Chapter 5 — Old Yi: "Hehehe, Eastern Emperor Bell, I'm coming!"Night quietly descended, and the bustling Shrek Academy of the daytime shed its clamor, gradually sinking into a peaceful stillness.The chilly moonlight pierced through the cracks of the window, casting mottled patches of light on the clean wooden floor of the single dormitory.Inside the room, Xiao Yan sat cross-legged in the center of the hardwood bed.He wore only a thin, pure white undershirt, his eyes slightly closed, his breathing long and steady.As the circulation of the Art of Emperor Fuxi through the full celestial cycle deepened, his entire person seemed to completely merge into the surrounding night.The three Origins of essence, Qi, and Spirit converged and fused within his body, surging endlessly along specific Meridians routes, forming a profound and mysterious charm around his body.The free-floating Origin Qi of heaven and earth in the air no longer drifted away disorderly, but taking him as the center, was pulled by an invisible traction force, slowly spiraling along the trajectory of the Taiji Yin and Yang, and finally turning into pure energy flowing into all parts of his body.Just as he was immersed in this Cultivate state of the communion of heaven and man and the tranquil goodness of all things, Xiao Yan's handsome brows suddenly furrowed.He keenly perceived that at the edge of his boundless Spiritual Sea, a muffled collision sound suddenly came.That sound did not possess aggressiveness or hostility, but rather resembled some heavy object flying backward out of control, smashing hard against the boundary barrier of the Sea of Consciousness, shaking this spiritual space to ripple with a faint circle of waves.Xiao Yan stopped the action of guiding True Qi and helplessly shook his head.Without even needing to guess, he knew what this sound was about.Calming the spirit power within his body, his consciousness subsequently sank, directly entering his own Spiritual Sea.Xiao Yan's consciousness entity condensed and formed in the spiritual space.This was not the misty, cramped, and narrow spiritual World of ordinary Spirit Masters, but a boundless, deep, and Universe-like vast star map.Beneath Xiao Yan's feet lay a huge Fuxi Bagua Array Diagram spanning the entire Sea of Consciousness space.Qian, Kun, Zhen, Xun, Kan, Li, Gen, Dui, the trigrams of the eight directions were condensed from the starlight brilliance of countless dazzling stars; they slowly circulated according to the Laws of Heavenly Dao, endlessly, constructing the most indestructible Foundation of this spiritual heaven and earth.Right in the dead center of the Bagua Array Diagram was a supremely magnificent behemoth.That was Xiao Yan's second Spirit, the Eastern Emperor Bell.Even though Xiao Yan had stared directly at it countless times in this Spiritual Sea, his heart would still generate awe for this supreme Divine Artifact.The entire giant bell presented the color of Xuanhuang gilded gold, seeming to be cast from the purest gold when heaven and earth first opened, with the golden light of Chaos circulating on the surface of the bell.It quietly floated in the center of the array diagram just like that, slowly rotating on its axis.Without any redundant movements, it exuded a vast coercion that could crush even heaven and earth Law, time, and space together, majestic and impossible to look at directly, as if since the era when Grandmist was undivided, it had always stood lofty here.Zooming in the vision, one could clearly see the extremely complex and all-encompassing textures engraved on the body of the bell.At the top, the trajectories of the sun, moon, and stars operated on their own; at the bottom, the Origins of earth, water, fire, and wind intertwined with each other; in the middle section of the bell body, there were even phantom images of mountains, rivers, and all Spirits generating and perishing alternately, with countless ancient gods and demons runes looming within.Every single pattern was archaic and vigorous, exuding the heaviness washed by the long river of time.The Eastern Emperor Bell, also known as the Chaos Bell, was listed alongside the Fuxi Qin as one of the top ten ancient Divine Artifacts.But within this Spiritual Sea, the status of these two Divine Artifacts was exceptionally distinct.The Fuxi Qin was obediently shrinking its form at this moment, transforming into a stream of light, like a loyal satellite, following a fixed orbit, slowly revolving around the Eastern Emperor Bell.In front of the Eastern Emperor Bell which suppressed all things, even the Fuxi Qin could only be relegated to a subordinate position, not daring to overstep by the slightest bit.Xiao Yan's gaze did not linger