pjbooks Chapter 115 The Basement of the White Pagoda, Fragments of Door Bones
Chapter 115 The Basement of the White Pagoda, Fragments of Door Bones
The outer area of the White Pagoda was completely quiet.
In the pale hall, the retesting platform collapsed inward, and shattered observation rings were scattered all over the floor.
The old ring array has been shut down.
Those gray and white lines that were once used to guide dreams and calibrate the anchor points of those who guard the gate now lie as dull as dead snakes on the ground.
No researcher dared to approach.
Even the alarms inside the White Tower became intermittent after that punch.
Everyone stared at the figure in black robes with a blood-red face.
fear.
Shocked.
Can't believe it.
The ancient cultivator with the blood-red face stormed into the White Tower.
Qin Yue was killed.
The retesting area was destroyed.
The researchers involved in the old ring array were executed.
He didn't come to negotiate.
He's here to settle scores.
Whoever touches Lin Xiaoya will die.
This rule was not written into the laws and regulations of Longyuan City.
But at this moment, it was more chilling than any order from the Elders.
Blood Shadow stood before the ruins of the retesting platform.
He looked down at the crack in the ground.
The crack wasn't caused by his punch.
To be precise, his punch only pierced through the outer layer of the White Pagoda.
What truly cracked was something sealed away deep within the White Pagoda for many years.
A faint blue light slowly seeped out from beneath the crack.
It's not lit.
But it was bitterly cold.
The researchers in the hall turned pale after just one glance.
Someone instinctively stepped back, their voice trembling:
"The bottom layer..."
"Why is the bottom seal glowing?"
"Isn't the outer retesting area separated from the bottom layer?"
"Who activated the core seal?"
No one answered.
Because no one dares to admit that something is hidden under the White Pagoda.
That's a secret that ordinary people can't know.
Even many White Tower researchers only know about the outer retesting zone, the dream calibration room, and the stargate adapter.
As for the bottom sealed area.
That place was closed down twenty years ago.
This is the true taboo of mentioning the White Pagoda.
Blood Shadow ignored them.
His gaze fell into the depths of the crack.
An extremely ancient, extremely decaying, yet heavy and unsettling aura emanated from there.
Like some kind of long-dead behemoth, buried underground for many years.
Now, I was momentarily awakened by the sound of the outer layer of the White Pagoda collapsing.
Just then.
The faint girl's voice came from beneath the crack once again.
"Don't……"
"Don't let them open it..."
"That's not a door..."
"It's bone..."
The sound was very soft.
So light it seemed it might fall apart at any moment.
But this one sentence caused the expressions of several senior researchers in the White Tower Hall to change drastically.
An elderly man in a white robe almost lost his voice:
"Who is speaking?"
"Subject Number One?"
"impossible!"
"She's been missing for twenty years!"
As soon as he said this, many young researchers around him turned to look at him.
Experiment Subject One?
They had only seen this name in some incomplete old files.
The earliest goal of the Clean Door Practitioners Program.
It was also the site of the most serious experimental accident in the history of the White Pagoda.
It is said that eleven researchers died in the White Tower core room after that accident.
The old ring array was sealed.
The bottom sealed area has been permanently closed.
But now, the experimental subject number one, which should have disappeared for twenty years, has actually made a sound under the White Tower.
The eyes behind the blood-shadow mask turned slightly cold.
His goal is to break through the outer layer of the White Pagoda and eliminate those who have touched Lin Xiaoya's dream.
The real, underlying secrets are not something he should be dealing with right now.
At least, don't touch it in front of everyone.
……
Outside the White Pagoda.
More and more powerful individuals are arriving.
The Resource Institute, the Law Enforcement Hall, the Star Gate Observatory, and the patrol teams sent by the Elders' Council were all kept outside the outer ruins of the White Tower.
It's not that they don't want to go in.
Rather, they dare not.
The outer protective array of the White Pagoda has been destroyed.
Blood-faced Ancient Cultivator is still inside.
Qin Yue's life force has completely disappeared.
Nobody knows if going in now will make them the next corpse.
Ning Wushuang stood at the front of the crowd, gazing at the cracked outer wall of the white pagoda.
Her expression was grave.
There's something under the White Pagoda.
A disciple from the Ning family's Enforcement Hall whispered to him:
"Miss, should we notify the elders of the Enforcement Hall?"
Ning Wushuang said coldly:
"You think they don't know?"
The disciple was taken aback.
Ning Wushuang looked at the eerie blue light seeping from the bottom of the white pagoda.
"They are not unaware."
"They dare not say it."
"The White Pagoda was never simply a re-measurement agency from the beginning."
"The real secret lies beneath it."
the other side.
Song Li and Ji Qinghe were also alerted by the commotion at the White Pagoda.
Song Li's face turned pale, and she lowered her voice:
"Senior Bloodface killed Qin Yue...and destroyed the White Pagoda..."
