Chapter 2273

The darkest spot right now is the forearm.

It's really pretty.

Other colors really do look good.

Huh?

Zhao Chi suddenly noticed some lines appearing on his forearm.

The color was very faint.

This wasn't here before!

He quickly moved closer to look carefully.

Those weren't lines — they were text!

【Energy is being depleted. Please leave as soon as possible.】

Energy is being depleted?

What energy?

Please leave as soon as possible?

You son of a bitch, don't you think I want to leave?

I can't leave!!

How the hell do I leave!!

Zhao Chi kept looking.

There was no other new information.

But why were these words on his arm?

Zhao Chi hurriedly searched the rest of his body for other words.

There was nothing.

But on his other arm he saw that same line of text, identical.

And only then did he realize that the line of text wasn't on his arm — it was right before his eyes.

It seemed it had always been before his eyes; Zhao Chi just hadn't noticed.

The color of that line of text was really too faint.

And the surroundings were all pure white, so it was completely invisible.

Only against the darker skin of his forearm could it be seen in contrast.

And... he also noticed that the font of that line of text was exactly the same as 【Flower-Plucking Jade-Substitution】.

And it was emitting a faint glow.

Except these characters weren't golden — they had already almost turned white, with only the faintest hint of pale yellow.

Could it be... this really is a hint given by that ability of 【Flower-Plucking Jade-Substitution】?

Energy is being depleted — could it be that the energy of Flower-Plucking Jade-Substitution is being depleted?

This was the first time Zhao Chi had ever seen 【Flower-Plucking Jade-Substitution】 display a depletion warning.

Why would it be depleted?

What is depleting it?

There's clearly nothing here at all.

Could it be... that this space itself is... being depleted?

Is this place very dangerous?

Is 【Flower-Plucking Jade-Substitution】 protecting me?

Otherwise I would have vanished too?

Just like Gu Qing, Zhuang Ya, and those over four thousand female soldiers — vanishing in an instant without a trace?

Where the hell is this place?

Telling me to leave as soon as possible, but how the hell do I leave!!!

Zhao Chi was really starting to break down.

He forced himself to hold it in, forced himself to stay calm.

It must have been quite a while by now, right?

Why hasn't Tang Ruan pulled me back yet?

Could it be that I really can't be pulled back from here?

Zhao Chi looked at his forearm again.

That line of text still hadn't changed.

It was only dimmer.

It seemed this energy was about to run out too.

If this energy runs out...

I might vanish as well.

Damn it.

After transmigrating, I studied diligently for two whole years.

And just a few months after becoming a lord, I'm going to die here?

I haven't even enjoyed enough good fortune yet.

But... after I die, will I be able to go back to that side?

If that's the case...

Actually, that...

Huh!?

What is that!?

Just then.

Zhao Chi suddenly saw a flash of light far off to his lower left, and immediately afterward what seemed like an invisible burst of gas came pouring in.

Without a sound.

Then, a bright crack appeared.

The crack is over there!?

No, it's not the same as the crack from when we came.

This crack is low, but wider.

It really looks like a mark left by something being split open.

And... what was that invisible burst of gas just now?

Was it the gust of wind that just burrowed into my body?

Zhao Chi really wanted to rush over.

But he decided to look a little longer.

He stared at the crack to his lower left, unable to gauge it.

And right now both his sense of distance and sense of time were very fuzzy.

The crack looked small.

Only the size of a finger.

But perhaps that crack was enormous, just very far away, so it looked small.

There didn't seem to be any danger.

Go over and look?

Or wait a bit longer, wait for Tang Ruan to pull me back?

Zhao Chi kept staring at the crack to his lower left.

That crack began to shrink.

No more hesitation!

Anyway, he can't die right now, so whether it's dangerous or not doesn't matter.

Go over and look!

What if Tang Ruan can't pull him back, and this chance is hard to come by — once missed, he'll regret it forever.

Charge!