Chapter 345: Entering the Graveyard (2/2)
Before Green Spirit could finish these words, a booming voice carried through from the highest heaven. ”Got you, Zhou Bao! How dare you act alone while not concealing your spirit!”
”Damn it, it's Ye Qingtian's people!” Hearing that voice, Zhou Bao's heart abruptly leaped into his throat. Looking up instantly, he realized that the world outside the black mist was already overcast by a faint layer of sanguineous light, while an exotic but evil force was coming toward him.
”This formation is surely wondrous! It should cut off the reaction that my Fiery Eyes would have from his!”
Previously, every time his opponent's Fiery Eyes showed up, Zhou Bao's Fiery Eyes would make a crazy response to them as if they were stimulated by something.
If Zhou Bao had not stifled his own Fiery Eyes each time without delay, his opponent had to have known the fact that he also possessed the bloodline of the Fiery Eyes. But this time, though Zhou Bao sensed the other's power blatantly suffusing the surroundings, his own Fiery Eyes rendered no reactions to that power under the isolation of the black mist.
Nevertheless, it was not time to mull over this matter now. A force of extremely freezing power descended from the highest heaven in a compelling way. Drastic changes happened in the weather around—dark clouds were gathering in the sky, a wild wind was surging and howling, and snowflakes began to fall from the sky like a myriad of feathers!
The black mist did not prevent those snowflakes from landing on Zhou Bao's body.
”Damn it!” Zhou Bao cursed in a whisper and launched his Nine Dragons Heavenly Kylin Gang. However, a Fairy Weapon was certainly not that easy to tackle. Several ice-blue snowflakes fell on his Gang Qi, and its effect was just like pouring cold water into hot oil.
”Sizzle!”
As the snowflakes vanished, so did a large portion of pneuma in his Nine Dragons Heavenly Kylin Gang. At the same time, a chilling trace of killing intent also dashed toward him out of mid-air.
”Crap!” Zhou Bao yelled, and his body gave a shudder. At this point, he had no time to think this through. With a flick of his sleeves, he attempted to withdraw all 12 of the flags together with the Innate Qi Talisman.
If it had been another place where he cast out this Yin and Yang Dust Formation, Zhou Bao could still resist Ye Qingtian for a while even if Ye Qingtian had a Fairy Weapon. But now, in this meadow of black mist, the Yin and Yang Dust Formation was under the all-out extrusion of the mysterious power contained in the mist and could not function one bit. Therefore, the only choice left for him was to flee.
Just when he was about to operate his Three Realms Division, Green Spirit's psywave suddenly jumped out, ”Find it! It's here! Boy, quick, use your Great Fusion Technic!”
Stuck in imminent danger, Zhou Bao raised his hands without thinking and instantly launched the Great Fusion Technic.
As a ball of golden fire light flashed, the black mist with its radius of 100 feet suddenly shrank, even thoroughly covering Zhou Bao inside of it. The black mist became smaller and smaller, and then finally disappeared.
Everything happened so fast that it just took a fraction of a second.
Almost at the same instant that the black mist started contracting, two streamers arrived there.
A huge sanguine hand appeared out of the hollow and tried to grab that black mist.
However, it was still one step too late.
When Ye Qingtian and that black-clothed man reached that spot, the black mist had already disappeared into nowhere with Zhou Bao inside of it.
”Hollow Travel! This guy knows the special technique of Hollow Travel! He got away once more!” Seeing that Zhou Bao had already vanished out of sight, Ye Qingtian's entire face became livid and he gave a heavy stamp on the ground.
”This is not right! The space with a radius of 100 feet had already been blocked by us. Even if he does have the special technique of Hollow Travel, he can't put it to use!” The expression of that black-clothed man was coldly stern, but his eyes revealed a hint of astonishment.
”How could he manage to disappear?” asked the ashen-faced Ye Qingtian.
”No idea!” The black-clothed man shook his head and kept eyeing the surroundings. ”This place is perfectly normal. Nothing is unusual here!”
”Just come back. He has fled out of this space.” A voice carried to the two's ears with a slight sigh. ”The black mist just now must be an exotic formation, which was the only spot that could not be blocked. Inside that ethereal mist, there are infinite time-to-space conversions. Thus, this guy has already slipped away.”
”What ”What shall we do now?” Ye Qingtian asked, ”Shall we go to find him?”
