Chapter 427: Earth-shaking, Mountain-shattering Changes (1/2)

Chapter 427: Earth-shaking, Mountain-shattering Changes

At this moment, Dong Li didn’t hesitate in the slightest.

She no longer cared what Qin Yan and the others would think of her as she spurred her black phoenix on.

The moment that thought appeared in her mind, the black phoenix spread its wings to the fullest and took her and Nie Tian towards the direction where a large number of spirit beasts were still fighting fiercely.

This was mainly because both Dong Li and her black phoenix knew that a wall of cyan light, which even Shen Zhong hadn’t been able to break, had already sealed the mouth of the mountain valley they had come from.

If they wanted to leave the lake area as quickly as possible, that was by no means a good choice.

Qin Yan and the other juniors stared up into the air from the lakeside. They were all confused, seeing the returning Dong Li suddenly circle around in the air and speed off towards the area where numerous spirit beasts were fighting each other to the death.

They had no idea what was happening.

Dong Mingxuan and the other powerful experts also noticed Dong Li and Nie Tian’s abnormal movements, yet there was nothing they could do either.

After all, none of them were able to soar through the air under normal circumstances.

Dong Li was the only one who could.

With the black phoenix’s help, Dong Li and Nie Tian shot towards the area where spirit beasts were madly killing each other.

Seeing that Nie Tian and Dong Li were flying farther and farther away from the ancient starship, the Spirit Pearl came to a stop in midair.

It seemed as if it were pondering whether it should keep chasing after Nie Tian or return to the ancient starship and steer it to its preset location.

However, it didn’t halt for long.

In a few seconds, it seemed to have made its decision.

A strange surge of energy suddenly burst forth from within the bright cyan Spirit Pearl. Simultaneously, in the mountain valley not very far away, cyan energy once again spread out and covered the mountain walls.

At that moment, the rippling energy in the valley, the wall of cyan light sealing its mouth, and the cyan energy filling the lake rapidly condensed into pure energy that fused with the ancient starship, which was slowly rising into the air.

Chest-drumming rumbles echoed out from within the ancient starship.

The slowly-rising ancient starship started accelerating, aiming at the highest heavens.

Seeing their ancient starship rising higher and higher into the sky, all of the four Phantasms ended their battles against the human experts and flew onto it.

As Shen Zhong and the other human experts attempted to approach the ancient starship, they were all met with a strong counterforce, and fell towards the lake underneath.

Now devoid of some kind of energy, the originally cyan lake water grew incomparably clear, and not a single anomaly could be seen within it.

However, as the ancient starship received enormous amounts of energy and sailed into the heavens, the Spirit Pearl didn’t return to it.

It seemed to spend some time getting ahold of its bearings before flying after Nie Tian again.

Standing by lakeside, Cao Qiushui finally realized what was going on, and asked in a loud voice, “Why did Dong Li take Wu Tian and leave?”

Frustration appeared on Qin Yan’s face as she said, “Perhaps she thought we wouldn’t be able to help Wu Tian.”

“That cyan ball of light went after them,” Qian Xin said with a grim expression. “It must record the Phantasms’ secrets! It is an item of great importance!”

“That Spirit Pearl?” Only after a moment of processing did Qin Yan realize what Qian Xian meant. With an unpleasant tone, she said, “If you want that Spirit Pearl so badly, you might as well chase after it. Since you’re more resourceful than any of us, perhaps you’ll be able to catch it and take it for your own.”

Realizing that he had been seen through, Qian Xin said embarrassedly, “T-that’s not what I meant.”

Qin Yan let out a cold harrumph and didn’t respond.

At that very moment, loud rumbles rang out from the valley they had come from, causing Heaven and Earth to shake violently.

They turned around and saw that the mountains on both sides of the valley were trembling nonstop, and rocks were falling everywhere.

Even the ground under their feet started to shake intensely.

After falling into the lake, Shen Zhong, Dong Mingxuan, and the other experts gazed helplessly up at the ancient starship as it charged into the highest heavens at a speed they couldn’t even comprehend.

Then, they each found a floating log, stood on it, and then drove it towards the lakeside with their spiritual power.

However, they didn’t head towards the area where Qin Yan and the other juniors were gathered, but instead in the direction Dong Li and Nie Tian had sped away.

Perhaps they were worried about Dong Li and Nie Tian, and wanted to give them a hand, or perhaps they placed their last hope on securing the mysterious Spirit Pearl now that the ancient starship had charged out of the Realm of Dark Underworld.

In any case, Qin Yan was certain that they were going in the same direction Nie Tian and Dong Li had left in.

However, even though they were at the Worldly realm, they weren’t able to sail through the sky as Dong Li could with the help of her black phoenix.

That meant that even if they managed to chase them out of the lake area, it wouldn’t be easy for them to catch up to Nie Tian and Dong Li, or the Spirit Pearl.