Chapter 1069: Xia De and March

Holding the cat, Xia De glanced back at the moonlight outside the window:

"I couldn't find that relic during the day. It seems it wasn't just the wrong time..."

Amid the whistle and the chime, the rotating brass fate ring slowly emerged from the depths of the steam mist. The spiritual light of the core rune 【Silver Moon】 illuminated the wall, but after waiting a good while, nothing appeared.

"Could it be that I was thinking wrong, and this time it's not this routine?"

【Perhaps you could try a little more.】

"You mean, because it's the 【Source of Chaos】, I should use the 【Yellow Moon】 rune?"

Xia De asked in his heart, but he did not immediately try to do so, because he saw the shadow of his own fate ring reflected on the wall due to the presence of the thin moonlight.

"Oh?"

He looked at the perfect circle on the wall, and the himself inserted into the circle like a vertical bar, feeling this resembled some sort of interesting mysterious symbol.

So inspiration suddenly struck. He shifted his steps slightly, while moving the fate ring behind him up and down, until the circular center of the fate ring's reflection on the wall aligned with the position where the ink stain originally existed. Then, Xia De squatted slightly, letting his own eyes also be at the position of the center.

In this way, the moonlight from outside the window entered the room, then passed through the core rune at the center of the fate ring behind Xia De, and then shone on the back of his head, while also casting the shadow of his head and the fate ring itself onto the wall.

When Xia De carefully shifted his position until his own height and the reflection of the fate ring on the wall reached a certain fixed position, the black shadow fixed itself on the wall, and then gradually transformed into a yellow moonlight ring.

Xia De watched this scene before him in surprise, and saw his own shadow on the wall also begin to move. That shadow, like a figure in a flat picture, stood on one side of the position where the ink stain was, but still within the moonlight ring.

The shadow extended its hand, pointed at the position on the wall, made the motion of knocking three times with bent fingers, and then the shadow disappeared.

【Now you should understand.】

"Yes, this method is truly hard to find. But it is indeed very interesting."

Holding Mia in one arm, Xia De also approached the wall. He examined the beautiful moonlight ring on the wall, kept the fate ring behind him unchanged, and also knocked on the wall with bent fingers.

Thud~

The first sound was indeed knocking on solid wall.

Thud~

The sound of the second knock changed somewhat.

Thud~

The third knock was on a wooden surface.

The yellow moonlight ring formed by the reflection of Xia De's fate ring gradually contracted inward on the wall, until the yellow ring was embedded in the protruding palm-sized wooden surface on the wall.

This was a palm-sized brown wooden door, which only appeared somewhat magical after being decorated with the glowing ring.

Xia De reached out toward that small door. Under Mia's excited expression, he had originally intended to use the spell 【Move Object】 to forcefully pull it open, but unexpectedly, as he reached out, the left end of the yellow glowing ring remained embedded in the wood, while the right end slowly rose upward, becoming a pull ring:

"Interesting. It seems that without the correct method, even finding this small door won't allow you to open it."

His finger hooked the pull ring, and with just a slight pull, the small door was pulled open, revealing the hidden compartment embedded inside the wall.

And in that hidden compartment, a flawless bright yellow jewel, facing the thin moonlight behind Xia De, emitted an enticing, bewitching glow.

"Oh!"

"Meow!"

The eyes of the one person and one cat immediately became dazed.

The empty room, with no lights on, gradually became colorful before Xia De. He uncontrollably grinned foolishly as he turned around, and saw dozens of little Mias crawling on the floor.

Looking up again at his surroundings, more and more little Mias darted in through the room's door and window. They stood on just their two hind legs, embraced each other in pairs, and danced to a moonlit melody coming from somewhere unknown.

"So many cats... so many cats..."

"Mr., would you like to dance together?"

Suddenly hearing a voice from the side, the foolishly grinning Xia De turned around, and saw a Miss with quite a nice figure, wearing a red dance dress that seemed to be just silk simply wrapped around her body, appear on his left side, with red high heels on her feet that revealed her toes painted with red nail polish.

But what made this Miss different was not only her figure and clothing, but also her face. That face was actually also a cat face like little Mia's, only enlarged several times over.

"Hmm? Oh!"

The extreme fright instantly shocked Xia De awake. He admitted that little Mia was very cute, but if a little Mia's face appeared on a human body, that was just too horrifying. He only liked either a pure Miss or a pure cat.

【I thought you would like this kind of Miss.】

"That's Professor Manning's hobby!"

Because of the fright, Xia De slowly slid down against the wall until he sat on the floor. The powerful chaos magic had quite a significant effect on him. Even though he was also skilled in the power of the moon, he still could not exempt himself from the power of the relic overhead:

"No good, I need to take a breather."

