Free Web NovelPassing through the invisible barrier and entering the sealed-off area, the light in front of Zhang Huainan suddenly dimmed.
He stopped, his expression normal as he surveyed his surroundings, sensing the Spiritual Energy fluctuations in the air, and nodded thoughtfully.
Immediately after, he furrowed his brow slightly, and a phantom green flame instantly appeared between his eyebrows, rippling out a shallow wave.
Spiritual Sense condensed into flame.
That terrifying Spiritual Sense instantly spread out, covering the entire sealed-off area. Every blade of grass and tree in this area was instantly perceived in exquisite detail.
“So that's how it is. It's truly a terrifying method I've never heard of...”
As he spoke, his eyes slowly opened, and a fierce glint flickered faintly in his aged eyes.
From the corpses in the residential buildings and the strange existences between urban legend and objects that were chasing Hua Sang and 'Gu Qianqian', he finally detected some clues about the dangers of the Secret Society, and a wave of emotion surged in his heart.
In the past nearly one hundred years, he had witnessed almost all types of Psychic and urban legend, understanding the origin of their Power. However, as the night began to grow longer, more and more urban legend whose Power exceeded his original understanding began to appear, making him feel as though he was about to fall behind the times.
“Perhaps Senior Brother Qingji was right, living too long is boring instead...”
Zhang Huainan muttered to himself, withdrawing his thoughts and refocusing his Spiritual Sense on Hua Sang and 'Gu Qianqian'.
In this area, several residential buildings that had been standing for a considerable time were clustered together, forming a complex terrain on the streets, like a primeval forest constructed of reinforced concrete.
Countless black shadows flew through the 'jungle', crashing violently. With a series of bangs, earth and stones flew, and dust drifted.
Two figures were desperately speeding forward, like trapped beasts being hunted.
“Oh? The situation is much better than this old man thought!” Zhang Huainan raised an eyebrow, a kind smile appearing in his eyes.
Although he often felt that he was about to fall behind the times, what comforted him was that since the night began to grow longer, many excellent young people whom he also couldn't understand were emerging.
With the existence of these young people, he wasn't worried that he would one day be eliminated or fall on the path of protection, because he believed that there would be successors to carry the banner.
But before that... they might still need some experience.
That Hua Sang, every time she organized her disciples to go down the mountain for training, she always managed to slack off and fish in unexpected ways. This time, she was finally caught!
This area was already sealed by an unknown Strange Tale, and it was surrounded by enemies and full of dangers. He could also provide assistance in an instant. Was there a better training ground than this? Zhang Huainan thought.
He didn't know how strong 'Gu Qianqian' was, but he was very clear about Hua Sang's capabilities.
Among the seventy-two Elders of Da Chunyang Palace, perhaps only a handful were stronger than Hua Sang.
“Alas, this girl! It's just that she cares about the harm her Spirit Mark losing control might bring to others...”
From a certain perspective, her Spirit Mark was 'alive' and conscious. The more she feared it, the more difficult it was to control it.
Zhang Huainan sighed softly, looking at the exceptionally disheveled Hua Sang who was being chased, the smile on his face gradually became meaningful.
He recalled the scene when Qingji took him to Yumen Pass for training when he was young. At that time, he was surrounded by thousands of Yin Soldiers, but Qingji suddenly disappeared. He hovered on the brink of life and death, struggling to hold on.
It wasn't until he was almost beaten to death by those Yin Soldiers that Qingji appeared before him again, one man and one sword, clearing out all the Yin Soldiers with the force of lightning.
And now, this excellent tradition will be passed down!
“However...” Zhang Huainan once again carefully swept the entire sealed-off area with his Spiritual Sense, frowning. “Where did that kid Lu Yibei run off to?”
He had searched very seriously, but he couldn't find any trace of Lu Yibei left in this area.
Frankly speaking, even if Lu Yibei was killed and blown into a pile of minced meat, he could still capture the faint Spiritual Energy fluctuations of Lu Yibei contained within that minced meat.
But the current situation was as if... Lu Yibei had never been here.
“Did I guess wrong? That kid wasn't with Gu Qianqian? Didn't Hua Sang say that kid was also trapped here?” Zhang Huainan said. “This... I'll have to ask properly later.”
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In the dark, winding alley.
Hua Sang was carrying Lu Yibei, her expression grave. Dust mixed with her long hair, soaked with sweat and sticking to her cheeks, making her look particularly disheveled.
Alchemy bullets or Spells would occasionally shoot over, cutting through the darkness with shining trajectories. She would receive all of them with her body, then seize the brief interval that appeared after the enemy's attack to retaliate in the most violent manner.
A black shadow flew over. After Hua Sang took several Alchemy bullets with her body, she stepped forward to meet the black shadow, holding the ruler in both hands and chopping downwards vertically.
