C150 The Remnants of the Boulderdawn!

"Kill me? Please, just kill me!"

The Lin family's treasured daughter, the empire's new moon, was tormented by the White Walker's heart-wrenching techniques to the point of desiring death.

The White Walker, a master of manipulation and deceit, had seen countless individuals throughout his long life. Lin Zhuyun was merely a plaything in his hands.

"Create a soul mark to make her fall deeply in love with me?"

Yu Yuan chuckled and then shook his head. "A woman's love can be more terrifying than her hate. No, I'll pass. I'd rather she kept hating me."

"I knew she wasn't your type," the White Walker said, unbothered. He smiled and pressed on, "We're short on time. You should sink the bronze monument now."

"Lord White Walker, please spare my sister's life," Yu Yuan implored earnestly.

"Don't worry, I will," the White Walker assured him repeatedly.

Half an hour later.

The bronze monument, which had been hurtling through the void, came to an abrupt halt. The chains and vines entwined around it shattered explosively.

The Stormcrowned Emperor and the Indigo Wraith, concealed within the monument, seemed to detect the presence of the Soulforge Pool.

These two ancient and formidable beings, either pausing their battle or on the verge of determining a victor, simultaneously vied for control of the bronze monument, secretly exerting their power to sever the binding enchantments.

"They've sensed the Soulforge Pool is within reach!"

The White Walker's expression darkened. His icy silver eyes bore into the bronze monument as he said, "Yu Yuan, my power will also trigger the restrictions and become a target. And I am no match for Hantian and Indigo Wraith in the little world within the monument."

"What then?" Yu Yuan asked, furrowing his brow.

"Perhaps you'll need to draw upon the sword spirit's power to invoke stronger restrictive forces and forcibly drag the monument away," the White Walker declared.

Yu Yuan's expression grew stern as he closed his eyes and concentrated, attempting to reconnect with the sword spirit.

The sword light within his arm bone blazed, scorching his flesh.

"This might give you the boost you need."

After a brief hesitation, the Terra Fiend White Walker hurled the Soul Splitting Staff toward him.

With a swift whoosh, the Soul Splitting Staff materialized before Yu Yuan, halting motionless just in front of his chest, its tip quivering ever so slightly.

"The artifact soul of the Soul Splitting Staff, if willing to return, could suppress both Hantian and the Indigo Wraith for a time," White Walker said urgently. "I believe you possess the artifact soul of the Soul Splitting Staff. You should be able to call it forth."

Yu Yuan grasped the Soul Splitting Staff, immediately noting its surprising heft, adorned with intricate gold and silver patterns.

He struggled to hold the Soul Splitting Staff.

"You wrested this Soul Splitting Staff from Yan Lu, not for your own use, but for mine?" he asked, taken aback.

"I had intended to use it myself, but now..." White Walker appeared resigned, "In your hands, the Soul Splitting Staff will exhibit greater strength. Use it for now."

Yu Yuan sensed that something was off.

He could feel that Terra Fiend and White Walker were eagerly anticipating his next move. They wanted him to summon the Yin-Yang Acolytes from within the White Paper Fan, hoping that the merged Yin-Yang Acolytes would willingly emerge and infuse themselves into the Soul Splitting Staff.

It seemed that the Soul Splitting Staff would only be complete once the Yin-Yang Acolytes were inside.

The Yin-Yang Acolytes, the artifact soul of the Soul Splitting Staff, had separated from it and dwelled in the forbidden area. Over the years, they had evolved, their spiritual wisdom blossoming into a unique soul entity.

Believing themselves to have escaped the confines of being an artifact soul, the Yin-Yang Acolytes were not keen on returning to the Soul Splitting Staff.

Yu Yuan had attempted communication with them several times, but the messages from the Yin-Yang Acolytes were clear: they preferred to remain within the White Paper Fan and were resistant to leaving it.

"I'm unable to communicate with the artifact soul of the Soul Splitting Staff, nor do I have the power to make it manifest and merge with this artifact," Yu Yuan confessed to White Walker, his face etched with embarrassment. "Therefore, the Soul Splitting Staff can't exhibit its true power in my hands. My abilities are too limited; merely holding it is a struggle, and I'm unable to accomplish anything with it."

Overwhelmed, his hand shook, and the Soul Splitting Staff plummeted.

It descended toward the bronze monument!

The Terra Fiend and White Walker's faces paled as they cried out, "Stop!"

But it was too late to intervene.

"Clang!"

The Soul Splitting Staff, adorned with gold and silver patterns, crashed heavily onto the bronze monument.

A fleeting glimpse of murderous intent shone in the eyes of the Terra Fiend and White Walker, but they suppressed the urge to strike immediately.

The seemingly insignificant Soul Splitting Staff struck the bronze monument with the force of a mountain, sending the massive structure plummeting downward!

Like a magnet, the Soul Splitting Staff clung to the bronze monument, causing the myriad soul inscriptions on its surface to light up instantly.

