I'm not just human!

Xia Fa returned home at 2:30 p.m.

As usual, he first took out Benedict's training notes, but after flipping through them, he was surprised to find that there were no new records.

I reckon Beneath and the siren Cyril haven't arrived at the Forest of Bones yet?

Judging from the appearance, this place where the stars rise is quite large.

After thinking for a moment, Xia Fa went upstairs to his bedroom, drew the curtains, and closed the door.

He took a small wooden jar from his pocket and unsealed it.

Suddenly, a warm yet pungent smell wafted out, like the smell of coal slag from red-hot iron, swirling around him.

This wooden jar is filled with live iron powder, which would cost at least fifty gold pounds in the market.

However, as a newly joined clergyman of the Silver Church, he received this jar for free.

Iron powder is the foundation of many rituals, magic circles, and mystical ceremonies.

Besides being used in divination rituals, it can also be used in a ritual that almost every superhuman knows—the sealing ritual!

A sealing ritual, as the name suggests, can seal off a space, which under normal circumstances can prevent many powerful beings from spying on it.

Of course, if there really is a physical entity or an outer god trying to spy, the sealing ritual still cannot stop it.

But the real purpose of the sealing ritual is to make those unknown and powerful beings subconsciously ignore this space.

This is something Xia Fa learned today from the book "Secret Texts and Divination"—the sealing ritual is also a prerequisite for the divination ritual.

He reached into the wooden jar and grabbed a handful of live iron powder. This alchemical material, obtained by killing pig iron with alchemy techniques to awaken the soul of the metal, cannot be stored in metal jars because it would cause all sorts of strange reactions, so it can only be stored in wooden jars.

After silently channeling extraordinary power into the living iron powder in his palm, Xia Fa slightly opened his fingers and began to slowly scatter the living iron powder into the air.

As he spread the iron powder, it gradually formed a round shell around him, shimmering with a metallic light in the air, like a sky full of stars, and quite beautiful.

Xia Fa was in a thin circular space surrounded by living iron powder. He immediately felt that the wind in the space had stopped and the environment had become quiet.

Aside from that, he didn't feel anything else. After all, he could even understand the babbling of the Outer Gods, and he wasn't usually bothered by such things.

Then, Xia Fa took a deep breath, trying to calm himself down, and took out an ink bottle and a quill pen made of pure silver.

This is naturally the Holy Spirit Spring water needed to sign the secret pact, and the pure silver quill pen, which he obtained with his contribution points when he went to collect the divination materials today, and it only cost him one hundred contribution points.

Because he killed the whale-level Giant Jaw Beast King in the Ghost Realm and reported various information about the Ghost Realm's upgrade with his teammates, even after exchanging for the Ether Source Advanced Contract and the Star Spirit Compass, his contribution to the church was still more than two thousand points.

As for the spring water of the Holy Spirit Spring and the pure silver quill pen, these are among the most frequently traded mystical materials by the church's superhumans, so no one would care if he traded for one.

After all, every moment there are extraordinary individuals who understand the contents of the secret agreement and sign the next one.

Inside the room, amidst the shimmering metallic iron dust, Xia Fa gripped a pure silver quill pen tightly between his index finger and thumb, which was filled with water from the Holy Spirit Spring.

Then, he took out the wooden board from his pocket that contained the supreme-level secret agreement of the Silver Throne.

No matter how hard he tried to restrain himself, his emotions were stirred at that moment.

After all, this is a top-tier secret agreement.

And next, I... am about to sign it!

Chapter 90 Young Miners

Although the curtains were drawn, sunlight still shone through the thick fabric, making the iron filings in the room look like stars in the night sky.

These stars seemed to form a transparent circular film, with Xia Fa situated within it, facing a table.

On the peeling mahogany table, a perfectly polished wooden board sits quietly in the center.

On the front of the wooden board, there are hundreds of times more secret texts than those of the advanced secret inscriptions, presented in a spatial layering manner. Sometimes they shrink, sometimes they unfold like playing cards, making them look like living things breathing.

Xia Fa was also breathing steadily and slowly, trying his best to stabilize and calm his mind.

At the same time, the mind and body gradually adjust to their peak state.

Although he has a strange electric current at his spine and tailbone, he is not too afraid of losing control.

However, what they were to sign was a supreme-level secret agreement, and the Silver Throne, the most domineering and powerful of all supreme-level secret agreements.

This forced Xia Fa to put all his energy into dealing with the situation.

Suddenly, he closed his eyes, took a deep breath for two seconds, and then his eyelids lifted up by half an inch.

A captivating light flashed in those eyes, as black as charcoal.

Without the slightest hesitation, Xia Fa took a pure silver quill pen and wrote his name on the wooden board.

Xiafa de Augustus.

He wrote in "Putong," the language commonly used in the Augu Kingdom, and the moment the last stroke fell—

The expanded and layered secret texts all contracted onto the wooden board, and the entire wooden board exploded with a "bang"!

