Chapter 529: Chapter 292: Secret Sea

’Not a trivial matter... and I’ve heard of it?’

’It’s being so cryptic.’

’And for this final stage, we haven’t been given any choice at all. It looks like it wants to force everyone here to participate.’

’Also...’

’What about the reward for the second phase?’

’Did it just swallow the reward?’

Lu Cang remained silent, looking toward Rhine. But this time, Rhine didn’t ask any questions, simply closing their eyes as if in deep thought.

Then, Lu Cang’s Perception extended to the others.

He could feel that the Light on Yelieya had grown brighter. In terms of her aura, he could also sense she had undergone a significant transformation.

In fact, everyone present had transformed in some way.

’I wonder what they all went through?’

A faint sense of madness emanated from Aigemisa’s gray mist.

Lu Cang’s brow furrowed even deeper.

"An Su, what do you make of this situation?"

A sense of unease welled up inside him. Both his Spirituality and Intuition were screaming danger.

In his Sea of Consciousness, a faint red mist also began to rise.

The Sea of Consciousness is the sea of one’s Spirit, and also a reflection of the subconscious. A reddening Sea of Consciousness meant that even his subconscious was sensing danger.

An Su replied, "You’re asking me? How should I know?"

"But I’d guess you’re about to be unavoidably dragged into some kind of vortex..."

"If this matter involves a divine being, you’d better think long and hard about what life-saving measures you have at your disposal."

At this, An Su couldn’t help but sigh again.

’If this kid dies, I might just end up in the hands of some other divine being... Sigh. Looking at it now, it’s more interesting to stick with this kid. If I fall into someone else’s hands, I’m afraid things won’t be so easy.’

Lu Cang sensed his thoughts.

’Heh... so falling into my hands is considered ’easy,’ is it?’

Over the past seven days, Lu Cang’s understanding of An Su had grown considerably. An Su had lived for far too long, and he had always taken each of his lives very seriously.

He would try to act out and interpret his life from many different angles.

Perhaps a powerhouse like Herbert cared a great deal about his dignity, but as for An Su, he didn’t seem to care about dignity at all.

He had been a king, been humiliated by other powerhouses, and was not without his defeats; he had lost to certain beings before.

For instance, the White of Death and Destruction was one such being that had defeated him in the past.

He didn’t successfully reach Level 9 in every lifetime.

Sometimes, he would even choose to not Upgrade at all in a particular life, experiencing it fully as an ordinary Low Level Reincarnator.

He had been a town mayor, a villager, a big-city lawyer, and a judge, experiencing all walks of life.

He’d even been someone’s masochist.

Heh, all for the fun of it.

An Su couldn’t care less about personality or dignity. In his eyes, all of it was just one grand experience on the path to Death.

So when he was captured by Lu Cang, he didn’t really feel much of anything.

He just thought it was a rather interesting experience.

’A Level 9 Reincarnator like me, captured by a Death Priest who hasn’t even reached Level 5?’

’How interesting.’

But it didn’t count as a threat.

Not until Lu Cang revealed the Talent that could kill him for good did An Su’s attitude truly change.

’But then we made a contract, so Lu Cang won’t kill me anymore...’

An Su’s attitude became nonchalant and carefree once more.

An Su paused.

Something seemed to occur to him; he recalled an incident from ancient times.

He spoke, "Worst-case scenario... you might be thrown directly into a conflict involving a divine war."

"Be careful."

Lu Cang replied, "Mm..."

’Before I came here, the result of my Divination was ’opportunity with a small amount of danger.’’

’If the ’danger’ it mentioned was something other than An Su...’

’Then... perhaps this is it.’

Just then, a voice suddenly sounded by his ear again.

Rhine spoke up, "Um, is it not possible to just quit now?"

The voice from within the gray mist had lost its earlier lightheartedness. It now carried a profound and mysterious weight, its tone calm and indifferent, like a rambling Prophet. "When you all passed the Trial of the second stage, you had already made your choice, had you not?"

"You all shall save the world from fire and flood."

"This is your decision. You have all already given your response."

’What kind of twisted logic is that?’

’Participate in its second stage, and if you win, you’re forced into the third?’

’And there’s no reward?’

’Don’t tell me the reward for the second stage is just being able to participate in the third?’

Lu Cang sneered internally but had no intention of arguing.

Arguing with it would be no different from talking to a madman—and a madman who posed a threat to his life at that.

Aigemisa was classified as an Evil Divine Being.

Since it was classified as such, there was surely a reason for it.

Lu Cang decided to observe for now.

But after Aigemisa finished speaking, it gave no further sign before its form dissipated like a note cut abruptly short!

He only saw its body, which had been a dense gray mist, transform into a faint, thin haze and spread outward.

TICK—

Lu Cang abruptly felt it—Time had started to flow again. He could feel the colors of Time begin to stream past. This was his Perception of Time, born from his extremely High Spirituality.

He perceived that hours, minutes, and seconds had begun to move.

Today was still April 1st.

This day had been going on for a very long time.

WHOOSH—

The gray mist that had enveloped them on all sides, preventing their Perception from reaching the outside world and blocking their view, now gradually dispersed like ripples in water—spreading out.

At this moment, the group could finally see the full view of their location.

The plaza they were in was actually on a small island.

From high in the sky, at an altitude of about ten kilometers, one could see the entirety of the island...

It was an island with an estimated radius of only one thousand kilometers.

Much smaller than the other continents he had seen in this world.

Lu Cang looked up at the blazing sun, which was high in the sky.

It seemed to be around noon. The sun shone down on the land, and he could feel a slight warmth.

He felt a wealth of sensations from his surroundings.

’Is this... the real world?’

His abundant Spirituality allowed Lu Cang to sense that some of the Restrictions that had been obscuring various things had now vanished.

Along with the Restrictions, Aigemisa, who should have been in the center of the area, had also disappeared.

Then, Lu Cang looked toward the nearby Ocean. He already possessed a wealth of knowledge in Oceanography and could easily identify which sea it was just by its water.

Of course, that was assuming this particular sea was recorded in books and not an uncharted one.

But the sea before him...

Lu Cang gazed at the vast, boundless sea, and his heart skipped a beat.

’This is... the Secret Sea?’

’The Secret Sea on April 1st?’

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