# Chapter 2172: Coiling Dragon Seven Mysteries
Due to its unique "Dreamfall" and "Dreamweaving" powers, the intelligence capabilities of the Weaving Dream Divine Kingdom were undoubtedly far superior to those of the other five divine kingdoms.
Even the Chenmeng Valley was one of the important intelligence sources for the Weaving Dream Divine Kingdom. Because once a person chose to sink into dreams, their life's memories became like an unlocked chest, freely accessed by Dreamweaving cultivators.
As the intelligence core of the Weaving Dream Divine Kingdom, the Xuanji Hall was protected by a full nine layers of different barriers. Each layer hung down like a heavenly curtain, radiating a faint yet majestic soul might. The number of hidden Dreamweaving guards was beyond counting. Meng Jianxi led Yun Che all the way unimpeded, straight into the most secretive inner hall.
"Only four people have been qualified to enter this inner hall before: Father God, Grandfather, Uncle, and myself. Now, of course, that includes Brother Yuan."
Yun Che briefly swept his gaze around and went straight to the point: "I need to review all information concerning the Eternal Night Divine Kingdom from the past thirty years."
Facing Meng Jianxi, he didn't need any special explanation. The word "all" was sufficient.
"Alright."
Meng Jianxi didn't question or doubt. He reached out to the side and grabbed, and a hidden small space immediately appeared. Massive amounts of jade slips, stone carvings, fabrics, and paper scrolls moved out in neat order. Then, a silver light profound formation blazed ahead, and within the formation rose thousands of shadow stones and soul crystals, each emitting soul energy of varying strengths, bearing unknown secrets.
Meng Jianxi lowered his arm and confirmed once more that nothing was missing before saying, "Due to its unique nature, information on the Eternal Night Divine Kingdom is the most difficult to obtain, far less in quantity than other divine kingdoms. But even so, reading through all the information from the past thirty years will still require a considerable amount of time."
"Additionally, even the information contained within memory-carved soul crystals may not necessarily be true. For what the eyes see can also be illusory. But I believe Brother Yuan can accurately discern the truth."
"Mm. No need to accompany me."
Meng Jianxi left. Yun Che sat cross-legged on the floor and extended his consciousness toward the space ahead. Information concerning the Eternal Night Divine Kingdom over the past thirty years immediately entered his soul sea at an astonishing speed. Regardless of importance, truth, or falsehood, even some fabricated anecdotes, he reviewed them all meticulously.
It was very difficult to plant informants in the Eternal Night Divine Kingdom. Its major events over the past thirty years were all on the surface... The previous Eternal Night Divine Maiden, Shen Wuqing, had committed a grave error and was imprisoned by Wuming Divine Venerable. Since then, the Eternal Night Divine Kingdom had devoted all its efforts to finding a new divine successor... until over twenty years ago, they announced that Shen Wuyi had succeeded as the Eternal Night Divine Maiden.
Yun Che maintained the same posture, and before he knew it, several days had passed. Although this task wasn't exactly like searching for a needle in a vast sea, it was certainly not something that could be completed in a short time.
Until a piece of text etched into a crystal abruptly flashed into the depths of his soul.
"...Several feet long, shaped like a coiled dragon, black as ink, with seven apertures embedded in its body..."
Yun Che's mind suddenly focused. He reached out and grabbed, and that crystal fell into his palm. The information contained within it re-entered his soul sea with extreme detail:
"...It can be determined that the Eternal Night is currently searching for certain unusual Abyss Crystals. Although they have tried to conceal it, the number of people dispatched and the breadth of coverage are unprecedented in the era of Shen Wuyanye as Divine Sovereign. Over the past year, six hundred traces have been detected, covering all major divine kingdoms and living lands, with even remote areas showing signs."
"This indicates that whatever they seek is of utmost importance to the Eternal Night Divine Kingdom, but the underlying reason remains unknown."
"Summarizing all information, the Eternal Night is searching for five types of unusual Abyss Crystals. The first three are Liuyao Quenching Heart Jade, Ming Soul Stone, and Heiyao Purification Evil Crystal—all crystals that occasionally appear in the Mist Sea and exist in very small quantities. The other two have no names, only descriptions."
