Chapter 351: Chapter 351: The First Calamity (5)

At Li Feng words, Goldie didn’t reply.

Goldie simply stood there, staring at him intently as if committing its master’s face to memory.

Slowly, the wooden puppet removed its black cloak, lowered it gently and placed it beside Li Feng.

“Goldie?”

Li Feng tilted his head in confusion at this.

He stared at the kneeling wooden puppet before him, baffled by its sudden gesture.

The grass swayed lightly around them as the sky grew darker under the rushing black tide.

After still not getting any answer, Li Feng blinked as his gaze shifting to the black cloak lying beside him.

“Did something happen to your cloak? Do you want another one?”

“…”

No answers came.

Goldie slowly rose to its feet and turned its back toward Li Feng.

“Hey! Where are you going? Let’s get out of here!”

Li Feng shouted, his brows furrowing as he stared at Goldie’s retreating back and growing more confuse at the same time.

The puppet was now walking steadily toward the largest crack in the air, where the black sea had already swallowed the surrounding area around there.

A terrible feeling rose in his chest as he shout again.

“Come back here, Goldie!”

There was no response.

Li Feng gritted his teeth, feeling something is wrong and for the first time, he issued a cold, authoritative order to the reliable companion who had stood by him for so long.

“Goldie, I order you to come back!!”

“…”

Goldie didn’t look back.

It simply kept walking forward, deeper into the encroaching darkness.

Seeing this, Li Feng turned toward the Divine Brick.

“Go! Teleport Goldie inside the space!”

The Divine Brick hesitated for a moment but eventually floated over, stopping right in front of Goldie.

However, it failed to pull the puppet into its internal space.

The Divine Brick could only teleport those who did not resist… and Goldie was clearly resisting.

“…”

“~??”

The two stood silently facing each other, as if communicating wordlessly.

Then Goldie slowly continued its steps forward.

Crack…

Crack…

Crack…

With every step, new fractures appeared across Goldie’s wooden body as small fragments broke off and fell to the ground.

Soon, the damaged shell could no longer contain what lay beneath as a brilliant figure made of pure golden light emerged as Goldie’s final form reappeared.

The radiant glow illuminated the darkened atmosphere, pushing back the surrounding darkness like a rising sun.

The Divine Brick that was still trying to stop it, was gently pushed aside.

It continued sending urgent messages, attempting to convince Goldie to turn back.

“~..!”

But Goldie had already made up its mind.

It continued walking forward without pause.

Meanwhile, Li Feng watched the situation grow increasingly strange.

He gritted his teeth.

“What’s going on with Goldie…?”

He tried to stand, but realized there was no strength left in his body.

So he hurriedly turning toward Yue Lan and called out urgently.

“Senior Sister! Help me restrain Goldie—”

Before he could finish, he suddenly felt a strange, gentle suppression holding him in place

Li Feng’s eyes widened as he noticed those beautiful motes of golden light suddenly began to appear around them.

Yue Lan, who had been preparing to freeze Goldie with her ice, also froze mid-action.

Her eyes widened as she sensed the unfamiliar power.

“…Divine Authority,” she murmured as another memory about this power surfaced in her mind.

Slowly, she turned toward Goldie, who was now walking into the distance.

The golden figure, shining brightly, looked small yet resolute as it stood before the massive crack gushing with darkness.

Li Feng’s distant shouts faded into the background as that soft women voice echoed once more from within Goldie.

{…So you have made your choice.}

“…”

Right now the golden figure of Goldie stood alone at the edge of the abyss.

The black tide roared upward like a living beast, hungry and endless, swallowing everything in its path.

Cracks spiderwebbed across the ground, and the sky above had turned into a swirling vortex of pure darkness.

Yet the radiant golden light emanating from Goldie refused to yield.

It burned brighter, purer, like a lone sun refusing to be extinguished.

Upon seeing this, Li Feng had a bad feeling so he shouted urgently.

“Goldie! What are you doing! Come back!! That’s an order!!”

But the gentle suppression of Divine Authority kept him pinned to the ground, as if Goldie itself was embracing him one last time… protecting him even now.

For the first time since it had begun walking away, Goldie slowly turned its head back toward Li Feng.

Its radiant face was breathtakingly gentle.

The golden light softened, revealing features that looked both ancient and childlike at the same time.

Eyes made of pure light gazed at its master with boundless affection and quiet sorrow… one last time.

Li Feng’s heart twisted violently.

For some reason, an indescribable pain surged through his chest.

“Goldie, don’t! Whatever you’re planning to do—!”

“…”

Goldie said nothing.

Instead, it slowly spread its arms wide.

The golden light around its body flared violently, transforming into blazing wings of pure radiance that illuminated the encroaching darkness.

Then, without hesitation, it leaped.

Like a sun willingly diving into the sea of darkness.

“GOLDIE!!!”

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Goldie flew straight into the heart of the black sea within the void.

There was nothing but endless darkness.

Its brilliant golden body continued diving deeper and deeper, shining like a lone sun swallowed by the abyss.

Time lost all meaning but Goldie pressed onward, descending into the crushing void.

Then, in the farthest distance, it found it.

{…There.}

A faint, sickly pulse.

Far beneath the surface of the world… deeper than any spiritual qi could reach, in a place where even the laws of existence is unstable…

…Something ancient and rotten throbbed like a diseased heart was hiding there.

The origin of the black sea.

A colossal, pulsating mass of pure corruption, the size of a mountain range,

Thump

Thump

Thump

It was beating slowly, while sending wave after wave of darkness flooding into the world above as countless chains of abyssal energy stretched outward from it, feeding the endless tide.

{…He didn’t know that without destroying this hidden “segment”… the black sea would eventually revive and swallow everything… even his beloved.}

{…And this is its most vulnerable moment. But by the time he realizes it… it will already be too late.}

“…”

{… So go. Destroy it, and the wheel of fate will change… and he will live a different future.}

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