The Ascension of Contracted Spirits

Chapter 571 - 249: Holy Saint Embryo·Sprint Mourning, Holy Saint Embryo·Deep Black Wheel_3

All four people remained silent, but gradually, the expressions on their faces shifted towards sadness.

Ten thousand years ago, during the Near Ancient Era, the time when the Ye Clan was its most glorious, there was no such place as the "Without-Sun City".

This place was originally called the "Great Darkness City", and it was one of the two most important ancestral lands of the Ye Clan!

And the "Deep Black Wheel", was the family legacy left by the first generation’s ancestor, and also the most elite Holy Saint Embryo. It had been protecting ancestral land for nearly a hundred thousand years, and it has never made any mistakes!

However! Amid the regular transition between the Near Ancient Era and the New Era, the Cosmic Era Calamity appeared!

It is also known as the ’Broken Era Calamity’, which appears every hundred thousand years.

Every time after ten eras end, they cycle and countless creatures welcome a disaster. There will be ninety-nine percent of races that whither and perish, driven out and eliminated by natural law.

The species that survived the Cosmic Era Calamity, apart from a very few lucky ones, are all the strong tribes or the supreme tribes.

The Ye Clan, of course, survived.

But one of the price tags they had to pay was the collapse of the Deep Black Wheel.

Today, the first era of the New Era is about to end.

The fallen Deep Black Wheel, with only a trace of residual will, has persevered for ten thousand years, its interior space is already on the brink of collapse.

Every time Ye Hanjun came here, every time he ascended these steps.

The feeling of the world’s destruction would, in an irresistible trend, gradually take hold of his soul.

"Tap——"

The last flight of steps.

Whether it was Ye Hanjun, Ye Ji, Shi Shou, or Xu Yan, they all had two lines of tears falling from the corners of their eyes.

The next second, the world was spinning around, and endless darkness covered their eyes.

A candlelight appeared, followed by a second, a third...

Again a dark, deep passage, the floor spotless, the walls carved from single chunks of stone were seamless.

"Who has returned?"

A sigh resonated with the chill wind.

Ye Hanjun halted, saluted towards nothingness:

"Disciple of the Ye Clan, Lord Han."

"The five-year term has ended, the examination officer has approved the evaluation and I am due to perform the ancestor ceremony, to officially take over the surname of Ye."

"It’s you..."

The sigh seemed even more somber.

After a silence of at least one minute, in the quiet where you could hear a pin drop, Ye Hanjun felt as if a pair of invisible eyes were watching him from another space.

"Wait in the quiet room for a while."

"Considering the time, there should be two other clan members on their way back."

"If they also have passed the evaluation, all three of you can carry out the ancestor ceremony together, which could also save some resources."

"Yes." Ye Hanjun saluted, without showing any impatience.

He followed the wind’s direction, came to an utterly dark space, and sat cross-legged.

With a flash of the Marks, Mo, Goose Immortal, Huazhu, GuaGua — even Aegifura was released.

"My, my, where are we? It’s so eerie here!"

Goose Immortal was unafraid of anything, but suddenly shivered a bit.

He looked around, only able to vaguely determine the position of Ye Hanjun, and he couldn’t see anything else.

"This is the core area of our clan. Here in practice, dark lineage Fond Spirits can obtain a ten-fold increase in effects."

"Even for ordinary beings too, there are surprising benefits..."

"Though you say that..."

Goose Immortal interrupted with discontent:

"I advanced my Life Wheel to the Perfection stage a year ago."

"After a year of cultivation, I’m almost at the critical point."

"You, as my Patron, need to put a bit more effort in!"

"You can’t be suggesting that, like the last time, you want to prevent me from advancing to the next realm again, right?"

"Although Yu Ruoxin has not yet promoted to the 5th Rank, she will not be too far behind."

Ye Hanjun gave a light laugh, "Be quiet for a while, it’s not easy to come to this place, even just to meditate, will benefit you greatly."

"Alright."

Goose Immortal grumbled and settled down, propped up against the wall and comfortably closed his eyes.

In the darkness, Mo waved its tentacles, unusually without making any loud noises.

The visible dark elements were poring into its body in droves.

Its body bulged, just like an inflating balloon, showing no signs of stopping.

"Too... too much!"

"Ouch... it hurts... Ah!"

With a bang, Mo exploded.

It turned into countless pieces of flesh, twitching and crawling, finally reassembling.

Ye Hanjun lightly nodded his chin.

Being beaten up daily, Mo was stuck at the edge of the Life Wheel Great Completion.

Breaking through to Life Wheel Perfection in such a dark place - it’s just natural.

"Gua Gua!"

GuaGua quietly found Little Black Hat, crawled into her hair, turned over, and lazily begun to nap.

Even though it’s not a Dark Element spirit, for some reason, the darkness also treats it as a source and attracts it like a magnet.

Ye Hanjun speculated that this little guy was special. Any element that reached a certain concentration and purity, it could absorb.

Anyway, its bloodline would automatically filter out the impurities and only retain the core spiritual substance, it could only make a fortune.

"Humph!"

Aegifura let out a sniff, combing her hair and ignoring everyone."

However, around her, there were circles of black, like surging waves, that constantly poured into her body.

Aegifura frowned, stared for a while.

Seemingly reluctantly, she relinquished control of her body and allowed the darkness to cleanse her internal organs.

"This level of purity in the elements...I guess I can use it."

"Human, don’t expect to receive any gratitude."

"Sooner or later I’ll find a way to tear apart this damn contract!"

With blatant curses, one went in one ear and out the other.

Ye Hanjun ignored Aegifura as usual, closed his eyes, and put all his energy into activating the Darkest Abyss.

"Boom!!!"

No matter if it was Aegifura or Mo, or even GuaGua.

The suction of all Tri-Spirits combined couldn’t compete with one-tenth of Ye Hanjun’s.

At this moment, he was like the lord of darkness, all the elemental power within the space was stirred violently, continuously streaming into his flesh and blood.