Chapter 55 (1/2)

Chapter 55

The apocalypse’s heavenly master poorly versed in the world’s affairs (17)

Translated by: Niladri

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The moment the heart of the devil disappeared, a dark mist slowly took form in the air. The black phantom looked human, but it was very different from normal human beings. It had his hands over its knees, its fingernails were like ten sharp knives, and its back was not straight like human beings, but arched like a bowstring. Its head gave rise to a pair of horns, its eyes were scarlet coloured, and its long fangs broke through the lips to reach the lower jaws.

It was the spirit of that high level devil. As soon as the devil appeared, he looked up and screamed. The meaning implied by the roar was poured into the divine sense of the people in that place.

“You ants! I will make you pay the price for destroying my body!”

The devil spirit’s dantian began to emit white light, and a destructive momentum was gradually being created.

This high level devil wanted to self-destruct. Such a force would not only decimate the entire W base into ashes, but also the whole region would probably be caught in it. At this critical moment, another phantom emerged from the formation.

This virtual image was clad in a blue-striped robe with a white background. The white jade crown neatly tied up his black hair. The sword-like eyebrows were imposing, and his whole momentum was sharp and unparalleled.

“Old Ancestral Master.” Lu Heng spoke softly. The figure that appeared later was exactly the same as the painting of the founder left behind in the Heavenly Masters sect.

At that moment, when the phantom of the Old Ancestral Master appeared, the non human phantom twisted its form and transformed into a handsome man in a black robe. Except for the scarlet eyes and the crooked horns on his head, the rest of the person seemed to be no different from ordinary people.

“Cang Ming, you trapped my soul in this formation for thousands of years. Now you will even stop my self destruction?” The man’s pronunciation was strange, but somehow he spoke a language that a human could understand.

The phantom of Cang Ming joined two of his fingers together, and at once drew a sword to attack the man: “Meng Yu, you are going to destroy the place where I was born. Thousands of years ago, when you committed a grave mistake, I thought that trapping you in the formation would rub off the bitterness in your heart. How can I afford to spare you now? I don’t want your condition to further worsen.”

“I was trying to sever your Karma and pave the way for you to ascend! The Karmic weight of this continent is too heavy for you. You will not be able to survive that tribulation when the time comes!” Meng Yu pinched his sword with one hand and looked resentful.

“A devil like you is not human after all, and you don’t understand the human heart.”

“I don’t understand human hearts? If I don’t understand people’s minds, I wouldn’t have been trapped by you for thousands of years. In the end, it is you who doesn’t know the human heart!” Meng Yu seemed to have been greatly stimulated and laughed aloud. The laughter was full of loneliness.

As the laughter subsided, he gazed deeply at Cang Ming with a sorrowful expression. His eyes began to fill with madness, and Dantian started to resume giving off light, with more momentum than before. Lu Heng knew from a glance that the self-destructing act was a cover, presumably just to bait the Old Ancestral Master to appear. Now this Meng Yu began revealing his true intentions.

Cang Ming saw the situation, flew to Meng Yu, covered his Dantian area with one hand, and suppressed the power of self-destruction with spiritual pressure. Seeing the light fading away slowly, Meng Yu’s gaze returned to look at Cang Ming. He grabbed Cang Ming’s hand and slowly removed it from his Dantian area. Then he gave a sad smile: “Even if it was just a bait, I can’t bear to hurt you at all.”

As soon as his voice fell, he saw that Meng Yu pressing the force of self-destruction back to his Dantian. Even the high level spirits couldn’t bear the power of this backlash and he turned into a little black grain.

Cang Ying reflexively reached for it, but the black grain passed through his palms and disappeared into the heaven and earth. Cang Ming was distracted and stood still for a long time in the middle of the sky. At last, he took back his palm and hid it in his wide sleeves.