Chapter: 6659

Ye Cheng shook his head: "I don't understand, it doesn't make sense at all..."

Lin Wan'er asked: "If Prince Ye Cheng is certain that his spiritual energy hasn't been absorbed by the ring, will something else absorb it instead?"

"Other than that?" Ye Cheng shook his head. "I only obtained this ring from you and another cauldron from Tao True Path Sect's master earlier, except for that, I basically didn't get anything else from other channels. But this time it's not a ring or cauldron."

Lin Wan'er wondered: "But... these enormous spiritual energies, even if they're Prince Ye Cheng's physical body can hardly carry them, why did these spiritual energies disappear without a trace after reaching the consciousness realm? I've been by Prince Ye Cheng's side all along and never felt anything abnormal. Logically speaking, Prince Ye Cheng's internal spiritual energy shouldn't have escaped from his body either, but it just disappeared without any reason or evidence."

"Ah..." Ye Cheng struggled to sit up, looking gloomy and exasperated: "This is like eating food that's several times heavier than one's own weight in a single meal. It sounds absurd, but the spiritual energies really did disappear without a trace after reaching the consciousness realm."

Lin Wan'er continued: "Prince Ye Cheng has probably never thought about why, when Prince Ye Cheng and I were standing beneath the aurora borealis, the aurora suddenly displayed that set of hand seals? Could it be that someone deliberately let the aurora transmit those hand seals to me, luring me into a trap just to steal away all my spiritual energy?"

Ye Cheng asked: "Do you mean that someone intentionally allowed the aurora to impart the hand seals to me, enticing me into a trap just to siphon off all my spiritual energy?"

Lin Wan'er nodded: "If this is a trap from start to finish, then the initial perpetrator of the trap would either be a person or an object;"

As she spoke, Lin Wan'er added: "The possibility of it being a person is extremely low. Even if there was a high-ranking expert hiding nearby when we were near the aurora, they wouldn't have been able to follow us across the ocean, tailing us all the way to Jinling and into this underground room without us noticing. Unless... unless it's some kind of supernatural entity, but that's unverified and unlikely;"

Ye Cheng agreed: "It's indeed not very likely to be a person or ghost. If it was a person, they would at least need to master the art of invisibility from those novels, otherwise they wouldn't have been able to follow us without being detected. As for ghosts... that's even more implausible. There's no evidence of their existence, and even if there were, they wouldn't be able to absorb spiritual energy either;"

As he spoke, Ye Cheng suddenly thought of something and opened his mouth: "Oh, Lin Miss, you mentioned earlier about the failed cultivators who can transform into scattered deities. Could it be that such a scattered deity is watching me?"

Lin Wan'er said: "Scattered deities are just a legend I found in some rare historical records. I don't have any evidence to prove their existence, and even if there were, failed cultivations have a 99% chance of being wiped out. The chances of someone transforming into a scattered deity after failing cultivation are tiny. So it's unlikely we'd run into one."

As she mentioned this, Lin Wan'er looked at Ye Cheng with caution and said softly: "Master, I don't have any other intentions... even if we really did encounter a scattered deity in Northern Europe, such a scattered deity should not care about the spiritual energy inside Master's body..."

Ye Cheng nodded in agreement: " Meng Changsheng cultivated for 1,000 years without being able to touch the edge of crossing over. This shows that cultivators during the crossing-over period are extremely powerful. Scattered deities are even more so, and they might not be able to recognize even Meng Changsheng. What's more, I'm like this..."

Lin Wan'er continued: "In that case, we can basically rule out it being a person or ghost, and then there would only be 'things' left. And if it's a thing, it wouldn't be an ordinary thing either; my father's ring couldn't even do that much, so the thing behind this is extremely likely to be much stronger than the ring. Master, you should think carefully about whether you've ever come into contact with any artifacts or if they're hidden in your subconscious mind..."

Ye Cheng thought deeply for half a day and muttered to himself: "To be honest, I haven't seen many good things since I started cultivating, and there's definitely nothing that could relate to this situation."

As he spoke, he also thought of the Four-Way Treasure Pagoda and subconsciously said: "If I think about the good things I've seen, the Four-Way Treasure Pagoda would definitely count as one; it was created by Master Xuanzang and countless cultivators together, a national treasure... but I've already returned it to the country quietly."

Although the Four-Way Treasure Pagoda is an artifact, it's one that was created for the nation's fortune, and Ye Cheng never discovered anything unusual about it even when he touched it. Of course, he didn't believe that this situation had anything to do with the Four-Way Treasure Pagoda.

Lin Wan'er persisted in questioning: "Master, did you notice any unusual abnormal situations during your interaction with the Four-Way Treasure Pagoda?"

"No," Ye Cheng shook his head: "The Four-Way Treasure Pagoda only transmitted an image from that year to me, and that was it. When I entered it with spiritual energy, I simply activated a hidden array method within it. In theory, it's as if the Four-Way Treasure Pagoda gave me a recording on its body, except for that, I didn't have any other interaction with it, nor did I sense anything unusual about it."

Lin Wan'er asked: "After that, has Master noticed anything unusual about himself?"

"No," Ye Cheng said confidently: "My spiritual awareness was withdrawn from the Four-Way Treasure Pagoda after looking at that image data, and I never discovered anything abnormal."

"Lin Wan'er said: 'The Four-Way Treasure Pagoda was jointly crafted by Master Xuanzang and the top practitioners of Great Tang, to a certain extent it can be considered a Buddhist ritual tool. And what we saw in the northern sky above Europe is also a Buddhist handprint. Who knows if there's some connection between these two?'"

"Although Ye Cheng didn't sense any connection with the Four-Way Treasure Pagoda, Lin Wan'er's mention of this point did make him somewhat suspicious, so he opened his mouth to say: 'In that case, the Four-Way Treasure Pagoda does seem suspicious. By logic, there shouldn't be any Buddhist ritual tools in Europe, and even if there was an anomaly near the North Pole, it should be a Christian cross, not a Buddhist mantra symbol. But I really don't sense any connection with the Four-Way Treasure Pagoda.'"

"Lin Wan'er asked him: 'Young master, do you want to get in touch with Old Sun and see if we can arrange for you to take another look at the Four-Way Treasure Pagoda to see if there are any details that were missed earlier?'" JrNovels.com