Chapter 13.2 (2/2)
Shen Yin’s heart is filled with infinite fear as she turns to look at Nether.
Nether nods towards her as he soars into the sky like a black swirl of air. His long and toned body reaches An Chi instantly. His eyes are filled with anger as he directs his words to Guishan Fenghun coldly: “Why are you joining in on the battle among disciples when I am your opponent!”
After saying that, he whips his face upwards as the golden patterns on his chest spreads. Deep within the turbulent storm clouds, the water vapor condenses and morphs into millions of large black icicles as sharp as large swords. They shoot straight down.
Guishan Lianquan moves her white chain into motion, wrapping it around her and Fenghun like the revolving stars. The large black icicles shatter on the spinning chain, turning into shards of black ice. Only An Chi has nowhere to hide its ma.s.sive physique, its body and wings pierced through instantly by dozens of black arrows of ice. A heavy blood rain falls from the sky. Coupled with An Chi’s sorrowful callings, they fall towards the surface of the ocean alongside it.
Nether lets out a curt laugh in the sky, like a black carp leaping out from the water, he switches direction and descends in chase of the Guishan siblings. Like a black spirit, he falls straight down. Whipping his left hand again, “Fall!”. Another batch of millions of ice arrows spray angrily down. This time, each individual arrow is larger and heavier than before, it moves even more rapidly, they gather together like a spiked wall collapsing.
What brings them to greater despair is that with a lift of Nether’s right hand, the flat surface of the ocean is suddenly filled with dozens of large and sharp black crystal icicles. They emerge from the ocean with their tips like bamboo shoots after a spring rain, in the blink of an eye, they morph into what resembles twisted vines as they creep up. Along the way, they absorb the water vapour and their circ.u.mference expands. Shattered pieces of ice fall back into the deep ocean. Guishan Lianquan sees the impending black icicles atop them and the vines of ice beneath their feet and panics under the sandwiched attack. A gap appears on the chain in her hand and an ice arrow pierces cleanly through Guishan Fenghun’s shoulder. Boiling blood sprays out.
“Ignore that and concentrate! Lianquan, if you slacken now, we will not have another chance!” Guishan Fenghun’s eyes remain closed tightly as he focuses all of the soul powers in his soul’s return circuit in flowing in a wild but orderly manner.
“Okay!” Lianquan’s eyes are filled with tears. She looks up at the approaching black spirit-like Nether before glancing at the resting and awaiting Shen Yin. She then closes her eyes to focus on forcing all of her soul powers into the surging black waves beneath her feet.
“Rise!!” Guishan Lianquan and Guishan Fenghun yell suddenly. The two open their eyes to reveal eyes that are fully red. They are emitting unsettling red glows. Lianquan collapses onto the soft feathered back of An Chi as a trail of blood drips from the corner of her mouth, yet she clenches her teeth to maintain the depletion of soul powers. Guishan Fenghun is perched beside her like a grand G.o.d of war, against the wind, thunder-like roars are released from his throat.
Shen Yin and Nether shouts in unison: “Oh no!”
In the next moment, as if the vast surface of the ocean beneath their feet is boiling, the waves surge. A few seconds of silence engulfs the heavens the earth. All sound disappeared. Only a smooth arch appears high on the surface of the ocean before a large bang is heard. Like the activation of a underwater volcano, tens of thousands of soul beasts in varying sizes emerge from the ocean and soar recklessly into the sky. Countless swordfish, seals, sea lions, dragons, b.u.t.terflyfish, sea snake, sea horses, tridents……all sorts of unnamable soul beasts from the bottom of the ocean crowd at the horizon. Of course, the one leading them is Guishan Fenghun’s first soul beast, Hai Yin. It has the body of a Kirin and the tail of a dragon. Two pure-white fleshy wings are attached to its shoulders and countless sword-like scales grow densely on them like millions of blades.
When viewing from the distant cliff, he entire horizon is covered with millions of soaring soul beasts. Their eyes are bloodshot and they roar irrationally. Shen Yin’s chest contracts from the thundering roars and a gush of blood rise up her throat. She sits down quickly before the soul’s return circuit in her body becomes disordered so she can balance the soul powers that are almost spiraling out of control due to the howls of these soul beasts.
