Chapter 399: Dark God?
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How was it possible? Could it be that he was seeing things? Long Yi clearly saw the claws of those two corpse sink into Wushuang's body. However, there was no wound on her body...
Long Yi's hands reached out to touch Wushuang's chest. He gently touched the dried blood with his finger and after smelling it, he was sure that he wasn't mistaken. This was indeed a human's blood, and it absolutely wasn't something like tomato sauce that dyed Wushuang's pure white robe red.
Long Yi took off his robe Wushuang's body which was barely covered by her own ripped clothes. After covering Wushuang with his own clothes, he turned his gaze to the crystal ball which was on the ground. Long Yi clearly saw that this crystal ball fell from the two corpses just a moment ago. Long Yi started to inject his own magic power into this crystal ball. However, no matter how much magic power he injected into this crystal ball, there was no reaction from it. It appeared as though it was just an ordinary crystal ball.
"How could this be? Was that just an illusion?" Nalan Ruyue didn't dare to believe what she just saw. The events which happened a moment ago was truly hair raising, Nalan Ruyue was frightened stiff by what just happened. Furthermore, Long Yi's previous outburst made her extremely worried. If she was in Wushuang's place just a moment ago, would Long Yi also go crazy trying to save her? Nalan Ruyue thought in a daze.
As he stared at Wushuang who was unconscious on the floor, Long Yi sighed. After looking at Wushuang for a while longer, Long Yi finally stood up and said, "Let's rest here for the time being." Seeing as there were no objections, Long Yi walked over to the unconscious Barbarian Bull who was lying not too far away. After pressing a few spots on his body, Barbarian Bull woke up. Since he trained in Golden Bell Canopy, Barbarian Bull didn't sustain any serious injuries other than some superficial flesh wounds.
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It was a dark night in Lost City. The dark fog enveloping the sky was even denser, the stars and moon in the sky weren't visible and the undead army gathered everywhere.
These undead creatures surrounding the city lord mansion had crawled out of the ground after Wushuang returned. Throughout the night, they stood quietly and motionlessly in neat rows, just like statues. The surprising thing was that these undead creatures were under no one's control. This kind of strange scene could only be seen in Lost City. After thinking about it, Long Yi deduced that everything that had happened was due to Wushuang.
Eventually, the group decided to set up their tents at the eastern courtyard of the city lord's mansion. Since it had already been destroyed in the battle, Long Yi only had to sweep away the debris with a wave of his hand before it became a plot of land suitable for them to rest. As for Wushuang, she was resting on the soft bed in one of those tents. Currently, Long Yi was sitting at the top of the tallest building in the city lord's mansion and was playing with the crystal ball. Although it was just an ordinary crystal ball in his hand, Long Yi seemed to be lost in thoughts as he stared at it with a frown on his face.
The events which happened in the city lord's mansion today were replayed in Long Yi's head as if he was watching a movie. The more the thought about it, the more Long Yi felt as though there was something suspicious going on. He felt as though everything was enveloped with a layer of dense fog, and he was able to smell a plot brewing.
According to legend, Lost City was cursed by the Dark God. As such, Long Yi wondered if the series of incidents was made possible due to the Dark God. However, he couldn't think of any reason why the Dark God would do something like this.
Seeing as he was stuck, Long Yi decided to slowly analyze everything from the beginning. The arrangement of the city lord and his wife was very interesting. Moreover, the clothes they wore was even more suspicious. Due to their honorable status, they would definitely not lie on the ground to wait for their death after being affected by the curse. Not to mention the fact that their corpses were neatly arranged. It was clear that this was a set up from the beginning.
After thinking about it for a long time, Long Yi started to question himself again. Could it be that the city lord and his wife had already passed away thousands of years ago and the arrangement was to deal with Wushuang? The more he thought about it, the more Long Yi thought that it wasn't possible. Who would know that Wushuang would come back to life thousands of years later?
Thinking deeper, Long Yi started to recall the situation which happened earlier. The sudden resurrection of those two dried corpses was due to the Wushuang's tears falling into the clean area of the room. The moment her tears touched the floor, the strange magic array which was on the clothes of the two corpses began to operate. Everything led to the incident where Wushuang was 'pierced' by the claws of the two corpses.
"After thinking about it, everything was set up in such a way to target Wushuang." Long Yi muttered under his breath. The more he thought about it the dizzier he felt. In the end, Long Yi gave up trying to find a reason for the things which happened.
After he stopped thinking about the matter with Wushuang, Long Yi suddenly remembered the shadow within his body. That old fellow had been bugging him to go to the dark space of this Lost City for such a long time. Now that he was at Lost City, the shadow had disappeared without a trace. What was going on?
"Smelly kid, what are you thinking about? You're definitely making malicious remarks behind my back again." A familiar cold voice resounded in Long Yi's mind. As Long Yi haven't heard this voice in a long time, he felt relieved when he finally heard the voice of this shadow again.
"Old man, I have already told you, if you are going to come out, greet me first. What are you trying to do when you come out like this? Scare me to death?" Long Yi cursed in his heart as he felt irritated with the way this shadow appeared.
"Jie jie jie, smelly kid. Shouldn't you be thanking me? To repair your broken skeleton, I had to spend one-third of my origin dark power." The shadow said after a strange laughter. Long Yi could hear the exhaustion the shadow had in his voice.
"Was it so hard? Old man, I truly give you my thanks. When you recover your physical body, I promise you get you tasty food and good drinks. If you want money, I'll give you money. If you are looking for girls, I'll get you some girls." Long Yi went wild with joy when he heard that Long Two was repaired. In his excitement, he started to make empty promises to the shadow.
"Less of your crap. Since it is still early, we should go to the dark space." The shadow scolded in jest and said.
"Now? But..." Long Yi was somewhat hesitant to leave Wushuang here as she was still unconscious.
"Well, you won't be there for long. Since you were there before, you should know that a month in the dark space is only half a day outside. When you come back from the dark space, I guarantee that the sun wouldn't even be up." The shadow said.
Long Yi had actually thought about it before. In the past, he had stayed inside the dark space with Leng Youyou for a very long time. Yet when they got out, not even a day had passed in the real world. Lu Xiya and Barbarian Bull were still outside for them when they got out which proved that the time flow between the real world and the dark space was different.
Long Yi made up his mind. He decided to go to the dark space in order to fulfill the shadow's desire. Under the shadow's guidance, Long Yi eventually reached the outskirts of Lost City. Suddenly, a wisp of black qi emerged from Long Yi's left hand and a deep and serene hole started to split open in front of him. It had the appearance of a black hole and it was extremely conspicuous in this wasteland.
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"Why are you still in a daze? Jump down already." The shadow urged.
Since he had already jumped down once, Long Yi plunged into this black hole without hesitation. The moment Long Yi's body entered the black hole, the opening slowly started to close. Eventually, the wasteland returned to its original state.
After falling for a long time, Long Yi finally landed on the ground. Instead of landing in the midst of dark magical beasts like the first time he came, Long Yi landed beside the cold pond.
"Old man, don't tell me that you want to enter the secret cave at the bottom of this pond?" Long Yi asked. Now, he had misgivings in his heart, could it be that...
"Less nonsense, don't waste time and quickly go down." The shadow said with annoyance. He was clearly aware of what Long Yi was thinking
Long Yi felt apprehensive. He wondered why the shadow wanted to down into the cave, but after thinking about it, Long Yi realized that he could easily reach the cave this time. Withstanding the cold qi and pressure, he swam down for a period of time. After quite some time, Long Yi finally saw the entrance of that secret room. When he saw the entrance, Long Yi used his old method of entering. As he was much more powerful this time, Long Yi easily dealt with the strange fishes and entered the secret path.
Along the path, he was unimpeded. Those fellows that had changed into statues had already been turned into coke by the Lightning Violent Beast in the past. The remainder had been refined into Seven Baleful Puppets which were dissolved when they were made to be stoppers at the Death Sea of Flowers.
After stepping into that familiar hall, Long Yi had a surge of unknown excitement in his heart. Each and every cell in his body suddenly got excited and he felt as if electricity was flowing through his body.
"Put the Dark God Magic Staff into it, you should know how to do that." The voice of the shadow started to tremble. One could well imagine that he was also very excited.
Long Yi came back to his senses, he was excited due to the influence of the shadow within his body. Long Yi eventually found the groove on the ground and stabbed the magic staff into it. He was curious about what was going to happen next. Was the shadow inside his body the legendary Dark God?
Creak creak, the innermost wall flipped. Long Yi was expecting it as a statue which was covered with a black robe from head to toe appeared in front of him.