The explosion was so violent that it even stirred up an astonishing gale. Countless wooden spikes swept through the air at high speed, accompanied by air currents and shrieks, and pierced directly into Xia Fa's body.

It even pierced his heart!

An indescribable pain struck, as if every part of my body, every muscle, and every organ was being torn apart.

Blood gushed out, almost turning him into a blood-soaked figure.

However, Xia Fa was unable to do anything about it.

Because the next moment—

Bang!

He completely exploded.

His body seemed unable to withstand the impact of the exploding wooden planks, or as if it had been completely destroyed by the enormous kinetic energy carried by those wood fragments.

Consciousness became uncontrollably blurred, and I began to fall.

As he fell, he felt his consciousness return to the darkness where he had first signed the Ether Source Pact.

The darkness stretched as far as the eye could see, so dark that you couldn't see your hand in front of your face, and it was so dark that you might think you were blind.

Because his body exploded, he lost his sense of smell and sight.

But even if only spiritual intuition remains, within the range of its spread, there is still a thick and deep darkness.

In the far distance, a magnificent ocean suddenly appeared.

This was the second time Xia Fa had seen this magnificent ocean, filled with countless glittering points of light of all sizes, each one emanating a breathtaking aura.

The magnificent ocean vanished in an instant, leaving only Xia Fa's consciousness lingering in the darkness, where even the passage of time seemed imperceptible.

Despite experiencing so many changes in a short period of time, Xia Fa managed to keep his composure, gather his chaotic thoughts, and avoid losing control.

But suddenly, a huge problem was placed in front of him.

That is... if you don't even have a physical body anymore, your spine and coccyx will naturally be gone, so it will be impossible to generate strange electric currents anymore. What should you do if you encounter the crazy babbling of those unknown beings again?

Drawing on his experience of signing the secret agreement last time, he tried to convince himself that the physical explosion was an illusion.

But the pain was so real. In the instant of the explosion, he could even see his own organs and the sharp pieces of wood stuck in them, and smell the blood gushing out of his body, warm and sweet.

Suddenly, a campfire blazed up in the darkness of the northwest.

That's right, it's a campfire, a ring of firewood crackling and popping as sparks rise and swirl in the wind.

Beside the campfire sat a "person".

He was a young man dressed as a miner, wearing a light yellow miner's hat with a searchlight on it. He was wearing flannel miner's clothes and was poking at the campfire with tongs.

He was lying on his side, looking somewhat tired, and occasionally taking a sip of wine from the jar at his feet.

Xia Fa dared not make a sound, or even speak.

In this unknown place, in the boundless darkness, the sudden appearance of a young miner sitting by a campfire is both bizarre and suspicious.

In particular, he recalled that the last time it surrounded this edge of darkness, it was those unknown beings that uttered crazy ravings, all of whom could very well be minor gods or even outer gods wandering in the Protoss realm!

Moreover, he hadn't seen the figures of those unknown beings before, he had only heard their voices.

This time, however, we actually saw this "young miner" in person!

Suddenly, the young miner seemed to sense something and turned to look over.

The moment he looked over, Xia Fa felt a chill run down his spine.

The young miner was facing away from him and was far away, so his spiritual intuition couldn't "see" him clearly.

And now, the moment the young miner turned around, his spiritual intuition clearly sensed that the young miner... actually had no facial features!

That's right, his face was like a sealed human skin, or a freshly peeled egg, with no eyes, nose, mouth, ears... nothing at all!

While Xia Fa was filled with fear, he couldn't help but notice a problem.

This young miner doesn't even have a mouth, so how did he drink the alcohol just now?

"Oh? After all these years, someone has finally come here again."

The young miner stopped poking at the fire, and a rather surprised sound emanated from his faceless face.

Xia Fa did not answer. He recalled his previous experience of escaping unscathed when signing the secret agreement and decided to pretend he hadn't seen the young miner.

The young miner's face, devoid of features, stared fixedly in his direction. Then, where his eyebrows should have been, he raised them, seemingly quite surprised.

"You actually encountered a 'storyteller' and even helped him break free from his predicament?"

Xia Fa's heart tightened, but he still did not answer.

However, I was quite surprised.

Upon seeing the young miner's attire, he immediately thought of the older miner-like figure, the "Storyteller."

Without a doubt, the Story Answerer must be very powerful, after all, when we encountered it in the Ghost Realm, all the entities seemed to be led by the Story Answerer.

But he didn't expect that in this unknown, dark space that could only be entered by signing a secret contract, the young miner who suddenly appeared would also know the storyteller.

Also, what does he mean by "unsoliciting"?

"Don't panic. I'm not the kind of person who would deliberately try to make someone lose control. Besides, the person answering the story... is my brother."

The young miner's face, devoid of features, revealed no expression, yet his voice carried a smile and a touch of nostalgic sentiment.

But immediately, he brought up a topic that sent chills down Xia Fa's spine.