Heiress Unmasked: Shaking the World With Geomancy novel Chapter 2175

"Take a guess," Zidane replied, raising a brow.

Instead of answering, Shannon stared at him in silence.

Zidane sighed softly and said, "You didn't think about using the token I gave you, did you?"

Shannon paused in surprise and soon realized what he meant. He was referring to the Underworld Pass Token that could freely open ghost gates.

During her visit to Phantom Market, she'd accidentally traded a half-scroll painting of Zidane. He wanted the painting back and gave her that token as compensation.

Of course, Shannon remembered it, but she'd entered the time-traveling portal in divine soul form. How could she have brought the Underworld Pass Token with her?

Just as that thought crossed her mind, a flicker of light appeared before her eyes. Immediately after, the black token detached itself from her divine soul and shimmered into view, floating right in front of her.

A glint of astonishment flashed in her eyes. Like spiritual essence, had the token been fused with her divine soul all along?

But even if she had the token and could enter the underworld, wouldn't the underworld of this timeline be unlinked from her original timeline?

Zidane didn't explain. He simply lifted a hand and hooked a finger toward the air to send the token flying toward him.

After pressing it into the void, a ghost gate opened right before them.

He handed the token back to Shannon and said, "Did you not know? The underworld guards the last chroyan branch in existence."

Wynthorpe clan's Soul Tree had been formed from a wisp of chroyan branch's spiritual energy, but the underworld had preserved a complete branch all this time.

Shannon had failed to open the time-traveling portal through the Soul Tree. If she wanted to return, she would naturally need to open a new portal through another chroyan branch.

Zidane had known she and Benjamin would come searching for him once they decided to travel through time to find Velquin's divine soul. Yet, he never expected her to discover Soul Tree, which was formed from the spiritual energy of a different chroyan branch.

After a pause, he continued, "As for him, he jumped into the space-time chaos after you. His divine soul is drifting like yours."

Shannon's heart clenched. Just as she was about to ask, he said, "Relax. Once you're in the underworld, he'll sense your divine soul and come to you."

With the chroyan branch present, the underworld was connected to all timelines. Finding someone here was far easier than anywhere in the mortal realm.

The words had barely left his mouth when Shannon stepped forward without hesitation, through the ghost gate. She never doubted his words.

As the ghost gate closed behind her, golden light sparked at the golden band on her wrist. It formed a thin thread of light pointing deep toward the underworld.

Before she could trace it, a familiar golden light lit up the space ahead.

The void tore open to reveal a spatial rift, and Benjamin stepped through, bathed in golden light…