# Chapter 773: Half-Bloomed Brahma Flower, Part 1
Yun Che turned around and said, "Yuanba, Xue'er, it's extremely dangerous inside. You'd better not enter and just wait outside. Whether there's what I'm looking for inside or not, I'll come out immediately."
"No need to say that, brother-in-law." Xia Yuanba shook his head, his muscles already bulging high, his entire body surrounded by an overbearing profound force aura. "Since we've come this far, how can we not go in and take a look?"
"Brother Yun, if I don't stay by your side to protect you, Senior Uncle and the others will blame me." Feng Xue'er said softly, her face showing no sign of fear at all.
"Alright." Yun Che grabbed Feng Xue'er's small hand. "Xue'er, don't let go of my hand. Yuanba, be careful! If something unexpected happens, remember your first reaction should be to run!"
**CRACK! !**
A sound like thunder and lightning splitting apart rang out. The barrier and the Sea Emperor Seal simultaneously shone with dazzling blue light. In the next instant, Zi Ji gripped the Sea Emperor Seal tightly and quickly retreated, while a six-foot-square gap had appeared on the barrier ahead.
A jet-black mist frantically overflowed from within.
This is...
"Only a hundred breaths. Hurry in!" Zi Ji quickly put away the Sea Emperor Seal, raised his hand, and charged first into the gap in the barrier.
"Be extremely careful!" Yun Che didn't have time to think further. He pulled Feng Xue'er and quickly rushed in as well, with Xia Yuanba following closely behind.
Stepping into the Slay Moon Demon Cave was like suddenly stepping into an extreme ice cavern. Their bodies and souls felt an abrupt chill, and every hair on their bodies stood on end in an instant. Yun Che felt Feng Xue'er's hands suddenly grip him tightly, her body pressing closely against his.
The light above the South Sea was abundant, and a six-foot-square gap should have allowed enough light to illuminate a large space within the cave. But after they had taken just three steps forward, everything before them was pitch black, with almost no light to be seen.
Turning around, the exit was nothing but a blur of grayish white.
"The light from outside can't get in!?" Xia Yuanba exclaimed in shock.
"It's the power of darkness attribute." Yun Che frowned. Earlier, when Fen Juechen had fought him, he had used the same attribute of profound force. "This kind of dark power devours light and also restricts spiritual sense... even the five senses!"
"Correct!" Zi Ji's voice came from the darkness. "This is only the entrance of the demon cave. The deeper you go, the denser the dark aura becomes. Spiritual sense will be suppressed to less than one-tenth of its normal state! The five senses are the same! In the deeper parts, even profound force is suppressed to the King Xuan realm level."
"I'm already starting to feel... the profound force suppression." Xia Yuanba raised his arm, gritting his teeth slightly. "My profound veins feel like they're being bound by something, and the flow of profound force is much more difficult than usual."
"...Senior Zi, we only have a hundred breaths. Take us to where the Netherworld Brahma Flower once appeared." Yun Che said calmly.
"Mm!" Zi Ji responded.
In the darkness, Feng Xue'er raised her arm, and a ball of crimson Phoenix Flame burned in her tender white palm. The Phoenix Flame she ignited was much purer than Yun Che's, and the Phoenix Flame light it released could shine very far. But within this Slay Moon Demon Cave, it could only illuminate less than ten steps.
And this was only at the entrance.
By the light of the Phoenix Flame, Yun Che could see the ground that still appeared pitch black even under the crimson flame light, but he couldn't see the cave walls or ceiling. Clearly, this cave was much more spacious than he had imagined.
"Don't worry. The Slay Moon Demon Cave has only this one passage, with no forks or branches. Follow this passage and you can go straight to the end of the cave. The entire cave isn't deep. At our current speed, we can approach the end in about thirty breaths." Zi Ji walked ahead, his pace not slow at all. Although it was his first time entering the Slay Moon Demon Cave, all the records about the cave in the Sea Palace were familiar to him.
"So, the Netherworld Brahma Flower discovered here thirteen hundred years ago was at the end of the demon cave?" Yun Che asked.
