Free Web NovelChapter 24: See, Sea
At first, Qianye had been in great panic. The monolithic demoness appeared so suddenly against his expectations.
She immediately began suppressing him with whatever means that she had used, then she caused darkness to encompass the whole space that they had been brought into.
When Qianye had smeared that sealing artifact with his blood, he should have bene sucked into the sealed space of the artifact.
And that space had not been full of darkness, or allowed her to manifest demons that tried with the conviction of their malice born purpose, to rip him to shreds.
Originally, not even Chu Xuan had been plunged into darkness and forced to fight against all of those things for his dear soul’s life.
Thus, Qianye had been confused, and rightfully, fearful.
At the same time, despite how he cursed, cursed, cursed and cursed himself from the heavens to the underworld, he remained resolute.
After making the choice, all he could do was convict himself to its consequences. What else was there for him to do besides see through his decision?
Nevertheless, in there, she had been tightly bound in mystical chains, and sealing measures that were born from extremely complex runes, and formations of a tier far beyond anything that was practiced commonly.
She was in a severely, fractions near death, weakened state by virtue of those divine seals that had kept her trapped for apparently over a hundred thousand years by now.
These mitigations were in the first place the reason that he was able to resolve himself to bring stand before her despite knowing her true race and capability if she were at full health.
After all, this damned demoness might be severely born into one of the ancient races in existence! She was an Ancient Nether Demoness. fгeewёbnoѵel.cσm
If he had not seen the example that Chu Xuan had set and only knew about what kind of existence she was, how would he have dared to do anything?
Even with all his audacity he wouldn’t have so wildly thrown himself into this pit of hell fire.
Alas, despite what should have happened, rather than him going to the sealed space—and this was where his first seed of doubt had been planted—he saw that swath of red that ran down into the distance.
The sealed space was nothing like that.
The second instance of doubt, and this was where some of his confidence returned to him, was from where his understanding gradually grew.
It had taken him a moment earlier to process it when she had first said it.
’Demanding that I relinquish my body, wasting time to even speak something to me, is stupid for an entity of an immortal lineage. She hadn’t even made demands for Chu Xuan to do so. If she really had the means to, wouldn’t you just directly fight me with her soul body, kill mine and go about her regained life? There must be something stopping her about me... or something that makes the risk of a direct attack in her state too high.’
And it was from that reasoning that he came to understand that he was in his Soul Sea.
Mockingly enough, it the mechanics of the place were things that he had learnt the intricacies of in the novel through her teachings to Chu Xuan.
"How does a crippled human know of my identity?" The demonesses frown only deepened, and her voice rumbled through his mind.
The mist embracing the two of them swirled, moving without there being any wind in his soul sea. Its chill caressed his skin and Qianye released himself into a laugh.
That was the only way to distract himself from the disorientation that came with hearing her voice.
"After what you’ve just put me through are you truly inclined to believe that I’m willing to volunteer answers to my secrets?" he raised one of his eyes. "How many more pompous, spoiled barbarians must I deal with today?"
Qianye’s attention was drawn down to his hand, watching as it swiftly began to regrow its flesh.
’My soul is rather durable....’ He thought distantly, and held back the questions on how that was the case when the soul was meant to be one of the most fragile existences of a being, especially before one reached the higher realms or Nascent Soul at least. ’Perhaps this means...’
"For someone so frightened, you put up quite the brave face."
Qianye’s vision spun and he ground his teeth without responding immediately.
He shrugged to himself. "My fear is the least of your worries, is it not?" And there, he scoffed, narrowing his eyes up at her, "I don’t know how this weakened soul of yours has managed to escape your seals, but does it really matter now? You can’t destroy my soul to take over my body."
Suddenly, the luminous white sea beneath them quivered.
The giant demoness took a step forwards towards him and in that stride her size began to rapidly shrink. freewёbnoνel.com
She continued walking, as she shrunk and by the time she was seemingly at the smallest that she could get, at just over two metres tall, she was over fifty metres away from him after all the distance that had been put between them as he fought her hordes of darkness formed demons.
"Stop right there." Qianye demanded as he raised one of his fingers in warning as his eyes narrowed and a flinty sharpness overtook them, "I don’t want you anywhere near me."
"...Very well," She muttered, and despite her smaller size, her voice still gonged through his soul sea and his head, dizzying him. "I have a proposition for our benefit."
Qianye didn’t respond immediately as his soul toiled to reorient itself.
Her dark hair flowing behind her as if it were floating within water, and her dark robes looked like wild smears of paint in his vision.
"And why should I listen to you?" He scoffed finally as he gradually focused on her red, slit eyes. "Might I remind you that you have just tried your hardest to kill me."
He watched a wide, almost pleasant smile spread across her face, and he felt terrible chills run through him.
"You may ignore me." And the scoff that she released sent a sharp, stinging pain through his head and his face grimaced as his jaw tightened, "However, neither of us will be able to leave your Soul Sea if we cannot come to an agreement."
