148 Rain of blood. (1/2)

Li Yang's wry smile twitched slightly as he looked at the two sisters stepping out of the spatial rift, they had sadly picked up his habit of having terrible timing. The scene also caught the attention of the others, Fang Ying and Zhao Feng looking pleasantly surprised while Tian Zheng looked taken aback.

The strength of the orange-eyed and crimson-haired Fang Yazhu and the green-eyed and blue-haired Fang Xiulan was well known to everyone from the sects, they were among the strongest people on this planet. But it wasn't just their presence that caused some shock to Tian Zheng, there was also the fact that they arrived together. The rivalry between the leaders of the two sects was well-known, they would basically be at each other's throats the moment they set foot in the same city. But if that shock wasn't already enough, he nearly felt his heart stop when he heard Li Yang call out to the two.

”Oy, crybabies! Over here!”

Tian Zheng didn't even have the opportunity to look at Li Yang as if he was a madman before he saw a shiver run through both Fang Xiulan and Fang Yazhu's bodies. Their heads quickly spun around, their gazes riveting on Li Yang, who still carried his wry smile while looking at the two of them.

Li Yang's group of four was only able to see the air in front of them shimmer slightly before both Fang Xiulan and Fang Yazhu arrived in front of them, their already red and teary eyes trembling as they looked at Li Yang. They stretched out their shivering arms, stopping in front of Li Yang as if they were afraid that he was going to vanish if they touched him. Li Yang stretched out his own arms towards the two girls in front of him, but rather than grabbing onto their arms, he gave both of them a vicious flick to the forehead.

”Yeah, no, we don't have time for the two of you to start bawling now. Knowing you, we'll be here for the next week if I were to allow that. Our priority now is to get out of here, before that shit over there gets even worse. You can cry all you want after that.”

Li Yang used his thumb to gesture towards the scene unfolding above them, the battle between Mao Tengzou and Xing Yuyen. He could feel that both of the Fang sisters had reached the middle stage of the Celestial Immortal realm, but both the combatants above them were most definitely at a higher level, staying here was tantamount to suicide. Fang Xiulan and Fang Yazhu obediently nodded their heads and wiped their eyes, their words causing another shock to run through Tian Zheng.

”As you say, Big Brother. But we'll have you keep us company for at least a month once we're out of here, that's the least you can do for us.”

Tian Zheng thought there was no longer anything that could shock him after he found out about Li Yang's true identity, but now he realized that he had been wrong. He didn't know anything about Li Yang's relationship with Fang Xiulan and Fang Yazhu, the news he received contained nothing about them and neither of them had ever mentioned either the name Li Yang or Thunder Monarch.

But Tian Zheng couldn't help but wonder, why would Li Yang bother with joining the Yuan clan if he was this close to these two? But how could Tian Zheng possibly understand Li Yang's pride, the pride of a man once heralded as the Thunder Monarch? He was not content with hiding behind others, he was someone who wanted to stand in the very front and at the very top, a man whose soul disdained even the heavens themselves.

The group didn't linger in the area for long after the Fang twins joined up with them, continuing their rush towards the exit. They couldn't use the rift that the Fang twins tore open, a few of the white tentacles had already stretched toward it and started to eat away at the chaotic energy of it. There was also the fact that the environment within a spatial rift was incredibly chaotic and dangerous, it would be hard to guarantee the survival of Li Yang and the others, even with Fang Xiulan and Fang Yazhu at their side.

Despite the vast distance between the two groups, the violent tremors from Xing Yuyen's battle against Mao Tengzou were still able to reach Li Yang and the others as they ran, rippling through space and forming cracks all throughout the Ocean God's Graveyard.

Li Yang felt something heavy drip onto his face just as they arrived on an island only a few hundred kilometers from the exit. He quickly wiped it off his face and inspected his finger, discovering that it was a thick drop of crimson blood. Before he even had the time to raise his head, more and more drops of blood started to rain down on the area, each one only the size of a fingernail but as heavy as a mallet.

Li Yang and the others all raised their heads and peered through the rain of blood, their gazes converging on the body of Xing Yuyen. The tentacles on his back had all been torn out in a violent fashion by the white tentacles that Mao Tengzou controlled, chunks of flesh still hanging on the ends of Xing Yuyen's tentacles as they were quickly drained dry and turned to dust.