It broke through the Barrier of the City of Gloom, pierced through the obstruction of seawater, and ignored the water pressure of the ten-thousand-foot deep sea.

Like a towering pillar connecting heaven and earth, it forcefully penetrated the entire Abyssal Silence Sea.

It even transcended the obstruction of the remnant rules of the secret realm.

It directly pierced the sky, which was still shrouded in thunderclouds.

Where the pillar of light passed, the turbulent thunderclouds were pushed aside, forming a huge vortex, revealing the profound, seemingly eternal, boundless starry sky behind them.

The pillar of light itself became even more solid; they were no longer light.

They were solid entities.

Their surfaces flowed with countless intricate and complex patterns, mysterious writings composed of rule-based characters.

Even Mingxi, who possessed the book of rules, could not discern the meaning of these characters in a short time.

Vast, sacred, and unquestionable pressure, like a tide, submerged everything.

The Ghost Sea Mermen, in the face of this miraculous sight, involuntarily knelt down!

Just as this radiance and pressure reached their peak—

“Hiss—Roar—!” 𝒇𝙧𝙚𝓮𝔀𝓮𝒃𝙣𝓸𝒗𝒆𝒍.𝙘𝒐𝒎

At this moment, a sound, as if from the primordial chaos, transcending endless time and the long river of fate, echoed in the minds of every Transcendent creature in the secret realm.

It even penetrated the not-so-strict spatial Bulwark, reaching the ears of some Beast Tamers with powerful spiritual energy and keen perception.

“What sound?!”

“What a majestic and profound feeling!”

Countless people and Transcendent creatures inexplicably looked up at the sky, trying to find the source of that sound.

Mingxi, at this time, naturally didn't know how much commotion her summoning had caused; she didn't have x-ray vision and wasn't even clear how high or far this pillar of light had shot up!

Mingxi forced herself to calm down, watching the pillar of light flicker and contract, with endless mist emanating from within it.

A colossal figure, almost filling half of the altar, outlined its silhouette within the misty light and shadow.

Mingxi, Golden Ingot Eight, and the Ghost Sea Mermen all widened their eyes, wishing they could adjust their pupils into microscopes.

It was an existence that, whether to humans or Transcendent creatures, appeared somewhat ferocious.

It hovered half a meter above the ground in a coiled posture, with a faint, nebula-like energy aura surrounding its body.

Its body was massive and elongated, covered entirely in scales interwoven with platinum and dark green, etched with patterns that shimmered with a faint glow under the deep sea's profound light.

It had nine heads.

Yes.

Exactly nine.

If Mingxi hadn't been certain she was in an interstellar setting and not the primordial chaos, she would have thought the creature before her was the Xiangliu mentioned in the Classic of Mountains and Seas.

And not the mythical Transcendent creature, Celestial Mystery Nine Radiance Python.

Its nine heads were not entirely independent but branched out from a thick main neck, forming a wondrous, fan-like structure!

The central head was the largest, with a fist-sized, cat's-eye-like crystal embedded in its forehead.

The four heads on each side were of consistent size but varied in expression, and the shape of their scales also differed.

Their eyes were divided into two types; besides the central head whose eyes were closed and thus undeterminable.

Among the other eight heads, four had round pupils like diurnal snakes, and four had vertical pupils like nocturnal snakes; the round pupils were azure, and the vertical pupils were yellow.

However, none had eyelids or corneas, their crystalline structures fixed.

At this moment, these eight pairs of eyes were all staring intently at Mingxi.

This feeling was not pleasant.

Moreover, this big fellow was the Celestial Mystery Nine Radiance Python, legendary for its ability to foresee the future and glimpse fate.

Mingxi's heart rate and breathing were a little erratic.

Also, wasn't this Transcendent ◆ Nоvеlіgһt ◆ (Only on Nоvеlіgһt) creature's aura a bit... At this moment, Guangguang's voice softly drifted over: “Master, I'm truly unsure now whether you're unlucky or lucky; this Celestial Mystery Nine Radiance Python is divine-grade.”

“What the heck?!”

Mingxi was utterly bewildered... *cough*! Bewildered!

“I actually summoned a divine-grade Transcendent creature?!”

And she was still unsure if she was unlucky or lucky?

How was she supposed to be sure?

After she was swallowed whole by this terrifying creature?

Unlucky!

But once an arrow is shot, there's no turning back, and besides, there was no retreat from this situation!

Mingxi was not someone who would let unexpected situations disrupt her rhythm.

She gazed forward and plunged the Sword Key in her hand into the altar.

“Buzz—Clang!”

Like a key inserted into an ancient, dust-sealed lock.

A crisp yet soul-shaking chime exploded!

Centered on the Sword Key, a contract array, complex beyond the limits of mortal comprehension, instantly unfolded.

