Chapter 659: Tongue-tied, Thunderstruck (1/2)

“Don’t recognize me? Lu Yun casually tore off a piece of black cloth and covered his face with it. “Behold! Thou art in the presence of Dusk Province’s Lu Yun!”

Dong!

He hefted the crystal cannon off his shoulder, put it on the ground, and patted its barrel.

Ge Yanxia stared at the newcomer. Am I stupid? Am I that easy to trick?

Crystal cannons were now common goods in the world of immortals. Both the common and ‘lord-grade’ types could be readily obtained, as long as one was willing to spend enough immortal crystals.

This kid could be anyone. Dusk Province’s Lu Yun? Hah, that kid was crystal-starved and willing to risk life and limb to gain any more.

There weren’t that many in the world who dared use the cannons so brazenly. For one thing, their destructive power was too great, and for another, they consumed too many immortal crystals. Every shot required up to ten billion immortal crystals, and few were willing to spend that much unless as a last resort.

But there were exceptions to every rule—this newly-arrived pup, for example.

Lu Yun’s Shapeshifting death art was a tremendously marvelous skill. Neither illusion nor disguise, it was a transformation in the true sense of the word, one that fully altered from the inside out. So, when transformed into Yin Qingran, he became Yin Qingran himself. Of course, that didn’t mean he acquired his new identity’s combat arts as well.

Qi Hai had already recognized ‘Yin Qingran’ for who he truly was, but he wasn’t fool enough to enlighten Ge Yanxia.

Boom!!

Lu Yun aimed the cannon’s mouth at Ge Yanxia and fired a second time. The black ripple oscillated in front of the fur seal, preventing the cannon shot from touching a single hair on her body.

“Hmph! Do you think a crystal cannon will stop our tribe’s great undertaking?” Ge Yanxia sneered, convinced that ‘Yin Qingran’ was trying to stop it from releasing the demon fetus.

Hum!

A droning hum spread out from Ge Yanxia’s figure when she returned to her true fur seal form. She grimaced savagely as she leapt out of the ripples of transformation and threw herself recklessly at Lu Yun.

Boom!

The cannon in front of Lu Yun erupted once more, a huge pillar of light streaking straight toward Ge Yanxia’s ponderous figure.

Light pillar and fur seal crashed in the air, the impact generating prodigious shockwaves that actually hit the target this time. While formidable, the treasure protecting her had its limits.

“Hurry up and help me!”

The tremendous attack had broken Ge Yanxia’s spatial restriction, returning freedom of movement to Qi Hai and Liu Chen. But, shaken to their core, man and ghost had been too shell-shocked to act.

With Lu Yun’s reminder, Liu Chen immediately left Zhao Chong’s body and returned to his ghost king state. An enormous malevolent ghost face coalesced in the air and blew out gusts of terrifying yin energy.

Meanwhile, Qi Hai scrambled back to his feet. A hundred and eight pills flew out of his hands like so many luminous pearls, forming a single string of pills that whipped toward Ge Yanxia akin to a shooting star.

The black ripple wavered tirelessly in front of Ge Yanxia, but the tremendous attacks pierced through its defenses and landed on the fur seal herself.

The creature wasn’t a true origin dao immortal; she’d merely used a forbidden art to forcibly increase her cultivation. And now that she was besieged by the combined assault of two formidable powerhouses and a crystal cannon’s constant barrage… it didn’t take long for her to suffer heavy injuries.