Chapter 1545

After carefully inquiring with Xia Ning Chang, Yang Kai finally learned that she obtained that ball of grey qi by pure coincidence.

Back then, Yang Kai left the Tong Xuan Continent. Xia Ning Chang was extremely lonely by herself. In order to pass the time, she could only sit in the Nine Heavens Holy Land and refine pills for people every day.

She was originally a Medicine Spirit Saint Body, and refining pills was cultivation for her.

While a large number of pills were being refined, Xia Ning Chang’s own cultivation was also increasing at an extremely terrifying speed. There was simply no such thing as a bottleneck.

In just a few years, she had already entered the Saint Realm and caught up with the realm Yang Kai had when he left.

Later, one day, she was extremely bored and secretly ran out alone to travel. As a result, she obtained that ball of grey qi in a hidden underground cave.

From then on, her cultivation became even more unstoppable. In ten years, she crossed the Saint Realm and advanced to the Saint King Realm. It took her another dozen or so years to reach the Second Layer of the Saint King Realm.

Yang Kai listened with his mouth agape.

Such a terrifying cultivation speed, even on the You An Star, the disciples of those large sects and powerful forces might not necessarily be able to achieve.

But on this barren Tongxuan Continent, Senior Sister Xia actually accomplished such a feat.

Xia Ning Shang ‘s ability to achieve what she has today is indeed inseparable from that mass of gray qi.

“After you obtained it, did you feel any discomfort anywhere？” Yang Kai asked seriously.

“There wasn’t too much discomfort either.” Xia Ning Shang thought about it carefully. “It’s just that sometimes I would suddenly feel a bit tired, and sometimes I would become very lazy and didn’t even want to think. Hehe, just like getting old.”

Yang Kai nodded slightly.

“Junior Brother, is there something wrong with it？” Xia Ning Shang asked.

“I don’t dare to determine whether it’s a blessing or a curse.” Yang Kai slowly shook his head, looking a bit worried.

“Then what exactly is it？”

“I’m not sure, but I do have a guess. If this guess is true… then this is Senior Sister Xia’s opportunity！” Yang Kai looked at Xia Ning Shang with burning eyes, his expression slightly excited.

That vague guess made his blood boil！

“By the way. Do you remember where you got it？”

“Yes.” Xia Ning Shang nodded.

“Take me to have a look！” Yang Kai said, reaching out to embrace Xia Ning Shang ‘s slender waist and sacrificing the Star Shuttle. Turning into a long rainbow, they disappeared from the Jiutian Holy Land.

Following the route pointed out by Senior Sister Xia, Yang Kai and she were speeding through the air at an extremely fast speed.

It took them just one day to arrive above a mountain range that stretched for tens of thousands of miles.

Xia Ning Shang had a good memory. Even though more than twenty years had passed, she still clearly remembered the place where she had found that ball of gray gas.

Soon, the two of them arrived at a valley. Yang Kai descended the star shuttle and walked towards a certain place with Xia Ning Shang .

Moments later, a deep and dark cave entrance came into their view. Xia Ning Shang pointed at the cave entrance and said, “Junior Brother, I went in from here at that time and went deep to the lowest level to obtain that thing.”

“Let’s go in and take a look.” Yang Kai grinned. With high skills and great courage, he was not afraid at all. He took Xia Ning Shang ‘s hand and plunged into the cave.

The cave was extremely dark and gloomy, and the air was quiet and refreshing. Instead of being damp, it was extremely dry.

As soon as he entered the cave, Yang Kai raised his eyebrows.

He felt a strong concentration of heaven and earth spiritual energy in this cave！

Of course, this concentration was only relative to other places on the Tongxuan Continent and could not be compared with You’an Star or other famous cultivation stars in the star field at all.

However, this was already very rare.

Moreover, the deeper they went down, the more abundant the spiritual energy became.

Yang Kai’s expression became excited. He suddenly discovered that his guess should be quite accurate. This abnormal spiritual energy was a side portrayal.

This is indeed the opportunity that belongs to Little Senior Sister！ If that mass of gray qi can be dealt with properly, it will definitely bring unimaginable benefits to Xia Ning Shang , allowing her to transform and emerge from the cocoon like a butterfly.

The two of them held hands and walked deeper step by step.

Suddenly, Yang Kai seemed to sense something and quickly stopped in his tracks.

At the same time, Little Senior Sister cheered excitedly： “It’s here, I feel it！ It’s coming！”

A strange energy was approaching at an extremely fast speed from the front. Yang Kai probed with his spiritual sense and found that the fluctuation of this energy was exactly the same as the one he had extracted from Little Senior Sister’s body a few days ago.

That gray qi fled underground and indeed returned to its original position. Now, feeling Xia Ning Shang ‘s breath, it couldn’t wait to appear and meet her.

In an instant, the gray qi had arrived in front of them.

It didn’t dare to directly pounce on Xia Ning Shang , but stopped ten zhang in front of Yang Kai.

It felt a threat from Yang Kai！

“Junior Brother…” Xia Ning Shang looked at him, seeking his opinion.

“Take it. I didn’t mean to startle it away that day. I just wanted to see what it was.” Yang Kai stepped aside and made way.

Xia Ning Shang immediately called out with her mind. Sensing Xia Ning Shang ‘s summons, the gray qi trembled slightly, then rushed past Yang Kai and directly pounced on Xia Ning Shang , disappearing into her body.