Golden light shone brightly, and countless intricate contract runes, like living tadpoles, surged madly towards the Celestial Mystery Nine Radiance Python in the sky, intertwining and linking with it.

“Hiss—!”

The Celestial Mystery Nine Radiance Python's eight heads simultaneously let out low hisses.

It naturally knew what was happening before its eyes.

This human was trying to establish a contract with it.

And she was using the extremely rare Sword Key.

No wonder she dared to set her sights on it.

The Sword Key, in theory, could indeed contract all Transcendent creatures.

However—

As a special existence that controlled fate and peered into the trajectory of the universe, how could it establish a contract with a human?

It wasn't that it was unwilling.

It was that it couldn't.

“Hiss-roar.”

It let out a helpless sigh.

This little one was destined for disappointment.

What a pity for such a precious Sword Key.

The vast power of fate, like an invisible tide, dispersed and severed the contract runes that were spreading towards it.

The golden array formed around the Sword Key flickered erratically, and cracks of collapse even began to appear at its edges!

Mingxi naturally sensed the Celestial Mystery Nine Radiance Python's resistance.

The power of the contract was dissipating, but she still gripped the hilt of the Sword Key tightly.

She couldn't let go!

She couldn't back down!

She could feel her soul being thrown into the torrent of fate, torn apart by countless chaotic possibilities of the future, and even blood began to seep from her seven orifices.

But her gaze remained fierce, and her spiritual energy burned and outputted with unprecedented intensity, forcibly maintaining that fragile link.

Just as the stalemate continued, the array was about to completely disappear, and the Sword Key was on the verge of complete disintegration—

The scales covering the eyes of the Celestial Mystery Nine Radiance Python's central head suddenly slid open.

A pair of eyes slowly opened.

No.

Those weren't eyes.

They were two condensed universes.

Interwoven into the pupil structure were endlessly flowing threads of fate.

Countless fleeting images of the past, present, and future flowed within them, as if the trajectories of all things in the world were reflected there.

Merely looking directly at it was enough to cause one's soul to disintegrate, forever lost in the labyrinth of fate.

The Eye of Destiny!

An invisible, intangible gaze, yet one that transcended all things, fell upon Mingxi.

The Celestial Mystery Nine Radiance Python had actually long since stopped peering into the fate of any creature.

There was no need.

And no opportunity.

It was favored by fate, but also confined by it.

It was rare for the little one before it to be able to summon it, and her courage, luck, and willpower were all astonishing, which piqued its interest.

Peering, sifting.

Her destiny.

However, in the next moment, in those eyes like a fixed star sea, a clear astonishment and incomprehension appeared for the first time.

It actually saw... a void.

It wasn't shrouded in mist, nor was it shielded by power, but a true 'nothingness' that didn't exist in the long river of fate.

It tried to trace her past, a blank.

It tried to glimpse her future, a chaos.

With its current strength, such a situation should be impossible.

This situation completely exceeded its cognition.

Moreover, if the opponent was truly the 'unknown' that it could not glimpse, then it would immediately suffer a backlash from fate.

But, there was none.

It could neither glimpse the other party nor suffer the inevitable backlash that comes from being unable to glimpse!

“Hiss!”

The other eight heads gasped, their round and vertical pupils alike filled with shock.

An ancient inherited memory, originating from its race, seemingly imprinted since the dawn of creation, suddenly awakened at this moment:

“When the Eye of Destiny cannot perceive, and suffers no backlash, when the unknown itself shows you tolerance, follow 'Him', believe in 'Him', and accompany 'Him' to fulfill His mission.”

The Celestial Mystery Nine Radiance Python was stunned.

So, this tiny human before it was the 'Him' of the inherited prophecy.

Follow, believe, accompany.

So... Just as Mingxi's spiritual energy was almost exhausted, and she thought this contract would only result in failure, a flicker of unwilling dimness in her eyes—

A sudden change occurred!

The contract array, which was originally on the verge of collapse, not only did not shatter but instead re-condensed with an even more brilliant and stable posture!

It was no longer Mingxi's unilateral forceful pulling, but from the Celestial Mystery Nine Radiance Python's side, a vast and gentle, powerful energy carrying the aura of fate surged forth!

A golden energy bridge was constructed between her and the Celestial Mystery Nine Radiance Python.

A feeling of perfect fusion, of souls connected, instantly surged into Mingxi's heart.

The previous sense of resistance and tearing was completely gone, replaced by a wondrous harmony and an incredibly solid sense of support.

“Buzz—!”

Mingxi hadn't expected the contract between her and the Celestial Mystery Nine Radiance Python to actually show signs of success.

In a way she had never anticipated.

