Chapter 595: Tacit Understanding

Around him, the hanging stars continuously showered brilliance, intertwining into a field of light and shadow where countless silhouettes flickered, and the aura of the "Wilderness of Knowledge" spread around.

The radiance of civilization and knowledge erupted here, intertwining with surrounding death, eternal sleep, endpoints, and deep darkness, recording and analyzing each other's aura piece by piece.

At the edge of the surging river, Lei Kedun looked up at the towering giant bird and, with a calm voice, said:

"I need some water from the Eternal Dark River."

The creaking, swaying Illusory Gate lingered for two seconds before a voice slowly replied: "It can be done."

Having received the response, Lei Kedun fell silent, grasped the void with his right hand, and quickly condensed a cyan‑green seed.

The moment the seed touched the ground it began to sprout, growing rapidly, producing a somewhat illusory gourd vine that sequentially bore seven gourds of different colors.

After the gourds formed, Lei Kedun reached out and plucked the fifth cyan gourd; it solidified in his hand while the remaining gourds and vines quickly withered and vanished.

Lei Kedun's gaze swept over the rippling river surface as he extended the cyan gourd in his hand forward.

The river water splashed into midair by the motion seemed strongly attracted, spontaneously converging into the cyan gourd.

Gradually, the once weightless gourd grew heavy, and its cyan exterior gradually took on a shade of blackening.

Lei Kedun timely ceased gathering the river water, looked up at the massive Immortal Phoenix Ancestor Ge Lei Jiali, and said:

"I will find a suitable target for erosion and pour the Everlasting Dark River's water onto him."

As he spoke, he also lifted the cyan gourd tinged with blackening in his right hand.

As his words faded, the Illusory Gate covered in mysterious patterns slowly closed, piece by piece, and the massive Immortal Phoenix Ancestor Ge Lei Jiali sank once more into the pitch‑black, lightless river, where the surging water quickly became still and dead.

In that brief moment, Lei Kedun noticed the blackening on the surface of the cyan gourd had deepened further.

Thinking he must leave quickly to find a suitable container, his body instantly dematerialized, fragmenting into a torrent of tangled knowledge that surged toward the outskirts of Ka Er De Long City.

Boom! Boom! Silvery, exaggerated lightning cracked down from midair, electric serpents darted through the bizarre, decayed buildings, destroying structures and the hunters hidden in the surrounding shadows.

A torrent of information surging from deep within Ka Er De Long City pierced the lightning‑ravenaged zone, halted before Ke Lai En, who wore a papal robe, a triple crown, and wielded the Sea God's Scepter, and he swiftly reconstituted Lei Kedun's body.

Ke Lai En paused his action and, surprised, asked: "How did you get out of there?"

"I went inside to meet an acquaintance and reached some cooperation with them."

Lei Kedun chuckled lightly and lifted the gourd in his hand, its blackened, cyan‑green hue.

As he spoke, his deep gaze swept the surroundings, easily spotting the main eye of the bizarre, sorcerous monster encased within Ke Lai En's spirit body.

It was precisely this extraordinary material's allure, coupled with his instinct to complete himself, that caused the Spiritual Realm Raider to appear despite Lei Kedun already having disturbed the city, attempting to hunt Ke Lai En.

Soon, Lei Kedun saw the "Invisible One" cloaked in a translucent white robe hiding dozens of meters beneath the ground.

"It hides underground."

As he spoke, he gently shook the cyan‑green gourd in his hand, flinging a droplet that was completely matte, unusually heavy and icy.

The moment the droplet appeared, the auras of death, eternal sleep, and darkness in the vicinity erupted wildly.

It was like a drop of ink falling into a water tank, spreading wildly and assimilating the surrounding matter.

A deep dark tide sprang from the void, rushing downward, and in the blink of an eye it permeated the underground depths, enveloping the hidden "Invisible One" in the translucent white robe, silently pulling it into slumber where it gradually perished in its dream.

Ke Lai En stared at the streets and buildings around him, which seemed to have aged millions of years in an instant, and felt a sudden prickling on his scalp.

He subconsciously swallowed and then asked:

"What was that droplet just now?"

"In that instant, I felt as if I returned above the Gray Mist, the feeling of divining the 'Eternal Blazing Sun' and the True Creator—no, even more dangerous than divining them!"

"A drop of water from the Eternal Dark River."

As he spoke, Lei Kedun reached down, and a massive invisible hand pierced the weathered ground, pulling the slumbering Spiritual Realm Raider out.

After glancing at the Spiritual Realm Raider whose translucent robe had turned black, Lei Kedun turned to Ke Lai En and said: "It's contaminated; remember to purify the material before using it."

