Free Web NovelIn that bizarre dream world that felt almost like another realm, Du Sixian seized every moment to diligently practice the new Spell she had learned.
"Rumble—!"
The sudden thunderclap froze her in place, her hands still held in the position after releasing the Spell.
The thunder was unusually loud, as if exploding right beside her ear. Accompanying the thunder was a vast, scorching madness, invisibly pressing down on her nerves, as if trying to ignite her blood.
"Rumble—!"
Several fiery red branched lightning bolts flashed and died within the clouds, a deafening roar erupted in her ears, and the thunder echoed again. Looking up, the dark clouds in the sky were being stirred by some force, forming a massive lead-colored vortex, and the terrifying, thunderous low growl became increasingly clear between the clouds.
Is something coming?
The thought had just flashed through Du Sixian's mind when, the next moment, a huge fireball pierced the accumulated darkness in the sky, like a falling comet. The fiery red light illuminated the entire dilapidated city.
Strange figures occasionally appeared on the streets in the distance, shrouded in reddish-brown mist, wandering like lost souls.
The moment the giant fireball appeared, these figures suddenly became restless, constantly calling out in different languages.
"There is Zhong Mountain. There is a woman wearing Qingyi..."
"There is Zhong Mountain. There is a woman wearing Qingyi..."
"..."
The foul-smelling sewage on the ground continuously heated up, steaming with wisps of gray smoke. The chaotic calls drilled into Du Sixian's ears, and a piercing pain came from deep within her brain.
Chaotic fiery red lines, like wildfire burning across a prairie, darted around in her mind, dancing like spirits as if they had come to life.
Scenes she had never dared to imagine even in her deepest Nightmares flickered before her eyes. A massive black basalt stele rose before her, inscribed with ancient Arabic script.
Children writhed on the carved altar, letting out painful screams. Blood splashed and was instantly vaporized, and a thick, Fishy smell (foul-smelling) smoke intertwined in mid-air to form a towering figure.
That figure was as robust as a giant, wrapped in flames and thick smoke. Its scimitar-like horns seemed forged from lava, shining as brightly as torches suddenly lit in the deepest night.
After an unknown amount of time, the terrifying fantasies in her mind gradually receded. Du Sixian slowly raised her head, as if waking from a Nightmare that had lasted a lifetime.
The sky above the dilapidated city seemed to be ignited. The giant fireball was getting closer and closer to the ground, falling onto the unseen streets in the blink of an eye.
"Boom—!"
Accompanied by a deafening roar, the fireball rapidly expanded among the collapsing buildings. A violent shockwave, carrying terrifying high temperatures, swept out in all directions, melting rebar and concrete, which were thrown into the sky by the terrifying force, turning into golden fire rain that scattered to every corner of the city.
The towering evil spirit rose into the air against the fire rain, spreading its arms as if embracing the sky, intoxicated by the destructive light and flame it had created.
That was pure Spiritual Energy containing the remnants of Ifrit's will.
"Gulp—!"
Du Sixian stared at the terrifying figure in the sky, numb with fear, and swallowed hard. She screamed in panic inwardly, wanting to force herself awake from the dream, but unconsciously opened her mouth and let out a series of calls.
"There is Zhong Mountain. There is a woman wearing Qingyi..."
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"There is Zhong Mountain. There is a woman wearing Qingyi..."
For some inexplicable reason, a low call sounded in Lu Yibei's ear, waking him from his stupor.
Then he realized he was falling, into the depths of a darkness.
Although there was no wind in his ears and he felt no sense of weightlessness, that's how he felt.
He was falling, amidst the low sounds of chanting.
However, when he listened carefully, he found that no sound was coming from his ears.
The sound seemed to echo within his consciousness, countless people calling out together, creating echoes like mountain winds, word by word, piecing together to form a silent sound rising from the depths of his soul.
Amidst that distant and ethereal calling, one voice gradually became clear: it was the voice of his only dependent, Du Sixian.
Damn it! Why is it always you?! Can't you give me a break?
Lu Yibei cursed inwardly, and then, like a mischievous child, he threw a stone into the surface of a late-night lake, and the darkness rippled with invisible waves.
