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Chapter 394 The Astrological Family! The Killing Star and the Purple Star! [Please subscribe! Please vote!]

"Ke'er, shall we take a gamble?" Ning Quan looked down at the girl in his arms, his eyes sincere and earnest.

He simply noticed that many of the energy activation nodes on Chen Hong's soul guide inscription were designed in this way, and thus he realized that the rune wall in front of them, which might be from ancient times, might be activated through these two nodes.

but

The girl in his arms looked up at Ning Quan, her beautiful, deep eyes softening as she gazed at him gently. She whispered, "Brother Ning, if this is our last attempt, then we will have to face a choice. Will we choose to hold onto hope and wait, or will we gamble with future despair?"

"If Brother Chen Hong is really as miraculous as Brother Ning said, perhaps he's already on his way? Hmm, perhaps he's with the mysterious elder of the Spirit Hall?" Xu Ke'er was clearly much more rational and calm than Ning Quan. Placing their hopes on an ancient rune-inscribed ice wall? And then consuming the little protective soul power they had left was undoubtedly a very risky thing.

In this sub-zero environment, the two of them could hardly recover their soul power normally. The soul power consumed to resist the severe cold was far greater than the soul power recovered in the biting cold wind.

As one gains and the other loses, the less soul power each person has, the less time they have left to live.

"..." The cold wind outside was still howling wildly, and the powerful aura of those ice-attribute soul beasts was mixed in from time to time. Ning Quan, whose eyebrows and hair were already covered with ice crystals, looked at the girl in his arms and fell silent.

Yes, that is a choice.

In this freezing environment, with their already meager soul power remaining, should they gamble with their fate or continue to eke out a living and wait for rescue from the Technology Chamber of Commerce and the Seven Treasure Glazed Tile School?

"Brother Ning, the clan's elder prophesied that your life is very short." Xu Ke'er's voice was very weak. Her constitution was not as good as Ning Quan's to begin with. If Ning Quan hadn't poured the soul power in her body to provide her with the temperature and energy needed to maintain her life functions, she would have already passed away in this cold wind that even ordinary titled Douluo would not want to stay in.

However, it seems that even with Ning Quan's protection, if they delay for another two or three days, the girl who persuaded her family to go out for training will still be the one leading the two in the end.

The Star Crown Clan is an extremely mysterious Soul Master family. Normally, this reclusive family remains secluded, only emerging when the world reaches a crucial juncture. And each time the Star Crown Clan emerges, it has a decisive impact on the course of events.

The last time the Star Crown family appeared was during the establishment of the Spirit Hall, where they made great contributions to the creation of the Spirit Master era. This is why the Star Crown Spirit is one of the six spirit patterns on the Spirit Hall's papal decree.

Dressed simply, with delicate features but a pale complexion, Xu Ke'er gazed tenderly at Ning Quan, who remained silent. According to the clan's prophecy, the next time their Xingguan family would be born should be several thousand years from now. However, for some reason, more than ten years ago, the clan's ancestor suddenly realized that in this era, there seemed to be an opportunity for their Xingguan Xu clan to be born as well.

Xu Ke'er still remembers the night before she left her family, when the clan's patriarch summoned her.

He also earnestly advised her, "Little Ke'er, the celestial phenomena of this era are too chaotic. This old woman can't see anything clearly now. That Ning Quan is a good person. The destiny of the Seven Treasure Glazed Tile School is very precious, but logically it shouldn't be this extremely precious."

"Alas, Xiao Ke'er, this era should have been the era of the Clear Sky Sect. Even the old woman of the Spirit Hall saw their declining celestial signs. But, things have gone awry, everything has gone awry."

The matriarch of the Xu family was a very mysterious, very old, and kind old woman with a very aged appearance, but her eyes were very deep, as if she had seen through the mysteries of the entire starry sky.

"After Qibao's offshoot child officially rose to prominence, the astrological chart of the Spirit Hall was so overwhelming that it made the Clear Sky Sect feel suffocated. Originally, I thought I might have misjudged it before, and if I was wrong, so be it. Anyway, this wasn't the right time for our Xu family to emerge. Until one moment, the astrological chart turned from its peak to decline, from bad to good. All the ominous and murderous stars lit up, and everything went into chaos!"

"But the celestial phenomena were in disarray, yet they seemed to have returned to normal. Until later, the eastern sky was dominated by the Killing Star, and the western sky saw the rise of the Purple Star. The current celestial phenomena are so chaotic that even our Star Crown family seems unable to remain uninvolved. Therefore, little Ke'er, this old woman has no choice but to send you out to scout ahead. I hope you won't blame this old woman for being heartless."

The words of the Xu family patriarch still seemed to echo in Xu Ke'er's ears. She seemed to finally understand why the patriarch had said, "Don't blame the old woman for being heartless."

The situation on the continent, as divined by the Star Crown family, likely involves some unknown and complex factors that have caused repeated upheavals, leaving even the family's patriarch bewildered.

The extraordinary individual on the Spirit Hall's side has now been found—Chen Hong, the founder of the Technology Chamber of Commerce. The chosen one on the Clear Sky Sect's side is still unknown, but it's highly likely to be Tang San, the Clear Sky Son who has been missing for two years and possesses twin martial souls.

The Star Crown family can indeed divination some mysterious information from the stars through the Star Crown Martial Soul, but unless absolutely necessary, this reclusive family will not choose to emerge into the world.

But now, it is precisely a situation that is a last resort.

With both sides still shrouded in the fog of war, the Star Crown family had no choice but to send Xu Ke'er out to scout ahead and pave the way for their future decisions.

As a spy, from the moment Xu Ke'er left her family, her fate would begin to be affected by the times, or even consumed.

"Okay, I promise you, I won't gamble. Let's wait for rescue together." Suddenly, Ning Quan interrupted Xu Ke'er's reverie. Xu Ke'er stared blankly at Ning Quan for a moment, and seeing the tenderness in his eyes, she smiled gently at the end.

In Ning Quan's eyes, Xu Ke'er seemed to have already seen her own end.

This sword, honed over four generations, is far too strong.

"Senior, I have a bad feeling. Do you know much about the Star Crown Family?"

In the far north, on the outskirts of the Ice God Mountains, amidst a vast blizzard, Chen Hong, dressed in a single layer of clothing with an ever-flowing soul power veil covering his body, suddenly looked up at the towering mountains in the distance and spoke in a deep voice to Qian Daoliu, who had six wings on his back, beside him.

(End of this chapter)