Chapter 497: Accumulating Power (1/2)
Chapter 497: Accumulating Power
By the edge of the floating continent.
Covered in blood, Zhang Jiu dashed to Sun Xuan’s side. Looking exhausted, he exclaimed, “Senior Martial Brother Sun!”
“Are you alright?” Sun Xuan hastily asked.
He was well-aware of Zhang Jiu’s special status in the Poison Sect. Therefore, he was apparently concerned seeing Zhang Jiu in such sore straits.
“Sha Cheng got my life-spirit vermin killed,” Zhang Jiu said with a cold face. Then, he glanced around and asked, “Where is he?”
“I sent him back to rescue you,” Sun Xuan explained.
“Rescue me?” Zhang Jiu asked with a sarcastic smile. “I’ll thank god if he doesn’t get me in trouble.”
As the two of them spoke, Sha Cheng dashed over from the distance. Seeing that Zhang Jiu was fine, he hastily explained, “Junior Martial Brother Zhang, I only cast a magic to detonate my own life-spirit vermin because there was something special about that guy. Not only were neither of our life-spirit vermin able to break away from him, but they were also rapidly losing their flesh power to him.”
BAM!
Even though Sun Xuan was standing right beside them, Zhang Jiu slapped Sha Cheng across his face without any scruple.
“Even if you needed to detonate your life-spirit vermin, you should have told me beforehand!” Zhang Jiu shouted with a cold face. “You should have expected that the death of my life-spirit vermin would instantly take its toll on me! Just because you didn’t tell me about it, that bitch got me when I was trying to escape, and cut off a chunk of my flesh!”
Pointing at the bloody mess on his left shoulder, he yelled, “You almost got me killed!!”
Sha Cheng touched his face and said in a low voice, “You were too far away from me. I couldn’t remind you even if I wanted to.”
Zhang Jiu grew furious. “Shut up! You didn’t remind me because you wanted to catch that guy off guard!”
SHEW! SHEW!
Two other Poison Sect disciples came from the distant void on floating rocks, and then arrived by their side.
“What happened?” One of them was surprised by Zhang Jiu’s condition.
Hoping to smooth things over, Sun Xuan said, “Alright, alright. Tell us what happened with your team.”
Zhang Jiu shot another nasty glance at Sha Cheng. Seeing that he had fallen silent, he finally decided to let it go. He turned to look at Sun Xuan and said, “Two strangers came to this continent, a young man and a young woman. The woman is skilled in spatial magics. The man is even weirder. When we unleashed our spirit vermin to gnaw on his flesh and inject venom into him, not only did he not die, but he even drained our spirit vermin of their flesh power.”
Sun Xuan spent a short while pondering in silence before saying, “That woman who’s skilled in using spatial power is probably Zhen Huilan’s disciple, Pei Qiqi. As for that weird young man, I can’t think of a name.”
Zhang Jiu gave a low chuckle. “Zhen Huilan’s disciple?” His face recovered its calm and peaceful state as he said, “The Tool Sect has lost its glory. It’ll only be a matter of time before Zhao Shanling takes it into his hands. As for Zhen Huilan, she’s nothing more than an exceptional equipment forger. Her battle prowess actually isn’t that formidable.”
Apparently, he didn’t put the deaths of He Xu, Wu Cui, and Luo Ting on his mind.
“Now, they’re trapped on this floating continent. Senior Martial Brother Sun, if you guys go after them, they’ll die beyond the shadow of a doubt.” With a grin, Zhang Jiu added, “But I prefer you capture them and let me finish them off.”
Sun Xuan smiled bitterly and said, “I’m afraid that can’t happen.”
“Why?” Zhang Jiu was confused.
Sun Xuan pointed at the floating continent and said with a grim expression, “There’s something strange about this place. I tried to approach the land mass earlier, but I was stopped by an invisible barrier. I even sustained injuries from it.”
Upon hearing these words, the two Poison Sect disciples who had arrived just now were also taken aback.
Hence, the two of them, who were both at the early Worldly realm, also made an attempt to slowly approach the floating continent.
Just as they were about to reach the edge of the continent, they sensed the existence of a special ward. No matter what they tried, they couldn’t get through it.
Then, they rapidly shifted to other locations and tried to enter from there.
After a while, the two of them returned. Under Sun Xuan’s inquiring gaze, one of them shook his head in frustration and said, “You’re right. There is an invisible barrier around this floating continent. We tried everything from every direction, but whatever we did, we couldn’t go through the barrier.”
“You go and try again,” Sun Xuan said to Sha Cheng.
Sha Cheng didn’t dare to say no, and thus shot towards the floating continent under the others’ gazes. In the next moment, he went through without encountering the slightest obstacle.
As Sha Cheng circled back, Sun Xuan realized what was happening. “The barrier is only effective on Qi warriors at the Worldly realm or higher. Those at the Greater Heaven stage and lower won’t be affected at all.”