Chapter 14.2 (2/2)
Occasionally, the sound of dripping water echoes in the dark cave. Lianquan pulls in her Resurrection Chain, wrapping it around her arm. The sharp tip of the chain hangs lightly at her wrist. She injects soul powers into the chain and a soft white glow emits from the head, resembling two illuminated jewels that light the way for her.
She glances at the water droplets that dripped from the rocks above her head and frowns. The droplets are blood red. She thinks about the fact that she is currently going through the inside of the Immortal Lord and she feels a chill run down her spine. However, she does not pause. Trying her hardest to detect the location of Xiliuer from the chain, she roars ahead. She knows that Guishan Fenghun has just transferred a large amount of soul powers to her and that what remains in his body won’t hold up for long. Once his soul powers are not enough to maintain the hypnosis of such a large area of soul beasts and the beasts lose control, Rennes may end up in ruins due to its close distance to the surrounding waters.
However, the deeper she goes, the more unsettled she becomes. The fear clouds her heart; with her speed, she should have reached the centre of the island long ago or she may even have pa.s.sed through the entire island, however, what lies before her is still bottomless darkness. What’s more is her detection of Xiliuer’s soul powers are uncertain, sometimes close, other times far. At times strong, other times weak. As if sometimes it’s far away and other times so near it feels like someone blowing against your ear. Lianquan stands in the small area that her chain illuminates. Fear seizes her heart.
“Ai yah, Xiliuer, turns out you’re so amazing, even I underestimated you.” Thalia stands in the darkness. Her body and her dark dress are engulfed in pitch darkness. Only her white pupils clouded in a white storm glows like a ghoul in the darkness as she stares hard into a certain direction. “You can actually change the location of your lord’s seal at will across such a large area. Turned the entire inside of the island into a ‘Maze Array’, even me, the lord who understands the usage of soul powers the most and the more accurate across the entire island can barely do something like this to such an extent!”
Thalia’s gaze turns in the darkness. The white blizzard in her eyes intensifies, as if it is going to surge out of her eyes and engulf the heavens and earth, “However,” a devious smile appears on her face in the darkness, “I still caught you!”
After saying that, she shoots towards the depth of the island like a black shadow.
Tinkle-----
Lianquan stops suddenly when the chain in her hand suddenly trembles towards a certain direction. She stabilizes herself. As expected, the chain vibrates again before twisting explosively all of a sudden. In the darkness, the chain twists and turns in the complex terrain, tugging her forth. A gentle and low male voice calls from the darkness, “follow it”.
Lianquan’s heart trembles as she rushes forth.
At the end of the chain is a large carven. Lianquan raises her head and realizes that she can barely see the roof. The cave is so s.p.a.cious that it is hard to imagine that such a large s.p.a.ce can exist inside the island, so wide and tall that one will worry that it may collapse at any moment. And there is even a light source in the cave, illuminating everything in it. The light source is blood-red and lava-like. Lianquan spends time searching only to realize that the source of light comes from a large round rock situated in the middle of the cave. It is as tall as two persons and the red light emits from the insides of this rock. It is as if the light source has a life of its own, the brightness changing at the pace of breathing.
“May I ask if you are the Sixth Lord, Xiliuer? I am here to find you! May I ask if this is you?” Guishan Lianquan stands in the centre of the large carven, lost as she glances around.
“You have already found me. It’s just that, why did you provoke all these monsters?” From the depths of the darkness, the gentle male voice sounds again.
“My brother and I had no other choice. Our gift happens to be the ability to command soul beasts over a large area, if not for this, perhaps us siblings would have died long ago……actually I do not know the situation of the battle outside. Lord, please save my brother. He came for you!”
“Oh, I wasn’t talking about those soul beasts you’ve controlled……” Xiliuer’s voice sounds a tad bit solemn in the darkness, “What I’m saying is, those people going against your brother at the moment, they are the real monsters……including the one that tailed you to the depths of the island. If you really want to compare, she’s probably the monster within these monsters……it’s been over a dozen years, I wonder how many of these things have been born in Aslan……”
“The monster……that tailed me?” Guishan Lianquan’s heart sinks. In the endless darkness, she can almost feel the air of ghouls. In the next second, the metamorphic rocks on the sides of the path she had been on before suddenly s.h.i.+fts and cracks, closing in speedily. The path she has taken a moment before disappears immediately.
“I am able to delay the time she takes to find us,” Xiliuer says, “But it’s sooner or later that she finds us.” In the rising and falling dim red light, the male’s low voice is exceedingly tender, and yet, it betrays his sense of tiresome solitude and hoa.r.s.eness.
In the darkness, Thalia’s eyes that had been a blizzard of white before suddenly clears up. She looks at the path that had closed before her eyes and chuckles coldly. She raises a thin hard to cover her shy smile before muttering: “Hey, Xiliuer, seems like I underestimated you. Then again……you really underestimated me too. Heh heh.” After saying that, she lifts her head and white mist surges out from her eyes.
She raises a hand so delicate it seems to be carved from porcelain and caresses the cold black rock wall beside her. A few thin strands of gold spreads from her fingertips to the darkness of the wall. In the blink of an eye, the golden imprints intertwine like palm prints and grew like vines with a life of their own, devouring an entire wall of rocks. Thalia’s pupils tighten and an explosion erupts from her palm. The entire rock wall collapses instantly, the rocks breaking apart into small pebbles according to the golden pattern. The strong stench of blood permeates the cave……
“I wonder if it hurts……” Thalia covers her mouth and giggles. After giggling, she tips her toes and continues on through the hole from the explosion.
“How did you do that?” Lianquan asks in surprise, “Us lords and disciples of Aslan can only control the element of water. Such mountains and rocks can only be controlled by lords of earth, how can you……”
“Little girl, what do you think I’ve been doing for over a dozen years? I believe you already know that this entire island is my body, and these rocks have long become my skeleton and muscles. My blood and nerves run throughout this entire island. Me moving rocks here is as simple as you moving your own toes.”
“Lord, since it’s like this, then you must save my brother, he has so much to tell you, the two of us risked our lives to find you!”
“Ah, I already told you, everyone out there are monsters. The speed of evolution of the Aslan’s lord’s soul powers and gifts in this period of time completely exceeded my expectations. If it was the me from before, I may be able to hold up against them but just. However, I exhausted much soul powers and energy in the past dozen years in order to become one with this island. And so, with my abilities now, within this cave and island, they can’t kill me. Their killing capacity is much lower than my ability to regenerate, however, if I were to go out and rescue someone, I have no chances of winning against any……”
“Okay……then I will rescue him myself.” Guishan Lianquan calms down suddenly. Two drops of tears roll from her eyes, but her voice remains stable just like her brother, “I came in to pa.s.s on the words of my brother, after telling you what he wants to say, I hope that you will send me out.”
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