"Is this the Dark God?" Long Yi asked.
"Hey, old man, where did you go?" Hearing no reply from the shadow, Long Yi looked inside his sea of consciousness. Surprisingly, the shadow had already disappeared from his sea of consciousness and was nowhere to be seen.
Just when Long Yi was shocked at the disappearance of the shadow, the Dark God's statue started to emit a dark light which covered the entire hall.
Even though the dark light weakened after a while, Long Yi was petrified as the statue of the Dark God came back to life.
"Jie jie jie, it feels really good to have my body back." The signature strange laughter of that shadow resounded inside this underground hall. After looking around, he jumped down from the divine altar. Long Yi wasn't able to see his face, but he saw a pair of strange purple eyes.
Although Long Yi had guessed the identity of the shadow in his heart, Long Yi was still greatly shocked. The Dark God really existed! Not to mention the fact that the Dark God resided in his body for a few years.
"You… are you truly the Dark God?" Long Yi came back to his senses and sized up the legendary Dark God standing in front of him. He was not able to see his figure, but Long Yi could see that the Dark God was shorter than himself. Long Yi was unable to sense his aura, but he was dazzled by the pair of purple eyes on the statue's face.
"Jie jie jie, what are you talking about?" The Dark God gave a strange laugh.
Long Yi rolled his eyes. He didn't feel like he was meeting with a god. Perhaps it was because of the shadow, no, it should be because he was very familiar with the Dark God. In his heart, the Dark God was still that playful very old monster residing in his sea of consciousness.
"Old man, I would have never thought that this was your real body. Anyway, why are you wearing a worn out robe?" Long Yi looked at Dark God with disdain and casually mocked him.
The strange laughter of the Dark God ceased abruptly due to Long Yi's words.
"Let me ask you a question for real. Did you curse Lost City?" Long Yi retracted the frivolous expression he had on his face and asked in all seriousness.
Chapter 400: Male or female
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"No." The Dark God shrugged his shoulders and answered quickly. The action of him shrugging his shoulders was clearly copied from Long Yi.
"If you didn't do it, who could have done such a thing?" Long Yi frowned and asked. Who else had the ability to curse such a majestic city like the Holy City which was a great magic civilization? One should know that this wasn't a curse on a single person. Rather, it was a curse on the entire city.
"I don't know." The Dark God gave Long Yi a straightforward answer.
"You don't know? You are the Dark God, how can you not know?" Long Yi squinted his eyes as he asked. Was there something a God doesn't know in this world?
The Dark God glared at Long Yi with his purple eyes and asked, "Do you know how long I stayed inside the Demonic Stone?"
Long Yi was startled as he replied, "It is said to be more than ten thousand years."
The Dark God laughed and he continued to ask, "Haha, how long has it been since this Lost City was cursed?"
Long Yi suddenly saw the light and he secretly cursed himself for having a pig's brain. Lost City was cursed and perished roughly 2,000 years ago. However, the soul of the Dark God had already been trapped inside the Demonic Stone for more than ten thousand years already. Although the Dark God was resolute and hadn't admitted that he was trapped inside the Demonic Stone, Long Yi had long considered him as a being who was trapped inside the Demonic Stone. Since the Dark God had been trapped inside the Demonic Stone when Lost City was cursed, it couldn't have been the Dark God who did it. Now, a new question formed in Long Yi's mind, who else had the ability to curse an entire city?
"Old man, isn't it about time to tell me the matters which happened in the Divine Realm? What exactly happened?" Long Yi asked the Dark God curiously. What exactly was the Divine Realm? Based on what Long Yi had seen, the Dark God and Lightning God didn't have much difference other than the type of magic element they used.
The Dark God laughed and answered, "I have already said long ago, you still don't possess the qualifications to know. You are not strong enough yet."
"My current strength is still not enough? Then, when will it be enough? Magic God? Swords God?" Long Yi raised his eyebrows and asked.
"What can your Blue Wave Continent's Magic God or Swords God count as? You'll only be qualified to know when you can wear at least a piece of the lightning god armor. When you reach that level of power, whether or not I tell you about the Divine Realm wouldn't matter. Currently, there is only one thing which is important. You are already engulfed in this vortex… You can slowly figure out the truth of the matter yourself. Jie jie jie" The shadow said and gave Long Yi a sinister laugh.
Long Yi pursed his lips after hearing what the Dark God said. Deep down in his heart, he already reached some conclusions. After obtaining the inheritance of the Lightning God, he was no longer an outsider. Perhaps, Long Yi was destined to become involved in this matter from the moment he arrived at the Blue Waves Continent. To be precise, everyone on the Blue Waves Continent couldn't escape from this chessboard. Only Long Yi was close to the truth. Not only was Long Yi close to the truth, he was closer to the so-called gods.
This world was like a chessboard and the people were the chess pieces. Everyone believed that the gods were the ones playing this game of chess. However, if one day the gods themselves became the chess pieces, who would be the ones controlling the game?
"Don't think about it. There will come a day when you will understand everything. Now, it's time for you to leave this place." The Dark God interrupted Long Yi's thoughts and brought him back to reality.
"I will leave this place. However, where will you go?" Long Yi asked with hesitation. Although Long Yi was finding ways to get rid of this shadow from his sea of consciousness, he was feeling a sense of loss when the shadow actually left. People's thoughts can be so ironic sometimes.
"The Dark God will naturally stay in the dark space." With a flash, the Dark God disappeared. The Dark God's Magic Staff which was treated like chicken ribs in Long Yi's hands had been returned to the Dark God.
"This Dark God Magic Staff is the weapon that has accompanied me for tens of thousands of years. For you to obtain it can also be regarded as the will of Heaven. However, a large amount of tyrannical qi is contained inside this magic staff. If you were to use this staff with improper technique, it would devour you. The only reason you can't feel the power of this magic staff is because it has been sealed by numerous light priests long ago." The Dark God said softly. With black light flashing in his hands, the Dark God Magic Staff underwent an earthshaking transformation. In the Dark God's hands, this withered tree root staff swelled and changed back into a glistening black magic staff. Surprisingly, the tip of this magic staff was formed by three heads. It was the three headed demonic dragon's heads. The six eyes on the tip of the staff glimmered with faint red light which gave the staff an indescribable beauty. It was as though the staff was an exquisite work of art.
"Are you giving it to me?" The eyes of Long Yi shone as he said.
"Yes, but, with your current strength, you cannot completely control it. As such, I have only unsealed half of the seal. Here, give it a try." The Dark God said as he handed over the Dark God Magic Staff to Long Yi.
After interacting with the shadow in his sea of consciousness for so long, Long Yi would naturally not be polite with him. He immediately stretched out his hands to catch the magic staff. However, when he was about to touch the staff, Long Yi stopped. Instead of looking at the majestic staff which was falling towards him, Long Yi was staring at the Dark God's hand without blinking.
"Old man, how come your hand is so girly?" These words suddenly came out of Long Yi's mouth. When Long Yi saw the Dark God's extended hand, he noticed that the hand was extremely white. Moreover, it was extremely slender and the hand was glittering. It was indeed the hand of a very beautiful girl. Shouldn't the hand of the Dark God which has been trapped for tens of thousands of years be withered, just like a dried up corpse?
The Dark God was visibly startled by Long Yi's words. However, the Dark God Magic Staff continued flying towards Long Yi and the Dark God began to mutter an incantation. The holes in the conical roof started shining with blue light which illuminated the ground. In an instant, a magic array was formed. Long Yi wasn't able to see the Dark God move, but he felt as though there was something pushing him towards the magic array.
"Hey, hey, old man..." Long Yi's shout resounded inside the underground hall, but he had already disappeared along with the blue light.
Standing still inside the hall by himself, the Dark God let out a faint sigh. With a wave of his hand, darkness covered the entire hall.
At the edge of Lost City, a spot with space distortion appeared. Long Yi emerged face first and started falling towards the ground.
Flipping over, Long Yi stopped himself from falling in mid-air. With a firm grasp, he held onto the Dark God Magic Staff. He immediately felt a blood connection with this Dark God Magic Staff. When Long Yi held the staff, he felt as though the ice cold aura coming from the staff conformed with the black vortex in his sea of consciousness.
Long Yi hissed and muttered while rubbing the stubble on his chin, "But... that hand truly resembled a girl's hand. However, how can the Dark God be female? Also, that laughter..."
Long Yi shook his head. He didn't dare to believe his thoughts. It was terrifying whenever he thought about that ear-piercing laughter coming from the Dark God.
