High above the skies and beside the stone door, Jing Mingfeng stood there with a curious expression on his face. He was inspecting the door all over, and if he didnât already know about what would happen if he put his soulforce into it, then Jing Mingfeng wouldâve already attempted to.
âEh?â
Jing Mingfeng felt the Core Stone vibrate a bit in his hand before he felt the presence of someone new beside him.Â
âOlâBai!!â Jing Mingfeng turned around with a smile. âYou recovered fast, are youâŚsure youâre alright?â
âIâm fine,â Bai Yunfei smiled back. He took the offered Core Stone back from Jing Mingfeng before continuing to say, âIâm back to normal.â
âMy myâŚyou just beat a Saint and now youâre already bouncing back after just a few hoursâŚâ Jing Mingfeng clicked his tongue cheekily. âIâm pretty sure not even a Saint can do that, you know? You are, OlâBai my friend, a certified monsterâŚâ
âItâs pretty complicated, but I managed to beat Gu Jimie after using all I had. Iâd never have beaten him otherwiseâŚforget it. Mingfeng, I found a way to open the door and want to try it. Help me keep an eye out.â
âEh?â Jing Mingfeng blinked, âA way to open the door?! How?!â
âIâll tell you later, I want to quickly see if it works or notâŚâ
âIâŚfine. Be careful then.â
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Bai Yunfei waited for Jing Mingfeng to be far away from the door before he turned his attention back to the door. Exhaling slowly, he raised his right hand and pressed it onto the surface of the door.
Scanning the door with his soulsense, he began to look for the right vein out of the many.
The intersecting veins were so complicated that Bai Yunfei felt like he would never be able to solve the pattern by himself even if he had a few hundred years to experiment with. Without some clue or something, heâd never be able to âcrack the codeâ.
He thought about the memorized pattern he had in his head as he searched the door. Slowly, but surely, he advanced through the veins until he found himself at the very center of the vein networkâŚÂ
In his mind, Bai Yunfei had one big and one small version of the pattern. He was superimposing the small version onto the big door in an attempt to see its true endpoint.
âRight here!â
Bai Yunfei picked out a few more of the veins on the door and carefully began to send his soulforce to the veins he was trackingâŚÂ
âBzzzâŚâ
Exactly like how the door reacted to Gu Jimieâs attempt, the door began to vibrate and Bai Yunfei felt his soulforce rapidly start to be drained into the door!
But Bai Yunfei remained still. He was calm and focused. Allowing the soulforce to be taken from him, he simply had the flow of it go down the âusefulâ veins from before.
Under his âcontrolâ, the soulforce ignored all the other veins and gradually followed a small segment of the vein networkâŚÂ
Only a few of the veins on the door were lighting up. Every other unnecessary ones remained the same. Eventually, the door had a nice glow to it, but the entire door was also shaking violently.
Bai Yunfei soon began to feel like his soulforce was going to run out. Itâd be another few breaths or so before heâd be forced to give up.
Right as he was within ten breaths of running empty, the door suddenly stopped draining his soulforce. He made it!
âWhoosh!!â
The fierce white light shining from the door intensified at once. Almost lifelike, the light then detached from the veins to form a giant white whirlpool of light!
âIs it open?!â
Elated, Bai Yunfei watched as the whirlpool thickened. When it looked like the door was about to open, he suddenly felt a strange energy suddenly pull at his soul!
It had been so quick Bai Yunfei didnât have time to react. Without resisting, his soul was taken into the whirlpool and his consciousness along with it!
âOlâBai!!â
All Jing Mingfeng saw was something exiting from Bai Yunfeiâs lips. Alarmed, he began to fly toward Bai Yunfei. But before he could even make it ten meters away from where he was, Jing Mingfeng felt a strange force repel him away! He wasnât able to get close enough!!
It only made Jing Mingfeng worry even more. âWhat do I do?! Isnât the door opened? Whatâs going on!?â He yelled.
The only thing he could do was watch as Bai Yunfeiâs person just stand there. He was alive, unconscious, but alive. And not in much danger, apparently. Jing Mingfeng heaved a sigh of relief, but he was still extremely concerned with trying to do something.Â
What Jing Mingfeng didnât know was that Bai Yunfeiâs consciousness was no longer in his body. It wasâŚtaken into the white whirlpool!
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Bai Yunfeiâs vision began to clear as soon as the world stopped spinning.
He had been alarmed at first. Though he couldnât fight back against the attracting force, he was ready to activate an elemental barrier at a momentâs notice.
But when he triedâŚhe found there was no response! He was no longer in his âbodyâ! Quickly, he tilted his head down to look at his body. What he saw was a ball of white light with a faint âoutlineâ. It was as if his body was now just some kind of silhouette.
âNo! This isâŚan astral body? Maybe this is my soul then!?â Bai Yunfei realized. âI rememberâŚwas my consciousness sucked into the door? Is that whatâs supposed to happen?â
He was out of his element, and that terrified Bai Yunfei. Trying his best to think of something to help his situation, he looked all around himself to see if he could find a clue.
The world around him was entirely white. Seemingly endless, it seemed like the world had nothing in it beside himself.
âWhatâs going onâŚdidnât I open the door? Whereâs the Supreme Saintâs Inheritance? Why am I in such a strange place? WasâŚwas that way to open the door just a trick?!â
While Bai Yunfei was âthinkingâ to himselfâŚÂ
âHaha, it was by no means a trick, young fortuned one. You are currently within the Supreme Saintâs InheritanceâŚâ
Suddenly, a voice spoke out to Bai Yunfei from âbehindâ!
âWhoâs there!?â
He âturnedâ around at once and saw a figure he had never seen before!
This silhouette differed from Bai Yunfeiâs. It was more âphysicalâ like, like a construct of light. One could see features thatâd be noted on a thirty-year-old man, though not so clearly that one could put a name to the face. However, the person did seem to have a regal and dignified air to him. An air that invoked respect.
Seeing how nervous Bai Yunfei was, the other person gave a laugh. âBe at ease. I mean no harm and neither am I capable of such an act.â
Calming just by just a bit, Bai Yunfei stared at the man a little longer. âWhoâŚare you?â
âMe?â The man laughed again, but his next words nearly sent Bai Yunfeiâs consciousness into shock!