”No need. Now that he has gone beyond this space, it will just be a waste of your time to try and find him. If you come across Wen Yida again, you will have another problem. Considering that there are numerous treasures buried in this Taiyuan Heaven, let's get sufficient benefits for ourselves first. How can we leave such a treasure-trove empty-handed? Loads of things that you can never find in your world are right here! We can't miss this opportunity! As for that guy, we'll have plenty of time to get him after we get out of here! After all, the monk may run away, but the temple can't run away with him.”
”Yeah, let's wait till we're out of here and then settle this matter with him!” Ye Qingtian snarled malevolently. He exchanged a look with that black-clothed man, and both of them disappeared simultaneously.
Simultaneously, when Zhou Bao was swept away by that black mist, he merely felt a very regular fluctuation produced in the surrounding space, which was utterly distinct from any space fluctuation that he had felt, seen, or experienced before.
In the past, the space fluctuations that he had sensed were either inflicted by a powerful force splitting up the hollow or a space-key like the Flickering Light Evil Qi opening up the hollow. There was no third case that existed. However, at present, he felt that the barrier wall of this space had suddenly disappeared, leaving an uncanny cavity there. Then, they just fell into this cavity like this.
Entering the cavity, Zhou Bao felt himself gliding downward in this weird space-tube at the fastest speed. He could not control his body in this eccentric space-tube even when he tried to activate his Gang Qi or his Dragon Flying Technique. He had to let himself keep falling in this eerie way, with no clue of where the tube would end or if he would die from this fall. The only thing he could do was to prop up his Nine Dragons Heavenly Kylin Gang and his Poison Cold Shield in case he would fall to the solid ground and break all his bones.
Zhou Bao's figure was dropping rapidly, but the fierce crash that he was expecting did not come. Instead, at one point, the process of this rapid falling down suddenly came to a halt, and he felt that he was suspended in the air.
Yes, he was suspended with no force to support his body, as if he was in a hollow where there was no gravity. He was simply suspended in this pitch-black space, not able to see his fingers. Even with his Fiery Eyes, he still could not see anything around him. It was an utterly dark space.
Not a single light was there. The temperature was not very cold, but it could not be called hot either.
Zhou Bao believed that if there was a drop of water here, it would gradually freeze-up for sure.
Actually, the temperature was at the freezing point. This might be pretty cold for ordinary people, but for Zhou Bao, it was not a problem at all.
He reached out and tried to feel his surroundings, but he failed to make contact with anything other than an expanse of the intangible pneuma of the world.
The essence of the world! The highly immense essence of the world! Here, the essence of the world, which was hundreds of times more immense than that in Taiyuan Heaven, was floating everywhere.
But all this essence meant little to Zhou Bao because it was impossible for his body to accommodate so much pneuma. Upon arriving at such a place where the density of the essence of the world was about to reach the bursting point, even activating an ordinary practicing state would be fatal. The reason was that once you started practicing, the essence there would transform into your Internal Qi of its own accord. And accordingly, you would not even consume a bit of your Internal Qi. It would then suffuse your entire body, and in the end, even make you burst, turning you into a haze of blood fog.
”What the hell is this place? Green Spirit, is this the Innate Deity's graveyard that you've talked about?” Zhou Bao inquired of Green Spirit as his psywave began to get active.
A sparkle of starlight flickered between his fingers, which then turned into a silver spider the size of a fist. With the appearance of this starlight, Zhou Bao could finally have a clear view of the surroundings. But to his frustration, the place around him was devoid of anything.
Even with the starlight, he could see nothing but the starlight itself and that large spider. There was simply an expanse of empty space.
”Boy, be patient, there is a spacetime gap here!” Green Spirit seemed to know about this place and went on, ”It looks like we've arrived at the right place. Innate Deities of the primitive times were inclined to pick this kind of empty and small space where the essence of the world was sufficient because that place highly resembled their birthplace!”
”Is that true? If so, how should we start the search? And how... how can we get out later?”
”You will know that when the time comes!”
”What do you mean?”
”The graveyards of Innate Deities and Primordial Demons were the favorite things those necromancers liked studying. For the purpose of these kinds of places, those damn necromancers had come up with plenty of methods to deal with them. From entering to exiting, all are supposed to abide by a settled procedure. So, this should not be your concern at all!”
”Really? It seems that those necromancers did excel at digging tombs and all this stuff, didn't they?”