Chapter 394: Crisis and Flee
Translator: Transn Editor: Transn
The Sword Qi pierced right through the purple mist as if stabbing into a piece of thick cow hide. Feeling a spasm from the strong recoil reflex, Zhou Bao gritted his teeth. The Fiery Eyes between his eyebrows immediately started to blaze. The Yin and Yang Heavenly Sword Qi suddenly came alive. And the frantic killing intent launched a sweeping attack.
Swish!
With a soft sound, the purple mist was ripped apart, and a glimmer of purple light shot out.
“Boy, go to hell!”
A snarl of outrage spewed forth from the old man in sackcloth. It came from within the purple light.
Outrageous indeed!
How could he not be furious?
All he had been doing was quietly observing the place, and all of a sudden, he had been ambushed by a sneak attack. It was no wonder that he was infuriated!
Amidst the purple light, numerous purple stars were shimmering. Playing the Three Realms Division to the extreme, Zhou Bao’s figure flashed several times and he executed the space shuttling technique a dozen times in a row so as to dodge the purple stars. However, that did not work.
In a split second, Zhou Bao was hit by at least hundreds of purple stars. Though the cyan and golden lights kept flickering and deflected some of the purple light, these purple stars were too powerful and managed to break through the barricade of the Poison Cold Shield and the Nine Dragons Heavenly Fire Gang and shot directly onto Zhou Bao’s body.
“Argh!” The immense pain caused Zhou Bao to let out a muffled scream. Immediately, blood flowed everywhere. His body that had been strengthened by the remains of the Innate Deity had been pierced by those purple stars! Each one of the stars was emitting a kind of power that made his body numb. The parts of his body that went numb immediately became very weak as well!
However, for Zhou Bao, this loss of strength was only temporary, so too with the injuries all over his body. After another half second, the numb sensations receded, and all his wounds had fully healed.
Meanwhile, the purple mist dispersed almost at once, leaving the old man in sackcloth standing there, fuming. His loosely hanging hair parted to show horrible bloodstains on his body—he had a severe wound between his shoulders!
That wound was caused by Zhou Bao’s Yin and Yang Heavenly Sword Qi.
When he saw that Zhou Bao was still standing, his rage instantly turned into shock. Zhou Bao noticed that he held a purple flower in his left hand, and around its petals were numerous purple stars, glistening and floating in the air. That was the sky full of purple stars which had injured him earlier.
“It’s a Pure Yang Celestial Device, and its power is close to that of a fairy weapon. No wonder it can penetrate both of my defense layers and cause me to be injured!” Zhou Bao glanced at him in astonishment, finally able to ease the thought that was troubling him.
The background of this old man in sackcloth was an unusual and his cultivation was even more amazing, so it was hard for Zhou Bao to get down to the bottom of it all. He was worried that he would be in deep trouble if this old man had one or two fairy weapons with him. However, it was widely known that fairy weapons were not easily accessible, meaning it was not readily available to any ordinary being. Apparently, what this old man in sackcloth had was not a fairy weapon, but a Pure Yang Celestial Device. Although the power of this Pure Yang Celestial Device was extremely strong, Zhou Bao still felt relieved that this old man had not resorted to using a fairy weapon even after being forced into a corner by his Yin and Yang Heavenly Sword and Poison Cold Shield and getting injured at the same time, which suggested that this guy had no fairy weapon on hand for sure. Otherwise, he would certainly have used it.
With all those concerns gone, Zhou Bao decided to end his fight with the old man. He sneered and with that, a jet of golden light shot out from the back of his head and zoomed to the sky. In the golden light, an antique golden mirror could be seen faintly, from which another blast of golden light flashed and charged directly at that old man.
“Demon-detecting Mirror?” At the sight of that mirror, the old man was at first petrified, but later gave a fleeting sneer. The purple flower in his hand instantly blossomed, forming a purple shroud around himself, which fended off the splendor of Zhou Bao’s Golden Flame Mirror!
“Kid, you look very young, but you have more than one Pure Yang Celestial Device. Where on earth are you from? After blocking the Golden Flame Mirror, the old man showed no panic but exhibited total composure while asking his question. “You are not a disciple of a certain lord or Elder from the Divine Wind Palace, are you?”
“Zhou Bao merely laughed at his words and replied, “Stop playing for time. I came in by accident and found out about the dirty deal between you and the Divine Wind Palace. Thus, there is no other way!”
“Well, it’s surely what I expected. You must have already known about the other place of Nine Dragons convergence. This is good. I can capture you and force you to tell me its exact location; it will save me a whole lot of trouble to have to search for it by myself. Since I’ve found the trail of space fluctuations you left when entering here, with some reverse calculations, I can easily discover the entrance that you came through. Thus, I don’t have to bother interrogating you at all. Such being the case, you can just go to hell!” Grinning hideously, the old man in sackcloth stretched out a hand towards Zhou Bao with the purple flower in it. Instantly a gigantic shadow of the purple flower appeared on top of Zhou Bao’s head, in full bloom and looking as though it was about to swallow him whole.
“With just a mere Pure Yang Celestial Device, you dare act rashly in front of me?” Zhou Bao laughed dismissively. From the shadow of that Golden Flame Mirror suspended over his head, there suddenly shone a golden light which knocked the gigantic purple flower away.
