Floating life reflects two lotuses

As night deepened, the Land of Offering Spirits was shrouded in a dim halo, and an oppressive atmosphere filled the air. Xiao Jinlian, clutching a fragment of rune, slowly stepped into the core area of ​​the Land of Offering Spirits. Stone pillars stood all around, their runes shimmering with a ghostly blue light, as if whispering ancient secrets.

Silan stood behind her and asked anxiously, "Princess, something seems... off here."

Xiao Jinlian turned around, her gaze sweeping over her with unwavering determination, and said in a low voice, "This is the source of the curse. The power of the runes is gathering here, and we must find its resonance point to unlock its secrets."

Li Heng walked at the front, gripping his longsword tightly, constantly on guard. His brow was furrowed, and his voice was low: "Are you sure it's safe here? This power is too strange."

“Safe?” Xiao Jinlian chuckled, her gaze sweeping over the runes on the stone pillar. “If it were truly safe, it wouldn’t be called the Land of Offering Souls.”

She raised her hand and slowly lifted the rune fragment. The light from the fragment instantly resonated with the runes on the stone pillar, and the entire space began to tremble slightly. The dark blue light gradually gathered at the center.

"boom!"

With a deafening roar, the ground began to tremble violently, and the runic light converged into a pillar of light that shot straight into the sky. Xiao Jinlian stood beneath the pillar of light, her skirt billowing in the gale, her face pale but she did not flinch.

"Princess!" Silan exclaimed, trying to rush forward, but Liheng grabbed her arm.

"Don't go over there! She's guiding the resonance of the runes!" Li Heng said in a deep voice, his gaze fixed on Xiao Jinlian, the sword in his hand trembling slightly, as if he was about to rush out at any moment.

Xiao Jinlian closed her eyes, her body swaying slightly with the fluctuations of the runic light pillar. She felt a strange force penetrating her body, pulling her consciousness outward. Her soul seemed to drift away from her body and enter a blank void.

Meanwhile, the modern line.

Chu Wanlian sat at the control panel in the core area of ​​the laboratory, her hands rapidly typing on the keyboard, her fingers flying across the keyboard like a whirlwind. Her brows were slightly furrowed, her gaze fixed intently on the energy data on the screen. The data fluctuated faster and faster, and she could feel a strange energy wave sweeping through the rune array, as if piercing her soul.

"What's going on?" she murmured to herself, her heart pounding. "This energy fluctuation doesn't seem like a simple system imbalance. Could it be responding to... something else?"

A calm voice broke her thoughts: "You don't look well. Is something wrong?"

Li Chenyao had appeared behind her at some point, his gaze sharp yet probing.

“Something’s wrong with the rune device here.” Chu Wanlian quickly adjusted the parameters while suppressing her unease. “The data shows that this energy is trying to synchronize with some unknown node.”

Li Chenyao raised an eyebrow slightly, walked to her side, crossed his arms, and looked down at the screen: "An unknown node?"

“It’s like…like another time and space.” Her voice was weak, but extremely firm, and her eyes showed an unprecedented solemnity.

Li Chenyao's brow twitched, a barely perceptible ripple flashing in his eyes, but his tone remained calm: "Your speculation is somewhat bizarre."

“I also hope it’s bizarre.” Chu Wanlian looked up at him and forced a smile. “But the data doesn’t lie.”

Li Chenyao was silent for a moment, then suddenly leaned down to stand beside her and look at the screen. His voice was deep but carried an irresistible power: "Continue to investigate. If what you say is true, the truth behind this is worth our utmost effort."

Chu Wanlian was stunned for a moment. Looking at the determination in his eyes, she unconsciously breathed a sigh of relief and said softly, "Thank you, Li Chenyao."

“The energy fluctuations are intensifying!” she muttered to herself, a fine sheen of sweat appearing on her forehead. “No, this isn’t normal energy resonance; it’s like…like some kind of response.”

Li Chenyao stood to the side, staring intently at the rune patterns on the screen: "Are you sure these runes are responding to something?"

“I don’t know, but this is definitely not a coincidence.” Chu Wanlian spoke rapidly, her fingertips constantly inputting commands. “I sense… something is approaching me.”

Just then, all the lights in the laboratory suddenly went out, and a piercing alarm sounded.

"Warning! Warning! Energy overload!"

"What's going on?" Li Chenyao suddenly looked at her.

Chu Wanlian was also taken aback. The runes on the screen began to flash wildly, as if they were about to break through a barrier. She reached out and touched the screen, and suddenly heard a familiar echo in her ear.

"Chu Wanlian...Chu Wanlian!"

The voice was ethereal and weak, as if it had transcended time and space, striking her eardrums directly.

"Xiao Jinlian?" Chu Wanlian murmured in disbelief, then looked up abruptly, the surrounding runes becoming even more dazzling.

Seeing her unusual expression, Li Chenyao quickly stepped forward and grabbed her arm: "Chu Wanlian! What's wrong?"

"It's her!" Chu Wanlian's voice trembled, her face filled with shock. "I can hear her voice! Xiao Jinlian!"

"Who is she?" Li Chenyao frowned.

"Don't worry about that, I need to concentrate!" Chu Wanlian shook off his hand, closed her eyes, and focused all her senses on the resonance of the runes.

In the void, the light of the runes gradually spread out, rippling like waves, and two blurry figures overlapped little by little as the light and shadow overlapped.

From the darkness, a gentle yet urgent voice rang out: "You've finally arrived."

Chu Wanlian slowly opened her eyes, looking in surprise at the gradually clearing figure opposite her, and whispered, "Xiao Jinlian?"

Their voices mingled in the empty void, the runes shone ever brighter, and their destinies reached a new point of convergence at this moment.