Chapter 268: White Bone Fortress Ship (1/2)

Only dead idols were worshipped; the world didn’t need living heroes.

Everyone understood that logic. Indeed, the first impulse for most upon seeing Qing Han, Wu Tulong, Zi Chen, and Mo Qitian was to kill them. It was fine to repair the cultivation path, but those who did so… had to die!

Anyone who contributed at all was entirely unnecessary for the rest of the world. However, no one had previously dared consider the taboo of attacking Qing Han and the others, nor had they fathomed killing Lu Yun, the guardian who’d exhausted himself to protect the Dao Flower and the cultivation path.

The appearance of the Jiangchen clan stoked a surge of hostility through the crowd that swelled to new heights. Everyone wanted to slay Lu Yun in the chaos.

……

The bone fortress ship smashed through the Great Formation of Heavenly Fiends and gravely injured the nine bloodcorpses. They faded into faint shadows and returned to Yueshen’s grasp. Yuying, Feinie, Xuanxi, Aoxue, and Huangqing fought the immortals with fervent recklessness.

Lu Yun was still insensate from his wounds. Though he was rapidly recovering under Xuanxi’s talismans, he wasn’t awake just yet. Because he was unconscious, the Gates of the Abyss couldn’t open to release the Infernum within.

The envoys were alone in their struggle.

“Wait. There’s something strange about these axes!” Aoxue had picked up Lu Yun’s axe, but when she tried to lunge forward with a simple chop, she realized that doing so would cost all of her peak august immortal energy.

She retracted her movement before the attack was fully formed. “It’s not as the young master thought. Void realm alone isn’t enough to use this dao weapon,” she transmitted into her four colleagues’ minds, preventing them from using the treasures they held.

Aoxue was an unparalleled fighter, capable of perfect control over all of her methods and arts. She could even retract a chop with the dao weapon after setting it in motion! That wouldn’t be the case for the others.

If they tried to make use of the dao weapons, their energies would be instantly discharged. After all, when Lu Yun had used the axe, it’d cost all the pills they’d held.

“These dao weapons clearly have something to do with those hairy monsters. If anyone else tried to use them forcibly, their cultivation foundations would be broken!” The draconic envoy’s reminder sobered up her fellow envoys and they hastily stowed their black axes.

Feinie took out the Formation Orb and began wrapping the group in layer upon layer of defensive formations.

Rumble...

The enormous bone ship didn’t stop after it’d crashed through the Great Formation of Heavenly Fiends, but merely rippled with scarlet energy as it continued charging in their direction. Many immortals who weren’t quick enough to get out of the way were crushed as collateral damage.

For the first time, the five envoys felt a hint of despair dawn in their hearts. Dense light from the Formation Orb was being deformed by the bone ship as it proceeded forward bit by bit!

“That bone fortress ship has the power to counter formations!” Feinie yelped. “Unless I erase my brand of ownership from the Formation Orb and unleash its full power, I can’t possibly hope to stop it!”

Crack!

As she said this, the final defensive formation crumpled. Golden light flared from her body.

“Piss off!” Feinie yelled angrily. She unsealed her cultivation and unleashed every bit of power she had left in a single, resolute punch. The bone ship quavered violently, then came to a halt!

However, the commensurate damage to Feinie was equally great. Although she’d stopped the ship cold as a golden immortal, she herself drifted away as dust in return.