What other tricks did this Night Sailing Ship have?!
Ferocious appearance, almost breaking through the wall to emerge;
Fierce malevolent aura, nearly striking them in the face!
A series of questions appeared in Bai Yin’s mind, but more than that was the bone-deep chill in his heart. The feeling of danger climbed layer upon layer!
This was absolutely not the time to rescue anyone, but the time to flee for their lives!
Bai Yin gritted his teeth and immediately dared not continue fighting. His originally executed sword technique “Ink Painting Bones” suddenly changed direction, sweeping in a spiraling motion.
It instantly transformed into the technique “Splashed Ink Landscape”!
Black and white mixed sword qi, like an overturned inkwell, varied in density and lightness, forming a semicircle that immediately knocked back the approaching Liang Tingyu!
How could Liang Tingyu have expected him to suddenly force a technique change? Caught off guard, she was already swept on the left arm by this Ink Painting Sword’s edge, drawing a line of blood and forcing her back three steps.
But her eyes revealed complete surprise: “This sword technique!”
This sword technique?
Bai Yin naturally heard this, but at this moment he couldn’t consider the problem of identity exposure at all. Right now, preserving his life was urgent!
The three steps the opponent retreated was his opportunity!
In this instant, his eyes flashed with brilliant light. Without hesitation, he thrust his sword toward the wall!
“Ding!”
A crisp sound—the tough sword tip struck the wall, instantly generating rebounding force. Bai Yin immediately borrowed this force to rise, like a flying snake emerging from its den, turning toward the entrance and racing away!
When entering, he was unfamiliar with the environment, needed to be cautious, and had layers of arrays constraining him, so he was careful everywhere and extremely slow. But when fleeing for his life, why worry about so much?
Though this place was deep, it was at most a hundred zhang from the entrance.
One teleportation would be enough!
The moment after escaping Liang Tingyu, Bai Yin already had a method of escape in mind. Without hesitation, he wanted to calm his mind and sense the surrounding spatial forces to teleport away.
But when he extended his spiritual consciousness to perceive, he discovered that terrifying change—
He couldn’t sense it!
He actually couldn’t sense it!
The spatial forces that usually changed according to rules, which he could easily perceive, at this moment were like a lake surface assaulted by sudden wind and rain, immediately becoming countless broken light waves…
Between them, he couldn’t find half a pattern for reconstruction!
It was the black aura surging from those wall bodies!
They filled the entire dark corridor, bringing wave after wave of power fluctuations. This kind of power was something Bai Yin had never encountered before.
It wasn’t sword qi, wasn’t palm force, didn’t even carry half the feeling that heaven and earth spiritual energy should have!
It was annihilating, it was void.
It was domineering, it was substantial.
It was ancient, it was brutal!
Like a master lurking in darkness, born alongside darkness, accompanying the continuous protrusion of the wall relief, rolling and surging, hissing and roaring!
“Crack crack crack!”
Crack after crack deepened. The wall body blocking the “centipede” in the relief seemed to thin and become more brittle. Though clearly pure black, it now seemed transparent.
Bai Yin could even clearly see beneath the Nether Void Stone of the wall—those patches of deep black scales glinting with cold light!
Massive body, heavy shadows.
Countless densely packed “centipede legs” had the vicious nature of mantises, sharp as blades and halberds!
Looking at it, there was no end!
He didn’t know how long it was, much less what kind of existence this thing actually was!
Under such massive and unfamiliar power, teleportation was absolutely unusable.
In his urgency, Bai Yin could only rely on everything he had learned in his lifetime, driving his spiritual power to the extreme, racing forward almost regardless of everything!
Thirty zhang!
Twenty zhang!
Ten zhang!
“Boom!”
A huge sound!
Right beside Bai Yin!
The final layer of wall constraining that centipede-like giant monster completely shattered at this moment. Broken stones scattered like rain. The terrifying shell wrapped beneath the Nether Void Stone finally revealed itself before everyone currently in the corridor!
Whether it was the Night Sailing Ship cultivators guarding in the dungeon, or Liang Tingyu racing toward Bai Yin from behind; whether it was Bai Yin who had now exposed his tracks, or Jian Chou who had not yet been discovered…
They all saw it.
Right before their eyes!
Before everyone’s eyes!
Because it was too long, so that no matter which position in the corridor they currently occupied, they could clearly see its shell.
Though clearly a centipede’s body, it had serpentine scales.
Deep black coloring, one scale overlapping another, each scale carrying that evil yet annihilating aura, as if it could absorb all light from the world!
And as if…
It wanted to return this bright world to eternal night!
A world-conquering fierce evil aura immediately shot skyward!
Jian Chou, running ahead of Bai Yin, naturally noticed this change at the same time. At this moment, having discovered the abnormality early and fled early, she was only five zhang from the entrance.
Five zhang—normally a distance that could be crossed in a single thought.
But at this moment, it seemed so distant!
“Roar—”
A low hiss, seemingly slow, yet had the power to destroy human consciousness. An incomparably dominating aura accompanied this roar, striking from the depths of the corridor, instantly locking onto Jian Chou!
