704 Zi Yue! (1/2)
There was no roaring, no reply. There were only… twin glows, crimson and filled with madness, that gradually lit the darkness inside the cavern. They were… the eyes of the Night Immortal King!
There was a blackish tinge to the red. It lacked the clarity of purple, and instead had a certain murkiness to it. The eyes showed no intelligence. They revealed the violence of a feral beast as they stared unblinkingly at Wang Baole, as if he had something that held their obsessive attention, something that they couldn't turn away from.
Wang Baole's eyes were calm. He lowered his head and stared straight into the Night Immortal King's eyes. Man and corpse, one outside the cave and one concealed in the cave's darkness, stared at each other.
The scene would make a bizarre painting indeed!
Time flowed slowly. Thirty minutes passed. The activation of the moon's engines and the growing tremors spreading across the moon had agitated the Night Immortal King. Wang Baole's appearance seemed to have intensified that agitation. The Night Immortal King's breathing grew heavier as the prolonged eye contact continued. A low, threatening growl began to emerge from the cave.
Wang Baole stared into the Night Immortal King's eyes as he listened to the latter's threatening growl. He could feel waves of spirit energy, cultivation that had belonged to the Night Immortal King's former living self, stirring inside the Night Immortal King. Wang Baole's assessment… placed the Night Immortal King's cultivation at the Soul Conduit realm.
Without a semblance of intelligence and left with only instinct, the Night Immortal King clearly couldn't unleash his true former Soul Conduit realm cultivation despite having awoken. His last two awakenings had resulted in a catastrophe, but those disasters had been within the bounds of the Federation's control. The damage had been kept to the minimum. This might have something to do with the chains on the Night Immortal King, which were sealing his true strength.
\”Well, that's quite a disappointment.\” Wang Baole sighed. He must truly possess great potential. He had trembled like a fool at the sight of the Night Immortal King mere years ago, but now, he felt like he could overpower the Night Immortal King.
He's still something we could use during battle. Wang Baole shook his head slightly in disappointment as he stepped towards the cave. In the next instant, he was racing into the cave. The Night Immortal King's eyes flashed with violence as soon as Wang Baole entered the cave. The Night Immortal King lifted his head and howled, causing fierce winds to whip the air. He raised his right hand and sent it swiping at Wang Baole.
The Night Immortal King was enormous, his finger the size of Wang Baole. His hand shot out and was about to seize Wang Baole when he vanished with a sudden teleportation, evading the Night Immortal King's giant hand while appearing in the deepest part of the cave, where he finally saw the Night Immortal King's gargantuan form.
Green-colored seals decorated the Night Immortal King's body, which bristled with unreleased violence and brutality. The sight was enough to send most Nascent Soul realm cultivators reeling back in terror. Wang Baole was clearly not most Nascent Soul realm cultivators.
Armed with the Thearch Armor, the unique capabilities of his Stellar Nascent Soul, and the bizarre power of his demonic eye, Wang Baole could kill a Soul Conduit realm cultivator with relative ease. What more the Night Immortal King, who was a mere corpse.
Having evaded the Night Immortal King's swipe, Wang Baole got up close and personal with him. He wasn't interested in the Night Immortal King but the nine heavy chains imprisoning the latter. The origins of the chains remained mysterious. In the Federation's records of the Night Immortal King's fall, the chains had already existed then. They had sunk deep into the moon's core and bound the Night Immortal King to the moon.
A chain that could fuse with a satellite must be crafted from extraordinary material and possess incredible power. Wang Baole considered the possibility of extracting the chain and refining it. It might become a valuable artifact that could pose a threat to Daoist You Ran.
With a side-step, he avoided another furious swipe from the howling Night Immortal King and appeared behind the latter. He was less than a hundred feet from the chains, and he inspected them carefully.
His findings sent his pupils contracting in shock. His head began buzzing loudly, and his breathing stopped momentarily. Then, his form blurred as his avatar materialized and stepped away from him. It raced towards the chains. Upon their sudden collision, bursts of red lightning bolts exploded from the chains. The lightning bolts seemed to possess sentience. They surrounded Wang Baole's avatar instantly, then blew up. Despite his avatar's resilient form, it was overpowered by the explosion. It shuddered and began showing signs of degradation.
The signs of degradation continued even after the avatar managed to free itself and retreat back to Wang Baole's side. Its hair was fully white, its body aged and wrinkled. It was as if it had been drained of life and vitality and had aged suddenly.