"The fog here feels a bit strange!" Bexia stopped in the mist, initially thinking it was just ordinary fog and flew into it. But after flying for so long, she noticed something strange. These mists were able to block her soul perception, and her soul power couldn't spread out. Once she was ten meters away, she couldn't sense anything anymore.
"Be careful, Master. I think we may have entered the 'Ghost Sea Mist' in the Crystal Sea World!" Christine spoke up.
"Ghost Sea Mist?!"
"It's said to be a very strange phenomenon in this area. The location where it appears is uncertain, but once it does, anything that enters the mist will silently disappear, just like a ghost. That's why it's called the Ghost Sea Mist!" Christine explained.
"Can we enter the virtual network?"
"No, we can't. Not only does it isolate soul perception, but the signal of the virtual network can't reach here either!" Christine hesitated for a moment before continuing, "Master, you should be careful!"
"What's wrong?"
"There were rulers who came in here before, but none of them ever came out..."
"This..." Bexia was momentarily stunned. If rulers entered but never came out, it was clearly more dangerous than they had anticipated. This place could actually devour rulers, so wouldn't going in be suicidal?
"Master, don't be so pessimistic. Many living beings who entered the Ghost Sea Mist have managed to come out, even ordinary people who mistakenly entered have inexplicably made it out. So, entering here doesn't necessarily mean there's danger!"
"That depends on luck..." Bexia's gaze suddenly sharpened, as she saw a black figure flash in the fog ahead. Immediately, she became vigilant, taking out the Noir Magnetwarblade and cautiously watching the front.
"Who's there?!"
"... " There was no response ahead. Bexia and the shadow confronted each other for a moment. Summoning her courage, she flew past. However, when she took a closer look, she was suddenly stunned. The black figure she had just seen was a blurry human figure, and when she reached out to touch it, it felt like reaching into the surface of water. She had actually passed through it.
"Poof!" The shadow suddenly shattered, turning into specks of light that scattered. However, unexpectedly, these light particles converged towards Bexia, or more accurately, towards the Soul-Resonating Octagram around her waist.
"This is soul power!" Bexia was somewhat surprised as she looked at the dissipating shadow. She picked up the Soul-Resonating Octagram, and the light on it faintly brightened.
"Master, try activating it. I think there will be some unexpected gains!" Christine suggested.
"I almost forgot about this thing!" Bexia smiled. The effect of the Soul-Resonating Octagram was rarely used. It was meant to collect soul power, but after the last wave of monsters, Bexia hardly had any opportunity to collect soul power.
Bexia tried inputting some power to activate the Soul-Resonating Octagram, and the patterns on it lit up one by one. There seemed to be a reaction in the surrounding fog. Seeing this, Bexia immediately increased the output of energy, causing all the patterns on the Octagram to light up at once.
"Hum!" The Soul-Resonating Octagram trembled in Bexia's hand, and an invisible ripple spread out. The peculiar mist seemed to be instantly dispersed, and then specks of light swarmed toward the Octagram, all entering it.
"All of these are actually soul energy!" Bexia was truly shocked, and at the same time, she realized that as these light spots continued to be extracted from the mist, the effect of isolating the perception of souls was gradually decreasing.
"So, it turns out that this mist is actually mixed with a large amount of soul energy. No wonder I couldn't detect it with my soul senses!" Bexia suddenly understood the strangeness of this place.
And as the Soul-Locking Eight Trigrams Diagram released its might, the mist around them, which had been absorbing soul energy, became larger and larger, from tens of meters to hundreds of meters, until it stopped at a distance of five kilometers. This was already the maximum range that Bexia could activate now, and it was only possible with Christine's assistance.
"This place is very dangerous for others, but for me, it can be considered a blessed place!" Bexia smiled as she looked at the Soul-Locking Eight Trigrams Diagram in her hand. Just now, she had absorbed the soul power within a five-kilometer range, and the Calmness Charm stored inside had already been half completed, and this had only taken a few minutes.
"Master, you still need to be careful. I feel that this Ghost Sea Mist is not that simple." Christine reminded her.
"I know, I won't risk my life as a joke." Bexia replied, and continued flying forward. The mist that had lost its soul energy became ordinary mist, unable to obstruct Bexia's vision at all.
With the special effect of the Soul-Locking Eight Trigrams Diagram, Bexia no longer worried about her safety as much as before. She believed that this place couldn't be boundless. Even if she couldn't find a way out, with the effect of the Soul-Locking Eight Trigrams Diagram, she could definitely find a way by herself. If worse comes to worst, she could just absorb all the mist here. She didn't believe that she couldn't make her way out then.
In a range of nearly five kilometers, she could already condense half of a Calmness Charm, and in ten thousand meters, she could store a full one. Moreover, the absorption only took a few minutes. Bexia was quite energetic and wasn't exhausted. Before long, the originally stored Calmness Charm was already used up.
"Master, you should take a rest too!" Christine's voice sounded in her mind. Although flying consumed very little of her energy, the energy within this mist was extremely scarce. Continuously activating the Soul-Locking Eight Trigrams Diagram also required a large amount of energy. If it wasn't for Bexia's modification to the Chaotic Aura before, turning it into more powerful Primordial Qi, she would have been drained after activating it twice.
"I know, and now that I've used up all the Calmness Charms, I need to refine some more!" Bexia nodded.
She took out the restorative potions from the subspace, which she had obtained from the Mighty Group. To be precise, Bexia had purchased several types of restorative potions, including ones for restoring spiritual power, magical power, fighting energy, etc. And her own Primordial Qi could absorb all of them, so Bexia bought quite a few of them in one go.
These potions were not cheap, after all. Besides, Bexia had just received a large sum of dimensional coins, so she casually purchased potions that were of at least the highest level of restoration. However, after drinking them, she felt that the effect was a bit off. While one or two bottles could completely restore the energy for others, when it came to her, not even one-tenth of it was restored.
After consuming twenty to thirty bottles of restorative potions, Bexia finally recovered. Then, she took out all the remaining materials necessary to make Calmness Charms. This was a rare opportunity, so she planned to use up all the materials, and it was also in preparation for making projection dolls for Lady Cloud.
"Christine, pay attention to your surroundings!" Bexia extracted a cluster of soul power from the Samsara Eight Diagrams and placed it on her forehead. These pure and refined powers flowed into Christine's body, as Christine had been relying on the soul power to sustain herself from the very beginning. Undoubtedly, she had consumed far more than Bexia. As Bexia and Christine were currently in a state of fusion, Bexia was naturally aware of Christine's situation.
