"Hmph! These brats..." Leon said lightly,
Myria rolled her eyes and spoke, "At least they're better than some people..."
"Huh? What's that supposed to mean?" Leon said as he glared at Myria.
Myria snorted as she flew away and landed onto Miren Fei's hair, feeling her, Miren Fei felt that she was about to have a bad afternoon.
At this time, Toram and Tira ran over to Tiana; they checked her body carefully, inspecting if she was injured, the little devil wanted to escape, but Tira firmly held her in her arms, not wanting her to run about by herself anymore.
Feng Yu then turned his attention onto He Xiu and the others; he walked over before stooping down and inspecting her before speaking, "How's she doing?"
"She okay; for now, it looks like she's finished her awakening." Pan Mang said as his palm was now on her arm.
Pan Shin also had a more relieved expression; the previous scene had frightened her; she didn't want to think what would happen if Feng Yu's team hadn't been here to aid them.
"Good, then I guess we've finished our role; your master should be ready to solve the rest." Feng Yu said that as he looked up above the meeting grounds, he saw that the Grand Preceptor was looking down, glaring at him with a vicious set of eyes. However, as Hu Wuhan stood near, he didn't dare to make a move.
“Haha, it looks like I've got another major enemy," Feng Yu said with a light laugh.
Dai Lin and the others also made a chuckle; they knew he was referring to his collection from the Wuqi Clan, Dark Sky Pavilion, and those others.
Pan Man, Tao Shen, and the others looked at them with odd looks, thinking that they were strange for laughing in this scenario, but rather than trying to analyze their strangeness, they focused their attention to the sky, knowing that the final act had arrived.
Chapter 321
He Wuhan’s Plot
After the shocking changes occurred below, bringing the death of the mighty Tomb Soldier Azger. Nilzak, who loomed above the crowd had a changed in expression. Initially, he had been sizing up He Wuhan while monitoring the situation below. He had some confidence in Kazak's Tomb Soldier ever, but now he was widely shocked and angered by the unexpected outcome.
'So useless, how can that fool let this happened, dammit!'
Nilzak cursed in his mind as he watched the scene with his spiritual sense; his eyes emanated a dense murderous intent when he saw Feng Yu and even noticed He Xiu's changes.
'Damn that Crimson Mask, he certainly cannot be spared, as for that wretched girl, to think that my suspicions were correct, she's definitely the spawn of that traitor! I cannot leave here without her nor that seal.'
With such thoughts in his mind, Nilzak's face turned dark.
Unlike Nilzak, whose face was a bit dark, He Wuhan had a look of confidence. She even opened her mouth and teased, "What's wrong? Things not going as planned; you sure traveled along after some baseless rumors of my disappearance. It's such a pity; it'd have thought you came more prepared."
Nilzak wanted to find a chance to grab He Xiu; he turned his attention to He Wuhan as his eyes flickered strangely when he spoke, "He Wuhan! Don't think you can fool my eyes; we know you went to those ruins, and it's with certainty that you were trapped by the boundary. But I'm curious, just how did you escape that Ruin Formation?"
He Wuhan chuckled at this as she spoke, "Of course I'm fine, you think I'd be foolish enough to send myself to death. Hehe, sorry, but I'm not as foolish as you."
"Hmph!" Nilzak snorted at her words with eyes filled with killing intent; the coffin held in his arms even began to glow as he spoke with murderous intent. Yet, while doing this, his other arm had already pointed its finger downwards as it started to conjure a mass of indivisible energy.
As if he felt that he gathered enough, Nilzak's lips curved into a smile as he tossed his coffin towards He Wuhan as he spoke, "I didn't come here to argue with you; today, I will be taking back the treasure of that traitor and his spawn."
Hu Wuhan frowned as she heard those words; she naturally sensed his energies that he tried to keep hidden from her attention. She waved her hand swatting away the Coffin he tossed towards her, but as she did this, her elderly face transformed as her wrinkles faded, soon transitioning to a more youthful dark brown African-like skin. Now, she seemed no older than a woman in her late twenties.
