For a mont, the only sound echoing through the dim space created by the Nomadic rchant was the agonized screams of the emaciated child.
Onlookers like Jiang Ye, Lin Ling, and Administrator 0000, no matter how shocked they were internally, didn't dare to even breathe loudly.
What surprised these spectators even more was—
The Nomadic rchant allowed Salvation to writhe in pain on the ground, then suddenly reached into the air again with his bare hand.
Like a black curtain being torn open, another rift appeared in the dark space above.
This ti, what got pulled out from the rift was...
None other than Administrator 4444 who had just disappeared and fled.
Ahem.
This was already the second ti Jiang Ye's Administrator 4444 had been forcibly dragged back by the Nomadic rchant.
The first ti on the rooftop of Apartnt 9999, he had been scared half to death.
This ti, however, he appeared much calr.
Landing steadily, he even had the leisure to clear his throat twice.
The black-robed Nomadic rchant glanced at him and said coldly:
"Without my permission, no one leaves!"
"..." Administrator 4444 forced a smile: "Yes, yes, yes."
Wasn't it just because he thought there was danger earlier... Misunderstanding, purely a misunderstanding!
Fortunately, the Nomadic rchant simply pulled him back through space and didn't pursue the matter further, turning his attention back to Salvation rolling on the ground.
At this mont, Administrator 0000 was shocked once again!
So Administrator 4444 wasn't sent away by the Nomadic rchant...
He genuinely escaped from the space created by the rchant on his own!
This guy...
Administrator 0000's eyes darkened, but with Salvation's example before him, he didn't dare even breathe loudly.
His entire body stiffened as he waited for the Nomadic rchant's next move.
Seeing Salvation writhing and screaming on the ground without taking any counterasures or showing any resistance, the Nomadic rchant finally said lightly:
"At least you know your place."
With that, the Nomadic rchant raised his right hand.
The black cross that had been handed over by Administrator 4444 to Zhou Qiming suddenly appeared in his palm.
Casually holding the [Reincarnation Key], the Nomadic rchant looked down at the child rolling on the ground.
His voice remained light, yet still carried imnse authority:
"Now, let ask you again—"
"Did you forcibly intercept the [Reincarnation Key] really just to nourish the Moon Phase Clock?"
The child rolling on the ground seed quite stubborn. Suddenly biting off a piece of his own flesh, he let out an extrely sharp scream before speaking with the flesh still in his mouth, his words muffled:
"N...No..."
The Nomadic rchant played with the cross while asking casually:
"Then what was it for?"
"For reincarnation? But you said yourself that even I couldn't achieve reincarnation with the [Reincarnation Key]..."
"With your abilities, it should be even more impossible, right?"
"What gave you the courage to take such a huge risk for an utterly hopeless cause?"
Only after the Nomadic rchant's light voice paused did the child on the ground dare to respond tremblingly:
"It...it wasn't..."
"Not for reincarnation... it was... it was for..."
"For Lightburn?" Seeing how difficult it was for him to speak, the Nomadic rchant directly took over his words.
The child froze, then nodded repeatedly before saying tremulously: "Yes, it was the Crow's prophecy..."
"Oh, I see." The Nomadic rchant's tone was almost playful as he chuckled lightly, "Did the Crow prophesy that the Reincarnation Key could spare you from Lightburn's pain?"
"Or that you had a chance to snatch the Reincarnation Key from ?"
When saying this, Jiang Ye vaguely felt the Nomadic rchant glance in his direction.
At that instant, alarm bells rang loudly in his mind!
The Crow's prophecy...
How was that any different from when he asked the Silent Tombstone about the Nomadic rchant?
So could it be... that whether it's the Crow or the Silent Tombstone, their answers about the Nomadic rchant are inaccurate?
What the hell? If they're inaccurate...
Could it be that the Nomadic rchant actually has the ability to enter the Reincarnation Graveyard using the [Reincarnation Key]?!
Just as he was lost in these wild thoughts,
the Nomadic rchant spoke again: "The Crow's prophecy isn't wrong—"
"The Reincarnation Key can grant you the Death State effect, which can suppress your Lightburn pain."
"But correspondingly—while in Death State, if hit by light-based skills, you'll be instantly purified, dead beyond dead."
"The other prophecy isn't wrong either—"
"I can give you the [Reincarnation Key]."
These light words shocked Jiang Ye once more!
What?! The Death State can suppress Lightburn pain?!
How co he didn't know that?!
Oh right...
When he experienced Lightburn pain, Administrator 4444 was in the sealed puppet state.
In that state, without even consciousness, naturally he couldn't feel the Lightburn pain...
But the real question was—the Nomadic rchant was going to give the [Reincarnation Key] to Salvation?!
This...
Before Jiang Ye could finish his thought, the Nomadic rchant added:
"Of course, not for free—it's a trade."
"How about exchanging this [Reincarnation Key] for your divine bird, the Crow?"
How about it?
Facing the Nomadic rchant, Salvation naturally had no real choice either.
Jiang Ye wasn't sure which was more important to Salvation—the Reincarnation Key or the divine Crow.
But he saw the already pale child's face turn even whiter.
With the piece of flesh still in his mouth, the muffled voice attempted:
"The Crow is bound to ... it... it can't be traded..."
The Nomadic rchant seed to smile: "Don't worry, with , there's no such thing as impossible."
"You just need to answer —are you willing, or not?"
Jiang Ye could see clearly now—
If facing Administrator 4444 or Zhou Qiming, Salvation would absolutely refuse to trade the Crow for the Reincarnation Key.
But facing the Nomadic rchant...
