Let Me Explain, Fairy
Chapter 462 - Three Hundred and Six: A Sudden Change at the Bottom of the Pool

Chapter 462: Chapter Three Hundred and Six: A Sudden Change at the Bottom of the Pool

Dah.....

As a pair of Cloud-Stepping Boots gently touched the elaborately carved pool bottom, several strings of bubbles immediately floated up, following a blood-colored figure towards the surface of the pool.

"Gurgle... Gurgle..."

Listening to the sound of water pressure churning near his ear, Xu Yuan looked around with a hint of puzzlement in his eyes at the true heart of this deadly silent Underground Palace.

Although he had jumped into the pool decisively earlier, his heart was actually in a panic.

Having battled the Barbarian King, Xu Yuan no longer needed Luo Xiran to remind him that ghostification was actually a process of the body adapting to the Life Origin.

With each injury, the Life Origin would not only repair his wounds but also modify his body simultaneously.

Once these modifications reached a certain level, such alienation would start to reflect in his will-spirit and thoughts.

It would make the ghostified person subconsciously believe that consuming living beings was natural, just as humans need to eat rice and savor meat.

However, during the descent into the Blood Nest, Xu Yuan had noticed that he was not undergoing any changes.

This was strange.

As a half-ghost, Xu Yuan could clearly feel the Life Origin within this Blood Nest was dense and vast.

Moreover, he could also feel that the moment he entered the pool, his body began to devour the surrounding Life Origin like a black hole gone mad.

In the ten-odd breaths it took to reach the bottom of the pool, he had absorbed far more Life Origin than from all the fungal mats combined in the Underground Palace.

His consciousness had always been stable, so stable that he even had time to consider how he might get stabbed by Luo Xiran after getting out.

Doubt flashed through his mind, and Xu Yuan pushed these thoughts aside.

Although he did not know why, since it did not accelerate his ghostification, it was a good thing and he did not need to bother with it for now.

His current priority was to get out of this Underground Palace since the saintly Barbarian King might come to hunt him down at any time.

With that in mind, Xu Yuan’s gaze swept towards the bottom of the Blood Pool.

Unfortunately, he couldn’t see clearly; his vision was obscured by an impenetrable blood red.

After some thought, Xu Yuan closed his eyes and, instead, relied on the innate empathy of his ghostified form to probe the bottom of the Blood Pool.

A strange fluctuation emanated from Xu Yuan’s body. In the next instant, the Life Origin in the Blood Pool, as if responding to a command, began surging toward his body crazily.

Feeling this abrupt change, a chill ran through Xu Yuan’s heart.

The Life Origin that rushed towards him was already ten times more than he could sense before, and there was even more coming endlessly. If all of it entered his body, wouldn’t he die on the spot?

What accompanied this surge of Life Origin was a perspective akin to that of an omnipotent being.

Everywhere the Life Origin reached became his sensory domain, fully revealed without omission.

The layout at the bottom of the pool was somewhat similar to the 2.5D map he remembered, but the differences were still significant.

In the Cangyuan Chronicles, this Blood Pool could only be accessed after it had completely dried up, which meant after killing Luo Xiran.

Now realized in the flesh, this domain here was so vast that Xu Yuan almost couldn’t recognize where the thing he was looking for was located.

The hundred-foot-high altar turned out to be hollow, with a square stone cavity engraved with intricate patterns beneath it.

Fortunately, with his ghostified empathetic abilities, he quickly found the Formation Patterns he was seeking.

They were situated at the center of the stone cavity, on a massive boulder.

The surface of the boulder was extremely regular, forming a perfect hexagonal platform, as if it had stood there since before time began.

The god-like view given by the ghostified empathy allowed Xu Yuan to clearly sense that all the Formation Pattern lines within the stone nest spread out from the edges of the hexagonal platform.

In the exact center of the platform’s surface was a jade-pendant-shaped indentation.

The Blood Divine Stone Jade Pendant.

Without any hesitation, Xu Yuan discontinued his empathetic connection, took a step, and raced towards the hexagonal platform, creating a trail of bubbles in the blood-red solution.

Approaching the platform, Xu Yuan lowered his gaze to the two Blood Divine Stone Jade Pendants in his hand, which were nearly identical, and a flicker of hesitancy crossed his eyes.

There was only one slot here, but two pendants.

Which one should he insert?

According to his memory from a previous life, Xu Yuan felt he should insert Luo Xiran’s pendant.

Inserting one of the Blood Divine Stone Jade Pendants would open a secret chamber below, containing the antidote for the Reversal Ghost Transformation that he currently needed, as well as the way out.

But at this moment, he felt an urge growing within him to insert Bai Muxi’s pendant into the slot—a curiosity and a desire to explore the unknown rapidly intensifying.

After a moment of contemplation, Xu Yuan still suppressed what he thought was a suicidal impulse.

You can remake a game at any time, but life doesn’t work like that.

Curiosity about everything can only end up harming oneself.

"Sigh..."

Exhaling a long breath, bubbles rose from his lips as Xu Yuan gently placed Bai Muxi’s Blood Divine Stone Jade Pendant onto the indentation.

And the moment the jade pendant slotted into the indentation, the six edges of the hexagonal platform immediately lit up with a fluorescent glow.

Immediately thereafter,

Boom——

A vibration started under Xu Yuan’s feet. The perfectly sealed ground to the left of the hexagonal platform began to crack, revealing a dark entrance to a secret chamber.

Yet, what was miraculous was that the blood-red Life Origin did not flow into the chamber through the fissure; instead, an invisible membrane seemed to keep it outside the entrance.

Xu Yuan shifted a few steps to the side, leaned in half-crouched and prepared to break through the invisible membrane but found his hand passed straight through it.