"Since the Lightning God has already appeared, and the Dark God just appeared, what god would appear next?" In an instant, Long Yi shifted his thoughts from the Dark God's hand. He started thinking about the events which occurred and which God would appear next.
Wait a minute, Long Yi frowned as he seemed to have grasped something in his heart. God, statue. He recalled seeing the Water God statue inside Ice Palace, the Fire God statue in Illusory Forest. He also remembered the panicked expression of that woman from the Ice Palace when he touched the Water God Statue's chest. Also, there seemed to be traces of someone living in the secret room where the Fire God statue was located. Could it be that all of those statues were living people? Long Yi was shocked and frightened by his own speculation. What a joke, if they were really living beings like what Long Yi had imagined, wouldn't Long Yi be in serious trouble? He had groped the bosom of both the Water God and Fire God. Not to mention the fact that he had ** on the Fire God's bed. Who knew what troubles that would bring Long Yi?
"Eh, no… No way…" Long Yi shook his head. If they were aloof and remote gods, how could they allow him to defile their body? But, since he had already defiled their body, there were two possibilities. First, they were simply statues. Second, they were powerless to do anything when Long Yi groped them.
Long Yi felt that that the second possibility was more likely. Also, Long Yi naturally hoped for the second possibility to be true. Thinking about how he had groped the breasts of goddesses, he got excited. Why didn't I grope them more? Long Yi thought in his heart.
On one hand, Long Yi was **. On the other hand, Long Yi flew towards the Lost City's city lord residence. Since he had only been inside the dark space for an hour or so, he guessed that only several minutes had passed outside.
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"Lady, look at our Ning'er. At such a young age, she reached the Advance Magician Realm. She will definitely become an outstanding magician in the future!" A handsome and refined middle-aged man was standing side-by-side with a beautiful woman as they spoke. They were smiling while looking at a little girl practicing magic not far away from them.
"Yes, my lord. I truly had never thought that the both of us would give birth to a daughter with outstanding talents in magic when we were both warriors.. This is truly unimaginable." The woman was also very happy.
"Father, mother..." A porcelain doll-like cute little girl of merely ** years old managed to cast a Water Dragon Magic Spell. Turning around, she waved her hands as she rushed towards her parents. This truly was a beautiful picture which depicted family happiness.
The scene of the little girl throwing herself into her mother's embrace faded and disappeared gradually.
"Ning'er, be obedient. You are the only hope of our Holy City, you must keep on living." In another scene, that little girl had already grown into an 18-years-old young girl with a graceful demeanor. The appearance of her father who was the Holy City's city lord appeared much older.
"Father, don't! Ning'er doesn't want to leave you all." The young girl cried mournfully.
The middle-aged man hardened his heart and knocked the young lady out. Carrying her, he placed her inside a crystal coffin which was located under the pool in the secret room. After giving one last look to his daughter which was filled with affection, he closed the lid of the crystal coffin. Behind the middle-aged man, a group of magicians began to chant incantations in order to seal the crystal coffin.
"Father, don't! Don't abandon Ning'er… Mother..." On the large bed inside the tent, Wushuang started talking in her sleep. It was obvious that she was in great pain as her tears never stopped. She reached out her hands in the air and did her utmost to grab onto something as if she was drowning.
Long Yi lifted the curtain and entered the tent. He saw both Nalan Ruyue and Bertha trying their best to appease Wushuang who was having a nightmare. He quickly rushed over and held onto Wushuang's little hands which were failing about in the air. With an extremely tender voice, he consoled her, "Wushuang, I am right beside you. You don't have to be afraid anymore, you don't need to fear anything."
Looking at Long Yi's tender expression and hearing his caring voice, Nalan Ruyue and Bertha directed a gaze of admiration at Wushuang. They looked at each other and for the first time, they had a tacit agreement to leave the tent. They agreed to give Long Yi some space and allow him to spend time alone with Wushuang.
Under the comfort of Long Yi, Wushuang gradually calmed down. In her deep slumber, she unconsciously moved towards Long Yi. Perhaps it was because Long Yi emitted an aura which made her feel at ease, Wushuang eventually showed a calm expression on her face as she continued to sleep. The aura Long Yi exuded was very familiar, as it resembled her father's aura. However, at the same time, she knew that it wasn't her father's aura as there was something different about it.
In her dreams, Wushuang's charming body quivered. Yet another scene appeared inside her head. When she opened her eyes for the first time in the crystal coffin, she saw a handsome youth pressing onto her body, with his lips connected to hers...
Chapter 401: Those lost memories
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"You shameless perverted crook, I will kill you." The moment she saw that the youth trying to kiss her wasn't her husband, Wushuang immediately started chanting an incantation.
"Don't be impulsive, impulse is a devil. I have helped you to regain consciousness and now you are treating me like this?" The handsome youth grabbed her neck as cold sweats appeared on his forehead.
The scene changed once again. Both the heavens and earth began to tremble. Lost City started sinking and the ground rose more than ten meters high as if a wave in the sea, burying everything.
The young girl's hazy tearful eyes looked at the sinking ruins and felt sad for an unknown reason.
"That was your home. For someone to not have a home, it is truly a sad thing. No one will laugh at you for crying… However, from here on out, my home shall be your home, you'll have a home again." The youth comforted the perplexed, sad and confused young girl with his warm words.
"Then, where is your home?" The young girl asked softly.
"No matter how high the condor flies, home is where the children are. No matter how far a daughter goes, home is where her parents are. As for my home, it is located at the end of the world…" The youth looked at the Wind Condor circling in the sky and said with a trace of loneliness in his voice. When she heard his words, a feeling of desolation washed over her. She had the feeling this youth in front of her was a person who was degenerated to the ends of the world.
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"From this moment on, you shall be called Wushuang. Wushuang which represents undefeatable, Tianxia-Wushuang. [1]." The youth happily said.
"Wushuang?" The young girl mumbled repeatedly and nodded her head. She seemed to really like this name.
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"Couldn't find other people. Since there is no one else, I shall help you. You can treat me as air." The youth carried the young girl and charged into the lavatory.
"I don't..." The young girl blushed and protested. However, she was too weak to push Long Yi away. She didn't have the strength to raise her hand.
"What else do you want me to do? Do you really want to pee in your pants?" The youth smiled and reached out towards her belt. The young girl could only close her eyes in shame.
"Don't be nervous. Now that I have seen everything, I will definitely take responsibility. From here on out, you shall be my woman. You don't have to be shy in front of me."
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In the midst of a snowstorm which covered the world in ice and snow, a youth carrying a young girl wrapped in a thick brocade quilt flew over the Origin Ice. Despite the snowstorm confusing his eyesight; despite being fretful and restless, he firmly shielded the young girl in his bosom from the wind and snow. He didn't allow a single chilling breeze past his body.
"Shuang'er, you must hold on. We'll definitely find a Ruyi Ice Silkworm soon." The youth encouraged the young girl in his embrace who was on the verge of death. Her breathing was already extremely weak, it seemed as though it would stop anytime.
At this moment, this young girl's consciousness was already very hazy. She heard the voice of her sweetheart which was coming from the horizon far away. His voice was the only thing pulling her away from the darkness. That familiar warmth surrounded her from the start to finish, as it comforted her all the way.
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"Long Yi, Long Yi..." Wushuang who was having a nightmare shouted Long Yi's name repeatedly. From the moment she fell into her nightmares, she was wailing for her parents. However, at the moment, she changed her cries to Long Yi's name. The sudden change caused Long Yi who was beside her to feel a sense of distress.
"Shuang'er, baby, I'm here. I'm right beside you, don't be afraid." Long Yi softly sighed before he hugged Wushuang who was lying on the bed.
It was as though she could feel Long Yi holding her as she started to calm down the moment Long Yi pulled her into his embrace. However, her tears still flowed down her pretty face. Within a few moments, Long Yi's clothes were soaked.
Long Yi felt very sad and he comforted Wushuang endlessly. Wushuang was introverted in nature. Perhaps because she cultivated water magic, it had an impact on her nature. She seemed to be calm and cold most of the time. It was rare for her emotions to fluctuate. Usually, it was difficult to get a smile from her, not to mention see Wushuang cry like this. Perhaps she would only behave like this when she was dreaming...
After shedding a large amount of tears, Wushuang who was in the bosom of Long Yi slowly opened her eyes. The scenes which appeared in her dream replayed in her mind as she savored this long-forgotten warm embrace from Long Yi. Yes, this was the feeling. This was the familiar smell and rhythmic heartbeat of her sweetheart when he brought her to find the Ruyi Ice Silkworm.
