The Decaying World

Chapter 280: Chapter 266: Sea Battle 4-2

Large crowds had long since evacuated to take shelter in the district on the other side of Black Cloud City, an area untouched by the war.

Just as Lin Hui thought things would continue like this until the war ended...

The Fog Spirit finally appeared.

Amidst a tremendous RUMBLE...

The seawater bulged upward rapidly, and from beneath the surface, a terrifying humanoid figure tens of thousands of meters tall rose to its feet.

It was a well-built man clad in blue, fish-scale leather armor, wearing a golden Coral Crown.

Once he stood up completely, his upper body was obscured by gray clouds. He held a greatsword burning with blue flames and a small, platinum, diamond-shaped shield. His eyes, pitch-black and empty, stared forward as he viciously raised his sword and swung it down at the first floating mountain.

The greatsword was nearly five thousand meters long. As it was swung and brought down, it looked like a bolt of blue lightning descending from the heavens, crashing down with a deafening ROAR.

Before this giant Fog Spirit, all the monsters and god-descendants were like toys and insects, violently swatted away by the immense air currents and waves generated as it stood up.

This final sword strike, in particular, was terrifyingly fast, even exceeding the reaction limits of an ordinary Fog Person’s divine speed.

"Stop him!"

Lin Hui was dodging the Curved Saber slashes of two god-descendants when a cacophony of shouts suddenly rang out by his ear.

The next moment, a giant white hand suddenly shot out from the first mountain, directly blocking the descending, blue-flamed greatsword.

BOOM!

A terrifying explosive shockwave instantly erupted from around the first mountain.

The two surrounding floating mountains were affected, shaking in mid-air.

Lin Hui and the others were also sent stumbling back, shaken by the immense impact.

Knocked off-kilter by the impact, and already slowed by the negative status effects from the god-descendants, he immediately lost his balance.

The next instant.

A golden-red flash of lightning suddenly streaked closer. It was a woman in golden armor with enormous wings sprouting from her back.

She wielded a golden spear, with golden arcs of electricity flashing behind her. The arcs left long golden trails in their wake, so powerful that not even the shockwaves from a nearby Blood Ancestor’s self-detonation could affect them in the slightest.

’A Fog Spirit! Watch out!!’

Hong Lingxiao’s panicked shout flashed through Lin Hui’s mind, but it was too late.

He watched as his opponent appeared before him as if teleporting, bringing her spear down to stab at his chest.

Her speed was already comparable to his own when he was at full strength in his normal state.

It would have been fine if he hadn’t been encumbered, but right now, weighed down by over a hundred god-descendants, his speed was only a tenth of its normal level.

’Looks like I have no choice...’ Lin Hui’s eyes flashed, turning a pure, solid blue.

Just as the golden spear was about to touch the skin of his chest, his whole body suddenly shot up in height. Large blue markings appeared on his skin, and his long hair turned a translucent blue.

A massive amount of Wind Disaster Energy surged into him, instantly alleviating more than half of the burden from the negative status effects.

The immense eruption of Disaster Energy forcefully slowed the golden spear for a split second.

In that split second, Lin Hui’s Ruyi swung upward, forcefully batting the golden spear aside at its midpoint.

CLANG!

The spear and sword flew apart.

"Wind!" Lin Hui no longer dared to hold back, unleashing his Typhoon Swordsmanship with all his might.

A spinning vortex of black clouds rapidly formed in the sky above him.

The next moment, his figure flickered and vanished, engaging the golden-speared, winged Fog Spirit in battle.

Every strike from her golden spear would unleash a massive explosion of golden electrical arcs.

These arcs could ignore all defenses, forcefully paralyzing Lin Hui’s Heart and Spirit’s reaction time.

Even though he was faster than her, the constant paralysis meant he could only barely maintain the upper hand.

He summoned a tornado; she dispersed it with a casual thrust of her spear.

He accelerated to circle and pierce her; she directly unleashed a wide-area explosion of golden arcs, paralyzing and slowing him.

He used Micro-flash to seize an opening and strike her, but her body was terrifyingly tough. His Ruyi could only manage to cut a thin scratch on her skin.

