allonlinenovel Chapter 1886: Sadness
Chapter 1886: Sadness
Ye Yan's eyes were bloodshot, a mixture of anger and chilling rage.
Just then, the Star Token in his arms suddenly flew out on its own and hovered in front of him!
The star-like engravings on the token's surface lit up, projecting a soft beam of light onto a hexagonal crystal on one side of the hall wall, which was slightly larger and had more complex patterns than the other mirrors!
The crystal mirror received the beam of light, trembled slightly, and the scene on its surface rapidly changed before finally settling into a relatively clear image:
It was a tall figure draped in a starlight robe, with a blurred face that seemed to be made of light, standing in the void, with seven phantom tokens of different colors floating in front of him.
The figure raised his hand, and the seven tokens flew in seven different directions, disappearing into the void.
Then, he transformed into countless points of light, which were cast towards seven dim stars...
The scene abruptly ends there.
At the same time, an ancient and majestic thought directly entered Ye Yan's sea of consciousness:
"Those who come later, if you arrive here with the Star Pivot Token and see my image, then a great calamity is imminent, and the Ruins of Return will begin..."
"My name is Xinghen, the guardian of the Seventh Observatory, and one of the Seven Gatekeepers."
“In the past, I foresaw the calamity of the Ruins of Return. I and six other comrades divided the seven key anchor points and used the Star Pivot Order as the key to set up the Great Ruins-Suppressing Array of the Heavens, sealing the rifts in the Ruins of Return and slowing down its speed of devouring all the heavens.”
"However, as time goes by, some of our fellow practitioners have perished or fallen into oblivion, and the great formation is gradually weakening. The lineage of the Silent Extinction Evil Buddha, bewitched by the whispers of the Void, attempted to use evil methods as a sacrifice to forcibly break the formation, draw upon the power of the Void, and recreate the chaos."
"The one who holds the token must retrieve the remaining six Star Pivot Tokens, awaken the surviving gatekeepers, and restart the Zhou Tian Grand Array. This is the only chance to avert the calamity."
"Remember, the Eye of the Ruins not only devours matter but also erodes the mind. Guard your heart and maintain righteousness, and do not fall into madness."
"My strength is exhausted, my remaining spirit will dissipate. Those who come after me, the survival of all the heavens, depend on you..."
The thought vanished completely upon reaching this point.
The crystal mirror that displayed the star marks also dimmed and turned into an ordinary mirror.
The Star Pivot command's light receded and fell back into Ye Yan's hand, warm to the touch, as if it had been given some kind of mission.
Ye Yan stood there, stunned, processing the massive and shocking information.
The guardians of the Seventh Observatory, Starmark, the Seven Gatekeepers...
The Zhou Tian Zhen Xu Grand Array, with seven Star Pivot Tokens...
It turns out that what they were facing was a battle that had lasted for countless millennia against the forces that protect the heavens and destroy them!
The Silent Zen Temple is nothing more than a pawn, a mad executor, in the Eye of Returning to the Void's erosion of the present world!
"I must tell Mingchuan this immediately!" Ye Yan was extremely anxious.
He looked at the terrifying chaotic light mist and three-dimensional magic array in the center of the hall, and then at the Star Pivot Token in his hand.
Xinghen mentioned in his photo that this is the seventh observatory, and he is the seventh gatekeeper.
So, this place might be a key "anchor point" location, or one of the monitoring and sealing nodes of the anchor point?
If the Star Pivot Token is the key, then is this pyramid, this hall, this magic circle... part of the lock?
Am I currently in a dangerous situation, or... have I seized control of a crucial hub?
Ye Yan's gaze swept over the crystal mirrors that displayed the atrocities committed by Guixu and Jimie Zen Temple, and his eyes gradually hardened.
No matter where he is, he must find a way to leave as soon as possible, bring the Star Pivot Token and the truth about this place back to the Spirit Realm, and hand them over to Mingchuan!
He didn't delay any longer and began to carefully explore the hall, looking for possible exits or control hubs.
His gaze finally settled on the twelve crystal pillars surrounding the magic array, and the energy clusters floating atop the pillars.
The arrangement and texture of these pillars, as well as the energy halo at their tops, are clearly closely related to the core function of this observation station.
He walked slowly closer and chose the deep blue crystal pillar that was closest to him.
The pillar was cold to the touch, yet it had a strange pulsating sensation, as if life was slowly breathing inside.
The pale blue energy halo suspended atop the pillar, like a miniature nebula, slowly rotated, emanating a calming, stabilizing perceptual fluctuation that seemed to soothe all disorder.
Ye Yan tentatively attached a wisp of his divine sense to the Star Pivot Token in his hand and slowly approached the pale blue halo.
The instant the faint light from the star-like engravings on the token's surface touched the pale blue halo...
hum!
A deep yet clear resonance resounded!
The pale blue halo suddenly brightened and accelerated its rotation. At the same time, a gentle flow of information, using the Star Pivot Token as a medium, directly surged into Ye Yan's sea of consciousness!
Countless fragments of insights into the laws of space flooded his mind. Although they were extremely fragmented, they instantly elevated Ye Yan's understanding of space to a new level!
He seemed to be able to see the originally invisible stable patterns in the surrounding space, and to sense how the pyramid was anchored in this strange space and had extremely weak connections with certain nodes in the outside world.
"So that's how it is... This pillar represents a node of the law of stability and anchoring?" Ye Yan realized.
He didn't try to do too much and quickly withdrew his divine sense and the Star Pivot Token.
These twelve pillars likely correspond to different functional nodes of the ancient formation. Making any hasty contact with them could trigger unpredictable reactions.
He then turned his attention to the junction between the base of the pillar and the black crystal on the ground.
There were also fine runes engraved there, faintly connected to the edge patterns of the central three-dimensional magic array.
Ye Yan squatted down and, using his fingers as a pen, carefully traced the direction of the runes, trying to understand their operating principles.
Time seems to lose its meaning here.
After an unknown amount of time, when Ye Yan was studying the seventh pillar, he made a new discovery.
The runes on the base of this pillar, besides connecting to the central magic circle, also include an extremely hidden pattern that is almost integrated with the black crystal, winding its way to one side of the hall wall.
Ye Yan followed the hidden pattern and finally stopped in front of a seemingly ordinary hexagonal crystal mirror.
The mirror reflects a seemingly ordinary, eternally rotating nebula.
But when Ye Yan gently brought the Star Pivot Token close to the mirror, the mirror rippled like water, revealing a narrow passage hidden behind it!
The passageway extends diagonally downwards, and its interior is illuminated by a faint white light that originates from the same source as the halo at the top of the pillars.
"There's more to it than meets the eye!"
Ye Yan's spirits lifted, and he stepped into the passage without hesitation.
The passage wasn't long; after descending about a hundred steps, you arrived at a secret room that was much smaller than the upper hall, but much more exquisite.
The enclosed chamber is circular, and the dome is also illuminated by suspended dim light.
There are no crystal pillars in the room, only a low, three-tiered circular platform made of pure white jade in the very center.
On the top of the round platform, there lay a thick book made of an unknown material that was neither silk nor leather. The cover was blank, yet it shimmered with a faint silver glow.
Beside the book, there was a palm-sized object shaped like a compass, but with a multifaceted crystal inlaid in the center that constantly changed colors.