"Nilzak, my husband was twice the man you will ever be, and I'll have you know that no matter what you do today, your fate was already sealed the moment you came here."
Following her words, an incredible amount of power erupted from her.
Nilzak was about to send an invisible arm to pick up He Xiu, but suddenly, he felt a dreadful power coming in his direction.
"Damn! You actually broke through that step!" Nilzak exclaimed angrily; he was a bit suspicious before, but now he could clearly sense that her power though like himself, at the Sixth Cycle of True Soul realm, had taken a great step further.
"Even if you know now, it won't make a difference - World Repellence Threads."
He Wuhan said when pointing her finger forward. A series of threads erupted from around her as if the void itself was a yarn of threads; they spiraled around each other, forming into what seemed like a giant fist that stuck towards Nilzak with immense power.
"Not good! Coffin Return! Curse Soul Guard!"
Nilzak said hurriedly; he waved on hand, causing the coffin he tossed to returned before him as he used the energies gathered in his previous arm to cast a spell.
A series of cloth unfurled from the coffin before forming a dome-like shield around his entire body in a flash. Once this happened, the giant string arm crushed into Nilzak's shield, creating a heavy explosive bang as it blasted him away, forcing him far above the entire Oasis in a few seconds, almost like a rocket blasting off into space.
‘Damn! She's using that hateful power!' Nilzak cursed as he pushed his energies to the max, forcing himself to come to a halt a few hundred meters above the town.
He Wuhan smirked at this as she then vanished from her position, arriving a few meters in front of him before she clenched her palms together. Her hair and robes were fluttering wildly due to her immense energies released as she spoke, "World Thread Field..."
In seconds, countless white threads from her body across the entire space below her, sealing it off completely. The fight above seeming to have transcendent to another world.
Nilzak frowned as he saw this; he couldn't help but cursed in, "Blast, I can't afford to lose that girl!'
With his mind made up, he quickly pushed his Sixth Cycle True Soul realm qi towards its peak as he shouted, "Hmph! That won't be enough to save her, break apart - Curse Soul Palm!"
With his cry, he pointed his hand towards the sealed-off town, sending out a dominating beam of black light that formed into a massive palm with many different souls wriggling around it.
Ka-bang! A terrifying explosion formed as the blast radius continued to expand at a rapid rate before covering a radius of a kilometer. If one looked at this from afar, it would seem as if the sudden disaster had arrived, but as the lights faded, the scene shown was equally shocking.
A giant crater now surrounded the entire Oasis, its edge flowing with an endless amount of sand that tried to fill up its gap. Looking towards the center of this crater, the dome of threads remained intact as it shields the Oasis, showing no signs of damage.
'This... no damage... this will be quite troubling." Nilzak said as he stared at the scene with deep eyes.
Having finished her preparations, Wuhan looked at him with a faint smile as she spoke, "Shall we continue?"
Nilzak, who analyzed the scene, soon frowned before he spoke, "He Wuhan, I'll admit that you are stronger than me, but I didn't come here underprepared. I will tell you this right now. You will still lose today's battle..."
As he finished his words, Nilzak snapped his finger, creating a loud ripple of noise. The air grew hotter in an instance as if the sun was descending onto
the world.
He Wuhan looked at this with a more serious look on her face as she thought, "Hmph! So, she did come after all. No… an incarnation… tsk, as cowardly as always.'
As if proving her words to be accurate, a blazing figure had appeared from one direction, moving like a streak of burning light that halted nearby Nilzak. As the fires faded from her body, it revealed a woman of graceful looks, amber-colored hair and eyes, large breasts, and a curvy figure that wore a fiery dress.
She had tattoo marks with a series of totem neckless on her body as she glared at He Wuhan, almost as if her eyes could spout poison.
"Today is the day you shall die; you will pay for the death of my fiancé!" The woman said in a voice filled with dense hatred. Her body once more lit up with blazing flames as if she was about to transform into a sun.
"Accept your end Hu Wuhan, arise and slaughter, my Tomb Soldier!" Nilzak said with a smile as he tapped his coffin; it shone in a sinister light before exploding, revealing a man with a grim air, looking very much like Nilzak as he held two curved-shaped short swords.
