"I don't know. I've never seen it." Shadow shook his head without hesitation.
Joe Di raised his hand and cast a dozen bolts of Primordial Divine Thunder. Under the arc of Joe Di's thunder, Shadow was scattered. Still, true to his word, Joe Di allowed Shadow to reincarnate.
"Brother Joe, I never expected the Chaotic Magma to be so difficult to obtain." Although Joe Di had easily destroyed a powerful Shadow, Shelby Young still felt uneasy.
This Shadow had lingered here for countless ages, yet had never managed to obtain the Chaotic Magma to restore its physical body. No matter how formidable Joe Di was, he was still just one person. If it were only for the Chaotic Magma, Shelby Young would not have persisted. She knew clearly that Joe Di's true purpose here was to rescue Charlotte Ling, and she could not persuade him otherwise.
"I know. That fellow said there are still a dozen days left, so we'll wait here for those days." Even if the entire Central Reincarnation Domain was filled with Third Step cultivators, Joe Di would still find a way to investigate.
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Several hundred thousand miles from Joe Di, at the edge of a dried-up lake, Charlotte Ling stood motionless like a statue. Beneath her feet was a massive, smooth stone spanning dozens of yards, its surface a dull gray-black.
Her hands and feet were enveloped by layers of Dao resonance, clearly bound by a top-tier restriction.
Though the lake before her was dry, at its center ripples of Dao resonance flowed, resembling a gentle breeze stirring the lake's surface.
Charlotte Ling could not move, but her mind remained clear. She was already prepared—when the Chaotic Magma erupted, she would rush into its depths. When the magma first burst forth, its temperature could even surpass that of the Sacred Flame.
Anyone who entered the Chaotic Magma would face certain death. Even so, Charlotte Ling had resolved to rush in.
She knew that if she didn't, she would become the sacrificial vessel for Bianna Poe, the Second Wheel Lord of Core Wheel City. The other party had promised her reincarnation, but Charlotte would rather be erased from existence than let her body become someone else's. Besides, she was confident she could survive—because she possessed a certain pearl.
After being gravely injured and separated from Joe Di, she managed to refine part of the restrictions on the pearl. When she entered the Woundless Realm and stayed at a rest lodge on the edge of Morrison Clan Plaza, she finally entered the pearl itself.
Only after entering the pearl did Charlotte Ling understand why Bianna Poe had plotted against her. Bianna's scheme was entirely for this seemingly unremarkable pearl.
Because this pearl had another name—the Sacred Sun Pearl. If she had refined the Sacred Sun Pearl earlier, Charlotte Ling would never have come to the Woundless Realm. Even if she had to come, she would have waited until she was fully recovered.
Yet just as she learned the pearl's true identity, a Morrison Clan expert invited her to join the clan. She had no choice—the protective array outside Morrison Clan Plaza was impossible for her to break. If she refused the Morrison Clan's invitation, there was only one outcome: death.
Only after entering the Morrison Clan did she realize just how shameless they truly were. If not for the Sacred Yin Pearl, she would never have reached the Realm of Sevenfold Rebirth.
But as soon as she arrived in the Realm of Sevenfold Rebirth, she was betrayed again and sent to this place—as an offering to the Sevenfold King.
The reason the Sevenfold King had kept her alive until now was to wait for Bianna Poe to finish her preparations. Now that Bianna Poe was ready, all that remained was for the Chaotic Magma to erupt.
Once the Chaotic Magma burst forth, Bianna Poe would use her to achieve nirvana in a new body. The condition: allowing Charlotte Ling to reincarnate. If she refused, her soul would be utterly destroyed—and before that, she would be humiliated. So she agreed, but her true aim was to escape into the Chaotic Magma.