socalfunplaces Chapter 48 Left Foot Stepping on Right Foot
Chapter 48 Left Foot Stepping on Right Foot
High in the sky, Xiang Yuyin felt the sense of crisis on her body materialize.
"No, this ordeal isn't over yet!"
Hei Zhu stared blankly at him, still clutching the pill bottle in her hand:
"What does this mean?"
Before their senior brother could reply, they heard another whooshing sound behind them.
The sound was sharp and piercing, like something was tearing through the air at high speed, and it was getting closer and closer.
Black Bamboo turned his head in shock:
"They've caught up?!"
Her mind was a complete mess.
When my senior brother used his supernatural powers, he was a full ten miles away from them.
And then take into account the time spent searching.
How did you catch up so quickly?
She recklessly channeled her magic power, pouring every drop of it into the carriage's driving array.
The carriage trembled and hummed as its speed suddenly increased.
But she was horrified to discover that the distance between them and the other party was still shrinking.
Behind them, the flying carpet formed from the scroll was growing larger at a visible speed, and several figures on it were already clearly discernible.
Hei Zhu was incredulous; his voice trembled.
"How come even with this powerful magical artifact, it can't outfly them?"
She glanced at it and made a mental estimate.
"Damn it, we'll probably be caught in about three minutes!"
"Brother, stop standing there, quickly inject your magic power!"
Xiang Yuyin's voice came from behind:
"Don't panic."
"Why go through all that trouble?"
Hei Zhu turned his head.
Under her incredulous gaze, Xiang Yuyin's entire body surged with magical power.
The eyes were complete, mature, and perfectly round, reflecting a deep, indescribable light.
A sense of completeness and maturity, perfectly round and unified.
[Innate Divine Power - Tribulation Transcending Stage]
With the blessing of complete supernatural powers, Xiang Yuyin suddenly gained the confidence to control everything.
A smile played on his lips, and his voice was calm: "Your time has come."
As he spoke, he punched himself hard in the stomach!
"Bang!"
Blood and flesh splattered everywhere.
To Hei Zhu's disbelief, Xiang Yuyin punched himself right through the stomach.
A fist pierced through the abdomen, bringing with it a spray of blood and tattered clothing; the edges of the wound were jagged and gruesome.
Hei Zhu screamed, "Senior Brother!"
Xiang Yuyin's lips curled into a smile, and his expression even carried a hint of amusement: "It's nothing."
His voice was eerily calm, as if he himself were not the one who was injured.
[Tribulation Period - Shift of Fate!]
I'll pass this misfortune on to the guy who ripped out my eyes!
The eyes on his body glowed simultaneously, searching for the thread of fate that connected him and Xia Chuan.
Find.
Find.
Find.
...Not found.
Xiang Yuyin was shocked, and the composed smile on her face froze completely:
"How is that possible?"
The person who stole his eyes had no ill fate.
Having missed the opportunity to unleash the supernatural power, the calamity can no longer be averted.
With a "whoosh," Xiang Yuyin spat out a mouthful of blood, which splattered onto the carriage walls, a shocking sight.
His body swayed, and he almost couldn't stand up.
"Junior sister, Dan!"
Hei Zhu hurriedly pulled a medicine bottle from his sleeve, poured out a few pills, and stuffed them into his mouth.
This time, it's not just black bamboo.
Even Xia Chuan and the others who were chasing behind were dumbfounded.
"This...this..."
"What kind of move is that?"
On the flying carpet, Gao Haoguang looked at the figure with its abdomen wide open in the carriage in the distance with suspicion and uncertainty.
"The war hasn't even started yet, and you've already stabbed yourself in the back?"
Hai Shan's gaze turned serious, his heterochromatic eyes narrowed slightly, and he analyzed:
"It's probably some kind of method that requires serious injury to activate."
He stroked his chin, thinking for a moment:
"For example, exchanging serious injury for escape."
Sure enough, as soon as he finished speaking, the other party's carriage sped up again.
The magical light surrounding the carriage suddenly intensified, and the speed increased by nearly twice as much as before.
Realizing he had made a huge fool of himself, Xiang Yuyin obediently helped speed up the carriage.
He poured all his remaining mana into the driving array.
The unsuspecting crowd suddenly realized:
"Just as I expected!"
Hai Shan frowned: "Oh no, we're going to lose track of them!"
His heterochromatic eyes reflected the carriage that was getting farther and farther away:
"We need to find a way to disrupt them."
He squinted, estimating the distance between them:
"This distance is about right."
He pulled out a talisman, held it between his fingers at the edge, and infused it with magical power.
The talisman ignited with blue flames, leaping at his fingertips.