The situation seemed dark for He Wuhan, but as one would expect her to show a look of fear or corner, Nilzak frowned as he saw that she still remained calm.
He Wuhan didn't mind the fact that she was now about to face three opponents, she stared at the burning woman with mock in her eyes as she spoke, "Hao Jie, you should have stayed within your Burning Totem Palace, all that heat is making you delusional. What fiancé? The person who died was my husband, and the culprits who killed him were none other than those Crypt Sorcerers."
"You lying bitch, shut the hell up! You can say what you want, but even if you're at the limits of the Sixth Cycle, you will still die! Suffer the fury of my pain, Totemic Manifestation - Blazing Salamander."
With Hao Jie's battle cry, the flames around her body rapidly expanded to a region of a few hundred meters. Inside of it was a creature of legend, a Flaming Salamander that manifested from nothingness, its body burning as it glared at He Wuhan and roared.
Instantly, it opened its mouth as it conjured a giant ball of flames in its mouth, rapidly swallowing the massive sun-like fires around it as the surrounding temperatures increased once again.
Suddenly, Hao Jie, who was within the massive ball of flame no different from a sun, had vanished from the line of sight, leaving behind the Blazing Salamander that conjured its giant ball of flames in its mouth.
He Wuhan eyes soon glanced to the left as the space rippled before Hao Jie appeared out of nothingness, her body pressing forward like a blazing meter as she waved her hand, calling out a flaming whip.
"Die! Burning Whip Tempest!"
With a crack of her whip, and the rapidly movement of her arm, an endless amount of blazing arcs of energies swarmed towards He Wuhan from all directions, it seemed as if she was about to be enveloped by Hao Jie's rage-filled assault, but suddenly, her palms opened wide as she spoke.
"Thread Imitation!"
With her words, her body released an endless amount of threads that swarmed towards the various whip lashes, each performing the same movements as if like an exact copy of Hao Jie's technique.
Bang-bang-bang!
The sky resounded with shocking booms as shockwaves of flaming menageries scattered about hundreds of meters due to the constant collision. It soon started to rain down fire balls that crashed into the earth below, generating shocking explosions that devastated more of the surroundings, spreading out a little farther than a thousand meters.
"Your clone can die now..." He Wuhan said, stretching one of her arm forward as a few more threads formed. It rapidly enveloped Hao Jie's body before crushing it to bits. However, despite doing this, rather than seeing blood and guts, Hao Jie's body only burst apart like flames.
Suddenly, a voice sounded from the void.
"This... damn you! Bitch, even if you've strangled my clone, you won't be able to prevent the power of my Totemic Ars, burn in hell to the Great Salamander’s Blaze!"
The voice soon faded, Hao Jie's aura faded from the area as if she didn't come here from the start, but like she mentioned, the salamander hadn't faded. There was no giant fire ball around it, but rather a small ball of flames in its mouth with a dreadful power at its core.
"Good work, Hao Jie, leave the rest to me. Blame your arrogance for your end, He Wuhan, Phantom Eye Form - Soul Ripper!"
Nilzak said as he pointed his finger forward, his sole eyes with a sky pupil glowed brightly as the surroundings changed to a grim hue. A giant phantom swept towards He Wuhan with a blade in its hand.
Not long after Nilzak attacked, his summoned clone flickered and transformed into a ray of black light as it pierced its twos words ahead, firing two rays of baleful sword energies that also cut towards her.
Finnaly, the Blazing Salamander, which had finished empowering the fireball, opened its mouth and spat out a giant fire blast, aiming to not only eradicate He Wuhan but the other half of these dunes.
It was a completely hopeless situation that no one could survive from. Still, as if He Wuhan didn't care, she merely snorted and spoke, "This is truly a wonderful combination, and I might not have been a match for all of your methods by myself, but didn't you found it strange that I baited you here."
"What?" Nilzak uttered as their eyes showed confusion, but before he could even understand what she meant, there came a change.
"Element Boundary."