After staring into space for a long time, Wushuang gently pushed Long Yi away and sat up. With a red face, she looked at the familiar yet somewhat unfamiliar handsome face looking right at her. Since the incident in the past, several years have passed. Long Yi had already grown up from a youngster to a young adult. He was currently in the prime of his life. Even after several changes to his appearance and body structure, the bad and warm smile Long Yi had on his face never changed. He still had a familiar aura around him.
"You finally woke up? How are you feeling? Are you okay?" Long Yi instantly sat upright and asked with concern
Wushuang shook her head but her beautiful eyes stared at Long Yi without blinking. And reaching out her little hand, she caressed his handsome face.
"Shuang'er..." Long Yi was confused as he felt Wushuang's trembling hand on his face.
"Long Yi, I'm sorry." Wushuang blurted out her apology and threw herself into Long Yi's bosom as she hugged him tightly. She behaved just like a little girl who just found her knight in shining armor. Wrapping her arms around Long Yi, it was as if she would never let him go.
This strange behavior of Wushuang confused Long Yi. He had no idea what she meant when she apologized to him. Neither did he have any idea why she was behaving so strangely.
"I'm sorry, I actually forgot you. How can I forget you?" Wushuang muttered under her breath. Although they were already in a tight embrace, Wushuang felt that it wasn't enough. She tried to get closer to Long Yi as her arms tightened even more.
Long Yi was ecstatic. If he wasn't able to tell what was going on, he could take a piece of tofu and smash his head till his head broke. Wushuang had recovered her memories! She was finally able to remember who he was. Was there anything which would make Long Yi happier than this?
"No, never again. Even if I forget who I am, I would never forget you." Wushuang took a deep breath and said. She felt that she was unforgivable. Both Long Yi and herself experienced so many things together, not to mention the fact that Long Yi had paid a great price in order to help her. She actually forgot about him and nearly killed him. She finally understood the expression of despair Long Yi had when they were on the outskirts of Soaring Dragon City. She finally understood the pain Long Yi felt when she failed to recognize him.
"Silly girl, it's all over. Haven't you already recovered your memories? No need to blame yourself, I have never blamed you." Long Yi gently patted Wushuang's back and said with a smile on his face. Currently, everything appeared beautiful around Long Yi.
Both of them embraced each other and said nothing else. After going through numerous hardships with each other, at this moment, there was no longer anything separating them. There was no longer a barrier between their hearts. This was a moment which would eternally be remembered by both Long Yi and Wushuang.
"Suang'er, there was always a question I wanted to ask you. In those two years, what exactly did you do in the Ice Palace?" After hugging each other for a long time, Long Yi couldn't help but ask her the question he had in his mind for a long time.
Wushuang kitted her brows after thinking for a long time, she said, "When I woke up inside the crystal coffin, I don't know why my memory had a gap. Although I knew a few things about myself, I had no recollection of the events which happened before my father sealed me into the crystal coffin. As such, I didn't think about the events which happened in the past."
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"What about that woman from the Ice Palace? Didn't she tell you anything? Since you arrived at Ice Palace without any reason, wouldn't they be suspicious of you?" Long Yi asked. Logically speaking, Long Yi knew that Wushuang would definitely ask about her origins. That woman from the Ice Palace didn't have any reason to avoid her question.
Wushuang shook her head and softly sighed, "It's not like I don't want to ask. It was more like I had no time to ask. Right after I woke up inside the crystal coffin, I saw that my master's spirit power had been exhausted. She only told me about the training room. She also asked me to go there and carefully observe and study water magic. After instructing me to leave Origin Ice, master passed away two years later."
After hearing Wushuang's words, Long Yi was startled. That solitary and extremely proud beautiful image appeared in his mind. Long Yi would never have thought that she had really died. He had thought that the celestial being like personage was immortal and would never die. Although he had once resented her because Wushuang had lost her memories, Long Yi was clear that that was only a misunderstanding between them. He couldn't help but feel a sense of loss and sadness in his heart.
Perhaps Wushuang was tired of crying, she fell asleep in Long Yi's bosom after a short while. As for Long Yi, he was unable to fall asleep as many thoughts spun in his mind.
For the time being, the situation on the Blue Waves Continent didn't matter. However, the matters regarding the gods gave him a headache. Both the Lightning God and Dark God didn't give him a clear explanation. The more Long Yi thought about it, the more confused he became. While thinking, he didn't realize the passage of the night.
As the sky grew brighter, the dark mist enveloping Lost City became much thinner. However, those undead creatures stood their ground without moving an inch.
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When Long Yi came out with Wushuang from inside the tent, he saw Barbarian Bull, Nalan Ruyue and Bertha waiting outside for them.
"Big sister Wushuang, are you all right?" Nalan Ruyue and Bertha took a step forward and asked Wushuang in a concerned tone.
Wushuang felt warm in her heart and replied with a smile, "I am fine, you don't need to worry."
"Big sister Wushuang, you are smiling again." Nalan Ruyue shouted in amazement. She had spent a considerable amount of time with Wushuang, but she could count the number of times Wushuang smiled with the fingers on one hand.
Wushuang held onto Nalan Ruyue's and Bertha's little hands. Looking at Barbarian Bull, she had a warm feeling in her heart. As Barbarian Bull was considered Long Yi's younger brother, he had naturally gone through both trails of fire and water with them. As Wushuang's memories were already restored, she felt closer to Barbarian Bull.
"Barbarian Bull, long time no see." Wushuang greeted with a smile.
Barbarian Bull scratched his bull horn. He was confused. They had clearly seen each other yesterday, but Wushuang was talking about how they haven't met in a long time. With his simpleton brain, he didn't understand what was going on.
As for Nalan Ruyue, she managed to feel something different. From Wushuang's behavior, she felt that something was different from before. However, she wasn't able to pinpoint the irregularity with Wushuang. Only after hearing what she said to Barbarian Bull, she saw the light. After that, she hesitantly asked, "Big sister Wushuang, did you recover your memories?"
Recover memories? Barbarian Bull's huge eyes were wide open as he stared straight at Wushuang.
Wushuang gently looked towards Long Yi pursed her lips, giving off a light smile. Slowly, she nodded her head.
"Congratulation, big sister Wushuang! Our husband can finally feel at ease." Nalan Ruyue said with barely concealed happiness. As Long Yi's wife who accompanied him every night, she was extremely sensitive to Long Yi's state of mind. She knew that although Long Yi seemed to be happy when they entered the Lightning God Forbidden Area, he wasn't truly happy. This cheeky smile barely managed to conceal the sadness in his heart. He was always looking at Wushuang's back view in a daze with a depressed expression. However, he managed to smile and cover up his true emotions whenever someone looked at him.
Suddenly, Long Yi seemed to remember something. He took out the crystal ball that had fallen from the dried corpses and handed it over to Wushuang and said, "Shuang'er, take a look at this crystal ball."
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Chapter 402: Strange land
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Wushuang received the crystal ball and started to examine it. After turning it in her hands, she exclaimed, "Encrypted Magic Crystal Ball! How did you get your hands on this item?"
After a moment of hesitation, Long Yi decided to tell her the truth, "This object appeared after the corpses of your mother and father disappeared."
The moment Long Yi mentioned her parents, Wushuang's face darkened. However, her eyes were still glued onto the crystal ball, and she appeared to be in a trance.
"Shuang'er, you don't need to be sad. If you think about it, there is something strange about everything that happened. Just think about it, your father and mother's hands had pierced through your chest, but there isn't any injury on your body." Long Yi started to console Wushuang who seemed to be sad. The lack of injury was one thing Long Yi was unable to figure out.
Nodding her head, Wushuang started to look around. As she waved her hand, she laid out a blue colored water barrier. After making sure there was no one around to spy on her, Wushuang pricked her finger and dripped a drop of her blood onto the crystal ball.
The blood slowly seeped inside the crystal ball. As the drop of blood slowly disappeared, the crystal ball started to emit a dim red halo. Shortly afterward, the misty gas inside the crystal ball started to churn. The gas formed an image which was surprisingly clear, and it showed a tall handsome middle aged man. He had a pale face and had a trace of blood on the corner of his mouth. It was clear that he had suffered a heavy injury from the look on his face.
"Father, it's father!" When she saw the image of her father after several thousand years, Wushuang started choking on her tears.
