Chapter 322: Withered Bones

Hearing the movement from behind, Diana turned her head quickly, and upon seeing Chen Fan, a look of panic immediately appeared on her face.

"You, Chen Fan! What about that black flood dragon? How could you be so fast!"

She had assumed that Chen Fan and that black flood dragon would keep each other in check, and that it would be absolutely impossible for Chen Fan to get away so quickly!

Without a word, Chen Fan used Teleportation to appear directly in front of her and said coldly, "You beautiful girl, you actually dared to play me?"

"I didn't." Diana looked at Chen Fan's face, which was inches away, and her body couldn't help but take two steps back, but she quickly calmed down and hummed, "I didn't lie to you. I said I would bring you to find the Soul Spirit Fruit, so tell me, did we find it or not?"

Chen Fan thought about it, and it seemed Diana was right.

But he still kept a cold face and said, "You didn't lie to me, but your motives are impure. You let me help you hold off the black flood dragon while you secretly snuck in here yourself. What are you trying to do?"

"An elder of mine died here, and I came to take him home." Diana revealed a hint of sadness.

"An elder?" Chen Fan looked toward the dry bones behind Diana.

Diana turned around, intending to store them into her Space Ring.

But just at this moment, Chen Fan's hand grabbed her slender wrist.

"Wait a moment!" Chen Fan stopped her.

"What is it?" A hint of confusion appeared in Diana's eyes.

Chen Fan carefully examined the dry bones and snorted coldly, "These absolutely cannot be your elder!"

There was an oval-shaped hole in the center of the forehead of these dry bones, and Chen Fan had initially assumed it was an injury left behind by the owner before death.

But after careful observation, the edges of this hole were smooth; it did not look like an injury left by a sharp weapon, but rather like it had existed there from the start.

Furthermore, counting the ribs of this person, there were only 10 pairs, whereas a normal human has 12 pairs of ribs.

Therefore, Chen Fan vaguely felt that these dry bones were definitely not human!

"Chen Fan, stop being unreasonable. This is my uncle; he died here twenty years ago, and I came this time to take the old man back." Diana stood to the side with a mournful face.

"Heh." Chen Fan clearly did not believe her.

"You stand there honestly and don't move, or else I'll deal with you." Chen Fan said fiercely, then leaned over to carefully observe the dry bones in front of him!

Looking closely, these dry bones differed greatly from human bones.

First, the cranial sutures were different from a human's, and the proportions of the finger joints were also different.

When Chen Fan looked inside through the hole in the center of the dry bones' forehead, he couldn't help but be stunned.

There was actually an object inside.

A small bronze-colored bell engraved with exquisite runes.

This Ancient Bell gave one a sense of having weathered the ages; the runes upon it flowed of their own accord, making one sink into them at a single glance.

Chen Fan only felt his Soul being pulled by the runes upon it, and for a moment, he was actually intoxicated by it, unable to break free.

And just at this moment, Diana at the side pursed her lips and smiled, a look of triumph flashing in her eyes, as if all of this had been expected by her.

After all, she had been the same when she first saw this Ancient Bell; if it hadn't been for Chen Fan's appearance startling her awake, she might still be immersed in it.

"Chen Fan, oh Chen Fan, after I collect this Rule Battle Soldier, you will obediently become my slave. But don't worry, considering you're not a bad person, this Princess won't overwork you."

Diana revealed a triumphant smile, and the Silver Wing Armor behind her scattered, turning into individual feather-shaped armor plates that instantly wrapped around Chen Fan.

Chen Fan woke up, but it was too late.

At this time, the plates of the Silver Wing Armor wove together, forming a cage.

Chen Fan was greatly alarmed and exerted his full strength, attempting to tear open the armor cage, but no matter how much force he used, he could not destroy it.

Outside, Diana had already retrieved the Ancient Bell from the skull of the dry bones.

A drop of fresh blood fell onto the Ancient Bell, and the bell emitted a melodious and soul-captivating chime; the next moment, Diana's body fell to the ground, as her Soul had already been pulled into the interior by the Ancient Bell.

Time passed bit by bit, and inside the Silver Wing Armor, Chen Fan grew increasingly anxious; he tried every method but could not blast it open.

Moreover, even if he used his Teleportation Divine Ability, he could not escape, because the Silver Wing Armor bound him tightly, and he could only teleport along with the Silver Wing Armor.

"Zula was able to break it open; my current strength is greater than Zula's, there's no reason I can't break it." Chen Fan couldn't help but be puzzled.

He stopped trying to break it with force and instead calmed himself down to think.

"There must be a way." He carefully felt every single armor plate.

These armor plates were arranged densely like fish scales, binding tightly to his body.

"This is like a mechanism array; perhaps I need to find the key armor plate."

At this time, Chen Fan could not see, so he could only use his Mental Power to sense every plate.

His Mental Power swept over these plates one by one, and finally, on his back, Chen Fan detected that this particular plate was slightly different from the others.

The other plates were all interlocked with each other, but this one only had three sides intersecting with other plates, while the last side was not overlapped onto any other plate.

This plate seemed to have been the last one inserted.

"It should be this one." Chen Fan's thoughts stirred, and the muscles at this position on his back bulged suddenly.

This armor plate was flicked away by this force.

The next moment, Chen Fan exerted force throughout his entire body, and the surrounding armor plates finally began to fall off with a clatter.

Eventually, they scattered all over the ground.

But there seemed to be a gravitational force between the plates, and they quickly restored themselves to the original appearance of the Silver Wing Armor.

Chen Fan had no heart to pay attention to this miraculous scene; after breaking free, his first action was to look at Diana.

Seeing Diana unconscious on the ground and the Ancient Bell floating in mid-air, emitting bursts of bronze-colored light, Chen Fan couldn't help but be startled and reached out to grab it.

At this moment, Chen Fan did not notice that his finger was stained with blood.

This was a cut made when he was trapped in the Silver Wing Armor and was scratching at the plates with his fingers.

The moment Chen Fan's blood-stained finger touched the Ancient Bell, his entire body instantly went limp, and his Soul was pulled into the interior of the Ancient Bell in an instant.

This was a gray, hazy Space, and in the very center, Diana's Soul sat cross-legged, with a translucent gray energy mass in the shape of an Ancient Bell above her head.

Wisps of energy threads drifted out from the energy mass and drilled into Diana's Soul.

Seeing Chen Fan appear here, she could not help but reveal a look of shock.

"How did you get in?" she asked, her expression changing in great alarm.

"What are you doing? And what is that gray Ancient Bell above your head?" Chen Fan asked, puzzled.

"Hmph!" Diana let out a cold snort and did not answer him, instead accelerating the absorption of energy.

Seeing this, Chen Fan was no longer polite, and just as he prepared to take action to stop Diana, threads of energy dissipating from the energy mass of the Ancient Bell above his head began to bore into his Soul.

A feeling that could not be described in words appeared in Chen Fan's heart; he discovered that he had unexpectedly formed an inexplicable connection with the Ancient Bell above his head.