As the gaze fell upon the scene, the surroundings of Ye Kunlun rapidly shifted, as if a movie were playing, swiftly rewinding according to the established timeline.
Kyoto, Jicheng, Qingcheng, Kunlun, learning...
Below Kunlun Mountain.
"Kunlun, live on, you must protect your sister!"
Ye Kunlun heard his father Ye Yuanlang's voice by his ear.
Several figures in black had surrounded them. Ye Yuanlang, covered in blood, instructed Ye Kunlun, whose cheeks were also streaked with blood.
Ye Kunlun's eyes held no fear. He stared intently at the black-clad figures surrounding them, wanting to remember their eyes; they were his enemies.
"Take your sister and go first!"
Ye Yuanlang and his wife charged towards the black-clad figures.
Ye Kunlun, pulling his crying sister, ran towards the distance.
The scene changed.
When Ye Kunlun woke up, he was already in the Kunlun Void.
He had gone down the mountain to search for his sister, but there was no trace of her.
He had asked his masters why they hadn't saved his sister, and received only silent answers.
"Mom and Dad, I will definitely avenge you!"
"Sister, where are you? Big brother will find you!"
"Boss, boss!"
Zhuge Chu's voice sounded in Ye Kunlun's ears. The scenery around him rapidly disappeared, returning him to reality.
The dark well water reflected his shadow, two streams of tears tracing paths on his face.
"I'm fine!"
Ye Kunlun regained his composure.
Zhuge Chu breathed a sigh of relief, still somewhat concerned. "Boss, what happened to you just now? The hatred in your eyes was terrifying."
"Also, does boss have a sister?" Zhuge Chu asked.
Ye Kunlun nodded. "Ten years ago, my sister and I were separated in Kunlun, and in ten years, I haven't had any news of her."
"I can try to divine for boss's sister," Zhuge Chu offered.
Ye Kunlun was stunned, his eyes lighting up.
That's right!
Why hadn't he thought of asking Zhuge Chu to try.
Zhuge Chu and his sister had no blood relation, and the Qimen Dunjia and divination techniques of the Zhuge family were not weak.
If Ye Kunlun couldn't figure out his sister's whereabouts, perhaps Zhuge Chu could!
Seeing Ye Kunlun's expression, Zhuge Chu quickly took out the gray tortoise shell from his pocket.
"Boss, I need your sister's birth date and time." Zhuge Chu formed a hand seal, and the gray tortoise shell immediately lit up.
Ye Kunlun told Zhuge Chu his sister's birth date and time.
Zhuge Chu's hands moved, and he chanted incantations. Mysterious energies emanated from the tortoise shell.
Ye Kunlun gazed at the gray tortoise shell, trying to grasp something, but couldn't capture anything.
Zhuge Chu stared intently at the changing patterns on the tortoise shell, his face appearing somewhat pale.
His cultivation was still somewhat insufficient to fully control this ancestral gray tortoise shell.
Suddenly, on the tortoise shell, two intertwined lines lit up at their intersection.
But in the next moment, the mysterious energies vanished, and the tortoise shell instantly dimmed, losing all its light.
A trace of blood seeped from the corner of Zhuge Chu's mouth.
Seeing this, Ye Kunlun quickly channeled a stream of spiritual energy into him.
"Boss, I'm fine." Zhuge Chu wiped his mouth, looking at Ye Kunlun's expectant gaze.
"I found something!"
After calming his breath, Zhuge Chu replied to Ye Kunlun.
"Really? Where is my sister now?" Ye Kunlun asked somewhat impatiently.
Zhuge Chu shook his head and replied, "Boss, I can only confirm that your sister is still alive and in the southwest direction. I couldn't find anything else; it seems a certain power prevented my divination and even backfired on me."
"Southwest." Ye Kunlun's eyes showed determination. "As long as my sister is alive, I will find her eventually. Zhuge Chu, thank you for your hard work!"
Just then, a bubbling sound of water came from the Black Tortoise Well.
Zhuge Chu's eyes lit up, and he quickly looked into the well. "Boss, the spring at the bottom of the Black Tortoise Well has started flowing."
Ye Kunlun looked into the well again, gazing at the bubbling spring, and inexplicably felt a sense of summons.
It was as if something was waiting for him at the bottom of this well.
"Zhuge Chu, was this well dry before?" Ye Kunlun asked.
"Yes, it only started flowing again after boss entered Kyoto," Zhuge Chu replied.
"Were there any secrets beneath this well before?" Ye Kunlun continued to ask.
Zhuge Chu shook his head. "I've been down the well before, and there was nothing at the bottom. There shouldn't be any secrets, right?"
As he spoke, he negated his own statement. "No, no. If there were no secrets, why would a well that has been dry for a thousand years suddenly start to gush water again?"
While Zhuge Chu was talking to himself, Ye Kunlun's divine sense had already probed towards the bottom of the well.
Soon, he discovered something unusual at the bottom of the well.
The bottom of the Black Tortoise Well was devoid of any silt. Instead, it was crystal clear, and there, lying at the bottom, was a Xuan Gui, the size of a millstone, made of an unknown material.
In the Xuan Gui's mouth was a sky-blue bead, about the size of a fist, from which a rich water spiritual energy was being released.
"Zhuge Chu, is there a Xuan Gui statue at the bottom of the Black Tortoise Well?" Ye Kunlun asked again.
Zhuge Chu shook his head. "No, there wasn't. When I went down before, it was covered in weeds, and there was nothing."
Ye Kunlun tried to retrieve the blue bead from the Xuan Gui's mouth with his divine sense, but it was ineffectual.
At that moment, the ring on Ye Kunlun's left hand became intensely hot again, emitting a black beam that directly entered the well!
The moment the black beam entered the well, the blue bead in the Xuan Gui's mouth moved, falling from its mouth and floating up from the bottom of the well, hovering above the well's opening.
The azure light directly illuminated Zhuge Chu's courtyard in a pale blue, and a dense water spiritual energy poured out.
Whoosh—
A magical scene unfolded as a light drizzle began to fall in the courtyard.
"This, this is the Ding Shui Pearl?"
Zhuge Chu stared blankly at the pale blue bead suspended above the Black Tortoise Well and exclaimed.
"That's right, it must be the innate spiritual treasure Ding Shui Pearl recorded in the clan's records!"
Zhuge Chu regained his senses, looking at the Ding Shui Pearl with disbelief.
"Boss, it's the Ding Shui Pearl, the legendary innate spiritual treasure that can control any water in heaven and earth, the Ding Shui Pearl!"
Zhuge Chu looked at Ye Kunlun with excitement.
Just then, the Ding Shui Pearl moved, flying towards Ye Kunlun and spinning rapidly around him.
A rich water spiritual energy flowed into Ye Kunlun's body through his pores, making him feel incredibly comfortable.
Then, the Ding Shui Pearl transformed into a blue light and entered the ring on his left hand.
"Boss, is that ring of yours a storage ring?" Zhuge Chu couldn't help but ask as the Ding Shui Pearl entered Ye Kunlun's ring.
"Yes, a storage ring," Ye Kunlun replied. "This item belongs to your Zhuge family, I..."
"Boss, this thing definitely doesn't belong to our Zhuge family!"
Zhuge Chu quickly interrupted Ye Kunlun. "Otherwise, if our Zhuge family had guarded here for thousands of years and never seen the Ding Shui Pearl, why did it appear as soon as you arrived?"
"Innate spiritual treasures have spirits, so the Ding Shui Pearl must have been waiting for boss here!"
Zhuge Chu did not mind at all that the Ding Shui Pearl had been taken by Ye Kunlun.