An elderly but familiar voice said the world seemed to have been influenced by the words as within seconds, a giant multi-colored rift appeared swirling around an empty space that instantly swallowed each of the attacks.
After a few seconds, the rift vanished as the scene returned to normal, almost as if a battle wasn't taking place. Nilzak looked at this scene in horror, not daring to believe his eyes, especially when he noticed that the rift had swallowed even his Tomb Soldier.
Suddenly, his eyes fixed towards a specific direction where he saw an old man. A simple looking man garbed in a plain white robe with a four-leaf clover. His eyes calm and temperate as he stared at them with a slightly playful look as he spoke in a voice no different from heaven's will.
"Checkmate."
Nilzak looked at this scene with a bewildered expression as he never expected to meet such a character here, and one so famous at that, forcing him to give up all forms of resistance.
Chapter 322
Kazak’s Escape, An Unusual End?
Back below within the Oasis, everyone looked up only to see a pure white sky of threads. They marveled at the display of power far beyond that like a normal scene as many even started to feel a bit at ease as if they found safety from the previous tense scene.
They could feel the world around them shaking, but as if the threads were harder than any stone, no damages from the monstrous battles above could influence them. Feng Yu and the others looked at the scene from below in surprise, he thought to himself.
'So, it was as they said, she's really at the limit of the True Soul realm, her Special Trait in itself is also quite terrifying.'
Leon and Myria narrowed their eyes; they had never seen a trait like her's before. Not even within the previous world and during the age before the calamity.
"Which race could she have descended from?" Myria asked, having cool down from her former tantrum.
Leon shook his head and replied, "I'm not yet certain, but I have a few hunches."
While Myria and Leon conversed, Dai Lin and the others also looked up with sharp gazes. At this time, He Xiu let out a few coughing sounds as she had awoken to the current scene.
"Little Xiu, are you okay?" Pan Man asked with a look of concern on his face.
"Xiu-Xiu, how are you feeling?" Pan Shin said as she held her up.
Tao Shen also walked over as did Miren Fei, Tuzi Baoli, Toram, and Tira, who held Tiana.
"I? I don't know, I feel better now, what happened?" She asked, trying to understand the current scene.
"Quite a lot, let
's fill you in from the start you went unconscious." Tao Shen said as he began to speak of what happened.
While Tao Shen spoke to He Xiu, and the others observed, the battles elsewhere were also beginning to wrap up as the remaining enemies seemed to have reached their limits.
Bang! Zan Jin's heavily injured figure had collided into a pillar near the now ruined podium, his breath unstable as he stared at the direction he was flung from with rage.
Cough! He spat out a chunk of blood while trying to use his sole remaining calabash, but at this time, a blurry figure moved so quickly it seemed as if it flickered before it appeared in front of him and stomped its leg on top of his chest.
With another crashing sound, along with sounds of bone-breaking, Zan Jin led out a painful cry as he cursed, "Ahhh... Dark Weaver Hai, you truly are a bastard, don't you ever think that my tribe will forgive this act!"
Hai Jinren looked at him with mock as he spoke, "If you were the voice of your tribe, then they would have long since vanished from these southern lands. However, even if they valued you more than anything else to start a war. We Weavers aren't afraid to meet them head-on..."
"You..." Zan Jin said in anger, but Hai Jinren seemed to be tired of his words.
"That's enough of out you, don't worry, I won't kill you, I'll certainly send you back to your tribesmen, in one piece." Hai Jinren said with a dark light in his eyes; Zan Jin's face turned pale as he heard this, he was about to beg, but Hai Jinren smashed his foot onto his head, forcing him into an unconscious state.
"How brutal, huhu... very much to my liking," Toram said with flashing eyes.
Tira chuckled at his side; she, too, enjoyed this kind of violence.
Feng Yu looked at this and nodded as he spoke, "That's one down, now all that's left is..."
He was about to say something, but as if words were a jinx, another change occurred.
Crumble! The stone-covered sphere that blocked off Liao Xinyan, Master Duan's and Wan Ru's battle against the Crypt Sorcerers Melcraze and Entoph, broke to pieces in seconds.
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