Ye Yingyuan did not care too much whether Li Ling looked at him as anything she wanted.
But the discussion then continued after serial of laugh came from Wu Qian. She rarely laughed but this was the first time that everyone saw her laughing.
“Why are you laughing?” Wei Liang asked and related it with the little boy and girl in front of him. But both of them only stuck their tongue out.
“Alright then, continue from where we begin. I believe that Miss Qian once heard of the Corrosion Seal before?” Ye Canghai asked in a serious manner. His eyes looked toward Wu Qing in hope.
“Yes, that was the seal that usually appeared from the Allway Sect. You all here must be know about that sect right?”
The Allway Sect was the ancient sect that was specialized in boosting one cultivation using all possible way. Even the demonic path was only middle ranked in their sect because their path of cultivation really against the heaven or to be frank, against common sense.
“That sect finally perishes with the passage of time and the only thing that it left was their inheritance about their strong foundation.” This time, Ye Yingyuan completed the narrative with his own understanding.
This sect was the most infamous throughout the world. It was as if hearing this name would bring misfortune to anyone that says it because the certain emperor ordered it.
“Amazing. To even memorize the content of the ancient sect is a great ability of yours.” Hou Fei praised him.
“Thank you for the praise but I just read it so often that I unconsciously remember it all.” Ye Yingyuan showed them his innocent smile.
“But from your information, it looks like that the seal in Ye Xiaobai was like this?” Wu Qian drew the picture of the seal that Ye Canghai had seen that day. It was precisely the one and the same as before.
“Yes, it’s the seal. How can you know so much?” Wei Liang almost popped his eyes out. He never expected that his friend would know about such thing. But he thought about it for the moment that she may have the method to do it.
“Of course I know. In fact, in the place that I reside now most of this kind of seal became the reference for the alchemist and more to the Sealmaster.” Said Wu Qian indifferently.
“Elder Sister, what kind of people the Sealmaster is?” curious Manstein asked Ye Yingyuan about it and Ye Yingyuan just asked to her, simply as that. ‘Sealmaster? I really lacked the information about it and that name only appeared on one scroll.’
“Oh, you have a thirst for something that you recently heard it seems.” Said Wu Qing still showed her smile.
Then, everyone reached an agreement that Wu Qing would remove the seal but it needed a great amount of time. Not only that but they must use their full power to support the process.
In the first week since the arrival of Autumn, large movement from and to the Xuan city increased by twofold and it was because the mayor and Ye family used their best wealth and relation to gather the resources from many places.
At only this spare time that Manstein did the deep sleep. ‘Actually, I hate to do this because I really unaware of how much time have passed in that state. Besides, I feel something that only me can hear it.’
Not only he felt about this but this feeling was started to affect his activity slowly but surely. ‘Am I going to disappear one day?’
This was the moment where Manstein felt the loneliness just for himself, alone and tranquil. While his father was gone for years, his grandfather Ryner raised him and taught him so many things that he forgot to count it.
As the melancholy got stronger, the sound that called for him could be heard more clearly. This time, Manstein felt that as if a giant bell was ringing beside his ears.
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‘What is this!?’ Manstein started to waver. But as time passed, he clearly felt that the call was from the place below the ground.
The call was like a magic for summoning his soul to the place it wanted. But Manstein felt different as he also experienced this when he was at the critical juncture at the soul transfer.
‘It’s pulling me toward it!’ when he finally realized that the force the pull exerted this time was increasing and in fact, it was as if the force had the prey to eat!
But in the end, he was swallowed whole without much resistance. But the strange thing for the force to not leak any kind of spiritual energy made everyone that had known about his existence unaware of it.
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“What is this place?” Manstein could see the sea of stars all around him like when he visited the dome in the planetarium which projected similar picture.
His soul was fine but the thing that made him worry about this place was because only emptiness filled the space around him.
He turned around and even spun around in order to find something as a checkpoint but to no avail. “No signs of life either. Good, now that I already entered here I can’t find a single thing to look for!”
Manstein then decided to move in one direction. He could feel the vastness of this place just by moving around because no matter how fast he moved, the scene did not change one bit. But good for him, a bright light was seen at the furthest distance from his place.
“At last, some kind of direction.” This was definitely better than having no direction at all. After Manstein entered here, he had lost count to the time but he could calculate that it was already a week.
