Chapter 1374: A Heavenly River Descends (1/2)
A shudder ran through Nie Tian, who had connected himself to the black tortoise through his bloodline talent Life Blend, his eyes filled with the light of excitement. “It must carry a Star Behemoth bloodline!”
This feeling hadn’t been so strong before the black tortoise’s bloodline had advanced to the ninth grade.
However, just now, when he had ended his Life Blend state with the Star Behemoth bone and entered a Life Blend state with the black tortoise, a strong sense of familiarity had stricken him.
The two states were similar in many ways.
This had reminded him of the Star Behemoth hiding in the depths of the black sea on the floating continent and the black tortoise’s special features, allowing him to come to this conclusion.
Even if the black tortoise wasn’t a purebred Star Behemoth, it must carry a Star Behemoth bloodline!
It was a hybrid as well!
WHOOSH!
Boundless darkness spread in every direction, with the black tortoise as the center.
Wherever it spread, light went out like blown out lamps. Even the stars shining in the distance went completely dark, as if they had been shrouded by pitch-black cloth.
Dong Li, Ji Yuanquan, Wu Yi, and Pei Qiqi were all engulfed in utter darkness.
Of course, Jiang Yuanchi was no exception!
However, while everyone else lost all of their soul and flesh aura senses in the darkness, Dong Li’s senses were greatly heightened, as if this darkness were water and she was a fish.
Jiang Yuanchi, who practiced shadow magics, and Gupi also lost their bearings in the darkness, without any idea of where they should go.
Nie Tian sensed the area of the starry river with rapt attention. To his surprise, he found Gupi, along with the shadowy Jiang Yuanchi that had merged with it, flying in circles within a small area.
“This dark arcane realm the black tortoise created with its ultimate dark bloodline seems to have a strong subduing effect on the shadowy Jiang Yuanchi!”
“And this ultimate darkness even works on Gupi as well!”
Nie Tian was thrilled by this discovery.
The bright Jiang Yuanchi raised his arms and shouted in the depths of the darkness. “Light: Divine Illumination!”
As he did, a glorious glowing pearl slowly flew out, and started radiating a great amount of light, as if to disperse all this darkness.
Jiang Yuanchi morphed into a streak of light that flew into the pearl that looked like a glowing crystal ball.
His wisps of divine will turned into sparkling bits that shone brightly within the pearl, making it increasingly bright and dazzling.
“Come!” Jiang Yuanchi’s soul voice echoed out from the pearl.
Gupi and the shadowy Jiang Yuanchi instantly had a direction. The Jiang Yuanchi that practiced shadow power separated himself from Gupi and flew to the pearl in the blink of an eye.
“Light and shadow share the same origin!”
With these words, he reached out and grabbed the pearl.
The moment his hand touched the pearl, the two Jiang Yuanchis seemed to come back as one.
BOOM!
Jiang Yuanchi’s enormous dharma idol manifested in the utter darkness like a condensation of the purest light. It was so bright that no one could look directly at it.
Behind it, another shady dharma idol seemed to exist in its shadow. Both of them exuded auras that were unique to God domain experts.
“This beast carries a dark bloodline that’s even purer than those of black dragons and black phoenixes.” As soon as Jiang Yuanchi spoke, his divine voice morphed into bright talismans that fell upon the black tortoise’s vast back like glowing mountain peaks.
Suffering from the crushing pressure, the black tortoise let out low bellows as it did its utmost to draw Nie Tian’s Blood Essence into itself.
WHOOSH!
The dark stone that had been taken from the Demon realms was channeled by its bloodline and flew to it.
In the black hole in the middle of the stone, a gravitational force strong enough to devour heaven and earth was suddenly born.
The gigantic talismans that looked like glowing divine mountain peaks let out remote cries as they were pulled by the gravitational force.
Jiang Yuanchi laughed coldly. “I can’t believe that, as a junior, you can actually exchange a few moves with me with the help of that beast and dark treasure. You should be proud of yourself. However, both your cultivation base and bloodline grade are still far from high enough! Don’t tell me that you actually think you scared us when you marched into the Domain of Jade Heaven.
“I only retreated because I didn’t want unnecessary trouble. But since you’re so eager to die, I’ll grant you that wish.”
More dazzlingly bright talismans descended like a storm. While only a small portion had their light sucked away by the dark stone, the majority of them fell heavily on the black tortoise’s shell.
The black tortoise started to sink bit by bit!
The darkness it had released to devour all light couldn’t spread any further.
Nie Tian, who was in a Life Blend state with it, could feel the great pain and mountain-like pressure it was suffering from. At the same time, he was losing his flesh power at an alarming rate.
Ji Yuanquan let out a soft sigh in the darkness and muttered, “This isn’t going to work.”
Then, he turned to Dong Li and said, “Jiang Yuanchi is far too strong for Nie Tian. Right now, Fan Tianze might be the only available human expert that can fight and suppress him in battle.”
He knew that Dong Li was probably the only one who could hear him in this utter darkness, since she practiced dark power.
PUFF!
Nie Tian’s arm was ripped open, with blood pouring out. The wisps of blood strings through which he was transfusing flesh power into the black tortoise seemed to be clogged by some power.
At the same time, countless rays of sparkling bright light that were as fine as hairs appeared around him.
Before he could react, they wrapped around him in an attempt to shred him.
“Ahhh!”
He let out heart-wrenching cries as his body, which had been tempered a thousand times over, was cut bloody by the rays of bright light.
With a derisive laugh, Jiang Yuanchi said, “No matter how talented you are, you’re still a junior that’s far too weak to handle my attacks, definitely not before your cultivation base advances to the God domain, and your bloodline enters the tenth grade.”
WHOOSH!