"The Second Strike of Penglai!"
Hai Shan's eyes burned with intensity as he suddenly threw out the magic talisman.
The talisman transformed into a blue streak of light, shooting straight towards the opposite side at such a speed that its trajectory was almost invisible.
Hai Shan's voice drifted away on the wind:
"My cultivation level is still shallow, so the Penglai Second-Seizing Talisman can only last for one second."
He watched the streak of light, a smile playing on his lips.
"But for the other side, it's a full three seconds."
If the stagnation is sufficient, it can catch up.
Black Bamboo, who was driving the carriage, naturally noticed the attack.
The blue light was particularly dazzling in the sunlight, its trajectory straight and without any frills.
She smiled dismissively, flicked her wrist, and the reins veered to one side.
The carriage traced a graceful arc in the sky, easily gliding past the magical rune.
"So easy!!!"
Black Bamboo turned around and shouted provocatively at the flying carpet behind him.
"Yeah?"
A boy's voice came from behind.
Black Bamboo's smile froze.
She saw a gray head stand up on the flying carpet that the scroll had transformed into.
Gao Haoguang's eyes flashed with a fierce light, like a small beast that had been provoked:
"Now let's see how you dodge!!!"
With a sudden thought, he swung his right hand sharply.
Numerous magical talismans flew out from his sleeves.
Dense and layered, like a golden torrent, it swept towards the carriage.
"Three Thousand Three True Second-Seizing Talisman!"
Black Bamboo was shocked, his pupils reflecting the overwhelming gold.
She gritted her teeth, gripped the reins tightly with both hands, and steered the carriage erratically, lurching it left and right.
The carriage tumbled, tilted, rose, and swooped through the air, like a startled swallow weaving through a torrential downpour of magic symbols.
It even did a somersault in the air.
They actually managed to evade Gao Haoguang's magic talisman encirclement.
Hei Zhu was panting heavily, his forehead covered in cold sweat, but he couldn't help but smile.
"That won't work either, little brother Haoguang!"
Hai Shan chimed in from the sidelines:
"Let's not waste the magic talismans. Let's wait until we catch up."
Gao Haoguang's face flushed red, like a cat whose tail had been stepped on.
"no."
"I must hit him."
He took a deep breath and closed his eyes.
Calm down, calm down.
He felt the talismans in his hand that had not yet been thrown.
Feeling the lingering magical energy fluctuations at my fingertips, and sensing the trajectory of the carriage in the distance.
I have enough spell talismans; I'm sure I'll be able to hit the target later.
Since I can hit the target in the future, I can predict it.
A green flame ignited at his fingertips, leaping and licking the air.
It went out very quickly.
Gao Haoguang paused for a moment, then looked down at his empty fingertips.
Is the cause and effect not sufficient?
It seems I need to have a sufficient causal relationship with the other person in order to foresee their future.
But as the carriage receded into the distance, Gao Haoguang felt a headache coming on.
"Oh no, how can there be a cause and effect here?"
Just as he was at his wit's end, Gao Haoguang heard Hai Shan beside him ask curiously:
"What cause and effect?"
Gao Haoguang raised his head and looked at Hai Shan's heterochromatic eyes.
His eyes lit up.
My karmic connection with them is still shallow, but isn't there someone here with whom I have a karmic connection?
Gao Haoguang spoke urgently, as if grasping at the last straw:
"You idiot Haishan, hurry up and let's meet!"
"oh."
Hai Shan didn't ask why.
He closed his eyes, and magical power began to surge around him.
[Innate Divine Power: The Original Mountain and Sea Map]
"I am Haishan of the Nine Realms Gate."
As soon as he finished speaking, a faint causal thread spread out from Hai Shan's body, crossed the void, and connected to the carriage in the distance.
Green flames surged between Gao Haoguang's fingers!
His face lit up with joy, and the green flames danced wildly in his palm, more intensely than ever before.
"It really works!"
[Innate Divine Power: Predicting the Origin of the False World and the True World]
Before I could even make a move, the spell had already struck!
On the other side...
Having just taken a pill to barely stabilize his injuries, Xiang Yuyin slowly caught his breath.
Some color had just returned to his pale face.
But all that could be seen was an unprecedented calamity suddenly forming.
The lines were so large that even Xiang Yuyin was startled:
"What's going on?!"
Before the words were even finished, an invisible force enveloped the entire carriage.
Hei Zhu felt his movements getting slower and slower.
It's as if an invisible hand is holding time itself down.
She stared in horror as the torrent of golden runes approached her from behind at an incredible speed.
Oh no, this feeling...
Our time has slowed down.
Before I could think too much, I saw wave after wave of magical runes forming a continuous mass.
