Chapter 94: Chapter 80: Shen Xuan’s Order Beast
The moment Shen Xuan drank the Potion and closed his eyes, his mind became exceptionally clear.
It was as if a cool spring were continuously washing over the depths of his mind.
Just then, Shen Xuan suddenly felt as if thousands of needles were piercing his head. He steadfastly endured the stinging, tingling pain that emanated from his soul.
After an unknown amount of time, a warped world suddenly appeared before his eyes.
It was a vast world where new scenery was constantly materializing.
This world stood upon a massive, purple-black pool of water, from which a light purple mist occasionally rose.
Once touched by the light purple mist, all the scenery that manifested in this world would become distorted, melting and decaying as if it were spoiling food.
Occasionally, the pool would churn, and a faint, light purple, translucent substance, like a gauze curtain, would drift out from it.
Anything that came into contact with this translucent curtain would be instantly annihilated, turning to dust.
The scattered dust would contaminate everything that appeared, creating patches of black, gaping voids through Erosion.
It took a very long time for new scenery to form and fill in these black voids.
Shen Xuan had been having this dream for three or four years. At first, he found it startling, even Bizarre and terrifying.
But after having the same dream a thousand times, he had grown accustomed to the scenery.
Zhao Kai saw that Shen Xuan’s expression was no longer pained by the continuous stimulation of his soul; instead, he had entered a state of calm.
He knew then that Shen Xuan had begun to awaken his Soul Base and was meeting his Lifebound Guardian Beast within it.
Since Zhao Kai hadn’t formed a Contract with a Soul Element Guardian Beast, and because he was afraid that a large amount of his Soul Power invading Shen Xuan’s Soul Base might interfere with the awakening, he couldn’t see the world within Shen Xuan’s Soul Base as Su Ya once had, and therefore couldn’t determine what kind of Guardian Beast Shen Xuan was awakening.
Shen Xuan walked through this illusory world, a place where vast landscapes were constantly being consumed by Erosion and then reconstructed.
Just as Shen Xuan was starting to feel a little bored, a colossal figure emerged from the purple-black pool.
The figure was so large it blotted out the sky. As it appeared, the light purple mist began to rise throughout the world.
Everything in the world collapsed, decayed, and turned to nothingness in the wake of its appearance.
As a child, Shen Xuan had been taken to Zhuanyun Lane and forced into slavery at the Greenfield Tavern. His first job was hauling seafood.
The crates of fish and shrimp often contained jellyfish with venomous stingers, and Shen Xuan had once been stung by a dead one while hauling the cargo.
Even now, the memory of that jellyfish sting still made him ache.
This giant figure floating in the sky looked just like a jellyfish, magnified countless times over.
Its massive, deep-purple bell was covered in even more alluringly vibrant purple patterns. Below it, there were sixteen main tentacles, each a light purple color, like a gauze curtain.
On each of these curtain-like main tentacles grew thousands upon thousands of transparent filaments, each finer than a strand of hair.
The giant figure in the sky, which was constantly causing the world’s Erosion, sensed Shen Xuan’s presence.
It actually bent down, wrapping its curtain-like, light-purple main tentacles and its tens of thousands of transparent filaments around Shen Xuan.
Shen Xuan instinctively tried to dodge, but the tentacles moved too quickly, enveloping him completely.
Enveloped by the curtain-like main tentacles and filaments, Shen Xuan didn’t feel the slightest discomfort. In fact, it felt exceptionally soft and comfortable.
Finally, the colossal, sky-blotting figure shrank before Shen Xuan, transforming into an exquisite, ethereal jellyfish with a bell the size of a lantern and sixteen main tentacles just over two meters long.
Although Shen Xuan’s eyes couldn’t see the filaments, he could feel their presence—tens of thousands of them, floating in the space all around the jellyfish.
With this exquisite, ethereal jellyfish at its core, the world continued to corrode and collapse outward, layer by layer, like ocean waves.
A somewhat ethereal, mournful voice echoed in Shen Xuan’s soul.
"I’ve been waiting here for you. You’ve finally come to see me."
Zhao Kai kept a close watch on Shen Xuan’s condition.
Although Zhao Kai also felt it was highly likely that Shen Xuan would awaken an Order Beast, just as Zhong Yi had said, the possibility that he might awaken a Deceit Beast couldn’t be ruled out.
Many Deceit Beast Masters had their minds influenced by their Deceit Beasts the first time they awakened their Soul Base and met them.
Zhao Kai had to be on guard. What if Zhong Yi was wrong, and what awakened in Shen Xuan’s Soul Base wasn’t an Order Beast, but a Deceit Beast?
It would be disastrous if he were influenced by a Deceit Beast and attacked Zhong Yi.
Suddenly, Zhao Kai saw the layers of purple-black marks on Shen Xuan’s body vanish completely.
It all happened in the blink of an eye. Just as Zhao Kai thought his eyes were playing tricks on him, Shen Xuan opened his.
A faint aura of the Power of Rules manifested around Shen Xuan.
However, it quickly vanished, concealing itself completely within his body.
The instant the Power of Rules appeared, the shadows within the Evolution Shop deepened, completely sealing it off and preventing even a trace of the power from escaping.
Although Zheng Yufeng was in the room, he had remained on high alert the entire time.
In truth, Zheng Yufeng was also very curious about what kind of Lifebound Guardian Beast Shen Xuan would awaken.