too much on the Eastern Emperor Bell.He turned his head, his sight sweeping across the vast Bagua Array Diagram, searching for the "culprit" that broke the tranquility of his Cultivate.The areas of the Kan, Gen, and Zhen trigrams were all empty and desolate, with the starlight calm.Ultimately, Xiao Yan's gaze locked onto the edge of the Qian trigram area representing "Heaven".Over there, a person was squatting.That was a withered and thin elder.He was not a physical entity, but a phantom condensed from an incomparably condensed Divine Sense.The elder had full white hair and beard, an aged face, and deep, three-dimensional facial contours, showing obvious differences from the human race on the Douluo Continent.Inside, he wore a black robe covered with flowing, flashing golden magic runes; outside, he was covered with a pure white cloak.The ultimate black and ultimate white formed a strong visual contrast on him, symbolizing the two completely opposing forces of light and necromancy, achieving a perfect Fusion within his body.This person was precisely Electrolux, the necromancer saint mage and the necromancer scourge who once shocked another plane.Electrolux originally carried a majestic and compassionate superior disposition around his body, but this unfathomable expert image was now completely ruined by the anomaly on his forehead.Above the elder's temple, a fist-sized blue-purple big bump had unexpectedly swelled up.He was baring his teeth and grimacing as he reached out to rub that bump, still muttering and complaining in his mouth, an appearance that made people unable to help laughing.Sensing Xiao Yan's consciousness entity approaching, the elder's movements abruptly froze.His reaction was extraordinarily fast, his withered fingers quickly drawing a profound light magic symbol in mid-air.Golden light flashed by, and the comical big bump on his forehead was instantly covered up by an illusion technique, his skin becoming smooth and clean again.Having finished all this, Electrolux straightened his body, put his hands behind his back, deliberately put on a straight face, and restored that majestic appearance of lamenting the times and pitying the people.He unhurriedly took steps, walking toward Xiao Yan, his expression so natural as if the person squatting on the ground rubbing his head just now was simply not him."Little Yanzi, why did you suddenly come to the Spiritual Sea?" Electrolux spoke first, his tone calm and gentle, taking the initiative in the conversation first.Looking at the clumsy old mage god before him whose cover-up made it more obvious, Xiao Yan only felt his eyelids twitching directly.He took a deep breath, gathered his hands into his sleeves, and arduously held back his upward-curling mouth corners, not letting himself laugh out loud."Isn't it because of your huge commotion, Elder Yi."Xiao Yan slightly raised his chin, pointed at the giant bell slowly rotating on its axis in the center of the grand array, and shifted his gaze back to Electrolux's illusion-cast forehead,"Did you, by any chance, anger the Eastern Emperor Bell again?"Having his secret exposed in one word, Electrolux's majestic old face suddenly couldn't hold on anymore.He gave a light hum and turned his face away, avoiding Xiao Yan's piercing gaze."Knowing it yet you still ask."The elder stiffly threw out a sentence, but the hand behind his back unconsciously pulled out, touching the place covered by magic again, obviously that flesh and skin suffering had not disappeared because of the illusion technique.Looking at this somewhat awkward-tempered old man before him, Xiao Yan didn't have the slightest disrespect in his heart, instead finding it somewhat vividly interesting.The process of this Elder Yi settling down in his Spiritual Sea could be said to be full of drama.Back when Xiao Yan first awakened his Eastern Emperor Bell Spirit, that terrifying power exclusive to the Chaos Divine Artifact inadvertently rippled open a trace of a Void Realm crack.As coincidence would have it, this wisp of Electrolux's remnant soul, wandering in the spatial-temporal turbulence and about to disperse, happened to be attracted by this spatial fluctuation, and directly drilled into Xiao Yan's Sea of Consciousness along the crack.Xiao Yan still clearly remembered the scene at that time to this day.As soon as this elder who claimed to be the necromancer saint mage appeared, earth-shaking powers of light and necromancy burst forth from around his body, preparing to declare his arrival in the most shocking manner."Holding the sun and moon in hand to pluck the stars, in this World there is no me..."This domineering and soul-shaking incantation that was enough to awe all living beings