453 Out of the Inferno (2/2)

Yun Yang's feet could vaguely feel the chill of the underground river now. Just as he relaxed and was about to flow with the water, the Spiritual Restraining Formation was finally activated. Yun Yang felt his body grow heavier, as he lost his water manifestation powers and returned to his human form. Gravity pulled him down as he stumbled and sunk into the underground river; the loss of the Holy Water Charm's control caused the underground river to fall it's surging path, carrying sand, stone and Yun Yang back into the deeper layers of the earth.

The stream of water flowed back into the underground river, moving forward but into an unknown direction.

The mountains crumbled as stones and rocks showered down like a storm. It was a scene from the end of the world. Both the attackers moved fluidly, their arms dancing as they calmly flung away the storm of stone and dust. Left and right, they cleared the ruins around them and dove under the onslaught like two strikes of lightning.

Loud, rumbling sounds could still be heard. It was the two men pushing the debris of stones aside or crushing them altogether. What they saw was a dampness, two thousand feet in depth, a trace of the underground river that had come.

Both men attacked at the same time; the explosion of sword light barreled another hundred feet downwards, but there was no trace of Yun Yang. They repeated the process dozens of times, the blows resulting in the faint sound of water flowing underneath.

They wanted to keep on going and reach the underground river to pursue Yun Yang, but the landslide above had finally begun to show its effects. With an earth-shattering boom, the sides of the walls above them collapsed simultaneously.

Not only was there total destruction, the layout of the earth had changed as well!

The men cursed and threw out a wave of intense mystical Qi, intending to inhibit nature's destruction with their formidable strength. Their cultivation base was already at the top of the world, so the natural mayhem could hardly deal damage to the both of them.

In spite of this, they could not stop the collapsing rubble from sinking due to gravity.

When the dilapidation was over, the men were horrified to discover that they had once again returned close to the surface of the earth. The thousand foot-deep tunnel that they had just formed had been securely filled up by the falling debris.

Any trace of Supreme Cloud had disappeared. There were no more hints of him to be found.

”Arghh!”

The person who had come after Mr. Nian raised both his hands; two rays of sword light were unleashed at the same time… He still wanted to try, not giving up on the chance to wipe out Supreme Cloud.

Crumbled rock and soil were flung into the air once more. Mr. Nian provided assistance as well.

An hour later, a three thousand feet opening formed where they stood. The widest aperture was about ten thousand feet in diameter. It was just like a giant funnel!

Both the men were now looking upon the surface of the earth that lay three thousand feet underground.

An underground river, twenty to thirty feet wide with an unknown depth rushed past them, entering the dark cave on the other end.

Mr. Nian looked ferocious. He rubbed his hands and a stick made out of pure mystical Qi appeared. He plunged it straight into the river. The stick's length was growing, the bottom of the river coming into contact with the stick only after it had grown a hundred feet in length.

The underground river was only thirty feet wide but it was also a hundred feet deep with a fierce current. With the amount of time that had passed, Supreme Cloud, who also had Supreme Water's manifestation powers, might already be long gone!

The situation had changed. Supreme Cloud's various manifestation powers were extremely useful here. Even if they knew that he was right there in this river, they were helpless to do anything about it, and would not have been able to capture him.

How could they know which drop of water was Supreme Cloud, given the amount of liquid in the entire river?

Even if their cultivation base had been divine, they could not possibly have evaporated the entire underground river.

”He's gone.”

Mr. Nian sighed softly, a strange glow glinting in his eyes.

He had not expected that the remaining sin of the Nine Supremes could not be purged, despite his personal appearance and superior ability. What made it worse was that they already had

”It's not yet time for Supreme Cloud to die. We'll look for the next opportunity.” The other person said in a soft voice.

”The next opportunity is right before our eyes! We only need to search the battlefield. Yutang is at a critical juncture now. If Supreme Cloud managed to escape, he won't shirk his responsibility to appear on the battlefield.”

”You're right. With worry weighing him down, he won't be able to escape his downfall!”

Mr. Nian nodded in agreement.

Both men exchanged glances before they descended to the ground without hesitation. to collect the formation's spiritual stones. After they had retrieved their treasures, they soared into the sky, towards the east.

On the ground, the funnel-shaped pit that had been dug by the experts slowly seeped water – like a giant eye that was gleaming with a mocking glint.