The next moment, a crisp sound like shattering glass came from the end of the darkness. Something was torn apart, and a delayed roar suddenly erupted. Endless flames emerged from Lu Yibei's body, whistling towards that desolate and ruined city.
...
"Boom—Boom—Boom—!"
Within the city's ruins, the temperature was constantly rising. Burning garbage and debris emitted pungent smoke, making the mist drifting through the city even thicker.
Du Sixian trembled as she hid behind a toppled boulder. She knew that the massive monster, like a train speeding off the rails, was rampaging through the city, wantonly destroying everything, getting closer and closer to where she was.
The terrifying high temperature made her consciousness drift in and out of focus, as if she would become dehydrated and faint the next moment.
I can't hold on much longer...
Where are the gods? Where are the gods living in these ruins? Du Sixian thought.
She had personally seen the god in these ruins, and it was that very god who had guided her to join the Night Watch. She always felt that if that god were still here, they definitely wouldn't let the destruction continue.
As Du Sixian was thinking, her consciousness hazy, the temperature around her rose again. The entire city seemed to have turned into a giant, red-hot copper furnace.
However, what she found strange was that, despite being in the even more scorching high temperature, she felt an inexplicable sense of comfort.
At some point, the surroundings had become quiet. The calls echoing through countless streets, the crashing sounds of collapsing buildings, and all sorts of noises from different sources had vanished in an instant.
Du Sixian was stunned for a moment, then walked out from her hiding place with a bewildered expression. Then she witnessed a spectacular sight.
Beams of flame pierced down, deeply embedding themselves in the city's ruins, a forest of light.
Thus, the city trembled.
At that instant, in the sky, amidst countless firelights, a graceful figure standing in the void slowly emerged, as if seated on a throne in the center of this dream world.
Fiery red hair floated behind her. Blazing flames intertwined to form an outer garment wrapping her petite body. Her eyes were tightly closed, as if she were unconsciously asleep.
Du Sixian stared blankly at the young girl in the sky. It took her a while to come back to her senses. A look of sudden understanding flashed in her eyes, and she exclaimed, "It's the Expert! The Expert is actually... Oh my god!"
Du Sixian had always known the Expert was very powerful and had even suspected she was a Strange Tale.
But she had never imagined that the Expert she had been constantly searching for, the one she admired and yearned for, could very well be a legendary mythical Strange Tale.
Furthermore, she had somehow established a special connection with the Expert.
What should I do now?
I'm a member of the Night Watch now, and the Expert is a Strange Tale, so doesn't that make me a double agent?
Du Sixian thought worriedly, but soon, she convinced herself internally to accept the current situation and strengthened her resolve to cling to this powerful figure.
A double agent who isn't discovered is still a good agent, right?
Besides, the Expert hasn't asked me to do anything bad. Du Sixian thought.
Just as she was pondering, a sudden change occurred.
Accompanied by Spirit Mark drawing, the power of Ifrit, who had intruded into these ruins, seemed to sense danger after the girl appeared. It let out a thunderous roar and attacked first, before the girl could make a move, taking the initiative.
A storm suddenly erupted in the center of the city. A massive amount of air was sucked into the vortex of thick smoke. In an instant, a mountain-sized pillar of flame, accompanied by rolling black smoke, shot up into the sky, lifting Ifrit's hideous body wrapped in raging flames, and charged straight towards the girl in the sky.
The next moment, the girl in the sky suddenly woke up. Her golden eyes shot out scorching divine light that seemed almost tangible.
Heaven and earth paused.
Illuminated by the firelight, an unseen, monstrous blaze filled with ferocity permeated from within that small body. Under the suppression of that invisible aura, Ifrit's body also stiffened for a moment.
This was the natural suppression between urban legend!
Even though both were beings from ancient legends, and Ifrit possessed a trace of divinity, the legend representing the girl's power was far older than Ifrit's, much closer to a true god.
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Moreover, this was Lu Yibei's dream.
Intruding here was equivalent to intruding into her world.
Simply put, here, she could use cheats without paying, and she wouldn't get banned...
The moment the figure of the Ifrit was exposed to the girl's sight, wings of thick smoke and flame spread out behind it, extending into countless crimson lines, weaving into countless humanoid figures with ferocious faces, like 'Flame Demons' crawling out of hell.
