Chapter 721 - Revert to one’s original self (1/2)

“Master…”

Gu Qianxue ran up to Tianshan Elder with tears streaming down like the rain, and cried, “Master, how… how are you?”

For as long as she could remember, her master had maintained the appearance of a seventeen or eighteen-year-old girl, but now she had suddenly transformed into an old woman with a hunchback. Age had ravaged her face and her hair was white, revealing just how old she was. No matter how stupid one was, it wasn’t difficult to tell that something terrible had happened to her.

Tianshan Elder’s youthful appearance was no more. In her place was an ancient woman who had lived for thousands of years.

Badly injured, Tianshan Elder coughed in pain. She reached out with a shriveled hand and touched Gu Qianxue’s head. She smiled kindly and said, “Silly girl, why are you crying? This is how I looked like, to begin with, and there is nothing to worry about.”

Gu Qianxue couldn’t help but shed tears, despite her master’s comforting words.

“Junior Sister, you could keep your appearance thanks to the Divine Art of Moulding, but what’s going on now? Has the technique lost its effect?” Elder Long said with his face filled with concern.

Tianshan Elder sneered in reply, “Do you think I did not need to tap on my True Inner Force to bring out that stinky little brat’s powers? I had to use a tremendous amount of my Inner Force to maintain that youthful appearance, but now that I only have a little left, and my injuries are severe, I naturally reverted to my true appearance.”

“Junior Sister, you aren’t going to… to follow… our master’s fate, are you?” Elder Long asked anxiously.

Tianshan Elder blew up the moment she heard that. She picked up a stone and flung it at Elder Long, then spat on the ground. “Ptui! You old fool with the surname Long, how dare you curse me! Do you have a death wish?”

She wouldn’t stop even after shying the stone at him and made to dash at Elder Long to scratch his eyes out.

Elder Long backed away and quickly explained, “Junior Sister, please calm down. I was only worried about you.”

“Worry? What nonsense! I bet you can’t wait for me to kick the bucket! Well, I’m so sorry to disappoint you, but I still have at least five hundred years left in me. Five hundred years is more than enough time for me to rest and recuperate, and by then, I’ll get my youthful appearance back. It won’t be just a dream, and I’ll make sure I live longer than you,” Tianshan Elder hissed.

“Junior Sister, look at you! Senior Brother is showing concern for you. I wasn’t trying to curse you, but you just can’t seem to understand my good intentions,” Elder Long lamented, shaking his head helplessly.

BOOM!

At that moment, what sounded like a deafening sonic boom came from the sky.

A blood-red light shot up into the sky from a distance, releasing a tremendous amount of pressure into the surrounding.

BOOM! BOOM! CRASH!

As the ground shook violently, it caused a huge avalanche, and dozens of mountain peaks crumbled and fell.

A boulder that shot into the sky along with the blood-red light exploded into myriad pieces and rained down like a shower of meteorites. The scene looked like a catastrophe, and it destroyed the Tianshan summit. Even people at the foot of the mountain could see the huge avalanche.

“Is it Luo?” Xiao Quanren asked as he widened both of his eyes.

“Things are getting serious. You people from the Xiao clan are insane. Even a slap from me had no effect on him, and it seemed to have made him even stronger,” Elder Long cried and couldn’t help but swallow a bit of saliva. His entire body was about to break into a cold sweat.

Tianshan Elder gasped and stared with shock at the strange light that now covered the entire sky.

The light was burning violently like a fireball and caused one corner of the sky to turn completely red. It felt as if a bloody aura was filling the land with untold dread.

“Huh?”

The strange fireball headed right for the cliff in a steep trajectory, then crashed into the ground but made no sound. The force within it was extraordinarily mighty, and it resembled the violent force of a turbulent sea.