Just the mere thought sent shivers down the spines of both White Tiger and Yue Bai.
Neither of them had expected that simply accepting an inheritance would plunge them into an accident concerning the entire fate of the Mystical Mechanism Continent.
White Tiger and Yue Bai were not just standing there dumbfounded; as soon as Azure Dragon had left with several orbs of light, they had already started to summon tremendous courage to probe the anomaly in the sky, attempting to gauge the attitude of the Abyss towards them.
"Maybe we're just too weak, it seems the Abyss doesn't have time to bother with us right now."
White Tiger retracted his claws; he had just used every method at his disposal, except for the Power of Laws.
Unfortunately, his efforts vanished without a trace when they touched the pitch-blackness that was seeping into the sky, without stirring up even the slightest ripple.
Faced with such a strange Abyss Power, White Tiger dared not wield the Power of Laws, fearing that his Geng Metal Law would be swallowed whole by this entity, leaving him nowhere to cry.
Yue Bai tried for a long time to no avail, her Daoist Skill torrent struck out only to be completely devoured...
Perhaps because the two of them posed no threat to the Abyss, the Abyss ignored their attacks, simply defending passively.
Just as the starlight above was being devoured, and when they were at a loss, a gate of light appeared in the dark yet bright space, with orange streams of light flashing out from within.
"Uncle Orange!?"
Yue Bai looked on with some joy; if Uncle Orange had arrived, it meant her master, Grand Saint of Nine Spirits, must have been informed about the situation here and was likely dealing with it.
White Tiger also turned his head happily; he had spent the past year joyously battling under Uncle Orange's lead. The relationship between the cat and the tiger was quite good. For some reason, just looking at Uncle Orange made him feel a deep, heartfelt sense of kinship.
As Liang Yi's master would say, perhaps it is the mutual attraction between feline creatures?
"Don't count on your master, he can't even extricate himself now..."
Uncle Orange just glanced at Yue Bai and guessed what she was thinking, immediately dousing her hopes with cold water.
"How could it be..."
Yue Bai was somewhat stunned; were there disturbances outside as well?
"I'm here to check on your situation, fearing that you might encounter some accident."
Uncle Orange didn't even have time to greet White Tiger, instantly focusing his energy to look up at the darkness above.
If his sense of the Abyss's aura outside the Demon Spirit Ancestral Land wasn't very clear, upon his first step here, the thick Abyssal Aura directly smothered his face.
Just one glance, and Uncle Orange understood what the despicable Abyss was up to, and of course, realized the severity of its actions.
"What exactly is going on!"
Uncle Orange cursed softly, irritably scratching his head with his paw, caught off guard by this move from the Abyss.
His nearly fully recovered memory told him that the Abyss had never engaged in such "smart" behavior, so why now does it seem to have grown a brain all of a sudden?
Yue Bai stealthily glanced at Uncle Orange's silhouette in front of her.
She felt that something about Uncle Orange had changed, not just his habit of ending sentences with a purr, but something more significant.
Yue Bai pondered but couldn't figure it out, deciding to wait and ask her brother Liang Yi later if he had noticed anything.
While the Abyss above had been ignoring Yue Bai and the others, it suddenly paused, as if sensing something.
This pause coincidentally occurred the moment Uncle Orange opened the gate of light and stepped in from the outside world.
Despite being engulfed in pitch darkness, Yue Bai and White Tiger sensed an invisible gaze slowly shifting from the heavens onto them.
A cold, uncanny discomfort emerged from the bottom of their hearts, with chaotic whispers spreading noisily through their minds, almost as if saying something, involuntarily tempting them to listen closely.
"Meow!"
"Don't listen to the voices! Don't look into its eyes! Hold your breath, focus, and protect your Divine Soul!"
Uncle Orange suddenly roared towards the sky, snapping Yue Bai and White Tiger back from their daze with his low shout.
"Yes!"
Yue Bai and White Tiger were shocked and hurriedly bowed their heads, not daring to face the terrifying blackness above, bracing themselves against the evil, chaotic whispers surging within.
Uncle Orange clenched his paws tightly; his fluffy appearance resembled a ball of meat, but the power contained within could easily crush a mountain.
"Meow!"
With a cat's cry, a transparent light emitted from Uncle Orange's body, forming a perfectly timed circle of light, enveloping Yue Bai and White Tiger as well.
Although Uncle Orange suspected the Abyss would not risk catastrophic falling to come down directly, even he did not expect that the Abyss would dare split off such a strong force this time, such that merely being watched by it was enough to show signs of corruption in Yue Bai and White Tiger.
The moment the light enveloped them, Yue Bai and White Tiger's furrowed brows relaxed, and their tense bodies gradually eased, the sensation akin to being back in the embrace of a mother, bringing a profound sense of comfort and warmth from deep within.
Divine Light of the Heavenly Dao!
After awakening his past memories, Uncle Orange naturally won't come out empty-handed. Since the light emerged, in this moment within this realm, he is the Heavenly Dao!