Chapter 337: Entering the Taiyuan Heaven, Rippling the Space and the Cloud-swallowing Beast (1/2)
Chapter 337: Entering the Taiyuan Heaven, Rippling the Space and the Cloud-swallowing Beast
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The highest Mountain on the Blue Whale Island began to tremble as if an earthquake was happening. Thunderous rumbles sounded and spread to afar, while waves of the space rippled and an invisible and intangible force enveloped the entire Blue Whale Island.
”Eh, I've never sensed this kind of space fluctuation before!”
Zhou Bao excelled in the Three Realms Division and the Space Division Skill, so he was quite sensitive about space fluctuation. But at the moment, this exotic space fluctuation was utterly different from those he had felt in the past. He even sensed that a strong mysterious force was surging up from somewhere and was forcefully tearing the surrounding space into pieces. This strong force was not only tearing up the space, but it was showing a vague sign that it was integrating itself with the nearby space.
This was infusion!
This was something that never crossed Zhou Bao's mind. ”What kind of force could infuse into the force of space?”
Precisely for this infusion, the surrounding space fluctuation seemed to be unique. Zhou Bao's spiritual mind sprawled in all directions like tentacles, thoroughly detecting the overlayed and almost endless space fluctuation.
All of a sudden, his expression altered, ”What is this place?”
Exactly! What the hell was this place?
After wandering through a somewhat special part of this space fluctuation, a fine tentacle of his spiritual mind sprawled among the multilayered space fluctuation, suddenly stretched into a pretty marvelous place. This was a greyish world, in which everywhere was fused with greyish and blurry fog. There was no essence of the world, but this place was not utterly empty like a hollow space, because it was full of ever-changing storms and endless hollow.
This was a weird space!
Yes, a weird but stable space!
”What is this place? Could it be the legendary Taiyuan Heaven?” This thought flitted across Zhou Bao's mind. All at once, he felt a compelling force charging at him, which split his spiritual mind apart. He gave a violent shudder and came to his senses.
A whirring noise sounded!
All these insights, mental activities, and discoveries occurred in just a split second, even less than one-tenth of the time it takes for you to blink your eyes. Therefore, no one noticed anything abnormal about Zhou Bao. But when he came back to his senses, after that one-tenth of a blink of an eye, everything on the Blue Whale Island had changed.
Rampant Space Storms swept through the entire Blue Whale Island, scooping up numerous tiny space fragments that looked like pieces of glass in the air. Everything on the Blue Whale Island was carried into the storms.
”What a storm! With so many space fragments in it, even if I turn on my Gang Qi, I still cannot get enough protection!” Zhou Bao, who was terror-stricken, said to himself. At that moment, a layer of fuzzy blue light emitted out of his body and shrouded around himself, Wang She and Mo Yinyang. The moment those raging storms got contact with the blue light, they automatically gave way to it.
”No wonder the rule is that each Taiyuan Token can only allow three people to come onto the Blue Whale Island regardless of what kind of influence the newcomers have. If the number exceeds three, the Taiyuan Token would not be able to protect all of them. Facing such a Space Storm, even a Level Nine expert may have to head backward with regret!”
As the Space Fluctuations and Space Storms grew increasingly violent, the blue light of the Taiyuan Token became more and more bright. When the light grew to the brightest extent, the space fluctuation around them suddenly surged up, swallowing all the 20 blue light like ocean waves.
At the same time, on the other side of the island, a blue light dot was also engulfed by the fluctuation.
”What a great opportunity!” After being engulfed by the blue light, Zhou Bao's heart leapt with delight. Once more, his spiritual mind spread around like tentacles, taking advantage of this rare opportunity to apprehend the wonders of this space.
It was a pity that the time he had to apprehend was too little, but he did find something out in the end.
After a few seconds, an abundant burst of the essence of the world blew in his face, which almost made him choke.
In fact, at the same time, he heard several dim coughings, which were apparently made by someone who was choking on this extremely abundant spiritual qi.
”This is the Taiyuan Heaven!”
After breathing several times, everything was restored to its quietness, and there were about 60 men standing in a mysterious and exotic space.
After eagerly inhaling mouthfuls of rich spiritual qi, Zhou Bao cast his eyes around. Looking about, he was stupefied.
What a world it was!
Vast, peerlessly vast!
That was his first impression of the world.
Towering mountains stood afar, one after another, with their peaks floating in the air. At first glimpse, they looked a lot like those floating mountains he had seen in the film Avatar in his previous life. Although the mountains in front of him were far more numerous and much more magnificent than those in the film.
In this space, there was thick spiritual qi and mountains suspended everywhere in the air. However, there was not even a single patch of normal land.
Looking at distant views, there were assorted mountain peaks. Some of these mountains were huge in terms of volume—surely surpassing hundreds of thousands of miles in diameter. They looked like a suspending continent. But some were small, merely with the size of a house. The distance between those mountains also varied. Some of those vacant areas in the middle of two mountains were vast like a sea area, with nothing existing in the vicinity of hundreds of thousands of miles apart from the blue air. Meanwhile, some peaks were closely entwined, even linked with each other by some plant rattans.