Between the dark s.p.a.ce of the heavens and earth, the setting sun is drooping slowly on the horizon. In the remnants of the fresh red glow, the millions of large and reckless soul beasts resemble millions of hornets engulfing the surface of the ocean. The spraying scales, claws and fangs pierce through the small island, unsettling the rocks and dirt. Millions of wild soul beasts speed towards Shen Yin and Nether.
And at this moment, a few powerful tendrils of light glare from the cliff.
Qi Ling only manages to catch a glimpse of the black dirt beneath his feet before he was thrown back from the loud cras.h.i.+ng between the heavens and earth. He just arrived on this island through Qi La’s chess piece. Never in his thoughts did he think he’d face such a change.
He swallows the fresh blood in his mouth and opens them in attempt to call out Yin Chen’s name. He realizes that he is unable to utter a single word. The thunder-like soul powers are echoing throughout the s.p.a.ce between the heavens and earth, shattering the ground, his consciousness is slipping. In his rapidly blurring vision, he sees Yin Chen move to stand before him. A glow radiates from his waist. In an instant, a large silver s.h.i.+eld is perched before him. The grand soft white light blocks out all the flying sand, ear-piercing calls and the violent soul powers.
Qi Ling regains his consciousness slowly. He looks at the wreckage before him and opens his mouth but he cannot find the words to speak.
“Is this……purgatory on earth……” He is unable to believe his own eyes.
And at this moment, Yin Chen pulls Tianshu Youhua behind the s.h.i.+eld and beside Qi Ling, “You protect her.” After saying that, Qi La and Yin Chen soars towards the collapsing sky in a dash of black and white light.
“This may be an elysian field or purgatory on earth……no one knows, everything has only just begun……”
Thalia has silently appeared behind Qi Ling. Watching the chaos before them, a faint smile graces her features. Yet in her murky eyes, there is a wild and ambitions antic.i.p.ating. No one knows what she is antic.i.p.ating.
Just that, Ni Hong’s breathing beside her suddenly becomes urgent. The patterns on his body emerge densely and his reckless soul powers are like a tornado rolling from his body.
His gaze is direct and cruel. In his eyes, there is only Shen Yin and no one else.
Thalia is shaken by the force of the soul powers beside her. She turns to look at Ni Hong but says nothing.
The real storm that will destroy all things is about to begin, she thinks.
Only that, even she knows not of the result of this battle.
This is because, at this moment, she doesn’t know which side Yin Chen and Qi La who suddenly appeared will stand on.
If they joined in this battle, then this will be a grand war that will bring destruction onto Aslan.
None has realized, and none can explain this reality: Perhaps it is fate, perhaps it is a coincidence, but apart from the Top Lord Xiuchuan Dizang and his three disciples, all the existing Second to Seventh Lords and Disciples have gathered onto this island.
And at this moment, the vault of heaven is filled with storm clouds, the lights from the skies escaping. The black ocean is as if boiling water as countless angered and agitated soul beasts emerge like monsters of the sea. The doomsday-like atmosphere is a foreshadowing of destruction. As if the catastrophe from many years before is about to happen again. Perhaps in the unseen world, the deities once again predicted that all of the pinnacles of soul powers would gather again at the leading of their tacit understanding.
Thalia smiles as she looks at Ni Hong. She reaches an arm out charmingly and grasps onto his firm arm before leading his hand into her dress. She guides him like a naïve child. She allows him to caress her lord’s seal. Ni Hong’s slender yet strong fingers brush over the secret place’s most tender and most mysterious flesh. His chest rises violently. In his breaths are the burning s.e.xual desires of a man. His angel-like face is flushed red. Thalia looks contently and proudly at her disciple as if a young girl looking at her most prized toy. Ni Hong’s soul powers surge like a volcano that may erupt at any time.
------ However, only Thalia knows that, upon constant caresses, the treasure that is deep in slumber in her lord’s seal, which is the true volcano that can destroy the heavens and earth. Only that it is still in deep sleep.
------ However, it is gradually awakening.
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