"First: nearly an inch long, shaped like a withered vine. Its aura sometimes resembles burning fire, sometimes thunder entwined. Its core pulses like the heart of a mortal, formed from the crystallized heart of a human-turned-Abyss Ghost. Hardly one appears in a million."
"Second: several feet long, shaped like a coiled dragon. Black as ink, with seven apertures embedded in its body. The apertures are entwined with unextinguished dragon breath. It is an Abyss Crystal formed from the dragon marrow of a dragon transformed by the Abyss. But hardly one appears among ten thousand dragons."
Yun Che's gaze fixed. After a brief moment of thought, he looked at the text inscribed further down:
"Liuyao Quenching Heart Jade may have been found. The name of that Abyss Crystal no longer appears in their searches."
"Ming Soul Stone may have been found..."
The text after that bore a clear soul imprint, clearly inscribed in recent years:
"Heiyao Purification Evil Crystal may have been found. The Eternal Night has ceased searching for its traces."
"In the border region of the Ding'e Realm, adventurers risked tracking the residual soul imprints of two Night Patrol Envoys and vaguely captured their conversation from ten breaths prior... One mentioned 'Abyss Heart Vine,' the other 'Coiling Dragon Seven Mystery Crystal.' But neither of these names for Abyss Crystals appears in any records, leaving them exceptionally strange and difficult to understand."
Yun Che closed his eyes, and the world fell into a long silence.
Ten breaths... a hundred breaths...
Suddenly, a voice surfaced in his soul sea.
"Xueyan, I have used the 'Secret Codex' to restore my appearance and voice..."
Yun Che's eyes snapped open, reflecting a deep, strange light.
Crack!
The crystal in his hand was crushed directly by Yun Che, scattering into flying fragments. This piece of intelligence concerning the Eternal Night Divine Kingdom thus vanished from the Xuanji Hall.
Before the gate of the Pure Land, the dream that Shen Wuyanye had fallen into was not woven by Meng Kongchan, but was a projection of her innermost desires magnified countless times.
Therefore, she longed for Shen Wuxueyan's forgiveness, longed for nothing to have happened, longed to restore her appearance and voice, longed for... the "Secret Codex" that had come from her own lips.
"I see."
With a soft murmur, an understanding smile unconsciously bloomed at the corner of Yun Che's lips.
Qingyue, as expected of you... Indeed, if it were you, how could you possibly fail to utilize every unique means at your disposal to the fullest?
Judging by the timing covered by this intelligence, from the moment you became the Eternal Night Divine Maiden, you were already weaving destinies for yourself and others... interweaving truth and falsehood, advancing step by step. Everyone, unknowingly, had already stepped into your chess game.
Without looking at any other information, Yun Che rose and slowly walked out of the Xuanji Hall.
The unusual Abyss Crystals sought by the Eternal Night Divine Kingdom were certainly more than five types; several of them were probably relatively easy to obtain—necessary smokescreens.
Liuyao Quenching Heart Jade, Ming Soul Stone, Heiyao Purification Evil Crystal... Although these were extremely difficult to find, they were real existing Abyss Crystals—also smokescreens.
As for "Abyss Heart Vine" and "Coiling Dragon Seven Mystery Crystal"... the reason they had no records in the Abyss was because they did not exist at all.
No, rather, they had always "existed" in Shen Wuyi's hands.
And now, she had "given" him the Coiling Dragon Seven Mystery Crystal, which meant only one thing... her pace was accelerating. And under this sudden acceleration, this Coiling Dragon Seven Mystery Crystal could not be obtained by her.
And the reason she risked this...
Yun Che tilted his head back slightly, let out a long breath, and the light in his eyes shone brightly.
"You seem... very happy?" Li Suo spoke softly.
"Mm." A genuine smile that Yun Che did not wish to conceal bloomed on his lips. "I... am finally no longer fighting alone."
...
Returning to the Divine Son Hall, before Meng Zhiyuan, who had been waiting for him for a long time, could approach, he plunged directly into the training space: "Zhiyuan, instruct Shouyuan and the others that I need to focus on refining the Vermilion Bird blood bestowed by the Lingxian Divine Official in the near future. Until I walk out on my own, no one is to disturb me."