"Ning'er, father doesn't have much time left. I won't be able to go into too much details. Enemies of our Holy City have arrived at our doorsteps. They are here to kill every last one of us, and there is no escape from this misfortune. If you are able to see this image in the crystal ball, hurry up and enter the Holy Temple..." After Wushuang's father spoke to this point, the crystal ball started flashing. After a few flashes, it suddenly returned to its original state. Both Wushuang and Long Yi could easily imagine that Wushuang's father had been interrupted while recording his final words in this crystal ball.
"Father..." Wushuang sadly called out and her already calm feelings violently fluctuated again.
"Shuang'er, don't be sad. Now, the most important thing is to find out who the enemy of the Holy City is. Furthermore, didn't your father ask you to enter the Holy Temple? Everything happened so long ago, there is no use for you to be sad any longer. Now, you need to pull yourself together and find out who exactly caused the destruction of Lost City." With one hand on Wushuang's shoulder, Long Yi consoled and encouraged her at the same time.
Wushuang sobered up and her ice-cold beautiful face unexpectedly twisted a little. Gnashing her teeth, Wushuang said, "I must find out who were the ones who harmed my parents. They dared to destroy our Holy City, I must take revenge for the residents of the city."
"Of course, hatred must be repaid, revenge must be taken. I will definitely help you." Long Yi reassured Wushuang. The hatred between the attackers and Holy City was a huge blood debt and it was absolutely irreconcilable.
With a grateful expression, Wushuang stared at Long Yi. She felt that it was truly fortunate for her to have him by her side. Without Long Yi beside her, she wouldn't have known how to accept the fact that her entire city was destroyed.
"Holy Temple. Since my father had instructed me to go to the Holy Temple, I shall go there immediately." Wushuang said as she looked around. In an instant, she started clearing up the eastern courtyard that had already changed into a pile of rubble. Using her magic spells, she cleared up the entire courtyard. She had to clean up the entire courtyard as the entrance to the Holy Temple was in her father's bedroom and she wasn't able to find his bedroom in this mess.
After asking Wushuang some questions, Long Yi and the others started to help out as well. As they said, strength in numbers. The eastern courtyard was cleaned up very quickly under Wushuang's leadership.
Relying on her memory, Wushuang started to search for the entrance of the Holy Temple. Releasing a thin stream of continuous light blue water magic power, a mysterious pattern started to form on the ground.
Along with a loud rumbling sound, the ground started to split open. A square shaped entrance appeared in the ground and it seemed to be endless.
"It's here, let's go down." Wushuang turned her head to look at Long Yi and the rest before taking the lead. With a single step, Wushuang Jumped into the entrance of the Holy Temple.
With Wushuang in the lead, Long Yi and the rest followed. Jumping down one after another, they saw a long passage when they finally landed. The passage was illuminated by magic lamps which lit up the moment they stepped onto the ground. Long Yi was surprised that these devices were working. It had been thousands of years since anyone actually stepped foot onto this pathway, yet the lamps were still working. Long Yi thought that this was really amazing. At the same time, Long Yi wondered about the technology the Holy City used. They seemed to be years ahead of the Blue Waves Continent. If he thought about it carefully, the technology Holy City used was actually thousands of years ahead compared to the current Blue Waves Continent.
The passage seemed endless and there were many twists and turns along the road. Eventually, the group reached the end of the path which was situated deep in the ground. Although Long Yi didn't sense any air vents along the road, the entire pathway didn't feel stuff at all. Long Yi was fascinated and wondered how this place was designed. At the end of the path, they saw a conspicuous white light blocking their path.
Wushuang chanted the incantation the air around them trembled. Then, the white light began to move sideways and the continuation of the pathway appeared. It was pitch black and the pathway seemed to lead into the ninth layer of the underworld.
"This is the space gate leading to the Holy Temple. Our Holy Temple is built in another space." Wushuang said.
Space gate? Does it lead to a different space like the dark space? What exactly was Holy City like? Why were the things they saw here so unbelievable? Long Yi and the others had many questions in their hearts. At this moment, a feeling of admiration was born in their heart as they sincerely admired the Holy City which was destroyed several thousand years ago. Compared to the Holy City which existed thousands of years ago, the current civilization on the Blue Waves Continent seemed worthless. Could it be that humanity on the Blue Waves Continent thousands of years ago lived in a primitive society?
Long Yi stepped into this space gate deep in thoughts. In an instant, he appeared inside a majestic hall. Behind him stood a singular space gate and Long Yi was stunned again as their journey through space took less than a second.
"Wow, this place is amazing!" Nalan Ruyue exclaimed. This Holy Temple was truly amazing. It was built entirely with first-rate white jade. In the middle of this hall, there were seven statues.
The seven statues were statues of the seven legendary gods of the Divine Realm. Individually the statues were of the Light God, Dark God, Water God, Fire God, Wind God, Lightning God and Earth God. Other than these seven statues, there was nothing inside the Holy Temple.
Long Yi carefully sized up these seven statues. The statue of the Light God was similar to the statue inside the Light Church on Blue Waves Continent. It was a birdman with eight pairs of wings, but his facial features were not carved clearly. The statue of the Dark God was also the same as the Dark God he had seen inside the dark space. A black robe covered his entire body from head to toe, and he had the appearance of a ghost who had just emerged from hell. The statues of the Water God, Fire God and Lightning God were similar to what Long Yi had seen. As for the last two statues, the statue of the Wind God and the Earth God, Long Yi had never seen them before. The Wind God wore a cyan colored light armor which was gorgeous. Just looking at those protruding chest and pert buttocks, he was sure that the Wind God was a woman. However, the facial features of the Wind God statue were vague and he couldn't make out her appearance. As for the Earth God, he wore an earth colored armor. Crossing his arms in front of his chest, he appeared as if he considered himself the strongest being in the world.
"Long Yi, I don't understand. Why did my father tell me to come here to the Holy Temple?" After looking all around the Holy Temple, Wushuang said in confusion.
"There should be some kind of secret in the Holy Temple. If there isn't, your father wouldn't have asked you to come here. He probably didn't have enough time to tell you what the secret was…" Long Yi guessed as he scanned this wide hall.
"I used to think there was a secret hidden here as well. However, I used to come here with my parents all the time. I didn't see any secret when I'm here." Wushuang shook her head and said.
"Perhaps it isn't a secret... Think about it carefully, why would your father ask you to come to the Holy Temple?" Long Yi asked.
"Not a secret… ah… I remember now. Over there, in that corner, there is a room. My father used to regularly go there to cultivate in seclusion. It is possible that my father left something there for me!" Wushuang thought for a while and said with a pleasant surprise.
Walking over to a corner of this Holy Temple, she knocked on the wall. A fan shaped magic door opened as it slid to both sides. The magic lamps inside the room simultaneously lit up and illuminated the room.
Hurrying over, Long Yi and the rest of the group entered the room together with Wushuang. This room greatly resembled a study. However, it was merely ten square meters and there wasn't much inside. There were bookshelves on both sides of the room which were neatly arranged. On the side of the room with no bookshelves, there was a small bed and a large stone table. Even though no one had been here for several thousand years, there wasn't a single speck of dust anywhere in this room. Long Yi was speechless.
Long Yi casually took out a book and looked at its exquisite front cover that was comparable to the most superior books in Blue Waves Continent. The title of the book was written in a very strange language. Flipping through the pages, Long Yi quickly realized that he couldn't read a single page as it was written in a language he didn't understand. The script was completely different from the current scripts on the Blue Waves Continent.
"This is strange... Shuang'er, come and take a look at these books. Are you able to read them?" Long Yi browsed through dozens of books and found that all of them were written in the same language.
Taking a book from Long Yi, Wushuang looked over it and passed it back to him. In the end, she shook her head and said, "My father must have known it... But he never taught me how to read books written in this ancient language. I have no idea what the books say."
Long Yi was disappointed. He knew that these were definitely precious books. One should know that this magic civilization in the Holy City was much more advanced than the civilization in the Blue Waves Continent. If it was possible for him to read these books, wouldn't it be possible for him to bring about earth-shaking changes to the entire Blue Waves Continent?
Even though he had no way to read these books, Long Yi didn't throw them away. He placed them all into his space ring.
"Long Yi, look! What is this?" Bertha waved a strange silvery piece of paper in the air as she shouted in excitement.
Walking over, Long Yi took the piece of silvery paper from Bertha. However, no matter how much he looked at it, he wasn't able to see any messages written on it. The only thing that was on the paper was a number of curvy lines and several round dots. It looked like a map was hastily drawn on the paper. On the lower part of the silver paper, three words were written in a sloppy Blue Waves Continent's script: Sea of Souls.