The huge purple flower had strong powers, but when it encountered the golden light emitted by the Golden Flame Mirror, it was thrown off instantly, much like a regular flower that had encountered a truck. Then, the golden light blazed strongly and an extremely powerful force instantly took up the entire space and forcefully pressed down upon that old man in sackcloth.
“A fairy weapon?” The expression of the old man in sackcloth altered dramatically. He did not expect that this Teen dressed in cyan clothes before him, who looked like a weakly scholar, had even possessed a fairy weapon!
Overwhelmed by this attack, the old man in sackcloth was firmly locked up by fetters comprising of seven different fire lights that had come out from the golden light. With a hard pull, the fetters jerked the old man towards the Elixir Furnace.
“That should work!”
Zhou Bao sighed with relief. But to his shock, a growl suddenly sounded in his ears.
“How dare you!”
This voice sounded like a clap of thunder, reverberating through everyone’s bones. Meanwhile, a huge hand came out from the hollow and relentlessly bulldozed its way towards the golden light.
“What type of monster is this?” Zhou Bao cackled. He felt an invincible power coming from that huge hand. Without hesitation, he threw the golden light of his Furnace of Immortality over himself to protect his body.
Boom! That huge hand struck hard at the golden light. Zhou Bao felt a vibration from the Furnace of Immortality and then took one step backward, whereupon that huge hand bounced off under the impact of the unmatched power of the fairy weapon as fits of Spatial Fissure sound echoed about.
Yes, it was the Spatial Fissure!
Its effect was not like that of the Great Fusion Technic, which could only fuse a chunk of space; nor did it resemble the Yin and Yang Heavenly Sword, which simply cut space apart. This time, it was a fissure!
With the collision of two immense powers, the space tore apart as if it was a piece of paper.
Crack, split, and recombine. This process was repeated over and over again!
Splash! Splash!
The black chain, which had extended to the depths of the hollow and which had the 81 Ancient Celestial Dragons tightly locked in it ever since ancient times, began to rattle and shake under the impact of the collision. The fissure did not reach this black chain or the 81 Ancient Celestial Dragons as they were separated from this space. However, the aftermath of the fissure attack caused them to toss about turbulently.
Although the huge hand ricocheted away, Zhou Bao was not feeling well. Under the impact of the vast recoil force, the Furnace of Immortality, as a fairy weapon, was standing up to it fairly well. But it was Zhou Bao who was operating the Furnace. After facing the palm attack, he retreated one pace. He had a feeling that his body was about to crack open and shatter into pieces. In that split second, he even felt he was in a trance.
“Crap. This time I really bumped into someone who is extremely strong!”
Of course, the opponent was a mighty one. Single handedly, he had broken through layers of the hollow with only one hand, forced a head-on collision with Zhou Bao’s fairy weapon—the Furnace of Immortality—and caused him to be injured to such a severe extent, how could he not be mighty?
Even though Zhou Bao had confidence in himself, he was not dumb. Facing someone with such a great cultivation and such a high level, he knew he would not be able to handle him. Then, what should he do?
Run for it!
The only plan Zhou Bao could come up with was to flee the scene —run away before the opponent’s second attack came!
But it was not that easy. Though he could flee, which place could he flee to?
That was the problem, indeed!.
This was a strange space. When Zhou Bao first entered, he had relied on the formation in the well. But after the attack, this space was thoroughly fissured and had not gone back to its original settings yet. Thus, Zhou Bao was now standing in the mess of spacial turbulences. If he were to take even one wrong step, he would be carried away into the infinite hollow and get lost in it, with no chance of returning. Or else, he might only manage to come back to the present world in tens of thousands of years, which was the last thing he wanted to do.
However, if he chose not to run away, he could only await his death here. But before he could even come up with a solution after pondering over various options, the huge hand came crashing through the space once more. This time, its momentum was even greater than before.
“Now you’ll die for sure!”
In front of this huge hand which had appeared when it broke through the space, the only thing Zhou Bao could do was to propel his Furnace of Immortality and then await his death.
Yes, wait for his death!
Because even if his Furnace of Immortality could take on this attack, his body could not bear the recoil force anymore.
BOOM!
The huge hand crashed into the golden light of the Elixir Furnace again, but this time, the two did not split part, for that huge hand had taken hold of the golden light as though it was trying to grab the Elixir Furnace away.
It was due to this avarice his opponent harbored that the recoil force this time round was not as forceful as previous ones. “Curse you!” Spitting out a mouthful of blood, Zhou Bao cursed inwardly. When the force of space fissure reappeared, Zhou Bao felt a force was vigorously dragging his Furnace of Immortality, causing it to drop from his Dantian.
How could he let that happen!
Zhou Bao gave a roar and activated all of his Real Essence to wrap around the body of the Elixir Furnace, his pupils dilating madly. The surrounding fragmented and distorted space, and the cascading fluctuations seemed very familiar to him.
All of a sudden, his eyes brightened. “Right, it’s this place, this route, this space!”
Zhou Bao let out a howl of jubilation as though he had discovered a brand new world. Inside his Dantian, the Demonic Fire of his Dragon Chimera abruptly rose and enveloped the body of the Elixir Furnace. At the same time, all the Real Essence poured into that Elixir Furnace as if all the Real Essence were freely available at no cost. The Elixir Furnace started vibrating violently. In an instant, it broke free of that huge hand and shrouded Zhou Bao. And then, in the blink of an eye, it was swept away into the endless spacial turbulences and disappeared without any trace.