After just half a breath, everything in the space package was swallowed up by darkness!
Everywhere you look is a scene as dark as ink...
This scene shocked Chen Shen!
In the past, he could immediately search for one of the items with just a movement of his mind, or even directly take it out of the space package.
But now, all his methods have failed.
"What the hell is this?"
"System Spirit? System Spirit, come out to this host and tell me what's going on?"
"Could it be that you automatically 'shut down and restart'?"
"Ding! Because the host was too seriously injured and the original profound energy was almost exhausted, the system was unable to obtain the host's consent and in the process of autonomous rescue, three prices were randomly selected."
"The permanent closure of space parcels is one of the three prices."
"Hey, do you want to be so cruel?"
Chen Shen frowned: "You don't want to fool me, saying that the system is just to save me. If I, the host, die, won't the system also disappear? So, if you save me, you are saving you.
Myself?"
"Ding! There is a serious fallacy in the host's cognition: the system will not be destroyed due to the death of the host."
"After the current host dies, the system will only fall into a long-term slumber until the next host with 100% fitness appears again."
The answer given by the system spirit made Chen Shen speechless for a moment: "Uh..."
"You just said, 'a body with 100% compatibility'? What does this mean?"
"Are you a parasite?"
When he thought of this, Chen Shen suddenly got goosebumps all over his body.
"Ding! The host can also understand this."
"However...even if the system is some kind of 'parasite', for the host, it is just a 'beneficial insect' that has all the benefits and no harm."
Chen Shen raised his eyebrows and asked again: "Then what is the purpose of choosing a host and parasitizing its body? It's not like 'doing one good thing every day', right?"
He finally caught the system spirit "spreading something", so of course he wanted to get to the bottom of it.
"Ding~ It's for a better life."
"Uh... can you be more specific in your answer?"
"cannot."
"Depend on!"
Chen Shen rolled his eyes: "Then when the system encounters a new target with a 100% compatibility, will it abandon me as the host and switch to him?"
"No, only after the death of the old owner, the system will look for a new host during the sleep state."
"Huh~ Then I'll be relieved."
Chen Shen nodded and returned to the topic: "Let's get back to the topic. You mentioned before that you wanted to save me at the cost of erasing the space package."
"But I was in a coma at the time. You can't make decisions, right? This is too unkind."
"Is it possible that you lay out all three prices and let me choose?"
Unexpectedly, the system spirit was quite happy this time——
"Ding~ Now that the host has awakened, he can choose the price he wants to pay."
"Ding~ Price one: The host's space package is permanently blocked, and all items originally contained in it will be randomly submerged into the space turbulence."
"Ding~ Price two: The host's soul realm plummets to 10% of its peak state, and it will last for 100,000 years."
"After one hundred thousand years, the host can gradually recover through practicing several major mystical professions or taking magical elixirs."
"Note: Before the 100,000-year period is up, no matter what the host does, it will be difficult for the soul state to rise again."
"Ding~ Price three: The host's Dantian Xuanfu has entered a closed state, unable to enter or exit, and it is difficult to use any mysterious means. It is almost the same as ordinary people. This state will last for a thousand years."
"After a thousand years, the host's blocked dantian and meridians will gradually revive, and their cultivation will gradually recover."
"Note: Before the one-thousand-year period is up, no matter what the host does, it will be difficult for the realm of Xuanxiu to rise again."
Hearing this, Chen Shen's heart suddenly sank: "Sun, you are a black hole, these three prices are miserable enough!"
The first price is to lose the space package forever, and even the many assets contained in it will be lost in the rotation of time and space. How can that be done?
You must know that this space package not only contains the three artifacts that are crucial to Chen Shen, but the package itself, which is difficult for anyone to detect whether it is true or false, is also a great help for this young man to travel around the world.
If nothing else, just this time, if he hadn't put the three artifacts into the space package and blocked the "signal source", Chen Yu would be the only one who was targeting him.
At that time, if there are so many Mysterious Saints and Mysterious God-level predators playing "Fight with Gods", he, the "little devil", will definitely suffer!
As for the second price: letting his soul realm plummet to 10%, it seems that he still has some fighting strength——
At any rate, it was better for him to retain 10% of his soul state for his host than to be deprived of it to a state where it was difficult to release even the slightest bit of profound energy in "Price Three".
Don't forget, this state of the soul that has plummeted to 10% will last for a hundred thousand years!
One hundred thousand years!
During this period, with only 10% of the perception of the divine soul realm, he might not even be able to guard against the sneak attack of the low-grade Xuanzun, right?
Not to mention having to fight against those Xuan Lords and even the Xuan Sage level experts that we are very likely to encounter in the process of searching for Zi Linglong - that is simply courting death!
But if he chooses to wait...
It will take at least a hundred thousand years for my soul state to return to its original state!
According to what the fortune teller said, the longer the delay, the lower the probability of finding the "Sky Frost Sword", which means that the chance of him finding Zi Linglong will become extremely slim.
Just as Chen Shen was struggling in his heart, the system prompt sounded again——
"Ding! The price originally set by the system for the host was determined after many weighings."
"Because, after all, the space package only belongs to things outside the body."
"But once the host's soul level drops to 10%, or if the mysterious energy in the Dantian or meridians is blocked and unable to release any mysterious energy to protect itself, the difficulty of survival will undoubtedly be even higher!"
The corner of Chen Shen's mouth twitched twice: "Without the space package, all the artifacts I obtained previously will be lost. Even if I get some good things in the future, I will never escape the perception of those tigers and wolves!"
"On my journey to find the Sky Frost Sword and rescue Zi Linglong, I will inevitably have to travel through many realms."
"But if we lose the protection and concealment of those many wonderful things from the space package, wouldn't I become a lamb waiting to be slaughtered at any time in the eyes of those Xuan Sages and Xuan Gods?"
After weighing it again and again, Chen Shen finally gritted his teeth: "It's decided! I choose price three..."