The Blood Moon Mountain surrounds the border of the Abyss. The entire mountain range appears strangely deep purple under the reflection of the blood moon. Each peak seems to be nailed by an invisible yoke, and the mountains are flowing with ancient whispers.
Su Yue stood in front of the dilapidated altar, and the slightly beating halo of the core of the life fire appeared in her palm. Behind her, Ethan and Lasse were dealing with the layout of the temporary camp. Both of them looked exhausted, especially Lasse, who had not healed his old injuries, but still stubbornly supported himself.
"Is this the 'Well of the Abyss' you mentioned?"
Ethan walked forward and looked at the mirror-like black stone plate under his feet, which was engraved with twisted lines and unrecognizable runes.
Su Yue nodded slowly: "Yes. It is not a well in the true sense, but a sealed mysterious structure, which is said to connect to the 'Forgotten Stage' at the bottom of the oath world."
"There..." She paused, her tone a little solemn, "It may be the place where the remnant of the old god was first awakened."
Lather frowned when he heard this: "Do you want to find the source of the deep oath mark in your body through this place?"
"Yes." Su Yue said calmly, "Only by facing it can I confirm whether I am an 'accidental fusion' or some kind of...arranged container."
The three of them were silent for a moment.
"Even if we find the truth, we may not be able to leave alive from the hands of those lunatics in the Lord's Oath Hall." Ethan whispered.
"What they are afraid of is not that I'm 'out of control', but that I'm 'out of control'." Su Yue smiled coldly, "The more I suppress it, the more it shows that I'm on the right path."
She flicked her finger, and the core of the life fire fell into the groove of the stone plate. In an instant, the whole altar vibrated low.
Boom——
The dense runes began to rotate, interlacing with each other like gears. When the light of the blood moon was cast, a black passage extending downwards slowly opened, and the bottom could not be seen at the end, as if falling into the eternal abyss.
"After going down, there is no way back." Lather's expression was serious, "We must have a plan to leave."
"Yes." Su Yue pointed to the gray rune hanging on Ethan's waist, "That was the 'Reflection Corridor' I stole from the Main Oath Hall before leaving the tower. It can forcibly tear a space gap in a short time. But there is only one chance."
Ethan raised his eyebrows: "You are ready."
"I knew that I would come here one day."
The first level of the Forgotten Realm of the Well of the Abyss. There are sporadic points of light floating in the passage, and the air is filled with a strange sense of oppression, as if countless eyes are spying on them.
On the ground, there is a cracked "bone sacrifice stone" every hundred steps, and the name engraved on it has long been corroded by time. But when Su Yue walked by, the broken bones and stones automatically gathered into a "contour".
"Are these the previous generations of oath masters whose identities were erased?" Lasse whispered.
"Or failed fusions." Su Yue had a blank expression on her face. "This is the price of the 'Forgotten Stage': abandoned by time and rejected by the world."
After they went three thousand feet deep into the passage, the light and shadows around them suddenly shook, and a familiar and twisted breath suddenly emerged.
"Someone is ahead."
Ethan looked up suddenly, and Lasse gripped the hilt of his sword.
Not far away, a black-robed figure slowly approached. He wore a half-copper mask, and there was a scarlet light flowing in his eye sockets.
"Welcome, Su Yue." His voice was low, with a certain inhuman texture, "The container of destiny, you are finally here."
"Who are you?" Lasse stood in front of Su Yue, his eyes cold.
The black-robed man ignored him, but just stared at Su Yue without blinking.
"I am the previous owner of your 'mark'."
This sentence was like thunder falling to the ground.
"The deep oath mark in your body was taken out from the 'bottom of the abyss' forty-three years ago by me, sealed in the body, waiting for the 'vessel awakening'."
"And you are 'her'."
Su Yue's breathing stagnated slightly.
"Who is she?"
The black-robed man slowly raised his hand, and a vague illusion was projected.
It was a woman standing in the dark night, with silver hair and red eyes, and a nine-ring mark floating behind her. She was standing on the broken oath world boat, holding the burning life fire core in her hand.
"She is the one that the Lord's Oath Hall truly fears."
"She is the embodiment of the will of the one called 'Lord of the Deep Oath'."
"Her resurrection means that the entire oath world system will be overturned."
Lasse was shocked: "Are you trying to say that Su Yue is not a fusion, but her reincarnation?"
"No," the black-robed man shook his head gently, his eyes burning, "She is not a reincarnation, she is a fragment awakening."
"The real 'Lord of the Deep Oath' has never died completely. Her mark was shattered thousands of years ago and hidden in various places in the oath world like a seed."
"And you are the first individual to awaken the seed."
Su Yue said nothing, with a complicated expression.
At this time, the core of the life fire vibrated violently in her body, and a whisper suddenly emerged:
"Return to the Lord's consciousness"
"They will eventually unite"
Su Yue suddenly bit her fingertips and wiped the blood on her palm: "I am not someone's projection, nor am I the echo of the gods."
"I am myself."
Her fingers slashed in the air, cutting off the black-robed man's attempt to awaken the "master seal will" in her body.
"If you are really the inheritor of the old seal, then you should also know: the real 'master' will not be controlled by the fate of others."
The black-robed man's face suddenly changed, and he said angrily: "You will regret it!"
"No one can stop her return!"
Before he finished speaking, the black-robed man was suddenly swallowed by a strange gray light, and shattered together with the phantom.
Su Yue lowered her head, looking at the bloodstains slowly disappearing from her palm, and said in a deep voice:
"I won't let anyone decide my destination for me."
"I'm going on because I want to."
The three continued to move forward, Su Yue's steps were firm, Lasse and Ethan followed closely, and finally reached the second level of the Well of Abyss Oath, the "Mirror Abyss Realm".
And not far behind them, a shadow quietly appeared.
He was wearing a crimson cloak, holding a half-solidified "blade of the void" in his palm, and his pupils flashed with the mark of the sixth seal of the Lord's Oath Hall.
He whispered softly:
"So you really woke up, Yue."
"It's all worth it."