novelsky Chapter 815: The Cooked Duck Flew Away
Chapter 815: The Cooked Duck Flew Away
..."Cough, cough... Hua Jin the True One... don't get too cocky..."
The first to speak was not Lin Fan, nor Zhang Mengchu, but the barely breathing avatar of Chen Niu.
It looked up at the abyss-like sky, a flash of madness and smugness in its eyes.
The opening of all nine Wells of Heaven was Hua Jin the True One's opportunity, but wasn't it also its own?
Right now, those two variables were being restrained by Hua Jin the True One, which just happened to give it a chance to break free.
"You should never, ever have restrained those two!"
Chen Niu felt the vines gradually tightening around its body but didn't care in the slightest.
Even if Hua Jin the True One chopped it into a thousand pieces, it wouldn't matter. As long as its soul remained unextinguished, it could communicate with its true body in the Immortal Realm. When the time came, its true body could directly use its remaining vessel for a Divine Descent. Then, whatever Hua Jin the True One, whatever variables, would all die!
Chen Niu threw its head back and roared.
A violent shriek resounded throughout the entire Senluo World. The surrounding Forest Sea rippled outwards like water ripples. This sonic wave wasn't just propagating within Hua Jin the True One's World; it was also spreading outside the World.
Chen Huaian had just emerged from the Demon Sealing Pagoda when Chen Niu's avatar's sonic wave blasted him right in the face.
He hadn't been swallowed by Hua Jin the True One's World, but had been directly teleported outside the World by the Demon Sealing Pagoda. Now, the spot where the Demon Sealing Pagoda and the Celestial Jade Marrow had been born was just a mirror-like surface of water. The mirror reflected a world brimming with green vitality.
"Hua Jin the True One's World is complete? That was fast!"
He stood before the mirror surface, pondering whether to enter or not.
At the same time, he saw a stream of profound yellow energy shooting straight towards the heavens. Accompanied by Chen Niu's howl, one could vaguely see the phantom of Chen Niu, claws and fangs bared, spiraling upwards within the profound yellow energy.
It was very clear.
This was Chen Niu calling for reinforcements.
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"Damn it!"
How could Hua Jin the True One not know what Chen Niu was doing?
The vines binding Chen Niu instantly tightened. Originally soft and tough, the vines became the sharpest blades in Hua Jin's hands. The leaves on the vines actually emitted a sharp, piercing energy, riddling Chen Niu's avatar with thousands of holes.
As Hua Jin clenched her fingers.
Chen Niu's avatar immediately split into pieces.
The agony of dismemberment made Chen Niu let out a miserable howl, but while howling, it was also laughing maniacally: "Hee hee hee! Useless, my Demonic Soul has already reached the Immortal Realm!
In less time than it takes an incense stick to burn, my true body will descend. Even if your cultivation is at the peak of Feathered Transformation right now, how could you possibly be a match for my true body's Divine Descent?"
Before the words had even finished, Chen Niu's body had already been whipped into mincemeat by the vines that madly pounced down upon it.
Hua Jin the True One looked at the puddle of meat paste on the ground with an ugly expression.
Within that meat paste, there were flickering specks of metallic luster and the dissipating Spiritual Energy of a treasure.
—It was Chen Niu's treasure, the Mountain-Moving Seal, even if it was just a replica.
It was this imitated Mountain-Moving Seal that had silently given Chen Niu's avatar a chance to struggle.
In the end, she had been too careless.
Even though the rules and power within her World had also restricted Chen Niu's avatar's Demonic Soul, Chen Niu was, after all, an existence one level higher than her.
Who knows what Divine Ability it used, actually managing to send its Demonic Soul out by sacrificing the imitated Mountain-Moving Seal.
Don't think that Chen Niu's avatar's corpse was just a puddle of meat paste. If its true body descended, that meat paste could instantly recover into its True Form!
"Senior Zhang, Senior Gu, there will likely be a fierce battle later. I'll first send you and the Kunlun Immortal Palace disciples out of the Senluo World. You must quickly return to the Kunlun Immortal Palace." Hua Jin the True One flew before Zhang Yibai, her tone urgent. She then took out an incense stick with gilded patterns.
"Take this incense stick. After returning to the Kunlun Immortal Palace, light it before the statue of the Patriarch. If I can hold out until the Upper Immortal descends, then Chen Niu's descending true body will be nothing more than a paper tiger."
Zhang Yibai took the incense stick, thinking to himself — would this incense summon an immortal from the Immortal Realm?
Could he perhaps tamper with this incense stick a bit?
Let's not talk about whether this is conscience or not; he was targeting Hua Jin the True One's superior, not Hua Jin the True One herself.
Besides, if they could eliminate all the masterminds behind the reincarnation, Hua Jin the True One could break free from the cycle. Then, together with Wang Shouyi, one man, one woman for a lifetime, and maybe even have a whole soccer team of kids — wouldn't that be a wonderful thing?
"What about the Celestial Jade Marrow and the variables?" Gu Changsheng asked from the side.
"We can only fight quickly and end it decisively." Hua Jin the True One took a deep breath as she looked at Lin Fan and Zhang Mengchu sitting cross-legged in meditation.
Variables were variables, and their composure chilled her to the bone.