At that instant, what she held in her hand was clearly a slender ruler, but it felt like she was wielding a heavy hammer.
A tragic wail sounded, and the black shadow was crushed into a pulp by the terrifying wind pressure rolled up by the ruler. The smell of blood permeated the air.
As Hua Sang's strike landed, another Secret Society member darted out from a nearby building, silently opening a giant pair of scissors over two meters long in their hand, aiming at her neck.
Lu Yibei, whose precognitive thoughts had captured the sneak attack, quickly reminded her, “Be careful...”
Before her words could finish, a sound of something breaking through the air exploded.
Hearing this, Hua Sang suddenly turned around, stomped her feet on the ground, and actually leaped into the air, heading straight towards the giant scissors that gleamed with cold light.
Bang!
Hua Sang's head collided head-on with the giant scissors, and the buzzing sound of metal clashing erupted.
The roar of colliding Spiritual Energy fluctuations flashed and disappeared.
They only held their ground for less than a second before Lu Yibei saw blood and sparks flying.
That wasn't Hua Sang's blood, but pale, viscous blood.
Hua Sang charged in head-on, actually shattering the giant scissors that were integrated with the Secret Society member. The impact spread out, even causing the flesh and bones of the arm to explode.
Metal fragments mixed with bones and flesh scattered in mid-air.
Seeing Hua Sang resolve the crisis in this manner, Lu Yibei couldn't help but exclaim, “Holy crap! I didn't realize you were so violent when you fought!”
“But you should have also sensed the sneak attack just now, right? Why didn't you dodge?”
Hua Sang glanced at Lu Yibei out of the corner of her eye and said indifferently, “Too lazy to dodge.”
Lu Yibei, “...”
What she said seemed to make a little sense? If you knew you wouldn't get hurt, why dodge?
It was like a petal falling from a branch and landing on your head; no one would dodge it... Well, except for those with pollen allergies.
If I also had this ability, plus precognitive thoughts, plus Alchemy Dirty Bombs... Amazing! It would be like a mobile humanoid bunker!
Coach, I want to learn this!
“What kind of ability is this? Immovable Wisdom King Golden Body? Can you teach me? In exchange, I can teach you anything you want to learn. How about the recipe for making Alchemy Dirty Bombs? They're super powerful!”
“Are you going to say something or not? Don't look so glum!”
“...” Hua Sang glanced at her helplessly, “Aren't you already spiritually exhausted? Why are you still talking so much?”
She suspected that this woman's spiritual exhaustion was completely faked, and she was secretly conserving her strength.
Otherwise, how could someone who was spiritually exhausted seem more energetic instead?
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Lu Yibei pouted, “Spiritual exhaustion doesn't affect my talking.”
Hua Sang, “...” Damn it, what she said actually made a little sense?
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Above, in the narrow slit of sky cut by the buildings, thick fog accumulated, and crimson light shone down from the fog.
Immediately after, a massive figure broke through the fog.
Its metal-stacked body descended from the sky at an astonishing speed, friction with the air generating dazzling fire and light, like a falling meteor.
“Boom—!”
Accompanied by the roar, the ground shook violently, and dust billowed.
The sharp sound of metal friction sounded, and the dust was blown away by the wind pressure. The massive body kneeling in the deeply sunken ground slowly straightened up. From that body, some traces of cars could vaguely be discerned.
Several arms of varying thickness and length, with drills, soldering irons, chainsaws, and other tools attached to their ends, stretched out behind it. Under the grotesque face mask, six pairs of eyes emitted crimson light, and a considerable Spiritual Energy fluctuation spread out, connecting with the strange creatures hiding in the dark, as if they were one.
“Holy moly, that's a little cool, like an alien Transformer!”
“...”
Lu Yibei opened her mouth, wanting to say something else, but after being glared at by Hua Sang out of the corner of her eye, she obediently shut up, her hands tightly wrapped around Hua Sang's neck.
No choice, spiritually exhausted, riding on someone's back, she could only listen to them.
Furthermore, she also discovered that this strange creature was much stronger than the ones they were chasing before.
So...
Go for it, Hua /N_o_v_e_l_i_g_h_t/ Sang, use the Rocket Headbutt!
“Bang—!”
The thick lower limbs wrapped in metal shattered the concrete beneath its feet. With a roar, the massive non-human body, like an out-of-control armored vehicle, charged forward, stirring up a whistling gale, and in the blink of an eye, it was close to Hua Sang.
Seeing this, Hua Sang stepped forward, repeating her previous move, swinging the ruler in her hand to meet the attack.
However, just as the ruler was about to smash onto the massive body, it suddenly trembled. With a buzz, it shattered without warning, turning into countless sharp fragments of black iron, like shooting bullets, flying back towards Hua Sang.
