Chapter 932: Reverse World Heavenly Book? (Part 2)

"Little Che? What's wrong with you? You're acting so strange today." Seeing Yun Che suddenly space out again, Xiao Lingxi couldn't help but worry. She walked back to his side and softly asked, "Is something bothering you? Can you tell me?"

As Xiao Lingxi walked back, the dimming light intensified and brightened again, returning to its previous brilliant silver.

Yun Che clearly saw every instantaneous change.

All the changes in the light on the black jade were due to Xiao Lingxi... it intensified when she was near and weakened when she was far.

No matter how much Yun Che disbelieved it, he clearly saw... this was unmistakably a resonance.

What was going on?

He picked up the black jade, which was emitting a silver light, and presented it to Xiao Lingxi. He asked in the calmest possible tone, "Lingxi, have you ever seen this stone before?"

"Huh? No," Xiao Lingxi shook her head in surprise. "Why do you ask?"

Yun Che was the person who understood Xiao Lingxi best in this world. They had grown up together, constantly by each other's side, and knew all of each other's secrets.

Although she had once been his "little aunt" (aunt by relation, younger than him), she was actually a year younger than him. Her profound art talent was ordinary, and she wasn't particularly interested in cultivation. However, she had always worked hard, solely to protect him when his profound veins were crippled and he faced constant ridicule and cold stares. As Yun Che grew, her cultivation pace gradually slowed, and even now, her profound energy had not broken through the True Profound Realm.

Compared to Cang Yue, Xue'er, the Little Demon Empress, Ling'er, and Xia Qingyue by his side, she was far inferior in beauty, talent, profound energy, and status.

She was very ordinary, and perhaps precisely because of her ordinariness, she had always been the most cherished and warm sanctuary deep within Yun Che's heart.

But why... would she suddenly have such a strange resonance with this black jade from the Moon Slaughter Devil Sovereign?

This simply shouldn't be happening... it was utterly preposterous.

After a brief silence, Yun Che took Xiao Lingxi's hand. "Lingxi, hold this stone and try to feel if there's anything special?"

"Oh... okay." From the moment she saw Yun Che, Xiao Lingxi had felt something strange in his expression and eyes. She reached out and carefully took the mysterious black jade from his hand.

The instant Xiao Lingxi held the mysterious black jade, the brilliant silver light emanating from it suddenly burst forth. This unexpected change made Xiao Lingxi yelp in surprise. She instinctively dropped the object in her hand, lost her balance, and fell backward.

"Lingxi!"

Yun Che, equally startled by the sudden burst of light from the black jade, quickly moved forward, catching Xiao Lingxi firmly in his arms before she could fall. "Are you alright? Are you hurt?"

"N-no, I'm fine," Xiao Lingxi shook her head, smiling awkwardly. "I didn't expect it to suddenly glow, it just startled me... Ugh, how embarrassing."

"Are your hands okay?" Yun Che quickly took the hand that had held the mysterious black jade, fearing she might have been hurt by the exploding light. Fortunately, her palm was as soft and white as before, without any unusual marks.

"Of course, I'm fine. I really just got startled," Xiao Lingxi stood up from Yun Che's embrace, then suddenly stared behind him, frozen. "Ah? Th-that's..."

Yun Che spun around lightning-fast, then froze in place, just like Xiao Lingxi.

The mysterious black jade, which Xiao Lingxi had dropped in her surprise, lay on the ground nearby. Its previously emitted silver light had vanished, and it had reverted to its entirely black state. However, directly above it, filling the space from the floor to the ceiling, a large expanse of dazzling silver light rapidly spread, separated, and twisted... Finally, it formed hundreds of shapes, roughly similar in size but all distinct, arranged cohesively in the air.

Yun Che's gaze straightened slightly. These lights also carried no aura whatsoever; if he closed his eyes, he wouldn't be able to sense their presence at all.

What these silver lights displayed appeared to be a collection of bizarre characters, arranged quite orderly. But Yun Che, scanning from top to bottom, then left to right, couldn't understand what these characters were at all... he didn't recognize a single one.

The written language used in the Azure Cloud Continent, the Profound Sky Continent, and the Illusory Demon Realm was "World Script." World Script was said to have been created by the ancient gods and was universal throughout the chaotic space. This was because every time a Creation God created a planet or star realm, they would leave behind only this script. Therefore, whether it was the three continents on this planet, or the God Realm where Jasmine resided, or all other planets and star realms, the same language and script were used.

While some races might have created their own languages or scripts for certain reasons, they would always be familiar with the World Script used throughout the vast cosmos.

Yet, what was presented before him, clearly a form of writing, was not World Script at all, and its compositional structure was entirely different from World Script.

Could it be that this wasn't a language... but some kind of special symbols?

As Yun Che pondered in confusion, Xiao Lingxi's soft, dreamlike murmur suddenly reached his ears:

"Heaven... Defying... World... Book..."

Yun Che turned in astonishment, finding Xiao Lingxi staring blankly at the silver light floating in the air, her gaze vacant, as if lost in a trance.

"Lingxi, what did you just say?" Yun Che asked, surprised.

Xiao Lingxi reached out, slowly pointing at the silver light in the air. Her eyes shimmered with a profound bewilderment. "These characters... I... I..."

"...Are you saying you can understand these characters?" Yun Che's eyes widened in disbelief.

Xiao Lingxi nodded, then shook her head vigorously, her pupils filled with utter confusion and deep panic. "I don't know... I've clearly never seen them before, but I... I actually... I can understand these characters. I recognize every single one... but I definitely don't know them... I've clearly... never seen this kind of script before."