The sky was navy. Touches of white fog and colorful clouds were flying in the sky, floating around those suspending mountains, which looked just like a fairyland.
”Alright, everybody, we've now arrived at the Taiyuan Heaven. According to the alliance treaty agreed a thousand years before, every batch of us visitors has to stay in a designated area, and no one is allowed to go outside of their own area without authorization. If you want to exchange your area with others, now is the time!”
A booming voice sounded in the crowd, which was suffused with compelling pressure and inviolable spirit.
”It's the idiot from the Divine Wind Palace!” Zhou Bao shot a glance at the man who was the source of that voice, cursed under his breath and then simply ignored him. Then, he nodded to Li Xiu, said some greetings and got ready to leave this place.
”Hold on!” Just when Zhou Bao was about to leave, another voice sounded and called him up. Turning back with a scowl, Zhou Bao saw it was exactly the expert of the Divine Wind Palace who made that announcement just now.
This man was eight feet in height, with a long black beard. His eyebrows were as sleek as silkworms and his eyes were as slanted as phoenix eyes, which made him sort of majestic-looking, like a tiger. If his face got redder, Zhou Bao would take him as a reincarnation of General Guan Yu.
”Your Excellency has some instructions for me?” Zhou Bao cupped his hand together and said with little enthusiasm.
”If I'm not mistaken, Your Excellency must be Zhou Bao, from the Jin dynasty in the Central Mainland Region?” That man enquired.
”Right, I am Zhou Bao. Your Excellency is...”
”Zhang Yunhao, from the Divine Wind Palace!” Zhang Yunhao raised his chin as he said the word ”Divine Wind Palace” and his Qi Power also seemed to burgeon at that moment.
”I wonder what instruction Your Excellency intends to bestow me for calling me out!”
”Of course I have something to discuss with you!” Zhang Yunhao smiled and went on, ”I have a presumptuous request!”
”Since it's a presumptuous request, you should say no more. I will not exchange my Taiyuan Token with you!” Zhou Bao's mouth cracked a thin slit, giving out a fleeting sneer. ”Time is limited, and I will excuse myself!”
Zhou Bao cupped his hands once more. His figure flashed and brought up a beam of red Gang Qi, ready to take off.
”How dare you!”
Just as Zhou Bao was about to leap up and get away, a cluster of golden light twinkled and soared downright in the direction of Zhou Bao's head to enclose it.
”You're courting death now!” A shaft of chilling light flitted across Zhou Bao's eyes, and he saw the man giving off that golden light was exactly the golden-robed brute standing beside Zhang Yunhao. He lifted a hand, pointed one finger at him, and a jet of black and red Sword Qi flashed out, colliding head-on with that golden light.
”Eh?”
Upon crashing into the golden light, Zhou Bao's Sword Qi instantly disappeared. Zhou Bao felt that his Sword Qi had bumped against a soft wall, and all its power was consumed by it.
”You dare destroy my magic weapon?”
Almost simultaneously, that brute started barking wildly. That golden light took one collision with the Sword Qi of Zhou Bao's Yin and Yang Heavenly Sword Qi, and then, split into two parts. As its light paled, the physical body of that weapon was revealed in front of everyone.
It turned out to be a golden handkerchief.
”Humph, I will not only damage your magic weapon, but I'll also teach a lesson to you, you dumbass!” Zhou Bao shouted with a sneer. Moving like a flash of lightning, Zhou Bao already approached that golden-robed brute. Then, the moment he raised one hand, a shaft of Sword Qi burst out.
The golden-robed brute stamped his feet in fury. He bellowed in an undertone and a layer of golden Gang Qi rose from his body, covering every part of him.
”Crap!” At sight of this scenario, Zhang Yunhao knew that things would not go well. He was an expert of weapons. Though he didn't know what the black and red Gang Qi Zhou Bao shot out was, when he came to contemplate it for a second, the story of the Yin and Yang Heavenly Sword crossed his mind. Seeing this brute tried to resist this Sword Qi with his Gang Qi, Zhang Yunhao was startled. He abruptly raised one arm to push that brute away, but he was still one second late. The brute's body was shoved away, but the Sword Qi was so fast that he failed to escape it completely.
Swish!
The black and red Sword Qi cut open his Protective Gang Qi as if cutting a chunk of Tofu, which chopped off his left hand in a second.
”Ah!”
The Sword Qi was now highly aggressive. That wisp of killing intent in the Sword Qi crept into the brute's insides from the wound and invaded into his tendons and meridians. The brute felt a spasm of sharp pain and let out a growl out of anguish, but he could not say a single word even though he wanted to do so.
Zhang Yunhao's figure leapt to that brute like a flash of lightning, and he placed a punch right in his back.
Poof!
A torrent of blood spurted out from the end of that brute's handless arm and splattered onto the ground, resulting in a deep indent. After the blood gushed out, the brute seemed to have got better, though his face was still as white as chalk. Anyway, his breathing became smoother, and he slowly sat down with his legs crossed to regulate his breathing.
”Zhou Bao, how ruthless you are!” After confirming the brute was not in mortal danger, Zhang Yunhao raised his head and snapped at Zhou Bao reprovingly, ”Are you truly going to go against the Divine Wind Palace?”