"My husband this map is so strange! There are no other markings on the map. Not to mention the fact that there are no landmarks on the map, how are we supposed to find this 'Sea of Souls'?" Nalan Ruyue said.
"Doesn't these few things look like a sea?" Barbarian Bull suddenly said while pointing at those curvy lines in the middle of the paper.
When he heard Barbarian Bull's words, Long Yi felt as though those curvy lines really resembled a sea. When he looked at those round dots again, Long Yi wondered if they could be simple navigation marks.
After looked at the map repeatedly, Long Yi started to become confused. If those curvy lines represented the sea, who in the world would know where the place marked in the paper was located? The sea was so vast, it was impossible to know exactly this 'Sea of Souls' was located in the huge sea. Although he was about to give up, Long Yi's intuition told him not to. Perhaps, these dots and curvy lines were important clues.
After looking at the piece of silver paper for a long time, Long Yi decided to look around the room. He managed to find some interesting objects in the room. Picking up an interesting object, Wushuang explained to him that it was a magic tracking device. When he held it in his hands, Long Yi felt like these were like the tracking devices in his previous world. For an average person to track other people, they would search for the spirit power, magic power, or douqi the other party emitted. As for these magic tracking devices, they would emit a kind of special magic fluctuation when placed on the body of an individual. There would be another device which received these magic fluctuations and it would point the user in the correct direction. These tracking devices were really useful objects. Looking at these items, Long Yi let out an involuntary sigh. The high-end magic civilization was after all a high-end magic civilization. Not only did the Holy City possess a video camera like crystal ball, it also had this kind of items used for spying on others. If everyone in his Skynet Intelligence Organization was equipped with these items, it would certainly be like putting a stranded fish back in the water. It could also be described as giving wings to a tiger. The capability of the organization would be greatly boosted.
"Shuang'er, let's slowly study these things. As for now, let's go and see if there is anything else in the Holy Temple." Long Yi said to Wushuang who was looking at the piece of silver paper with a frown on her face.
Long Yi and others walked out of the study and went around the entire temple to check to see if they missed anything.
"Something isn't right…" As Long Yi looked at those seven statues of the main gods, he muttered with a frown.
Chapter 403: Strange magic pattern
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Looking at the seven statues again, Long Yi sized them up. Long Yi was sure that there was something wrong, however, he had no idea what it was.
The statues in this hall were exactly the same as the statues outside. They had no differences in their appearance, demeanor and even their posture. Even the clothes they wore and weapons they held were similar. Yet Long Yi still felt as though something was wrong.
As he stood in front of the Light God statue, Long Yi decided to take a closer look at the Fire God statue. As he walked over to the Fire God statue, his eyes remained on those towering breasts. Memories of him groping the Fire God statue's breasts flashed past his eyes.
Of course, Long Yi hadn't degenerated to the point where he would go and molest a statue. Moreover, the Fire God statue he had seen inside the underground secret room had slight differences to this statue in front of him. Although the statues looked similar at first glance, he was able to make out the tiny differences between the statues when he looked closely. Did the magic robe's lapel on the Fire God statue in the underground secret room have a fiery red crystal implanted in it like the Fire God statue inside this Holy Temple?
After staring at the seven statues for a good while, a smile appeared on Long Yi's face. Now he finally knew what was wrong with these seven main gods' statues. In the Holy Temple, the statues had a magic attribute crystal inlaid on their chest unlike the statues he had seen outside. To be exact, there were six statues with crystals inlaid on their chest. Only the Water God statue didn't have a crystal on it.
"Strange, what is the use of these crystals? Why doesn't the Water God statue have it?" Long Yi pondered and felt like there was something strange with those crystals. If they were normal crystals, why would the city lord of the Holy City bother to inlay them onto the statues?
"Long Yi, did you find something?" After looking through the entire Holy Temple, Wushuang didn't manage to find anything. When she saw Long Yi deep in his thoughts as he looked at the seven statues, she realized that he must have figured it out.
Long Yi nodded his head and said, "That piece of silver paper, let me take a look at it again."
With a flip of her hand, Wushuang took out that piece of paper. She passed it to Long Yi and Long Yi began to study the diagrams on the paper carefully. As he was studying the patterns on the paper, he muttered under his breath, "Sea of Souls... Sea of Souls... Could the Sea of Souls actually be a kind of crystal?"
Long Yi didn't make a random guess when he said that the Sea of Souls was a type of crystal. Among the seven main gods' statues, only the Water God statue didn't have any crystal inlaid on its chest. As such, Long Yi assumed that the 'Sea of Souls' mentioned in the silvery piece of paper would be the water crystal on the Water God statue. If the Sea of Souls was really the water crystal, the map he was holding should show the location of the Sea of Souls.
Coincidentally, Nalan Ruyue and the others returned empty-handed. Long Yi immediately explained his conjecture to the group. Hearing his explanation, everyone felt it was indeed very likely that was the case.
"But this map is too vague… The sea is too vast, how will we find the location marked on the map?" Wushuang sighed.
"There is a way, and I am quite confident about it." Long Yi showed a confident smile as he suddenly thought of the mermaid princess, Liu Li. After going to their so-called Undersea City, Long Yi decided to start the search there.
Looking at Long Yi's confident expression, Wushuang nodded her head. She subconsciously believed in him because she knew that her sweetheart was an extraordinary person. He was always optimistic and he was confident in everything he did. It seemed as though there was nothing he couldn't do in this world. Although it might seem like an exaggeration to say that there was nothing impossible for Long Yi to accomplish, there were facts to back this statement up. Long Yi definitely had great capabilities. Even while contending against various powers, he was able to walk around leisurely as if he was taking a stroll in a quiet and peaceful courtyard. In times of danger, he thoroughly remoulded himself. His strength, as if sitting on the rocket, rose rapidly. Now, he had already surpassed her. When Wushuang thought about it, when she saw him for the first time, he was weak, extremely weak. However, even though she was much stronger than him in the past, he improved rapidly. Currently, she was the one relying on him… She had no idea why Long Yi experienced such rapid improvement.
At this moment, an ear-piercing sound resounded within this Holy Temple. Everybody subconsciously turned around and saw that the crystal on the Earth God statue's chest was emitting a dazzling yellow light. It shot into the ground and pierced a hole in the Holy Temple's white jade floor. In an instant, the earth element in the air became denser. Barbarian Bull who was standing beside the Earth God statue stared at it in shock.
"Barbarian Bull, what did you do?" Long Yi asked.
"You said that these statues had crystal embedded in them and that you found them strange... All I did was press on them." Barbarian Bull scratched his bull horn and said.
Looking intently at the hole which was formed by the yellow light beam from the earth crystal, Long Yi saw that there were other holes on the white jade floor. After counting all of them, he realized that there were exactly seven holes.
"All of you step back, I will test the remaining ones." Long Yi instructed.
Everybody retreated, and Long Yi tapped his foot. As a gust of wind blew through the entire Holy Temple, Long Yi formed five afterimages and attacked the crystals on the other god statues.
Swish, swish, five different colored light beams shot out from the crystal inlaid on the chest of these five main gods' statues. They perfectly filled the five holes on the ground and the entire Holy Temple appeared magnificent and illusory.
The moment all six beams of light shot out from the statues, they were reflected back from the holes in the ground. Interweaving each other, they formed an illusory pattern in mid air.
"Ah! It's so pretty!" All the girls exclaimed in admiration as they saw the beautiful pattern formed by the lights.
"It looks like there is something missing…" Long Yi murmured as he stared at that beautiful pattern in mid air. If his guess was right, the pattern formed in the air should be a seven sided diamond. However, the pattern in the air only had six sides. It was clear that the light from the water crystal was missing. The water crystal should be the Sea of Souls which was mentioned by the city lord in the silvery paper Wushuang found.
Bertha was fascinated by this illusory beautiful scenery and she involuntarily walked forward towards the light. She wanted to take a closer look at those pretty lights as this was the first time she had seen anything like it.
Without warning, Bertha let out a shrill scream. As if she encountered a black hole, Bertha was rapidly sucked into the beautiful pattern in mid air.
"Ah… Long Yi, save me!" Currently, Bertha was trapped inside the pattern. She was convulsing as if she was a mad sheep and her beautiful face was twisted out of shape.
Long Yi was startled when he saw Bertha's appearance. It was as though the six different magic elements were pulling her apart.
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In just a few seconds, Bertha's screams became weaker and weaker. The seven orifices on her body started to bleed and Long Yi could see that Bertha was entering into a state of death.
Long Yi didn't hesitate. Using his spirit power and internal force to form a protective cover around his body, he rushed into the pattern.