Regarding the Vermilion Bird source blood given by the Lingxian Divine Official, Yun Che had no intention of keeping it secret; in fact, he seemed to be deliberately spreading the word.
Using a space divine stone to activate a dimensional profound formation, a red light flashed, and he had returned to the Mist Sea.
"Such urgency?"
Li Suo seemed surprised: "The divine power contained in the nine drops of Vermilion Bird source blood from the Lingxian Divine Official is enormous. If you fully refine it, even with Ni Xuan's profound veins as your foundation, it would be enough to elevate your cultivation to the eighth level of the Divine Lord Realm... or above."
"So..." She once again asked the question that had never been answered before: "Why have you been forcibly suppressing your cultivation all this time?"
Yun Che, however, said, "It's not the time yet. I will indeed refine the Vermilion Bird blood now, but only a small amount—just enough to ignite the Vermilion Bird Flame. And this degree of refinement is also the most in line with conventional common sense."
He still did not explain to Li Suo why he was forcibly suppressing his cultivation.
"But for now, let's complete the most important matter first."
He flipped his palm, and over a hundred pure Abyss Crystals and a dozen unusual Abyss Crystals landed before him, emitting bright and dangerous light in the dark Mist Sea.
His gaze swept from one crystal to another, and as he pondered, he murmured softly to himself: "If it were her, how would she create a 'special' Abyss Crystal that has never existed before, yet leaves no flaws..."
After thinking for a long time, he smiled: "When it comes to ingenuity, I am certainly no match for her. But in controlling Abyss Dust, I should be above her. In that case... I will simply follow its characteristics and do as I please."
He grabbed the air with his hand, and seven Abyss Crystals from dragon-shaped Abyss Beasts floated up, then shattered in midair as his fingers clenched, scattering into countless crystal shards, accompanied by chaotically dispersing Abyss Force and faint dragon breath.
Then, he picked up a piece of Tianqi Divine Jade, and his profound energy surged violently. With a resounding crack, this unusual Abyss Crystal, considered a divine object even in the eyes of divine kingdoms, shattered between Yun Che's fingers, then rapidly turned into finer and finer fragments under the subsequent force impact.
The shattered Tianqi Divine Jade emanated terrifying power, stirring up a violent force vortex around Yun Che.
Yun Che did not escape the chaotic force vortex but silently stared for a long, long time... Then, as his fingers clenched again, rolling Abyss Dust gathered from all around, surging into the vortex like a tide, drawing in the dragon crystal shards and Tianqi Divine Jade fragments, until they gradually mixed, blended, and coalesced.
When the force tempest subsided, the fragments from before had, under the guidance of the Abyss Dust, fused into a single strangely shaped Abyss Crystal with a chaotic, bizarre aura.
Yun Che's fingers bloomed with thunderous light, piercing seven holes of varying sizes into it. Then Abyss Dust gathered again, lingering around the newborn Abyss Crystal for a long time, devouring any traces that should not exist.
Several hours later, the Abyss Dust slowly dissipated, revealing a giant Abyss Crystal fully two feet long before Yun Che's eyes. Its entire body was the pitch-black color of Abyss erosion, its surface displaying coiling, knotted dragon patterns, and faint dragon breath lingering within the seven apertures, mysterious and deep.
Rumble—
Space trembled, and the ground churned. Behind Yun Che, the long-sleeping Abyss Lin God slowly opened its eyes, then opened its terrifying, unparalleled Abyss maw.
Yun Che grabbed the newborn Abyss Crystal and tossed it far into the creature's mouth. The Abyss Lin God swallowed it, closed its huge maw, shut its eyes, and returned to silence.
"Seven dragon Abyss Crystals from four different dragon clans, plus the special aura of Tianqi Divine Jade, the hidden containment and interference of Abyss Dust, and then letting it sit in the Lin God's stomach for a month or two..."
Yun Che lowered his brows and smiled. "Guaranteeing its aura is mysterious and strange beyond anything seen before."
Unless someone crushed it... But, faced with this never-before-seen, seemingly heaven-sent object of desire, the other party would likely be the last person in the world to allow even the slightest damage to it.
"What are you... doing?" Having witnessed Yun Che's strange behavior the entire time, Li Suo finally asked.
"Bait," Yun Che said succinctly.
