Chapter 345
"My husband, why are you in a daze? What should we do now?" Nalan Ruyue poked Long Yi with her elbow and asked.
"What should we do? Naturally, dress cold food with sauce [1]." Long Yi smirked and said.
Nalan Ruyue immediately pinched the soft flesh of his waist firmly while angrily glaring at him.
Long Yi just smiled and patted her pinching hand, signaling not to be impatient. First, he made Fire Qilin and Violent Dragon Beast attack that, as if the huge eye, pistil under their foot, and the result was as he had expected. All attacks seemed to be absorbed by it without getting affected even the slightest.
At that time, the two barriers cracked.
Long Yi hesitated for a moment, now, at most, only rank 6 magic spells could be cast here. Even rank 7 Violent Light Magic couldn't be cast here let alone Holy Light Magic or Holy Light Illumination, these rank 9 and rank 10 magic spells. As a result, they basically couldn't deal a substantial damage to this Nine Dark Demonic Flower.
Now, Long Yi only two choices in front of him, one was get swallowed by this Nine Dark Demonic Flower and another was to borrow the power of Holy Light Jade.
And since he didn't want to become a fertilizer for the flower, he could only take out Holy Light Jade, in any case, everyone was the people on his side, no need to fear about the leakage of the information.
Long Yi summoned tiger cub Little Three, thinking, with the help of Holy Light Jade, its power will multiply geometrically.
And using thoughts to communicate with Little Three, Little Three suddenly got excited. It roared loudly and its one white and one black eye emitted strange radiance.
"Holy Light Jade, appear." Long Yi lowered his voice and a Holy Light Jade appeared. This oval milky white jade immediately flew up and floated in the midair emitting a gentle radiance.
Nine Dark Demonic Flower as if it had finally sensed the danger, its pistil flashed with purple light. And those layer upon layer of huge petals actually began to squirm as it shrunk faster, moreover, that pink corrosive liquid also poured out like a heavy downpour.
The power of the shrinking of this demonic flower was not inferior to the pressing of some small hills so these several barriers simply were unable to sustain.
"Ruyue, activate all the barrier beads, Wushuang, whatever magic treasures you have, quickly use them, we must stabilize this barrier." Long Yi urgently said.
The shout of Long Yi woke up Wushuang and Nalan Ruyue who were in a daze with shock after seeing the Holy Light Jade, and without saying anything for the time being, they stabilize this barrier just like Long Yi had instructed.
With the thought of Long Yi, the Holy Light Jade emitted a light towards Little Three which then entered its white eye.
Roar, Little Three issued a heaven shaking roar which nearly made Barbarian Bull fall down.
Now a pale milky white holy light surrounded Little Three, moreover, it also emitted the aura of god-beast.
"Little Three, attack." Long Yi commanded in a loud voice.
Little Three looked down and a huge light ball hit the pistil of this Nine Dark Demonic Flower as fast as lightning.
Squeak, Nine Dark Demonic Flower issued an ear-piercing scream, then beginning to tremble, those petals as if eaten stimulant crazily began to compress inward.
The attack was effective, clearly, this demonic flower was injured. Taking advantage of this chance, Little Three continue to attack. It continuously sent out Holy Light Magic attacking the pistil one after another.
The trembling of Nine Dark Demonic Flower became more and more violent and Long Yi, on the other hand, became more and more excited, thinking now, it would be easy to deal with this damn demonic flower.
But, although
the thought of Long Yi was beautiful, the reality however was not so beautiful. This Nine Dark Demonic Flower was truly crafty. This, as if huge eye, pistil closed, changing into an ordinary flower wall, but even though the holy light breached it, it would regrow immediately. This made Long Yi so depressed that he wanted to vomit blood.
The circumstance was critical, one layer after another layer of barriers was being destroyed. Finally, Wushuang and Nalan Ruyue had no choice but to use the defense barriers sealed in their accessories, even so, the space within the barrier was still getting smaller and smaller.
At this time, five huge holes suddenly appeared on the huge petals around them, and purple mist began to spray out from them.
Long Yi's group of four became tense, could it be that this was a poison gas attack? But soon, they were relieved as Holy Light Jade suspending in the air suddenly emitted a milky white holy light, then the purple mist that met this holy light disappeared without a trace.
But at this time, that closed pistil opened again and a faint unusual purple light shot out from inside it. Then, the spirit of everybody suddenly stagnated and their line of vision actually began to overlap. And at that moment, Holy Light Jade that was resisting against the poison mist coming out of those five big holes, its power of holy light unexpectedly returned back from Little Three and Little Three reverted back to its original form.
"****, what in the world is this, this demonic flower can actually use this kind of magic." Long Yi made a wry smile as he used his powerful spirit power to resist the spirit attack of Nine Dark Demonic Flower.
Among the four people, the one who was clear-headed the most was unexpectedly stupid-looking Barbarian Bull. He had unexpectedly received the slightest effect. Other than somewhat absent-minded, his consciousness was very clear.
And the people who were having a hard time to withstand were unexpectedly Long Yi and Wushuang, these two monsters with very powerful spirit power. Judging from this, the specific property of this demonic flower's spirit power was reversed, the stronger the spirit power, the stronger the effect of the spirit attack.
Barbarian Bull saw Long Yi and others were resisting so hard, so how could he enduring standing on standby, he held Greenstone Rule, then chopped towards the pistil below. He chopped again and again as green light attacked repeatedly, but there seemed to be no effect.
Barbarian Bull however didn't care about that. He only had one thought in his mind, he had to chop down this monster that was making his boss suffer the pain.
Barbarian Bull went more and more insane, completely unaware of the new changes taking place in Greenstone Rule. That green light was shining more brilliantly and that domineering momentum that could cause people suffocate was also shooting up in a straight line.
"Go to hell!" Barbarian Bull roared loudly as his huge club swept towards that pistil below him. Then that already huge Greenstone Rule unexpectedly as if the Ruyi Jingu Bang of Sun Wukong became several times bigger and longer.
Bang, Nine Dark Demonic Flower squeaked as it trembled. Unexpectedly the damage of Barbarian Bull's one hit greatly weakened the emission of that purple light.
Long Yi suddenly felt a lot easier and urgently began thinking.
Now, Holy Light Jade was blocking the purple mist emitted from those five big holes, so the most pressing matter of the moment was they had to block these holes. But, how should they block those holes?
While thinking, the eyes of Long Yi shone. Then from inside blood skull, he summoned those five Seven Baleful Puppets he hadn't used for a long time. Nowadays, his strength had already surpassed the strength of these puppets, so they didn't have any big use. Now, in this pressing situation, he could only sacrifice them.
With a thought, he instigated these five Seven Baleful Puppets shot towards those five big holes so as to use their own body to block the holes emitting the purple mist.
The radiance of Holy Light Jade began to shine on the body of Little Three again.
The five Seven Baleful Puppets' body began to erode. Their bones and flesh actually began to melt into a liquid.
The corner of the mouth of Long Yi twitched seeing this. Although these five Seven Baleful Puppets were currently useless to him, they, after all, were something he had refined himself, moreover, they had been with him for several years.
"Damned demonic flower, go to hell." Long Yi sinisterly laughed, then with a thought, the energy of five Seven Baleful Puppets began to quickly gather, then all of them exploded simultaneously.
The Nine Dark Demonic Flower squeaked and trembled violently and that purple light of the pistil was suddenly retracted. Long Yi however didn't wait for Little Three, he directly flew and grabbed the Holy Light Jade. He suddenly felt light magic elements, then he ferociously shot a burst of dazzling white light towards the pistil that was about to close.
"Squeak, squeak" Nine Dark Demonic Flower issued a sad and shrill scream, and a purple light shot out from the pistil. After that, Long Yi immediately rushed out, and as for Nine Dark Demonic Flower, it's petals completely opened and rapidly withered to death.
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Lightning God Forbidden Area, in the passage leading to the Death Sea of Flowers, a group of thousand people was squeezed here.
"Captain, why do we have to pass through this Death Sea of Flowers? It is said that, from the past till the present, no-one has ever passed through here." A middle-aged person wearing water Master Magician magic robe asked a huge man who was 8 feet tall.
"Other people unable to pass don't represent we are also unable to pass. According to our Leader, this Death Sea of Flowers is the shortcut. That path below is definitely a very long detour, so en route, we will encounter too many dangers, that's why, it is better to directly go across from here." The huge man was a Great Swords Master. He appeared very simple and honest, but his eyes showed shrewdness unlike his appearance.
"But...!"
"No, but, the dangers in this Death Sea of Flowers are nothing but poisonous air and man-eating vines. We have already prepared sufficiently, so there is no need to fear." The huge man interrupted this magician and his eyes were flashing with self-confidence. They however were the rank first mercenary group among the A-ranked mercenary group of Blue Waves Continent, Proud Heaven Mercenary Group. This time, only the elites had come here, so he didn't believe that they couldn't cross this Death Sea of Flowers.
In accordance with the plan, the vanguard of 300 people activated the airtight barrier and explored the way. As for the remaining, they split into two groups and followed behind.
The vanguard cautiously stepped into the Death Sea of Flowers. They easily reached the 100 meters mark cutting the man-eating flower vines along the way, then, they signaled the people behind to follow.
"How is it? As leader said, there is no problem. It seems this mission will be completed by us, Proud Heaven Mercenary Group." The huge man laughed and said.
