Chapter 6.2 (1/2)
Chapter 6: Grand Angel (Part 2)
[West of Aslan Empire – Surrounding waters of Rennes – Grave of the Souls]
After a sharp call from An Chi propelled by Guishan Lianquan, she descends along a flat surface along the rock wall, Qi Ling pats Cang Xue Zhi Ya’s neck and they trail after her. Guishan Lianquan’s figure has disappeared into a humble cave among the rocks and Qi Ling follows her.
When he finally reaches the depths of this hidden cave on the cliff, only then does Qi Ling understand that, the Grave of the Souls is much larger than he initially imagined it to be, the flight just now can be considered long, yet he hasn’t seen the end to the vast valley yet. Guishan Lianquan finds the chain shrouded in a golden glow that is mounted onto the top of the cave, she whispers: “That is it.” And then she leaps up and tugs hard on the chain, pulling it from the rock wall, at the instant when the chain detaches from the cliff, a loud sound echoes through the valley, so loud that the ground beneath their feet seem to tremble, a while later, these all disappeared, leaving behind the soul weapon that seem to be breathing in Guishan Lianquan’s hand – the Resurrection Chain.
Yet at this moment, Qi Ling suddenly seems to remember something, and so he asks: “Lianquan, when I was pushed off the cliff by you just now, I remember you holding onto a large sword, shouldn’t that be your soul weapon? How can you enter this place to retrieve a soul weapon if you already have one?”
Guishan Lianquan looks at Qi Ling. Although it seems as if he’s dim and unknowing on the surface, a person can tell that he’s witty by nature and is able to spot the problem first hand.
She nods, saying: “Your question is quite correct. That large sword is the soul weapon of the Fifth Lord; Guishan Fenghun is my biological brother. We’re not quite sure why, but maybe because we are blood related, two years ago we accidentally discovered that not only can I summon his soul beast, I can also use his soul weapon. You know that although anyone can use a soul weapon if they get their hands on it, but only the owner of it can take it into his or her body and let it regain its strength in the lord’s seal. This applies to soul beasts as well. When soul weapons spend too much time outside the owner’s body, they will lose their powers gradually too. If they can’t return to their owner’s body, then after a long while, the soul weapon will just become an average weapon. My first soul beast ‘Hai Yin’ is actually Fenghun’s, my large sword is also his, at the same time, it’s the dwellings of An Chi that I just rode. I can withdraw Hai Yin into my body with no hindrance; I can also control this large sword and the soul beast in it as my own. Although to myself, I’ve never captured my own soul beast or retrieved my own soul weapon.”
Qi Ling is dumbstruck.
Lianquan glances at him and says: “You need to move back a little bit, I’m going to take this chain into my body now. During this processs, you must not touch me.”
Qi Ling nods as if he understands and retreats a few steps.
Guishan Lianquan whips the chain and the large chain coils around in the air like a live snake, suspending as if it has lost its sense of gravity, and then in the next instant, it shoots towards the lord’s seal on Guishan Lianquan’s neck, a chaotic splatter sound ensues as the metal chain over ten meters long gurgles through her flesh and into her body like an active snake, the position on her neck with the lord’s seal is now a gaping hole, blood gus.h.i.+ng from the wound. Lianquan’s entire person kneels to the ground as if in defeat, her pale pale, her irises enlarged like death, raspy groans emit from her slightly opened mouth, that face that had been pa.s.sive and exquisite is now twisted into a grotesque expression. The turbulent air that emerged from the soil messes up her hair and makes her resemble a ghoul. The entire cave is shrouded under a shrill sound that pierces towards one’s temples. Qi Ling retreats in fear and cowers next to the rocks in the cave, staring at the h.e.l.lish scene before him.
Agitated cyclones burst from the surface of the ground; furiously rus.h.i.+ng up, in the center is Guishan Lianquan, her face as pale as death, twisted into a horrifying expression.
And while Qi Ling remains terrified, a sharp and clear yell sounds from the mouth of the cave: “Stop right this instant!”
A shadow cladded in a luxurious long dress dashes into the cave, she stares in surprise at the Resurrection Chain that is currently being pulled into Guishan Lianquan’s body, “Which lowly b.i.t.c.h are you? It was stated very clearly in the white alarm that I am the person who should be getting the Resurrection Chain! What right do you have!” After saying that, the beautiful Tianshu Youhua sticks her hands outwards and two sharp blue icicles fire towards the helpless Guishan Lianquan.
“Don’t touch her!” Qi Ling dashes out and raises his hands to grab the icicles, in an instant, unsure of where the sudden surge of soul powers came from, they pour out of Qi Ling’s hands in torrents and the two icicles shatter. Qi Ling’s surprised as well, turning his head to look at the girl who just entered, he yelps as he sees her face clearly: “My goodness, why is it you?”
After Tianshu Youhua sees Qi Ling, she pauses before her expression morphs into one of seriousness and agitation, ‘You’re Qi Ling right? Yin Chen’s is so worried for you so he followed you in, he’s at the door right now, but he’s hurt, one arm broke, you should quickly go to him!”
Hearing that, the colour drains from Qi Ling’s face as he sprints out, but quickly, he realizes that Yin Chen has no way of entering the Grave of the Souls. “c.r.a.p, I’ve been tricked!” When he turns his head back, he sees Tianshu Youhua lunge towards Guishan Lianquan with a murderous look; her entire body is enveloped by a large cl.u.s.ter of eerie blue water droplets, giving off soul poisonous air and white mist.
Qi Ling’s heart clenches, “Don’t kill her!”
[West of Aslan Empire – Abyss Corridor]
When the black shadow nears the territory of the Abyss Corridor, it descends onto the surface of the ground.
