Free Web NovelChapter 360: Chapter 179: Phase Three, Part 2
As Dongfang Zhen watched in utter horror, Lin Ye charged straight into the Magma Lake!
Anxiety seared through Dongfang Zhen. He glanced at the unconscious Zhang Daoxuan in his arms, then at the battlefield below, about to be completely consumed by magma, and clenched his jaw.
’In the end, it all comes down to my own lack of strength!’
Ultimately, he could only carry Zhang Daoxuan and, with his last ounce of strength, make a desperate run for the passage they had come through.
RUMBLE—!
An earth-shattering crash echoed from behind. The entire underground space lost its support, and the ceiling of rock and earth collapsed in an unstoppable, thunderous cascade.
A devastating shockwave washed over them. Dongfang Zhen felt a sharp pain in his back as he was sent flying.
Just as his consciousness was about to be consumed by darkness, a gentle yet irresistible stream of light enveloped him and Zhang Daoxuan.
His world spun.
When Dongfang Zhen regained his bearings, he found he had escaped that collapsing hellscape and was now suspended in mid-air.
He whipped his head around in shock to see that Yin Liulan had appeared behind them. With a calm expression, one hand held aloft, he had effortlessly plucked both him and Zhang Daoxuan from the brink of certain death.
’That’s... Controlling Void and Soaring in the Sky!’
To fly through the air, relying on nothing but one’s own power!
Dongfang Zhen’s mind went blank.
This wasn’t something a Divine Realm Martial Artist could do. It was the signature ability of someone who had reached a higher plane—the Celestial Human Realm!
’This chief instructor, who looks like he’s barely older than us, is actually a Celestial Human Realm Martial Artist!’
"Mr. Yin! Lin Ye is still down there!"
Dongfang Zhen shouted urgently, having snapped back to his senses.
Yin Liulan’s gaze fell upon the collapsed zone below, now completely buried under boulders and magma. His voice was placid and calm.
"Don’t worry."
"When it’s time for me to intervene, I will."
Dongfang Zhen’s heart skipped a beat.
He heard the conviction in Yin Liulan’s tone. ’This means Lin Ye isn’t dead!’
He suppressed the tempest in his heart and followed Yin Liulan’s gaze.
Yin Liulan raised a slender arm and, with a gentle wave, gestured toward the chaotic ruins below.
An invisible yet immense power swept through the area. Boulders weighing thousands of tons were instantly scattered in all directions, like dust caught in a hurricane!
A massive crater, hundreds of meters in diameter, appeared at the foot of Doomsday Volcano.
Below the crater lay a sea of crimson magma.
In the next moment, Dongfang Zhen’s pupils constricted.
He watched as the churning surface of the magma lake exploded upward. A colossal figure was violently ejected from the depths by an indescribable, bizarre force and sent smashing into a distant mountain wall!
It was the Molten Demon Lord, Balan!
It was in a wretched state. The core on its chest was riddled with cracks, and three of its eight arms had been severed.
Its entire body radiated an aura of decay; it was clearly on its last legs.
’But... who blasted it out of there?’
Before Dongfang Zhen could process what was happening, the Magma Lake below began to boil once more.
A gigantic claw, formed from a grotesque fusion of pure black mycelia, flesh, and blood, suddenly gripped the edge of the crater.
Then, to Dongfang Zhen’s absolute horror, a terrifying behemoth slowly began to haul itself out of the steel-melting sea of magma.
It was a giant, over fifteen meters tall, formed from a grotesque patchwork of countless mangled corpses and twisted flesh!
Dongfang Zhen could see clearly that the corpses of the Molten Demon Race formed the main bulk of this giant.
Their severed limbs were forcibly stitched and bound together by a dense web of black mycelia, creating a skin-crawling, terrifying shell of a body.
Embedded in the giant’s chest, he could even see the corpses of several Eight-armed Race chieftains and Stone Ghost Race elites, as if inlaid there to become part of its massive form.
"ROAR—!"
The giant tilted its head to the sky and let out an inhuman roar. The sound waves were so powerful they made the very air tremble.
Then, as Nie Cang and the large group of instructors who had arrived to provide aid looked on, the giant took heavy strides and charged toward the immobile Balan on the cliffside.
BOOM! BOOM! BOOM!
Each footstep made the beleaguered ground tremble violently, leaving a deep imprint in its wake.
Balan let out a feeble roar, swinging its shattered weapons with its five remaining arms in a last-ditch effort to resist.
However, the giant simply threw a punch.
Its fist was covered in a layer of deep, solid purple crystal. And within the gale generated by the punch, Dongfang Zhen recognized a familiar, supremely domineering, golden Flowing Gang!
BAM—!
A tremendous crash.
Before the giant’s purple-crystal-coated fist, the five magma weapons Balan wielded were as fragile as glass, shattering on impact!
Its momentum unchecked, the colossal fist slammed violently into Balan’s chest.
Balan’s massive frame was sent flying, crashing into the mountain wall once more. This time, the impact was so great it gouged a massive crater into the solid rock.
"That’s..."
An utterly absurd thought surfaced in the minds of Dongfang Zhen and the others.
Golden Gang Sha...
Purple Crystal Armor...
They had only ever seen these two abilities on one person.
"Lin Ye?"
Yin Liulan’s voice sounded in everyone’s ears, carrying a faint hint of admiration.
"How interesting."