Boom. The moment he entered the pattern, Long Yi felt as though all the blood in his body started to flow backward. Surprisingly, the six different magic powers destroyed his protective cover instantly. Long Yi's body also started twisting as the magic elements began to pull on his body. As he was about to scream in pain, the various element vortexes in his sea of consciousness began to rotate. They started dispersing the pulling force around Long Yi. Lightning, Fire, Dark, Light. These were the four elements which were countered by the vortexes in his body. Although only wind and earth attributed magic powers were left in his body, it pushed Long Yi to the limit of his endurance.
Long Yi grabbed Bertha had the intention to throw her out of the pattern. However, he had never expected that the suction force from the pattern to be so strong. He wasn't able to move Bertha, let alone throw her out.
Seeing as Bertha was about to take her last breath, Long Yi didn't have the luxury of time. Throwing caution to the wind, Long Yi roared loudly and injected the origin magic power from the four vortexes into Bertha's body. This resulted in a drop in Long Yi's defense and the magic power which entered his body ran wild. Both Long Yi's spirit and ** suffered inhumane torment as the magic powers which entered his body thrashed about. Fortunately for him, Long Yi had experienced numerous pain and hardship in his life. This allowed Long Yi to temper his endurance to a ridiculous level.
The suction force on Bertha gradually lessened and Long Yi took this chance to kick Bertha out of the pattern. As for himself, Long Yi vomited a mouthful of blood and a muffled groan escaped his mouth.
"My husband..." Nalan Ruyue's heart was torn apart. When she saw the injuries Long Yi sustained, her heart broke.
As for Wushuang, she tried to make things better by casting a Divine Water Domain. Gnashing her teeth, she tried her best to keep the situation under control. To her dismay, it had zero effect. Barbarian Bull also tried his best to destroy the pattern in the air. He tried digging out the crystals on the statues, but he was flung away by an invisible force whenever he approached a crystal.
After kicking Bertha out of the pattern, Long Yi's origin magic power returned. He was finally able to resist the insane twisting power of the six magic powers but he was unable to leave. Long Yi had nearly exhausted his origin magic power and felt utterly powerless as the magic powers assaulted him. As he stayed in the pattern, Long Yi eventually felt as though his magic power was being sucked out of him as the vortexes in his sea of consciousness stopped moving.
Long Yi's spirit power was already exhausted and within moments, he would become like Bertha. He would be endlessly assaulted by the six different magic powers and he would bleed from seven orifices before dying.
Long Yi couldn't help but to make a wry smile in his heart. It seemed as though the end of his journey was here. Just when Barbarian Bull and the others were trembling in fear for Long Yi, the crystals inlaid on the six statues started to darken. The light coming from the crystals started to fade and the pattern in mid air dissipated. As the pattern changed into specks of light, Long Yi who was trapped in it started falling to the ground. Before he could hit the ground, he was caught by a pair of strong arms.
"Boss, are you all right?" Barbarian Bull hold onto Long Yi tightly as if Long Yi was a child. Barbarian Bull's eyes showed deep concern and remorse. He thought that if he hadn't arbitrarily pressed the crystal on the chest of the Earth God statue, Long Yi and Bertha wouldn't fall into such a miserable state.
"If you are the one holding me, I'll become sick even if I have no health problems. How many times have I told you to take a bath every day? Your mother! How long has it been since you last took a bath? Do you want to kill somebody with your smell?" At this moment, Long Yi who didn't even have the strength to stand up became really talkative. The main reason for that was because he was truly unable to withstand Barbarian Bull's stink.
Barbarian Bull laughed in embarrassment before handing Long Yi over to Nalan Ruyue and Wushuang. They were glaring at him as though they were going to tear him to pieces if he kept holding on to Long Yi. After placing Long Yi beside the two girls, Barbarian Bull said in his silly voice, "It's too troublesome to take a bath every day. I've just taken a bath half a month ago. Do you know, Yinwa (Barbarian Bull's wife) likes my smell? She said that I have a very masculine smell."
Long Yi rolled his eyes. If he could stand, he would have definitely kicked the ** out of Barbarian Bull. It seemed to Long Yi that the behavior of the beast-men was really weird compared to the behavior of mankind. Fortunately, the Fox Clan was the exception among the beast-men clans. Bertha's body fragrance was soft and fragrant, which could intoxicate people.
"This is a big loss. Help me to sit up, I want to heal my wounds." Long Yi said in a weak voice. If he missed the best time to heal his wound due to Barbarian Bull's bullsh*t, he might leave behind some long term problems. That wouldn't be funny anymore.
Wushuang helped Long Yi up As for Nalan Ruyue, she went to treat Bertha. When she was sucked into that pattern, Bertha had suffered heavy injuries. Her face was covered in blood and it appeared very terrifying,
Chapter 404: Carnage Golden Falcon
The weather was extremely good today. The sky was clear and quiet, and a gentle breeze was gently blowing through the unconventionally graceful Huangmang plain.
Long Yi and the rest of them stood on a small hillock overseeing Lost City. They stared at the ruins which were still enveloped by a dark fog. Even though they were merely 100 meters away from Lost City, they seemed to be in a separate world.
Wushuang looked into the distance in a trance. Thinking about the times she spent here in the past, she felt really sad. Not only were her close relatives buried under Lost City, every single citizen was buried there too. The only exception was Wushuang who managed to escape the calamity.
"One day, I will definitely rebuild the Holy City. Citizens of the Holy City, wait for me." Wushuang flung her head backward and her black hair fluttered in the wind. The sad expression on her face gradually disappeared and her countenance relaxed.
Looking at Wushuang, Long Yi gave her a thumbs up. At this moment, Long Yi knew that the knot in Wushuang's heart had completely disappeared. She was no longer immersed in the glory and grief of the past. Speaking from another point of view, Wushuang had now started to take the initiative to integrate herself into the current world. She finally released her past memories and started accepting the fact that this was her life now.
"Okay, we are leaving." Long Yi said. Leaving behind afterimages, he began rushing forward and in an instant, he became a small black dot in the distance.
When the rest of the group saw that Long Yi left them behind, they smiled at each other and began to chase after Long Yi's figure.
This trip to lost city made everyone closer. The relationship between Nalan Ruyue and Wushuang had also improved. Initially, they still felt unfamiliar towards each other which made the interactions between the both of them awkward. Now, they became more like sisters and the invisible barrier between the both of them dissolved. Besides the both of them, Bertha had also grown closer to the both of them. The biggest change was that Bertha looked at Long Yi with a completely different gaze from before. The look she gave Long Yi now was one of admiration. Other than admiration, her gaze towards Long Yi had a look of undisguised infatuation. She was especially touched that Long Yi threw himself into the pattern in order to save her. She knew that Long Yi almost died trying to save her. Originally, Bertha already had feelings for Long Yi which were out of the ordinary. After experiencing the baptism of tribulations and setbacks when travelling with Long Yi, her hidden feelings towards Long Yi was just like a soap bubble under direct sunlight, it burst. When Long Yi saved her from danger and risked his life, she felt something stir from her innermost soul. After going through life and death with Long Yi, she realized that she really loved this man.
Huangmang Plain was different from the Proud Moon Empire. Currently, the Proud Moon Empire was freezing cold. However, Huangmang Plain which was located at the northwest of the empire was experiencing spring. Grass grew everywhere and orioles flew in the sky. Perhaps for some people, Huangmang Plain was a terrifying place with many high leveled magical beasts roaming about. Looking around Huangmang Plain, high leveled magical beasts could be seen flying in the sky, swimming in the lakes, or just wandering about the plain. As long as one could think of it, there were magical beasts everywhere. There was no way to escape the vast network of beasts even if one was able to fly high in the skies. Even if one was able to dig deep into the earth, it was not certain that they would not meet their demise there.
Although it was dangerous for most people, Huangmang Plain was paradise for Long Yi and his group. When the magical beasts saw the three god-beasts, they would retreat far away. Occasionally, Barbarian Bull would casually catch some A ranked magical beast to tyrannize. The sad, shrill cries from the beast would make the rest of the beasts panic-stricken. As such, most of the other magical beasts started to hide themselves in case this terrifying group of humans decides to mess with them.
"Boss, the meat of this A ranked magical beast is very fragrant! We should totally bring back hundreds of them. Imagine throwing several hundreds of these beasts into the hall of the Mercenary Guild. How cool would that be?" Barbarian Bull said while munching on a piece of roasted meat.
