Chapter 304: Upgraded Liu Bian (1/2)
Although the dizziness was killing him, Miaomiao recovered in a minute. The water element Qi synergized with his unified blood and his Life Essence, boosting his self-recovery ability.
After getting back on his feet, Miaomiao braced himself and entered the portal.
…
Deafening wails of wind screamed throughout the grey wasteland. A giant tornado blew grey ashes, dirt, rocks, and grey miasma to the sky.
Dirt and grey ash hit Miaomiao's face, entering his mouth and nose. The 700km/h stormwind almost sent him to the air or cut his skin to shred with random sharp rocks and small dirt.
Miaomiao couldn't see anything after he had entered the portal. As soon as he got to the other side, he was greeted with an insane dust storm.
Moreover, the Twilight Qi in the air was overwhelming. Every time Miaomiao breathed, he felt suffocating as if a mouthful of water entered his lungs. Without a choice, he used the tortoise breathing technique and created a water element barrier around himself, filtering the air and blocking the dust.
Unfortunately, it was a bad idea. Within a few seconds, the water barrier blackened, blocking Miaomiao's line of sight.
'Damn it! Fine. I'll travel blind!'
Miaomiao kept circulating his water element Qi and discarding the wastewater, maintaining a small clean area in front of him to be his peephole. Also, he spread his Qi sense, trying to scan his surroundings.
The wasteland was located in low, flat land, surrounded by tall stone mountain ranges. Yet, the storm wind flowed counterclockwise, circling within the enclosed wasteland.
Miaomiao closed his eyes and concentrated on his sense to find a way to leave this place.
However, instead of finding the exit, Miaomiao found over ten thousand naked corpses of various cultivators, broken weapons, and shattered artifacts, being carried by the storm wind in the sky.
At a glance, they seemed like ordinary dead bodies. But when Miaomiao paid attention to them, he discovered that these corpses were alive!
They were undead ghouls, zombies, and vampires!
'Wow. Sucks to be you.'
Miaomiao almost forgot what he was supposed to do. He shook his head and smirked at the undead cultivators, pitying them. He didn't know what had happened here, and he didn't want to know.
Five minutes later, Miaomiao braced the wind and trekked northward. He walked away from the eye of the tornado, trying to reach the nearest hill and get a shelter for now.
After getting out of the windstorm, Miaomiao could finally see everything.
This place seemed to be a plane as the sky was without stars or a moon. To make sure, Miaomiao flew to the sky to get a clear view of this world.
As Miaomiao had expected, it was a floating continent in a dark space. Beyond the enclosed mountains, there was nothing but a grey wasteland with dried soil. The edges of this plane were cliffs, leading toward the nothingness.
This plane was as wide as ten Red Sun Cities. It was on a smaller scale comparing to the dryad's plane.
Yet, Miaomiao's face grimaced. As this plane was so small, the anxiety swelled in his heart. He hoped that nothing had happened to Ju Shoufen.
He didn't care about Ding Bu, Ma Moxi, or his mentor as Ju Shoufen's survival took priority. The rest of them was bonuses.
Miaomiao touched the master ring, trying to pinpoint the location of Ju Shoufen again.
VING
Miaomiao widened his eyes, and a relief smile appeared on his face. Finally, he found Ju Shoufen.
Her life signature was still healthy. There was no sign of injury in her aura.
Ju Shoufen's location was 10 kilometers away from the south hill, which was the opposite direction that Miaomiao was. He needed to cross the storm field again if he wanted to reunite with her.
Miaomiao looked at the dust storm and the zombies in the tornado again. It reminded him of a certain movie with several sharks in the tornado. As such, he didn't want to fly over the storm and get entangled with random flying zombies and ghouls.
Since he couldn't fly over the storm, Miaomiao detoured by flying over the mountain range counterclockwise, going along with the wind, heading toward the western mountain range. Then, he would head toward the south hills.
Just as Miaomiao was leisurely admiring the view and flew at a cruise-pace, the life signature of Ju Shoufen wavered. Then, her Qi rapidly decreased.
Something had happened to her!
”SHIT!”
Miaomiao accelerated, hoping that he could reach her before something bad happened.
…
South Mountain Hills, beyond the mountain range surrounding the low land, a large area of flat wasteland extended until the edge of the plane.
At the center of the southern wasteland, Ju Shoufen knelt and groaned as she looked at the old man, whose mask had been corroded away by black fluid. Then, she glared at the company of flying undead monsters. Luo Song and three succubi stood behind her, trembling and shaking in fear.
A kilometer away from Ju Shoufen, Wang Yun stood on top of the south mountain peak. He tossed away the corpse of his meat shield, Dong Zhongying, down the mountain. Then, he glanced at Ma Ping next to him, whose body had been riddled with graze wounds and holes.
”Ugh.”
Wang Yun gritted his teeth and turned around, looking at the minions of Liu Bian.
”This son of a bitch deserves to die a hundred times over! He's gone insane!”
Flying above Wang Yun and Ma Ping were 200 skeleton soldiers in shining obsidian plate armor and skeleton horses, aka the death knights, whose cultivation base was on par with nascent soul experts. They glared at the two nascent soul cultivators, emitting Death Qi and the power of shadow element.
They had killed a hundred death knights already. And yet, Liu Bian kept summoning more of these deadly monsters as if he had an infinite source of energy and resources.
Moreover, Liu Bian had something that shouldn't be existed.
”If it wasn't because of that Lich…”
RUMBLE
The plane shook and 10 more death knights emerged from the ground.
They appeared behind Ju Shoufen!
Ju Shoufen also sensed them. She took out her immortal-grade fan and a fire element crystal. Then, she crushed the crystal, allowing the broken pieces to fall on the feather fan. She pulled the four succubi away from this area as she might have to fight these monsters.
The fan was lit aflame, and a beautiful figure of a fire spirit emerged.
'Mother.'
Ju Shoufen's face grimaced, ”This place be our graves. Let's do our best.”
'Understood.'
The fire element spirit, aka Ju Shoufen's dead daughter, entered Ju Shoufen's body. Then, the loli grandma transformed into a giant fire crow.
KAAAAAA!!
…
A kilometer away from Wang Yun's location, Liu Bian, in his Wang Diaochan's form, had been stomping on his younger brother, who was crouching and hugging his knees. The former spat at the poor child and mocked him.
”This is what you get for trying to rob my throne, you retard son of a fuck!”
Liu Bian kicked Liu Xie again. The boy shut with his eyes tight in pain, and tears rolled down from his eyes.
Liu Xie hugged his knees and endured the torture. He kept holding on to Ju Shoufen's life-saving talisman in his hands, which continued to heal his physical body over time.
”Let go of the boy, you heretic!”
Luo Cheng, who was a hundred meters away from Liu Xie and Liu Bian, yelled at the necromancer.
Liu Bian glanced at the dwarf and smirked.
A 190cm tall humanoid skeleton monster in a dark robe emerged from Liu Bian's shadow. It cackled and pointed its green jewel staff at the dwarf elder.
WHOOSH
While the attention of the Lich was on Luo Cheng, a transparent figure moved at a high speed and snatched Liu Xie away from Liu Bian.
However, the Lich sensed it. It turned around and stomped its foot.
”AHHH!!”
Ma Moxi's stealth technique was abruptly canceled. Below him, shadow spears punctured through his legs, arms, and stomach. Even Liu Xie was stabbed in his shoulder!