Xia Ning Shang’s delicate body trembled, and a soft ying ning escaped her lips.

Suddenly, golden lights flickered in Yang Kai’s left eye, and a long and narrow, majestic golden pupil appeared staring intently at Xia Ning Shang .

The Eye of World Annihilation！

Under his spy, after Senior Sister Xia received that mass of gray qi a layer of grayish and hazy aura that was invisible to the naked eye indeed pervade her body.

This kind of aura is generally only possessed by those elderly people who don’t have much time left to live. Once this aura appears, it means that this person’s lifespan is running out.

Senior Sister Xia is in the prime of her life. Being enveloped by this aura, there is only one reason and that is the mischief of that mass of gray qi!

Yang Kai was not surprised either. It seemed as if he had expected it for a long time, and he was not in a hurry. He just beckoned to Senior Sister Xia and said, “Come with me！”

Xia Ning Shang nodded slightly and followed Yang Kai step by step.

The two continued to downward. I don’t know how long it took or how far they walked. Yang Kai only felt that the spiritual energy of heaven and earth around him was getting stronger and stronger. But this strong spiritual energy Don’t give Yang Kai any sense of comfort. Instead, there was a bit of the desolation of a last gasp.

When the spiritual energy of heaven and earth was almost comparable to that of a place like You’an Star, Yang Kai and Xia Ning Shang suddenly arrived at a huge underground cave.

In the deeper part of the ground ahead, there was faintly a weak light shining, as if it was transmitting some kind of message, impacting the sea of consciousness of the two people and summoning them to move forward.

Under this summons, Xia Ning Shang ‘s beautiful eyes actually became blank, and her body moved forward uncontrollably, like a moth to the flame, without hesitation.

Yang Kai’s face sank, and a low shout came from his mouth, and his spiritual thoughts poured into Xia Ning Shang ‘s sea of consciousness like a tide.

Xia Ning Shang ‘s delicate body trembled, and her face turned slightly pale. After regaining her senses, the blankness in her eyes disappeared, replaced by infinite horror.

“Junior Brother, I…” Xia Ning Shang was a little at a loss. Just now, she didn’t know what was wrong with her. She was dominated by an unknown force and couldn’t think independently at all.

“Hmm. Look over there！” Yang Kai pointed in a direction.

Xia Ning Shang looked over, and her beautiful eyes couldn’t help but tremble slightly.

There, there were densely packed bones sitting. Everyone’s flesh was extremely dry, and some had even long since been weathered into ashes. However, from the traces in some of the bones, it was not difficult to see that they seemed to have been drained of their own life essence by some force in an instant and fallen here.

“Who are these people? Why did they all die here?” Xia Ning Shang moved closer to Yang Kai, as if seeking some sense of security.

“If I’m not mistaken, these people are existences like you.”

“Like me？” Xia Ning Shang ‘s beautiful eyebrows furrowed. She was also a woman of great intelligence. With just a little thought, she understood： “You mean, they also once obtained that mass of gray qi？”

“Probably.” Yang Kai chuckled.

“Then how did they…” Xia Ning Shang felt a chill all over her body. The thrilling scene just now appeared in her mind again. If it weren’t for Yang Kai waking her up in time, her fate would surely be worrying, and I’m afraid her end would be the same as these people.

“Because the original body of that mass of gray qi wants to obtain energy supplementation, so it chose you, cultivated you, and made you stronger. The stronger you are, the more beneficial it is for it.”

“Why would it do this？” Xia Ning Shang looked puzzled.

“It’s about to die！” Yang Kai replied, and suddenly shrugged his shoulders. “These are all just my guesses. Whether it’s true or not, we’ll know when we go and take a look.”

Saying this, Yang Kai took Xia Ning Shang ‘s hand and walked forward step by step.

Under their feet, they stepped on those white bones, making a clicking sound, which was creepy and made people shudder.

Yang Kai narrowed his eyes and looked at the faint light in the distance.

Soon, the two arrived at the position where the light came from.

This was the edge of the underground abyss. The depth below was unknown, but when looking down, it could be found that below the abyss, there was a gray light, burning like a huge lamp.

The light was extremely dim, and the color was exactly the same as the gray gas that Xia Ning Shang obtained.

“Sure enough！” Yang Kai took a deep breath. After seeing this huge dark gray light like a lamp, he immediately confirmed all his previous speculations.

“Junior Brother, what exactly is this?” Xia Ning Shang looked at the gray fire suspiciously has a vague feeling that the gray gas in her body had a close relationship with it, as if it was separated from the gray fire, and the two were an integrated existence.

“Star origin！” Yang Kai shouted in a low voice, and his expression suddenly became extremely excited.

“Star origin?” Xia Ning Shang was extremely bewildered.

“The fundamental power that any cultivation star will possess. It is the manifestation of a star’s life and the key to the survival of this star, just like our heart！” Yang Kai patted his chest and explained. “Precisely because of the star origin, this star will have vitality. Without it, then this star will become a dead star. There are countless such stars in the star field. Perhaps they all once gave birth to life, but with the passage of time and the demise of the star origin, those vitalities no longer exist. When a person dies, it is like a lamp going out. The same is true for stars. If the fundamental lamp in front of us goes out, the Tongxuan Continent will disappear and become a dead star.”

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