Supreme Hidden Dragon in the City-Chapter 379: Artifact Spirit

Chen Fan was startled, thinking someone had entered his room, and quickly turned his head to look around, but there wasn’t a second person in the room besides him.

After repeatedly confirming this, he turned his gaze back to the Heavenly Creation Pearl and cautiously asked, "Was that cough just now made by you?"

A voice came from inside the Heavenly Creation Pearl, "Yes, it was."

The voice was somewhat crisp and slightly immature, its gender ambiguous.

Chen Fan had not expected that there would actually be a "person" inside the Heavenly Creation Pearl responding to him, and he was so frightened that he almost threw the dark red pearl in his hand away.

"You... who are you? Why are you inside the Heavenly Creation Pearl?" Chen Fan’s nerves immediately tensed up. He knew that a Space Artifact couldn’t store living things, and now that someone was speaking from inside the Heavenly Creation Pearl, there were only two possibilities. One was that the other party was so powerful that they could survive within a Space Artifact, or the one he was speaking to wasn’t human at all!

The voice inside the Heavenly Creation Pearl spoke again, "Don’t be nervous, I mean no harm. For now, you can think of me as the... Artifact Spirit of this Heavenly Creation Pearl."

"Artifact Spirit?" Chen Fan was taken aback and then felt a storm surge in his heart.

Since ancient times, only one kind of thing could produce an Artifact Spirit, and that was a Divine Artifact that possessed the power to destroy heaven and earth!

"Are you saying that the Heavenly Creation Pearl is a Divine Artifact?" Chen Fan swallowed.

The Artifact Spirit replied, "Yes."

Chen Fan asked, "But up to now, other than discovering that the Heavenly Creation Pearl has an internal space, I haven’t found it to have any other functions. Shouldn’t a Divine Artifact possess all sorts of unexpected powers?"

The Artifact Spirit said, "I have suffered very serious damage and am on the verge of shattering. For many years, I have been in a state of sleep, and it was the Spiritual Objects you placed inside the Heavenly Bead that woke me up."

Chen Fan understood. He had thought if the Heavenly Creation Pearl truly was a Divine Artifact, it shouldn’t seem so ordinary. So, it was due to sustaining serious damage.

Only then did he realize why the Heavenly Creation Pearl had inexplicably absorbed the power of the Thousand-Year Elixir and the lotus seeds—it was to wake up.

He had many questions in his heart and asked, "Why were you so badly damaged? Who reduced you, a Divine Artifact, to this state?"

The Artifact Spirit said, "I can’t remember. I feel that I am not whole, and much of my memory is missing."

Then Chen Fan felt the copper plate that was inside the Heavenly Creation Pearl moving, surrounded by invisible forces.

"I feel that this object seems to be related to me. Did you put it here?" the Artifact Spirit asked.

Chen Fan nodded.

The Artifact Spirit asked again, "Why don’t you answer me?"

It was then that Chen Fan realized that since the Artifact Spirit was hidden inside the Heavenly Creation Pearl, and he was communicating with it through his Divine Sense, it naturally couldn’t see him nod.

He laughed at himself, then said, "Yes. To my knowledge, there are a total of three Heavenly Creation Pearls, and this copper piece is for finding the other two Heavenly Creation Pearls."

The Artifact Spirit murmured, "I see."

Chen Fan’s eyes shifted as he remembered that it was his father who had him search for the Heavenly Creation Pearl. Perhaps there was some connection between the Artifact Spirit and his father, so he asked, "Do you know a person named Chen Bahuang?"

The Artifact Spirit said, "I don’t know him."

Chen Fan asked again, "Then, do you know where Two Realms City is?"

The Artifact Spirit said, "I don’t know."

Chen Fan felt a bit helpless and said, "Alright, then."

The Artifact Spirit then said, "My memory is fragmented. If you can help me bring the other two Heavenly Creation Pearls, perhaps I will remember the person and place you mentioned."

Chen Fan also felt it was highly possible and answered, "Don’t worry, I am already searching for the other two Heavenly Creation Pearls. I believe that one day you will become whole again."

The Artifact Spirit said, "Thank you."

Chen Fan laughed, thinking that the Artifact Spirit was quite polite. He wondered how old a fully restored Artifact Spirit’s mental age would be compared to a human’s.

It was then that he suddenly remembered something and asked, "The first time you absorbed the Thousand-Year Elixir, you released the internal space of the Heavenly Creation Pearl, allowing me to put things inside. That wasn’t deliberate, was it? Were you just waiting for me to put Heaven and Earth Spiritual Objects inside?"

The Artifact Spirit coughed lightly, seemingly a bit embarrassed, but still honestly said, "Yes, I was seriously damaged and the only way to recover was through that method."

Then it said, "I sense that there is a very rich and pure Source of Power near you. Can you let me absorb it? If I do, many of my injuries will be healed, and some of my functions will recover."

Chen Fan’s gaze immediately fell on the jade box containing the Dragon Vein, then quickly moved it a bit further away, saying, "That won’t do. I need it for my breakthrough to the Golden Core Realm. If you absorb it, who knows when I will be able to break through."

The Artifact Spirit wasn’t angry and said, "Well, alright then."

After that, Chen Fan sensed some changes in the thick fog flowing inside the Heavenly Creation Pearl, and soon, a small elixir appeared within his perception.

He looked puzzled and asked, "How did an elixir suddenly appear here?"

The Artifact Spirit said, "This is to thank you for waking me up. Even with excellent talent, the chance of successfully forming a Golden Core during Foundation Establishment is only sixty percent. This elixir is called the Condensing Spirit Pill, which, when taken, guarantees a one hundred percent success rate."

Chen Fan’s eyes lit up, not expecting the Artifact Spirit to have such a good thing hidden away.

Yet quickly, his attention shifted from the elixir, asking "This elixir was sent out from the thick fog. Does this mean that the interior space of the Heavenly Creation Pearl is actually vast, and I’m just unable to see the areas covered by the fog?"

The Artifact Spirit said, "Yes. The complete interior space of the Heavenly Creation Pearl is... beyond your imagination. Moreover, it contains the endless treasures left by my previous master, and among them, this Condensing Spirit Pill is just a mere trifle."