He paused, recalling Ke Lai En's limited use of the Source Fortress, and added:

"With ritual magic, you can leverage the power of that Gray Mist; the aura of the Source Fortress can dispel the Eternal Dark River's contamination and is harmless to you." "I understand," Ke Lai En replied with a gentle nod.

In the blink of an eye, only a faint, rushing glow of Lei Kedun remained before him, racing toward the distance.

"You still haven't given me the Spirit Worm," Ke Lai En raised his hand, then helplessly lowered it.

He sighed, looked at the Spiritual Realm Raider whose aura was rapidly waning beneath his feet, brandished the Sea God's Scepter, and struck the raider's spirit body.

Zila!

A bucket‑thick silvery lightning bolt materialized out of nowhere, slashing the slumbering Spiritual Realm Raider, shattering the black‑stained raider into a spray of slightly illusory bubbles.

Seemingly affected by the Eternal Dark River's contamination, the raider's traits manifested quickly; in less than half a minute, a palm‑sized, worm‑like, semi‑humanoid entity coalesced.

Inside the humanoid form, deep black liquid filled it, occasional bubbles rising, exuding an aura of strangeness, madness, secrecy, mutation, death, and slumber.

After a brief glance, Ke Lai En felt a wave of dizziness; without hesitation, he used his own spirit to envelop the raider's true soul and dust, then ended his response to the ritual.

His spirit instantly vanished within the ancient, eerie city, returning to the space above the Gray Mist.

Deep within the Spiritual Realm's library, countless brass‑colored glimmers floated, outlining strange symbols in midair that isolated the decayed, rotten central area from its surroundings.

Mr. Huang, clad in a scorched‑yellow robe, stood outside the brass‑glimmering zone; his normally placid eyes bore a rare hint of anger as he said, "Don't bring everything here; this isn't a place for you to dump trash."

"Sorry, it was just an accident."

Lei Kedun's voice echoed from within the decayed, rotten area.

Around him, flickering starlight shimmered erratically, the surrounding physical laws altered, and the deep dark river floated silently in midair, gradually coalescing under the starlight and being sealed into a deep brown glass bottle set with gold.

Having packed the Eternal Dark River's water, Lei Kedun let out a long sigh.

He then turned his head toward the library, now warped by death, decay, and deep darkness, gave an awkward chuckle, half‑crouched, and pressed his right hand—fitted with a mechanical glove—onto a gray‑white floor.

Faint, colorless, dim glimmers, as if composed of countless illusory particles, radiated from him, swiftly altering the surrounding material structure and cleansing the lingering auras of death, decay, rot, and deep darkness.

In less than half a minute, the area corrupted by the Eternal Dark River's water returned to normal.

Mr. Huang's figure appeared silently, and his voice was cold: "Hmph! Don't bring any more weird stuff here."

"Don't worry, it won't happen again," Lei Kedun said with an embarrassed smile.

Mr. Huang nodded lightly, closing the topic, his gaze falling on the gold‑inlaid deep brown glass bottle Lei Kedun held, and he said calmly, "You went to Ka Er De Long City? What agreement did you reach with it?"

Lei Ke Dun summoned an Invisible Servant, handed the glass bottle containing the River of Eternal Darkness water to the other party to place properly, then looked at Mr. Huang, smiling lightly and replied: "Help him contaminate a target."

"You want to take action against those people of the Royalist faction of the Spirit Teaching Sect?"

Mr. Huang exclaimed in surprise, paused, then he overturned his previous statement, saying:

"No, this isn't appropriate; to some degree, they could be considered potential allies, so are you planning to support the Night?"

Lei Ke Dun lightly nodded and said:

"Yes, the River of Eternal Darkness is too advantageous in the Western Continent, and choosing the Night will allow me to obtain more help in the ensuing conflict."

Mr. Huang lightly nodded, his calm gaze wandering in the library for a while, and the books placed on the shelves spontaneously activated.

Amid the rustling of flipping pages, Mr. Huang calmly asked:

"The war between Night and Ba De Hai Er is also Adam's ascension ritual; what do you plan?"

Lei Ke Dun glanced at the calm Mr. Huang, lightly laughing and said:

"An Ge Er Wei De has already been interfering with Adam's scheme against 0-08, but now He finds it hard to succeed, whether due to His own waning strength or lack of allies."

A book covered in many dragon patterns flew from the shelf into Mr. Huang's hand; as he flipped through it, he sighed:

"He does not lack allies; at crucial moments, we still share some tacit understanding."

(End of chapter)