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Ethan's sea of consciousness began to tremble violently.
Visible cracks started to appear everywhere, while a blackish-green aura began to envelop the space.
Bai Yu didn't know what was happening, but it didn't take long for her to understand the cause of this strange phenonon.
'Could it be related to a spiritual beast?
But how? It shouldn't be possible, especially at this stage, not to ntion this oppressive aura.
Just…
What in the world is going on?'
Ethan was asking himself the sa question at that mont.
After he began to focus more on the fragnts of his soul he could sense, he had almost completely detached from the rest of the world, entering a state of absolute concentration.
For him, ti had lost all aning, and the only thing on his mind was to close the gap between him and the perception of his soul more and more.
At a certain point, he could finally confirm that what he was sensing was indeed his soul.
But just as he managed to fully sense it, he also felt sothing else.
'This... what is this?' he asked himself in confusion, feeling a sort of connection to sothing.
At first, he thought it was his soul artifact, the silver cauldron, but then he sensed a strange attraction coming from whatever was beyond this connection.
He doubted it was the Seven Sages' amphora, as that was located within his spiritual sea, and the only connection he felt with it was through the system.
He wasn't sure if it was indeed the amphora or sothing else, but he decided to investigate.
He focused more on it, and as if entering a portal, his consciousness was suddenly transported to a completely different place.
It was similar to when he entered his spiritual sea, where he could feel his ethereal form moving within it.
Although he wasn't in his physical body, he still sohow felt a slight headache, and for a few seconds, he struggled to stabilize his mind.
After a few monts, he finally regained his composure, and as his eyes managed to focus on his surroundings, he muttered,
'W-what …'
As his vision cleared, all he could see was a black tunnel in which his soul seed to be traveling at high speed.
On the tunnel walls, lights of different colors appeared and disappeared constantly.
The speed at which they appeared and then vanished made Ethan realize that his soul was traveling at an incredible velocity.
He wasn't sure what was happening or where his soul was being taken, but he knew the only thing he could do was wait and see, as he no longer seed to have any control over himself.
It was like being pulled by a force so powerful that any resistance was futile.
Normally, Ethan would have panicked by now, but he thought that as long as his body was safe, he could survive whatever was happening now.
After all, he had a being like Bai Yu watching over his sea of consciousness, as well as the Seven Sages' amphora, which had proven useful in difficult situations before.
A few seconds passed, and finally, Ethan began to notice changes occurring around the tunnel.
The black color that surrounded him was gradually being replaced by what appeared to be a blackish-blue-green fog.
Ethan noticed that despite the high speed, he could distinguish this fog much more clearly compared to the series of lights from earlier.
Then he realized that it wasn't him focusing his vision more effectively; it was his speed that was beginning to slow down more and more.
What had been re traces of fog now beca an entire mass, and in a few monts, the entire surrounding environnt was enveloped by this strange fog.
The fog was everywhere, surrounding him from all sides, and seeing this scene, he couldn't help but associate it with the images taken by telescopes in Earth's orbit, of cosmic clouds.
It was a strange association, but it was the first thing that ca to Ethan's mind as he saw this scenario.
As he moved forward, he noticed that certain points in the fog intermittently lit up at irregular intervals.
It was as if sothing luminous inside it was moving at high speed.
After a few more monts, as his soul continued to advance, Ethan realized what it was.
They were bolts of lightning.
Thin, blue, luminous, irregular streaks resembling lightning surged through the strange cloud, moving from one place to another.
Ethan didn't have ti to examine them calmly or understand what they were because, after a few more seconds, sothing else started to co into view ahead of him beyond the fog.
At first, it was just a glowing dot, then it grew to the size of a baseball, and then to the size of a basketball.
The closer he got, the bigger the dot beca.
The fog around this area seed to dissipate like curtains being drawn back, allowing a view of the breathtaking, yet at the sa ti shocking, scene ahead.
At a certain point, Ethan could finally see the actual size of the luminous mass in front of him, and as soon as he did, his body broke out in cold sweat, a strange chill coursing through him.
"What the hell…"
What had once been a small glowing mass was now, from this close distance, a gigantic luminous sphere, so vast that even from this distance, Ethan could clearly see its enormous size.
The luminous sphere emitted an intense bluish-green light, like a sun in space, and around it, a dense mass of this fog swirled at high speed, forming what seed like a luminous ring.
Ethan had no idea what this place was, nor what this gigantic sphere in front of him was, but he knew one thing, no matter how hard he tried, he couldn't stop his advance toward it.
Currently, Ethan's soul was racing toward the enormous luminous sphere, with no sign of stopping.
Helpless in this situation, Ethan could only grit his teeth and watch.
He had tried to wake up, but he couldn't.
It was as if all the connections he had with his body had completely vanished, and he couldn't even communicate with Bai Yu or the system.
"Why the hell do I always end up in situations like this?" he cursed, lanting his bad luck.
At this point, his soul had already drawn very close to the sphere, and he could no longer see its outlines, only the blue-green light that was approaching ever closer.
'Hm?'
Reaching this point, Ethan thought he saw sothing move inside the luminous sphere.
'Could it have been just an illusion?' he wondered for a mont, but then he saw sothing shift again within the glowing mass.
"F*ck, there's sothing alive inside," he muttered, realizing that whatever it was, it was definitely alive, and judging by its size, it was anything but small.
At this point, Ethan felt like his fate was sealed.
All he had wanted was to perceive his soul, but sohow he had ended up in this kind of situation, where all he could do was wait and see what would happen to him.
From the movents of the creature inside, it seed to have sensed him, and feeling an increasing pressure on his soul, Ethan could tell that it had locked onto him.
This pressure kept growing and in no ti had surpassed that of the creature that had erged from the portal earlier.
In fact, there was no point in comparing it to that creature.
This one clearly emitted an aura that was many tis more terrifying.
Just as Ethan's soul was almost swallowed up by the luminous mass, in his spiritual sea, the amphora of the Seven Sages, which had remained silent the entire ti, finally showed signs of activity.
Suddenly, runes on the amphora began to glow, and several series of floating symbols appeared, swirling around it.
First, a ring of symbols materialized.
Then another, and then yet another.
In no ti, almost a dozen rings had ford around the amphora of the Seven Sages, each one larger than the last.
Bai Yu, who had been starting to panic over the strange phenonon affecting Ethan's spiritual sea, noticed the unusual activity of the amphora in the air and thought,
'And now what's happening?'
The series of rings made up of strange symbols, each one different from the other, began spinning faster around the artifact, and where it had initially only glowed in a few places,
it was now completely enveloped by a golden aura that slowly spread across its surface until it covered it entirely.
Then, out of nowhere, a column of light shot upward from it.
The thin column grew wider as it rose, while the swirling symbols around the amphora spun even faster, becoming almost indistinguishable.
The beam of light quickly reached an incredible speed, and in no ti, it had already struck the ceiling of Ethan's sea of consciousness.
At the sa mont the beam hit the ceiling of Ethan's consciousness, his soul, which had been sucked into the luminous mass, began to shine.
Ethan's soul was now completely covered in a golden aura, though it continued moving forward.
At this point, he was fully inside the luminous sphere, and the creature moving within it began approaching him.
Just as the giant figure of the creature, encased in the glowing mass, ca near, the golden aura surrounding Ethan shot forward at an almost imperceptible speed.
In the next instant, Ethan could no longer comprehend what had happened, as his mind suddenly went blank, and he imdiately lost consciousness.
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