Like poison reaching the throat, a sword at the brow!
What a dangerous feeling?
In just an instant, cold sweat had soaked her back, because of a sudden yet absolutely certain realization: this thing was actually coming for her!
“Crack crack crack!”
In the narrow corridor, the wall body continuously crumbled. The insect body originally embedded in the wall had “come alive” after this roar.
The depths of the corridor were its head; the corridor entrance was its tail.
Jian Chou stood only five zhang from the entrance. She couldn’t see the head in the dark depths, but could clearly see this giant tail sweeping toward her!
Swift as a black dragon!
Those two long tail spikes embedded in its tail were like two long spears, falling from the heights of endless darkness, wanting to pierce her chest and dig out that violently beating heart!
Fierce!
Brutal!
Killing intent without reservation!
In this instant, Jian Chou felt she completely couldn’t move.
Trapped and imprisoned by this aura, as if in this narrow corridor, even in this heaven and earth, only she remained, waiting for death, her mind completely blank.
But also in this instant…
Before the enormous crisis, time seemed to stop, so that earlier vague strange feeling was rapidly magnified, magnified, spreading to every point of Jian Chou’s consciousness, finally drawing out the flash of inspiration that had passed earlier—
Fu Chaosheng.
That mayfly…
She should have no familiar feeling with this fierce creature’s dominating evil aura. But inexplicably, this aura made her uncontrollably think of Fu Chaosheng’s existence…
In one breath, ascending to heaven in a single step!
As if its very existence equaled heaven in height, earth in breadth, sharing longevity with all things. Its power was mysterious, occasionally showing evil qi, impossible to fathom…
Could this fierce creature before her be an existence like Fu Chaosheng?
The spear-like tail spikes were instantly near.
Those sharp and vicious outlines gradually enlarged in the reflection of Jian Chou’s pupils, that point of deep black without any reflection also gradually enlarged.
A mysterious and ineffable feeling thus invaded her entire mind.
The two tail spikes before her eyes looked deep black, but not because their natural color was black, but because of void, because of the absence of light.
As if they were born before light appeared.
Thus falling in her eyes, they became the so-called “black.”
At this moment, what invaded wasn’t just overwhelming malice and ferocity, but also vast boundlessness. As if through these two long tail spikes, she could touch some more distant, more distant existence.
For example, what she had once seen through the Eye of Time—the ancient primordial origin of the universe…
But the next moment, sharp pain suddenly striking her eyes immediately destroyed this illusion completely!
Pain!
Like two sharp knives stabbed into her eye sockets.
Those two tail spikes were clearly still a zhang away from her, yet she couldn’t even look directly at them. As if she didn’t even have the qualification to gaze upon them!
It was a high and mighty deity, while she was just an insignificant ant!
This extremely uncomfortable recognition, accompanied by this sudden stabbing pain, almost instantly awakened Jian Chou. It awakened all her consciousness, awakened her briefly sleeping fighting spirit, and awakened her extraordinary reaction ability in life-and-death situations!
Jian Chou still didn’t know what connection she had with this fierce creature, much less why the other party immediately wanted to attack her with such clear targeting.
But at the moment of life and death, who could worry about so much?!
One zhang distance!
Under the terrifying speed of this tail spike, how much reaction time could it leave her? Not even the snap of a finger! Ghost Axe wasn’t in her hands, Wind-Thunder Wings had been open for a long time—the counterattack methods she could use were so limited…
But there was no path of retreat!
Whether the opponent gave her a day, an hour, a moment, or this brief snap of a finger before her, what she needed to do was always only one thing…
That was to strike back!
Close eyes—
Radiance withdrawn, blood traces at eye corners;
Hold breath—
Heart like a calm lake, no ripples rising;
Stop movement—
Sound of breaking air, whistling past ears;
Draw blade—
Techniques and moves, all forgotten!
A two-chi sharp blade, its surface bright as a cold pool, the crescent-moon-like handle embedded in the blade edge with a rough feeling, making people feel this was truly “great skill appears clumsy.”
Jian Chou’s slender five fingers gripped tightly on the handle.
Just as when she first obtained it in Qingfeng Monastery Hidden Realm—
When Qin lost the deer, all under heaven pursued it;
My heart has a blade, named Deer Cutter!
Having never practiced any blade techniques, at this moment she had no time to completely circulate any cultivation method.
What she could do was merely draw the blade, swing the blade forward, pouring all the explosive power currently surging in her body entirely into this blade, into this heart!
In the instant these two giant spear tail spikes attacked, in the instant when life and death were about to be divided!
“Tsk.”
Faintly, as if a disdainful light sneer sounded from the depths of the corridor, like the hissing of a venomous snake flicking its tongue, hiding lofty mockery and deeply buried hatred!
It, or It, was mocking her overestimation of her abilities!
But so what?
Jian Chou heard this in her ears, feeling that overwhelming, annihilating aura approaching, yet she was incomparably calm. Calmly, she swung that blade—simple and unadorned, yet reaching from earth to heaven!
I have this heart—
Under all heaven, among countless beings; who are ants, who are deities?