Free Web NovelChapter 299: Chapter 298: Chaos Submits
The Underground Altar
Su Qi was sitting on the ground, too scared to get up. She had already tried several times and had nearly ruined her face from falling so much.
Her body was also covered in bruises.
’It’s over. If he sees this when I get back, he’s going to lecture me to death.’
She couldn’t even figure out how she managed to fall in a way that left her in such a state.
Su Qi sighed. She really wanted to call her husband; she needed some comfort.
But it seemed there was no signal here.
Just as Su Qi was wondering what to do, an aura suddenly emerged from the darkness—an abnormally vast one.
Su Qi jumped in fright, quickly pointing her sword in the direction of the aura.
However, before Su Qi could say a word, the Array suddenly lit up.
A sphere of light emerged from the altar. It floated in the air, flickering incessantly.
As the sphere of light flickered, the Hairband in Su Qi’s hair also emitted an imperceptible shimmer.
Far away, Jingyue was surprised to find the mark on her forehead reacting.
Finally, the sphere of light split in two. One part surged into Su Qi’s body, while the other flew outside.
Still stunned, Jingyue saw the sphere of light a moment later, just before it surged into her body.
Jingyue was completely dumbfounded. She felt her Cultivation rising, and it seemed she had also learned something special.
The same happened to Su Qi. Her Cultivation rose directly to the 2.7 level, just a small step away from Crossing the Tribulation.
Moreover, she seemed to understand many things—from the stone stele and from the sphere of light. It was as if she had received an inheritance.
"Wh-what’s going on?"
But before Su Qi had a chance to inspect her body, the being in the darkness began striding toward the altar.
Su Qi immediately got to her feet, her guard up against the newcomer.
Soon, the being reached the edge of the altar, and Su Qi got a clear look at it.
It looked like a dog, with four clawless feet, vacant eyes, and wings on its back.
Su Qi was a little frightened as she looked at it. The Fierce Beast seemed to be menacing her, its vacant eyes filled with what looked like disdain for her.
It felt like it could rush over to kill her at any moment.
Facing it, the only thing Su Qi could do was remain calm.
She didn’t dare make a reckless move, nor could she. The Fierce Beast’s aura was incredibly powerful.
"This junior had no intention of disturbing you. I am simply trapped here by chance. If I have disturbed your peaceful cultivation, Senior, I hope you will quell your anger," Su Qi said respectfully.
Chaos "stared" at Su Qi with its vacant eyes. The longer it looked, the more disdainful it grew, and the more it wanted to eat her.
Su Qi could feel its malice.
Maintaining her composure, Su Qi said, "Senior, this junior is under the influence of the Misfortune Coin. If you keep looking at me, you might be affected."
Chaos’s eyes filled with disdain, as if to say, ’Affected? How could I be affected? Go on, try and blind me. I can’t see anything to begin with.’
Meanwhile, outside, Jiang Zuo held the All-Things Cut. ’These two eyeballs actually have the nerve to interrupt my dinner?’
Then, with a mere thought, Jiang Zuo shredded one of them.
He shredded it in a particularly cruel manner, mincing it into pieces as small as grains of sand.
Down by the altar, Chaos was suddenly stunned. Then, one of its eyes shattered, and excruciating pain instantly shot through its entire body.
The beast collapsed to the ground, letting out a low growl. It would not submit.
A moment later, its second eye shattered as well, and another wave of excruciating pain surged through it.
Its roars grew louder, but it remained defiant.
Su Qi watched, stunned. ’Do I really affect anyone who looks at me?’
’Then what about my husband?’
But Su Qi didn’t dwell on it. She decided to use this rare opportunity to escape.
But as soon as she reached the edge of the altar, she was thrown back. ’I can’t get out?’
Chaos was still growling, occasionally roaring in Su Qi’s direction.
Su Qi backed away repeatedly. She was very calm now. ’This is an altar. I can’t get out, but that doesn’t mean I can’t activate it.’
’If I activate it, maybe I can leave.’
Then Su Qi remembered the special privilege Jingyue had here. ’That’s right, activate the mark!’
As Su Qi activated the mark, Chaos became even more ferocious, as if it were resisting something.
Meanwhile, Jiang Zuo poured the particles of the eyeballs into a pool of water, then observed the altar. A cruel smile touched the corners of his lips.
’So, you’re Chaos, are you? Let’s see you survive this.’
’This altar was specifically made to suppress and control Chaos. It can even be used to kill it.’
’So I have to kill it this time. And the ones who activated the altar... they all must die.’
With that thought, Jiang Zuo placed a hand into the pool and began to reverse the altar, stripping away Chaos’s Life Force and erasing its power. freewёbnoνel.com
Instantly, the altar flared with brilliant light, and an immense power poured forth.
It spread directly through the entire grotto-heaven.
Everyone was startled once again. They all activated their defensive measures and took cover.
"What’s happening now?" Zhong Yiyang whispered.
They had already gotten what they came for and were just about to leave.
"I don’t know, but it’s definitely related to Fellow Daoist Po Xiao," Ximen Chuihuo said.
By now they knew that being around Po Xiao meant experiencing one major, incomprehensible event after another.
As the power spread, a tremendous roar echoed throughout the grotto-heaven, several times louder than before.
Su Qi stared blankly at Chaos. The roar had come from it.
But this was not a roar of anger; it was a wail of anguish.
A painful cry, a terrified growl.
It could feel its life draining away, its power vanishing.
It looked at Su Qi, all traces of disdain gone. It chose to submit. It truly didn’t dare to resist any longer.
However, it couldn’t speak, but Su Qi could see its plea.
She thought this was all happening because she had activated the mark.
So she said, "Let me go, and I’ll stop activating the mark."
Chaos gazed at Su Qi, still begging for mercy.
Su Qi frowned, then said, "Fine, I’ll stop now. But you have to let me go."
Then Su Qi began to slowly deactivate the mark. But she didn’t let her guard down for a second; if Chaos made the slightest unusual move, she would activate it again.
But when it saw Su Qi’s mark truly fade, Chaos panicked.
It used the last of its strength to get up, then knelt in submission before Su Qi.
It was willing to submit, to recognize her as its master, to be stripped of its freedom—it was willing to do anything, just as long as she spared its life.
Su Qi was a bit stunned. She could sense Chaos’s attitude of complete submission.
Just then, Su Qi saw the mark on her hand flare with brilliant light, directly enveloping Chaos.
Then, a gateway opened, and Chaos was sucked straight inside.
Su Qi froze the instant Chaos was absorbed.
’The Ancient Fierce Beast Chaos?’ She had received some information from it.
And it seemed she could use the mark to perform a Summoning of Chaos’s true form one time.
"Wh-what is going on?"
It wasn’t just Su Qi. Jingyue, who had just arrived at the East Courtyard with Lan Yue, also looked up at the sky in astonishment.
She felt it too—the ability to summon a Chaos at any time. Although she could only summon its true form once for now.
However, she could summon projections of it multiple times.
’So, what on earth is that little grumbler up to?’