Just when this huge man had stepped forward, intending to follow behind, he saw a strong purple light shooting towards the sky at a distant place, then the scene in the front changed all of a sudden. The original multi-colored sea of flowers disappeared without a trace, then a fishy smell assailed the nostrils as the sea of flowers unexpectedly changed into the black dead sea in an instant, instantly, swallowing the life of 300 vanguards. As for the huge man, he felt pain on his leg, and immediately retracting his leg, he saw his leg below his knee was just bones now.
[1] dress cold food with sauce [凉拌了 (Liángbàn le)]: this doesn't have much meaning, it is just a way to bicker. For example: Someone asked you "What should we do now?" But you also don't know what to do and find this question irritating/annoying, then you can answer as "Liángbàn le."
Chapter 346
The sudden change of the Death Sea of Flowers into the Dead Sea created an uproar in the outside world. Some guessed that this was the change occurred due to someone successfully crossing the Death Sea of Flowers.
The Death Sea of Flowers was after all flowers, but the Dead Sea however was water, moreover, a black stagnant water where nothing could float. Even a feather or a leaf wouldn't float on this Dead Sea.
This change all the more made all adventurer groups to select other paths, and because of the involvement of teams after teams of mercenary groups, they truly found several other paths. As to where those paths would lead, currently, nobody knows, but they knew that the danger of these paths was also horrifying. Some even said that the number of people died in Lightning God Forbidden Area was comparable to the number of people died on the battlefield of three great empires.
...…
In an unknown valley of Lightning God Forbidden Area, the sky was so gloomy that it pressured people to gasp for breath. At that time, several lightning stricks struck a big tree igniting it into a big fire.
Magical beasts, a horde magical beasts were attacking. Even the weakest were B-classed magical beasts while most of them were A-classed magical beasts. Among them, there were even S-classed magical beasts.
And these terrifying magical beasts surrounded two separate troops with black and white sharply contrasted two large group of people. The white side had roughly more than one thousand people, consisting of light priests, light warriors and light knights. The black side also had roughly the same number of people, consisting of hell priests and dark warrior as well as dark knights.
If a knowledgeable person was here, then he would have surely screamed. The people of Dark Church and Light Church also had unexpectedly entered Lightning God Forbidden Area, moreover, they were getting along as if they were close friends.
With the chanting sound of incantation, gorgeous magic exploded filling the entire sky. This scene was very spectacular.
A white figure was standing at the center of the light camp. She wore a priest robe with a golden edge and also was wearing a white hood covering her entire head. She waved her Holy Light Magic Staff, and a holy light illuminated as a rank 10 magic was cast, leisurely shooting down wild magical beasts in a wide expanse.
And from the space between the eyebrows of a beautiful black figure, a huge black lotus which emitted evil qi flew out. This black lotus rotated and absorbed the vitality of magical beasts changing them into mummies.
These two people simultaneously retracted their hand, then looking towards the other party, both of them slightly nodded their head in tacit understanding, and then again began to attack magical beasts.
"Youyou, she is?" A brown eyed and brown haired handsome youth at the side of the black figure asked.
"Well, she is Si Bi, I didn't expect us to be able to fight side by side with her." Leng Youyou laughed as the huge black lotus entered back into the space between her eyebrows.
"Aren't we basically sisters?" The handsome youth smiled and said. If Long Yi was here, then he would have definitely recognized she was Feng Ling disguised as Ling Feng.
If anyone said, they saw Dark Church and Light Church getting along without conflict, then no one would ever believe it, but here, two sworn enemies however were cooperating harmoniously in tacit agreement.
It was not that they wanted to cooperate harmoniously, rather the situation forced them to cooperate harmoniously. These two big camps definitely had their objective to dispatch so many elites to Lightning God Forbidden Area. However, meeting in this danger zone that was filled with terrifying magical beasts, for the sake of s
urvival and also for the sake of completing their objective, both sides had no choice but to temporarily get along without any conflict, so as to jointly resist the attack of magical beasts.
"I heard our husband has also entered, I wonder where he has reached now." Feng Ling muttered in a low voice but her hands however continuously cast Dark Devouring Magic.
"Is Lingr missing our husband?" Leng Youyou smiled and ask in a low voice.
"Of course, you damn girl and our husband were together for so long, I however...however have yet to have a bridal chamber." Feng Ling blushed but she boldly said.
"As it turned out, Lingr here is longing for love, if I had known earlier then at that time in Soaring Dagon City, I would have made our husband dote on you before you left." Leng Youyou said with a smile.
Feng Ling rolled her eyes and said: "Well, don't speak now, lest other people might hear."
After an unknown period of time, the attacking magical beasts legion retreated. Only after that, the people of Dark Church and Light Church were free to breathe properly. And, one after another, all of them began resting to recuperate.
Si Bi stood alone in the midst of wind holding a dark green Light Magic Staff. And her robe and white gauze of the hood was fluttering.
"Big sister Si Bi, how come you standing here alone?" A crisp and fresh voice came from behind.
The brows of Si Bi under the hood slightly creased. Hearing the voice, she knew that the person speaking was Dongfang Kexin. Later, she knew that Dongfang Kexin was the cousin of Long Yi, and also knew some matters between her and Long Yi, so instinctively, she had repulsion towards her.
"It's nothing." SI Bi turned her head and saw Dongfang Kexin as well as her shadow, Kajia.
Dongfang Kexin came back to her senses and said to light knight Kajia: "Kajia, move a bit far away from me, why are you standing at my side when I and big sister Si Bi have girls' matters to talk?"
"Pope instructed me to closely follow and protect you." Kajia replied without the slightest intention to leave.
"Closely follow? Then, when I go to toilet and sleep, will you still closely follow me? Truly annoying, if you don't leave, then hereafter, I will ignore you." Dongfang Kexin threatened.
Kajia was startled and with no other choice, he turned away with a bitter smile.
"You... are you till reminiscing him?" Dongfang Kexin pretended to ask by accident.
Si Bi looked towards Dongfang Kexin and suddenly felt that this girl who was also a saintess like her was somewhat terrible. She had a strong possessive desire for Long Yi and she also was fully aware of the relation between her and Long Yi, but here, she was able to familiarly call her big sister as if she was a harmless and pure little girl.
"Why aren't you answering me? Are you thinking I am very terrible, very hypocritical, and I clearly know the relation between you and cousin, however, I still intentionally asked you such question?" Dongfang Kexin somewhat desolately said.
"Indeed." Si Bi nodded her head.
"As a matter of fact, I also don't want this, I really regard you as my big sister, but I cannot control myself, whenever I think my cousin cannot belong to only me alone, my heart feel as if I am torn into pieces while still alive. That kind of pain is enough to make people go insane." Dongfang Kexin bit her lower lip with a painful appearance on her face.
Si Bi looked at Dongfang Kexin and her heart somewhat softened, then sighing, she said: "Love by itself is investing, no matter the result, as long as the person you love is happy, you can invest everything. Kexin, your that feeling isn't called love, it's called possession."
"What is the difference? I love cousin so I want to have him, I can even go die for him." Dongfang Kexin clenched her hands into fists and her expression became somewhat ferocious.
"So, for your possessive desire, you would rather let him suffer, let the people around him suffer, is this your love?" Si Bi softly said.
"I don't know, truly don't know." Dongfang Kexin shook her head. She was frustrated and was also in an agony.
Chapter 347
This was a dark and narrow gorge where roughly only four people could walk side by side. On both sides, there was a dark cliff which rose straight into the clouds.
Wushuang opened her somewhat heavy eyes and her consciousness was still somewhat dim. She felt as if a heavy boulder was weighing down on her and this made her feel very hard to even breathe.
"What happened?" Wushuang wanted to move her head, but she felt that she couldn't move as her entire body was aching as well as lacking strength.
The Death Sea of Flowers, Nine Dark Demonic Flower..." Wushuang gradually recalled what had happened. At that time, Long Yi had stabbed Holy Light Jade into the pistil of Nine Dark Demonic Flower. After that, she merely saw a purple light soaring towards the sky, then Nine Dark Demonic Flower quickly withered and with the sudden appearance of a huge fissure under their feet which had a great suction force, she was sucked into that fissure, and shortly afterward, she lost her consciousness.
Slowly, Wushuang's consciousness became clearer and clearer, and she also began to slowly recover the senses of her body.
"Hu hu..." A hint of hot air was blowing in the ear of Wushuang, making her feel a tickling sensation.
"Long… Yi, you… wake up." The voice of Wushuang was weak and hoarse. She finally sensed that a person was weighing down on her. That person was a man, moreover, that familiar smell made her immediately discern his identity.
But, Long Yi didn't respond, he was still motionlessly weighing down on her as if he was in a coma.
Wushuang used all of the strength she had just accumulated to speak few words, but seeing Long Yi didn't have any response, she had no choice but to give up.
Suddenly, Wushuang's charming body stiffened. After she recovered her perception, she became aware that her right breast was being grabbed by a wolf claw. Without thinking, she knew that this wolf claw was definitely Long Yi's beyond doubt. This made her endlessly embarrassed and angry. But, she was helpless because she couldn't move now, otherwise, she would have chopped off his wolf claw.
Dongdong, dongdong, Wushuang felt her heartbeat was reverberating in this darkness and she was somewhat unable to endure this.
After an unknown period of time, Wushuang felt the movement of Long Yi above her. She became happy thinking Long Yi finally woke up but making her even more resentful, this fellow's wolf claw grabbing her right breast unexpectedly loosened and tightened continuously, profaning her sacred sensitive place.
"Long Yi, you… you bastard." The entire body of Wushuang involuntarily trembled as a ** feeling spread all across her body from her right breast, making her want to bite this pervert to death.
