# Chapter 928: Heaven-Defying World Scripture? (Part 2)
"Xiao Che? What's wrong with you? You've been acting so strange today..." Seeing Yun Che suddenly spacing out again, Xiao Lingxi couldn't help but worry. She stepped back to his side and said softly, "Are you worried about something? Won't you tell me?"
As Xiao Lingxi walked back, the dimmed light once again became rich and bright, restoring its previous brilliant silver.
Yun Che saw every instantaneous change clearly.
All the changes in the black jade's light were caused by Xiao Lingxi... when she was near, it blazed; when she was far, it weakened.
No matter how much Yun Che didn't want to believe it, he had truly witnessed it... This was clearly a form of resonance.
What was going on?
He picked up the black jade emitting silver light and held it before Xiao Lingxi, speaking in as calm a tone as he could manage: "Lingxi, have you seen this stone before?"
"Huh? No, I haven't." Xiao Lingxi shook her head in bewilderment. "Why do you ask?"
"..." Yun Che knew Xiao Lingxi better than anyone in this world. They had grown up together, always inseparable, knowing every secret the other held.
She had once been his little aunt, but was actually a year younger than him. Her talent in the Profound Way was mediocre, and she wasn't particularly interested in cultivation, but she had always worked hard—just to protect him back when his Profound Veins were crippled and he was mocked and looked down upon. As Yun Che grew stronger, her pace of cultivation gradually slowed. Even now, her profound strength had not broken through the True Xuan Realm.
Compared to the women by his side—Cang Yue, Xue'er, Xiao Yaohou, Ling'er, Xia Qingyue—she fell far short in appearance, talent, profound strength, and status.
She was ordinary. Perhaps it was precisely because of her ordinariness that she had always been the purest and warmest sanctuary in the depths of Yun Che's heart.
But why... why would she suddenly have such a strange resonance with this black jade that came from Shiyue Mojun?
This should never have happened... it was utterly absurd.
After a brief silence, Yun Che took Xiao Lingxi's hand. "Lingxi, hold this stone and carefully feel if anything unusual happens to you."
"Ah... alright." From the moment she had seen Yun Che until now, Xiao Lingxi had sensed something strange in his expressions and eyes. She reached out and carefully took the mysterious black jade from his hand.
The moment Xiao Lingxi held the mysterious black jade in her hand, the bright silver light on it suddenly exploded! This unexpected change made Xiao Lingxi cry out in surprise. She instinctively dropped the object while losing her balance, stumbling backward.
"Lingxi!"
Yun Che, equally startled by the sudden burst of light from the black jade, rushed forward and caught her firmly in his arms just before she could fall. "Are you alright? Are you hurt?"
"I'm... I'm fine," Xiao Lingxi shook her head, managing an embarrassed smile. "I didn't expect it to suddenly emit light like that. It scared me... Ah, how embarrassing."
"Is your hand alright?" Yun Che quickly took the hand that had held the mysterious black jade, deeply afraid she might have been injured by the exploding light. Fortunately, her palm was still fair and tender, without any unusual marks.
"Of course I'm fine. I was just startled, that's all." Xiao Lingxi stood up from Yun Che's embrace, then suddenly stared at something behind him, frozen in place. "Ah? That... that is..."
Yun Che spun around like lightning, and like Xiao Lingxi, he froze.
The mysterious black jade that Xiao Lingxi had dropped in her surprise lay not far away on the ground. However, its previously emitted silver light had vanished, and it had returned to its entirely black state. But above it, from the ground to the ceiling...
"Those characters..." Xiao Lingxi murmured. "What are they? I don't understand them at all, but..."
"You can read them?" Yun Che asked in shock.
"Mm." Xiao Lingxi nodded, then asked in confusion, "I don't understand why, but I can actually read them. Even though I've never seen this kind of script before... it feels very strange."
"You can actually read them?" Yun Che's pupils contracted. These were the characters from Shiyue Mojun's Eternal Night Illusion Demon Scripture. But according to the records found in the Eternal Night Divine Kingdom, these characters had been lost for countless years, and the profound art recorded in them had been utterly broken and lost. Even the black jade had become nothing but an empty shell.
But Xiao Lingxi could actually recognize them.
Could it be that the reason the Eternal Night Illusion Demon Scripture's inheritance was lost was not because no one could decode the characters, but because... the conditions required to read them were extremely demanding, to the point of near impossibility?
And Xiao Lingxi happened to meet those conditions?
Yun Che recalled everything that had just happened. When the black jade's silver light flared, he could feel a strange aura, but could not sense or touch anything profound within it. Yet with Xiao Lingxi present, the light became pure and full, and the silver characters within it emerged and could be read by Xiao Lingxi.
"In that case, Lingxi, could you read those characters for me?" Yun Che pointed at the silver text hovering in the air. The silver text arranged in the void must contain a profound art of the highest level, and it could also explain the resonance between Xiao Lingxi and the jade, as well as why she could recognize these bizarre characters.
"Alright." Xiao Lingxi raised her head, swept her gaze across, and began to read aloud the characters formed by the silver light:
"The beginning of the roar, the dawn of chaos, heaven and earth without order, light and dark without separation, the primal force of the world, the Way of Heaven as a binding, one era of desolation, a hundred eras of wilderness, ten thousand eras of pagodas, stars as the cosmos, the fallen sky amidst the vast heavens, a thousand peaks are all defiance, ten thousand splendors are all illusions..."
Xiao Lingxi read word by word, and Yun Che listened word by word. This seemed to be an extremely obscure and difficult scripture. Yun Che listened silently. The first few dozen words appeared to be a cryptic description. But later, the meaning of the text suddenly shifted. Although the words themselves were ordinary, when spoken by Xiao Lingxi and reaching his ears, each word struck his soul heavily, causing his entire being to tremble inexplicably... It was an indescribable strangeness, or rather, a terrifying sensation.
Gradually, his will seemed to be firmly seized by something, focusing entirely on the words Xiao Lingxi was reciting. His sight, hearing, smell... all five senses were sealed off. His entire soul world became pale and blank, with only Xiao Lingxi's voice echoing within.
He was intimately familiar with Xiao Lingxi's voice, yet as she recited these words, each syllable seemed to originate from the primordial universe of ancient times. Faintly, an immense, profound, and infinitely vast conception unfolded before his eyes. His heart and soul seemed to sense its existence, yet it remained elusive, let alone comprehensible or understandable.
He began to vaguely realize that this was not simply a scripture but a profound art manual. However, he had never seen such a manual. In the past, the "Great Dao Pagoda Art," which contained the power of the Heavenly Dao Pagoda, he could comprehend in a short time. But these words, resembling a profound art, allowed him to sense the existence of some mysterious conception with extreme vagueness, to feel that each word carried an aura of antiquity, yet he could not grasp what that conception was, nor could he even understand a single word.
The entire "scripture" was very short, only about six hundred characters. In Yun Che's dazed state, Xiao Lingxi had already finished reading it all. Her gaze fell on the last sentence, and she murmured, "The final sentence seems to be an incomplete fragment. This strange text is probably not complete; there should be other parts."
"..." Yun Che snapped back to reality, his eyes refocusing, but his mind was completely blank.