"...And what about your deception of Hua Caili? Your claim that the 'Yunli Sword' accidentally fell into the Death Abyss—what was that for?"
"Mm... also bait?"
"..."
Yun Che turned his gaze toward the deep Mist Sea. "Time to go see my disciple. About now, he should be back."
Abyss Dust gathered, forming a thick, heaven-covering Abyss Mist, completely engulfing his body and transforming him into the self-proclaimed Mist Monarch.
The Abyss Dust transmitted soul sound. Before long, Pan Buwan's figure arrived swiftly and bowed from afar.
"Disciple Pan Buwan pays respects to Master. This trip to the Pure Land went exactly as Master predicted. I did not disgrace my mission—I successfully startled the masses and made a name for myself, stirring the entire Xiaodie Divine Kingdom, even drawing the sidelong glance of the Abyss Emperor."
"Very good."
From within the Abyss Mist, the Mist Monarch's low voice of approval came. "Now, remember every word I say, every single character!"
"Yes!" Pan Buwan lowered his head and listened attentively. His trip to the Pure Land had increased his awe for his Master by severalfold. Now, even if his Master spoke the most inconceivable, mind-shattering words, he would treat them as divine decrees.
"After a brief period of silence, the Xiaodie Divine Kingdom will definitely begin actively searching for your traces. Over the next three months, you must let them find you four times."
"The first time, you will look downcast and decline their offer to return, speaking gently."
"The second time, you will reject them outright and flee into the Mist Sea."
"The third and fourth times, you must deliberately let them barely detect your aura, then flee with all your might, refusing to meet them. Only show a posture of avoidance."
Pan Buwan listened quietly, engraving every word deep into his heart. To others, the Mist Monarch's words might have been soul-tearing demon sounds, but to him, they were no longer frightening—instead, they gradually made his soul feel a sense of closeness.
"Thus, after three months, Pan Yusheng will most likely personally come to find you and bring you back. If he does not appear after three months, continue to avoid him with all your strength... The Abyss Emperor's sidelong glance, the dark affinity and the Pan Yuan Duan Ye you displayed, plus the trace of guilt he feels toward you—all of these determine that he must bring you back no matter what."
"And the condition you propose for returning is to rebuild your mother's grave—only this condition. Say nothing else."
Returning to the divine kingdom... Mother...
Pan Buwan's heart pounded violently. He raised his eyes and asked in a low voice, "Master, after I return, what should I do?"
The Mist Monarch spoke slowly and solemnly: "Have no desires, seek nothing."
Pan Buwan frowned in thought, then bowed heavily: "Please clarify, Master."
"Obey all of Pan Yusheng's arrangements—banquets, clan councils, training... Everything Pan Yusheng says, you comply with completely, without any thought of defiance. If he wants to take your blood to study your dark affinity, you will let him without hesitation. If he wants the 'Pan Yuan Duan Ye,' you will give it to him in full. You may even hand over the 'Pan Yuan Qi Heng Jue' that I altered for you, in its entirety."
"You must not only comply but also respect him. And do so in your mother's name!"
"..." Pan Buwan was shocked and puzzled, but he did not voice his questions. He committed everything to memory with utmost seriousness.
"Aside from this, any free time you have must not be spent on training, getting close to others, or seeking any external things. Instead, use it all to accompany your mother, praying for her blessings and keeping vigil at her grave!"
"Can you remember this clearly!?"
Although Pan Buwan had countless doubts in his heart, he nodded heavily, his eyes as firm as the Abyss: "Disciple has already engraved all of it in his heart."
"Very good."
The Abyss Mist swayed, carrying the Mist Monarch's shadow as it slowly withdrew, gradually vanishing into the boundless Mist Sea: "Three years from now, what path you should walk—there will be a voice to tell you when the time comes. Go!"
"Remember all my words, and remember your hatred. Remember why you are still alive!"
Not until the Mist Monarch's presence had completely vanished from both his sight and perception did Pan Buwan slowly rise.
He shifted his feet, his gaze turning toward the direction of the Xiaodie Divine Kingdom. The reverence and respect he had shown the Mist Monarch in his eyes instantly dissipated, replaced by a bottomless, lightless abyss of hatred—so dark it could devour everything.
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