Chapter 197 – Demon Lotus (2/2)

“The times are changing! With a youngster like this, Green Moon City will be ran by the Ye’s from now on!”

“Interesting! Exactly a century ago the Ye’s were strong, and even the City Lord had to give them face I heard.”

“Ha, this is karma! Us, Mo’s, have always kept a good relationship with the Ye’s!”

As for the patriarchs that had poor relationship with the Ye family, they shared a devious look. They all wished that the Lu’s would not take the death of two elders and hundreds of their condensed prime Warriors lightly even if seeking revenge would mean angering the royals and the Runemaster Union. Some of them were already thinking about how they should send their quickest men to the state’s capital to explain the situation so the Lu’s would react immediately.

As the residual energy from the violent battle began to die down, the patriarchs all turned away, chatting. As the lotus was slowly absorbing the scattered runes and the Qi close by, it revealed itself, and Ye Wei was the only person who noticed its presence.

‘What is that?’ The young Runemaster said in his head while frowning and narrowing his eyes.

‘Kid, that is a demonic lotus...’ The sinister sounding, Black Scale Progenitor’s hoarse mutter echoed in Ye Wei’s mind.

‘And...?!’ The progenitor’s tone made Ye Wei feel extremely uncomfortable.

‘And… Hahaha! You will all be very dead soon! The lotus will explode when it is fully charged, and this one is by no means small! Lu Qianhuan must have fed it well!’ The progenitor replied laughing at Ye Wei’s bad luck. ‘You don’t stand a chance! You are nowhere near strong enough to stop it nor quick enough to outrun it! You will become dust, and I, my friend, will be quite safe inside this scale.’

‘Does it mean the explosion will affect the city?!’ A shiver of pure terror traveled down Ye Wei’s spine.

He could not just stand and watch. He could not just leave his family and the citizen of Green Moon City here to die. The hair on his back rose as he activated Starblink Steps and took a courageous step forward in the lotus’ direction.

The young Runemaster reached the demonic plant in less than a second and retrieved it with a chain made from Qi. He unloaded a vast amount of his amplified energy into the runes he was riding, and turned around flying away from the city.

‘Hahaha! Kid, you should be running away from it, not with it!’ The progenitor’s sadistic laugh sounded in Ye Wei’s mind. ‘I guess it doesn’t really matter, it’s too late! You will die either way and the city will be destroyed!’

“Crack!”

The lotus suddenly bloomed. The first layer of its nine patels fell, unleashing a terrifying energy wave.

“Whoop!” Ye Wei was just a meter away from the lotus and was immediately swept off his feet by the tsunami-like energy wave. He tasted rustiness in his mouth as he coughed up a mouthful of blood while flying backwards for miles like a stringless kite.

“Zoom! Zoom! Zoom!”

The lotus slowly began to spin. Its spinning was accelerating in time with the waves it was producing. Within a breath’s time, the lotus’ energy had engulfed the whole city within seconds.

“What’s going on!?” Gu Qing and Xiao Qingyun tried to activate the shield again but the red mist’s energy was pressuring them so much that their dantians were unable to flow with Qi.

“Argh!”

The pressure quickly escalated, and the City Lord and the Principal fell to the ground together with the rest of the citizens, shaking on the floor.

“No!” Ye Wei tried to get closer to the lotus. Gritting his teeth, he ignored his injuries and the pain he was enduring, but despite his effort, he could not move his body more than an inch.

‘Hahaha! Just relax! It won’t be long now.’ The progenitor was still laughing maniacally. ‘Be happy, at least you will not die alone!’

Every living sous in the city felt the impact, thinking it was a foreshock to an earthquake.

“That was not natural!” Master Yi could feel the Qi disturbance from the Ye’s mansion, and looked towards the City Lord’s castle with a flash of fear in his eyes.

Even over thirty miles away from the lotus, Master Yi’s breathing was becoming irregular as he was already being affected by it.

“No, definitely not!” The Runemaster’s three-star returned prime Warrior friend could also feel it. His Qi flow was drastically weakened.

The energy waves were growing stronger and stronger, the city was shaking more vigorously as houses and other building were beginning to fall apart!