Chapter 187 – Emperor Tomb, Aries (1/2)
Chapter 187 - Emperor’s Tomb, Aries
‘Without this light shield protecting us, we’d have been killed a long time ago.” Qi Shaofeng thought himself lucky, and the bit of resentment that he had towards Ye Chen vanished.
“Hurry, let’s go!”
Grabbing Qi Shaofeng and Murong Qingcheng, Ye Chen stomped his foot against the ground and darted for the jungle entrance.
Pop! Pop! Pop! Pop!
Those purple vines would strike the light shield from time to time, and every strike made by these vines would break the light shield by around thirty percent; even worse, many times these strikes would fall on the exact same spot on the light shield. Fortunately, the light shield’s defensive powers was not static, instead, the blue airstreams were constantly flowing inside the light shield so that all the broken spots could be fixed right away; in this way, the light shield maintained a perfect balance.
The man-eating vine parent realised that its purple vines were incapable of breaking the light shield, thus it opened its mouth and belched out a thigh-thick dark-purple vine. As the dark-purple vine sped away from the parent, it speed was fast like lightning and only after it was several miles away, did a thunderous sound resound out. Unexpectedly, Its moving speed was several times faster than the sound speed.
“[Sky Devil Great Palm]!”
In this life and death moment, Murong Qingcheng once again launched a powerful move. Her slim and beautiful palm carried a power that was as deep as the ocean, and it struck the air.
Bang!
In front of her palm, every single object in several hundreds meter radius suddenly became suspended in the air, then soon became a puff of smoke. As for the dark-purple vine, although it hadn’t been reduced to smoke, it was indeed slowed down as if it had fallen into a swap. The dark-purple vine’s moving speed was instantly dragged down from three times to two times the speed of sound, and finally, to just the sound speed.
“That was all I could do,” said Murong Qingcheng with a stream of blood dripping from the corner of her mouth, “I’m counting the rest on you.”
“I’ve got this.”
Ye Chen nodded and responded. He spread his soul power out towards the front and the back, where the front being the entrance of the jungle and the back being where the man-eating vines’ parent was. Running at their fastest speed for half a day, they were finally reaching the entrance of this jungle, which was now only tens of miles away from them.
As a dim beam of light flashed across the storage ring he wore on his hand, a Red Light Fire bomb appeared in his hand. He had three Red Light Fire bombs in total, he got them from the ‘Devil Prince’ Leng Wuqing, back at the Heaven Dream Ancient Region. These Red Light Fire bombs were quite powerful and were even able to hurt a medium Clasping Yuan Realm martial artist. Nonetheless, not a single medium Clasping Yuan Realm martial artist could be a threat to Ye Chen’s life now, thus, he had no reason to save these three bombs, and was instead going to use them now.
Ye Chen flicked his fingers slightly and threw a fire bomb backwards. The bomb made a beautiful parabola in the air while flying out of the light shield. Observing closely, one would realise that when the Red Light Fire bomb was only a millimetre away from the light shield,
Ye Chen shouted, “Explode!”
A raging blaze erupted in the air along with Ye Chen’s voice. The formidable power released by the bomb did not even damage the light shield a little, on the contrary, it largely improved the moving speed of the light shield and the three people wrapped inside it, almost making it shoot out like a roaring shooting star.
“What an excellent idea!”
Both Qi Shaofeng’s and Murong Qingcheng’s eyes suddenly shone in surprise. Before, they thought that Ye Chen had reached his current level only out of luck, but now, the both of them changed their thinking. Under such a pressing and dangerous situation, Ye Chen could still remain so calm, and even come up with such a clever idea to create an external force to improve their moving speed. They felt so dumb when they compared themselves to Ye Chen, as they knew nothing but to fight blindly.
Ye Chen took out the other two Red Light Fire bombs, and did exactly the same with them as he had did just now. Their moving speed was raised to such an incredible degree that, wherever they passed, the air would twist intensely and clouds of dirt would be raised, forming fierce and muddy waves that closely followed behind the blue light shield.
Pop!
The dark-purple vine finally recovered from the effect of the [Sky Devil Great Palm], and boosted its speed back up to three times the speed of sound, and rapidly chased after them.
Five miles!
Three miles!
One miles!
In the time it took ten blinks, the dark-purple vine had already reached one mile away from the light shield, and this distance was shortening rapidly.
By now, the entrance of this jungle was only two miles away from the light shield.
“Success or failure depends on this moment!”
Ye Chen still remained perfectly calm and kept running at his highest speed, as if the dark-purple vine did not even exist.
After one eye blink, the dark-purple vine was only less than three-hundred meters from the light shield.
In half an eye blink, the distance was shortened to less than fifty meters.
“Go!”
Ye Chen grabbed the Yuan light ball, which was the core of the light shield, and abruptly threw it backwards.
Swoosh!
All three of them flew out of the light shield at that moment and kept running towards the entrance.
Puff!
The light shield that was left on the ground suddenly distorted, it was then punctured by the dark-purple vine. Its great defensive power had only managed to stall the dark-purple vine for a single blink of an eye.
In this short span of time, Ye Chen, Qi Shaofeng and Murong Qingcheng had reached less than two-hundred meters away from the entrance of the jungle, and the dark-purple vine was three-hundred meters away from them.
Three-hundred meters would only take the dark-purple vine one-third of an eye blink, but the three people could never make it out of the jungle in such a short time span.
At last, the dark-purple vine punctured all three of their bodies.
No, the ones that were penetrated were Zhen Qi silhouettes.
As it turns out, Ye Chen had swiftly launched the Shadow-Dividing Light Art at the crucial moment and created three Zhen Qi silhouettes to trick the dark-purple vine; as for the real Ye Chen, he had already moved to the front and right of the dark-purple vine, with Qi Shaofeng and Murong Qingcheng carried in his arms.
In the next moment!
The dark-purple vine again, punctured their…Zhen Qi silhouettes.