Chapter 7.3 (2/2)
At the same time, Lijier reaches towards Youhua who is standing behind Qi Ling despite being separated by a great distance, as if her arms suddenly extending in another dimension, an unseen hand reaches straight into Youhua’s body. Qi Ling turns in time to see a gaping hole appear on Youhua’s chest suddenly, and then he hears something that sounds like a hand tightening its grip in the bloodied hole, Youhua’s expression twists in pain. Qi Ling brings out his half-blade large sword and brings it down in the air before Youhua, as if cutting onto a transparent hand, a wave of light emits from that location.
Lijier withdraws her hand, her pupils turning golden instantly.
And in the next moment, as if seeing a ghoul, Lijier’s expression changes. She gestures lightly and the large Gu Die flies behind her. She sits herself upright on the white coc.o.o.n and her eyes tremble in fear.
The immense relic falls into a terrifying silence.
Youhua supports herself against a wall and as she gasps in pain.
Qi Ling and Lianquan turn their head back and see a figure clade din a black cloak standing behind them.
“You cannot defeat me, so leave.” The figure cladded in black says faintly, voice penetrating.
“You……” Lijier clenches her teeth, looking like she wants to continue arguing, “What are you doing here?”
“I’m here to take them away.”
Lijier stares at the people for a very long moment with a hollow gaze in her large eyes. With a roar of anger, she disappears in the darkness.
The person takes off his hood gently to reveal a face so delicately handsome that words can do no justice in describing his appearance. Qi Ling is awestruck.
Although both Yin Chen and him have faces that can be said to be extremely handsome, but the man before him has features even more refined than women, his moist eyes are like jewels, his lashes are long and thin and his skin as white as snow, but when he opens his mouth, his voice is throaty and masculine.
“I am here to take all of you away.”
“You are……” Lianquan asks cautiously.
“’Lord to the Third Degree’, Qi La.” The black cloak-cladded figure replies calmly whilst standing in the darkenss.
The three stand in a daze after hearing the reply.
All four of them walk back to the place they entered from.
Youhua, Qi Ling and Lianquan all dare not speak. To them, the opportunity to come into contact with one of the higher ranked lords is few and far between, and the person standing before them is the Third Lord, this really is something unbelievable. To them, the top three lords are all unsolved mysteries dating back to ancient times, they rarely appear, they do not interact with people, they even hide away their gift.
“This place is not for you. Leave while you can.” Qi La gazes towards Qi Ling and says calmly.
“Oh, yes, actually this place is okay, all we met was Lijier,” Qi Ling sees that Qi La seems to be an easy-going person and his friendly natures comes to play, “That blood worm-like thing we met outside just that, that is something to be afraid of.”
“That thing is one of the four most evil soul beasts in Aslan that has been sealed in the bottom of the Grave of the Souls, its name is ‘Blessing’.”
“Bless……ing?’ Well I thank its mama for naming him that! Why not call it ‘Adorable’? Oh no, better yet, call it ‘Delicate’, suits it so much!”
“We collectively call it that for convenience.” Qi La glances at Qi Ling and replies coldly.
“Oh……” Qi Ling scratches his head awkwardly, “What about the rest?”
“Those on the same level as Blessing are ‘Freedom’, ‘Forgiveness’ and Second Lord Nether’s soul beast Ragnorak.”
“Oh, then what is this place? It looks like a grave.” Qi Ling turns to look at the outlines of the tall buildings in the chilling darkness.
“This place is known as the ‘Relic of Youtuer’.”
“You said you’re a lord, but lords can’t enter. How did you enter the Grave of the Souls?” Qi Ling asks in confusion.
“Since I have a way to bring all of you out, naturally I have to way to enter.”
“Then just now Lijier said we entered the radius of the ‘secret’, what is this ‘secret’?”
“I am not here to answer your questions. If you want to exit, then stand and not move. I am going to bring all of you away.”
Lianquan and Youhua nods before turning to glare at Qi Ling.
Qi La turns to look at Qi Ling, his eyes are as great as that of a heavenly G.o.d, in the darkness, his gaze moves and thrills.
[West of Aslan Empire – Relic of Youtuer]
In the immense darkness, rustling can be heard.
As if ghouls from h.e.l.l are advancing forth.
A white glow appears faintly in the air. On the large coc.o.o.n, Lijier is still in her grotesque position, her hair flowing around her.
“Another one.” Her hazy eyes turn, “Who is it this time?”
A ray of green light suddenly illuminates a large area in the darkness. Standing in the centre of this is a young boy cladded in an ink green cloak, on his head is a silver crown inlaid with black diamonds. He looks around the age of eight or nine, his gaze is sharp.
“You can’t even tell who I am even with them behind me?”
Lijier lifts her head, in the darkness behind the young boy, three men dressed in the same attire appears gradually. They are all wearing long cloaks with the hems touching the ground in different colours. All three men have identical built, tall and strong, although their clocks are tightly worn on their bodies, the soul powers radiating from them are as vast as oceans.
The young boy squats down and closes his eyes, touching the surface of the ground carefully as if in search of something.
“What do you want?” Lijier opens her hazy eyes and stares dimly at him.
The young boy ignores her completely.
Lijier laughs coldly before leaning forth, reaching out her thin and pale hand to grasp at the air like before. However, she was not able to grab the young boy’s neck as expected. Instead, before she even realizes what had happened, her arm has been removed from her shoulder. She c.o.c.ks her head to the side and stares at her arm in confusion, when she turns back, she sees one of the men standin behind the young boy moving a few steps forward before reaching a hand out from his cloak and making a strange gesture. In the next instant, Lijier’s view is upside down and spinning, she thinks hard about it before realizing that her head has already fallen from her shoulders……She wants to say something, yet there is only the sound of wind howling in her throat. Her hazy and empty eyes will never close again.
The young boy ignores the scene before him entirely. He stops touching the ground and presses on a spot that juts out, in the next moment, countless emerald rays swirl out from between his fingers, forming a ma.s.sive magical array on the ground. Countless complex patterns cover the ground of the Relic of Youtuer instantly.
“Then, let’s start.” He says softly. His fingers dig into the ground and the rocks shatter.
Qi La turns to look back; the ma.s.sive earthquake-like roar from faraway causes him to furrow his brows.
“What happened?” Qi Ling also feels the immensity of the explosion of soul powers in the distance.
“It’s none of your business, leave quickly.” Qi La says before walking towards the distance without looking back.
Following the turbulent green rays from the large magical array, countless poisonous snakes emiting emerald gleams slither from beneath the ground on every inch of the soil in the Relic of Youtuer. In the air, tens of thousands of dead souls like that of Lijier all go up in smokes. Countless souls are torn apart. Innumerable soul beasts explode into nothing……
Wails like ghosts and howls like wolves echo throughout the sky above the relic, as if wanting entire s.p.a.ce to tremble and collapse.
A moment later, the entire relic becomes wreckage that is spotless and deadly silent.
The young boy stands and dusts his hands gently; he looks as if he has just played a game despite killing of tens of thousands of dead souls. He shrugs. Turning, he stares at the three disciples behind him with his emerald pupils, saying: “What happens next, I will leave all of you to it. Find it.”
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