Black mist…
After a moment of silence, it chose to play dead again.
Bai Shengyi let out a laugh of exasperation.
"Little Reincarnation!" Bai Shengyi commanded.
Reincarnation Brush: "Here!"
Emerald green light and Bai Shengyi's spiritual power surged towards the black mist simultaneously. The black mist flinched and could no longer pretend. It stammered out a few words, "Don't… kill…"
"I don't have to kill you, but you should tell me the truth!" Bai Shengyi sneered.
The black mist said again: "...Star...盤 (pan)..."
Bai Shengyi mused, and took out the Heavenly Mechanism Sword.
The rusty Heavenly Mechanism Sword was inlaid with the incomplete Celestial Star Chessboard. After the Celestial Star Chessboard of Mount Qunyu was completely destroyed, the piece in her hand was the only Celestial Star Chessboard in existence.
Although incomplete, it could still be used for simple divination with the power of the stars. However, Bai Shengyi had recently been engrossed in the "Celestial Talisman Eye Sun Record" and alchemy, leaving her no time to study these things.
Just as she removed the Celestial Star Chessboard fragment from the Heavenly Mechanism Sword, it emitted a soft white light.
"It's the power of the stars," the Reincarnation Brush said.
Bai Shengyi was puzzled: "Could the Celestial Star Chessboard have something to do with the Fate Disk Star Sea?"
It wasn't her fault for thinking so; both things were related to the power of the stars, and anyone would suspect there was a story between them.
However, the Reincarnation Brush didn't know either.
Just then, the black mist suddenly rushed towards the Celestial Star Chessboard, revealing something like a large mouth, and "swallowed" the Celestial Star Chessboard fragment in one gulp!
"Black mist!" Bai Shengyi exclaimed, trying to pry open the black mist's mouth, but her hand passed straight through the black mist. She then realized that this black mist had no physical form at all!
Bai Shengyi frowned, deeply worried.
"Will it have trouble digesting it?"
"You're worried about that?" The Reincarnation Brush thought she was upset that the black mist swallowed the Celestial Star Chessboard.
Bai Shengyi said helplessly: "What else? The Celestial Star Chessboard is already as broken as it can be, and keeping it is useless for repair. If it's gone, it's gone. This little thing has been with me for so long, and I still don't know what it is. If it's gone, I'll have lost too much!"
Reincarnation Brush: ...It's just like you, Bai Shengyi!
"Then you don't need to worry," the Reincarnation Brush said. "Brushbrush told you that this black mist is a dark spirit. Do you know what a dark spirit means?"
Bai Shengyi shook her head.
"Legend has it that the Thousand Souls Insect Silk devours the spiritual power of all things, but the spiritual power it swallows is not used to develop itself. Instead, it condenses into a new life form, which becomes a dark spirit. Dark spirits carry spiritual essence and malice, hiding in all parts of the world, and are a part of the world's fortune."
"It's not an ordinary life form; swallowing a Celestial Star Chessboard is a trivial matter. On the contrary, you need to move."
Before the Reincarnation Brush could finish speaking, Bai Shengyi sensed something unusual around her.
The Star Kun seemed to be waking up!
The Qiong Meng Vine, still entwined around the Star Kun, urged: "Master, Boss, what should we do?"
That's right, only where the Star Kun was located was space stable. If she left the Star Kun, with Bai Shengyi's current cultivation, she would definitely be shredded!
However, reality did not give Bai Shengyi enough time to think.
"Whoosh!" The wind rushing towards Bai Shengyi suddenly became scorching hot. The Qiong Meng Vine cried out in alarm and immediately released its tendrils, warning them: "The Star Kun is awake!"
As soon as it finished speaking, Bai Shengyi was blown out by a gust of wind, and the Reincarnation Brush and Qiong Meng Vine were also rolled out.
"Hiss..." Bai Shengyi felt as if she had been branded by a searing wire mesh, and the pain spread to her internal organs, as if to tear her apart.
"No!" The extreme pain instead spurred Bai Shengyi's defiance. With a roar, she raised the Heavenly Mechanism Sword with her right hand and swept it out, "Spring Egret Third Sword, Boundless!"
Heaven and earth were originally boundless. If these fragmented spaces wanted to split her apart, then she would have to strike first and destroy these small spaces!
"Master, be careful!"
"Shengyi, be careful!"
The majestic sword might of the Heavenly Mechanism Sword was unstoppable. As it swept past, Bai Shengyi seemed to hear the "crackling" sound of shattering all around her. However, before she could rejoice, she heard the exclamations of the Qiong Meng Vine and the Reincarnation Brush.
"Whoosh!" The giant Star Kun, condensed from white light, lowered its head, its eyes gleaming as it stared at her. Then, in the next moment, the Star Kun blew a breath directly at her, "Whoosh..."
"Shengyi! Quickly dodge!" The Reincarnation Brush yelled anxiously, but it was too late.
Bai Shengyi was directly swept by a beam of white light into a small space within the Fate Disk Star River and disappeared without a trace.
"Nine Revolutions Reincarnation Brush, why haven't you transformed yet?"
If Bai Shengyi were present, she would surely have been astonished! The Star Kun could actually speak human language!
The Reincarnation Brush clearly knew this long ago and was even acquainted with the Star Kun. It snorted coldly: "None of your business. Star Kun, release her quickly!"
The brush shaft rammed into the Star Kun, causing the mass of white to scatter, but it quickly condensed again.
The Star Kun said lazily: "Old rules. If she can come out of the river of time, I'll let you leave. Nine Revolutions Reincarnation Brush, your chosen master this time, won't get lost in the river of time again, will they?"
The Reincarnation Brush fell silent.
If it could transform into human form, its face at this moment would be extremely ugly.
It did not want to recall the past at all, but the Star Kun seemed to be deliberately teasing it, stirring up its lost memories.
"Boss! Boss?" The Qiong Meng Vine's anxious calls jolted the Reincarnation Brush awake. What was it thinking about! The priority now was to save Bai Shengyi!
Don't fall for the Star Kun's trick!
This thing was not good to begin with!
"Star Kun, if you don't let her out, don't blame me for being impolite," the Reincarnation Brush said very seriously. "Shengyi is the master I've chosen, and I won't let you bully her like this."
Just as the Star Kun was about to say how it would be impolite, it saw a green light emit from the tip of the Reincarnation Brush, pushing a mass of black mist over!
"Stop!" The Star Kun exclaimed, its voice cracking, and it retreated rapidly. "Where did you find this dark spirit? And you even brought it into the Fate Disk Star Sea!"
The black mist, unprepared, touched the white light overflowing as the Star Kun retreated, and suddenly expanded by a large circumference, even more noticeable than before.
The joy of being full caused the black mist to lose control of its desires and instinctively drift towards the Star Kun!
"Don't come here!" This time, the Star Kun was the one breaking down. It wished it could stay far away from the black mist, but although this space seemed vast, the Star Kun was also very large, so the area it could move in was limited.
In a short while, the black mist grew five or six times larger, and the Star Kun visibly thinned.
"So... delicious..." The black mist made intermittent sounds, sounding very pleased.