Long Yi was totally unaware that he was taking a cheap advantage of Wushuang, his wolf claw rubbed and pinched energetically, making Wushuang so furious that she wanted to kill him.
Wushuang bit her lower lip as her charming body trembled. This pervert didn't seem to have any sign of waking up, on the contrary, he seemed to be dreaming a very dirty spring dream. Wushuang gnashed her teeth, but because she was lacking strength, she had no choice but to let Long Yi take cheap advantage of her.
"Ah… Long Yi, you pervert." Wushuang cried out in alarm as she suddenly felt a hard thing was advancing towards the soft virgin land between her legs.
In the midst of simultaneously feeling ashamed and resentful, Wushuang felt she could slightly move her head, so she tilted her head with great difficulty and then opened her cherry mouth...
"Ah..." Unconscious Long Yi suddenly cried out in pain, and waking up, he immediately
felt that the pain was coming from his right ear.
"Wushuang, loosen your bite, ah, you are about to bite off my ear." The consciousness of Long Yi quickly restored, and immediately after he woke up, he smelled Wushuang's that faint orchid fragrance, so he knew that the one that was biting his ear was Wushuang. But he didn't have time to think about why she was biting his ear.
Wushuang had yet to recover her strength, so after biting for a little while, she no longer had the strength to bite. But, if she had used all her strength, then she might have bit off half the right ear of Long Yi.
Long Yi turned over and got up, then examined himself. Other than a somewhat unstable aura, everything else didn't have any big problem.
After that, Long Yi cast Illumination Magic and saw Wushuang had a pale complexion with a hint of blush. Her breathing was also somewhat rapid and her sparkling beautiful pupils were unexpectedly somewhat flushed. This startled Long Yi, he knew that Wushuang had the ice-cold and indifferent temperament, and if she didn't bear the greatest grievance, then she wouldn't have this kind of expression.
Long Yi caressed his ears and his finger could clearly trace out a row of deep teeth marks, then making a bitter smile, he thought. Can it be that I made her bear grievance?
Long Yi propped up Wushuang. He sensed that her aura was somewhat chaotic and her beautiful eyes were glaring at him as if she wanted to kill someone.
"Remove your dirty hands, don't... touch me." The voice of Wushuang was somewhat hoarse and her eyes were ice-cold looking towards Long Yi. Clearly, she bore a grudge for the matter of Long Yi unconsciously molesting her.
Long Yi touched his nose and helped Wushuang lean on the cliff. But, he was startled all of a sudden. What about Ruyue and Barbarian Bull? Moreover, where are Fire Qilin, Violent Lightning Beast and Little Three?
Long Yi urgently used his spirit power to scan inside the blood-colored skull. There he saw Fire Qilin and others were safe and sound, so he relaxed. But again recalling Nalan Ruyue and Barbarian Bull were missing, he became worried.
"Wait here for me for a little while." Long Yi set up a restriction in front of Wushuang, then thinking for a bit, he still wasn't able to rest assured, so he summoned Fire Qilin, Violent Lightning Beast and Little Three to guard her, then he disappeared in the darkness.
In this narrow gorge, Long Yi looked for the trace of Nalan Ruyue and Barbarian Bull. He really didn't know why Wushuang and he appeared at this goddamned place. At that time, the final attack of Nine Dark Demonic Flower before its death had sent him flying, moreover, made him lose his consciousness too. In his opinion, since he and Wushuang appeared here together, Nalan Ruyue and Barbarian Bull must be around here too.
After searching for a little while, a hundred meters away, Long Yi found unconscious Nalan Ruyue and Barbarian Bull. That immediately made him relieved. They weren't scattered, otherwise, that certainly would be troublesome.
Carrying both of them, he returned. There, he saw Wushuang was already sitting cross-legged, meditating to restore her physical strength and magic power.
Long Yi patted both Nalan Ruyue and Barbarian Bull, then both of them woke up.
"My husband...!" Nalan Ruyue opened her eyes and saw the deeply concerned handsome face of Long Yi, so she couldn't help calling out tenderly.
"How do you feel? Are you fine?" Seeing Nalan Ruyue had awakened, Long Yi couldn't help but smile warmly.
"I am feeling pain all over, and I can't even muster any strength." Nalan Ruyue frowned and said.
"Boss, where are we?" Barbarian Bull nevertheless got up all of a sudden. Although he looked somewhat tired but compared to Nalan Ruyue and Wushuang, he nevertheless was a lot better.
"I don't know, but, are you fine?" Long Yi asked with concern.
Barbarian Bull swung his bulky arms and hitting his own chest, he said: "Other than a little pain, everything else is fine."
Long Yi smiled and instructing Barbarian Bull to rest, he supported Nalan Ruyue on her back and helped her recover her strength.
In fact, Long Yi didn't understand why among four people, he and Barbarian Bull were fine but the two women nevertheless had a big problem? Was it because the magician's physique was comparatively weaker? But, not mentioning Nalan Ruyue, Wushuang was a Magic God, how come she was also in such a serious condition? In the beginning, she wasn't even able to move.
After Nalan Ruyue recovered some of her physical strength, she sat cross-legged and meditated on her own while Long Yi began to examine the surroundings.
This dark gorge was very quiet, other than themselves, there seemed to be no other living existence, moreover, it was so long that he couldn't see the end.
Long Yi looked up and saw a dim light at a high altitude. Then, lightly jumping, as if a hawk, he soared up rapidly.
"Damn, what exactly is this goddamned place?" Long Yi cursed. No matter how high he flew, that small opening of this narrow gorge always appeared to be far away from him, so he knew that there was a problem here.
Although he had already expected danger and hardship in Lightning God Forbidden Area, Long Yi was rather surprised after personally experiencing them. It was already so arduous to cope with the Death Sea of Flowers, and now, this gorge seemed even more difficult to deal with. Moreover, the intuition of Long Yi told him that Lightning God Forbidden Area would only get more and more dangerous and will be harder and harder to advance, otherwise, so many adventurer groups wouldn't have fallen here.
Long Yi sat on the ground. And at that time, Little Three quickly ran over and shook its tail acting like a spoiled child at his leg. Long Yi stroked the smooth fur of Little Three looking pensive while frowning.
Suddenly, Little Three who was tamely leaning at the side of Long Yi's leg while enjoying his stroking stood up and its nerve was strained. Its one black and one white eyes alertly looked all around, but it turned around for a while, then it continued to lie down again.
Long Yi however was jolted. Just now, Little Three had clearly sensed something, but afterward, it again lied down as if nothing was wrong. But, Long Yi however sensed danger from this movement of Little Three. This goddamned place was so quiet that it could make people go insane. Other than stones, there was no sign of life. Did Little Three suddenly have a misconception?
Long Yi slightly closed his eyes, and his eyelids hung low as if an old monk was sitting in meditation, but his spirit however was very alert, and as if a radar, he was trying to find out any movement around him.
The atmosphere seemed to be the same. Barbarian Bull was again cleaning his Greenstone Rule. After the experience with the demonic flower, he had activated a portion of the potential of this divine artifact. Now, he and this Greenstone Rule truly had a kind of blood connection.
At this time, two light balls floating in the midair that was illuminating this place flickered as if the wind blew them. And Long Yi's shut eyes suddenly opened, and then he shot his internal force without holding back from his finger attacking towards Wushuang who was sitting cross-legged opposite to him.
Chapter 348
The internal force shot out from the finger of Long Yi whistled past Wushuang and hit the black rock behind her. Suddenly, a black liquid as if water arrows rained down, drenching meditating Wushuang's hair and face. At the same time, a hint of shadow peeled off from the black rock behind Wushuang and soon afterward, it dissipated into the air.
"Boss, what was that?" Barbarian Bull moved closer to Long Yi and asked while alertly holding Greenstone Rule.
Long Yi shook his head, then squatting down, he used his finger to touch that black liquid and smelled it. He unexpectedly smelled a faint smell of blood.
The strong energy fluctuation of Long Yi woke up both Nalan Ruyue and Wushuang from their meditation. And when Wushuang sensed that her hair and face was covered with strange black liquid, she who had mysophobia suddenly felt sick and wanted to vomit.
"Long Yi…" Wushuang got up and looked at Long Yi with some fury and doubt.
"This has nothing to do with me. I just noticed that something attached to the rock was quietly approaching you, so I attacked it. This black liquid on your body might be its blood." Long Yi laughed hollowly and explained.
This moment, Wushaung had already recovered most of her physical strength and magic power via meditation, so she just cast an Opaque Barrier, and then she changed all of her clothes after conveniently washing herself.
After Wushuang had changed her clothing, Long Yi solemnly explained everything he saw just a moment ago, and also told them the circumstance of this narrow gorge.
"This place shouldn't be like the Death Sea of Flowers where no matter how much we walk, we cannot find the exit, right?" Nalan Ruyue looked all around and said with some worry. Moreover, she didn't know whether this was a figment of her imagination or not, but she was constantly feeling that this place was very strange.
"That shouldn't be the case, don't you all feel the air of this narrow gorge is flowing? This implies, there must be a way out on both sides." Wushuang sensed her surroundings with fixed attention and said indifferently said.
"Correct, we can casually choose one side to go and we will surely find the way out." Long Yi looked at Wushuang with praise and said.
After that, four people and three beasts walked towards one side of the narrow gorge for more than an hour. Suddenly, the light passing through the opening above the narrow gorge gradually faded away, the air suddenly became very gloomy and cold, and a strong wind suddenly blew up inside the narrow gorge.
