# Chapter 885: Evil God Seed - Darkness (Part 1)
"You..."
Yun Che opened his mouth, but for a moment didn't know what to ask. The mystery surrounding her was far heavier than that of Mo Li when they first met, or even the ancient true demon of the Slay Moon Demon Cave.
The girl's four-colored pupils were mysterious and quiet, simply watching Yun Che like this the whole time. It wasn't a look of curiosity. No matter how he tried, Yun Che couldn't decipher what lay hidden within those colored lights.
"Have you been here... for a very, very long time?" Yun Che asked.
The girl nodded gently, just as before.
As for how long "very long" was, perhaps even the girl herself didn't know.
"Then you..." Yun Che hesitated for a long while before finally asking the question that concerned him most: "Do you know how to leave this place?"
The girl's lips parted slightly... but she didn't nod or shake her head. Her gaze finally showed some flickering movement.
She didn't shake her head... Could it be that she knows?
But she can't speak. Even if she does know, there's no way for her to tell him.
This girl was too mysterious. Although he desperately wanted to know who she was and why she existed here, the most important thing for him was undoubtedly to escape from this place.
Yun Che quietly picked up that soul crystal. Although he didn't know how long he had been unconscious, the crystal was still intact, and its light hadn't dimmed in the slightest. He was already certain that Su Linger couldn't possibly be in this place, but he preferred to believe that this soul crystal definitely belonged to Su Linger. Su Hengshan had entrusted it to him while bearing a mindset of certain death, also entrusting Su Linger's life and future to him. How could he possibly be mistaken?
Intense pain came from almost every part of his body, both inside and out. After standing for a long time, Yun Che was gradually unable to hold on. He put away the Netherworld Brahma Flower that the girl had given him and said softly, "I need to heal for a while first. Then I'll talk with you again, alright?"
The girl had no reaction. She silently watched him, as quiet as a star in the night sky.
Yun Che sat down cross-legged, quickly calming his heart and focusing his mind to begin healing. In the past when healing, even in relatively safe places, he would keep three-tenths of his attention on guarding against danger. But here, he concentrated completely, leaving no defense whatsoever.
Although this girl was as mysterious as a dream, there was one thing he was absolutely certain of: she would never harm him. On the contrary, she brought him a strange sense of safety. She had closed all the Netherworld Brahma Flowers for him, and the terrifying dark monsters dared not step into this area—that too must be because of her presence.
His qi and blood calmed. His profound energy and Desolate God's Power circulated simultaneously. As his breathing became even and gentle, his entire being quickly entered a meditative state. The circulation of his profound energy and Desolate God's Power grew faster and faster, rapidly healing the wounds all over his body.
The girl didn't disturb him. From beginning to end, she floated there quietly like an exquisitely carved silver doll, her gaze never leaving him for even a single moment. She watched his expression gradually calm, watched a small golden pagoda appear above his head, watched his face slowly regain some color from its pallor.
Time passed silently for a very, very long time. The girl's posture and gaze never changed in the slightest. Finally, as Yun Che's internal injuries were mostly healed, his profound energy began to release on a larger scale, gradually forming a quite powerful vortex of profound energy that swirled rapidly around his entire body.
When this vortex of profound energy, used to heal his external wounds, appeared around Yun Che's body, the girl's colored pupils suddenly began to tremble... and trembled for a very long time. It was as if she had seen something of extreme importance to her.
Purple silence reigned, making it almost impossible to feel the passage of time. After a long while, the aura around Yun Che calmed down. His internal injuries had initially healed, and his external wounds were about seventy to eighty percent recovered. In a few more days, they would heal on their own.
Yun Che exhaled lightly and opened his eyes. He immediately saw the petite figure beside him. Smiling at the girl, he was about to stand up... when suddenly, he felt his heart pound violently.
Yun Che froze, then his expression changed dramatically...
This... this is...
Could it be...
A sinister, bone-chilling sensation came from the depths of his profound veins. Agonizing pain erupted violently within his body like a disaster. Yun Che's pupils constricted, and his body, which had just barely recovered from its injuries, curled up. His hand pressed tightly against his chest.
A thin layer of black qi rose slowly from where his hand touched his body, gradually becoming thicker. Soon, Yun Che's body and face became shrouded in an increasingly heavy layer of black qi.
Yun Che's entire body convulsed, his face twisted in pain. Cold sweat poured from his forehead and all over his body...
The Demon Source Pearl!
Why is this happening... Why so soon?
The Demon Source Pearl had just been sealed by the Golden Crow Soul Spirit. Even if it were to eventually erupt, it should have been locked down for at least a month or two. Why now...
Amidst the pain, Yun Che's pupils suddenly widened... because it occurred to him: could the early eruption of the Demon Source Pearl be due to this dark abyss!?
This was a world filled with dark demonic aura, and the concentration was terrifyingly dense. Being in such an environment, it was extremely likely that the intense dark aura here had violently stimulated the Demon Source Pearl's power to revive and grow.
"Ugh... ahh... ahh..."
Yun Che groaned in pain. Not only had the Demon Source Pearl suddenly broken through its seal to erupt again, but the intensity of this eruption surpassed any previous one. In just a few short breaths, the dark profound energy from the Demon Source Pearl easily shattered his own profound energy defenses, flooding his entire body and sweeping through every corner, making him feel as if he had fallen into hell.