"Cool my ass. An upright person should always be low-keyed. Do you even understand what low-keyed means? How many times have I taught you? If you really want to act tough, go throw several hundred god-beasts at the Mercenary Guild's guild hall instead. Why are you even bothering with A ranked magical beasts." Long Yi snapped at Barbarian Bull. The words which came out of his mouth made everyone stare at him with a blank expression on their face.
Barbarian Bull scratched his bull horn and smiled fatuously. After all, boss' words were definitely correct. If he wanted to show off, he should go all the way. Why settle with A ranked magical beasts?
After eating and drinking to their heart's content, everyone sat on the soft green grass on Huangmang Plain. Placing his head on Wushuang's lap, Long Yi picked up a blade of long green grass and place it in his mouth. As he smelled Wushuang's body fragrance, he stared at the sky with a blank expression in his eyes. As for his legs, he placed them on Nalan Ruyue's lap and enjoyed a gentle massage.
Bertha who was sitting at the side stared directly at the three of them. In her heart, she had an impulse to join them. However, she didn't dare to just intrude on the three of them while they were enjoying themselves. As a result, she could only sit beside them as she supported her chin with her little hands. Although she seemed to be in a daze, her eyes would frequently move and stop on Long Yi's figure. Her gaze would linger on Long Yi's face for a short while before she looked somewhere else.
"This bad fellow, even in a daze, he still has that signature bad smile on his face. He is really hateful" Pouting, Bertha hastily shifted her gaze from Long Yi's face. Her heart was pounding and there was a strange feeling in her chest. Not even a second later, her burning gaze was directed back to Long Yi. It was as if she couldn't control herself as she glued her eyes onto Long Yi's handsome face. Love was truly a feeling which would cause a large amount of pain.
Barbarian Bull was repeatedly wiping his treasured Greenstone Rule like before. Compared to his wife Yinwa, he appeared as if he treasured Greenstone Rule over her. After wiping it numerous times, Barbarian Bull started scanning the area. Seeing as there was no opponent for him to use his Greenstone Rule on, he seemed to be really depressed.
Just when Barbarian Bull sighed inwardly, a bird cry full of evil intent came from the distant southwest direction. The sound wave echoed again and again, and everyone who heard the sound felt as though their blood and qi was churning. Within moments, the entire area was enveloped in chaos as crowds of magical beasts started to flee in terror.
"What a terrifying cry, what creature made that sound?" Nalan Ruyue asked in surprise.
Long Yi sat up as he left the fragrant and warm jade. He started to mutter under his breath, "Strange, why would that fellow leave his territory?"
"What fellow are you talking about?" Nalan Ruyue asked curiously.
"SSS ranked magical beast, Carnage Golden Falcon, the king of the Huangmang Plain. I remember the last time I saw it. It was only an SS ranked Carnage Silver Falcon, after so many years, it finally evolved into an SSS ranked magical beast." Wushuang took the initiative to answer.
Nalan Ruyue stuck out her tiny tongue. SSS ranked magical beast… That was the rank of a legendary magical beast. Even a Swords God or Magic God should give way to this monster as they wouldn't be able to fight it head on.
"Barbarian Bull, weren't you shouting about how you didn't have a good opponent to play with your Greenstone Rule? Well, you chance to use Greenstone Rule has just arrived. I'll leave that Carnage Golden Falcon to you." Long Yi said to Barbarian Bull with a smile. Although he didn't know why that Carnage Golden Falcon had appeared in this area, Long Yi didn't plan to let it fly around as it pleased. The magic core of an SSS ranked magical beast was a priceless treasure.
"Boss, I am no match for it." Barbarian Bull scratched his head and said.
"Then, we'll have group brawl. However, you'll be the one to take the lead." Long Yi flashed a sinister smile as he said. Long Yi obviously knew the power an SSS ranked magical beast possessed. He also knew about how terrifying the Carnage Golden Falcon was, it was a very ruthless magical beast. It had a terrifying physical attack and was also as fast as lightning. Moreover, according to the legends, it was able to perform short distance spatial teleportation. This Carnage Golden Falcon was simply a creature which shouldn't exist in this human world.
Long Yi and others, along with three god-beasts, flew towards the direction of the cries. They were able to feel the rage of the Carnage Golden Falcon even though they were still quite a distance away from it.
Far away, Long Yi saw a huge golden shadow circling in the sky. It looked dazzling.
"What a huge bird. If we shot it down, we'll have enough first class meat to eat for a long time." Long Yi laughed and said. Although Long Yi seemed unfazed by this SSS ranked magical beast, he was amazed in his heart. Even with such a large distance between them, he could feel the power and momentum of that Carnage Golden Falcon.
"Who exactly is it chasing? Why can't we see anyone?" Barbarian Bull droned. Even after looking at the sky for a long time, he was unable to see the enemy of this huge bird.
Suddenly, a green light beam flashed in the distance and Long Yi frowned. Flying to a higher altitude, Long Yi tried to see what was going on. Looking as far as his eyes could see, Long Yi was able to make out several black dots which were in the process of fleeing from the Carnage Golden Falcon. Long Yi was able to see that this Carnage Golden Falcon was not in a hurry to send those black dots to hell. Instead, it was toying with them as though it was playing a game with those black dots.
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"That was a nature arrow. Could it be that the Carnage Golden Falcon is chasing an elf?" Long Yi muttered.
A slightly fragrant air drifted into Long Yi's nostrils as Wushuang floated beside him. In a soft and gentle voice, she said, "There should be an elf. Let's go and help them. That Carnage Golden Falcon is about to finish them off."
Naturally, Long Yi wouldn't refuse to help those people. He could be considered half an elf clansman. If an elf was in trouble, it was natural for Long Yi to help them.
At that time, the Carnage Golden Falcon issued a loud cry and its huge body, as if a bomber aircraft, dived downward. It was as fast as a thunderbolt as if flashed straight towards the few black dots. Feeling an extremely strong pressure, Long Y was able to feel that the space distorted around the Carnage Golden Falcon.
Long Yi and the others were too far away to help. They could only leave everything up to luck. Sure enough, that attack only took an instant and several of those black dots that were running like mad dogs suddenly disappeared. With Long Yi's good eyesight, he could make out that there were only three black dots left. Among them, one seemed to have suffered injuries. Long Yi could see that the two other black dots stopped momentarily, presumably to help the injured individual. This resulted in a drop in their speed and the Carnage Golden Falcon was catching up to them quickly.
Long Yi nodded his head in his heart. Since they had both affection and faith, they were worth saving. During trials and tribulations, it was very easy to see the true feelings of the people around you. It was easy to measure a person's heart by how they treated their companions during times of hardship. He had seen numerous close friends that usually called each other brothers ignore each other or even stab on the other's back during the time of calamity. He had also seen numerous sweethearts who usually made solemn pledges of love leaving each other behind when faced with imminent disaster.
"Alpha, Arnold, leave me and run by yourself. You'll have a higher chance of survival if I don't hold you back!" A female elf whose entire body was covered with blood said towards her two male companions who were similarly in sore straits.
"Don't speak nonsense, you are our companion. We will never abandon you and escape by ourselves." A brawny man on the right gritted his teeth and said with an unwavering voice. His steps were still firm despite staggering.
The eyes of this female elf became watery. She clenched her teeth and held back her tears. She was moved by the comradeship of her teammates. If she returned alive from the Huangmang Plain, she would definitely remember the kindness they have shown her throughout her life. However, escaping with her life seemed like a very extravagant wish when they faced this SSS ranked magical beast.
At that time, the Carnage Golden Falcon that was circling around the sky cried out again. Once again, it initiated its attack. As the Carnage Golden Falcon had attacked before, the two men who were supporting the female elf were prepared to receive the attack. However, being prepared is different from being able to defend against the attack. Carrying the female elf, they rushed to one side in order to dodge the attack from the Carnage Golden Falcon.
Fortunately, the three of them managed to dodge the attack from the Carnage Golden Falcon. However, the hurricane which was caused by the shockwave of the attack managed to send the three of them flying. They simultaneously vomited a mouthful of blood as the shockwave reached them.
Three of them shot glances at the huge Carnage Golden Falcon which was circling above them. They felt really helpless as the Carnage Golden Falcon stared at them with its cruel eyes. It was reeking with blood and ferociousness.
The female elf gritted her teeth. She drew strength from an unknown source and she fell to her knee. Straightening her back, she drew her elven bow. Three golden arrows appeared out of the thin air on the bowstring and that dazzling golden light illuminated the surroundings ten meters around her. Holding her head up high, she exuded an imposing momentum. Her eyes shone with a terrifying glint as she stared straight at the Carnage Golden Falcon.