"Such a dense death qi." Long Yi was startled and he immediately instructed everyone to guard their spirit.
Now, with four people leaning their back against one another, and three god-beasts taking the lead, they slowly advance forward.
Suddenly, the furs of three god-beasts stood erect as they simultaneously made the posture of battle readiness. As for Long Yi's group of four, they only felt a burst of coldness and strange sounds coming from all direction, but there was not even a single soul at sight around them.
Wushuang raised her hand's Ice Blue Magic Staff, then chanting a tediously long obscure incantation, cold qi spread out as she cast World of Snow and Ice. After that, the black cliffs on both sides of this narrow gorge were rapidly covered with a thick layer of ice which continuously stretched to 100 meters in length.
A burst of thin black mist rose up from the layer of ice, and the layer of ice instantly melted and disappeared without a trace, moreover, that cold strange sounds became even more unbridled.
"Ignore these things, let them cry. We should move quickly." Long Yi frowned and said.
Just after Long Yi finished speaking, Barbarian Bull
at his side was involuntarily drawn into the black cliff. Fortunately, Barbarian Bull's reaction was fast enough. He brandished his Greenstone Rule with great strength behind him, then with a splashing sound, black liquid sprayed, then a hint of shadow began to dissipate as the force attracting Barbarian Bull also ceased.
"Is it specter?" Nalan Ruyue asked. She could feel dense death qi, but that didn't appear to resemble the usual death qi of specter.
"Might be, might not be. Did you see, the magic attack seemed to be completely ineffective against these things, but on the contrary, physical attacks have great effect? From this aspect, they are unlikely to be specters as specters are completely immune against physical attacks." Long Yi made a wry smile and said.
"Yes, but these things don't have a physical body, how can this be explained?" Wushuang confusedly said. She also had the feeling that her Rank 10 magic World of Snow and Ice of just now was completely ineffective.
Long Yi shrugged his shoulders as he also didn't understand what was going on.
However, now that they knew the specific properties of these unknown creatures, Long Yi and others also changed their ways to deal with them. Among four of them, only he and Barbarian Bull possessed powerful physical attack, so they faced the black cliffs placing two women between them to protect.
Throughout the way, Long Yi and Barbarian Bull killed innumerable such unknown creatures, however, as if endless, their number increased more and more.
The attacks of these creatures weren't terrifying, and they were also vulnerable to the physical attack, but, what gave headache to Long Yi and others was, these unknown creatures could actually ignore the existence of the barriers. No matter how tough the barriers were, they strangely could easily penetrate in.
"Ruyue, use Purify Magic to see whether it has the effect or not?" Long Yi said to Nalan Ruyue. Although these unknown creatures were not afraid of magic attack, but if they belong to dark attribute, then holy light magic should have some effect on them.
Nalan Ruyue nodded her head, then raising her magic staff, a soft and white light ball rose to the sky, and radiance spread all around. Now, Nalan Ruyue appeared devout and a lustrous and transparent light was wandering about her face making her look incomparably holy and pure.
The strange voices suddenly became much smaller, and dense death qi also became much thinner. It seems these unknown creatures indeed belong to dark attribute. Merely, when the Purify Magic of Nalan Ruyue ended, these cold voices and weakened death qi also resurged.
At this time, a burst of suction force attacked Long Yi, pulling him towards the black cliff on one side. Long Yi just thought to break free, but suddenly a thought appeared in his heart and he let this suction force pull him to the black cliff. Then Long Yi's big hand as if piercing through the void moved towards the dark cliff, and spirit power from the space between his eyes suddenly gushed out along his big hand and bound the invisible creature. Next, he put forth his strength to pull, and a hint of shadow was pulled out from inside the dark cliff by Long Yi. This creature was struggling violently and seeing its struggling didn't have any effect, it suddenly curled up into a ball, and suddenly exploded, changing into a wisp of shadow and faded away without leaving any trace on that dark cliff.
"I might know what these creatures are." Long Yi smiled and said.
"What?" All three of them asked simultaneously.
Long Yi smiled and with a dark qi suddenly appearing in his hand, he quickly thought an incantation, then drawing lines in the sky with both hands, a pitch-black space fissure appeared. And from inside, three ugly undead wearing silver armors came out and stood in front of Long Yi. They were different domain's undead, Silver Armored Corpse Kings.
After the appearance of these three Silver Armored Corpse Kings, the strange sounds of before suddenly disappeared without any trace as if there were never such sounds.
"Undead summoning, husband…my husband…" The complexion of Nalan Ruyue become pale. As a matter of fact, that time in the stomach of Nine Dark Demonic Flower, she had seen Long Yi using five humanoid substances with hoods covering them to obstruct the five holes that were emitting poison mist. At that time, she had felt something was wrong, but she had always been unwilling to believe, that's all.
Wushuang merely looked strangely at Long Yi but her expression didn't change at all. As for Barbarian Bull, he already knew Long Yi was a dark magician too, so he naturally didn't show any surprised expression.
Long Yi used cordial gaze to look at Nalan Ruyue and said: "You are not misjudging, your husband, I am indeed necromancer, but merely because of this, do you think I, your husband is wicked beyond redemption?"
"But…but…" Nalan Ruyue was clearly unable to accept this sudden revelation and she was at a loss and confused. As Light Church's saintess, regarding dark as an enemy had already become a kind of instinct.
But, Long Yi however was disappointed with her reaction. At that time, in Soaring Dragon City, when Si Bi and Leng Youyou, these two saintesses of different camps met each other, they coexisted peacefully because both of them loved him. Moreover, they also accepted him for simultaneously having seven attributed magic physiques without any objection. Could it be that Nalan Ruyue was unable to accept all this?
"Forget it, we will resume our prior relation. Between you and I, other than marriage relationship, there will be nothing. If you still cannot accept this, then you can terminate your relationship with me. We can separate and never meet each other." Long Yi softly sighed and waved his hand, then turned his back towards Nalan Ruyue.
Nalan Ruyue was startled, she felt pain as if a knife was being twisted in her heart, and her complexion became very pale without a trace of redness. Don't leave, she only had this thought in her heart.
"No… don't, I do not want that." The eyes of Nalan Ruyue immediately moistened, and suddenly calling out loudly, she rushed to Long Yi and from behind, she tightly hugged Long Yi's waist.
"I am a necromancer, what would happen if Light Church knows, you should be very clear about the consequences." Long Yi's knitted eyebrows loosened, but his speaking tone was still flat.
"I don't care, I don't care, I only know I cannot live without you." Nalan Ruyue hugged even tighter. She feared Long Yi would truly leave her.
"Do you truly think so?" Long Yi asked as a smile appeared on his face.
"M-hm, even if I have to accompany you to the ninth floor of the hell, I will not regret." Nalan Ruyue said.
Long Yi turned around and hugged Nalan Ruyue. Previously, he still doubted that the feelings of Nalan Ruyue for him was not that deep. He also believed that his position was still far below Light Church in her heart, but now, his heart was filled with happiness and he was greatly moved. This woman who was ready to give up even her faith for him, he vowed to use his life to treasure her.
Wushuang strangely didn't disturb them, and her ice-cold gaze greatly softened looking at them. She had an intriguing telepathy with Long Yi, so she clearly knew his current state of mind.
After a long time, Nalan Ruyue calmed down, and realizing Barbarian Bull and Wushuang were still at their side, she blushed and immediately struggled free out of Long Yi's bosom.
"Hugged enough? If you two have hugged enough, then quickly talk about these creatures attached to these dark cliffs. ." Wushaung indifferently said.
"Jealous? If you also want me to hug you, then I will not be stingy with my hug." Long Yi smirked and said.
Wushuang coldly snorted and glared at him as she was too lazy to reason with him.
"My husband, tell us, what exactly are these creatures?" Nalan Ruyue pulled the sleeve of Long Yi's garment and asked.
"Do you all think I used usual Undead Summoning Magic to summon these Silver Armored Corpse Kings?" Long Yi asked pointing at those three Silver Armored Corpse Kings that appeared incomparably doughty.
"Is it not?" Nalan Ruyue didn't quite understand undead magic.
"Of course, not, the attacks power of undead creatures summoned using the usual Undead Summoning Magic aren't too powerful, they merely rely on the numbers to obtain victory. But, these Silver Armored Corpse Kings are undead creatures of different space. I used long-lost Different Domain Undead Summoning Magic to summon them. And these Silver Armored Corpse Kings are merely lower class undead creatures of different space." Long Yi slowly explained.
"Why are you taking so much unnecessary things? We didn't ask you about these Silver Armored Corpse Kings, rather… Can it be that these creatures attached to the rocks are also the undead creatures of different space?" Wushuang suddenly thought of this possibility.
"Correct, these specters are indeed specters of the different domain, called Dark Rock Specter. They are considered comparatively higher level specters in the different space. Usually, they are attached to this kind of dark rocks and are fuse together with them. They prey others by absorbing their target inside the rock. As a matter of fact, they, in themselves, don't fear physical attacks as well as magic attacks, but when they are attached to the dark rocks, they could be injured by physical attacks, merely, if they didn't attach themselves with dark rocks, then they would have no means to attack as well as wouldn't have the ability to pull in. one might well say, there is no gain without a loss." Long Yi explained. He was not that proficient in Different Domain Undead Summoning Magic, but at that time, he had hastily skimmed through all the books of the library. If not for his good memory, he also wouldn't have remembered that these strange creatures were unexpectedly different domain undead creature, Dark Rock Specter.
