Chapter 618: Undying Ones
As intrusive and overwhelming as Chaos Qi was having taken over each and every ridian inside Hao Xuan's body, no traces of it could be found within the first ridian where Nidhora had taken up residence.
Every ti Hao Xuan entered, he would always see the exact sa scene as he was seeing now. There were three eclipsed suns in the sky that seed to be bigger than anything he had ever seen before.
It was eternally eclipsed and no matter how much ti Hao Xuan spent in there, it would still look the sa. Under his feet was a perpetual inky ocean that went on without end and from he was standing, it looked like the sky and the ocean would never ever et but that was more of a feeling than anything real.
Hao Xuan was standing on the water but it felt like any regular solid surface. He moved a few steps forward before looking left and right.
"NIDHORA! SHOW YOURSELF!" he shouted again and again but there was no response whatsoever.
It felt like a dead world in there.
Hao Xuan who could still clearly recall the events of the fight when he tried to use her power and it was intentionally and forcefully taken back could help but get angrier by the second.
"NIDHORA!" he called out her na for the third ti and after waiting an entire minute, received no answer.
Hao Xuan bit down on his lips and then in as low a voice as he could muster, spoke using the constitution's power, [Show yourself!]
*Ruuuuumble*
The entire world shook. Hao Xuan almost fell down on his back, barely managing to keep standing by a thread.
He looked left and right, there was nothing. He looked back and forth, nothing. He looked up to see the sa old thing but as soon as he looked down, his heart almost jumped out of his chest.
Right under him where the previously dark ocean was, Nidhora's image reflected with stark clarity in the water. Her beastly vision of five horns and three eyes, the sa as what Hao Xuan rembered from before was staring up at him in silence.
Every interaction with Nidhora made Hao Xuan extrely uncomfortable which was one of the reasons he put this off for so long.
Hao Xuan straightened his trembling legs, trying to calm both the thumping heartbeats. He cleared his drying throat that felt more painful than it should.
"Wh...y didn't you answer?"
He stared at the once almighty dragon as she gazed back at her, making him feel more and more nervous.
"Don't make do it again, please," he said pleadingly referring to the power of the constitution.
Every ti he used it, it gave him the feeling of absolute control and irrefutable obedience from whoever it was aid at but...after the fact, it made him feel unclean...as if he had done sothing wrong.
They both stared into each other's eyes for what seed like an eternity when Hao Xuan suddenly sighed.
"Fine the-" he was about to use it again when Nidhora's voice ca into his ears cutting him off.
"You sll different," she said calmly. The image in the water did not change whatsoever but her voice was clear as day, although a tad bit weaker.
Hao Xuan blinked several tis, not expecting such a comnt from her.
"What...do you an?"
"Sothing has changed about you, sothing minor yet significant enough to alter your fate. Sothing you did recently has put you on a different path."
"I don't know what you a- Wait!" Hao Xuan suddenly paused, "Don't tell I sll like death or sothing?!" he asked with a deep frown, making the connection.
"All mortals sll of death, but there is sothing different about you from before...sothing ancient."
"Ancient?" his brow creased more and more by the second, recalling the recent events. A lot had happened.
He t a Demon God King, or so form of it. He t Xue ng, ca into contact with the Mount Cae disciples, all those were things that could affect him in a big way, one way or another.
"I don't understand. Explain yourself," he asked authoritatively, trying to sound brave but Nidhora straight up refused.
"You will see in due ti. Why have you called out, human?"
It was only when she ntioned that did Hao Xuan rember.
"Oh yeah! Why did you take back your power?"
"It had to be done, to protect your mortal self."
"Protect? ? From what?"
"Not what, whom. An undying one is near."
"Who the fuck is the 'Undying one'?!" Hao Xuan was getting angrier by the second listening to her cryptic bullshit. The more they talked, the less he understood.
A short bout of silence followed after that was broken by Hao Xuan.
"Well?" he asked impatiently, getting a vaguely reluctant response.
"Words hold power, human. More so than you will ever realize. The Undying Ones are immortal puppets of the Gods and one of them is here, the one that earned the title of the "Abysswalker". I must hide, bury myself deep within your psyche, lest you desire a fate worse than even death itself."
"Do not call for again until you return to the Origin Worlds. Only that place is out of his reach!"
The hard surface Hao Xuan was standing on suddenly gave way, swallowing him whole. When Hao Xuan opened his eyes again he found himself back in the outer world.
***
In the Walking City of the Academy, two n were sitting in the tallest building's highest room next to a window.
One of them was the Blood Prince Dai Zhi. He was sitting in front of another man whose facial features were concealed under a long black robe.
They were in the middle of talking when the man suddenly froze. He stood up and walked to the window, peering towards the pit and where Hao Xuan was.
"Is sothing the matter, Lord Yosef?" Dai Zhi walked up behind him reservedly. From his current deanor, no one would have ever believed this was the sa proud son of heaven as before.
The man nad Yosef kept silent for a few seconds before shaking his head, "Nothing for you to worry about. Just an old acquaintance."
Dai Zhi smiled, "Should I prepare a room for them?"
"No need," he shook his head, "I don't think she wants to be found right now, hahaha," and started laughing like a madman.
"Haha, yes indeed," Dai Zhi awkwardly joined in before backing off a few steps and whipping the cold sweat off his forehead.
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