The vibration outside the cave was suddenly cut off as if by an invisible hand. Ye Fan’s boots were still sunk in the gravel kicked up by the tremor, and while the buzzing in his ears had not yet faded, he heard Su Qingxue’s rapid breathing—she had played the short flute too urgently just now to steady his state of mind, and now a half-suppressed cough escaped her throat.
"It's... temporarily stopped." Chǔ Hóngzhuāng’s Silver Gu crawled out from Ye Fan’s sleeve, its wet antennae sweeping across the back of his hand. Her fingertips were stained with the information transmitted by the Gu mother, and her eyebrows arched slightly, "Those things didn't follow us in; instead, they seemed to be scared off by something fiercer."
Ye Fan didn't answer. He stared at the increasingly bright light ahead—the Energy Source previously obscured by the fog had now fully materialized. It was a crystal standing as tall as three people, its surface rippling with galaxy-like bands of light. Every streak of flowing light was embedded with fine starlight, identical in pattern to the blue seal in his palm.
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