Mingxi looked up somewhat blankly, meeting the gazes of the Celestial Mystery Nine Radiance Python's eight heads simultaneously looking down from the sky.

In those gazes, there was surprise, scrutiny, curiosity, and also recognition.

“Hiss-roar...”

A low hiss sounded, the sound of chest resonance.

But at this moment, Mingxi was not in the mood for excitement, because the real challenge was only just beginning!

“Break!”

She cried out, her voice clear as a great bell.

The Merfolk, who had been constantly preparing and standing ready, no longer showed any hesitation or indecision in their eyes.

At this point, they were not allowed to go back on their word!

Saliya raised a bone staff, letting out a shriek that tore through the spiritual plane!

All Ghost Sea Mermen, including Black Pearl, regardless of age, at this moment poured their energy unreservedly into the altar they had guarded for generations.

It wasn't to protect, but to detonate!

With an invisible energy fluctuation, the altar's core began to madly draw energy from the ocean.

The crown of the sea god on Black Pearl's head and the sea god's heart dormant within her were also activated.

A terrifying aura, transcending ordinary rules, as if capable of stirring heaven and earth, began to permeate.

The translucent altar, which had borne a thousand years of sealing and accumulated endless energy, finally reached its limit under this combined attack from inside and out.

“Crack!”

“Rumble...”

First, a crisp sound, as if a cornerstone had shattered.

Then, an all-encompassing, deafening explosion roared!

The entire altar, like a lit powder keg, or a star detonated in the deep sea, suddenly released an indescribably dazzling light!

“Hiss... Roar?”

The Celestial Mystery Nine Radiance Python, waiting for the contract bridge to be completed, had not been this bewildered in a very, very long time.

The last time it was this bewildered was the last time.

Back then, it was just an ordinary Hydrus Dino Medius.

Only because it ate a small something during its evolution did it actually evolve into the legendary Celestial Mystery Nine Radiance Python.

From a cool and handsome beast with a stylish physique, it turned into an ugly creature with an unsightly snake head.

It thought that would be the last time in its life it felt bewildered, dazed, and confused.

Facts proved it was still too young.

Today, it was bewildered again and again.

It watched the slender figure not far away, a young girl from every inch of whose skin and muscle it could feel boundless power.

Didn't she want to contract with it?

Mingxi naturally noticed the Celestial Mystery Nine Radiance Python's gaze; because of the formation of the energy bridge, she could somewhat sense its emotions now.

“It's not that I don't want to contract with you, but I want to use the opportunity of contracting with you, and the power of fate you've brought, to purify the abyssal silence will that was born attached to the world wound.”

Upon hearing this, the Celestial Mystery Nine Radiance Python was surprised again.

Listen to what it had just heard?

world wound, abyssal silence will?

Had human youngsters now grown to the point where they could casually come into contact with the world's deepest secrets?

Moreover, this human not only knew, but dared to act against the abyssal silence will!

If it hadn't had the precedent of failing to glimpse her fate before, it would have exclaimed:

“Absurd!”

But if this human before it was the 'Him' of the inherited prophecy, then everything seemed so natural.

As the 'Him' of the unknown, doing something earth-shattering was perfectly normal.

“Hiss... I understand, I will help you.”

The Celestial Mystery Nine Radiance Python's voice sounded, and Mingxi was also astonished.

It was actually speaking human language, not the language of Transcendent creatures.

And it wasn't transmitted through a skill like Saliya's Telepathy.

Human language simulated by Telepathy.

Strictly speaking, what reached the 'ear' through Telepathy was not language, but the transformation of intention.

So even Saliya, who had been isolated from the human world for a thousand years, could speak fluent Longhua Country language through Telepathy.

But in reality, what she 'spoke' from beginning to end was the Merfolk Clan language.

However, the Celestial Mystery Nine Radiance Python at this time was different; it directly opened its mouth, articulating words very clearly, with perfectly enunciated Longhua Country language!

What a world where everyone speaks Longhua Country language.

Amazing!

“I am the Celestial Mystery Nine Radiance Python; it's perfectly reasonable for me to speak multiple languages and multiple planetary languages.”

Although it couldn't glimpse this unknown being, her dark eyes were too pure; any one of its eyes could understand.

The time for the brief exchange between one human and one Transcendent was actually very short.

But they both hadn't forgotten the collapsing altar.

At this moment, the altar's own sealing power, the energy devoted by the entire Ghost Sea Merman clan, the oceanic power drawn by the crown of the sea god and the sea god's heart, the vast and pure contract power between Mingxi and the Celestial Mystery Nine Radiance Python.

And the power of fate contained within the Celestial Mystery Nine Radiance Python itself... at the moment the altar collapsed, they strangely harmonized together, transforming into an ultimate pure purification light burst, crushing down towards the awakening dark existence beneath the altar!