575 Rank 7 Will Power (1/2)

This was a huge lake, the surface shining with faint green colored light spots which made the whole lake extremely crystalline and clear, as if it were simply made up of the light itself.

”This must be it!”

Seein the lake, Ye Chen's eyes brightened, but a curious look appeared on his face in the next moment. There were countless frightening Shadowless demons down in the underground crack, so he wondered how the people inside the pavilion knew that the Rootless Flowers and Shadowless Plants were growing here.

'Perhaps the Life and Death Realm warriors were here themselves, eh? No way!' Ye Chen shook his head on his own conjecture. Life and Death Realm warriors would not do these kinds of things for money for sure. 'Then, perhaps it was the top rank master level warriors? Not that possible either…The evilness and brutality of the Shadowless Demons here are very well-known. If it were not for the fact that I knew that my slaughter and destruction sword intents could cancel out the power of the Shadowless Demons, I would not have come here either, not to mention a similar master level warrior.'

What Ye Chen could not know was that the Shadowless Demons in this region were just demon will projections of some powerful being. Normal characters would not have caught the owner of those Shadowless Demons' attention, so they would actually be safer than he was. Only extremely powerful young warriors would become its prey. The fact that those powerful warriors' bodies had only been taken over by normal demon wills while Gu Ping's had been taken over by the main powerful being could prove it.

”The pavilion is so powerful, perhaps they had their own secret ways of doing things.”

Letting go of those questions he had no answers of, he lifted up his eyes and looked at the sky above the lake.

”Hm?”

His eyes flashed as Ye Chen saw a floating green flower a few hundred meters away from there. It was only a palm-sized flower, with only two flower petals looking like thin wings. Under the flower, where the root should be, were only two tentacles that were moving slightly.

”Come!”

Ye Chen recognized the flower to be the Rootless Flower that he had been looking for. His waved once with his right hand, and a suction power emerged.

It seemed as if it had sensed the threat as the two flower petals started to flap rapidly, trying its best to fight off the suction power. Meanwhile, the light dots below the flower rose up, forming a natural, light green blockage, blocking out Ye Chen's power.

”Interesting!”

Letting down his right hand, Ye Chen stamped his feet onto the ground and his whole body shot out, arriving right in front of the light green protection layer.

”Break!”

He formed his right hand into a fist and a thunder lion appeared as he threw out a punch onto the layer.

Pop! Pap! Pop! Pap!

Thunder appeared on the light layer, which suddenly exploded and cracked open an area, allowing Ye Chen to shoot right through. Seeing that the Rootless Flower was about to land into his hands, the lake right below him scrambled. A long black shadow appeared out of nowhere, fast like lightning.

Ye Chen's expression did not change as he pulled back his right hand and reached toward his waist. In the next second, a golden sword light appeared. With one flash, he managed to slice open the long black shadow. After doing all that, he did not stop; instead, he reached into his waist with his left hand. It was like a green dragon appearing out of the water or a poisonous snake coming out of its cave; he held onto the Rootless Flower that was trying to 'escape' and then fell back, avoiding another black shadow's ambush.

On the shore, Ye Chen used his extreme rank jade box to contain his newly-gained Rootless Flower and put it inside his storage ring, then looked into that wave area.

Splash!

A mountain-like object appeared out of the water. Long black shadows surrounded the whole thing, eight of them in total. In the middle of the 'mountain' were two giant lanterns that were lit up brightly. Each one of them was the size of water tank, giving people a very intense pressurizing feeling.

It was a black octopus, a massive one at that. Its body was not round, but with angles and sharp edges. Colored patterns covered its body as well, looking bright and distracting. With no need to actually interact with the octopus, it was easy to tell by just judging based on its appearance that it was full of poison.

”Die, die, die!”

It spoke human language, but its voice was inhuman and extremely frightening, as if it could crawl right into one's soul.

”It is you that will die!”

Putting his gold sword back into the scabbard, Ye Chen did not care for the black octopus at all.

Boom!

Ye Chen's language had enraged the octopus, its water-tank-sized eyes shooting out an unbearably bright light while all eight tentacles of its started to dance in the air. It jumped at Ye Chen all of a sudden; its beast qi alone could crush a whole mountain. A circular wave of air pattern spread out at an extreme speed.

Lifting up both of his hands, Ye Chen looked extra cold.

Swoosh! Swoosh! Swoosh!

The next second, a light-beam-like sword qi shot out of all ten of his fingers. They overlapped on each other, looking like a massive blue colored web. The black octopus was traveling quickly and it directly crashed into the web, causing the sound of countless sharp swords cutting tough rocks to be heard. At that moment, the octopus' body was full of wounds, and three of the eight tentacles were cut off; they had then been shattered by that horrifying sword qi tornado.

It looked like it was shocked at Ye Chen's power, letting out a frightened cry as its body shrank and sank down into the lake as quickly as a lightning bolt. But, because of its extreme sinking speed, all of the lake water around it shot ten meters high like an iron bucket.

The light spots had the effect of blocking out soul power detection. Ye Chen waited for a long while, but the octopus did not appear again. After knowing that it was scared of him, he could not help but chuckle out. However, his smile froze on his face soon, because he had heard an air-slicing noise that sounded like it was from death itself. He turned his head and saw a couple of Gu family's warriors, although their eyes were rolled up. The leading man was indeed Gu Ping, who was emitting an evil vibe; however, he was looking normal somehow.

”These people had their bodies stolen?” Ye Chen could tell the strangeness immediately.

”Let's go!”

As Gu Ping waved his hand, all of his top warriors rushed out at Ye Chen, who was a hundred meters away. Meanwhile, a huge number of blurry human shadows were mixed within the group of Gu family warriors, preparing to attack when the moment came.

A cold smile appeared on the corner of Ye Chen's mouth as he lifted up both of his hands again.

”Sword qi tornado! Full power!”