Lu Yibei, “???” What's going on? The fragments of Lingtai Pure Karma... are actually traitors?
Hua Sang, “!!!”
When she woke up in Chen Yi Hotel before, she had sensed that something had entered her room, secretly observing.
At the same time, she also noticed that the ruler was somewhat abnormal, but at that time, she couldn't pinpoint what was wrong, secretly thinking it was some imperceptible change after resonating with the broken sword.
But at this moment, she suddenly understood what had happened.
Was it corrupted by the Secret Society, or was it secretly swapped?
In a moment of stunned silence, countless fragments poured onto her body.
Sparks flew, and dull thuds sounded, as dense as drumbeats.
For a moment, Lu Yibei could even feel the impact carried by those fragments passing through Hua Sang's body and hitting her chest, her ribs groaning.
At this moment, a sharp whistle sounded.
A massive fist whistled towards them. The red-hot soldering iron on it erupted with Spiritual Energy fluctuations comparable to Spells numbered above seventy. The air inhaled into her nostrils even felt somewhat burning.
Hua Sang, who had lost her ruler, hadn't even had time to stabilize herself from the impact of the sharp fragments when another blow struck her head-on. She had no way to dodge and could only raise her fists to meet it head-on.
Fist collided with fist, and the air, compressed to the extreme, exploded, letting out a thunderous roar.
“!!!”
Looking at the massive fist, which was almost the same size as her body, being stopped by Hua Sang's punch, Lu Yibei's eyes widened slightly.
Could a Psychic's physical body be so strong? She was surprised by Hua Sang's performance.
To be honest, at the moment Hua Sang and the massive strange creature exchanged punches, she felt as if she had witnessed a scene of a feminized Gundam and a Cybertronian engaging in hand-to-hand combat.
As the 'pilot' behind the feminized Gundam, she felt absolutely thrilling!
Mecha is a boy's romance, and hand-to-hand mecha combat has a unique flavor.
However...
Soon, the rest of the massive body's arms followed closely. Under the invasion of the violent impact, Hua Sang was overwhelmed for a while and could only constantly retreat and constantly swing her fists.
One punch, two punches, three punches...
The roar of tanks colliding with each other kept exploding.
In the process of fighting the massive body, her face gradually turned red, then pale, and finally appeared a hint of ashen.
She could feel that with every collision, a wave of foul, Heterogeneous (yì zhì - alien/heterogeneous) Spiritual Energy fluctuation, hidden under the violent force, penetrated through her fists and entered her body, making her already unstable Spirit Mark's condition even more precarious.
Threads of night erosion, uncontrollably seeping out from under her skin, permeated the surroundings...
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On the other side.
Seeing Hua Sang and 'Gu Qianqian' being cornered by that massive strange creature, with signs of their Spirit Marks losing control and potentially suffering serious injuries at any moment, Zhang Huainan's gaze sharpened. He made a hand seal with one hand, about to rescue them.
Just then, 'Gu Qianqian' behind Hua Sang suddenly moved. Like a nimble little monkey, she climbed onto Hua Sang's shoulder, leaped several meters, and slapped the strange creature's chest.
“Oh? Absorbing night erosion and converting it into her own Spiritual Energy?” Zhang Huainan let out a soft exclamation.
As he spoke, a pure white light erupted from 'Gu Qianqian''s palm, carrying an irresistible penetrative force, drilling a cylindrical hole the size of a bowl.
As the light of the Four Beasts Bright Sky Cannon dissipated, Lu Yibei took the opportunity to stuff two Alchemy Dirty Bombs into the hole.
And then...
The Alchemy Dirty Bombs exploded, and the crimson fire light instantly engulfed the massive body. Amidst the countless torn metal fragments flying, flames and pale blood intertwined, as if a red and white dahlia bloomed.
Having completely witnessed the entire process of 'Gu Qianqian' ambushing and killing the strange creature, Zhang Huainan slowly lowered the hand that had formed the seal, frowned, and fell into thought.
Four Beasts Bright Sky Cannon... a talent skill that can detonate hand seals... a somewhat magical little bomb... absorbing night erosion and converting it into Spiritual Energy...
These conditions combined caused the word 'Disaster' to quietly surface in Zhang Huainan's mind.
If Nameless Book's intelligence is correct... Disaster should be Lu Yibei, right?
In other words, Gu Qianqian, Wang Bu Liu Xing, and Jue Jue Zi are all Lu Yibei?
Hiss, no wonder Hua Sang said that kid was also trapped in here... This little bastard actually deceived this old man?!
After some thought, Zhang Huainan gradually understood everything, the corner of his mouth twitched, and his expression gradually became subtle.