Even though Chen Niu's avatar had been whipped into mincemeat right before their eyes, these two were still meditating as if no one else was around, using all their strength to resist her vines with their True Essence. Just in the short time she had been talking, the vines wrapped around them had already shown signs of loosening.
If these variables weren't completely eradicated, they would undoubtedly become a fatal threat to the Kunlun Immortal Palace and the Immortals of Lingxiao in the future.
The mentality of a cat toying with a mouse was gone.
Hua Jin the True One condensed a green light at her fingertip, the True Essence in her palm pulsing violently with the rules of the World — she didn't hesitate for even half a moment more. Her left hand pressed towards the ground, her right hand drew an arc in the air, and she uttered a low shout: "Azure Nether World, Soul-Locking Blades!"
As her voice fell, the vines coiled around Lin Fan and Zhang Mengchu suddenly erupted. The originally deep green vines instantly faded to ink-black green, and all their leaves transformed into inch-long sharp blades, the blade surfaces gleaming with a cold light as if tempered with frost poison.
Even more terrifying, countless new vines burst from the soil within the surrounding Forest Sea, twisting towards the two like thousands of green serpents. The tips of the vines were even wreathed in a faint green halo of World power — this was her forcibly twisting the life force within the Senluo World into killing power. Each vine carried the tyrannical power to "lock souls and shatter spirits." Once entangled, not only would the physical body be crushed to dust, but even the True Essence and soul would be refined by the World's power.
At this critical moment, Zhang Mengchu and Lin Fan suddenly opened their eyes.
Two surges of Sword Intent shot towards the heavens, instantly shattering Hua Jin the True One's vines.
When trapped within Hua Jin the True One's World, the two had already tried to escape outside the World's domain.
It was just a pity that Hua Jin the True One's cultivation realm was much higher than theirs, making escape truly impossible. However, the two hadn't just sat around waiting for death either. Taking advantage of Hua Jin the True One killing Chen Niu, they endured hardship, conserved their strength, and built up their energy precisely for this moment!
"Bang!" Zhang Mengchu swung his sword, slashing at the vines before him.
Within Hua Jin the True One's World, his Life-bound Flying Sword had already been restricted and couldn't be used.
He could only casually take out a spare flying sword from his Storage Pouch.
But the moment his sword touched the vine-blades, a piercing metallic scraping sound came from the sword body, followed immediately by a three-inch-long crack appearing on it.
His face paled. Just as he was about to channel all his True Essence to resist, three more vines wrapped around his ankles from behind. The vine-blades directly cut through his protective Spiritual Energy light, and bone-chilling pain spread along his meridians.
Lin Fan, meanwhile, summoned a small bronze shield. The shield's surface was engraved with complex defensive runes.
But when the ink-black green vine-blades struck the shield, the runes rapidly dimmed as if melting ice and snow. In less than three breaths, the bronze shield was covered in cracks and, with a "crack," split into two halves. A vine took advantage of the opening to stab towards his heart. Although he dodged sideways to avoid it, it still slashed a deep, bone-visible wound on his shoulder. Blood instantly dyed his robe red.
The two men's resistance seemed so pale and powerless before Hua Jin the True One's killing move.
Hua Jin hovered in mid-air, watching the two retreat step by step. Finally, a trace of satisfaction colored the depths of her eyes.
Her fingertips moved slightly, adding another thirty percent of World power. The ink-black green vines immediately tightened, almost forcing the two men's True Essence to scatter: "Variables are ultimately variables. Without room to struggle, they're just lambs waiting to be slaughtered."
She thought to herself, as long as she dealt with these two, then turned around to deal with Chen Niu's Divine Descent, even if the situation was tricky, she would have one less worry — these fatal threats could finally be settled today!
A victorious smile had just begun to spread across her lips when she saw Lin Fan suddenly stop struggling.
Blood was flowing from his shoulder, his face was pale, but there wasn't a trace of fear in his eyes. Instead, a faint, cold smile slowly curved his lips.
"Hua Jin the True One," his voice wasn't loud, but it clearly pierced through the sounds of the vines' strangulation, "do you think you've already won?"
Hua Jin was stunned, an inexplicable sense of unease rising in her heart.
Before she could think it through, a ring of silver spatial ripples suddenly emanated from around Lin Fan and Zhang Mengchu — the ripples spread out like water struck by a stone. Wherever they passed, the air twisted into watery patterns. The ink-black green vines, upon touching the ripples, drooped down one after another as if severed by an invisible force.
The next instant, the silver ripples abruptly contracted, completely enveloping the two men.
Hua Jin's pupils constricted sharply. She reached out to grab them, but her fingertips only touched a wave of cold spatial fluctuation, not even brushing the hem of their clothes.
The silver light in the original spot flashed and vanished. Lin Fan and Zhang Mengchu, who had been trapped in the center of the vines, had disappeared without a trace, leaving only a few ink-black green vines that had lost their target, drooping dejectedly and swaying slightly in the wind.
Hua Jin the True One froze in mid-air, the satisfaction on her face instantly solidifying, replaced by utter astonishment and suspicion.
They ran?
The cooked duck flew away right before her eyes?
This was her World!
Her World's space was completely independent.
Could there really be some spatial technique that could override her World and simultaneously take away two people's physical bodies and souls?
The one who pulled off such a feat...
Could it be an Immortal?!
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