Love letters are not allowed in the exorcism notebook!-Chapter 440 - 18: A Link in the Universal Stars Project

Wang Yunxiao had no idea how far was far enough; he ran past one block after another, clutching the Black Dragon Egg, but the egg kept urging him to run forward.

"You’d better cross the entire city and run to the end of the dimension."

"I can’t run anymore!"

After climbing over a road cut off by a collapsed building, Wang Yunxiao threw the Black Dragon Egg to the ground and sat down to catch his breath desperately.

"Be gentle!"

The Black Dragon Egg let out a terrified shriek, "Don’t smash my eggshell!"

"Oh? Is the eggshell that fragile?"

A wonderful idea suddenly crossed Wang Yunxiao’s mind.

"Don’t think about eating me! Dragon eggs taste terrible!"

"Can you read minds too?"

"Do I need to? Don’t all of you People of Ming think about taking a bite out of anything you see?"

Wang Yunxiao thought about the monster that had stockpiled a large amount of meat in its lair and felt he was unable to refute.

Wait, hang on, if that’s the case...

"You’re the outsider, the monster here, why should I cooperate with you?"

"Do you think you’ve escaped to safety now? Fool!"

The Black Dragon Egg said with a cold laugh, "You have no idea what’s going on. Once she wakes up, we’ll all be dead!"

"Running this far isn’t enough?"

"Of course not. Haven’t you heard the tales of Ancient Great Demons turning over and traveling a hundred and eighty thousand miles? You run so slowly, she could catch up just by blinking!"

"Then tell me, what’s really going on?"

The Black Dragon Egg fell silent for a moment, "Even if I told you, you wouldn’t understand."

"If you don’t tell me, then let’s just part ways!"

Wang Yunxiao spread his hands, "I’ve done all I could by carrying you here. As for the way out you spoke of, I’m very skeptical that you’re deceiving me."

"Bastard! If I were deceiving you, do you think I could grow wings and fly out by myself?"

"How should I know."

Wang Yunxiao picked up a brick from the ground and stared at the Black Dragon Egg, "Are you going to talk or not?"

The Black Dragon Egg was shocked, "Didn’t you say we were parting ways? Is there a problem with my understanding of Chinese?"

"No problem at all. If I ’part’ you, isn’t that ’parting ways’ too?"

"The conscience of you People of Ming is profoundly corrupted!"

Facing the threat of the brick, the Black Dragon Egg hesitated for a long while before asking through gritted teeth, "Do you know what ’time-space tides’ mean?"

"I know a little."

Wang Yunxiao said without changing his expression, "Commanders in the military briefed us, it’s the wave of the apocalypse that would happen one day in the future and keeps transmitting back along the timeline. That’s the correct understanding, right?"

"Exactly, you really are a soldier. I thought you were just a student who stumbled upon this place, considering your age," muttered the Black Dragon Egg, too quietly for Wang Yunxiao to hear clearly. He couldn’t help but shake the brick in his hand, "Continue!"

"Alright, as long as you understand the concept of time-space tides, it’s easy to explain. If you’re aware of this concept, it means you must already be involved in one of the plans... Don’t deny it, I have no intention of prying into your secrets, but it makes explaining this to you much simpler."

What plan? What secrets do I have?

Wang Yunxiao was completely confused, but since the other party was willing to explain, he was willing to listen.

"Have you ever learned any of the Twelve Cultivation Methods promoted by the Ming Country Special Service Bureau?"

"Studied...a little bit, I guess?"

"Then why are you still so weak? You run two streets and puff like a dog? Wait, you’re not pretending to be a pig to eat a tiger and tricking me, right?"

Wang Yunxiao silently raised a brick.

"Alright, alright, I’ll keep talking."

The Black Dragon Egg immediately chickened out, "Did the person who taught you the Cultivation Dharma Gate ever tell you about the twelve laws corresponding to the twenty-eight spatial anchor points in the universal star plan?"

"Are you talking about the Twenty-Eight Lunar Mansions?"

Although Wang Yunxiao had no idea what the universal star plan was, he had indeed heard Nurse Liu say that among the twelve Dharma Gates, there are a total of twenty-eight cultivation paths, each corresponding to the legendary Twenty-Eight Lunar Mansions.

It seemed to be the same idea.

"Twenty-Eight Lunar Mansions? Is that what they told you?"

The Black Dragon Egg chuckled, "You saw that creature just now, even when she’s asleep, you’ll fall into delusions if you get close to her. When she completes her next transformation, I suspect she might even have the ability to drag the entire real world into the Dreamland. That’s the full form of one of the paths, just a step away from Ascending to Divinity."

I think you’re blowing things out of proportion a bit.

The entire real world... you think our country is your backyard? Can you organize a bike race around the national border?

To say dragging a city into the Dreamland sounds a bit more plausible.

Wang Yunxiao asked in confusion, "What is a ’full form’?"

"You haven’t learned this?"

"We didn’t get that deep."

"Ah, I remember now, according to your terminology, it should be called realm division, ’Refine Qi into Spirit’ and stuff like that."

"Refinement of Essence into Qi, Refine Qi into Spirit, Refine the Spirit and Return to the Void, Refine the Void and Merge with the Dao?"

"Right, that’s it, it means the same thing. You must be just starting out, right? If you practice further up... what’s it called again? Chinese is too complicated; we’ll just call them Evolutionary Form and Mutated Form."

Got it, so I’m currently a Pichu, evolving next into Pikachu, then Raichu...

"Starting from the Evolutionary Form, the four stages are Evolutionary Form, Advanced Form, Full Form, and Transcendent Form."

"The guy you saw just now has already reached the peak of Advanced Form. If nothing unexpected occurs, she will transform into the Full Form once she wakes up."

"But something unexpected is bound to happen!"

As the Black Dragon Egg spoke the word ’unexpected,’ its tone took on a smug quality.

Curious, Wang Yunxiao couldn’t help asking, "Why would there be an unexpected event?"

"Because she didn’t ascend voluntarily but was forced to turn to the twelve laws after I killed her. In your People of Ming terms, it’s like cramming at the last minute. Do you think that won’t cause issues?"

"You?"

Wang Yunxiao looked at the Black Dragon Egg in front of him with a pitying gaze, "You were chopped into mincemeat by her..."

Otherwise, why would only half a head be left? Where did your body go?

Oh, right, it’s in her nest.

"You’re the mincemeat! Your whole family is mincemeat!"

The Black Dragon Egg broke down on the spot, wishing it could jump up and beat Wang Yunxiao, but alas, it lacked even legs and could only rage impotently.

Just then, Wang Yunxiao suddenly felt his heart throbbing involuntarily.

An inexplicable chill crept up silently.

He faintly heard some chaotic noise, like a tide slowly approaching from afar.

"Run! The tide is coming! The transformation is starting!"

The Black Dragon Egg urged anxiously, "Get away from that creature! The farther, the better!"