Chapter 319 (1/2)

Chapter 319: Despair

Translator: Radiant Translations Editor: Radiant Translations

The horde of four-hooves mutated beasts were fleeing at high speed with more than a hundred eight-tentacled Mirage Creatures chasing after them. Tentacles were coming out from nowhere, whipping like lightning or twisting with power. The four hooves-mutated beasts were quickly dying, one after another.

“Too frightening.” Lord You Lan looked pleased with the scene. He quickly flew over until he was no more than five kilometers away from the central long vine. Because of the short distance remaining, in the blink of an eye, he already arrived at the vine.

The eight-tentacled Mirage Creatures, who had momentarily targeted him, gave up as soon as he reached the vine. The first vine leaf world had one rule—one only had to successfully arrive at the long vine in order to pass to the next leaf. Successfully passing the trial meant that they would no longer be attacked by any creature from the first vine leaf world. It did not, however, mean that other demigods or Transcendents would have to stop attacking them.

Lord You Lan put his white teeth on display as he laughed joyously, “Hehehe! These eight-tentacled Mirage Creatures may not have a particularly good comprehension of the Laws of Profound Mysteries, but their speed and power are at both at the Deity realm. Each of them is more powerful than General Ku Meng was. With their ability to launch sneak attacks from the Mirage, I would find it difficult to face even one, not to mention such a mass of them.”

“Chen Jiu, your powerful close combat ability might mean that ten eight-tentacled Mirage Creatures have to work together to defeat you, but in Dong Bo Xue Ying’s case? Wasn’t he the one who relied on the Mirage to make it so others couldn’t easily attack him? Unfortunately for you, this horde of eight-tentacled beasts are all Mirage Creatures.”

Lord You Lan had been waiting for this exact moment. He had been excitedly planning ever since his servant discovered the group of eight-tentacled Mirage Creatures within the mountain.

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The first reaction Xue Ying, Chen Jiu, and Unclu Fu had when they saw the hundred or more eight-tentacled Mirage Creatures was to regroup and flee. They could tell from a single glance that they would not be able to defeat them.

“Damn!” Xue Ying felt numerous golden threads wrapping around him. Every time he tried to enter the Mirage, they entangled him, reducing his speed by at least half. At that speed, he was unable to escape the incoming calamity of the eight-tentacled Mirage Creatures.

“You Lan!” Chen Jiu was going crazy. This time around, he wasn’t shouldering his life alone; he was also shouldering the lives of every member of Flying Sword Mountain Manor!

“Uncle Fu, escape, quickly! Just break the talisman, and wait for me back in the Xia Clan World. We’ll go back to Deity World together as soon as I get out of here alive,” Chen Jiu sent to Uncle Fu, who began to panic. He quickly took out Deity Scrolls and started casting them.

“Don’t use them on me. Cast them on Xue Ying instead,” Chen Jiu continued. “You don’t need to worry about me, since I have Deity Armor, but Xue Ying won’t be able to hold on for long.”

“Understood.” Uncle Fu might have worried for his Manor Master, but he knew Chen Jiu was also worried. Since Chen Jiu was using the Deity armor, the Mirage Creatures would be unable to bypass his defenses to attack him directly. Casting more blessings on him would only serve to waste the scrolls.

Hua~hua~

Uncle Fu tore two Deity scrolls apart. Two layers of light, one red and another white, enveloped Xue Ying’s figure. Together, they gave his body the appearance of being wrapped in red-white colored gauze.

“Lock!” Uncle Fu used another Deity scroll. A transparent greyish fog entered the Mirage and twisted directly around the eight-tentacled Mirage Creatures. Having already killed all of the mutated beasts, the Mirage Creatures had now shifted their sights onto Xue Ying and the other two. With their high speed slaughter, they were soon no less than fifteen hundred kilometers away.

“Alas.” Uncle Fu fretted. This large-scale array would tie down enemies no matter where they are. Be it the real world, the Mirage, the Shadow Space, or any other layer of existence, the array would enter that world and tie the enemy down. To hinder 139 Mirage Creatures at the same time, however, the array’s power had to be evenly distributed, so it could only cut the speed of those creatures down in half instead of immobilizing them.

If the scroll’s power were to concentrate on only on three to five creatures, it would more than simply reduce half of their speed. But what difference would it make whether they were under the attack of 139 creatures or 136 creatures? After all, it was not like all of the Mirage Creatures would attack them simultaneously anyway. With their large frames, the Mirage Creatures would not be able to attack together. It was only ever several of them who could attack at one time. Losing or immobilizing three to five creatures in that sort of situation would change nothing.

“Damn, damn!” Uncle Fu became so angry that his eyes turned red. He still had other Deity scrolls, but they would not be of any help.

“Go!” Chen Jiu urged as he tried to flee as fast as possible.