novelsky Chapter 856.14: Setting an Example
Chapter 856.14: Setting an Example
Zhang Yibai and the others only felt a blur before their eyes.That desolate, beautiful full moon spun gently between the two bronze statues, cold moonlight like spilled mercury instantly flooding the massive figures.
The sword's singing was as silent as moonlight.
Only a dense, scalp-tickling series of soft sounds remained.
Pfft, pfft, pfft, pfft...
Chen Huaian sheathed his sword, returning it to its scabbard.
The sequence flowed like clouds and water, as if he had casually broken off a peach blossom branch.
Behind him, the two bronze colossi that had been frozen in chopping poses stood motionless, the blue flames on their bodies doused as if someone had thrown a bucket of cold water on them; they were extinguished in an instant.
Then countless blinding lights shot out from their thick bodies.
The light was coming from behind them.
Those indestructible bronze forms now looked like banana leaves shredded by a torrential rain or rotting wood hollowed out by insects, full of piercingly clear sword holes!
Each hole was as smooth as a mirror, proof that the sword qi had reached its extreme, its edge sharpened to the utmost.
Boom!
The two colossi, riddled like honeycomb coal, collapsed with a roar, turning into a ground of rubble.
From the dust, an exquisitely crafted pill furnace drifted up slowly.
Chen Huaian dusted off his sleeve where no dust actually remained, turned his head, and said in a matter-of-fact tone:
"A little obstruction, but nothing major. I’ll just give you a quick demonstration, follow the example later."
Zhang Yibai, Wang Shouyi, and Gu Changsheng stood frozen, mouths agape, as if a lump of lead sat in their throats; they could not form a word for a long while.
"A little obstruction?"
"Give you a quick demonstration?"
Those two were berserk gatekeeper puppets!
In an instant they were stabbed into sieves?
"What are you standing there for?" Chen Huaian pointed ahead, "The pills are for you, the road still goes on. However... these things seem to grow stronger against stronger opponents, so it's steadier if you go one at a time like I said before."
Even though the two colossi had been shattered by Chen Huaian, the formation had not failed.
As Chen Huaian walked past, light converged on the plaza and reformed the two intact bronze statues.
Only this time, their auras had clearly fallen back to normal levels.
"I... I'll try."
Zhang Yibai took a deep breath. Although he had seen Chen Huaian's instant kill show, he did not underestimate the trial.
Reality, however, remained cruel.
When Zhang Yibai truly faced that single axe, he finally understood how terrifying Chen Huaian's sword had been.
Even with only one bronze statue and no berserk state, the crushing pressure still forced him to use every ounce of strength; his Two-Yin power and sword moves resisted, but he was repeatedly driven back, narrowly surviving with grave peril before he could pass.
Next was Gu Changsheng, tumbling and crawling; previously he had lost half a sleeve, and now he lost the other half, achieving perfect symmetry.
Last was Wang Shouyi. If those two bronze statues had not gone easy on this "weaker" one, that first axe might have finished him off.
Though he made it through, he spat blood, his whole body listless and weak.
Fortunately, as long as one person passed, the pill furnace would produce a healing pill.
They swallowed the pill from the furnace; although battered, at least they had crossed that hellish gate.
A moment later.
At the bronze gate, the space rippled.
Bi Yue Wu and Tu Fu Xing strode in with proud bearing.
Looking at the empty plaza and the wobbling iron-chain bridge in the distance, as well as the bloodstains on the ground, a trace of contempt flickered in Bi Yue Wu's eyes.
"What a mess."
Bi Yue Wu shook his head and sneered, "It seems those mortals probably left half their lives behind trying to pass this."
"Mortals are mortals after all; such crude puppet arts could also stop them." Tu Fu Xing glanced disdainfully at the two motionless bronze statues, "Let's go, don't keep the Great Emperor waiting."
In their eyes, the fact that Chen Huaian and the others had passed meant this checkpoint was extremely easy.
If mortals could pass, then as immortals they naturally would—
Tread it as if it were flat ground.
Thus, without even looking at the bronze statues, the two swept their sleeves and strode forward together into the guarded area.
Hum!!!
The instant they crossed the red line,
The two bronze statues' eyes suddenly opened wide.
This time, the pupils' light was no longer the ghostly green murderous flame Chen Huaian had faced, nor the blood-red glare Zhang Yibai had faced.
Instead—radiant, blinding pure gold!
Immortals entering the trap, the formation fully activated!
The two colossi instantly doubled in size, their bodies wrapped in golden light, like two armored divine generals descending to the world.
"What?!"
The sneer on Bi Yue Wu's face froze instantly.
Before he could react, two giant axes wrapped in golden thunder rent the void and, bearing the terrifying will of "Immortal-Slaying," struck down!
Boom—!!!
A tremendous sound, the earth shook and the mountains trembled.
The immortal shield Tu Fu Xing had just deployed didn't even hold for a moment before shattering into dust; he himself was smashed like a fly and driven deep into the earth.
Bi Yue Wu fared worse. His proud protective immortal radiance proved as fragile as thin paper before that axe; he was sent flying backward, slammed into the gate's light curtain like a broken sack, blood spewing, hair disheveled, pitiful as a beaten dog.
When the dust settled.
In front of the palace on the first floating peak,
People leaned on the iron chains watching the commotion, Chen Huaian faced the biting gale, looked down at the two embarrassed figures thrown outside the gate, tapped his finger on the sword hilt, and the corner of his mouth lifted into an almost imperceptible curve.
"Tsk, tsk, tsk, it seems the road here was much harder for the two immortals than it was for us~"