"Has this gotten out of hand?"
Ji Qinghe did not answer immediately.
As she looked at the black-robed, blood-faced figure, another thought surfaced in her mind.
The white pagoda stirred Lin Xiaoya's dream.
Senior Bloodface stormed into the White Tower.
But what about Lin Yuan?
Every time Lin Xiaoya was in danger, Senior Bloodface arrived too quickly.
They arrived so quickly it didn't seem like they had just received a message.
It's more like he's always been by Lin Xiaoya's side.
Ji Qinghe took a deep breath and suppressed this absurd thought.
impossible.
Lin Yuan was only at the first level of the Qi and Blood Realm.
Senior Blood was an ancient cultivator who was able to storm into the White Tower.
How could they be the same person?
……
The Black Tower of the Celestial Patrol Bureau.
When Gu Changye arrived outside the White Pagoda, the smile on his face had faded considerably.
He looked at the faint blue light below the white tower.
The light was very faint.
But it reminded him of an old file.
A fragment of a page he had once seen deep within the Black Tower of the Sky Patrol Bureau.
Gu Changye reached out his hand.
His subordinate immediately handed him a black notebook.
Gu Changye didn't look through his own records, but instead took out a yellowed page from the inner pocket of his notebook.
There are burn marks on the edges of the paper.
Only a few incomplete lines of text remained on it.
The Clean Door Project.
The seventh adaptation experiment.
Objective: Stabilize the core of the old gate.
Abnormality: Awakening of the incisor bone.
Subject number one was dragged inside the door.
Note: This item is suspected to be a remnant of the old Stargate war; it is not a complete gate structure, but rather...
The second half of the sentence was burned.
When Gu Changye saw this scene back then, he didn't know what the two missing characters were.
Just now, the girl's voice came from beneath the crack in the white pagoda.
That's not a door.
It is bone.
Gu Changye slowly raised his head, his eyes becoming serious for the first time.
"I see."
"The gate sealed under the White Pagoda is not the old one."
"It's a door bone."
The subordinate beside him changed his expression.
"Internal bone?"
Gu Changye said in a low voice:
"During the Old Stargate Wars, some gates were destroyed, leaving behind skeletal remains."
"They are not living things."
"It's not an ordinary material either."
"It's more like the remains formed from fragments of rules behind the door."
"If the level is high enough, this kind of thing can preserve the will behind the door for a long time."
The subordinate's voice was strained:
"That area beneath the White Pagoda..."
Gu Changye stared at the dark blue crack.
"It can preserve the White Pagoda for twenty years."
"It allows the Clean Door Practitioners' Program to revolve around it."
"It can leave an echo even 20 years after the first experimental subject was dragged in."
"Not at the commander-in-chief level."
"It won't be at the rank of Marquis."
He paused for a moment before slowly saying:
"It is very likely a fragment of a king-level gate bone."
The subordinate's expression changed instantly.
King-level.
Even a fragment is enough to shake the entire Dragon Abyss City.
Gu Changye finally wrote a line in his notebook:
At the bottom of the White Pagoda: there are suspected fragments of a royal-level gate bone.
After finishing writing, he looked up at the blood-red shadow in the ruins of the White Pagoda.
Then look further away towards the Starry Courtyard.
Interest and seriousness were intertwined in his eyes.
"Lin Yuan".
"This time, you're probably really going to get something big."
……
Starry Courtyard.
Lin Xiaoya has woken up.
She sat on the bed, her face still somewhat pale.
The observation ring in my dream has shattered.
But the voice of the older sister behind the door still echoed in her mind.
She didn't know what that meant.
But she could sense that what lay beneath the white tower was terrifying.
It was so terrifying that the older sister, trapped behind the door, trembled as she spoke of it.
Lin Yuan stood by the window.
He did not go to the White Pagoda.
At least not in the eyes of outsiders.
But his consciousness remained connected to Blood Shadow.
He could see everything that happened on the outer side of the White Pagoda clearly.
The retesting area was destroyed.
The bottom seal has been revealed.
Fragments of a king-level gate bone.
Lin Yuan's eyes flickered slightly.
This level is finally heavy enough.
The system prompt appeared silently.
[Long-distance high-order portal bone residual energy fluctuation detected]
[Suspected fragment of a king-level weapon]
[The current host is too far away to directly consume and refine it]
[Note: This target has an extremely high energy level, posing a risk of pollution backlash.]
Lin Yuan looked at the prompt, his eyes showing no fear whatsoever.
Pollution backlash?
That's something for others to consider.
For him, as long as he could get inside, that was energy.
However, with 700,000 compressions, we are still short 60,000.
The ordinary Star Source Pool is no longer sufficient.
The main star gate tides are not yet stable enough.
Today, a fragment of a king-level gate bone has been exposed at the foot of the White Pagoda.
Dinner is served.
Lin Xiaoya whispered:
"elder brother."
Lin Yuan turned around.
