Chapter 13.2 (1/2)
Chapter 13: Method of the Dead Man (Part 2)
On the other side of the island, Thalia stares at the surging storm clouds. A chaotic white gleam fills her eyes.
“Ai yah…...so clever, to be able to use her soul weapon so efficiently……although she won’t be able to reach the area of detection I can, but with her outstanding usage of her soul weapon, she can multiply the strength and area of her detection, this to her ability in sensing soul powers is really advanced……heh heh……”
As if murmuring like a sleep walking person, coupled with the surging whiteness in her eyes, Thalia resembles a puppet with her soul taken away. Shen Yin’s heart sinks as she suddenly remembers when she first met Qi Ling; she extended her whip like a web over the entire forest in order to detect the flow of soul powers. How can Thalia know that?
“Whom are you talking about?” Shen Yin asks coldly.
“I’m not talking about you,” Thalia returns her gaze as her pupils clear up instantly, “Of course I’m talking about your opponent, Guishan Lianquan. She retrieved the Resurrection Chain from the Grave of the Souls. Similar to your long whip Shu Long*, it is also able to extend limitlessly and break apart at all. Your Shu Long is stretchy yet firm, her Resurrection Chain is sharp and indestructible……then again, your Shu Long is still more powerful……your soul weapon is alive……if I’m not wrong, it’s made from the meridians from four different dragons? Also, the person who created this soul weapon also casted the souls of the four dragons into it as well……”
Shen Yin says nothing but fear grips her heart. She finds it hard to believe that Thalia’s ability to sense soul powers is to such an extent. Her soul weapon is still ingrained in her body and hasn’t been unleashed. The fact that Thalia is able to detect her soul weapon through her body and tell its materials and structure is incredible. Before soul weapons are released, they exist as soul powers in the lord’s seal and is the same as the vast ocean of soul powers swimming in the soul’s return circuit. To be able to do that is like distinguis.h.i.+ng a leaf in an entire forest.
“If you want to kill her, you have to hurry. Because they’re trying to do something grand at this moment, if you don’t kill now, it will be too late.” Thalia’s expression turns series. It looks as if a later of frost has crept up her beautiful face.
Shen Yin knows that Thalia is not joking and so she turns to look at Nether. Nether nods and so she turns to dash towards the other end of the island like wind in the sun. At the same time, a gush of even wilder and larger black tornado follows closely behind – Killing Lord, Nether.
A cruel smile breezes past the corners of Thalia’s lips as if the life and death of anyone is not of her concern. That she is only there to watch an exciting show in the arena. She turns but before she has the chance to say anything, Ni Hong who has been standing behind her suddenly leaps up and chases after the black and white shadows that have just disappeared at high speed. His tanned skin is like an orange bolt of lightning in the twilight.
Thalia stomps on the ground angrily with her teeth clenched, “Are you going there to give your life to them!” After cursing them, she chases after them just like Ni Hong.
Crash---- Crash---- Crash----
The sound of continuous explosions is coupled with rocks shattering and spraying. The turbulent air, making it look like soft and beautiful petals of water lilies, carries Guishan Lianquan’s long robe up. Countless silver chains are wrapped around her arms, each diving into the cracks on the ground at the speed of a shooting star. They resemble white pythons slithering deep into the island. The sound of metamorphic rocks crackling can be heard from deep within the ground. Her eyes are closed tightly as she carefully a.n.a.lyses the changes in soul powers the chain transmits from the depths. Shards of rock and dust fill the air around them.
“Found it……” Guishan Lianquan opens her eyes suddenly, “My goodness……” She finds the remnants of soul powers that the chains transmitted to be unbelievable…….that is almost as if……
“Let’s find a way to enter……” Guishan Fenghun releases his large sword from his body. It is coloured like that of the moon.
“No need, I’ll do it.” Guishan Lianquan withdraws all but one of the chains from the rocks, leaving behind the single chain that has found Xiliuer’s heart. She directs the others towards the target. After a period of loud rattling, they form a circle on the rock. She narrows her eyes as the intersecting golden patterns on her body explode into a golden gleam. With tremendous sounds of cras.h.i.+ng and the rattling of metal, the five white python-like chains break the rocks and a hole resembling the mouth of a well is formed among the dust of rocks.
When the spraying rocks and dust settles, a dark and deep entrance of a cave is presented before them, as if a dark and silent invitation from h.e.l.l.
“Let’s go.” Guishan Fenghun withdraws his sword into his body.
Guishan Lianquan follows behind him.
Two seconds later, before Guishan Lianquan has the chance to react, Guishan Fenghun grabs her into his arms after shouting a warning. They fly towards where they started. The ground that has been beneath her feet a moment ago has a sharp black crystal protruding. Countless thorn-like black crystals crowd and mask the black hole, resembling an open jaw of a tremendously insect.
A chill runs through Guishan Fenghun. The black crystals seem all too familiar to him. It is the Killing Lord’s symbol.