This Fog Spirit, combined with the battle formation of over a hundred god-descendants, completely suppressed Lin Hui, leaving him with no way to retaliate.

Fortunately, her Divine Power wasn’t sustainable, and after another three days of grueling battle, the golden-speared Fog Spirit’s electrical arcs began to diminish.

Lin Hui seized an opening and landed dozens of instantaneous slashes on a single part of her body, finally injuring her and forcing her to retreat.

As the Fog Spirit withdrew, the god-descendants also gave up the fight for now and quietly retreated.

Lin Hui was utterly exhausted. He could no longer maintain his Qingyuan Body. After deactivating the Magic Body, he swayed and nearly fell into a deep sleep due to the immense drain on his Heart and Spirit.

It wasn’t just him; the other Blood Ancestors were also exhausted. During this time, some of them had been killed and revived intermittently at least several hundred times.

Physical bodies could recover continuously, but the consumption of one’s Heart and Spirit was irreversible. Even the Blood Ancestors could not avoid this fundamental Law.

"Let’s rest for a bit..." Li Hanzhang flew over from the distance, wearing a tattered robe he had just thrown on, his expression one of extreme exhaustion.

"How long until the next phase begins?" Lin Hui asked, letting out a heavy breath.

"Usually half a day at most," Hong Lingxiao appeared not far from his side. She was completely naked, but Void Power distorted the light around her, making it impossible to see her clearly.

This was the method of concealment most of the Blood Ancestors chose. Though they were open-minded, it didn’t mean they were willing to be completely naked in front of everyone.

"Half a day... That’s too short..." Lin Hui gave a bitter smile. "I need at least three days to..."

PFFT!

The next instant, a woman’s hand, as fair as jade, suddenly shot out from the empty air beside him, striking heavily toward his heart on the left side of his chest.

At the same time, a man’s hand emerged from the air on his other side, blocking the Ruyi Longsword that Lin Hui swung to parry.

BOOM.

In an instant, under the shocked gazes of Hong Lingxiao and Li Hanzhang, Lin Hui was forcefully seized by the two hands, dragged into the void, and vanished in a flash.

「The next moment, thousands of miles from Black Cloud City, deep within the Jade Sea.」

The two exquisite, compass-like relics on Tuyue and Xie Jun’s bodies shattered simultaneously.

At the same time, a figure was forcefully dragged out of the void into the seawater before them.

"It worked! It worked! Hahaha!" Tuyue burst out laughing, her eyes glinting with a mix of madness and delight.

Xie Jun stood beside her, his arm wrapped around her side, his expression gentle.

"He’s in his weakest state right now. We have to act immediately, seal him, and take him away. Otherwise, if Xie Chang’an finds out and reacts, we’ll both be in trouble."

"A shame about that pair of Kongqi Jade Disks we got from that old coot Xingdiao," Tuyue said with regret. "The only reason I was willing to go to Xingdiao and debase myself by serving that old man was for these. You don’t really think I’m loyal to the Federation, do you? Helping them fight off disasters when my own city is gone?"

"He should be unconscious right now from my Evil Energy and the shattering of the relics. Let’s deal with him quickly," Xie Jun urged.

Tuyue nodded, then flickered and floated up, appearing in front of Lin Hui. She reached out to grab his head.

The crimson, illusory silhouette of the massive Wheel of Longevity silently materialized behind her.

SNAP.

Suddenly, her hand stopped, caught firmly by another.

Tuyue froze. Following the arm up, her gaze met a pair of bright, eerie eyes glowing with a faint blue halo.

"You!?"

"Fall back!" Xie Jun’s anxious voice came from behind her.

But it was too late.

In an instant, Lin Hui’s body swelled, his long hair turned blue, and a blurry white humanoid figure flashed into existence behind him.

The humanoid figure flickered once, then rapidly merged with Lin Hui.

"So good to see you again."

Lin Hui held Tuyue gently, as if holding his most beloved lover.

But the Ruyi in his other hand had already pierced through Tuyue’s abdomen and out her back.

An immense, indescribable sense of oppression was rapidly spreading and expanding from behind him.

From Tuyue’s perspective, she could see it was an expanding expanse of pitch-black, starry sky...