The Flame Demons roared, sang praises, and gathered into a legion, raising their weapons towards the girl in the sky.
The girl slowly raised one arm, and several massive swords of flame extended from the void behind her, spinning on their own, stirring up wind and clouds, and extending brilliant vortexes.
Beneath the sky, Du Sixian gazed at the brilliant giant sword of flame, and a sudden sharp pain came from deep within her brain, followed by the abrupt appearance of a Spell's incantation in her memory.
"Burning the sky, ten directions of mountains and rivers, scorched earth for a thousand miles, destruction, Disaster, burning out, conveying the sword of Disaster, the fire of heavenly punishment, Flame Sword!"
As the Spell incantation echoed in Du Sixian's mind, the girl reached out and swiped through the void.
In an instant, the giant flame sword slashed down from the air, a crimson rainbow descending from the sky, like a heavenly river pouring backwards, crashing into the legion of Flame Demons summoned by the Ifrit. The bodies of the Flame Demons instantly shattered, their shells divided into particles as fine as sand, turning into scattered sparks of fire.
The next moment, a surging wave of air surged, and a torrent like fresh blood gushed from behind the girl, competing with the firelight for the high-purity Spiritual Energy scattered in the sky.
Looking at the scene before her, a strange thought flashed through Du Sixian's mind: fire ignited fire.
"Roar—!"
A sharp wail exploded, sudden and abrupt.
It stung the eardrums of everyone in the city, as if trying to imprint the sense of pain empathetically into every soul.
The Ifrit, surrounded and enveloped by firelight and blood, continuously flew towards the depths of the sky, towards the gap in the dark clouds, its body uncontrollably twitching.
Struggling with difficulty.
It wanted to escape, but its speed became slower and slower, and in the last instant, it extended its arms towards the sky with all its might.
Just a little bit more.
Beneath the dark clouds, it was severed from its last connection with the outside world, welcoming its tragic end.
Blood and flames, crushed it into dazzling fragments, the fragments scattered throughout the city, merging into the earth.
From afar, Du Sixian saw a brilliant wisp of flame flying towards her, hitting her between the eyebrows.
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"Ah—!"
The moment the wisp of flame hit her between the eyebrows, Du Sixian suddenly woke up, opened her eyes, and stared at the ceiling for a long time. In her dream, the scene of the fire rain falling, the sky crimson, as if the end of the world, lingered in her mind for a long time.
In a daze, a Spell emerged from the depths of her mind, chanting softly in her ear.
She tried hard to concentrate and listen clearly, but felt a strong spasm in her brain.
"Hiss—!" Du Sixian held her forehead and took a sharp breath, then stared blankly at a corner of the room, thinking to herself.
That kind of Spell, I probably can't master it yet. One can't be too ambitious; the gain this time is already very large.
While thinking, Du Sixian gently clenched her pink fists. She had a feeling that after witnessing the scenes just now, she had completely mastered the Spell numbered sixteen.
"The Expert's strength is truly unfathomable. Every time I feel like I'm about to catch up to her, she pulls away a long distance again."
This experience subtly elevated Lu Yibei's image in her heart even further.
However, she didn't know that even Lu Yibei, now, after leaving the Nightmare, couldn't cast that level of Spell...
...
After inhaling the calamity water steam, Bai Kai saw many bizarre scenes.
He saw the human traffickers who kidnapped him as a child, saw the desolate Gobi Desert that almost took his life, saw the Night Parade of One Hundred Demons in Hua City more than ten years ago, and saw the woman he couldn't forget.
That woman looked charming, and said to him softly, "Xiao Bai, I'm back, and I won't leave again. How about we be together?"
"Okay!" Bai Kai smiled, opened his arms, and walked forward. The moment he embraced the woman, a brilliant silver light erupted from his hand, unleashing incredibly sharp sword energy.
...
"Cough cough—cough cough cough—!"
Bai Kai coughed violently, waking up in the room full of calamity water steam.
"Damn it, I saw through that scam right away! How could that guy come back to find me!"
"Damn it! It's no use finding me! I've already been galloping on horseback every day, how could I ever go back?"
