Chapter 1101 (1/2)
Published
at 12th of August 2019 03:20:08 AM
Chapter 1101: 1101
Among the cliffs, no trees were swinging and no birds were singing . The two of them stood facing each other, holding their cudgel and sword . The Abbey Dean with a sword was not necessarily more powerful than the one without the sword . But the sword did have some significance .
His cotton-padded gown was soaked in blood . The Eldest Brother knew that he could not longer hold for another seven days . But as he said previously, Ning Que and Sangsang might need less than seven days to get back to Chang'an . What he had to do was to try his best .
The Abbey Dean stared at his sword and said calmly, “The Headmaster taught you to love . I thought you would be different with Jun Mo . But you are after all a student of the Academy . ”
The Eldest Brother looked at him calmly . The sword stabbed into his chest was already thrown on the ground behind him . He said, “A student from the Academy awaits your challenge . ”
While they talked, the remaining woods afar by the cliffs got on fire . The blazing fire melted the snow on the cliffs but was never abated, and disconnected the two of them from the outside world .
The fire in the woods was almost impossible to be put out . Because it came from Haotian's Divine Flame . It was the purest energy formed by Ning Que's blood and his iron blade .
Ning Que was darting toward Helan City . He traveled hundreds of meters with every single leap he made . Wherever he stepped on the rocks were smashed . His iron blade and the blood he shed created sparkles and thundered in the mountains .
No one could catch up with a Distanceless cultivator unless he was Distanceless himself . If the Drunkard was heading for the West-Hill, then Ning Que could never make it . But he was merely going to the Helan City in a dozen miles away . Therefore Ning Que still had a chance . Because he was already faster than hawks .
With a few leaps he came to the Helan City . He broke through the destroyed city gate but could neither find the big black horse nor the Drunkard .
The gates of the Helan City were already distorted . Boulders kept falling off from the cliffs around . Most of the watchtowers along the city walls were smashed . Several people could be seen in the dense smoke .
The remaining Tang soldiers were still trying to put out the fire and save the city . Ning Que called out, “Retreat! Leave it!”
For the Tang soldiers in the Helan City, Ning Que was such an impressive figure that they could recognize him in a quick glance . Although they had no idea why Mr . Thirteen showed up at this point, they immediately followed his orders and retreated to the outskirts led by their commanders .
Ning Que stood by some steep stairs and looked above at the collapsing watchtowers . He sensed something and immediately leaped .
Sangsang was not in one of those watchtowers . Instead, she was in a secret chamber beneath it .
The seemingly perfect bubble appeared again in front of her . Different from what Ning Que saw previously, there were a dozen of bright spots on the bubble apart from the two tiny cracks . The bright spots stood for the entrances to the steady interlayers of the Qi of Heaven and Earth .
There was one bright spot on the bubble that flashed distinctively . Because it represented the place right under her feet . It was a transmission array formed by complicated Talismans .
There were paths in the interlayers of the Qi of Heaven and Earth that interconnected the most remote places throughout the world . In other words, they were shortcuts . Only great cultivators like the Abbey Dean, the Eldest Brother and the Drunkard could locate and open the gates to these paths, and travel freely in Distanceless .
Apart from the state of Distanceless, people also used the shortcuts to deliver information . Both the Tang and the West-Hill had built such transmission arrays . But due to their limited power, the transmission array built by human beings could only deliver or carry messages or very light objects . Most importantly, just like casting the Thirteen Primordial Arrows, it took an unreasonably large amount of energy and rare resources to build or even activate the transmission . Therefore people seldom used and gradually abandoned them . They were of no strategic importance nowadays .
Sangsang knew what would happen and she had been preparing for it . The bright spots on the bubble were the gates of the transmission array throughout the human world . Some of the channels were abandoned for tens of thousands of years . No one knew them except for her, not even the Abbey Dean .
She stood in the centre of the complicated and charming talisman lines, pale and blood-stained like a wounded fairy . She was no longer ruthless and almighty, but sympathetic instead .
The big black horse and the indigo lion-dog stood cautiously by her side . They tried to conceal their sympathy because they did feel for her .
She was seriously wounded and left alone by her man . It was so sad . Otherwise why was she standing in the centre of the talisman array without saying anything, and seemed so lonely?
Sangsang had no idea what those two were thinking about . She could no longer know it all . She was not pretending to be lonely and desperate, nor was she feeling sorry for herself because of the severe wound . She was already sober when Ning Que left . She did not stop him because she was not against it .
She was merely waiting for the talisman array to be activated .
If some human beings were to activate the array and deliver messages to Chang'an, they would need a great amount of energy and treasurable minerals, and probably had to wait for a fairly long while .
Sangsang did not have those things . And she was running out of time . But what she had was herself . The blood from her divine body was the most valuable and purified energy .
Her blood showered onto the talisman array . It looked horrifying but did not take much . The talisman lines started blinking and would be activated shortly .
In the next moment, she would return to the small house in the imperial palace in Chang'an .