"Correct." Zi Ji nodded. "Ten thousand years ago, the seven Sea Palace ancestors who discovered the Slay Moon Demon Cave reached the deepest part. Their profound power was all at Lord Xuan Realm Level 8 or above, but in the deepest part of the demon cave, their profound power was suppressed to only the mid-stage King Xuan Realm, and their life force was rapidly draining. Later, they encountered the Slay Moon Demon Lord, who was only at the early-stage Overlord Xuan Realm, and were brutally slaughtered. Only one ancestor managed to escape by luck... Afterwards, the ancestors left a strict order that unless it was confirmed that the Slay Moon Demon Lord was dead, no one should ever step into the depths of the demon cave."
Zi Ji's pace was subtly quickening, but the profound force aura he released was growing weaker and weaker.
The range illuminated by the Phoenix Flame was also rapidly shrinking.
"Is the Slay Moon Demon Lord confirmed dead?" Yun Che asked cautiously.
"It was, after all, only an Overlord Xuan beast. The most top-tier Lord Xuan beasts have a lifespan of only a few thousand years. No matter how powerful an Overlord Xuan beast is, it's absolutely impossible to have a lifespan exceeding ten thousand years. Although its corpse has never been found... it should have turned to dust in the darkness." Zi Ji replied.
"And the source of this yin aura here, is there any clue?" Yun Che narrowed his eyes and looked ahead, simultaneously sensing his own profound veins.
In front, there was Zi Ji; beside him, Feng Xue'er; behind him, Xia Yuanba. With almost every step forward, the profound force aura on their bodies weakened by one degree. Among them, Zi Ji was the fastest to weaken, Feng Xue'er next, and Xia Yuanba slightly slower. They had now roughly reached the middle section of the Slay Moon Demon Cave, and Zi Ji's profound force aura had dropped to around the strength of Overlord Xuan Realm Level 8.
Meanwhile, Feng Xue'er and Xia Yuanba had both dropped to around Lord Xuan Realm Level 3.
The reason he could clearly sense the changes in their profound force was because...
His profound veins were not affected at all!
Even the circulation of profound force had no sense of difficulty.
As Mo Li had said, the Evil God's profound veins simply couldn't be suppressed by ordinary power. The Heaven's Might Soul Suppression Array couldn't, and the Slay Moon Demon Cave couldn't!
As for Feng Xue'er suffering less suppression than Zi Ji, it was clearly due to her Phoenix bloodline!
And as for Xia Yuanba, it was the Overlord Emperor Divine Meridian!
"This is precisely the greatest unsolved mystery of the Slay Moon Demon Cave." Zi Ji let out a long breath, his breathing slightly hurried. "Our Sea Palace wants to know the source of this terrifying yin aura more than anyone else, but for a full ten thousand years, we haven't been able to find the answer. Perhaps its root lies in the deepest part of this demon cave. However, the yin aura in the depths is too terrifying, causing a drastic drop in profound force and blurring of the five senses. Perhaps even the Sea Emperor himself couldn't stay for more than twenty breaths. Wanting to explore it is as difficult as reaching the heavens."
Profound force was dropping. The range that spiritual sense could detect was shrinking. Breathing was becoming more difficult. The five senses were also becoming noticeably weaker, to the point where they could no longer even hear their own footsteps clearly.
"In this world, such a place actually exists. Sigh..." Xia Yuanba gritted his teeth. The feeling of his profound force and spiritual sense being suppressed was unbearably uncomfortable. His entire body felt as if it were immersed in thick swamp, and even taking a step was much more difficult than usual.
"Mo Li, do you have any idea about the possible source of this yin aura?" Yun Che asked in his mind-sea. One thing bothered him... From the moment they entered the Slay Moon Demon Cave until now, Mo Li had been silent, not saying a single word.
"The dark aura here..." Mo Li's voice was unusually heavy, and it even seemed to carry disbelief. "What the hell is going on!?"
Yun Che's footsteps paused, and he quickly asked, "Is there something unusual about it?"