Bai Kai cursed and opened his eyes, seeing a room full of greyish-black thick smoke with extremely low visibility. He turned his head to look at the hospital bed and saw the faintly visible, blood-pumping, graceful silhouette.
What a good figure! So amazing! Something's not right!
What the heck? What's going on? How did Xiao Bei turn into a girl? What should I do about this!?
Just as Bai Kai was momentarily stunned, a crisp sound like glass shattering suddenly echoed in his ears. He instantly snapped back to reality and looked towards the direction of the sound.
He saw that under the shroud of thick smoke, the Spells sealing Spiritual Energy fluctuations and soundproofing in the four corners of the room had actually been corroded by the high-concentration calamity water steam, and golden cracks were spreading inch by inch.
Seeing this, Bai Kai's gaze slightly narrowed. He slapped the ground with both hands, stood up with a carp-like flip, and then quickly moved. frёewebηovel.cѳm
"Alas, the wondrous object of the divine turtle, embodying the nature of heaven and earth... Following yin and yang in breathing, concealing scenery and brilliance in the deep spring..."
After getting up, he chanted two lines of poetry, and immediately dense silver sword light surged around him. The sword light danced around his body, faintly condensing into the shape of a turtle shell. The moment the turtle shell appeared, the calamity water steam was forced away to half a meter from his body, unable to approach.
After taking protective measures, Bai Kai immediately took action, his lips trembling, his hands forming seals, and his body moving rapidly around the room, reinforcing and strengthening the Spells in the four corners of the room.
Then, he picked up Lu Yibei's clothes from the ground, closed his eyes, and walked forward. The moment his figure flashed past her, the clothes floated down, gently covering her body.
After doing all this, Bai Kai found a corner furthest from Lu Yibei, leaned against the wall, and slowly sat down, sensing Lu Yibei's Spiritual Energy fluctuations, lost in thought.
Weak, non-attributed Spiritual Energy fluctuations were hidden beneath the violent, scorching Spiritual Energy fluctuations. Bai Kai was very familiar with both of these Spiritual Energy fluctuations, and in addition to these, there was another bloody Spiritual Energy fluctuation similar to a Witch Seed colliding with them...
This was a miscalculation. Checking whether the target of the Spirit Mark drawing was a urban legend should have been a necessary step, but I omitted it because the target was Xiao Bei.
Originally, I thought my good brother had no talent in Spiritual Energy cultivation, but was an unparalleled prodigy in Spells and Alchemy. That bad woman was a hybrid of a higher-level urban legend and a human, born with a natural Spirit Mark.
The child born to such two people would either have talent biased towards one side, or a moderate fusion, but would still be within the human category.
Who knew that Xiao Bei would turn into a urban legend?
And turned into a Witch Seed urban legend. When exactly did she...
Now it's really dangerous. Even if she were still human, she would need assistance from others to be safe during the process of drawing Spirit Marks. I don't know if she can...
Thinking of this, Bai Kai rubbed his hair fiercely, "Bah, bah, bah, ill-omened! Her Spiritual Energy fluctuations have gradually stabilized, and the most dangerous time has mostly passed. The most important problem now is..."
Bai Kai muttered to himself, looked up at Lu Yibei, his brows tightly furrowed.
The most important thing is, if she is really Xiao Bei, and not some urban legend disguised as Xiao Bei, now that she has become like this, how should I get her out, and...
How should I get along with Xiao Bei in the future? If she's a girl, there's a difference between men and women, so we can't be that close anymore, right? How should I explain it to Xiao Hua?
Also, also, when I meet her parents in the underworld, how should I explain it?
If I tell them, "I'm sorry, I didn't look after your son properly, and before I knew it, he turned into a girl," those two would definitely not let me off, right?
For a moment, Bai Kai's thoughts were a mess, he slumped on the ground, his eyes numbly looking at Lu Yibei, like a salted fish who had lost its dream.
However...
Even if she is a urban legend, as long as she is Xiao Bei, I will protect her until the day she truly falls, and then personally... Bai Kai's eyes flashed with a cold light when he thought of this.
Just then, a soft nasal sound suddenly echoed in the room.
"Mm... hmm..."
Lu Yibei woke up.