But no matter he moved slowly or fast, Manstein still felt that the distance between him and the light was far away. This made his will weakened because of boredom. The only blessing for him maybe that his soul did not dissipate here.
“Actually, what kind of space is this place? I still find this place to become more mysterious instead and it was near the place that the Ye residence stood right now.”
‘Maybe this was the remnant of some powerful cultivators that still undiscovered and only a soul could enter.’ Manstein became more serious as he had realized that no one still knows about this.
‘Why is it that no one was able to find this place?’ while he was still moving, Manstein kept thinking about it. If this place was really the remain of a great cultivator, then someone would have definitely come here to retrieve it.
In the end, Manstein just let it pass as a question that would be answered by the passage of time.
A sound could be heard in that kind of condition. Manstein felt that as if his entire being was shaken to the core. Space trembled and the stars shattered altogether, making this scene quite fantastic yet like a tragedy.
Then Manstein found himself standing in the white space without anything and by without anything, it was literally without any object.
“Is there someone here?” Manstein tried to call just in case someone was really here but he received no reply.
Then, a crystal started to appear in the white space without something to make it appear in that place. This crystal turned the white colored space to the most colorful place that Manstein could imagine.
“Body and soul are like the carriage and its driver. No carriage can direct itself without someone to control it. And the driver became the soul for the carriage, bringing the driver to the place that the driver desires.”
Someone was already beside Manstein while each word from him rang at Manstein.
“Good perspective. But what do you mean by carriage only without mentioning the animals who pulled it?” Manstein had seen that the carriages here still used animals as the power to pull the carriage.
But why this person said only the ‘carriage’ without saying anything about the animals who pulled it.
“Because I want to tell you about something amazing. A carriage that can be used without animals.” The man spoke confidently and then the crystal turned into something that even Manstein could recognize its form.
‘Did he mean something like a car? Or is it train?’ Manstein could tell that this kind of transportation only available at the more advanced stage in technology development and not something that could be developed from a single night.
‘Then, is it possible that there are more worlds that have more advanced technology than my world?’ this thought of Manstein could be considered a new kind of hypothesis for himself to look forward.
“Do you mean that this carriage used some things that can make the carriage move? Or you just use some energy that cultivator used to move it?”
If that was true then the energy source could be changed from what Manstein understood. ‘This kind of transportation may be useless in the front of cultivators who can move as far as the eyes can see but to normal people, this becomes the part that unable to separate from modern life.’
While Manstein was lost in thought, the man looked at him in surprise. ‘He acted calmly and even just asked some question in return instead.’
“Actually, this is the collaboration works that my friend and I do.” The man smiled while he walked towards the crystal. The man used his hands to touch the crystal that already turned into a layer of crystal.
This layer of crystal then started to radiate light, one by one until it formed the picture of every part of the carriage.
“As you can see, this is what I have here right now. Your coming here is a blessing for you and me.” The man had the happy look on his face while Manstein wanted to get out from here.
‘No wonder no one comes here. I never expect that someone just uses this place as a room for experiment.’ From the explanation from the man, Manstein understood that this place was a secret space that this man used for his necessity.
“Looks like it.” Manstein just nodded and looked agree with the man. “Then do you know the exit?” asked Manstein.
“What!? So you enter this place due to the factor of luck.” The man showed his disappointment in this. Previously, he had thought that finally someone could come here after a long time.
Manstein then laughing before said, “No luck. Just that the attraction force make me come here uninvited.”
The man did not know whether to laugh or cry. It was because that the attraction force that Manstein had mentioned was something that he had set. “Are you really mean what you said?” he said in his confusion.
Manstein wanted to roll his eyes but suddenly saw something in the crystal that made his interest piqued. He slowly moved closer and every time he got closer, a barrier was activated to stop Manstein from advancing.
‘I definitely saw it!’ the picture that the crystal showed always changed like a change of channel in television but the interval for each change was so fast that normal person could only see a part of it.
“What are you doing?” the man tilted his head because the behavior Manstein showed really unexpected from someone who had come here for the first time.
The truth was, Manstein never really took a glance at that picture that showed the models for the vehicle. Even when there were some innovative things mixed in there, he still did not care. It was because there was something that he could really well recognize from this picture.
Then Manstein said with his voice just barely loud enough because of his expression when he moved towards the crystal. Even when his body was prevented from getting closer but he could still ask the man.
“Who is your partner? Is she the one that showed in the picture?”