It covered everything, sealing off all space for evasion.
Gao Haoguang roared, "Scattered Three True Myriad Swords Talismans!!!"
"boom--!!!"
A violent explosion erupted in the sky, the golden light dazzling and the shockwave spreading in all directions.
The carriage was overturned by the blast wave, the carriage body was shattered, and the wheels were scattered.
The two could no longer control themselves and plummeted straight to the ground.
Black Bamboo's heart pounded wildly, the wind whistled in his ears, and the ground rapidly magnified in his vision.
Oh no! Oh no! Oh no!
This is it, we're doomed.
Just as despair was rising, a long sigh was heard.
The sigh was very soft, as if it came from a faraway place, yet also as if it were right next to my ear.
[Space Theft]
A sudden dizziness.
The ground beneath my feet, the sky above my head, and the mountains in the distance.
Everything seemed to have been shattered and then pieced back together in an instant.
Black Bamboo suddenly went black and lost consciousness.
-
When she woke up again, she was lying in a dimly lit, secret room.
The air was filled with the familiar scent of sandalwood, the walls were inlaid with luminous pearls, and the floor was paved with warm, smooth jade.
"Where am I?"
"Nine Realms Gate"
Upon hearing that familiar voice, Hei Zhu turned his head in disbelief.
Standing in front of her was none other than her master.
The Taoist priest, dressed in a gray Taoist robe, stood with his hands behind his back.
He looked down at his two disciples and sighed.
"Didn't I tell you not to go near the Sanzhen territory?"
"Master?!!"
Hei Zhu's voice trembled:
How did I get here?
The Daoist sighed, his gaze filled with an indescribable complexity:
"It was Mr. Chen who brought you here."
"Mr. Chen?"
Upon hearing this unfamiliar name, Hei Zhu turned his head to look.
In the corner of the secret room stood a man.
His white hair, as white as snow, hung down his shoulders. His pupils were blood-red, deep and cold.
There was a star mark between his eyebrows, which shone faintly in the dim light.
(Chen)
The man's face was extremely young, but his demeanor was very weathered.
He ignored Hei Zhu and Xiang Yuyin, merely glancing at them indifferently, his gaze as if he were looking at two stones.
Chen looked at the Burning Daoist, his eyes as cold as ice:
"Since you're the one who asked me to take action."
"Then you should bear the consequences."
Burning Daoist nodded without hesitation:
"That's how it should be."
He smiled nonchalantly, a smile that carried a calm acceptance of life and death:
"I was still wondering why I wasn't in the testimonies of the great battle three months later."
So that's where it should be.
Xiang Yuyin frantically propped herself up, blood still seeping from the wound in her abdomen, her voice trembling:
"Master, what's the price?"
The Taoist priest remained silent.
He reached out and lovingly stroked Xiang Yuyin's head, the warmth of his palm seeping through her hair.
"It's alright, it's alright."
His voice was calm, as if he were soothing a child who had a nightmare.
"Master is going to a very far place."
"One day, we will be reunited."
The voice just fell.
The air in the sealed room suddenly froze.
The temperature dropped sharply.
Time seemed to stand still once again, under Hei Zhu's incredulous gaze.
A second felt like an eternity, and even breathing became a luxury.
A transparent sword slowly emerged.
The sword's blade was crystal clear, exuding an aura of time itself.
The Myriad Laws Sword of Penglai.
It hovered in mid-air, its sword tip pointing directly at Mr. Chen.
Chen's expression was indifferent, his red eyes showing no emotion whatsoever.
He extended his right hand, his five fingers loosely clenched.
[Space Theft]
The sword was drawn by some unseen force, and its blade tilted slightly.
Under Hei Zhu's incredulous gaze, Fen Dao Ke's body suddenly lurched forward.
It felt like being pushed by an invisible hand.
He crashed into the sword.
"puff--"
The sword slashed straight into the Burning Daoist's right shoulder, then slashed diagonally down, almost cutting his entire body in two.
From the collarbone to the ribs, a horrifying wound suddenly opened, and blood gushed out like a fountain, splashing onto the jade floor with a hissing sound.
Xia Chuan, who was thousands of miles away, suddenly received a notification.
[Participate in the kill of the future powerful magical corpse, and you'll get a chance to win a prize of +1000.]
Xia Chuan raised an eyebrow: "Hmm?"
2020 AD.
Penglai Island.
Hai Shan sighed.
His gaze was distant, as if he were speaking to the distant past.
"Don't think you can do whatever you want just because you were witnessed back then."
He said seriously, "If I really get angry..."
"Even if it means my Dharma body shatters, I'll still kill you all for my own amusement."