"Since Dark Rock Specter is comparatively higher leveled specter among the undead creatures of the different space, then why are they afraid of these comparatively lower leveled Silver Armored Corpse Kings?" Nalan Ruyue confusedly asked.
"All the things in this world, everything has their nemesis, the corpse kings of the different space don't possess any magic attack but their physical attack nevertheless is very fierce, completely opposite to Dark Rock Specter, so once Silver Armored Corpse Kings appeared, they went into hiding." Long Yi smiled and said.
Without the threat of Dark Rock Specter, Long Yi and others temporarily relaxed. They began to quickly move forward as they felt that this goddamned place was not very good.
After continuously running for more than five hours, suddenly, a burst of breeze blew over directly on their face. Long Yi instantly stopped and said with a smile: "There is the exit in the front, everyone, let's move a bit faster."
"How do you know that there is the exit in the front?" Nalan Ruyue asked as she could only see darkness in the front.
"Don't you smell the taste of grass in the air?" Long Yi asked with a smile.
Nalan Ruyue took a deep breath and she indeed smelled a faint smell of grass. In this narrow gorge, other than stones, there were only stones, where were the grasses? So one could guess that there was exit not far away in the front.
Chapter 349
Knowing that the way out was right in front of them, Long Yi's group of four were very excited. Throughout the way, they were speeding up, and now, they could already faintly see a ray of light far away.
"Lightning magic barrier?" When the four of them reached the end of this narrow gorge, they saw that the exit was actually sealed by a lightning magic barrier where electric currents were wandering about.
Barbarian Bull immediately grabbed his Greenstone Rule and smashed his sword on the barrier without any demur. This smash resulted in Barbarian Bull being sent flying with a stiff body. When he finally got up after landing far away, the hair on his entire body was standing erect. His muscles were twitching involuntarily after getting shocked by the lightning barrier.
"What a powerful electric current, my entire body is numb." After a good while, Barbarian Bull's stiffened muscles softened but he was still slightly trembling. And his current appearance was so comical that anyone would find this very funny.
Long Yi smirked. The taste of an electric shock, that feeling was not unfamiliar to Long Yi at all. After his observation of the lightning barrier just now, he knew that the strength of this lightning magic barrier was beyond his imagination.
"Let me try." Long Yi smiled and stepped forward. Circulating AoTianJue's internal force in his right hand, he reached out towards this barrier seal.
Long Yi's ability to break barriers was second to none, it could even be said that he was blessed by the heavens. With the circulation of AoTianJue's internal force, even a Holy Light Barrier, this kind of rank 10 light magic defense barrier, was just like paper to him. Moreover, he himself also had absorbed the lightning power, so it shouldn't be difficult for him to break this lightning barrier.
Very quickly, Long Yi's complexion was no longer causal like before and he became solemn. Even though he had circulated his fourth layer AoTianJue at full power, the lightning magic barrier unexpectedly still didn't break. It was not that the property of his AoTianJue was changed, rather, this lightning magic barrier was no common barrier. He feared, even the divine level barrier casted by Wushuang cannot compare to this lightning barrier in front of them. Perhaps, only the real Lightning God had the ability to cast this kind of barrier.
But, it wasn't as though Long Yi couldn't break the barrier, as long as he had two-three days, he could definitely break open this barrier.
At that time, an ill wind suddenly spread. Those strange sounds that vanished long ago returned, filling the whole place. Hearing these sounds, the party of four involuntarily felt their blood run cold.
"My husband, didn't you say the corpse kings of different space are Dark Rock Specters' natural enemy? How come they are coming out again?" Nalan Ruyue lifted her magic staff, and a holy and soft radiance suddenly enveloped the area several meters around them.
Long Yi with his hands still above the lightning magic barrier turned his head and saw that the Silver Armored Corpse Kings were retreating with an instinctive fear. Making a wry smile, he said, "Corpse kings from the different space are the natural enemies of Dark Rock Specters, but if they encountered a very rare Dark Rock Specter King, there was nothing they could do."
Nalan Ruyue was just about to reply him when she felt that the air around them was frozen, and an evil aura that could make people's hair stand erect surged. Furthermore, the holy light she casted had unexpectedly dimmed greatly.
A dense, dark mist indefinitely rolled about in the midst of the narrow gorge 100 meters away from the group of four. This evil, gloomy and cold atmosphere could easily make people mista
ke that this place was a dark hell instead of whatever was here in the first place..
Gradually, the dark mist attached to the dark cliff, forming a huge shadow. A pair of blood red eyes flashing with red light suddenly opened and stared at Long Yi's group of four with a strange expression.
"Long Yi, how much time do you need to break this barrier?" Wushuang frowned and asked.
"Roughly ten hours." Long Yi shrugged his shoulders and said as he sent back those three Silver Armored Corpse Kings that were now useless.
Wushuang nodded her head and still had an indifferent expression on her face. Seems like she wasn't bothered by this Dark Rock Specter King.
"Do you have a way to deal with this big fellow?" Long Yi asked.
"It might be impossible to kill it, but I can trap it for two-three days." Wushuang indifferently said.
Long Yi raised his eyebrows, how was she so confident? As a matter of fact, he also had a way to deal with this Dark Rock Specter King, which was to use the power of the Dark Magic Jade. Of course, he could also use the Holy Light Jade, but after using it to cut open the Nine Dark Demonic Flower, this Holy Light jade unexpectedly became dimmer. Moreover, he was unable to sense any light magic elements on it anymore. He himself didn't know what was going on.
Wushuang tightly held the Ice Magic Staff, and on the ground, she drew complicated lines. Those lines were flashing with blue lustrous and transparent light, and they also were full of magic aura.
Long Yi curiously looked at the ground, he saw a six-edged star shape with many complicated lines drawn connecting the six points together.
"Magic Array!" Long Yi involuntarily exclaimed with surprise. A Magic Array was a powerful and matchless product in the legends that was long lost in the long river of the history. At that time, when he was at the library of the Mea Holy Magic Academy, he had seen an incomplete copy of a Magic Array. As it lacked too many records, he was basically unable to realize its essence.
After thinking for a bit, Long Yi was no longer surprised. Since Wushuang was from Lost City of thousands of years ago, at that time, before its destruction, Lost City once had a great and splendid magic civilization. Just looking at that crystal ball that could record the video which he had found at that time in Wushuang's chamber proves the point. So it was nothing strange for her to be able to use a Magic Array.
Wushuang closed her eyes, and she was completely preoccupied with drawing a Magic Array on the ground. Distinct beads of sweat filled her forehead as she continued to draw the Magic Array. After seeing the Magic Array drawn on the ground, that Dark Rock Specter King, as if it sensed the danger, issued an ear-piercing hiss. Along with the seething dark mist that covered the sky, it charged towards the group of four before it.
Wushaung suddenly opened her eyes and her eyes glimmered with light as she took out a scroll from inside her space ring. She then placed the scroll on the Magic Array she drawn on the ground. Suddenly, a burst of glittering light blue radiance soared, and then, they no longer heard that ear-piercing voice of that Dark Rock Specter King. The evil atmosphere which was present just a moment ago seemed to have completely dissipated.
"Is this the power of a Magic Array? Big sister Wushuang, is this a true Magic Array?" Nalan Ruyue was clearly shocked as she asked.
"Yes, this is an Immovable Magic Array. Within its range, everything, no matter if they are living beings or non-living beings, have form and structure or not have form and structure, everything cannot move. The only downside about this Magic Array is that it would become useless after its magical power runs out." Wushuang indifferently answered.
"So powerful, how about teaching me?" Long Yi being a thick-skinned person immediately asked her to teach him how to draw a Magic Array.
"Okay." Wushuang unexpectedly agreed without the slightest hesitation. This made Long Yi a little complacent. It seemed like she had some feelings for him.
"But, you have to acknowledge me as a teacher." The corner of Wushuang's mouth slightly curled up, and a hint of a soul-stirring smile appeared on her face. Although it was only for a moment, it was enough to dazzle Long Yi.
"Fine…" Being dazzled by her radiant smile, Long Yi subconsciously spoke out the word of agreement. But immediately afterward, he suddenly came back to his senses and said, "Fine my fart, I am your husband, and you actually want me to acknowledge you as a teacher, you are truly preposterous."
"I have never admitted that you are my husband, and if you don't formally become my pupil, then I will not teach you." The expression of Wushuang was flat as if she never had that smile of just now.
Long Yi rolled his eyes, then he said with a smirk on his face, "Your smile is truly beautiful, if acknowledging you as a teacher can make me see you smile frequently, then it isn't bad to acknowledge you as a teacher."
The words of Long Yi startled both Nalan Ruyue and Wushuang. Wushuang, moreover, felt a sense of loss in her heart, and Nalan Ruyue became somewhat anxious.
"My husband, if you acknowledge big sister Wushuang as a teacher then wouldn't you and big sister Wushuang..."
"They say, take an intelligent and well-informed person as a teacher, acknowledging my wife as a teacher is also fine." Long Yi interrupted Nalan Ruyue.
"Isn't that going against ethics? This is not allowed." Nalan Ruyue said.
"Ethics and morals are bullshit. Master and apprentice can love one another, but why can't they be together?" Long Yi said with a smile. Thinking back, Yang Guo and Xiao Long Nu, weren't they madly in love as well [1]? Besides, in his past world, didn't professors and students fall in love and get married to each other?