Yun Che barely had time to struggle before his whole being was immersed in the dark abyss. Soon, his profound energy completely collapsed under the dark demonic aura. Not only could he not resist, he couldn't even stand.
It seems... this time it's really over...
Yun Che's face was horribly dark. His vision was gradually blurred by the thickening black qi. He gave up struggling, and had no strength to struggle anyway. His perception of his body rapidly faded, leaving only his consciousness barely maintaining its final clarity.
I had already prepared a way to die... I never thought I'd die in a place like this...
I didn't even get to say goodbye to Father, Mother, Xue'er, and the others...
I didn't even get to see Linger one last time...
Truly... so unwilling...
But... it's fine... at least I can see... Xiao Xiannu sooner...
The Demon Source Pearl's eruption was so sudden and more violent than any previous one. No one could help him this time. Even if the Golden Crow Soul Spirit were by his side, it would be powerless to seal it again.
The black qi wrapping around Yun Che grew heavier, rapidly devouring his body and life force. Yun Che completely gave up struggling, staring blankly at the world before him... He vaguely saw the girl come to his side. On her raised little hand, a clump of pitch-black light floated quietly.
That clump of light was black to an incomprehensible degree. It was as deep as the black hole at the center of the cosmos from ancient legends. Yun Che's vision and consciousness were already extremely blurry, but that black light seemed to flash at the very root of his soul, clear to the extreme.
Looking at this jet-black light, Yun Che's body, already immersed in darkness, suddenly trembled violently. This tremor came from the deepest part of his profound veins. His profound veins, which had been completely filled with dark aura, suddenly began to flash with red, blue, and purple profound light at this moment, gradually tearing through the darkness, growing stronger and stronger...
This feeling...
Could it be... could it be...!?
Slowly, the girl bent down, moving the clump of black light in her hand to his lips. With a gentle turn of her little hand, the black light flew into his mouth under the force of a soft power, reaching inside his body.
BOOM——
The black qi around Yun Che's body and within it suddenly swelled violently. All the dark profound energy churned and roiled like a startled beast, accompanied by low, deep roars.
BOOM!!!!
With a sinister rumble that seemed to come from the very depths of hell, the black qi on Yun Che's body exploded violently, then vanished completely. In its place was a layer of deep, flawless black light. These black radiances covered Yun Che's body surface, and even his eyes emitted blazing black light.
All the pain in Yun Che's body disappeared. His consciousness quickly regained full clarity. Deep within his profound veins, the Demon Source Pearl, embedded there, still released intense black light and black qi. Previously, it had been a terrifying foreign object to Yun Che, a source of disaster. But now, not only did he clearly perceive its existence, the foreign feeling had completely disappeared. He even clearly felt that it was naturally a part of his body, closely connected to his body, profound veins, and soul. It had become extremely docile, completely controllable by his will.
Just like controlling his own hands and feet.
Even the dark aura that had nearly destroyed him before had completely merged into his own profound energy, flowing entirely according to his will.
This... what is this? What just happened?
The enormous change in his body had been completed in just a few short breaths, too fast for Yun Che to react or think. But the change didn't end there... it was just the beginning.
Boom... boom... boom...
The black light that had entered Yun Che's profound veins now exploded continuously. The blackness, beyond all reason, shattered into countless dark fragments. Every fragment, upon touching his profound veins, instantly merged into them like flowing mercury, with no obstruction at all.
As if they had always been one.
At the same time, with the influx of each dark fragment, a power as vast as a mountain collapse or tsunami surge emerged wildly within his profound veins... It was a strange power, but one so mighty it was beyond belief. Yun Che opened his eyes, but his expression was completely dazed. He clearly felt the fusion of the dark light mass with his profound veins, and also clearly perceived his profound power rising at a terrifyingly rapid speed...
Overlord Xuan Realm, Level 7...
Overlord Xuan Realm, Level 8...
Overlord Xuan Realm, Level 9...
Overlord Xuan Realm, Level 10...
PING!!
With a strange sound in his soul, the bottleneck that countless Overlord Xuan cultivators spent their entire lives unable to break through was shattered in a single rush. Yun Che's profound energy rapidly converged. His entire profound veins became utterly still. The dense profound energy rotated calmly within, like layers of misty nebulae.
This was the state of the highest level of profound energy in this plane.
Sovereign Xuan Realm, Level 1!!
The black light mass from the girl had finally completely merged into Yun Che's profound veins. All abnormal movements subsided. Yun Che's entire body became peaceful. He looked inward at his profound veins... The profound vein space that had originally been red, blue, and purple now had an additional black area.
The black area was located at the very center of the profound veins, occupying nearly half of the profound vein space. Around the black area, the red, blue, and purple spaces existed in balance, like stars surrounding the moon, encircling the dark region at the center.
And at the very center of the dark region was the Demon Source Pearl, now exceedingly gentle.
"..." Yun Che didn't even know when he had stood up. His entire being was in a daze, unable to come to his senses for a long time.
The girl's colored eyes watched him quietly. From the moment he appeared, her gaze had never wavered. It wasn't at all like she was watching a strange intruder, but rather like she was gazing at her entire world.
[The little girl has a dark seed. There was a guy on the forum with a big-chested girl avatar who actually guessed it in advance! Amazing... I had previously emphasized that there were only five Evil God Seeds, and he still managed to guess it...]
[He must have just been blindly guessing. He probably didn't even believe it himself when he said it...]