"Um."
"Has something happened at the White Pagoda?"
"Um."
Lin Xiaoya gripped the corner of the blanket tightly.
"Did Senior Blood Goddess go?"
Lin Yuandao:
"Um."
Lin Xiaoya's eyes held worry, but also an indescribable sense of relief.
"Will he be in danger?"
Lin Yuan looked towards the direction of the white pagoda.
Not for now.
Lin Yuan knew very well.
The destruction of the White Tower's outer layer by the Blood Shadow was only the first step.
What truly enabled him to attempt 700,000 times lies deeper within.
……
Inside the White Pagoda.
The crack is getting longer and longer.
A ghostly blue light spread along the pale ground.
Beneath the test platform shattered by the blood shadow, rings of ancient white circular chains emerged.
Those chains are not physical objects.
Instead, they are array patterns.
One end of them connects to the bottom of the White Pagoda, and the other end connects to the former observation ring array.
Now that the old ring array has been destroyed, the chains are beginning to loosen one by one.
A young researcher looked at the chains, his voice trembling:
"The outer observation ring array... was it actually part of the underlying seal?"
The older researcher was deathly pale.
"Not just a part."
"It's a buffer layer."
"The 'Purification Adaptation Experiment' has never been for the purpose of testing the Purification Adaptors themselves."
"It's to make the dreams of the Cleansers bear the pressure of the bottom seal."
This statement stunned everyone around them.
They used to think that the observation ring was a testing tool.
The retesting station is an adapted instrument.
The old ring array is a dream calibration device.
But now they realize that the true purpose of all this is to connect the dreams of the Cleansers to the bottom of the White Pagoda, so as to share the backlash from the fragments of the Gate Bone.
in other words.
The first experimental subject from back then was not protected.
It was taken to stabilize the door.
Now, Bai Ta wants to do the same thing to Lin Xiaoya.
Blood Shadow looked down at the loose white chains.
The look in his eyes behind the mask grew even colder.
Just then.
From the depths of the cracks at the bottom of the White Pagoda, the voice of Experiment Subject No. 1 could be heard again.
This time, she seemed to have used all her strength, and her voice was clearer than before.
"Don't let her near here..."
"Mengu has woken up..."
"The sect leader will see her..."
The voice just fell.
Deep within the crack, a wisp of eerie blue light suddenly shone.
It's like an eye slowly opening in the deepest depths.
Everyone in the hall was startled.
Several researchers with lower cultivation levels immediately knelt down, their faces pale and their eyes vacant.
Even just this ray of light was enough to corrupt their minds.
Blood Shadow raised his hand.
Dark gold blood pressure drops.
The wisp of blue light was temporarily pushed back into the depths of the crack.
But this also seemed to have completely alarmed the bottom of the White Pagoda.
The entire white pagoda began to tremble slowly.
……
Temporary council chamber of the elders.
All the elders witnessed this scene.
The elders, who had been debating whether the Blood-Faced Ancient Cultivator should be suppressed, all changed color.
Someone exclaimed:
"How could something like this be at the bottom of the White Pagoda?"
"What is that?"
"Why was the White Pagoda never reported before?"
A highly senior elder remained silent for a long time before whispering:
"It wasn't not reported."
"It was sealed away twenty years ago."
The council chamber fell silent instantly.
Marquis Zhenxing sat to one side, his face darkening.
"Sealed off?"
The old elder avoided his gaze.
"After the Cleansing Gate Project, the sealed area at the bottom of the White Tower was listed as a forbidden file."
"Only the Resource Institute, the Research Institute, and a few elders know about it."
Marquis Zhenxing's eyes were cold and sharp.
"So you've always known there's something under the White Pagoda?"
No one answered.
Because the answer is already obvious.
Marquis Zhenxing looked towards the White Pagoda, his voice low and deep:
"You'd better pray that thing doesn't affect the main star gate."
"Otherwise, the disaster that befell the White Pagoda today would not just be a problem for the Blood-Faced Ancient Cultivator."
……
In the ruins of the White Pagoda.
Blood Shadow stood before the crack.
A faint blue light continuously seeped out from below.
One by one, the white chain links snapped.
The sound of Subject One grew weaker and weaker.
"Don't……"
"Don't open it..."
"It's awake..."
Just then.
above the sky.
A muffled rumble suddenly came from the main star gate of Longyuan.
A surge of silvery-white stars.
A dark blue crack appeared more clearly than before deep within the main star gate.
At the same time, the cracks at the base of the White Pagoda also widened rapidly.
There seems to be a certain resonance between the two.
Blood Shadow slowly raised his head.
next moment.
An aged and heavy aura pressed down from afar.
The overwhelming pressure of a mid-stage Marquis Realm expert enveloped the White Pagoda, like mountains and rivers collapsing.
The direction of the Qin family's ancestral home.
Qin Xuanxiao arrived, stepping through the air.
He finally arrived.