"Little Che, what... what in the world is happening? Am I dreaming?" Xiao Lingxi's hands suddenly gripped Yun Che's arm. Suddenly being intimately familiar with something she had never encountered before brought not a pleasant surprise, but an unspeakable, soul-deep terror.

"You... you really recognize these characters?" Xiao Lingxi's words sent a jolt through Yun Che's heart.

"Yes!" Xiao Lingxi nodded even more forcefully. She extended her hand, pointing to the four characters floating by themselves at the very top. "The top four characters say... Heaven Defying World Book. And all the characters below... I can understand... all of them."

Yun Che remained silent for a long time, his mind in turmoil. Judging by Xiao Lingxi's reaction, it was clearly her first time seeing this script today. Moreover, having grown up with Xiao Lingxi, he had never known her to study any other languages... And on the Profound Sky Continent, from ancient times to the present, it seemed only World Script had ever existed, with no record of any other languages or scripts.

Seeing this script for the first time, yet being able to understand it... What was going on?

Coupled with the resonance between the black jade and Xiao Lingxi... everything was strangely inexplicable by any known logic.

"Lingxi, don't be nervous." Although his own mind was a mess, he couldn't let Xiao Lingxi remain in such sudden fright. He quickly reassured her, "This kind of thing is actually very common. Some natural treasures possess strong spirituality and will choose their own masters. For those they don't acknowledge, even if obtained, they are useless. But for those they do acknowledge, they will actively bestow their power. That black stone is a natural treasure I picked up. I tried every method before, and it showed no reaction, but when you walked over just now, it suddenly glowed... It seems it liked your aura, so it actively released its power and established a spiritual connection with you. That's why you can suddenly understand these strange characters from it. And only you can understand them."

"Ah? Is that... really how it is?" The panic in Xiao Lingxi's eyes subsided. Clearly, she believed Yun Che's words. After all, Yun Che's level of experience and knowledge far surpassed hers, and coupled with him being her "Little Che," she naturally trusted him.

*Of course, it's false...* Yun Che groaned inwardly, but outwardly said, "Of course it's true. Some natural treasures are even more exaggerated than this one; when they appear, no one but their master can even see them."

Xiao Lingxi lightly patted her chest and slowly exhaled. "So that's it. I was really scared just now; I thought I had suddenly... suddenly been possessed. But my profound energy is so weak, why would this black stone like my aura?"

"Uh... that has nothing to do with profound energy strength. Some treasures require powerful force to subdue them, while others prefer a pure and unblemished aura. Lingxi, you clearly fall into the latter category, so this is really quite normal," Yun Che explained forcefully.

"Mm-hmm." Xiao Lingxi nodded, her beautiful eyes sparkling as she looked at Yun Che, clearly showing admiration. "Little Che, you know so much! Hehe, I wonder if there's anything in this world you don't know. Before, Little Che was always so worrisome, but I never imagined you'd grow up to be so amazing... It really feels like a dream."

"Cough..." Yun Che's old face flushed slightly, and his gaze returned to the mysterious characters floating in the air. "Lingxi, would you mind translating these characters for me? I'm very curious about what they say."

These characters must contain the secret of this mysterious black jade... perhaps they could also explain the resonance between Xiao Lingxi and it, and why she recognized these strange characters.

"Okay." Xiao Lingxi looked up, her gaze lightly sweeping over the characters, and began to read aloud the words formed by the silver light:

"At the dawn of thunder, at the beginning of chaos, heaven and earth without order, light and dark without end, the world's primal force, bound by the Heavenly Dao, one era desolate, a hundred eras vast, ten thousand eras of Pagoda, stars as the cosmos, fallen heavens floating, a thousand peaks all rebellion, ten thousand glories all illusion..."

Xiao Lingxi recited word by word, and Yun Che listened word by word. This seemed to be an extremely obscure and difficult-to-understand scripture. Yun Che listened silently. The first few dozen characters seemed to be an abstruse description. But later, the meaning of the characters suddenly shifted. They were ordinary words, yet as they were spoken by Xiao Lingxi and reached his ears, each one fiercely struck his heart and soul, making him inexplicably tremble from body to spirit... It was an indescribable, strange, or rather, terrifying feeling.

Gradually, his will felt as if it were being tightly pulled by something, concentrating entirely on the characters Xiao Lingxi was reciting. His sight, hearing, smell... all five senses seemed to shut down, his entire spiritual world becoming blank, with only Xiao Lingxi's voice echoing.

He was intimately familiar with Xiao Lingxi's voice, but as she recited these characters, each syllable seemed to emanate from the primordial cosmos of ancient times. Faintly, a vast, profound, and immensely ancient artistic conception unfolded before his eyes. His heart and soul seemed to sense its presence, yet he couldn't grasp it, let alone understand or comprehend it.

He began to vaguely perceive that this wasn't merely a scripture, but a profound art, yet he had never encountered such a profound art. Even the "Great Path of the Buddha Devil," which contained the power of the Heavenly Dao Buddha Devil, he could comprehend in a short time. But with this text, which resembled a profound art, he felt an extremely faint presence of some mysterious artistic conception, sensing that each character seemed to carry an ancient aura, yet he couldn't grasp what that conception was, nor could he even understand each individual character.

The entire "scripture" was very short, only about six hundred characters. While Yun Che was in a state of daze and confusion, Xiao Lingxi had finished reciting it all. Her gaze fell on the last sentence, and she murmured, "The last sentence seems to be an incomplete phrase. This strange text shouldn't be complete; there must be other parts."

"..." Yun Che snapped back to reality, his eyes regaining focus, but his mind was utterly blank.