"This is the Yellow Springs Divine Shrine?"

Lin Yi somewhat disbelievingly reached out his hand to touch it.

The instant Lin Yi’s hand touched the stone wall, the moss on it melted away like ice and snow, slowly disappearing.

Right after, a clean, brand-new stone wall came into view.

Lin Yi withdrew his hand from the stone wall. On it was carved a person whose face couldn’t be seen clearly, holding a bouquet of flowers in both hands?

He seemed to be praying for something, bowing his body in a certain direction, looking extremely devout.

Lin Yi was puzzled:

"What is this?"

The Jade Qilin said it didn’t know:

"I only managed to find this place because I sensed a trace of Divine Power lingering here."

"When it comes to these Ancient Gods, what little this young master knows isn’t much more than you, Master."

"If that woman were here, she might be able to tell us something."

Lin Yi knew the woman the Jade Qilin was referring to was Dongfang Jing, the God Kalsa before reincarnation.

It seemed that within this Rafam World, there was nothing that woman didn’t know.

However, Dongfang Jing had disappeared a few days ago. Although he could see that she was online, Lin Yi couldn’t get in touch with her now.

Seeing that the Jade Qilin was unreliable, Lin Yi could only rely on himself.

As one of the gods who had existed since ancient times, Yellow Springs’ Divine Shrine clearly could not be just this simple stone wall before him.

Just as Lin Yi once again placed his hand on the stone wall relief, his whole body suddenly trembled.

Lin Yi abruptly turned his head and asked the Jade Qilin and White Tiger:

"Did you hear something?"

"What?"

The Jade Qilin and White Tiger glanced at each other, then the Jade Qilin said with a completely baffled expression:

"I didn’t hear anything."

"No sound? Impossible!"

As he spoke, Lin Yi directly pressed his ear against the cold stone wall.

Sure enough, that faint, elusive sound came again.

Although that sound was almost imperceptible, as Lin Yi listened, his expression suddenly changed:

"The sound is coming from inside."

Then he said with absolute certainty:

"They’re in there!"

As he spoke, Lin Yi directly drew the Emperor’s Charm Sword and stood before the stone wall.

The Jade Qilin looked completely dumbfounded:

"Master, what are you doing?!"

Lin Yi activated his Skills directly at the rock wall:

"Smash it open."

"Secret Technique·Annihilation Slash"

In an instant.

A razor-sharp sword light flashed.

However, Lin Yi did not hear the explosion he had been expecting. At the same time, his Attack silently vanished, without stirring up so much as a ripple.

Staring at the wall that remained completely unscathed, Lin Yi refused to accept it and once again activated a Skill:

"Vermilion Bird - Fiery Flame Feathers"

A phoenix cry suddenly rang out, and then a Vermilion Bird wreathed entirely in Flame condensed in midair.

The Vermilion Bird furiously flapped its wings at the stone wall.

Feathers turned into blades one after another, slanting down toward the rocky cliff.

Yet that wall was like a sponge; all the Attacks, the moment they landed on it, silently merged into it and disappeared.

Even after the Vermilion Bird finished its assault and vanished, the cliff still stood there pristine and smooth, fused as one with the mountain.

Lin Yi suddenly grew anxious:

"Why isn’t it working?"

At this moment, the Emperor’s Charm Sword suddenly flew out of Lin Yi’s hand, then transformed into Katrina, who appeared at Lin Yi’s side.

The moment Katrina appeared, she spoke:

"Yellow Springs’ Power originates from the Power of Reincarnation."

"The so-called Power of Reincarnation is what people usually call the Power of the Soul."

"This Divine Shrine should have been built personally by Yellow Springs. This is just one of its entrances."

Listening to Katrina, Lin Yi said anxiously:

"Enough talk. How do we break the Seal and get in now?"

Katrina glanced at the stone wall and shook her head:

"The key to breaking the Seal should be related to the soul’s compatibility."

Then Katrina said something that plunged Lin Yi into despair:

"Although you’ve already undergone the baptism of the Three-Nine Celestial Tribulation, and your Power of the Soul far surpasses that of those at your level,"

"it’s still not enough to break the soul Seal set by Yellow Springs."

Cultivating the Power of the Soul—that was exactly Samson’s specialty, wasn’t it?

The key to breaking the Seal of the Yellow Springs Divine Shrine actually lay in the Power of the Soul. With this, Lin Yi was now almost ninety-nine percent sure that Tianzi and the others were indeed here.

Thinking that he and Tianzi’s group were already "almost within reach," yet helplessly blocked by a single Seal...

Lin Yi was filled with unwillingness:

"Is there really no other way?"

Katrina’s red lips parted slightly:

"There is!"

Lin Yi’s spirits lifted at once:

"What is it?"

Katrina gave Lin Yi a look and suddenly asked:

"If the Seal can’t be opened, what will you do?"

Lin Yi answered without even thinking:

"There is no ’if’!"

"As long as I can break the Seal, I’m willing to pay any price."

Katrina nodded and said:

"I understand."

Lin Yi then looked at Katrina with a resolute expression:

"What do you need me to do?"

Yet Katrina only replied with one word:

"Wait."

"What?"

Lin Yi froze in stunned confusion.

And in just that instant, Katrina drifted toward the stone cliff, a decisive light flashing in her eyes.

She had the air of a warrior who never returns once he sets out.

Seeing Katrina’s back, Lin Yi suddenly felt a surge of unease:

"Wait! What are you going to do?"

Lin Yi lunged forward in a single stride, reaching out to grab Katrina.

But at that moment, Katrina directly "crashed" into the stone wall, then merged into it and disappeared.

Lin Yi struck out at the first possible instant, yet he only managed to grab a floating red ribbon...

Watching Katrina in her full red bridal attire vanish into the stone wall, Lin Yi, holding the red ribbon in his hand, suddenly realized what Katrina’s earlier question had really meant.

Perhaps because he associated it with some ominous outcome, Lin Yi felt as though his heart were being torn apart, and he roared in anguish:

"Shigu, no!"

Lin Yi pressed himself against the stone wall and began listening closely.

But after Katrina merged into it, it was as if she had vanished into thin air, leaving no trace behind.

If not for the fact that the Emperor’s Charm Sword was no longer on him, Lin Yi would have suspected that everything just now had been an illusion.

Unable to obtain any information, Lin Yi suddenly thought of something and roared in fury:

"Elda, get out here!"

In the blink of an eye, the soul of the Elda Sword Saint appeared at Lin Yi’s side.

But before Lin Yi could speak, Elda, who had already witnessed everything from the city, hastily spoke first to explain:

"I don’t know what Miss Katrina intends to do either.

"I’m very sorry I couldn’t help."

Elda knew all too well how important Katrina was to Lin Yi.

At a time like this, he absolutely didn’t dare provoke Lin Yi’s wrath.

Hearing Elda’s words, Lin Yi forcibly suppressed his near-explosive rage, gripping the Dragonman Horn, his teeth grinding as he said:

"If anything happens to Shigu, I’ll drag the entire Demon Race into the grave with her."