He panted heavily as he looked at his home which had returned to normal; those colorful patches before his eyes had disappeared. Then he lowered his head to look at the cat he was holding. That cat was also currently in a foolish daze, desperately rubbing its face against Xia De's chest. After being patted a few times by Xia De, it let out a puzzled "Meow~", as if not understanding how the scene before its eyes had suddenly changed again.

"What a dumb-looking expression."

Xia De commented.

It took him a good while before he stood up again, but the hidden compartment on the wall had already disappeared. So Xia De summoned the fate ring again, and following the steps just now, made the hidden compartment appear. This time, when he pulled the yellow moonlight pull ring to open the small door, Xia De was fully prepared, and did not look inside the compartment.

His hand reached in and indeed touched the relic. But inside the small door there was more than just the jewel; beneath the jewel there was also a letter pressed under it. Bi Qu Ge

"You found it!"

The voice that suddenly came out startled Xia De. He turned around, and saw a young man wearing a large green hat with a feather stuck in it, holding a lyre in his arms, dressed in a dashing white shirt, green jacket, tapered bell-bottoms, and brown leather boots, sitting on his own windowsill.

"Congratulations, warrior who defeated the demon, you have found my favored yellow moon."

Gently plucking the strings, the bard smiled and looked at Xia De:

"Then, what kind of reward would you like?"

"I don't want anything."

Xia De said very calmly. The bard smiled and shook his head slightly, placing the familiar blue teardrop-shaped crystal stone on the windowsill:

"The moon is so beautiful, but gazing at the moonlight for too long will drive one mad."

He sang softly, and Xia De asked:

"Did you know from the very beginning that this relic was in my home?"

"Yes, a hundred years ago I came to this city, and personally saw what this relic looked like a hundred years ago. The holder from a hundred years ago was almost consumed by this house as well, but luckily he ran fast."

His fingers swept across the strings once more:

"But I believe that now this house has welcomed its true master."

The bard sang with a smile:

"Brave hero, even greater challenges await you ahead."

He gave Xia De a slight nod:

"I look forward to you composing more magnificent chapters."

His body leaned back and tumbled straight out the window. Xia De didn't bother going to the window to check whether the bard had landed safely — without needing to think, he knew the man had already vanished.

"Jack the Thief, the Demon, the Source of Chaos... the third Sage's Gemstone."

He picked up the teardrop-shaped crystal from the windowsill, and Xia De turned again to look at the hidden compartment that had not yet disappeared into the wall. This time, properly prepared, he dared to pull the latch again and gaze at the flawless, round pearl. Relying on his own same-source power and the wisdom-blessing of the old god 【The Inconstant Sage】, Xia De barely managed to steady his mind and take the relic out of the compartment.

It was indeed a flawless pearl, its hazy pale-gold halo so alluring. Xia De only dared to glance at it twice before looking away — this item could not be casually taken out and used; it was extremely dangerous.

Xia De swatted away the little paw Leaving Xiao Leaving Xiao Miya had reached out, and amid the cat's reproachful meow, carefully held the pearl in his hands up toward the Ring of Fate that had once again appeared behind him.

The sealed spirit rune of 【Red Moon】 gradually drew near the pearl in Xia De's hands, and the moment the two made direct contact, a crisp "Crack—" of shattering sounded in Xia De's ears.

His heart leaped with joy, but he immediately realized this was not the relic directly shattering the seal on the Red Moon spirit rune — rather, the relic caused Xia De's 【Yellow Moon】 spirit rune to resonate, which in turn triggered the resonance of the core spirit rune 【Silver Moon】.

The two spirit runes called upon the power of 【Red Moon】; the Red Moon spirit rune, sealed by 【Lady Lady Sanmei】 as the price, trembled slightly, but still failed to fully break the seal.

Xia De frowned in thought, took out the letter from the hidden compartment, then went down to the basement and brought out three stone slabs imbued with the mysteries of time.

He climbed up to the attic once more and sat at the center of the still-uncleared Moon Resonance ritual.

The three stone slabs were placed in a triangle around him; the Source of Chaos was tossed out casually, then, according to its own nature, hovered in front of his forehead to provide illumination.

The Ring of Fate emerged from behind him; the pale-gold pearl first triggered the spirit runes' resonance, and the spirit runes in turn affected the three stone slabs.

Xia De closed his eyes and meditated. Leaving Xiao Leaving Xiao Miya stood by the wall watching him, watching the silver moonlight radiate from Xia De's body, watching the three stone slabs on the ground slowly rise into the air and revolve around him at a steady pace.

The light of 【Source of Chaos】 washed over his entire body, and clear red, silver, and yellow glows appeared on the stone slabs.

In such tranquil moonlight, the three spirit runes on the Ring of Fate trembled slightly — only the spirit-light of 【Red Moon】 was the faintest.

But as the moonlight around him grew brighter and brighter, amid a "Crack—" that only Xia De himself could hear, the profane spirit rune — 【Red Moon】 — finally bloomed with the light that originally belonged to it.