Wushuang met Long Yi's passionate gaze and she felt as if her heart was burning. She hastily shifted her line of sight as she didn't dare to stare at Long Yi any longer, but her heart still had ripples as if a stone was thrown into a calm lake.
"Your heart is in chaos." Long Yi muttered as if he was talking to himself.
Wushuang secretly took a deep breath and her state of mind restored calmness, but she was calm only on the surface. It wasn't easy for her to erase the mark left in her heart by Long Yi. Despite losing her memory, something that was integrated into the blood and marrows nevertheless still exists.
"It's none of your business, I am not your woman. Maybe I used to be your woman in the past, but now, I am absolutely not." Wushuang turned away and said, but her right hand holding Ice Magic Staff was slightly trembling.
Long Yi smiled but his heart nevertheless tightened, and he said with a smile, "You are my woman, you were and you will always be. You were in the past, you are still my woman now, and in the future, you'll still be my woman. I am very familiar with every inch of your body, you..."
The words of Long Yi ceased abruptly. As a matter of fact, Wushuang with great changes in her complexion had used Freeze Over Magic to freeze him into an ice sculpture. Only his right hand containing the greater part of his internal force was not frozen and was still above the lightning magic barrier.
Long Yi didn't shake off the layer of ice to free himself like he did before. He simply stood there and let the ice freeze his body slowly. One minute, two minutes, ten minutes...
Nalan Ruyue wasn't able to bear it any longer and she thought of helping Long Yi break the ice. However Wushuang was faster as she waved her hands with a complicated expression on her face and the layer of ice covering Long Yi disintegrated.
The expression on Long YI's face had no change and he still had his signature bad smile as he said, "Felt anguished, despite not remembering me, it nevertheless is an indisputable fact that you love me."
Wushuang didn't reply him. Just like Long Yi had said, her heart was in a mess. She could similarly sense Long Yi's heartache, and his heartache made her feel bitter. Did she feel heartache because of their peculiar telepathy? Wushuang also wasn't clear about why she was feeling heartache at the moment.
The atmosphere was kind of awkward as they were currently in a stalemate. At this moment, Barbarian Bull was scratching his bull-horns looking at this and again looking at that. He was confused. The complicated feelings and disputes between Long Yi and Wushuang, with his IQ, he wasn't able to understand anything that was going on.
Suddenly, Wushuang's complexion changed and said in a hurry, "The Dark Rock Specter King's aura vanished."
[1] Yang Guo and Xiao Long Nu: They are fictional protagonists of the wuxia novel "The Return of the Condor Heroes" by "Jin Yong". In this novel, Yang Guo is the apprentice of Xiao Long Nu, later they develop a romantic relationship and get married after some ups and down.
Chapter 350
The aura of the Dark Rock Specter King disappeared? Everyone was started. Didn't Wushuang just say that this Immovable Magic Array can immobilize anything within its range?
Just when Long Yi and others were surprised and bewildered, the dark cliffs on both sides of this narrow gorge suddenly trembled. Broken stones began to fall from the top of the cliffs as the shaking got stronger.
"F*ck, that big fellow truly doesn't have any morals, it actually wants to bury us alive." Long Yi cursed as he anxiously looked at the broken stones which were continuously rolling down the cliff.
"My husband, the cliffs are moving, they are moving towards us." Nalan Ruyue said in a panic as she suddenly saw that the dark cliffs on both sides of this narrow gorge were slowly closing in towards them.
Not good, the narrow gorge was initially wide enough for four people to stand side by side, now it became more cramped as the walls moved towards each other. Now, it was wide enough to only fit three people standing side by side. Long Yi grumbled in his heart, if things were to carry on like this, then wouldn't they be crushed into a meat paste?
Long Yi stopped exerting great effort to break the barrier. Instead, he retracted his hand and started to observe his surroundings.
"I am truly stupid." Long Yi hit his own head and said. Why on earth did he try so hard to break this lightning magic barrier? This place was already the exit, so as long as he dug a passage through this dark cliff, they could have easily left this place. Thinking up to this point, Long Yi punched the dark cliff, unfortunately, the dark stones remained unaffected. This result dumbfounded Long Yi for a long time. No, although this dark cliff was incomparably hard, it was impossible for him to not be able to damage it even a bit.
In fact, if Long Yi had thought of breaking the walls to get out of this place before the Dark Rock Specter King escaped, then he would have already succeeded. But now that that Dark Rock Specter King had attached itself to this cliff after burning its life-force, this dark cliff had already become incomparably hard.
Now the gap between the cliffs on both side of the gorge was only enough for two people to stand side by side, and was still continuously shrinking. Furthermore, all the magic barriers used by Long Yi's group of four were also useless.
"My husband, what should we do?" Nalan Ruyue nervously looked at Long Yi. She believed that Long Yi would definitely figure out a way to get them out of this situation. Wushuang and Barbarian Bull also looked at Long Yi. In the critical moment, Long Yi was their backbone.
Finally, the walls on both sides shrunk till only one person could stand between them, and Long Yi's group of four had to turn sideways to avoid getting squashed by each other.
And at this moment, that gloomy and cold sounds rang out again. Those Dark Rock Specters unexpectedly began to take advantage of their misfortune, wanting to suck the four people into the dark cliff.
Long Yi smirked. Seeing this, Wushuang and others relaxed all of a sudden, as they knew that Long Yi had definitely thought of a solution.
Feeling the attractive force all around them, Long Yi used his spirit power to envelop everyone, and let the Dark Rock Specters absorb them into the dark cliff.
The Dark Rock Specter King used up its life force to trap Long Yi's group of four into its deathtrap, but this unexpectedly allowed its own followers to save them. Life was so intriguing.
After Long Yi's group of four were sucked into the dark cliff, the cliffs on both sides of this narrow gorge completely closed up without leaving even a small crack.
Now, it was complete darkness in front of Long Yi as he felt that they had been completely engulfed by the dar
k cliff. As for those Dark Rock Specters that had sucked them in, they wished to withdraw. Once they left, Long Yi's group of four would be stuck to death in the dark cliff. The reason why they were able to enter the dark cliff as if there was no obstruction was naturally because of the ability of these Dark Rock Specters.
Long Yi naturally understood this principle, so how could he let these Dark Rock Specters leave as they please? He wanted to get out of this narrow gorge using these Dark Rock Specters.
Long Yi bound these dark cliff specters with his powerful spirit power and drove them towards the direction of the exit.
Before long, Long Yi and the rest saw rays of lights shining ahead of them, and sweet smelling air directly blew on their faces. After finally exiting the place, this was certainly a mentally refreshing experience.
"What a beautiful place." Nalan Ruyue gasped in admiration looking at this fairyland-like surroundings. There were jade-green soft grassland, various kinds of trees spread all over, multi-colored flowers, and a clear brook flowing down from the distant hill. With a gentle breeze, a faint fragrance would spread all over this place, this place was truly by no means inferior to the Elven Forest.
"This place is indeed beautiful, but be careful. Perhaps, this place might have something strange." Long Yi warned. Was there a safe place in the Lightning God Forbidden Area? He greatly doubted that.
But, the three god-beasts began to play in the grassland. They seemed to find this environment very enjoyable.
"My husband, look over there, it's a green rabbit." Nalan Ruyue pointed at a green-furred rabbit under a big tree on the right side and said in a pleasantly surprised voice. Now, she no longer had the cold image of an untouchable saintess, rather, she had the expression of a common young girl.
Long Yi looked over and saw an uncommon green-furred rabbit under a big tree. It was jumping around, playing by itself, and it looked very cute.
"You like it, right? Your husband will help you grab it." Long Yi gently pinched the cheek of Nalan Ruyue and said. Then, in an instant, he flew near the rabbit and his big hand reached towards it to grab it at lightning speed.
But, to his surprise, he had unexpectedly failed to grab the rabbit. The only thing he managed to grab was the afterimage of this green-furred rabbit. While he was still feeling surprised and bewilderment, he heard Nalan Ruyue and others crying out in alarm.
Long Yi turned his head, and along with a cold roar, he saw a sun flying towards him. Then, using his Great Cosmos Shift to its limit, at the final moment, he dodged. After barely dodging the object flying at him, he landed at the grasslands 100 meters away, panting. Despite dodging the object, he was still affected by the attack to some extent. Now, his handsome face had turned black, a handful of hair was burnt, and there were a number of big holes on his clothing. But, in the surrounding within the radius of 50 meters where he was standing just a moment ago, there wasn't even a blade of grass left standing, only a big, burned black crater remained.
"Monster, what a monster." Long Yi didn't dare to believe that that green-furred rabbit he was trying to catch just now was not only incomparably fast, it could shoot a big fireball that was several dozen meters in diameters. Moreover, the temperature of that flame unexpectedly wasn't that weaker than the flames of the Fire Qilin. This damn God was truly pulling his leg.
Fortunately, this green-furred rabbit didn't chase and attack Long Yi again, otherwise, it would be troublesome.
Wushuang and others came over and they also had expressions of shock and disbelief on their faces when they saw what happened to Long Yi.
"Boss, are you all right?" Barbarian Bull asked with concern.
"I'm fine, but what is this goddamn place? The strength of a mere rabbit is as amazing as my god-beasts." Long Yi complained. As a matter fact, the strength of this rabbit was comparable to the god-beasts, merely, the strength of the three god-beasts by Long Yi's side were basically hidden. They were only showing one-tenth of their true god-beasts' strength, otherwise, breaking through this Lightning God Forbidden Area wouldn't be this hard.
At this time, the crater created by the big fireball of that green-furred rabbit flashed with a green light. Then, in a blink of an eye, it unexpectedly reverted back to the original state as if there was never a crater there in the first place.
