who originally thought that all of it was just a memory illusion, started to frown when he felt an overwhelming pressure attacking him. It instantly makes a barrier to survive the pressure.
He felt he was at the same time when it happened.
Xie Ruo's guess was immediately answered in the next second. Xie Ruo's gaze now met with those two similar figures. To Xie Ruo's surprise, both of them looked at him coldly.
He's in trouble.
"Great!"
"It turns out there's a little girl here." The man who should be the Demon Emperor smiled coldly.
"Go!" Qu Xuanzi confirmed in an extremely cold tone without even looking at Xie Ruo.
Xie Ruo retreated, about to leave and put an end to this dangerous memory. He could die from their battle if he remained silent like a fool.
However when he turned around about to run out of the room, a blade of energy shot out at him. Quickly Xie Ruo dodged, the blade frazzled his arm until Xie Ruo's body was hit by a huge pressure that made him hit the wall.
The golden light struck the dark energy that was about to strike Xie Ruo again, but the pressure of the explosion caused Xie Ruo to feel unlucky to the point of being unable to move. Somehow the old man was unwilling to help her, only looking at her with an obnoxious faint smile. If he was an ordinary human, he had already died since the beginning of the battle.
Each time the two men launched an attack, each attack always rained down on the territory with tremendous pressure and oppression. Xie Ruo had to nimbly avoid. He wanted to get out, but the Demon Emperor instead blocked the exit making Xie Ruo desperately want to curse him out loud.
The two men continued to fight with a thick killing aura. The fight was so fierce, that the wind blew creating something terrible among the dark winds.
Not knowing what was inside the whirling wind, Xie Ruo was able to catch a glimpse of several blades hovering in the air along with a gust of wind. That speed was too fast to be seen with the naked eye.
The wind struck Qu Xuanzi, a golden light burst forth as it also created destruction between the altars and dispersed the vortex of wind. Yet the Demon Emperor was able to withstand Qu Xuanzi's counterattack that destroyed the palace.
The strength of both sides was too great. The pressure grew even higher as the two men clashed with a fierce fighting force. The energy fluctuation increased so drastically that the pressure in the air shattered everything that had befallen him like being swept away by a murderous wind.
Xie Ruo did not have a chance to run away. He would try to teleport to the safest place, no matter how far his radar was just when the attack was about to touch him. Although his success was small, he had to try.
As soon as the explosion actually happened, greater energy spread out in a matter of seconds. Xie Ruo was just about to dodge and teleport as planned, yet suddenly someone pulled his body.
Another golden light hit the blast radar, then shot towards the two men with even more pressure until the explosion occurred within the scope of the room. In an instant, the two men who fought the draw disappeared engulfed in golden light and vanished.
Qu Xuanzi finally felt relieved for handling the matter in time. His gaze was directed at the middle-aged man who was still standing upright looking at him with a faint smile on that stiff face, then disappeared along with the runes that had returned to death as well as the rest of the battle that disappeared, after which, as if nothing happened in this place.
Qu Xuanzi did not have any reaction seeing the old man. He looked at Xie Ruo in his arms anxiously, then grabbed the girl's arm that was spitting out a lot of blood.
Not knowing how Xie Ruo could find the place he had already hidden and locked it well. For now, he just felt so scared.
"What's wrong, it's gonna heal in the near future." Xie Ruo remained calm. Qu Xuanzi had already come, he was already relieved and felt safe. He should not have entered carelessly, knowing that this place was unusual.
"Sorry, you have to look at it, even to the point of getting hurt." Qu Xuanzi was extremely scared earlier. Once he was late, he would lose Xie Ruo. He should not have left Xie Ruo.
Xie Ruo shook his head, then gently touched the jaw of the man in front of him. "If it was the old me, maybe I'd be scared. But now it's different. Besides, I already have an escape plan, nothing to worry about."
"The energy generated from the opposite magic, is not something to be underestimated."
Back then even his grandfather was injured, this palace became a ruin before it could finally suppress the Demon Emperor. This was only the beginning of destruction. If he is late .. he does not want to imagine it.
"I've secured this place. How did you find him?" Qu Xuanzi was curious. It was impossible just because of the pure energy that broke the seal of this place. It had to be another god power that had a special qualification of pure energy. Xie Ruo was not yet a god.
"I found it just like that, and then opened it with my magic because the door was a tiger. I also didn't know the energy left here could bring up a memory so real."
When he heard Xie Ruo's explanation, he understood one thing. "There was someone else who had just entered this place before."
Xie Ruo was surprised. "How come? Someone who knows where you are very few, only the Upper World knows that you are isolated, but does not know exactly where it is. Plus, there was no way this world could be originally entered. What's he doing it for anyway?"
Qu Xuanzi's gaze was directed at one part of the wall. The golden light in his hand pierced through that part of the wall until something came out of it.
A wooden box that is not attractive, but has energy drenched in it. When Qu Xuanzi opened it, there was a jet-black crystal so mysterious.