Yin Chen lands after Guishan Fenghun. After landing, he chases after the fast-moving Guishan Fenghun, the two heading towards the depth of the Abyss Corridor in tandem. Suddenly, the black silhouette before him stops, Guishan Fenghun towards and whispers to Yin Chen urgently, “You move ahead, I’ll find you later” and disappears among the shadows of the tall trees, his soul powers disappear after that. It is obvious that he has hidden all of the soul powers in his body. At the same time the soul powers dissipated, a monstrous and uninhibited gush of soul power unfurls towards Yin Chen from the dense fog before him.
Nether’s towering and agile figure stands in front of Yin Chen, looking like a quiet yet evil G.o.d.
“Ah……what a coincidence, what are you doing here?” Nether’s emerald eyes stare at Yin Chen’s face as he asks, evil banter can be seen from his expression.
“To pick up my disciple, he’s coming out from the Grave of the Souls.” Yin Chen replies expressionlessly, “What are you doing here?”
“I am the Killing Lord, of course I’m on a mission to kill,” Nether’s face is shrouded in an evil temptation under the dim lighting, he reaches out gently and lifts Yin Chen’s handsome face, his carefree and beast-like eyes nears Yin Chen’s face, “But you don’t have to be afraid, I am not here to kill you. How can I ever bear to do that?”
“Why did you let Ragnarok out? It can’t be that you don’t know what that means to the lords?” Yin Chen lifts his hand to push Nether’s hand aside as he says coldly.
“Ha, hahaha. How interesting……” Nether smiles, his face gloomy, “How did you know that I just caught that thing? I haven’t even told everyone yet. Hahahaha.”
“I don’t need you to tell me, it has your scent on it, the kind that makes me want to hurl when it nears.” Yin Chen laments lightly to Nether’s perverse but handsome face.
“Ha, were you scared of it? Or is it that, even after so long, you still have a psychological shadow towards ‘soul beasts’? Still can’t forget ‘him’?”
The sudden eruption of soul powers agitates the robes on Yin Chen’s body, a chillingly murderous look hands over his face.
“Why are you so agitated,” Nether says lazily, “If I were you, I’ve have given up long ago, I won’t have waited until now. You’ve been searching for so many years, aren’t you tired yet? He’s dead. Even if he’s not, then he’s a monster now……haha, I understand now, no wonder you could never bear to capture your first soul beast again, you’re afraid of turning into a monster like that yourself, am I right? If not, with your perversely strong soul powers and the powers from your first soul beast, how can you still remain the Seventh Lord which is as lowly as an ant?”
Yin Chen raises a finger and points at Nether, the dense concentration of the golden patterns illuminates Nether’s masculine and charismatic face, ‘These are of no concern to you, I do not wish to be in conflict with you, do what you have to do, do not touch upon my business.” After saying that, he paused and laughed coldly, “Also, you can’t.”
The unrestrained expression wipes off Nether’s face, he stares with a complicated gaze at Yin Chen for a prolonged period of face before bending down towards Yin Chen’s ears, with a tender and appealing voice he says: “If someday, I can receive the red alert to kill you, that will be the happiest thing of my life. I will savour the taste of each and every single drop of your fresh blood, my dearest ‘Grand Angel’.”
[West of Aslan Empire – Surrounding waters of Rennes – Grave of the Souls]
In the gloomy cave, everything has quietened down, the fresh blood flowing on the ground, slowly cooling down and congealing in the air.
Guishan Lianquan stands silently at the same place, her face resumes the expression of coolness and n.o.bility, Qi Ling stands beside her and lets out a sigh of relief as he stares at how fast her wound is healing.
Before them, on the ground, lies Tianshu Youhua with blood dropping from the corner of her mouth.
Just as she leaped towards the helpless Guishan Lianquan a few moments before, she underestimated her opponent and had not thought of defending herself, as a result, Guishan Lianquan suddenly releases An Chi from her body, causing her to fly out heavily and land against the rock wall of the cave.
Guishan Lianquan currently has her large sword held against her throat, “You do know that, aside from the Killing Disciple, as a disciple, attempting to kill another disciple is a tremendous crime? Hasn’t your lord taught you that?”
Tianshu Youhua’s eyes glower with enmity and refusal to concede, making her beautiful face look exceptionally distorted, “I will kill whomever I want!”
Guishan Lianquan stares at her, “You are beyond redemption. Just continue like that and there will be the day the Killing Disciple finds you. If you knew what sort of person she is, you won’t be acting so haughty before me.” After saying that, she puts away her large sword and tells Tianshu Youhua: “You said you came in to retrieve the Resurrection Chain as well, I do not know what sort of mistake was make in this process, but it is now my soul weapon and this cannot be changed. We are going to leave now, but before leaving, you better search for a soul weapon for yourself, you should know that if you leave this place, you will not be able to return. As to why there’s been a mistake in the delivery of the white alarm, you better go back and ask your lord.”
With that, Guishan Lianquan turns towards Qi Ling who is situated behind her and says: “Let’s go find a powerful soul weapon for you and then we’ll leave this place.”
Qi Ling looks at the wounded Tianshu Youhua on the ground and feels slightly sorry since she is such a young girl, she must have been pampered and doted on by her parents since young, unlike his lowly life, crawling his way up in life and the basic courtesy he learned for human relations are smooth talk and flattery.
He moves beside and crouches down: “Lianquan isn’t a bad person, there’s a misunderstanding between the two of you. You should quickly find a place with a high concentration of the golden soul mist and heal yourself.”
Tianshu Youhua smirks condescendingly, standing up, her entire body becomes abound with golden patterns, in the next moment, se is shrouded with the power akin to rebirth, no trace of her injury can be seen.
Qi Ling’s eyes widen in surprise.