Long Yi straightened out his clothes, and began to take a leisure stroll in this place. This time, they became a little wiser. If they saw any living creatures, they would make a detour and didn't dare to provoke them despite the fact that Long Yi was itching to hunt down and roast some of them to satisfy their food cravings.
While walking up the hillside, the expression of the four people who were happily chatting suddenly stiffened, and their complexion became pale all of a sudden. Looking at each other, the four of them bent over and shrunk their bodies behind the hillside.
Chapter 351
God, what the hell did they see? On the other side of this small hill was unexpectedly filled with numerous magical beasts. Moreover, all of them were magical beasts ranked S class or above. Most of the magical beasts they were looking at only existed in legends as they have never appeared since a long time ago. There were so many magical beasts, everywhere on the flat area in this small hillside was filled with them. Even the extremely rare Violent Lightning Beast, Long Yi's group could see that there were already 20 of these beasts in front of them.
"My husband, am I dreaming?" Nalan Ruyue softly asked in amazement.
"I don't think so because I am also seeing the same thing as you." Long Yi helplessly shrugged his shoulders. However, in the next moment, he frowned in confusion as he muttered, "Not right...!"
"Not right." Wushuang's soft voice simultaneously rang out, as she looked towards Long Yi. Seeing that he was signaling her to speak, she explained, "As the proverb goes, a mountain cannot have two tigers. Generally, if there is a powerful magical beast in an area, then within the vicinity of 100 li, one shouldn't find a second similar ranked magical beast. There are currently several hundred magical beasts with similar ranks gathered here together, and they are surprisingly living in peace with each other. This should be an impossible matter. Furthermore, even if a powerful magical beast doesn't attack anyone, it would at the very least emit a powerful aura. The senses of a powerful magical beast are also very sharp, they should be able to sense us even if we were very far away. The weird thing here is that we are so close to them, yet they are unable to sense our presence. Also, we are unable to sense them in front of us, as if they don't exist at all. This cannot be justified."
Wushuang spoke out her analysis, and her analysis was very reasonable. Only after hearing her, Nalan Ruyue and Barbarian Bull managed to notice the problem. What Wushuang stated was also the problem Long Yi had thought of when he saw the beasts.
"Then, these creatures that resemble powerful magical beasts are in fact not real magical beasts?" Nalan Ruyue asked.
"Yes… and no at the same time let me try to understand." Long Yi said with a smile.
"Try? What do you mean??" Nalan Ruyue asked in confusion.
Long Yi stood up and opened his big hands. An ice arrow formed in his palms and after taking aim at an SS-ranked Raging Flames Lion that was emitting golden flames, he released the arrow.
This Raging Flames Lion had no reaction towards the incoming ice arrow. The ice arrow directly shot into its neck, then the golden flame around its entire body instantly extinguished and its entire body was covered with a layer of ice as it collapsed.
Eh... Long Yi was dumbfounded and others were also similarly startled. This Raging Flames Lion was too weak. Even a rank 5 water magic was able to kill it. Moreover, it appeared as though this rank 5 water magic was overkill when used on the SS-ranked Raging Flames Lion
"I understand now, this place is completely opposite from the outside. The strongest has become the weakest and the weakest has become the strongest." Long Yi said while snapping his fingers.
Wushuang and others also agreed with Long Yi. Just thinking about their encounter with the lowest rank green-furred rabbit, and thinking about the result when Long Yi shot a rank 5 ice arrow at the SS-ranked Raging Flames Lion, Long Yi shouldn't be wrong.
"Boss, since that is the case, how about we kill all of them." Barbarian Bull's eyes shone as he droned.
Long Yi knocked Barbarian Bull's head and said with a smile, "You brat, you want to b
ully the weak. If you have guts, then go and kill that green-furred rabbit."
Barbarian Bull rubbed his head and said. "I am clearly unable to defeat real SS-class magical beasts, but killing these fakes can satisfy my craving."
Long Yi rubbed his chin and felt that the words of Barbarian Bull were also very reasonable. It was not bad to satisfy their cravings. Killing such powerful magical beast with one slash, that feeling ought to be very satisfying.
"In any case, we have to go past them, and since they are in the way, taking another road and not killing them seems pretty stupid. Let's kill them as we pass by." Long Yi waved his hand as he rushed towards the other side of the hillside by himself.
"Boss, wait for this old bull." Barbarian Bull called out loudly as he chased after Long Yi. Behind them, the three god beasts chased after them to join in the fun.
As for Wushuang and Nalan Ruyue, they didn't know whether to laugh or cry seeing this. Looking at Long YI, they couldn't help but reassess their understanding of him again. From his shiny black clear eyes, it seemed like it was easy to see through him. However, as for what he was truly thinking in his heart, perhaps, even the person closest to him would be unable to understand. Sometimes, he appeared very complicated, sometimes, he appeared very simple. When he was cruel, he would enrage both men and gods with his viciousness. When he was gentle and soft, he could also make people feel as if he was a gentle spring breeze.
As the two women began to lose themselves in their thoughts, they unintentionally displayed different expressions. Nalan Ruyue followed the back view of Long Yi with her eyes and thought about the moments she had spent together with him, her eyes had tender feelings like water as she looked at him. As for Wushuang, she was indifferent as usual, but her eyebrows would frequently tighten and loosen which showed that her heart wasn't calm.
Wushuang had long been convinced of everything Long Yi had said. But believing was one thing, however, accepting a stranger as her husband was absolutely not a reality for her. Although she had lost her memories of the time she had spent together with Long Yi, the impression left behind by Long Yi in her heart was very deep. For instance, outside Soaring Dragon City, when she saw Long Yi's heart-broken expression, her water-like clam heart, at that instant, unexpectedly felt stabbing pain.
Throughout the way when traveling from Blue Moon City to this Lightning God Forbidden Area, frequently, Wushuang felt that the movements Long Yi made and the expressions he showed seemed familiar. But if she tried to think of the things that happened before, that feeling would vanish as if a night blooming cactus. However, this made Wushuang more convinced of whatever Long Yi said. So although the relationship between Long Yi and her appeared indifferent, in fact, two of them were actually getting closer.
"Big sister Wushuang, my husband has already left, shouldn't we follow?" Nalan Ruyue's voice woke Wushuang who was lost in thought. The two women followed behind Long Yi and Barbarian Bull who had already charged into the group of magical beasts.
Before long, Long Yi could no longer see any living magical beast around him. All the 'magical beasts' were laying on the ground, and Barbarian Bull appeared as if he was still full of energy.
After looking around, tiger cub Little Three found a 'magical beast' which seemed delicious. Despite it being bigger than itself, Little Three bit the 'magical beast' with its little mouth and dragged it over to Long Yi. After reaching Long Yi's side, Little Three pulled on Long Yi's pants while drooling, it was obviously a very gluttonous little creature.
Long Yi believed Little Three's judgment. The raw materials chosen by this little one were definitely high-quality stuff. Little Three wouldn't even look at lower quality stuff like the meat of weaker magical beasts.
Already fed up with eating preserved food, Long Yi had long wanted to roast and cook some magical beasts to satisfy his cravings. Patting Little Three's head, Long Yi said with a smile, "Gluttonous tiger, you have profited today."
Little Three gave a few roars in excitement after hearing what Long Yi said, and in the blink of an eye, it left. After a few moments, Little Three returned with two other helpers, dragging several 'magical beasts' corpses towards Long Yi.
Long Yi was helpless as he knew that Little Three's appetite was like a bottomless pit. No matter how much food Long Yi gave it to eat, it would never be enough. Now that Long Yi had more work than he could handle, he summoned the 18 super skeletons from inside the blood skull to help him out. Using his thoughts, he commanded them to peel off the skin and slice the meat, just like he had done in the Huangmang plains.
Seeing this scene, Wushuang was startled. A strong feeling of déjà vuappeared in her heart as she watched the 18 super skeletons prepare the meat. She seemed to have already experienced this in the past, so she tried her best to recall where she had seen this scene before, and she indistinctly 'saw' a vague scene.
Chapter 352
As the scene flashed through her mind, Wushuang seemed to remember seeing a grassland. On the grassland, there was a bonfire with several blurred figures around it, but the thing that left the deepest impression on her was those 18 super skeletons.
Wushuang tried her best to make the scene clearer, but the scene seemed to always be shrouded by a layer of mist. It was as if the scene was an ashamed maiden, who was unwilling to reveal her true appearance.
Suddenly, rows of spotlessly white teeth appeared in front of her eyes, and Wushuang was startled. This resulted in her waking up all of a sudden, and as soon as she returned to her senses, she saw Long YI standing in front of her. Long Yi was watching her with a smile, revealing rows of shining white teeth.
"What are you doing?" Wushuang suppressed the waves which were brewing in her heart and asked faintly.
"I am the one that should ask what are you doing, why on earth are you staring at me like that?" Long Yi smiled strangely and replied Wushuang with a question of his own while staring at her.
Wushuang's face slightly heated up and he hurriedly replied Long Yi with a cold voice, "Who was looking at you? I was looking at those skeletons at your side."
"Skeletons? Do skeletons look as good as me?" Long Yi said with a smirk on his face.
"The skeletons are a hundred times better looking than you, why are you being such a narcissist??" Wushuang immediately stated.
"Did you recall anything?" Long Yi asked with expectation.
"No." Wushuang replied flatly.