"What's that?" Xie Ran asked.
Qu Xuanzi closed the box again and then looked at Xie Ruo. "We take care of your wounds first."
This place is too dangerous, unsuitable for talking. They immediately walked out of the room and went to the place where Qu Xuanzi used to be.
The room was neat and clean, as if not abandoned at all. There were many books on some shelves that stood firm, strongly showing Qu Xuanzi's anti-social temperament. While in another corner, there is a comfortable long chair occupied.
They sit in long chairs. Qu Xuanzi treated Xie Ruo's wounds deep enough that the color of blood stained his white clothes.
Since the wound was only a physical wound that was not alarming, Qu Xuanzi could heal it faster to the point of leaving no marks. Even until the bloodstains disappeared.
"Actually, I can also heal myself," Xie Ruo said.
"I caused this wound."
"If you want, blame that weird guy who didn't save me, just look at me like a freak."
Qu Xuanzi chuckled at Xie Ruo's nickname towards his grandfather. He said, "He's my grandfather."
"Oh?" Xie Ruo felt like he was talking to the wrong person. But he tried to thicken the face as thick as possible. "Well, very stiff. But how did he age? To my knowledge, gods cannot age."
"His position was different from that of an ordinary god, his lifespan was also longer than that of other gods. There was a special position in the God World, where one would gain even greater strength. However, the responsibility is also greater, should not interfere with the problems of the world, unless the world will be destroyed. Since he broke that rule, his abilities were dwindling and aging."
Xie Ruo nodded in understanding. Suddenly a thought came to his mind. "Why did you tell me? Such information, should not be known to others."
Qu Xuanzi smiled meaningfully. "Are you someone else?"
Xie Ruo felt that he was going to misbehave. Recalling Qu Xuanzi's words back then, he immediately looked for a way to change the topic that made him stir this fog.
Looking at the wooden box placed on the table, he immediately asked Qu Xuanzi seriously. "Before, you suspected someone broke through the altar, did it have anything to do with this thing?"
"The idea is the thunder spirit, is the key to going to the God World. Not only could gods use it, humans and other races could. After using it, it would easily reach the realm of gods and go to the World of Gods without experiencing death."
"That's great?" Xie Ruo was surprised. It was only fitting that someone would dare to steal it.
"However, this can only be used for someone who has already accepted divinity. To an ordinary person, it was useless, nor could it be destroyed to be made an item."
Xie Ruo immediately thought quickly as to who exactly the infiltrating figure was. "That means, an intruder has divinity. Is he one of the gods?"
"The gods, in their time of restoration, could not leave the Upper World. They didn't know the existence of thunder spirit stones, otherwise they wouldn't have infiltrated at a time like this."
"What 'he' did? Someone who keeps bothering you?" guess Xie Ruo.
Qu Xuanzi shook his head. "It's not 'him'."
Xie Ruo was getting confused. Is there no enemy other than that man? Or is that guy just his accomplice?
"This "small world cannot be entered only by divinity. Other than the Celestial Emperor's magic, only pure energy could unlock it."
"You mean, there's pure energy other than me?" Xie Ruo was surprised. Why didn't Long Long tell?
"Miss, pure energy can come to anyone. I only appeared in the highest ranked pure energy section. If there are two pure energies at the same time, I can only occupy one with the highest level. For this second pure energy, I don't know of its existence." Long Long Long immediately clarified not to be scolded.
Xie Ruo thought hard, what are the things he missed. If there was any other pure energy, the Holy Tower should have been looking for it. But he did not get any information during his stay in the Holy Tower.
If he thought about it once more, he somehow suddenly remembered Xie Ran. Before switching bodies, Xie Ran often visited him in the form of consciousness to prevent him from moving bodies. Xie Ruo felt that it was very strange, and increasingly made him determined to form a new body. What happened to Xie Ran?
Xie Ran always said that he would regret it. But never said the reason. His nature was also strange, making Xie Ruo agitated to the point of not being able to sleep due to Xie Ran's terror. He never told this to anyone.
Perhaps, Qu Xuanzi had the answer.
"Xuanzi, there were some strange things before I moved away from Xie Ran's body." Xie Ruo was intending to tell her.
It all started from when he learned of his identity as Xie Ruo. Xie Ran started visiting her. At first it wasn't often and Xie Ruo thought it was just a dream, but when he talked about body displacement, Xie Ran began to actively pull him into consciousness.
The first is when the 18th birthday celebration, Xie Ran had already made a strange request not to move bodies. What's the benefit to him? Shouldn't Xie Ran be happy because his body can rest in peace?
Then when in the Holy Tower, Xie Ran increasingly visited him and made the same request. Inducement after persuasion, then ended the threat that Xie Ruo would regret. Until it finally stopped when he had formed a new body and buried Xie Ran's body.
After all Xie Ran was the true owner of pure energy, he had only thought of it.
Xie Ruo told Qu Xuanzi everything. The man seemed to think. It seemed like this matter was getting more complicated making Xie Ruo anxious. He just hoped that his assumption was not true.