“Lianquan!” Guishan Fenghun roars. Lianquan reacts with a quake of her soul’s seal. A large white glow rushes out loudly from the lord’s seal beneath her earlobe. A dense concentration of white features quickly fills the large carven between the heavens and earth as if they morph into sprites once they come into contact with the wind. In mere seconds, Guishan Fenghun and Guishan Lianquan are standing tall on An Chi’s back. The soul beast that’s the size of a small hill beats its wings as it pushes off the ground and soars towards the sky. Guishan Fenghun straightens in the wind with his moon-coloured long sword in his hands, intimidating in his armour. Behind his majestic physique, the beautiful and cold Guishan Lianquan stands with her silver chain in her hands. They resemble to white snakes moving nimbly in the air with chattering sounds.
Facing them are two mobile tendrils of light, one black, one white, falling onto the tip of the cliff like turbulent ghosts. The light is scattered by the wind instantly, leaving behind a handsome but treacherous Nether and a daintily smiling Shen Yin looking like a perfect couple perched on the cliff in the face of the wind.
“Jiejie, where do you think you’re going?” Shen Yin lifts her hand to the location of her spine before slicing open her flesh lightly with a finger nail, releasing the spine-like white whip Shu Long from her body. She narrows her eyes as she smiles lightly at Lianquan. Her fearful expression in front of Thalia from a moment before has disappeared completely, and at this moment, just like Nether standing beside her, they are both the symbols of ma.s.sacre. They are the messengers of death. Her look is murderous.
“None of your business.” Guishan Lianquan bites back a response. The chain in her hand suddenly expands and separates into many others. In a short moment, her large white chains cover the s.p.a.ce between the heavens and earth, and the surroundings has been locked into a web by her chains.
“Stop embarra.s.sing yourself!” Shen Yin leaps into the air and heads for An Chi at lightning speed. At the same moment, her whip breaks into four parts. Every dragon meridian is expanding rapidly in the wind, morphing into four ma.s.sive dragons. On the tip of each long whip is now a dragonhead with its mouth wide open, its mouth revealing countless sharp fangs and constant howls. The four dragons roll to engulf Lianquan’s chains. The clas.h.i.+ng of sharp metal on the chains with the dragon scales emits an ear-piercing sound, striking a person’s eardrums. Even Nether and Guishan Fenghun feels the blood churn in their veins.
For two disciples to have such similar soul weapons is as if it is fated for one or the other to die.
Shen Yin chooses to employ such a large amount of soul powers at the very beginning because she is clear that the Guishan Lianquan at present is no longer the pitiful disciple that she blocked in the tunnel back in Rennes. On this vast ocean, if the Guishan siblings are not gotten rid of before they hypnotise the countless soul beasts in the sea, then they will be in big trouble. She also understands that when facing the Guishan siblings, nether she not Nether can release their soul weapon as it is highly possible that they may be hypnotized and turn against them. Especially Nether’s Ragnorak. If it is uncontrolled, this entire island and its surrounding waters may immediately become a purgatory.
The golden patterns on Shen Yin’s entire body are gleaming recklessly and violently. Her eyes are tinged red. She throws her arms toward and wish rustling sounds; two of the long dragon whips soar towards An Chi’s sharp talons. When the whips wrap themselves around An Chi’s legs, she twists backwards in the air with a strong roar ripping from her throat. Shen Yin’s ma.s.sive strength causes the large An Chi to become off balance and it slides towards Shen Yin at the pull of the whips. At the same time, Shen Yin tosses the blue jewels on her whist into the sky. In a split-second, seventeen Shen Yins maneuver like G.o.ddesses of light in the turbulence. Seventeen faces that are as tender and beautiful as flowers are all filled with a murderous air like snakes bearing their fangs.
Guishan Lianquan’s heart sinks. The dragon-like whips hold the hovering chains tightly. She closes her eyes as a tremendous amount of soul powers echo through her body. Instantly, the Resurrection Chain expands thrice in size with the thickness of a large pillar. In every ring on the chain, the sides are as sharp and thin as blades. The sudden expanding force cuts the dragon meridians, causing them to spray dragon’s blood in all directions. As if a red storm has descended onto earth. The sorrowful moans of the dragons fill everyone’s ears. They echo across the heavens and earth, so loud that even the storm clouds in the sky are rolling due to the quake.
“You must seek death!” The chilliness radiates from Shen Yin’s face. Two of the great dragons suddenly loosen their grips on the chain and instead they surge towards Lianquan. Their large and teeth clash together. Lianquan panics, yet as An Chi is being held tight by Shen Yin, she has nowhere to run.
At this moment, Guishan Fenghun raises his moonlight-coloured long sword. The golden patterns on his chest glows brightly. Countless white airflow surges to the body of the sword and condense onto the surface into frost. He raises the long sword and slices it down onto the dragon’s body at An Chi’s feet. The air around the sword expands exponentially. Like a mobile and soft white blade, it pierces deep into the dragon’s scales at lightning speed.
Injured, the two dragon whips emit two ghastly howls as they release An Chi’s claws. An Chi calls loudly as it soars into the sky.
“Lianquan, now!” Guishan Fenghun roars.
Lianquan understands immediately and turns to lean her back against Fenghun’s. With their eyes shut tightly, a loud clash of thunder sounds between the heavens and earth as An Chi carries them high up towards the sky. At the same time, countless dull and distant roars emit faintly from the vast and dark ocean beneath their feet. Countless flowing tendrils of light glow faintly from beneath the ocean’s surface. In a flash, the boundless dark ocean becomes a murky starry night sky. Dense concentrations of light spots appear in the dull roar.