"It's not just unusual!" Mo Li's voice was frighteningly deep. "In terms of intensity alone, the dark aura here isn't strong. You could even say it's weak. But... its level is terrifyingly high!!"
The phrase "terrifyingly high" made Yun Che's heart jolt violently. Because these four words came from Mo Li's mouth.
"The level of its dark laws is so high that even I can't understand it!"
Within the Heavenly Poison Pearl, Mo Li's face was heavier than ever before, her faintly glowing red pupils filled with intense disbelief. "A dark aura of this level—I've never seen it before, not even in the plane where I was born! What kind of thing is releasing this!!"
"..." These few brief words from Mo Li impacted Yun Che far more powerfully than all of Zi Ji's descriptions of the Slay Moon Demon Cave combined.
"Yun Che! Get out of here now!" Mo Li suddenly said sharply. "The situation here has completely exceeded my expectations! Being able to release yin aura like this means there must be an extremely terrifying thing hidden inside! Leave immediately! Forget about the Netherworld Brahma Flower! Because even if..."
"Hehehehe... hiyahahaha... hehehehe... hoo-woo-woo-woo..."
Just then, an incredibly sinister laughter came from the darkness ahead. As they went deeper, their five senses were already greatly limited, but this terrifying sound, like something from a demon, reached their ears with crystal clarity. It sounded like crying and laughing at the same time, piercing straight into their souls.
"Ah!" All four stopped in their tracks. Feng Xue'er even cried out in alarm, throwing herself against Yun Che's chest. "Wh-what sound... so scary!"
"Th-there's someone inside!?" Xia Yuanba took a big step forward, shielding Yun Che and Feng Xue'er, his profound force surging without reservation... But even for Xia Yuanba, at this moment, he couldn't help but feel his hair stand on end.
Xia Yuanba's profound energy was fully unleashed, which greatly startled Zi Ji. At this position, his own profound force had been suppressed to the late-stage King Xuan Realm, while the oppressive aura Xia Yuanba was releasing was unmistakably still at the late-stage Overlord Xuan Realm!
Zi Ji was horrified... Here, near the depths of the Slay Moon Demon Cave, his profound force had been suppressed by nearly two major realms. Yet Xia Yuanba seemed to be suppressed by only one major realm!
Although it was just a difference of one major realm, it was undoubtedly a world of difference! Under normal conditions, Xia Yuanba's profound force was weaker than Zi Ji's. But in this state, if Xia Yuanba wanted to kill him, it would be effortless.
Could this also be the power of the Overlord Emperor Divine Meridian?
"Wait! This sound..." After a brief moment of terror and alertness, Yun Che's expression suddenly relaxed, and his pupils even showed a hint of ecstasy. He let go of Feng Xue'er, took a quick step forward, and turned around a rock wall.
Suddenly, the world before him was no longer pitch black. A flash of bright purple light appeared.
Within the terrifying dark yin aura, Feng Xue'er's Phoenix Flame could barely illuminate a distance of one zhang. But the purple light in his sight was over thirty zhang away, yet it appeared with crystal clarity in Yun Che's pupils, as if the most extreme darkness in the world couldn't devour this purple light.
The purple light flickered, and the hair-raising demonic crying and laughter came from that purple light.
Yun Che's heart pounded violently, his eyes wide open. That is... that is...
"The Netherworld Brahma Flower!!" Behind Yun Che came Zi Ji's exclamation.
"Ah? That... is what Brother Yun is looking for!?" Feng Xue'er's voice was full of surprise and joy.
"Yes! That's it! The bright purple demonic light, the ghost-like crying sound when it sways... it's exactly as Master described!" Yun Che clenched his fists, saying excitedly.
A full seven years, and not a single trace of the Netherworld Brahma Flower had been found. Now, just holding the faint hope of finding a needle in a haystack by entering this Slay Moon Demon Cave... he had actually witnessed the arrival of a miracle!!
"Mo Li, we found it... we found it!!" The excessively strong surprise and excitement made Yun Che lose some of his composure. At that moment, he suddenly felt something strange. Because behind him, the sound had suddenly vanished, even the sound of breathing had completely disappeared.