"If I noticed, you are a new soul, while Xie Ran is an incarnated soul. The incarnate soul can remember its past events before death in different ways. If as I thought, Xie Ran's soul was not human, it was just that he was reborn as a human. Even if you're twins, you're not the same." Qu Xuanzi actually had a more complicated theory, but he couldn't pronounce it because he didn't know how.
"If that's true, why did he ask me not to form a new body? Isn't it hurting her more?" Xie Ruo was getting dizzy for a long time. Actually, what would Xie Ran want to confuse him like this?
"For this, maybe you should look for it again."
"But Xie Ran, isn't he buried yet? It's impossible to rise from the grave like in a horror movie, isn't it?" Xie Ruo was not in a state of mind. If it had been buried, even though Xie Ran had not died, he should have been buried as well. How can it still be alive?
It was not that Xie Ruo wished Xie Ran to die. But the logic is like that. This is all beyond common sense.
Basically the altar was filled with dangerous memories thousands of years ago and was very real. If there was an intruder, it was certain that the intruder would die before it could take the thunder spirit. Xie Ruo couldn't even last for so long.
"If Xie Ran really came back to life and wanted to take the thunder spirit, there should be someone helping him out of the tomb and go here. With his strength, breaking through the small world and entering the altar in search of the thunder spirit himself, it was impossible to get out alive. Except ...."
Xie Ruo noticed Qu Xuanzi's change in expression. It seems like it's a bad thing. A person who knows about thunder spirits is not much, only certain gods and can be counted fingers, or it could be that no one knows.
Thus, someone who wanted a thunder spirit had to be from the Upper World. If Xie Ran was from the Upper World, then his past was unusual. "Unless he's an incarnation of a god, it could happen."
"God incarnation?" Xie Ruo had just heard of this. Other than Qu Xuanzi, he no longer heard of any other incarnations of gods.
"Some supreme gods can retain memories when incarnated, depending on how badly injured their souls are. But it could not maintain strength, it could only cultivate from scratch, unless its original body was still there. Even so, their soul force remained strong, not something to be underestimated."
"So you think Xie Ran got back up because of his soul force? Why was it that when Huai Mao killed him, he was silent instead?" Xie Ruo was still confused.
"Most likely his soul was injured, unable to remember anything. It seemed, Xie Ran came from the incarnation of the goddess who died during the war, that was why her injury made her memory disappear. But since he could tell the existence of the thunder spirit that even 'that person' was unaware of, it meant that his memory had recovered due to something. She was cultivating from the beginning, trying to become a goddess faster through the thunder spirit to go to the God World. Basically, any god would not ignore the existence of thunder spirits, it was only natural that he wanted to steal them."
Xie Ruo nodded in understanding. It wasn't bad either, but what bothered him was what Xie Ran said. "If it's like that, I hope he doesn't take part in conflicts or anything like that."
"It's hard to guess someone's thinking." Qu Xuanzi seemed to know something, but did not say it. For this matter, if Xie Ran did not act, he would not offend her.
There were too many conflicts in the Upper World, he did not follow them or take part, nor did he care what problems they experienced. So, he would not interfere in the matters of others, just focus on his own matters, and protect Xie Ruo well.
Looking back at the neglected wooden box, he picked it up and gave it to Xie Ruo. "For you."
"I'm not on a birthday." Xie Ruo could not accept that problematic object. Although he was interested in the benefits, still in order to avoid problems, he wanted to stay away from it.
"The spirit of thunder has consciousness, it can become your subordinate after being used either in battle or protector, he is useful. Moreover, it can increase your strength to break through the god realm. You take it easy, after use, no one will look for it anymore because it will not be useful for others." Qu Xuanzi did not want to miss out on anything good for Xie Ruo. Xie Ruo must quickly break through, or else his life is in danger.
Hearing about the other functions of thunder spirits as subordinates, Xie Ruo thought there was no harm in adding a maid. Moreover, the maid can be used to the fullest and prolong her life.
In the end, Xie Ruo received a thunder spirit. Opening the lid of the box, he saw a black stone that was very extinguished and mysterious. When he touched it, he felt a sting on his finger.
"Bad woman, don't bother me!" The childish voice appeared so fiercely that it shocked Xie Ruo. Despite being used to the thing talking, Xie Ruo was still surprised by the loud childish voice.
Xie Ruo looked at Qu Xuanzi. "He cursed me."
Qu Xuanzi knew Xie Ran's abilities and looked at the calm-looking stone with narrowed eyes. Qu Xuanzi's gaze frightened the thunder spirit. If he were human, it would definitely be cold sweat. Only, right now he was just a stone.
"It would be better if you use it now, danger if it is taken out," Qu Xuanzi said, turning his gaze towards Xie Ruo.
Xie Ruo nodded, while the rock started raving refusing to be used, only wanting to be saved to devour the energy. But Xie Ruo paid attention to his hearing, then closed the chatty box a little rough. The stone was silent for a moment.