A trace of disappointment flashed in Long Yi's eyes but he quickly reverted back to his signature bad smile. With a smirk on his face, he told Wushuang, "Wushuang, just now, you were blushing."
Wushuang instantly shot a glare at him, but Long Yi seemed to ignore her as he had already returned to the bonfire. Patting Long Two's shoulder, he asked, "Brother, someone is saying you are more handsome than me, do you think you're more handsome than me?"
Long Yi's action piqued the interest of both women, but Barbarian Bull wasn't surprised at all. As for three god-beasts, they were staring at the meat on the grill while drooling.
The pitch-black eye-sockets of Long Two flashed with a red light and its skull unexpectedly turned towards Long Yi.
"This… does this skeleton have consciousness?" Wushuang and Nalan Ruyue were stunned. Originally when they learned about Long Yi's hidden profession, and saw that he summoned 18 super skeletons, they were surprised. However, now, they were dumbfounded. They never thought that a skeleton could actually respond to its master, wasn't it just a bunch of bones put together?
This was not the first time Long Yi had seen Long Two responding to him. He guessed that this fellow was slowly giving rise to its own consciousness. When he first guessed that Long Two was actually developing its own consciousness, the thought of eliminating Long Two appeared in his mind. However, he finally gave up on that thought and decided to let fate run its course. Now, he actually had some expectations for Long Two development and he wanted to see what would happen if Long Two developed its own consciousness.
"Maybe." Long Yi answered absent-mindedly as his eyes were staring at those pitch-black eye-sockets of Long Two. Then using his spirit power, he surrounded it Long Yi managed to sense spirit fluctuations coming out of Long Two, and for a lifeless skeleton which was summoned by a necromancer to have spirit fluctuations was an impossible matter. However, the fact was that Long Two indeed had spirit fluctuations, so saying that it doesn't have consciousness was somewhat unbelievable.
Long Yi ponde
red deeply and walked two steps away, but to his surprise, Long Two's eye-sockets flashed with a red light as Long Two soon followed behind him with every step he took. Even without commands from Long Yi, Long Two was moving by itself.
At this time, Long Yi felt a comparatively strong spirit fluctuation from Long Two, as if it was trying to communicate with him. Although Long Yi didn't understand what it wanted to say, he could feel admiration and worship from it.
Long Yi was startled. Turning around to face Long Two, he looked at Long Two in the eye. Compared to the time when he had just obtained Long Two, it had indeed grown a lot. Now, its entire body emitted a dense dark aura, and the skeleton which was its entire body had changed into a suit of grand bone armor. It was no longer that emaciated skeleton which it had once been. Never would Long Yi have thought that this skeleton, which he named casually and sometimes poured his heart out to as it would never divulge his secrets, would really develop its own consciousness. Now it was actually able to think independently and move by itself without any instruction.
After a long time, Long Yi habitually gave Long Two's shoulders a pat and said, "No matter what you become and no matter how strong you become, I hope you will never betray me."
The eye-sockets of Long Two flashed with red light. However, it didn't understand the words Long Yi said to it. Currently, Long Two's intelligence wasn't fully developed and its comprehension ability was only equivalent to a 3-4 years old child. It could be said that, for a consciousness to develop in Long Two, Long Yi played a vital role. As Long Yi had always regarded Long Two as a living being, he continuously talked to it. This allowed Long Two to evolve, and this slowly gave rise to a consciousness in Long Two. At the very beginning, it was only a little, but later, along with its strength, this little bit of consciousness began to strengthen. Eventually, that little bit of consciousness it had in the beginning became stronger and stronger. This resulted in Long Two being able to think for itself like what is currently happening. From another point of view, it could be said that it was impossible for Long Two to defy Long Yi. As the concept that Long Yi was its 'boss' had been deeply rooted in its brain the moment its consciousness was born, it would definitely carry out Long Yi's command no matter what it was.
The atmosphere became somewhat strange. Now, Long Yi sat at one side lost in thought, and Long Two who was holding a death scythe stood behind him. The other 17 skeletons were carrying Long Yi's command of slicing and roasting the meat beside the two of them. As for Nalan Ruyue, she walked a bit farther from Long Yi with her body shrouded in a layer of milky white radiance. It goes without saying that light and dark was opposing elements, so she instinctively rejected the dark aura emitted by Long Two.
Long Yi nodded his head and sprinkled seasonings on all the roasted meat, causing a burst of aroma from the freshly cooked meat. This fragrance awakened the gluttonous worm in his stomach and he no longer went into the flights of fancy. Even his soul had passed through time and space to arrive at this world, this proved that nothing was impossible.
This seemingly separate space also had night and day. When Long Yi and the others finished eating, the day suddenly changed to night. This change was too quick, catching all of them unprepared. The light was gone and darkness fell upon the land in an instant in this space.
As there was danger all around in this space, Long Yi didn't dare to rashly advance into the unknown. Moreover, he knew that everyone had wasted a large amount of energy in the narrow gorge. As such, he decided that they should rest and recover their energy for the time being before proceeding any further.
After pitching tents, everyone retreated into their individual tent to rest.
However, Long Yi was restless the whole night and wasn't able to fall asleep. The thought of stealthily entering Nalan Ruyue's tent gradually surfaced in his mind. He had wives at his side, but he couldn't touch them, wasn't this very cruel and ruthless?
But, thinking about the ruthless words from Wushuang which stated that if the two of them had any intimate behavior when she was around, she would cut off his little **. As soon as he thought about what Wushuang said, he started to hesitate. Their hearts' magic horn, how could it be so sensitive? This was truly too depressing.
"Your grandfather, I cannot eat, but can't I at least hug her to sleep?" Long Yi gnashed his teeth and thought. He who was already accustomed to sleeping with a beauty accompanying him, tonight, without a warm fragrant jade beside him, how would he fall asleep? It was really hard to bear the feeling of having no one beside him while he slept.
After thinking so far, his heart itched even more and the feeling became harder to bear. So like a thief, he looked all around and quietly arrived in front of Nalan Ruyue's tent. Then with his spirit power, he sensed that there wasn't any barrier. Long Yi was unable to help but become overjoyed at the thought that this girl might also be waiting for him.
Long Yi lifted the curtains, but the only thing he saw was that the interior of the tent was full of dense light aura. Nalan Ruyue was sitting cross-legged in a deep meditation and was oblivious to anything happening around her.
"This girl, how come you don't understand your husband's heart?" Long Yi thought in frustration. It was naturally easy for him to wake her up, but, disrupting her meditation for his lust was naturally too selfish. It was impossible for him to do such things.
Long Yi left the tent of Nalan Ruyue in dejection, and turning around, he suddenly met a pair of ice-cold eyes. As he looked into the cold eyes looking at him, he felt as though he fell into a pool of ice-cold water, and felt a chill at the bottom of his heart.
"Wushuang, why on earth are running outside so late at night to scare people? Do you know, you nearly frightened me to death?" Long Yi saw that those eyes belonged to Wushuang and said in annoyance.
"You want to do bad things again. Do you no longer want that thing below you anymore?" Wushuang coldly shot a glance at Long Yi's crotch and a hint of shame unconsciously flashed on her beautiful face.
"I have no dirty thoughts running through my mind, i have no burning desire in me right now. Could it be that you're feeling something right now? What are you doing here? Don't tell me that you sensed it again, if you say so, then I dare to confirm that that is your problem. I have absolutely nothing to do with this." Long Yi hurriedly pleaded innocence, but his mind was running constantly. Could it be that she was able to sense his thoughts?
Wushuang didn't give him a reply, she merely stood there and stared at Long Yi in a daze. Her expression was constantly changing as she looked at him, and no one knew what she was thinking about.
A ray of moonlight silently illuminated the night sky. And under the moonlight, Wushuang who was wearing a white dress appeared just like a female celestial who descended from heaven. Compared to the mortals in this world, she would put all of them to shame. Stunned, Long Yi could only stare blankly at her.
Both people looked at each other in a daze, only after a period of time which seemed to stretch for eternity and felt like an instant, both of them simultaneously woke up with a start. Long Yi who had naturally thick skin wasn't embarrassed at all, however, the same couldn't be said for Wushuang.
"I cannot sleep, how about we take a walk?" Wushuang turned around and softly said to Long Yi.
"Well… I can't sleep either. How about we chat while walking?" Long Yi looked at the beautiful silhouette of Wushuang and couldn't help but become somewhat idiotic.
Wushuang neither rejected nor objected, she merely began to walk gracefully. Since she didn't object to his suggestion, Long Yi followed her with his thick face,
Wushuang's heart was in chaos. Every night, she would always meditate no matter what happens, but for some unknown reason, tonight, she found it extremely hard to keep a calm mind to meditate. As such, she simply gave up on the idea of meditating and lied down to sleep. After she fell asleep, she had a dream. In her dream, a familiar face appeared, the face which seemed foreign yet dear to her at the same time. That well-defined facial outline, those shiny dark eyes that could make people's heart start pounding, and that signature bad smile on his face. Every part of the face told her that she was looking at Long Yi without question.
If it was merely a dream of Long Yi, then it wouldn't have made her feel like this. In her dream, Long Yi was on top of her, pushing her down. Their lips were in contact with each other, while they both possessed an identical heartbeat rhythm. The sound of their heartbeat was akin to thunder, ringing loud and clear in their ears.
Peng peng, peng peng, this identical heartbeat let them know that they were connected together with an invisible thread of fate. In her dream, Wushuang wanted to resist Long Yi's advances, but all of her efforts were in vain. Now that their lives were basically intertwined, they were unable to separate from each other.