Bewildered by the anomaly, Yu Yuan watched the monument's descent, exclaiming, "What's happening?"

"Pick up the Soul Splitting Staff, now!" commanded the Terra Fiend and White Walker.

Yu Yuan crouched, grasped the staff with one hand, and yanked with all his might.

It wouldn't budge.

"What's going on?"

His expression darkened. Grasping the staff with both hands, he pulled again with no effect. He cast a cold glance into the distance, "Lord White Walker, have you kept something from me? How can this Soul Splitting Staff weigh down the bronze monument? And why can't I lift it?"

With a flick of his wrist, White Walker cast something aside.

Lin Zhuyun, immobilized, soared toward Yu Yuan like a large bird.

Suspended in midair, Lin Zhuyun was frozen through. Her lower elixir field, Golden Sanctum, and middle elixir field, Profound Gate, were locked tight, rendering her spiritual energy and vitality unusable.

Unable to even wiggle her fingers, she could only watch helplessly as Yu Yuan drew nearer.

Yu Yuan didn't spare her a glance, his brow furrowed as he asked, "Lord White Walker, what is your intention?"

"Thump!"

Controlled by White Walker's force, Lin Zhuyun landed gently at Yu Yuan's feet.

The bronze monument continued its rapid descent.

Like a vast expanse of sky, the enormous bronze monument ultimately crashed down with a thunderous impact.

The pristine wilderness, adorned with frost-coated rocks, burst apart in the instant the monument touched down.

The earth itself rumbled, and from deep below, cracking sounds echoed continuously.

The booming noise was relentless. The land where the bronze monument settled began to fracture and split.

The Terra Fiend and White Walker hovered midair, fixated on the bronze monument. They observed the sudden changes in the land beneath it, their eyes brimming with an eerie light, yet they remained silent to Yu Yuan's inquiry.

Yu Yuan was on edge, sensing that some mysterious transformation had already begun without his awareness.

Lin Zhuyun, immobilized by the Soul Splitting Staff, lay at his feet.

Inscriptions, countless as the stars, adorned the edges of the bronze monument. In this moment, they seemed to swim away from the monument like schools of fish.

The liberated inscriptions delved into the fissured earth, much like fish diving into the ocean's depths.

The earth, further torn asunder, revealed ever-widening chasms.

Simultaneously, Yu Yuan felt a terrifying surge emanating from beneath the surface.

Only he, with his repeatedly refined heaven soul, could faintly detect its presence.

"Crack!"

Deep within the clouds, a myriad of lightning bolts converged from all directions.

Yu Yuan looked up to see the forces of the various regions' restrictions in the Moonfall Sanctuary's skies suddenly focus and converge upon this spot.

Beyond where he stood, ancient sword light restraints, buried for millennia, were activated one by one.

Through the burning sensation in his arm bone and his delicate link to the sword spirit, he could sense that the Moon Shards in nearby pits were exploding.

The frigid, sturdy meteorites from beyond the heavens shattered into fragments.

The abrupt upheaval in the forbidden area left Yu Yuan stunned and utterly perplexed.

Occasionally glancing at White Walker, he discerned from the latter's vigilant gaze and tense demeanor that White Walker might be harboring a deep-seated fear of something.

"Who is down there?"

After a moment of shock, Yu Yuan's realization dawned, "Is there another ancient being like you suppressed beneath this land? Has the fall of the bronze monument caused the restraints to loosen slightly? Lord White Walker, is my assumption correct?"

"You've done a good thing!" White Walker exclaimed, as if he had taken a deep breath of cold air. "Once the bronze monument has settled, it's going to be nearly impossible for it to rise again. Have you noticed that even the Soul Battle between Stormcrowned Emperor and Indigo Wraith has ceased?"

Yu Yuan looked down at the departing bronze monument, feeling the presence of Stormcrowned Emperor and Indigo Wraith. He nodded and replied, "It does seem that way, doesn't it?"

The gathering thunder and flashes of sword light in the sky seemed to remind him of the sheer terror of the being who was about to awaken from his ancient slumber.

"Who exactly is he?" Yu Yuan pressed for an answer.

"He is the rightful owner of the Soul Splitting Staff, the master of the artifact soul," White Walker said, his voice tinged with unease. "He is the sin of the Boulderdawn Sect and the forger of the bronze monument. It was he who used the bronze monument to suppress the Sky Fiend Indigo Wraith here."

Yu Yuan was taken aback. "Wasn't the Boulderdawn Sect annihilated? Why is he still around?"

"The Boulderdawn Sect has been decimated, and nearly all who shouldn't have died are now dead," White Walker struggled to explain, finally adding, "But the one who deserved death the most is still very much alive!"

"Since he's from the Boulderdawn, why does the Soulforge Matrix also need to keep him in check?" Yu Yuan inquired further.

"Because he has become the most dreadful demon within the forbidden area."

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