Salvation truly had no choice.
Willing or not, the answer had to be—
"Willing..."
"Good." The Nomadic rchant seed to smile again, even sounding rather pleased, his tone more polite, "As a rchant, I always believe in fair, consensual transactions..."
With that, he waved his hand and threw the black cross toward the emaciated child.
"Here, take this first."
With these words, the black cross actually rged directly into the child's body!
The Reincarnation Key...
Just given to Salvation like that?!
After obtaining the [Reincarnation Key], Salvation seed to imdiately master the Death State.
The state of writhing in pain on the ground instantly ceased!
He appeared to be in much less pain, though his face remained deathly pale.
Jiang Ye imdiately realized—
In the Death State, one couldn't feel pain either.
Previously, he thought it only numbed physical pain.
Now it seed even soul-level pain like Lightburn couldn't be felt in Death State.
And this Death State originally belonged to him!
Now it was Salvation's...
Jiang Ye watched with burning eyes.
He almost wanted to imdiately cast a light-based skill...
To purify this guy... no, this kid.
But after all, this was the Nomadic rchant's territory, and with so many people watching, he didn't dare act recklessly.
The now pain-free kid slowly stood up.
He gave Administrator 4444 an inscrutable look, then turned to the Nomadic rchant.
Taking a deep breath, he suddenly placed two fingers to his lips and produced a coarse, guttural sound: "Kee—aa—"
Just hearing this sound, Jiang Ye instantly understood what "harsh and unpleasant to the ear" truly ant—poor Bai Juyi really had it rough...
But then, he heard faint "kaw-kaw" sounds approaching from afar.
Hearing this, Jiang Ye looked around.
Mainly because it felt strange—
The sound seed to co directly into his mind, without any clear direction.
However, while looking around, he soon noticed—
A pure black bird seed to erge directly from the darkness, flying out of it.
It flapped its wings, clearly moving through the air.
But from Jiang Ye's perspective, it almost seed the black bird wasn't moving at all, but rather that his vision was zooming in on it...
Both the sound and the sight of this black bird gave him a very peculiar feeling.
It imdiately reminded him of what the Nomadic rchant had said—that the world he saw was different from others'.
So much so that at the mont he saw the black bird, Jiang Ye felt strangely dizzy.
As if this thing existed in a different world from his own...
Involuntarily, the scene from Room 2064 when the White-Robed Woman first appeared flashed through his mind.
Layer after layer, erging from the television.
Each ti, it seed she was coming from the TV into reality...
But in truth, it was layer after layer of worlds within televisions.
Until finally, truly erging from that giant screen...
"Kaw—kaw—"
Now the black bird's cries grew clearer.
Sohow it flew over and suddenly perched atop Salvation's head.
This bizarre sight made Administrator 0000 and Lin Ling exchange uneasy glances.
After all, this was the Nomadic rchant's territory!
This bird...
Where did it co from?
If you said it had spatial abilities? But its appearance was completely different from how the Nomadic rchant tore open space to pull people through.
Moreover, both Lin Ling and Administrator 0000 had sharp eyes—they strongly sensed—
This black bird's manifestation had nothing to do with spatial abilities!
This...
Truly a divine bird.
It must possess abilities beyond their comprehension!
The two felt awe.
anwhile, Jiang Ye was also examining the black bird.
Only, when the bird stopped moving and calling, simply standing quietly on the kid's head,
he suddenly felt it seed like just an ordinary black bird, nothing special at all.
This thing was a divine bird?
But just as he thought this...
The black bird's dark eyes seed to glance in his direction.
Jiang Ye's heart skipped a beat!
Damn! Could this bird read minds too?!
He quickly composed himself, then saw—
The Nomadic rchant beckoned to the black bird: "Co here."
After a mont's stillness, as if sensing sothing, the bird instantly teleported from the kid's head to the Nomadic rchant's shoulder.
Just like that, it seed the trade of the divine Crow was effortlessly completed.
In fact, the black bird's style matched the Nomadic rchant perfectly.
Both pitch black, creating a strikingly harmonious image.
Just when Jiang Ye thought the trade of [Reincarnation Key] for the divine Crow had concluded so smoothly,
the Nomadic rchant suddenly beckoned to the kid again, uttering two words: "Co here."
Then, just like Zhou Qiming earlier, the kid suddenly floated into the air!
The Nomadic rchant waved his hand, and though Jiang Ye couldn't see it, a rune's dark glow shot into Salvation's body!
This ti, unlike Zhou Qiming, Salvation didn't scream.
Instead, his originally deathly pale body suddenly began turning red, then black!
Soon, his entire body beca pitch black!
Then, wisps of black mist began emanating from his body...
Upon contact with air, they transford into black feathers that slowly flew back to the black bird on the Nomadic rchant's shoulder.
The black bird absorbed these black feathers, showing no visible change.
But Salvation, having lost those black feathers, underwent a dramatic transformation!
His entire body began growing from its emaciated child form.
Like a child rapidly maturing.
In the blink of an eye, he transford from a child into an adult.
Even appearing older than Administrator 0000—clearly a middle-aged man now.
Even his skin tone changed from vampire-pale to a normal human's tan.
In short, he looked completely different from the kid monts before.
When the last wisp of black mist left his body...
Like Zhou Qiming earlier, he fell from the air to the ground.
Though the entire process seed painless,
the middle-aged man now lying on the ground seed inexplicably lost and panicked.
He abruptly looked up at the black bird on the Nomadic rchant's shoulder.
The black bird let out another hoarse, unpleasant cry—
"Kaw—kaw—"
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