had only just begun, and he hadn't even had time to fully spread out his Aura.The Eastern Emperor Bell, which had always silently floated in the center of the Bagua Array Diagram, suddenly vibrated.Just once.There was no earth-shaking bell chime, nor dazzling brilliance, just a circle of naked-eye-invisible Chaos ripples spreading outward.That imposing necromancer scourge didn't even have time to spit out the syllable of the next word before he was directly slapped to the lowest layer of the Sea of Consciousness by that unreasonable, vast coercion.Electrolux was suppressed to the point of being unable to move, and that wisp of remnant soul that had been condensed with great difficulty was almost crushed into dust on the spot.In the end, it was Xiao Yan who risked the overdrawing of his mental force, forcefully cutting off a trace of Qi that the Eastern Emperor Bell had locked onto Electrolux, dragging this old mage god out of that state of absolute suppression.However, this could also be considered a blessing in disguise.The Chaos force of the Eastern Emperor Bell, which possessed the dual locking attributes of time and space, while suppressing him, also conveniently stabilized his remnant soul which could dissipate at any time.Coupled with the fact that in Xiao Yan's Sea of Consciousness, the Fuxi Bagua Array Diagram was absorbing the creations of heaven and earth every moment to nourish and nurture him.In this prime "greenhouse", Electrolux's current Divine Sense state could be said to be unprecedentedly good.Logically speaking, having suffered such a huge loss, this necromancer saint mage should keep a respectful distance from that giant bell and hide as far away as possible.But the fact was completely the opposite.Ever since figuring out the environment here, Electrolux completely locked horns with the Eastern Emperor Bell.As a mage god who walked to the extreme in the fields of magic and Law, after feeling those ancient gods and demons runes depicting the sun, moon, stars, earth, water, fire, and wind on the Eastern Emperor Bell, his whole person fell into a state of obsession.The Eastern Emperor Bell encompassed all things, containing the most primitive Law of the primordial Universe.Electrolux discovered that he only needed to gaze at those profound textures to obtain countless inspirations regarding light magic, necromancy magic, and even the conversion between life and death.Every single trace on it surpassed the magic notes he had studied for decades.Thus, this once awe-inspiring necromancer scourge now had as his biggest hobby every day to crowd to the center of the array diagram, stretching out his withered hand to stroke and study the external divine patterns on the surface of the Eastern Emperor Bell.He was completely immersed in the fanaticism of cracking these heaven and earth passwords.The problem was that the Eastern Emperor Bell was spiritual.Its tolerance for this old man who touched it every day like a fanatical believer was actually very low.Most of the time it was just too arrogant to bother, but once it got annoyed by being touched, or Electrolux's Divine Sense touched certain forbidden textures, the bell body would release a repulsive force of counter-shock.This counter-shock force was merely an insignificant tremor to the Eastern Emperor Bell, but to Electrolux, it was no different from a heavy hammer.The collision that Xiao Yan had just sensed was obviously Electrolux once again "studying too much", directly being bounced away by the impatient Eastern Emperor Bell, smashing into the barrier of the Qian trigram, which was why such a big bump was knocked onto his head."Elder Yi." Xiao Yan restrained his smile, his expression turning serious as he looked at Electrolux who was still rubbing his head,"The Law on the Eastern Emperor Bell is too overbearing. Although your Divine Sense is stable now, it cannot withstand its counter-shocks every other day. The matter of studying the divine patterns still needs to be done step by step; you must not be impatient for success."Electrolux put down his hand and let out a long sigh.In his deeply vicissitudinous eyes flickered the fanaticism and awe for the unknown Law."Little Yanzi, you do not Cultivate magic and do not understand the pursuit of hearing the Dao in the morning and being able to die content in the evening."Electrolux looked toward the Eastern Emperor Bell in the distance, his tone full of emotion,"Every single rune on it points directly to the Origin of the Great Dao. If this old man can comprehend even one percent of its mysteries, all the magic that has plagued me in the past will be readily solved. What is this minor flesh and skin suffering from counter-shocks?"
